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London: Alan Ross, 1967. First English edition. 255pp. With photo frontis from 'the highly successful production shown on BBC1', for which this book was the basis. A little faint foxing to prelims and endpapers, contents otherwise very clean and unmarked. In the original quarter binding of brown cloth-textured material titled in gilt with blue paper-covered boards. Clean and bright, foot of spine scuffed. In the unclipped pictorial dust jacket, showing another scene from the TV production: bright, top edge scuffed, with tiny nick at head of upper joint. Very Good in very good dust-jacket.

Price: £80.00

London: Heinemann, 1962 to 1975. Five are reprints, the last seven are first editions. An internally extremely fresh and unmarked set in very fresh jackets (due to all except Books do Furnish a Room being unread); the red cloth spines are bright, with slight puckering to some spine ends, and the corners of the boards are sharp: but the edges of the boards of about half the set show some slight fading or loss of colour from damp (see photo). The protected Broome Lynne jackets are crisp, clean and complete with minimal signs of wear: that of vol i has a 6mm closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel, and that of vol xi has translucent pale marks to the rear panel. Reprint dates of first 5 vols: Vol i: 1969; Vol ii: 1967; Vol iii 1968; Vol iv: (1st reprint) 1964; Vol v: (1st reprint) 1969. The first edition dates of Vols vi - xii are 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1975. Very Good in near fine dust-jacket.
[EXTRA Heavy Item]

Price: £1,450.00

London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1895 - 1898. Some vols are first printings of this edition. Each subvolume is preceded by a printed title and a rubricated and decorated title, and has three plates, one of which is a frontis: plus the first volume has a portrait of Charlotte Bronte. Contents clean, with slight toning to pages. Top edges gilt. In new bindings of quarter pale buff cloth over thin slate blue boards, spines with printed paper labels. An attractive and readable set. Near Fine.

Price: £360.00

Bristol, & London: Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual: J.W. Arrowsmith; and Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co; 1892. First English edition, first or second impression. 184pp, with adverts in the prelims, but without the final advertisement pages. Early pencilled ownership name to title page (can be erased). Some foxing to final leaf, and page corner towards back of book torn off, losing part of page number. Contents otherwise very clean. All edges with original marbling. Small 8vo, in a very pretty new binding of purple grained cloth with printed paper spine label. As the only points distinguishing first from second impressions of this title are in the long-discarded covers, there is no way of identifying which this is. [Green & Gibson A11:a. or a.i.] Near Fine.

Price: £140.00

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1969. First printing of the English edition. 48pp: colour cartoon story. Contents clean and fresh and unmarked. Tiny bit of foxing to the closed edges. Large quarto, in the pictorial laminated boards. Very bright, with slight rubbing visible to white areas: firm, corners sharp, spine ends slightly rounded. A very nice fresh copy of the first Asterix adventure. Near Fine.

Price: £90.00

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

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2010. First edition, first printing. (xii), 339pp, illustrated with photographs. Contents fresh and unmarked, appears unread. In the original purple cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, bright and firm, corners sharp, with very slight compression of the spine ends. In the spectacular protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, bright and clean, with a slight crease at the top of the back panel. Lovely copy. Near Fine in near fine dust-jacket.

Price: £28.00

London: Macmillan, 1983. First edition. 224pp. Pages tanned, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original grey cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, bright and firm. Spine ends slightly blunted, front upper corner creased from knock. In protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, bright and fresh, with faint yellowing to top edge of lower panel and bottom edge of spine, and 1mm of sunning to top edge of spine. Very good copy. Very Good in very good dust-jacket.

Price: £58.00

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

Manchester: World Distributors, 1967. (Dell copyright date) First UK edition. 64pp illustrated in colour throughout. Contents very good, clean and unmarked, with slight browning to edges and to blank inside cover. c.10.5 x 8.5 ins, glossy card covers very bright and clean, same illustration front and back, yellow spine. Slight crease near base of spine, 3mm damage at head of spine, tiny knock to one corner and minimal scuffs to edges. A very nice firm copy. Near Fine.

Price: £35.00