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91807 Atwood, Margaret Bodily Harm Simon & Schuster, New York, 1982. First US edition: hardcover, octavo; quarter bound beige papered boards with blue cloth spine and silver gilt spine titling, matching beige endpapers; 266pp. Minor wear; toned and spotted text block edges and mild offsetting to flyleaf; browned dustwrapper spine panel. Very good to near fine and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $50

44286 Atwood, Margaret Cat's Eye McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1988. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine-titles; 421pp. Text block and page edges well-toned with some spotting; some offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper mildly rubbed with minor edgewear. Very good. Click here to order $30

89111 Atwood, Margaret Lady Oracle Andre Deutsch, London, 1977. First UK edition. Hardcover, octavo; beige boards with black spine titling; 345pp. Minor wear; slight wear to lower board corners and edges; browned text block and page edges; small missing segment on lower front corner of dustwrapper and dustwrapper spine mildly faded. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine otherwise. Click here to order $32

10757 Atwood, Margaret Wilderness Tips Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London, 1991. First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling and a blue ribbon marker; 247pp. Mild wear; text block edges lightly toned. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $28

47675 Auden, W.H. The Age of Anxiety A Baroque Eclogue Random House Inc., New York NY, 1947. First US edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles on a brown label; 188pp., top edges dyed brown. Mild wear; some softening of the spine heel; text block edges toned; newspaper illustration of the author tipped-in to the front pastedown; previous owner's ink inscription to the flyleaf and rear pastedown; ink inscription to the flyleaf verso. Price-clipped dustwrapper is rubbed marked and edgeworn; now backed by archival-quality paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Precedes the English edition by one year. Auden received a Pulitzer Prize for this piece, which served as the basis for Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 (1948). Click here to order $200

77195 Auster, Paul Moon Palace Viking, New York, 1989. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 307pp. Grey papered boards with black cloth spine and silver gilt lettering. Minor wear; slightly bumped board corners; black remainder mark on lower edges. Otherwise near fine in unclipped dustwrapper. Click here to order $35

91711 Banks, Iain The Wasp Factory Macmillan, London, 1984. First edition. Hardcover; octavo; brown boards with gilt spine titling; 184pp. Minor wear; tiny scrapes on board corners and mild toning with a few scattered spots to upper text block edges. Mildly faded dustwrapper spine. Near fine and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Banks' first novel. Click here to order $200

61119 Banville, John The Book of Evidence Secker & Warburg Ltd., London, 1989. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 220pp. Mild wear; cocked and rolled; text block and page edges toned. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $30

44070 Barnes, Julian England, England Jonathan Cape, London, 1998. First edition: octavo; hardcover; black boards with silver-gilt spine-titling, dark blue endpapers; 266pp. Minor wear; upper text block edge slightly toned with a few spots. Near fine in like dustwrapper. Click here to order $25

44114 Beckett, Samuel Ends and Odds Plays and Sketches Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1977. First edition: octavo; hardcover; 104pp. Mild wear; lightly spotted text block edges. Price clipped dustwrapper; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $40

9842 Bellow, Saul Herzog Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1965. First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 341pp. Moderate wear; cocked; spine extremities softened; boards bowed; text block edges toned and top edge dusted. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn with sunning to the spine panel; a small tear to the lower hinge running across the lower panel; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good. Click here to order $30

40863 Bellow, Saul Mr Sammler's Planet Viking, New York, 1970. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 313pp. Slight edge wear to dustwrapper, otherwise very good. Not price-clipped and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $60

58205 Bennett, Alan Untold Stories Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 2005. First edition: octavo; hardcover; 658pp., with 24pp. of full-colour and monochrome plates and many other monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; slightly cocked; text block top edge lightly dusted. Dustwrapper lightly edgeworn. Very good. Click here to order $30

43426 Berners, Lord The Camel Constable & Co., London, 1936. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 174pp. Slightly rolled binding. Lightly toned text block edges. Few marks and smudges to dustwrapper with edge and corner wear, chipping and small tears. Not price-clipped. Good to very good. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive archival film ande white paper backing. Click here to order $70

