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Briggs, Raymond FINE COLLECTION OF 38 VOLUMES, MANY INSCRIBED OR SIGNED, 1968-2005, COMPRISING: The Snowman. Hamilton, 1978, first edition, signed and dated by the author, original pictorial boards, ownership signature, slight discolouration to boards; Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book. Hamilton, 1982, first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author 'For | Eileen | Ireland | With Best Wishes | from | Raymond Briggs | 29 September 1982', original pictorial boards; When the Wind Blows. Hamilton, 1982, first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author 'For | Eileen Ireland | With Best Wishes | from | Raymond Briggs | 18 April 1982', original pictorial boards; The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman. Hamilton, 1984, first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author 'For | Eileen | With best wishes | Raymond Briggs | '85', original pictorial wrappers; The Man. MacRae Books, 1992, first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author 'For | Eileen Ireland | With Best Wishes | from | Raymond Briggs | 9 September | 1992', original pictorial boards, dust-jacket; four autograph notes signed ("Raymond Briggs") to Eileen Ireland stating "BBC has accepted my radio play of 'Wind Blows'… 'Snowman' film on TV Xmas perhaps…", "I'm sorry you didn't like Wally, but then, few people did!" and "…don't think there's a bibliography as such. The idea sounds a bit grandiose!" (4 pages, [1980]-1994); together with large packet of ephemera and 33 others (listed on www.sothebys.com); 8vo and 4to, occasional ownership signatures