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Lot 197

PULLMAN, Philip. CLOCKWORK OR ALL WOUND UP. Doubleday, London, 1996. First edition, first printing. 8vo. A very fine copy indeed in the publisher's laminated pictorial boards as issued. JARVIS, Robin. THE DARK PORTAL. Purnell, London, 1989. First edition, first printing.8vo. Usual very slight browning to the textblock otherwise a fine copy of Book One of the highly regarded Deptford Mice series. (2) Sold For £120.00

Lot 197A

PULLMAN, Philip. I WAS A RAT!…OR THE SCARLET SLIPPERS. Doubleday, London, 1999. Uncorrected Book Proof. 8vo. A fine copy in the original laminated magenta wraps. In the wraparound proof dustwrapper without flaps, as issued. (2) Sold For £100.00

Lot 199A

ROWLING, J.K. HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS. Bloomsbury, London, 1998. First edition, first printing. 8vo. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with a touch of creasing to the head of the upper panel. Sold For £650.00

Lot 200

RUSHDIE, Salman. THE SATANIC VERSES. Viking, London 1988. First edition. 8vo. Small owner's stamp to front free endpaper. Fine copy in fine dustwrapper. GREENE, Graham. J'ACCUSE. THE DARK SIDE OF NICE. The Bodley Head, London 1982. First edition. 8vo. Printed wraps, near fine. Plus 3 others, various subjects. (5) Sold For £40.00

Lot 201

RUSHDIE, Salman. GRIMUS. A NOVEL. Victor Gollancz, London, 1975. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Very slight partial discoloration to the free endpapers along the line of the edge of the inner flaps, some foxing to the fore-edge, otherwise internally clean and bright in a very near fine dustwrapper. Sold For £150.00

Lot 203

SHARPE, Tom. BLOTT ON THE LANDSCAPE and THE WILT ALTERNATIVE and ANCESTRAL VICES. Secker and Warburg, 1975-1980. First editions, first printings. 8vo. Fine copies in near fine dustwrappers; the second title has slight fading to the spine, a common fault; the third has a closed tear to the head of the front fold of the dustwrapper. With two other Sharpes, seven Leslie Thomas books, three John Mortimers, two Stephen Fry titles and a David Nobbs. (18) Sold For £35.00

Lot 208

WETJEN, Albert Richard. THE CHRONICLES OF SHARK GOTCH and SHARK GOTCH SHOOTS IT OUT and IN THE WAKE OF SHARK GOTCH. World's Work, Kingswood, Surrey, 1937-1941. Reprinted 1950-51. 8vo. Clean and unmarked in near fine publisher-price-clipped dustwrappers, repriced with an ink-stamp. A nice little collection of three of the five Shark books cataloguing Wetjen's hero's exploits in the South Seas. With Gladys Mitchell's Speedy Death, a first printing, recased and with new endpapers. (4) Sold For £80.00

Lot 209

WODEHOUSE, P.G. SPRING FEVER and UNCLE DYNAMITE and THE MATING SEASON. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1948-1949. First editions, first printings. [McIlvaine A 67B; A 68A; A69A]. 8vo. Internally clean and bright in the attractive Frank Ford dustwrappers with some wear to the edges, the occasional tear and minor loss to the foot of two of the spines. With seven other Wodehouse titles including one other first printing, the remainder all reprints, all but one in dustwrappers. A nice little collection. (10) Sold For £210.00

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