89707 Berryman, John His Toy, His Dream, His Rest 308 Dream Songs Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1969. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling; 317pp. Mild wear: slight wear to lower board corners and edges; browning and spotting to text block edges. Rubbed dustwrapper with browning to rear panel edges; some scraping to edges and corners but particularly to spine panel extremities; now protected in archival film with white paper backing. Very good. Click here to order $45

38952 Betjeman, John Summoned by Bells John Murray, London, 1960. First edition: royal octavo; hardcover; 111pp. Mild wear; spotted text block edges; foxed preliminaries and occasional spotting throughout. Slightly chipped and foxed dustwrapper; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $35

98320 Bradbury, Malcolm The History Man A Novel Secker & Warburg Ltd., London, 1975. First edition. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 230pp. Mild wear; slightly rolled; light softening to the spine extremities; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; mild offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper rubbed; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $75

63181 Brooke, Rupert Democracy and the Arts A hitherto unpublished essay with a new portrait Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1946. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 32pp. Dustwrapper is tanned, and the text block edges are spotted; otherwise a very good copy. Click here to order $45

91897 Bukowski, Charles Post Office London Magazine Editions, London, 1974. First UK edition. Hardcover, octavo; red boards with navy blue spine titling, decorated blue endpapers; 149pp. Minor wear; slightly wear and softening to spine panel extremities; browned and spotted text block and page edges. Illustrated dustwrapper with small stain at base of spine; wear to edges, a few small chips and marks. Very good. Wrapper now protected in archival film and white paper backing. Click here to order $300

44630 Burgess, Anthony Beds in the East Heinemann, London, 1959. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 237pp. Spotted text block edges; else very good in unclipped dustwrapper, some wear to edges, couple of tiny tears. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive archival film and white paper backing. Not price-clipped. The third in the Malay trilogy. Click here to order $100

91119 Burroughs, William S Interzone Picador, London, 1989. First UK edition: hardcover, octavo; black boards with silver gilt spine titling; 194pp., a few monochrome illustrations. Mild spotting to lower text block edges; slight browning to dustwrapper rear panel edges and spine. Otherwise very good to near fine and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $40

46185 Burroughs, William S. The Place of Dead Roads Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1983. First US edition: octavo hardcover; brown cloth boards with orange gilt spine titling and lower front board author's name; 306pp. Inscription. Minor wear; mild wear to board edges; toned text block edges with spotting on top edge and a few small marks. Tiny missing segment on upper rear edge of dustwrapper. Very good with wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $40

43018 Byatt, A.S. The Virgin in the Garden Chatto & Windus, London, 1978. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 428pp. Endpapers and text block edges lightly toned and spotted. Red paper boards have small amount of fading to lower corner of front; bumping to tail of spine. Price-clipped dustwrapper lightly toned with minor wear at edges; spine sunned. Very good. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $60

7644 Carter, Angela Black Venus Chatto & Windus, London, 1985. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 121pp. Lightly foxed endpapers, spotted text block edges; else near fine in dustwrapper with some edgewear (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Click here to order $22

56760 Carter, Angela Wise Children Chatto & Windus, London, 1991. First edition: octavo; hardcover, black boards with gilt spine-titling and illustrated mauve endpapers; 234pp. Minor wear; lightly toned text block edges with a few scattered spots; tiny tear on head of dustwrapper spine. Near fine and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $35

214062 Carver, Raymond Elephant & Other Stories Collins Harvill/HarperCollins Publishers, London, 1988. First edition. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling; 124pp. Minor wear; text block top edge dusted. Mildly rubbed dustwrapper; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $40

12069 Carver, Raymond No Heroics Please Uncollected Writings Harvill/HarperCollins Publishers, London, 1991. First UK (and hardcover) edition. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 239pp., with a monochrome illustration. Mild wear; faint spotting to upper text block edge. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Only issued in the US as a paperback. Click here to order $45

