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Dickens (Charles). The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. A fancy for Christmas-Time, 1st edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, frontispiece and additional title, black and white illustrations, armorial bookplate of Samuel Hanson to front pastedown, gift bookplate to Brian Aldiss to front free endpaper, Dickens commemorative stamp to blank verso of additional title, contemporary half calf gilt, extremities scuffed, 8vo, together with: Golding (William). The Inheritors, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1955, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Pincher Martin, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1956, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with Free Fall, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1959, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with approximately 35 other 20th-century works from the library of Brian Aldiss (Quantity: approx. 40) Each work from the library of Brian Aldiss (1925-2017) with a loosely inserted provenance note signed by the executor of his estate.