TYNYANOV, YURY; RUSH, ANNA KURKINA & RUSH, CHRISTOPHER (transl)

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PUBLISHER: Angel Books 2007

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GILL, STEPHEN

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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1989

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FRANKEL, NICHOLAS

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PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2017

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GARNETT, ANGELICA

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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1985

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WHITE, WILLIAM ALLEN

FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, patterned eps, frontispiece, xx + 460pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Easton Press 1986

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ORIGO, IRIS

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PUBLISHER: The Reprint Society 1964

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McFEELY, WILLIAM S

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SEDARIS, DAVID

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PUBLISHER: Back Bay (post 1998)

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CATE, CURTIS

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PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1995

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SUMMERS, GERALD

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PUBLISHER: Collins 1972

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MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY

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PUBLISHER: MacMillan & Co 1943

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FORD, JAMES ALLEN

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PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1961

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DUMESNIL, MAURICE

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PUBLISHER: Jarrolds 1933

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TURNER, J F

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PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 1989

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BERTRAM, ANTHONY

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PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1955

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ROSS, ROBERT & VALLANCE, AYMER (Illus)

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PUBLISHER: John Lane / The Bodley Head N/D (c.1920s)

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LEWIS, C T COURTNEY

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PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1908

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WATSON, DON

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PUBLISHER: Knopf / Random House 2002

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ADAMS, JAD

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PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1992

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MONEGAL, EMIR RODRIGUEZ

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PUBLISHER: E P Dutton 1978

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