65215 Chatwin, Bruce On the Black Hill Jonathan Cape, London, 1982. First UK edition: octavo; hardcover; 248pp. Some light offsetting to pastedowns; browned pages and text block edges. Else very good in foxed dustwrapper a little worn at edges (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Click here to order $45

58291 Chatwin, Bruce The Songlines Jonathan Cape, London, 1987. First UK edition. Hardcover, octavo, 293pp. Quite browned pages and text block edges; spot to upper edge of front endpaper. Price-clipped dustwrapper lightly worn at edges; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $40

70923 Chatwin, Bruce The Viceroy of Ouidah Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1980. First edition: octavo; hardcover with gilt title; 155pp. Text block edges spotted. Very minor wear to dustwrapper (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Very good. Author's second book. Click here to order $40

36448 Chatwin, Bruce The Viceroy of Ouidah Summit Books, New York, 1980. First US edition. Hardcover, octavo; quarter bound green papered boards with tan cloth spine, map endpapers; 155pp. Minor wear; some rubbing and scraping to dustwrapper edges. Otherwise very good to near fine and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $32

45654 Chatwin, Bruce What Am I Doing Here Jonathan Cape, London, 1989. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 367pp. Offset to the endpapers; some light spotting to the text block edges. Dustwrapper is foxed on the flaps; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $30

45660 Cheever, John Bullet Park Knopf, New York, 1969. First edition. Hardcover, octavo; dark red cloth boards with silver gilt spine and upper board titling; 245pp. Lightly toned and spotted untrimmed page edges. Dustwrapper slightly worn with some random spotting; edgewear, some creasing and chipping. Very good and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Cheever's celebrated third novel. Click here to order $40

207822 Cohen, Leonard Beautiful Losers A Novel The Viking Press, New York NY, 1966. First US edition. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt and silver-gilt spine titles; 243pp., top edges dyed grey. Moderate wear; slightly shaken; spine extremities softened; text block edges spotted; offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn; chipped at the spine panel extremities and flap-turns with some creasing; spine panel sunned; a sticker ghost to the upper panel; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $150

87052 DeLillo, Don Mao II Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1991. First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling; 241pp., with a monochrome frontispiece and other monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; text block top edge dusted. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Click here to order $35

10937 DeLillo, Don Underworld Picador/Macmillan Publishers Ltd., London, 1998. First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with silver gilt spine titling and black endpapers; 827pp. Mild wear; slightly shaken; text block top edge lightly dusted. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $35

205756 Durrell, Lawrence (Nicholas Bentley, illus.) Stiff Upper Lip Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1958. First edition: octavo; hardcover; 94pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; board edges and corners mildly worn; faint offset to the endpapers. Price-clipped dustwrapper edgeworn and lightly sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $25

49015 Eliot, T.S. Charles Whibley - A Memoir The English Association Pamphlet No. 80 Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, 1931. First edition: small folio; staple-sewn booklet with a printed wrapper; 13pp. (with 3pp. of adverts). Moderate wear; wrappers sunned; text block creased lengthways; mild toning to the text block and page edges. Very good. An uncommon piece of Eliotiana. A memoir of his friend and writer, Charles Whibley. Click here to order $20

45202 Faulkner, William The Reivers Chatto & Windus, London, 1962. First UK edition. Hardcover, octavo, 284pp. Foxed preliminaries, offsetting; spotted and toned text block edges; else very good in foxed, price-clipped dustwrapper, with light wear and a few tiny chips. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $50

84489 Forester, C.S. Hornblower in the West Indies Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1958. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 283pp. Minor wear; offsetting to endpapers; mild toning and dusting to text block edges with some spots. Price-clipped dustwrapper, lightly rubbed with some wear along the hinges; some mild surface tears to the lower panel; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive film. Very good. Click here to order $75

43479 Forster, E.M. The Hill of Devi Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1953. First US edition. Hardcover, octavo, 267pp. Slightly worn lower board edges and corners. Very lightly toned text block edges. Discoloured rear panel of dustwrapper; not price-clipped; minor edge wear; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $65

