British and European Fiction, mainly from the 20th Century
Ackroyd, Peter: Chatterton. Grove Press. New York: 1987. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $12.00.
Airth, Rennie: The Dead of Winter. Viking. New York: 2009. First American Edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (vi), 410. Ink mark on bottom edge; else fine copy in dj. $10.00
Albahari, David: Götz and Meyer. Translated from the Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursac. Harvill Press. London: 2004. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (vi), 168, (ii). Fine copy in dj. $14.00
The murders of Serbian Jews in the summer of 1942 is examined through the experiences of two German soldiers who participated in them.
Aldington, Richard: At All Costs. Heinemann. London, 1930. First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed marbled boards, t.e.g. Number 142 of 275 copies signed by the author. Edges of covers a little worn. No dj. $65.00
Aldington, Richard: Roads to Glory. Chatto & Windus. London, 1930. First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed patterned boards, t.e.g. Number 122 of 350 copies signed by the author. One corner damaged, covers slightly soiled. No dj. $135.00
Aldiss, Brian W.: A Rude Awakening. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London: 1978. First edition. 8vo. Boards. 208 pp. Inscribed by the author on first free end-paper. Very good copy in a slightly torn and darkened dj. $40.00
Allbeury, Ted: All Our Tomorrows. Mysterious Press. New York: 1989. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Allbeury, Ted: Children of Tender Years, A Novel. Beaufort Books. New York: 1985. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Allbeury, Ted: A Wilderness of Mirrors. New English Library. London: 1988. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Amis, Kingsley: The Folks That Live on the Hill. Hutchinson. London: 1990. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. vi, 248. With a bookplate signed by the author. Fine copy in dj. $75.00
Amis, Kingsley: The Folks That Live on the Hill, A Novel. Summit Books. New York: 1990. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (viii), 246, (ii). Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Amis, Kingsley: Stanley and the Women. Hutchinson. London: 1984. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $18.00
Ballard, J. G.: Cocaine Nights. Counterpoint. Washington: 1998. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Ballard, J. G.: The Day of Creation. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. New York: 1988. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 256. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Barnes, Julian: Love, etc. Random House Canada. N.p.: 2000. First edition thus. 8vo. Boards. Pp. vi, 250. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Barnes, Julian: Staring at the Sun. Cape. London: 1986. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $40.00
Barnes, Julian: Talking It Over, A Novel. Knopf. New York: 1991. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. x, 278. Fine copy in dj. $14.00
Bates, H. E.: The Country of White Clover. Joseph. London: 1952. Drawings by Broom Lynne. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. With a presentation inscription initialled by the author for Leonard and Dilys Powell on first free end-paper. Near fine copy in a ragged dj. $85.00
Benedictus, David: The Fourth of June. Anthony Blond. London, 1962. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very good copy in dj. $45.00
A novel about life in an English Public School for which the author was criticized because of the less than flattering portrayal.
Bennett, Jack: Gallipoli. Based on the screenplay by David Williamson from a story by Peter Weir. St. Martin's Press. New York: 1981. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (vi), 280, (ii). Fine copy in price-clipped dj. $16.00
Bennett, Ronan: Havoc, in its third year, A Novel. Simon & Schuster. New York: 2004. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (vi), 248. As new in dj. $18.00
Bogarde, Dirk: Voices in the Garden. Chatto & Windus. London: 1981. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $18.00
Bragg, Melvyn: A Time to Dance, A Novel. Little Brown. Boston: 1990. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Brodkey, Harold: Profane Friendship. Jonathan Cape. London: 1994. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Buruma, Ian: Playing the Game. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. New York: 1991. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in dj. $12.00
Buruma, Ian: The China River. Penguin Press. New York: 2008. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (vi), 394. Fine copy in dj. Remainder mark on bottom edge. $12.00
Byatt, A. S.: Babel Tower. Random House. New York: 1996. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $12.00
Byatt, A. S.: Babel Tower. Chatto & Windus. London, 1996. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. Signed by the author. $65.00
Capouya, Emile: The Rising of the Moon, A Novel. The Lyons Press/The Globe Pequot Press. Guildford: 2003. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 120. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Chatwin, Bruce: On the Black Hill. Jonathan Cape. London: 1982. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (ii), 250, (iv). Near fine copy in dj. $40.00
Chatwin, Bruce: Utz. Viking. New York: 1989. First American Edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (ii), 154, (iv). Fine copy in dj. $22.00
Chopra, Deepak: The Return of Merlin, A Novel. Harmony Books. New York: 1995. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (x), 422. Ownership stamp on both front end-papers, else fine copy. $6.00
Codrescu, Andrei: The Blood Countess. Simon & Schuster. New York: 1995. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. As new in dj. $10.00
Collishaw, Stephan: The Last Girl. Sceptre/Hodder and Stoughton. London: 2003. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. vi, 314. Signed by the author on title-page. $50.00
Cookson, Catherine: The Mallen Lot. E. P. Dutton & Co. New York: 1974. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine copy in dj. $6.00
Coombe, Florence: Boys of the Priory School. Four illustrations by Harold Copping. Blackie and Son Limited. London: n.d. [c. 1902] First edition. Pictorial cloth. 8vo. Pp. 240, 32 adverts. Hinge cracked, covers worn and soiled, presentation slip pasted to end-paper (from Post Office Telegraphs and dated 1902); else good copy; no dj. $15.00
This is a good example of boys stories which were popular in the early 20th Century. They are set at an English Public School and typically involve a boy, aged about 13, who arrives at the boarding school and faces many challenges, among them the persistent attention of an older bully. Needless to say, he triumphs in the end. Please see below: St. John Pearce, Off His Own Bat, and Goodyear, Forge of Foxenby, for others.
