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    Windows into worlds gone by, a vast store of history. Both the iconic and the less well-known is here. Together with forgotten byways and things not found anywhere else. Here is also Americana, Crime, Feminism, Occultism,Archaeology, and Ethnography.
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    1. 1811 Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland
      1811 Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland
      Westminster: 1811
      An attractively bound collection of significant historical tales pertaining to various British counties, with woodcut illustrations throughout.
      £195.00
      Stock Code: 911Y32
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    2. 1958 The Log from the Sea of Cortez
      1958 The Log from the Sea of Cortez
      London: 1958
      The first UK edition of John Steinbeck's narrative about the marine specimen collecting trip he undertook with his great friend, Ed Ricketts, in 1940.
      £475.00
      Stock Code: 894F29
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      1969 Still Life With Raspberry
      1969 Still Life With Raspberry
      London: 1969
      A lovely signed first edition copy of this satirical work on society by Ralph Steadman, an inscribed and numbered copy with a unique Steadman doodle.
      £895.00
      Stock Code: 803P2
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    4. 1873 The Lands of Cazembe
      1873 The Lands of Cazembe
      London: 1873
      A fascinating work on Portuguese travels to remote Africa, including the original large folding map of the voyage.
      £115.00
      Stock Code: 793J44
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    5. 1954 The Nightmare
      1954 The Nightmare
      London: 1954
      The first edition of C. S. Forester's novel about the end of Nazi Germany, in the original unclipped dustwrapper.
      £69.00
      Stock Code: 753A3
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    6. 1958 Hornblower in the West Indies
      1958 Hornblower in the West Indies
      London: 1958
      A First Edition, first impression copy of the last of C. S. Forester's Hornblowers series, Hornblower in the West Indies.
      £150.00
      Stock Code: 752A35
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    7. 1958 Hornblower in the West Indies
      1958 Hornblower in the West Indies
      London: 1958
      A First Edition, first impression copy of the last of C. S. Lewis' Hornblowers series, Hornblower in the West Indies.
      £110.00
      Stock Code: 752A10
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    8. 1953 Hornblower and the Atropos
      1953 Hornblower and the Atropos
      London: 1953
      A First Edition, first impression copy of the third of C. S. Lewis' Hornblowers series, Hornblower and the Atropos.
      £85.00
      Stock Code: 752A6
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    9. 1953 Hornblower and the Atropos
      1953 Hornblower and the Atropos
      London: 1953
      A First Edition first impression copy of the third of C. S. Lewis' Hornblowers series, Hornblower and the Atropos.
      £85.00
      Stock Code: 752A5
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      1969 Still Life With Raspberry
      1969 Still Life With Raspberry
      London: 1969
      A signed first edition of Ralph Steadman's satirical work looking at the decade of the 1960s, illustrated profusely throughout. Signed by Steadman, with a unique doodle.
      £750.00
      Stock Code: 659P5
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