205862 Forster, E.M. Marianne Thornton A Domestic Biography Edward Arnold Ltd., London, 1956. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling; 301pp., with monochrome plates. Mild wear; wear to board corners; offsetting to endpapers and foxing to preliminaries; lightly browned and spotted text block edges. Dustwrapper mildly foxed with faded and slightly browned spine panel; tiny missing segments on spine panel extremities and corners; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $40

88746 Fowles, John The Aristos A self-portrait in Ideas Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1965. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 246pp. Minor wear; text block edges mildly spotted; mild offset to the endpapers; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; previous owner's pencil inscription to the flyleaf. Price-clipped dustwrapper mildly rubbed and sunned along the spine panel; moderate spotting; some slight chipping to the spine panel head; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive film. Very good. Click here to order $250

88623 Fowles, John The Collector Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1963. Second impression in month of publication: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 283pp., top edges dyed red. Slightly rolled; text block edges toned with some slight spotting; offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper mildly rubbed and sunned; tips of flaps clipped but original 18s price remains (deleted in pen); some slight chipping to the spine panel head; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive film. Very good. Fowles' first book. Click here to order $150

210543 Fowles, John (Fay Godwin, illus.) Islands Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1978. First edition. Square octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 108pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; text block edges spotted; mild spotting to the preliminaries. Price-clipped dustwrapper is mildly rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $70

71681 Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman and the Mountain of Light Collins Harvill, London, 1990. First edition. Hardcover, octavo; red boards with gilt spine titling; 367pp. Minor wear; a few scattered spots on upper text block edges and small stamp on lower edges, partially faded; minimal wear to dustwrapper edges and corners. Fine otherwise and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $60

67035 Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman and the Redskins From the Flashman Papers 1849-50 and 1875-76 Wiliam Collins & Sons Ltd., London, 1982. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and endpaper maps; 479pp. Mild wear; rolled; spine extremities softened; board lower edges bumped; spotting to the text block edges. Price-clipped dustwrapper mildly rubbed and edgeworn; some spotting to the flaps; spine panel sunned; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. If the American west was a place for heroes, what then was Harry Flashman doing there? Among other things, he was fleeing a murder charge, travelling with a brothel on wheels towards California, tricking the noble redmen while seducing their women, and reaching his moment of supreme ingloriousness and fear - under fire at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Click here to order $50

58889 Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman at the Charge From The Flashman Papers 1854-1855 Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1973. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 286pp. Spotting to preliminaries and, particularly, text block edges, tiny stain to lower edges; else very good in like dustwrapper. Fourth in series. Click here to order $60

64478 Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman's Lady From the Flashman Papers 1842-1845 Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1977. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles and endpaper maps; 328pp. Minor wear; text block edges lightly spotted and top edge dusted. Price-clipped dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and sunned long the spine panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $80

64413 Fraser, George MacDonald The General Danced at Dawn Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1970. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 205pp. Owner's signature, a little spotting to text block edges, binding a touch rolled; else very good in lightly worn dustwrapper, very slight soiling to tail edge of spine panel, spine a bit sunned. Professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Author's fairly uncommon third book. Click here to order $85

77170 Gass, William H. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country And Other Stories Harper and Row Publishers Inc., New York, NY, USA, 1968. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with an upper board decoration and decorated endpapers; 207pp. untrimmed, top edge dyed yellow. Retailer's bookplate on front pastedown; mild toning to text block edges; upper board corners lightly bumped; spine extremities mildly softened. Price-clipped dustwrapper well-rubbed with wear to the spine-panel extremities and flap turns; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $100

215565 Gibbons, Stella A Pink Front Door Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1959. First edition: octavo hardcover; green boards with gilt spine titling on dark green label; 255pp. Sunned spine panel and upper and lower board edges; offsetting to endpapers; browned and spotted text block edges; a few small internal marks and spots. Illustrated dustwrapper with well-rubbed spine and rear panel, chipping and scraping to corners and spine panel extremities, mild edgewear; wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film with white paper backing. Very good Click here to order $40