Cordell, Alexander: To Slay the Dreamer. Hodder & Stoughton. London: 1980. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in a slightly torn dj. $18.00
Davies, Rhys: Tale. E. Lahr. London: [1930]. First edition. 16 pages stapled into wrappers. Staples rusted, covers a little soiled. Number 2 of the Blue Moon Booklets. $32.00
Dickens, Charles: The Pickwick Papers. Read by Anton Lesser. Audio CD. Naxos Audio Books. 1998. NA416612. Total time on all the discs: 4 hours, 46 minutes, 11 seconds. Fine set with original liner notes and booklet. $16.00
Dinesen, Isak: Shadows on the Grass. Random House. New York: 1961. First published. 8vo. Two-tone cloth. Fine copy in a dj which has one small tear in the back panel. $25.00
Doctorow, E. L.: Billy Bathgate, A Novel. Random House. New York: 1989. First Trade Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Near fine copy. $10.00
Doig, Ivan: Bucking the Sun, A Novel. Simon & Schuster. New York: 1996. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 412, (iv). Fine copy in fine dust-jacket. $4.00
Doyle, Roddy: A Star Called Henry, Volume One of the Last Roundup. Viking. New York: 1999. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Drabble, Margaret: The Gates of Ivory. Viking. New York: 1991. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $16.00
Drabble, Margaret: The Red Queen, A Transcultural Tragicomedy. Harcourt. Orland: 2004. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (ii), xii, 334, (iv). Fine copy in dj. $12.00
Durrell, Lawrence: The Black Book. Introduction by Gerald Sykes; Preface by Lawrence Durrell. E. P. Dutton. New York: 1960. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 250, (vi). Near fine copy in dj. $32.00
Durrell, Lawrence: Sebastian or Ruling Passions, A Novel. Faber & Faber. London: 1983. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (xii), 204. Fine copy in dj. $35.00
Eco, Umberto: Foucault's Pendulum. Translated by William Weaver. Secker & Warburg. London: 1989. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $45.00
Faulkner, William: Flags in the Dust. Edited with an Introduction by Douglas Day. Doubleday. New York: 1973. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. x, 370, (ii). Fine copy in dj. $125.00
Fielding, Gabriel: The Birthday King. Hutchinson. London: 1962. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Flanagan, Richard: The Unknown Terrorist. Grove Press. New York: 2006. First edition (so stated, but probably the first edition was published by Pan Macmillan in Australia the same year). 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (viii), 326. Fine copy in dj. $16.00
Follett, Ken: Fall of Giants, Book One of the Century Trilogy. Dutton. New York: 2010. First printing. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xvi, 990 (ii). Maps on end-papers. Fine copy in fine dust-jacket. $14.00
Follett, Ken: Hornet Flight. Dutton/Penguin Putnam. New York: 2002. First printing. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
This thriller is set on a Danish island in June 1941. A young guy with considerable mechanical skill learns about a secret German military installation and is compelled to let the British know about it.
Follett, Ken: Night Over Water. William Morrow. New York: 1991. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 400. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
It is September 1939 and a Pan Am Flying Clipper leaves Southampton, England, for New York. On board are some interesting and mysterious passengers, and the flight itself, although luxurious, is fraught with danger during one very long night at a time when air travel was still adventurous, not tediously unpleasant as it is today. A terrific thriller.
