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The Brontės went to Woolworth's [The Brontes went to Woolworths]. Penguin #245.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1940.
First Penguin printing. 182pp +[10] adverts. Very good copy in dustjacket. Pages slightly toned but otherwise clean and unmarked and intact only with foxing to inner surface of covers. In smart orange-and-white penguin livery, moderate foxing apparent to white areas, otherwise bright and clean, with a small split to base of lower joint. The unclipped DUSTJACKET has a small triangular chip to the base of the slightly browned spine, some scuffing at the head, some splitting to the folds, and some foxing to the white areas on the front. A very nice copy. Very Good in very good dust-jacket.
Price: £45.00
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Death in Ecstasy. Penguin #249.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1940.
First Penguin edition. 248pp + (8) adverts. Pages tanned, with occasional slight spotting. In the classic green and white livery, very clean, with faint browning to spine, and slightly marked at the head. Conserved in its original dust jacket: The dust jacket is in very good order, faintly toned, with a few brown marks to the Jaeger advertisement on the back and a 5mm closed tear to the bottom of the lower joint. The first owner has, as invited, excised from the corner of the rear flap the 'reading case label': this, trimmed and crumpled, has been found inside the book. However, he has also neatly stuck the flaps down onto the inside of the covers, so my description of the covers themselves is necessarily based on an imperfect view, looking down the back (as is my photograph). Very nice copy. Very Good+ in very good dust-jacket.
Price: £40.00
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Country Life. Penguin #401.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1943.
First edition thus. 144pp. Pages clean with slight tanning to top edge. Covers in Penguin's yellow 'Miscellaneous' livery. Light soiling, front cover with small crease to bottom corner, larger crease (affecting first few pages) to upper corner. Kolynos ad on back cover. Spine good with short closed splits to ends of upper joint, and puckering at head with c.2mm loss. Very nice copy. Compilation of Bates' 'Country Life' column in the Spectator. Very Good.
Price: £28.00
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Faintley Speaking. Penguin #1122.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books in association with Michael Joseph, 1956.
First Penguin edition. 203, (i), 4. Exceptionally fresh copy, apparently unread, and stored well. Spine has slight browning, a pucker near the base, and a few 1-mm scuffs. Square bright copy. Near Fine.
Price: £20.00
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All But a Few.
Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, 1974.
First edition, first impression. 276, (4) adverts: with many illustrations in line by Pat Marriott. Slight puckering and faint browning to top edges of pages: but this is an unread copy, and the contents are otherwise very fresh and unmarked. Green and brown on spine slightly faded, and slight cockling to top edges: covers otherwise fresh, clean and bright, spine flat with no creasing. Very Good+.
Price: £40.00
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