47569 Graves, Robert The English Ballad: A Critical Survey Ernest Benn, London, 1927. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 139pp. Corners bumped. Diffusely spotted preliminaries. Bound in red cloth, back and front; white label on spine (now browned). Cloth faded on backstrip and mottled on boards. Some foxing to edges, otherwise a very neat clean copy. Published in January 1927. Click here to order $65

47696 Greene, Graham A Burnt Out Case Heinemann, London, 1961. First edition. Hardcover, octavo; black boards with silver gilt spine titling; 256pp. Moderate wear; foxing to endpapers, pastedowns, prelims, half-title and title pages with some occasional spotting to page edges throughout; toning and spotting to text block edges; dustwrapper scraped and chipped at spine extremities and corners, foxing to rear panel. Very good Wrapper professionally protected by superior non-adhesive archival film and white paper backing. Click here to order $35

40896 Greene, Graham The Comedians The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1966. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 313pp., top edges dyed plum. Minor wear. Dustwrapper professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Click here to order $75

98812 Greene, Graham The End of the Affair William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1951. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 237pp. Mild wear; spine extremities sunned and lightly softened; text block edges and pages toned; endpapers embrowned. Dustwrapper torn along the lower hinge; mildly rubbed and sunned along the spine panel; chipping to the spine panel extremities and flap-turns; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good. Click here to order $90

45907 Greene, Graham The Labyrinthine Ways New York, Viking, 1940. First US edition. Hardcover, octavo, 301pp. Second issue with pages 165 & 256 cut in to correct mistaken transposition of first issue. Without author's note. Original yellow cloth. Dustwrapper has 2 cm section missing at head of spine as well as two other smaller chips at heel. Some browning to pastedowns, text otherwise clean. Dustwrapper protected by archival-quality film and white paper backing. Nice copy. Both issues seem to have been limited to 3,500 copies each. US edition of The Power and the Glory. Click here to order $700

45908 Greene, Graham The Labyrinthine Ways Viking, New York, 1940. First US edition. Hardcover, octavo, 301pp. Original yellow cloth. Some browning to pastedowns, text otherwise clean. Protected by clear bookwrap. A very sound clean copy of second issue with pages 165 & 256 cut in to correct mistaken transposition of first issue. Lacking dustwrapper. US edition of The Power and the Glory. Click here to order $200

45906 Greene, Graham The Name of Action Doubleday Inc., New York NY, 1931. First US edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and blind-stamped upper board decoration; 312pp., untrimmed, top edges dyed red. Moderate wear; rolled; top joint cracked; spine extremities softened; gilt tarnished; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; previous owner's contemporary name in ink to the verso of the flyleaf. Lacks original dustwrapper; new facsimile dustwrapper now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good. Greene remarks that the sales of the American edition were "disastrous". In any case, only 1,000 copies were printed and the author never allowed it to be issued again. Click here to order $250

98849 Greene, Graham Our Man in Havana William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1958. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 273pp. Moderate wear; text block and page edges toned and spotted, and top edge dusted; offset to the preliminaries. Dustwrapper rubbed and sunned along the spine panel; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $75

44719 Greene, Graham A Sort of Life The Bodley Head, London, 1971. First edition. Hardcover, octavo; green boards with gilt spine titling; 215pp., top edges dyed green. Mild offsetting to endpapers with toned and spotted text block edges - top edges faded; dustwrapper edges lightly worn with chipping and scraping at corners. Very good. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Autobiography. Click here to order $30

206389 Greene, Hugh & Graham (eds.) (Introduction by Graham Greene) The Spy's Bedside Book Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957. Second impression: octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 256pp., with a monochrome frontispiece and other illustrations likewise. Mild wear; spine extremities softened and somewhat sunned; text block edges lightly toned and spotted; offset to the endpapers. Price-clipped dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn; sunned along the spine panel; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. On its first appearance in 1957, this book provoked a storm of interest, and perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence. It answers questions such as , How can you hide messages in a boiled egg? and Why should you always put pepper in your Vodka in Russia. This classic anthology includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming, John Buchan, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Belle Boyd, Major Andre and William Le Queux as well as William Blake and D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann, all suspected of spying in three great wars. Click here to order $35