Follett, Ken: Winter of the World, Book Two of the Century Trilogy. Dutton. New York: 2012. First printing. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xiv, 942, (iv). Maps on end-papers. Fine copy in fine dust-jacket. $18.00
Forester, C. S.: Lieutenant Hornblower. Michael Joseph. London: 1952. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Near fine copy in a repaired dj. $50.00
Forester, C. S.: Lord Hornblower. Joseph. London: 1946. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very good copy in rubbed dj. $60.00
Forsyth, Frederick: The Afghan. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York: 2006. First edtiion. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (viii), 344. Fine copy in dj. $5.00
Forsyth, Frederick: The Day of the Jackal. Illustrated by Christopher Zacharow. The Franklin Library. Franklin Center: 1988. 8vo. Full blue leather gilt, raised bands, a.e.g. As new without dj as issued. $28.00
Fowles, John: A Maggot. Jonathan Cape. London: 1985. First edition. 8vo. Boards. pp. 464. Fine copy in dj. $28.00
Fraser, Antonia: Your Royal Hostage. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London: 1987. First edition. Boards. Pp. (viii), 196. fine copy in dj. $14.00
Fraser, George MacDonald (‘edited and arranged by’): Flashman and the Tiger, and other extracts from The Flashman Papers. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: 2000. First American edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (xiv), 360, (ii). Notes. Fine copy in dust-jacket. $6.00
This is one of a long series of novels which follow Flashman, the bully from Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) who has now finds himself engaged in various imperialist adventures. He is a cad and poltroon, of course, but in spite of himself manages to pull off some remarkable coups.
Frayn, Michael: A Landing on the Sun. Viking. New York: 1991. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $12.00
Freeling, Nicolas: Not As Far As Velma. The Mysterious Press. New York: 1989. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (vi), 234. Fine copy in a dj which is a little frayed. $5.00
Freeling, Nicolas: Those in Peril. Andre Deutsch. London: 1990. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine in dj. $15.00
Fry, Stephen: The Hippopotamus. Random House. New York: 1994. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Furst, Alan: Blood of Victory, A Novel. Random House. New York: 2002. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (x), 242, (iv). Map. Inscribed by the author on title-page. Fine copy in dj. $40.00
Furst, Alan: Dark Voyage, A Novel. Random House. New York: 2004. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Map. Fine copy in dj. $12.00
Gardner, John: The Art of Living and Other Stories. Knopf. New York: 1981. Woodcuts by Mary Azarian. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine copy in dj. $8.00
Golding, William: Close Quarters. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. New York, 1987. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. As new in dj. $18.00
Golding, William: The Double Tongue. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. New York: 1995. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Golding, William: A Moving Target. Faber & Faber. London: 1982. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $26.00
Golding, William: The Spire. Faber and Faber. London: 1964. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 224. Some minor discoloration to dj., price-clipped dj; bookseller's ticket on first paste-down end-paper (Galignani, Paris); else fine copy. $25.00
Goodyear, R. A. H.: Forge of Foxenby. Illustrated by T. M. R. Whitwell. Blackie and Con Limited. London: nd. First edition. Pictorial cloth. Pp. 280. Illustrated: frontispiece, 5 plates. Edges and end-papers foxed; good copy without a dj. $15.00
Gordimer, Nadine: My Son's Story. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. New York: 1990. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $12.00
Greeley, Andrew M.: The Bishop Goes to the University, A Blackie Ryan Story. Forge/Tom Doherty Associates Book. New York: 2003. First edition. 8vo. Boards. pp. 256. Fine copy in dj. $6.50
Greeley, Andrew M.: Irish Whiskey, A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel. Forge/A Tom Doherty Associates Book. New York: 1998. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 318.Fine copy in dust-jacket. $6.00
Grey, Anthony: The Chinese Assassin. Michael Joseph. London: 1978. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $8.00
Haggard, H. Rider: Ayesha, The Return of She. Ward Lock. London: 1905. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Front hinge nearly separated. Some foxing. No dj. $85.00
Hamilton, Hugo: The Last Shot. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. New York: 1992. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman. Illustrated by Sir Hubert von Kerkomer. Oxford University Press and The Franklin Library. 1982. 8vo. Quarter leather with cloth gilt sides, marbled end-papers, a.e.g. As new. $28.00
Harris, Frank: The Yellow Ticket and Other Stories. Grant Richards. London: 1914. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. John Quinn's copy with his bookplate. First issue with 12 pages of adverts dated October 1914. Very good copy. No dj. $150.00
Hartley, L. P.: The Hireling. Hamilton. London: 1957. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $45.00
