BROWN, DAVID (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: SPCK 1990

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NAGEL, THOMAS

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PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1978

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MOORE, GEORGE EDWARD

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PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1960

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ADCOCK, FLEUR

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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1967

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CHAPPELL, WARREN

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PUBLISHER: Dorset Press 1989

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BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI & McWILLIAM, G H (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Underoak Press 1979

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HUME, DAVID & MORICE, G P (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: Edinburgh University Press 1977

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BRAUTIGAN, RICHARD

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PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1970

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SCHULBERG, BUDD

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PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head 1948

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GINZBURG, NATALIA & DAVIDSON, ANGUS (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Secker & Warburg 1956

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SANG, ANT

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FINLAYSON, RODERICK

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PUBLISHER: The Griffin Press 1952

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BANKS, IAIN M

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PUBLISHER: Orbit 2012

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JOHNSON, FRANK & MAYERSON, KEITH (Ed) & BYRNE, CHRIS (Ed)

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SKORUPSKI, JOHN & HONDERICH, TED (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: Routledge 1991

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YOKOYAMA, HIDEO & LLOYD-DAVIS, JONATHAN (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Quercus Publishing 2016

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SIMENON, GEORGES & SAINSBURY, GEOFFREY (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1951

KEYWORDS: modern first editions fiction literature Georges Simenon

GREEN, CELIA & ROBINSON, HOWARD (Fore)

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PUBLISHER: Oxford Forum 2003

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AESOP & ORR, JACK (Illus)

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PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson & Sons N/D

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DAVIES, MARTIN

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PUBLISHER: The British Library 1995

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