77145 Hawkes, John The Goose on the Grave & The Owl Two Novels by John Hawkes New Directions Books/James Laughlin, New York, NY, USA, 1954. First edition: octavo; hardcover; 207pp. Top edge lightly dusted; minor offset to endpapers; text block and page edges very lightly toned. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed along the spine with some minor insect damage to the front panel; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $50

60715 Hemingway, Ernest The Dangerous Summer Hamish Hamilton, London, 1985. First edition: octavo; hardcover; red boards with gilt spine-titles; 150pp., with 16pp. of black & white plates. Mild wear; browned text block and page edges with some scattered spotting. Illustrated red and yellow dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $25

14885 Hemingway, Ernest (William White, ed.) By-Line Selected articles and despatches recording the adventure that was his life and the events from which he fashioned his masterpieces Collins, London, 1968. First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titles on a black label; 479pp. Mild wear; text block edges spotted and top edge lightly dusted; endpapers and preliminaries offset. Price-clipped dustwrapper is spotted and marked, especially along the flap-turns; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $40

47501 Huxley, Aldous Brief Candles Chatto & Windus, London, 1930. First edition. Octavo hardcover; red boards with gilt spine titling; 323pp. Top edge dyed red. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and title page with scattered spotting thereafter; spotting to text block edges. Plain card dustwrapper with small missing segments at spine panel extremities and corners; browning, rubbing and a few marks especially along spine panel; wear and chipping to edges. Good and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film with white paper backing. Click here to order $60

43156 Huxley, Aldous Jesting Pilate The Diary of a Journey Chatto & Windus, London, 1927. Second impression: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 291pp., untrimmed, with a monochrome photographic frontispiece and 13pp. of plates likewise, illustrating scenes in India, Burma, Malaya, the Pacific and America. Mild offset to endpapers; text block edges toned and spotted; boards faded; small split to head of spine; bumping to tail of spine; spine sunned; 2 small dents to lower and upper rear edges. Dustwrapper toned and stained; head of spine and small piece of adjacent front cover missing; tail of spine creased and chipped; front and rear hinges of spine rubbed; large tears to rear upper edge and rear flap hinge; all corners scuffed with tear to upper front and piece missing from upper rear; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive archival film and white paper backing. Good. "In certain parts of the world [the traveller] will find spirituality run wild; in others a stupid Materialism that would deny the very existence of values. The traveller will observe these various distortions and will create for himself a standard that shall be, as far as possible, free from them - a standard of values that shall be as timeless, as uncontingent on circumstances, as nearly absolute as he can make them. Understanding diversity and allowing for it, he will tolerate, but not without limit. He will distinguish between harmless perversions and those which tend actually to deny or stultify the fundamental values. Towards the first he will be tolerant. There can be no compromise with the second." - Aldous Huxley Click here to order $60

99856 [Leo Tolstoy] Berlin, Isaiah The Hedgehog and the Fox An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd., London, 1953. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 86pp. Moderate wear; rolled and boards slightly fanned; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; offset to the endpapers; previous owner's pencilled inscription to the front pastedown; scattered foxing to the preliminaries; some inked marginalia. Dustwrapper rubbed, sunned and edgeworn; previous owner's name in ink to the front flap; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good to very good. "The Hedgehog and the Fox", a title referring to a fragment of the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, was one of Berlin's most popular essays with the general public, reprinted in numerous editions. Of the classification that gives the essay its title, Berlin once said "I never meant it very seriously. I meant it as a kind of enjoyable intellectual game, but it was taken seriously." Berlin expands upon this idea to divide writers and thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs, who view the world through the lens of a single defining idea (examples given include Plato), and foxes, who draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea (examples given include William Shakespeare). Click here to order $300

