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comprising: Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, 1921 (first edition, 8vo, original yellow cloth, bookplate, binding dust-soiled and rubbed, spine rolled spine-label slightly chipped, a few marks internally); The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems, Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1918 (first edition, 8vo, original patterned wrappers, wear to spine, front inner hinge cracked, a few spots); The Discovery, A Comedy in Five Acts written by Mrs Frances Sheridan, adapted for the Modern Stage by Aldous Huxley, London: Chatto & Windus, 1924 (limited edition, one of 210 copies only, 8vo, original cloth-backed patterned boards; and 12 others including Selected Poems, 1925 (first edition, original boards), Brief Candles, 1930 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket), Antic Hay, 1923 (first edition, original cloth), Those Barren Leaves, 1923 (first edition, original cloth), and similar. Together with: Fowles, John. Collection of signed or inscribed copies, comprising: The Aristos, 1965 (first edition, dust jacket, signed 'John Fowles' on title-page); The Ebony Tower, 1974 (first edition, dust jacket, signed 'John Fowles' on title-page; Daniel Martin, 1977 (first edition, price-clipped dust jacket, signed 'John Fowles'); Mantissa, 1982 (first edition, dust jacket, inscribed, 'Ronnie and [?], affectionately, John'; Cinderella, 1974 (first edition, 4to, price-clipped and nicked dust jacket, signed 'John Fowles, Lyme Regis, 1995'); The Tree, 1979 (first edition, oblong 4to, price-clipped dust jacket, signed 'John Fowles, Lyme Regis, 30.3.1996'; John Fowles, The Journals: Volume 1, 2003 (first edition, dust jacket, signed 'John Fowles'); The Magus, 1998 (paperback edition, inscribed); and 6 others by Fowles, not signed or inscribed; and approx. 50 others, modern first editions, mainly in dust jackets, including A. S. Byatt, Kingsley Amis, C. P. Snow, Pamela Handsford Johnson (including Blessed Above Women, 1936, original cloth, the author's second novel, scarce), Lawrence Durrell, and similar (approx. 80)