Heller, Joseph: Closing Time, A Novel. Simon & Schuster. New York: 1994. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Hemingway, Ernest: True at First Light. Edited with an Introduction by Patrick Hemingway. Scribner. New York: 1999. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. 320. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Hill, Reginald: Born Guilty. Harper Collins. London: 1995. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. Price: $12.00
Hill, Reginald: Singing the Sadness, A Private Eye Joe Sixsmith Mystery. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur. New York: 1999. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 256. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Hill, Reginald: The Stranger House. HarperCollins. New York: 2005. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. x, 470. Ink mark on bottom edge. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Hope, Christopher: The Hottentot Room. Farrar Straus Giroux. New York: 1987. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Hudson, Christopher: Playing in the Sand. Macmillan. London: 1989. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Huxley, Aldous: Time Must Have a Stop. Chatto & Windus. London: 1945. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Pp (iv), 308. Dj a bit frayed, some light foxing, else very good copy of a book printed at a time of war-time shortages. $30.00
Innes, Hammond: Atlantic Fury. Collins. London: 1962. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Near fine copy in a slightly frayed dj. $20.00
Innes, Hammond: Levkas Man. Collins. London: 1971. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 320. Fine copy in dj. $25.00
Innes, Hammond: The Strange Land. Collins. London: 1954. First edition. Boards. Some foxing along edges and on dj, else a fine copy. $25.00
Isherwood, Christopher: Down There on a Visit. Methuen. London: 1962. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $28.00
Isherwood, Christopher: Prater Violet. Methuen. London: 1946. First British edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very good copy in dj. $56.00
Izner, Claude (pseud. of Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefevre): In the Shadows of Paris, A Victor Legris Mystery. Minotaur Books/St. Martin's Press. New York: 2012. First U.S. edition (first published in l2005 in France as Le léopard des Batignolles). 8vo. Boards. Pp. x, 326. Map. Fine copy in dj. $12.00
James, Clive: Brilliant Creatures, A First Novel. Jonathan Cape. London: 1983. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $28.00
James, P. D.: Devices and Desires. Faber & Faber, London: 1989. First 8vo. Boards. Inscribed by the author. Fine copy in dj.$85.00
James, P. D.: The Lighthouse. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: 2005. First American Edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Small red mark on bottom edge, else fine copy in dj. $15.00
James, P. D.: Original Sin. Faber & Faber. London: 1994. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $40.00
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer: Poet and Dancer. John Murray. London: 1993. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Johnson, Pamela Hansford: An Error of Judgement. Macmillan. London: 1962. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Keneally, Thomas: To Asmara. Warner Books. New York: 1989. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $16.00
Keneally, Thomas: The Tyrant's Novel. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. New York: 2004. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $12.00
Kerr, Philip: Hitler’s Peace, A Novel of the Second World War. A Marian Wood Book Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Group. New York: 2005. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (xii), 448, (iv). Fine copy in dust-jacket. $15.00
Kerr, Philip: A Man Without Breath, A Bernie Gunther Novel. A Marian Wood Book/G. P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Group. New York: 2013. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (x), 466, (iv). Remainder mark on bottom edge, else fine copy in dust-jacket. $18.00
Philip Kerr wrote thirteen novels about his cynical, but very appealing, detective Bernie Gunther. They cover his various careers as a homicide inspector with the Berlin police, as a private detective, as head of security in a five-star hotel, and as a dogsbody for the likes of Reinhard Heydrich. This story concerns events in 1943 when under the orders of Joseph Goebbels he is sent to Smolensk to investigate the murder of over 4,000 Polish officers and NCOs three years previously by the Russian NKVD. The background to this is that Stalin had become determined to destroy Poland's potential as a nation, and accordingly he approved Beria's plan to eliminate all Polish leaders, especially the officer corps of their army. Almost 22,000 Poles were duly murdered at five sites, the most notorious of them being at Katyn Forest after it was discovered by the advancing German Army and then revealed in a blaze of publicity. It was learned later that Stalin's plan for the Polish élite included that over 60,000 relatives of the officers were deported to Central Asia, and so too, for good measure, were 65,000 Jews who had fled the German advance but had refused Soviet citizenship.
Kerr, Philip: A Philosophical Investigation. Chatto & Windus. London: 1992. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $38.00
The author, writing in 1992, predicts what life would be like in 2013 when people would be reading The News of the World and watching ‘videodiscs’ for entertainment. Nevertheless this is a compelling thriller about the search for a serial murderer.
