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RARE & OUT OF PRINT

Some older gems

A serendipitous array, from the rare and expensive to old favourites, sometimes signed. Many have been unearthed from private libraries, others acquired on our travels. We add to this section gradually so do check in from time to time.

From the library of Marguerite Littman. Signed by David Hockney and by Stephen Spender on the half-title page. First and only printing. Chinese yellow cloth, in grey cloth slipcase; in fi... read more

Hockney’s Alphabet: Signed Special Edition

David Hockney

Hardback in Slipcase
£2500.00

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An extremely rare and coveted item: a first edition, second printing of George Orwell's Animal Farm. Despite showing its age in considerable wear and tear - slightly torn spine, dented corne... read more

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Hardback
£150.00

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A lovely copy - as new, in a very good dust jacket.

Cavafy

Robert Liddell

Hardback
£45.00

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This is a near fine first edition of Tim O'Brien's harrowing account of fighting as a foot soldier in the Vietnam war. The book and its dust jacket are both in magnificent shape with only ve... read more

If I Die in a Combat Zone

Tim O'Brien

Hardback
£75.00

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This signed first edition is in near fine condition with only minimal wear to the book and one or two small dents at the top of the dust jacket. A beautifully produced volume with elaborate ... read more

The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

Hardback
£250.00

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A first edition second printing of the original American edition. As new, in fine DJ; newspaper clippings of literary reviews enclosed.

The Pale King

David Foster Wallace

Hardback
£50.00

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A first edition, fourth printing, signed by O'Brien in March 2022. The book is in very good condition with the usual aging one would expect from a book 50+ years old: foxing to the page edge... read more

Girls in Their Married Bliss

Edna O'Brien

Hardback
£95.00

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Frances Partridge (née Marshall) was regarded in her old age as the last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group. She was a regular visitor to John Sandoe's in the 1990s. In 1933 she marri... read more

The Diaries of Frances Partridge

Frances Partridge

Hardback
£300.00

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The Diaries of Victor Klemperer

Victor Klemperer

Hardback
£300.00

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The Journals of Anthony Powell

Anthony Powell

Hardback
£150.00

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Diaries of a Cosmopolitan, 1918-37

Harry Kessler

Hardback
£30.00

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A fine copy of this selection of Scarfe's work, published as a special limited edition of 250, with a four-colour lithograph of Margaret Thatcher as a raddled Britannia. The book is signed o... read more

Gerald Scarfe (signed limited edition in a cream box) ...

Gerald Scarfe

Hardback
£285.00

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From the library of Marguerite Littman. Her seminal collection of essays. First edition, first printing, published in New York. Book in fine condition, cream boards with stamped floral de... read more

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

Hardback
£400.00

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From the library of Marguerite Littman. Her second novel, about an unnerved woman living in the Hollywood hills. First edition, first printing, published in New York in 1970. Book in fine... read more

Play it as it Lays

Joan Didion

Hardback
£295.00

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Proust: The Early Years & The Later Years (2 vols) ...

George D. Painter

Hardback
£75.00

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First edition. Fine, but with a slightly faded spine and slight foxing on edges of page block.

The Ludovisi Goddess: The Life of Louisa, Lady Ashburton ...

Virginia Surtees

Hardback
£30

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First edition. As new.

William Beckford: A Bibliography

Jon Millington

Hardback
£60

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First edition. As new.

John Bute: An Informal Portrait

Maldwin Drummond

Paperback
£15

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First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket - marred only by creases to the lower back of the jacket.

Tarantula’s Web: John Hayward, T.S.Eliot And Their Circle ...

John Smart

Hardback
£60.00

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The Countess of Limerick served the Red Cross for 60 years, and was in charge of the London division during the Blitz. She continued as an important figure in the British Red Cross and in th... read more

A Form of Gratitude: The Life of Angela Limerick

Donald Lindsay

Hardback
£15

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First edition, in fine condition with a fine dust jacket: almost as new. The scandal arising from the case between Sir Charles Mordaunt and his wife Harriett Moncrieffe, which involved an ap... read more

The Warwickshire Scandal

Elizabeth Hamilton

Hardback
£15

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First edition. Fine condition, almost as new.

Good Moments: A Publishing Retrospective

Michael Russell

Hardback
£15

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First edition. Near-fine copy in fine dust jacket. Top and bottom edges of page block somewhat shelfworn.

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

David Cannadine

Hardback
£35

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First edition. Fine, with a fine dust jacket. Minimal shelf wear.

On A Ledge: New and Selected Poems

Bryan Guinness

Hardback
£15

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Limited edition - Number 491 of 625 numbered copies - in very good condition with minor wear on the cover edges and some foxing to the endpapers. With eight wood engravings by John Nash. Tra... read more

Ovid’s Elegies

Ovid

Hardback
£50

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Handsome, large format, with generous illustrations. As new, with a pristine dustjacket. A bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

Edward Bawden & His Circle

Malcolm Yorke

Hardback
£30

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First edition, first printing in very good condition, with a very good dust jacket. Minor foxing to the page block and to the inside of the dust jacket.

Duncan Grant: A Biography

Frances Spalding

Hardback
£25

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A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.

Francis Hayman

Brian Allen

Hardback
£20

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First edition. As new, with a pristine dust jacket. Minimal shelf wear.

Derek Hill

Bruce Arnold

Hardback
£60.00

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A fine copy with minimal foxing to edges of page block, in a fine dust jacket; price-clipped.

Sir Thomas Lawrence

Kenneth Garlick

Hardback
£250

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As new copy in as new dustjacket of this scarce book, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

Eric Ravilious: Memoir of an Artist

Helen Binyon

Hardback
£100

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First edition in near-fine condition with a near-fine dust jacket; some very minor blue staining (3cm) at top inside of back board and endpaper; minimal shelf wear to dust jacket.

Edward Barnsley and His Workshop: Arts and Crafts in the Twentieth Cen ...

Annette Carruthers

Hardback
£100

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First edition, first printing in fine condition with fine dust jacket. Minimal shelfwear on top edge. Blue John Sandoe bookseller label inside front cover.

Georgian Craftsmen and their Work

Geoffrey Beard

Hardback
£35

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First edition, first printing in fine condition, almost as new, with a fine dust jacket.

Madresfield: The Real Brideshead

Jane Mulvagh

Hardback
£15

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First edition in fine condition, almost as new, with a fine dust jacket; includes 200 illustrations, 20 of which are in colour.

The Disintegration of a Heritage: Country Houses and their Collections ...

Michael Sayer

Hardback
£15

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Mint copy in scuffed and (in places) torn original pictorial slipcase. Wonderful b&w pictures of 1930s' Turkey

In The Light Of The Republic: The Photographs Of Othmar Pferschy ...

Othmar Pferschy

Paperback
£75

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