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D.H. Lawrence’s John Thomas & Lady Jane – According to Spike Milligan – First Edition

First edition published by Michael Joseph, London in 1995.

John Thomas and Lady Jane was another take on Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence but was not published during his lifetime – after all the was quiet a curfuffle regarding Lady C and Lawrence hardly made a cent out of it.

Here Spike produces a surprising reprise of John Thomas and Lady Jane and we doubt if any of the bawdy references are omitted although a quite a few humorous elements are inserted [anti-pun intended]

A good clean copy [pun intended] octavo, 169 pages, good jacket, super condition.

Spike and D.H.L. – well he did re-write the Bible.

$35.00

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P.G. Wodehouse – A Few Quick Ones – First Edition

Sought after First Edition published in 1959 by Herbert Jenkins, London.

Octavo, 207 pages, a good copy with the odd mark here and there. Sound dust jacket [best form], the sign of a bump lower spine. Retailers label front board, unseen.

A worthwhile copy of a hilarious collection of wit from the maestro Wodehouse – Jeeves makes an appearance for selective fans. Our favourite “Offy, Freddie and The Beef Trust”

P.G. Wodehouse – First Edition – Ten stories and hundreds of laughs – we need them!

SO SORRY SOLD

$40.00

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The Lost City – By Major Charles Gilson – 1920′s

Another adventure by Charles Gilson in striking pictorial covers published in the 1920’s. Gilson has been promoted since he wrote “On Secret Service”. Another Voyager favourite.

Published by “The Boy’s Own Paper”, Bouverie Street, London. Octavo, 378 pages with frontispiece in colour and eight other illustrations.

The longer title, as usual, gives a clue … “The Lost City … being the Authentic Account by Professor Miles Unthank of the search for the Sarcophagus of Serohis, and the Theft of the Mystic Scarab, formerly in the British Museum”. We love it!

Collectable … The Lost City

$50.00

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Islands in the Stream – Ernest Hemingway – First Edition 1970

This is the first UK edition published by Collins, London in 1970.

Large octavo, 398 pages with end paper maps. Very good if not better condition.

A major novel left among Hemingway’s writings at the time of death. Mary Hemingway said “The book is all Ernest’s. We have added nothing to it” … we believe her …

Hemingway’s Last Novel and a good one!

$60.00

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Freud – A Novel – Carey Harrison

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London in 1984. Octavo, 197 pages, very good condition.

The author, a distinguished playwright and TV dramatist penned the script for a special BBC series on the life of Freud starring Sir David Suchet of Poirot fame – who appears in costume on the jacket front.

So successful was the series that Harrison completed this novel based on his prior work and it’s a very good albeit “fictionalised” account of Freud and how he went about his business.

Freud explained albeit with a bit of latitude.

$30.00

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The Dog’s Ear Book – Geoffrey Wilans and Ronald Searle

Published in 1958 by Max Parrish, London

Octavo, 107 pages illustrated throughout by the wittiest pen-smith Searle. Nice jacket, very good condition generally.

Probably a book for a “dog lover”, there are a few around.

Includes various snippets under the umbrella headings – Doggy Types; The History of the Dog [including something from a Tudor manuscript]; How to Make a Pal or Influence Your Dog; Do You Resemble a Dog? The Great Dog Campaign; Cruft’s and after; Doggy Problems; How to Take Your Dog Away for the Weekend; Beagling and finally the, all important, “A Dictionary of Dog terms.

Genuinely interesting and amusing.

The Dog – its not all about Cruft’s.

$35.00

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