Kerr, Philip: Prayer. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York: 2014. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (xii), 416, (iv). Fine copy in dust-jacket. $12.00
Kerr, Philip: The Winter Horses. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: 2014. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial boards. Pp. (x), 278. Fine copy without dust-jacket, as issued. $12.00
Kipling, Rudyard: Puck of Pook's Hill. Macmillan. London, 1906. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. T.e.g. Very good copy. $50.00
Konigsbgerger, Hans: The Revolutionary. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. New York: 1967. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine copy in dj. $8.00
Kureishi, Hanif: The Black Album. Scribners. New York: 1995. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Lambert, Derek: The Night and the City. Hamilton. London: 1988. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Lane, Margaret: A Smell of Burning, A Novel. Hamilton. London: 1965. First edition. 8vo. Boards. With an inscribed bookplate from the author pasted to first free end-paper. Fine copy in dj. $42.00
Larsson, Stieg: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. Translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: 2010. First United States Edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (vi), 570. Fine copy in dj. The third volume of the Lisbeth Salander trilogy. (Two copies available.) $20.00
Larsson Stieg: The Girl Who Played With Fire. Translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: 2009. First United States Edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (vi), 506. Fine copy in dj. $20.00
Lawrence, D. H.: England, My England. Martin Secker. London: 1924. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 242, (14 of adverts). Slightly foxed, else very good copy without a dj. $65.00
Le Carré, John (pseud. of David Cornwell): Absolute Friends. Little Brown. Boston: 2003. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (vi), 456, (ii). Fine copy in dj. $6.00
Le Carré, John: The Little Drummer Girl. Hodder & Stoughton. London: 1983. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $32.00
Le Carré, John: A Most Wanted Man, A Novel. Scribner. New York: 2008. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (x), 326. Fine copy in fine clipped dj dust-jacket. $5.00
Le Carré, John: The Night Manager, A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: 1993. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (x), 434, (ii). Fine copy in fine dust-jacket. $16.00
Le Carré, John: Our Game, A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: 1995. First Trade Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. (x), 308, (ii). Map on end-paper. Fine copy in dust-jacket. $10.00
Le Carré, John: The Secret Pilgrim. Knopf. New York: 1991. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine copy in dj. $25.00
Le Carré, John: Single & Single, A Novel. Scribners. New York: 1999. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Fine copy in dj. $16.00
Le Carré, John: A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann. London: 1968. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $65.00
Lessing, Doris: The Real Thing, Stories and Sketches. HarperCollins Publishers. New York: 1992. First U.S. Edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 216. Fine copy in dj. $8.50
Lewis, Wyndham: Self Condemned. Afterword by Rowland Smith. Black Sparrow Press. Santa Barbara: 1983. 8vo. Quarter cloth with printed paper sides. Number 154 of 226 deluxe copies. Fine in acetate dj. $50.00
Lewis, Wyndham: Snooty Baronet. Illustrations by the author. Edited by Bernard Lacourcade. Black Sparrow Press. Santa Barbara: 1984. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Printed label on back-strip. One of 400 copies. Fine in acetate dj. $50.00
Lindsay, Jack: Time To Live. Andrew Dakers. London: 1946. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very good copy in dj. $45.00
Littell, Robert: The Amateur, A Novel. Simon and Schuster. New York: 1981. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 252, (iv). Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Lively, Penelope: City of the Mind, A Novel. HarperCollins. New York: 1991. First U.S. Edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (viii), 230. Signed by the author on the title-page. Near fine copy in dj. $18.00
Lively, Penelope: Consequences, A Novel. Key Porter. Toronto: 2007. First edition thus. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (x), 258, (iv). Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Lively, Penelope: Spiderweb. HarperFlamingo. New York: 1998. First US edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Fine copy in dj. $8.00
Luard, Nicholas: Gondar. Simon & Schuster. New York: 1988. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in dj. $10.00
MacBeth, George: The Seven Witches. W. H. Allen. London: 1978. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $8.00
McCarthy, Mary: Birds of America. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. New York: 1971. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine copy in dj. $18.00
McCarthy, Mary: Cannibals and Missionaries. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. New York: 1979. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Macdonald, Malcolm: His Father's Son. St. Martin's Press. New York: 1989. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
McEwan, Ian: Black Dogs. Doubleday. New York: 1992. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $25.00
