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London : Macmillan & Co., 1951. First edition. Set in Cambridge in 1937 and the college prepares to elect a new master. Politics and intrigue at High Table. The seminal fourth book in the “Strangers and Brothers” sequence.
Crown 8vo (189 x 125mm). (xii),(388)pp. Bound in an elegant recent full tan morocco, banded and gilt, by Bayntun-Riviere; sprinkled edges; very mild tanning to edges of outer leaves, but a very good copy.

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London : Faber & Faber, 1954. First edition. The uncommon fifth book in the “Strangers and Brothers”series – a key modern novel concerning the discovery of atomic fission and its consequences.
Crown 8vo (20cm). (viii),311,[i]pp. Original blue cloth, lettered across spine in gilt; just a touch bruised; faint spine crease, but otherwise a very good, clean and sound copy in the original C. W. Bacon dust-jacket – a striking design in red, black and white – faintly tanned, lightly worn and very slightly chipped at extremities, with a few faint marks on lower panel and slight tape residue on verso, but otherwise very good.

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London : Macmillan & Co., (1964). First edition. The ninth – and probably the best known – of Snow’s “Strangers and Brothers” sequence.
Crown 8vo (20cm). viii,(408)pp. Original red boards, lettered on spine in gilt; the faintest of spotting to top edge and front free endpaper, but otherwise very good, bright and sound in the original colour-printed Sidney Nolan dust-jacket – just very faintly rubbed.

£40

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