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Cape Town: The Gallery Press. 1982. First trade edition. Signed by David Goldblatt. Oblong quarto. 285x292mm. Unpaginated. Seventy-one black and white photographs. Two page introduction by Goldblatt at the beginning of the book and at the end is the four page Declaration of Group Areas at Boksburg designating certain areas in the Boksburg district to be reserved "for occupation and ownership by members of the White group". Original black cloth boards lettered in white. Black dustjacket letter in white, protected by a transparent plastic wrapper.

An Anthology of the most characteristic poems by English, Scotch, and Irish women. Selected, arranged and edited by Mrs William Sharp. London: Walter Scott. 1887. First edition. 8vo. 190x125mm. pp. xx, 419 [1bl]. Original blue cloth with an illustration in gilt by Phoebe Traquair on the upper cover (her monogram is at the bottom right corner of the cover). Spine lettered and illustrated in gilt. The frontispiece was also designed by Traquair. Some fading to spine and bumping and wear to head and foot of spine and rubbing to corners.

London: J&C Brown & Co.. n.d.  1856. Early Detective Fiction 8vo. 158x95mm. pp. pp. iv, [2], 9-309 [1bl]. Frontispiece (some offsetting from frontispiece onto the title page opposite). This copy is undated but has the same title and imprint as the dated first edition of 1856 so we have assumed that it is from that year. Russell's works were often republished but with different titles which is not the case here. Bound with (and after) BELL, Robert The Ladder of Gold. An English Story London:G. Routledge & Co. 1858. vi, 7-440.

London: Bantam Press. 1999. Inscribed by Jilly Cooper Inscribed copy. First edition. 234x150mm. pp. 593 [1bl]. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Original illustrated dustjacket. Inscribed "To Maurice mon ami Lots of love Jilly (Cooper). P.S. Lovely to see you again". Near mint, this is a superb copy of the first edition of the sixth of Jilly Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles, set against the backdrop of the making of a film of Verdi's Don Carlos. [ref.

New York: Simon and Schuster. 1968. First edition, first printing. 195x125mm. pp. 215 [1bl]. Blue cloth. Original illustrated dustjacket. Spine of jacket has some fading and a repaired closed tear and there is some light foxing to lower cover. Internally excellent.  This classic western provided the basis for the famous John Wayne film the year after it was published and more recently the acclaimed adaptation by the Coen brothers. It remains much loved and one of the great American novels.[ref.