MacInnes, Colin: Westward to Laughter. Macgibbon & Kee. London: 1969. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $20.00
MacLean, Alistair: River of Death. Collins. London: 1981. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $15.00
Mailer, Norman: Oswald's Tale, An American Mystery. Random House. New York: First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (xvi), 791, l. Appendix. Glossary of Names. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. Fine copy in dj. $85.00
Mars-Jones, Adam: The Waters of Thirst. Faber & Faber. London: 1993. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Signed by the author on title-page. Fine copy in dj. $48.00
Mason, Richard: History of a Pleasure Seeker, A Novel. Random House. New York: 2012. First American edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (vi), 282. Fine copy in dust-jacket. $5.00
Maugham, Robin: Behind the Mirror, A Novel. Longmans, Green. London: 1955. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $32.00
Maugham, Robin: Lovers in Exile. Allen. London: 1987. First edition. 8vo. Boards. As new in dj. $15.00
Maugham, Robin: The Wrong People. McGraw-Hill. New York: 1971. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (xii), 276. With erratum slip tipped in. Edges slightly foxed, else very good copy in dj. $18.00
In the Preface to the British edition—not printed here—Cyril Connolly remarks that Robin Maugham was “not an imaginative artist but like his uncle [Somerset Maugham], a story-teller.” Well, actually there is plenty of imagination in this story. It is about an older, wealthy gay man living in Tangiers who uses his money to find a boy he believes he can mould and educate. But his schemes turn out to be too clever by half, and they lead to a memorable confrontation between all the principals.
Mautner, Gabriella: Lovers and Fugitives, A Novel. Mercury House. San Francisco: 1985. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Mayle, Peter: Hôtel Pastis, A Novel of Provence. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: 1993. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in a price-clipped dj. $8.00
Merla, Patrick (editor): Boys Like Us, Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories. Avon Books. New York: 1996. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. This copy has laid in an autograph letter signed from Michael Carroll, one of the authors included here. Also there is a photocopy of another short story by him. Fine copy in dj. $35.00
Meyer, Nicholas: The West End Horror, A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. E. P. Dutton. New York: 1976. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 222, (ii). Fine copy but with some slight bleeding of red dye from the cover to the inside of the dj. Warmly inscribed by the author, ‘Nicky’, to a friend and dated in the year of publication. $28.00
Mitford, Nancy: The Blessing. Hamish Hamilton. London: 1951. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very good copy in a frayed dj. $35.00
Monsarrat, Nicholas: The Cruel Sea. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: 1951. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. x, 412, (iv). Small piece snipped from first free end-paper; else near fine copy (considering its age) in slightly torn and frayed dj. $75.00
Monsarrat, Nicholas: Richer Than All His Tribe. Cassell. London: 1968. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $28.00
Mortimer, Penelope: Long Distance. Allen Lane. London: 1974. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $16.00
Mosley, Nicholas: Imago Bird, A Novel. Secker & Warburg. London: 1980. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $32.00
Mottram, R. H.: Europa's Beast. Chatto & Windus. London: 1930. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Dj worn and has one piece missing, else very good copy. $8.00
Mount, Ferdinand: The Man Who Rode Ampersand. Carroll & Graf Publishers. New York: 2002. First edition thus (originally published in 1975). 8vo.Two-tone boards. Pp. (viii), 246, (ii). Remainder mark on bottom edge, else fine in dj. $15.00
Mullins, Edwin: The Master Painter. Doubleday. New York, 1989. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. As new in dj. $8.00
Murciaux, Christian: The Unforsaken, A Novel. Translated by Peter Wiles. Harvill Press. London: 1963. First edition. Boards. Very good copy in a torn and frayed dj. $15.00
Murdoch, Iris: The Good Apprentice. Chatto & Windus; Hogarth Press. London: 1985. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine copy in dj. Price: $25.00
Murdoch, Iris: Nuns and Soldiers. Chatto & Windus. London: 1980. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. US$32.00
Murdoch, Iris: The Philosopher's Pupil. Chatto & Windus. London: 1983. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. With a Times Literary Supplement review laid in. $50.00
Newby, P. H.: Leaning in the Wind. Faber & Faber. London: 1986. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 236, (iv). Fine copy in dj. $18.00
Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall: Pitcairn's Island. Little Brown. Boston: 1934. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very good copy. No dj. $35.00
This the second of three novels about the fate of the Bounty, an English ship sent to the Pacific to bring back samples of plants growing on Tahiti. After an idyllic stop on the island many of the crew mutinied, cast the captain and some loyalist sailors adrift in a lifeboard, and then sailed the ship to a remote island where they thought they would be safe. They then sank it to cut off contact with the rest of the world. However, it turned out they were not safe from themselves.
