McBAIN, ED

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PUBLISHER: T. V. Boardman & Company 1960

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McBAIN, ED

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PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1976

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McBAIN, ED

FIRST EDITION, octavo, orange heavy boards, black lettering & illus to spine & front board, 192pp, VG (boards sl warped, light bruising & discolouration to board edges & extrems, minor water staining to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG-/scruffy (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges with some tape repairs, price clipped, heavy large pink stain/water damage & scuffing)

PUBLISHER: T. V. Boardman & Company 1961

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GENETTE, GERARD & SHERIDAN, ALAN (Trans) & LOGAN, MARIE-ROSE (Intro)

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PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1982

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MONCRIEFF, AGNES & FRANCIS, BARBARA (Ed)

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FINLAY, IAN HAMILTON & ABRIOUX, YVES & BANN, STEPHEN (Intro, Notes & Commentary)

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STUMP, SARAIN

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PATTEN, BRIAN

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N/A

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PUBLISHER: Wyman & Sons 1883

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MIKKELSEN, AF BORGE

TEXT IN DANISH, super octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to title plate & raised bands to spine, marbled eps, frontispiece, 228pp, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, 2cm loss to front hinge, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light foxing to prelims, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Carit Andersens Forlag N/D (c.1932)

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HORSFORD, EBEN NORTON & HORSFORD, CORNELIA

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CUSSLER, CLIVE & DU BRUL, JACK

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CURNOW, ALLEN

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PUBLISHER: Dipartmento di Americanistica, University of Venice 2007

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KNOWLSON, JAMES

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HENDERSON, JAMES

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LEWIS, C. S. & HAGUE, MICHAEL (Illus)

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FULLERTON, ALEXANDER

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MANGUEL, ALBERTO

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