84914 Lessing, Doris Briefing for a Descent into Hell Borzoi Books/Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York, 1971. First edition: octavo; hardcover with gilt spine-titles and upper board decorations, a lower board blind-stamped decoration, and decorative endpapers; 308pp., untrimmed, top edge dyed black. Decorated title page. Very slightly shaken; some rubbing to the boards; previous owner's bookplate (elided) to the front pastedown; previous owner's ink inscription to the first white page; spotting to the text block edges. Dustwrapper is mildly rubbed and edgeworn; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive film. Very good. Click here to order $45

43458 [Lord Berners] Berners, Lord A Distant Prospect A Sequel to First Childhood Constable Ltd., London, 1945. First edition: octavo; hardcover; 126pp., with a frontispiece and three plates. Minor wear; lightly toned text block edges. Dustwrapper slightly discoloured with edgewear and light chipping; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $60

49560 Lowry, Malcolm October Ferry to Gabriola World Publishing Company, New York NY, 1970. First US edition. Hardcover, octavo, 338pp. Endpapers and text block edges toned and spotted. Dustwrapper lightly worn at edges with a little rippling of cellophane layer. Very good to near fine. Lowry's last novel. Click here to order $35

69931 Lowry, Malcolm October Ferry to Gabriola Jonathan Cape, London, 1971. First UK edition. Hardcover, octavo, 336pp. Owner's name. Toned and spotted text block edges with top edge dyed blue; wear to dustwrapper edges and corners with some chipping. Very good and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $40

69915 Lowry, Malcolm Ultramarine Jonathan Cape, London, 1963. First edition thus. Hardcover, octavo, 203pp. Owner's name. Toned and spotted text block edges with top edge dyed dark blue; scrapes and wear to dustwrapper edges and corners with some chipping and creasing at spine extremities. Very good and professionally protected in archival film with white paper backing. New and revised edition. The book was first published in 1933. Click here to order $35

43754 Lowry, Malcolm Under the Volcano Jonathan Cape, London, 1947. First UK edition: octavo; hardcover; 395pp. Clean and tidy copy; some shelf wear at tail and edges; spine browned at edges; some offset and spotted text block edges. Very good. Lacks original dustwrapper; now with replacement facsimile dustwrapper. Click here to order $160

83152 McCarthy, Cormac Cities of the Plain Volume Three The Border Trilogy Picador, London, 1998. First UK edition. Hardcover, octavo, 291pp. Minor wear; lightly toned text block edges; dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Click here to order $40

77213 McCarthy, Cormac The Gardener's Son A Screenplay The Ecco Press, Hopewell, 1996. First US edition. Hardcover, octavo, 93pp. Minor wear. Fine in unclipped dustwrapper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $40

43571 Mailer, Norman The Naked and the Dead Rinehart and Company, New York, 1948. Second impression (publisher's colophon on copyright page with the number 2 adjacent). Hardcover, octavo, 721pp. Dustwrapper has four newspaper reviews on rear inner fold. Owner's bookplate and name stamp, few faint spots to text block edges and endpapers; else very good to near fine in foxed dustwrapper, few tiny scrapes and wear to edges; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $500

43453 Matthiessen, Peter At Play in the Fields of The Lord Random House, New York, 1965. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 373pp. Very slightly worn board edges and corners. Lightly toned text block edges. Slightly scuffed price-clipped dustwrapper, light smudging and discolouration of spine; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Minor wear; else very good. Click here to order $85

98834 Maugham, Somerset The Razor's Edge William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1944. Second impression in year of publication: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board titles and an upper board decoration; 284pp. Mild wear; mild softening to the spine extremities; light toning to the text block edges with some spots; a small red ink mark to the last page. Dustwrapper is printed on the verso of another wrapper by D.K. Broster entitled "Almond, Wild Almond", due to wartime paper restrictions; lightly rubbed with some scraping along the hinges; light chipping to the spine panel extremities; spine panel lightly sunned; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $180