Oates, Joyce Carol: A Sentimental Education, Stories. Dutton. New York: 1980. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
O'Brien, Edna: House of Splendid Isolation. Farrar Straus Giroux. New York: 1994. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $5.00
O'Flaherty, Liam: Insurrection. Gollancz. London, 1950. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Near fine copy in a darkened dj. $45.00
Ondaatje, Michael: Anil's Ghost. Bloomsbury. London: 2000. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 314. Ribbon marker. Fine copy in dj. $12.00
Ondaatje, Michael: Divisadero. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: 2007. Fist U.S. Edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (x), 278. Fine copy in dj. $5.00
Paton, Alan: Too Late the Phalarope. Jonathan Cape. London: 1953. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very good in torn and frayed dj. $32.00
Pearce, St. John: Off His Own Bat, A Public School Story. Ward, Lock & Co. Limited. London: n.d. First edition. Pictorial cloth. Pp. 320. Illustrated: frontispiece. Presentation bookplate pasted to first free end-paper; edges foxed, good copy, no dj. $15.00
Pilcher, Rosamunde: Coming Home. St. Martin’s Press. New York: 1995. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 728. Former owner’s name on first free end-paper, part of the name blocked out and the ink has penetrated the page; else fine copy in dj. $8.00
Porter, Katherine Anne: Ship of Fools. Little, Brown. Boston: 1962.First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine copy in dj. $45.00
Powell, Anthony: Hearing Secret Harmonies, A Novel. Heinemann. London: 1975. First edition. Fine copy in dj. $60.00
This is the twelveth and last novel in the great A Dance to the Music of Time series.
Power, Richard: The Hungry Grass. The Bodley Head. London: 1969. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 288. Edges just a bit foxed, else near fine in dj. $25.00
Powys, John Cowper: Owen Glendower, An Historical Novel. John Lane The Bodley Head. London: 1941. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Small holes in front hinge, else very good copy in a frayed dj. $75.00
Pritchett, V. S.: A Careless Widow, and Other Stories. Random House. New York: 1989. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. As new in dj. $12.00
Prokosch, Frederic: The Seven Sisters. Secker & Warburg. London: 1963. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (vi), 406. Fine copy in dj. $32.00
Pryce-Jones, David: The Afternoon Sun. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London: 1986. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $12.00
Read, Piers Paul: The Junkers, A Novel. Knopf. New York: 1969. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine copy in a repaired dj. $16.00
Renault, Mary: Funeral Games. Pantheon. New York: 1981. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $20.00
Robinson, Bruce: The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman. Bloomsbury. London: 1998. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (vi), 280, (ii). Ribbon marker. Fine copy in dj. $22.00
Rock, Phillip: The Passing Bells, Circles of Time, A Future Arrived [Trilogy] Hodder and Stoughton. London: 1979, 1981, 1985. Three 8vo volumes. Boards. Volume 1: edges very slightly foxed, one-inch tear in dj, else very good copy; volume 2: dj lacks one-inch piece from back-strip panel and a small piece from bottom of the back panel, else fine copy; volume 3: owner's name in ink on first free end-paper, some discoloration on front cover, else near fine copy. $85.00
The trilogy begins in 1914 and concerns an English aristocratic family, their relatives and friends. It follows them through one world war and the beginning of the second, ending in 1940. All the characters are vividly drawn and it is a deeply engrossing story. I particularly recommend these novels!
Rowling, J. K.: The Casual Vacancy. Little, Brown. New York: 2012. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (vi), 506. Mint copy in dj. $36.00
This is a dark, but compelling, novel about life in an English village where hate, violence and envy are endemic. Not to be missed!
