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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. 1977-1987 A Collection of Novels and Historical Works by Len Deighton
      1977-1987 A Collection of Novels and Historical Works by Len Deighton
      London: 1977-1987
      A very smart collection of first edition novels and historical works surrounding World War Two, by Len Deighton.
      £145.00
      Stock Code: 883Q35
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      1949 Knole and the Sackvilles
      1949 Knole and the Sackvilles
      London: 1949
      A signed presentation copy of Vita Sackville-West's ode to her ancestral home Knole House, in Kent.
      £1,275.00
      Stock Code: 878F43
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    3. 1978 Airshipwreck
      1978 Airshipwreck
      London: 1978
      A very smart first edition of this tribute to airship travel in the twenties and thirties, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper.
      £48.00
      Stock Code: 871T66
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    4. 1978 Airshipwreck
      1978 Airshipwreck
      London: 1978
      A very smart first edition of this tribute to airship travel in the twenties and thirties.
      £47.00
      Stock Code: 871T65
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      1974 Shipwreck
      1974 Shipwreck
      London: 1974
      An exceptionally bright first edition of this fascinating collection of photographs of shipwrecks on the coast of the Isles of Scilly, signed by Fowles, and with descriptive passages from him.
      £120.00
      Stock Code: 846F36
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    6. 1982 The Falklands, and a Death Foretold
      1982 The Falklands, and a Death Foretold
      [Athens]: 1982
      A scarce first edition essay by John Fowles, ruminating on the Falklands War and Marquez's novel 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold', from the library of the author.
      £195.00
      Stock Code: 846P22
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    7. 1929 The Eighteen-Seventies
      1929 The Eighteen-Seventies
      New York: 1929
      The first edition of these historical essays on the Victorian era by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, in the original scarce dustwrapper.
      £34.00
      Stock Code: 782P9
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    8. 1959 Daughter of France
      1959 Daughter of France
      New York: 1959
      The first U.S. edition of Vita Sackville-West's intriguing biography on la Grande Mademoiselle, illustrated throughout with the original decorative dustwrapper.
      £50.00
      Stock Code: 781P61
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    9. 1936 Saint Joan of Arc
      1936 Saint Joan of Arc
      London: 1936
      A bright first edition of Vita Sackville-West's fascinating biography of the national heroine of France, Joan of Arc. In the very scarce dust wrapper.
      £295.00
      Stock Code: 781A60
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    10. 1982 A Short History of Lyme Regis
      1982 A Short History of Lyme Regis
      Dorset: 1982
      The first UK edition of Fowles' charming historical account of Lyme Regis, with plenty of illustrations. A lovely copy.
      £33.00
      Stock Code: 775A9
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    11. 1978 Airshipwreck
      1978 Airshipwreck
      London: 1978
      The first edition of Len Deighton's tribute to airship travel in its heyday, illustrated throughout.
      £45.00
      Stock Code: 750P31
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    12. 1978 Airshipwreck Len Deighton Arnold Schwartzman Illus First Edition DW
      1978 Airshipwreck Len Deighton Arnold Schwartzman Illus First Edition DW
      London: 1978
      The first edition of this illustrated work on the heyday of airship travel, complied by Len Deighton and Arnold Schwartzman.
      £40.00
      Stock Code: 625P36
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