Rowling, J. K. (writings as) Robert Galbraith: The Cuckoo's Calling. Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company. New York: 2013. Reprinted. First North American Edition, reprinted. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (viii), 456. Fine copy in dust-jacket. Hardcover.$10.00
Rushdie, Salman: East, West, Stories. Pantheon Books. New York: 1994. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $12.00
Rushdie, Salman: Fury, A Novel. Random House. New York: 2001. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (viii), 264. Signed by the author on the title-page. $75.00
Rybakov, Anatoli: Children of the Arbat. Translated by Harold Shukman. Little, Brown and Company. Boston: 1988. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 694. Near fine copy in a slightly frayed and torn dj. $15.00
Sagan, Françoise: Those Without Shadows. Translated by Frances Frenaye. Dutton. New York: 1957. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Very good copy in a frayed dj. $10.00
Scott, Paul: The Birds of Paradise. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London: 1962. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $38.00
Sheers, Owen: I Saw a Man, A Novel. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. New York: 2015. First United States Edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (x), 262. With the author’s signature on a bookplate pasted to the first free end-paper. Fine copy in dj. $24.00
Swift, Graham: The Light of Day. Hamish Hamilton. London: 2003. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. viii, 248. Signed by the author on title-page. Fine copy in dj. $55.00
Taylor, G. P.: Shadowmancer. Faber and Faber. London: 2003. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. viii, 312. Signed by the author on the title-page. Fine copy in dj. $100.00
Taylor, G. P.: Shadowmancer. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York: 2003. First impression. 8vo. Boards. Pp. x, 278. Map. Ink mark on bottom edge; else fine copy in dj. $15.00
Theroux, Paul: The Mosquito Coast. Hamish Hamilton. London: 1981. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $48.00
Thornton, Lawrence: Under the Gypsy Moon. Doubleday. New York: 1990. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
Thubron, Colin: Turning Back the Sun. Heinemann. London: 1991. First edition. 8vo. Boards. 204 pp. Signed by the author on title-page. Fine copy in dj. $48.00
Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Annotated Hobbit. Illustrated by the author. Annotated and Introduced by Douglas A. Anderson. Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston: 2002. Revised and expanded edition. Small 4to. Boards. Pp. xiv, 400, (ii). Illustrated in black & white and with (8) pp. of color plates. Appendices. Checklist. Maps. Fine copy in dj. $20.00
Ustinov, Peter: Add a Dash of Pity, Short Stories. Heinemann. London: 1959. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in a slightly frayed dj. $28.00
Ustinov, Peter: The Loser. Heinemann. London: 1961. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Very good copy in dj. $35.00
Van Den Brink, H. M.: On the Water. Translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent. Grove Press. New York: 2001. First American edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Fine copy in dj. $12.00
Vargas Ilosa, Mario: The Time of the Hero. Translated by Lysander Kemp. Cape. London: 1967. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in a slightly darkened dj. $42.00
Walpole, Hugh: The Dark Forest. Secker. London: 1916. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Roger Senhouse's copy with his book label and notes in pencil on first free end-paper. With Spottiswoode imprint and three pages of ads. This is actually the second state of this book because all but a few of the first were destroyed in a warehouse fire. Roger Senhouse was a close friend of Lytton Strachey. Two corners worn, no dj, otherwise good copy. $85.00
Walpole, Hugh: Jeremy at Crale, His Friends, His Ambitions, and His One Great Enemy. Doran. New York: 1927. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Near fine in a frayed dj with several pieces missing. $25.00
Hugh Walpole wrote three novels about the adventures of his boy hero, Jeremy, and this is the third one in the series. All are still eminently readable today. They also provide a revealing picture of what English middle class life was like in the early part of the 20th Century.
Waugh, Evelyn: The Loved One, An Anglo-American Tragedy. Little, Brown. Boston: 1948. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. (x), 164, (ii). Very good copy in slightly frayed and soiled dj. $42.00
Wheatley, Dennis: The Rape of Venice. Hutchinson. London: 1959. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 448. Dj just a little chipped; some slight discoloration to end-papers; else fine in dj. $18.00
Wheen, A. W.: Two Masters. Faber & Faber. London: 1929. First edition. Criterion Miscellany No. 1. 32 pages sewn into wrappers. Covers soiled and worn. $28.00
White, Edmund (editor): The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction. Faber & Faber. Winchester: 1991. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Price: $20.00
White, Patrick: The Twyborn Affair, A Novel. Cape. London: 1979. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $38.00
Williamson, Henry: The Patriot's Progress, Being the Vicissitudes of Pte. John Bullock. Lino-cuts by William Kermode. Geoffrey Bles. London: 1930. First edition. 8vo. Buckram. Fine copy in dj. $65.00
Wilson. A. N.: Scandal, Or Priscilla's Kindness. Hamish Hamilton. London: 1983. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Fine copy in dj. $25.00
Worsley, T. C.: Fellow Travellers, A Memoir of the Thirties. London Magazine Editions, London: 1971. First edition. 8vo. Boards. A fine copy in dj. $42.00
A novel about a group of friends, their relationships and the turmoils of the 1930s. Based on the real experiences of the author's friends, many of them easily identified.
Wouk, Herman: The Glory, A Novel. Little, Brown Company. Boston: 1994. First edition. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (xii), 686, (vi). Map. Fine copy in dj. $10.00
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