46390 Miller, Henry and Michael Fraenkel Hamlet: Volume II Carrefour, New York, 1941. First edition. Paperback, octavo, 465pp. Slightly rubbed and browned; otherwise sound neat copy in protective clear wrap. Good. Click here to order $80

99014 Mitford, Nancy Don't Tell Alfred Hamish Hamilton, London, 1960. First edition. Hardcover, octavo; green boards with gilt spine titling; 248pp. Offsetting to endpapers; toned and spotted text block edges. Well-rubbed dustwrapper with large round cup stain on rear panel; tiny tears, chipping and wear to edges and corners. Good to very good and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film with white paper backing. Click here to order $50

98953 Mitford, Nancy (illus. Osbert Lancaster) The Water Beetle Hamish Hamilton, London, 1962. First edition: hardcover, octavo; red boards with silver gilt spine titling; 144pp., monochrome illustrations on gray stock. Lightly toned and faintly spotted text block edges; a few random scattered spots to early pages. Well-rubbed illustrated dustwrapper with tiny missing segments to head of spine panel and corners. Very good and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film with white paper backing. Click here to order $60

214076 Munro, Alice Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Chatto & Windus, London, 2001. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with silver gilt spine titling; 323pp. Minor wear; browned text block and page edges with spotting. Dustwrapper; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $25

39653 Murdoch, Iris The Nice and the Good Chatto & Windus, London, 1968. First edition: octavo; hardcover; 350pp.; top edges dyed brown. Mild wear; fading to text block top edge; some minor glue stains to the endpaper gutters. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn; front flap creased; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $35

203556 Naipaul, V.S. Guerrillas Andre Deutsch, London, 1975. First edition: hardcover, octavo; brown boards with gilt spine titling; 253pp. Toned and spotted text block edges; mild wear to dustwrapper edges and rear panel slightly toned at edges. Very good with wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $35

69555 O'Brian, Patrick Clarissa Oakes HarperCollins, London, 1992. First edition. Octavo, hardcover, 256pp. Lightly toned and spotted text block edges and a small, solid bump to the middle of the upper board; slightly scuffed dustwrapper with light wear and chipping to edges. Very good. Click here to order $80

96419 O'Brian, Patrick The Commodore W.W. Norton, New York NY, 1995. First US edition: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in papered boards, with gilt spine titles; 282pp., untrimmed, with a monochrome frontispiece. Minor wear. Dustwrapper mildly rubbed; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $65

96418 O'Brian, Patrick The Wine Dark Sea HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., London, 1993. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 261pp. Minor wear. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $70

82773 Orwell, George Animal Farm A Fairy Story Secker & Warburg, London, 1946. Third printing: octavo; hardcover; 92pp. Moderate wear; slightly rolled; spine extremities softened and sunned; boards rubbed with some marks; text block edges toned and spotted; offset to the endpapers; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; lower joint cracked. Price-clipped dustwrapper well-rubbed; sunned along the spine panel; spine extremities and flap-turns chipped; a heavy chip to the spine panel head with some loss of text; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good. Click here to order $200

68152 Palinurus The Unquiet Grave Hamish Hamilton, London, 1945. First publication of the revised edition. Hardcover, octavo, 107pp. Owner's name stamped on endpaper. Lightly browned text block edges; tiny segments missing on spine extremities and corners of dustwrapper; light spotting to rear panel. Very good otherwise and protected in archival film with white paper backing. Click here to order $40

46857 Proulx, E. Annie Accordion Crimes Scribner/Simon & Schuster Inc. New York NY, 1996. First US edition: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with bronze spine titles; 381pp. Minor wear; text block top edge dusted. Dustwrapper mildly rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $25

78112 Roth, Philip The Plot Against America Jonathan Cape/Random House (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Milson's Point NSW, 2004. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 391pp. Mild wear; text block and page edges lightly toned. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $24

14547 Roy, Arundhati The God of Small Things Flamingo, London, 1987. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 339pp. Foxing to text block edges. Shelf wear to lower boards. Otherwise very good in like dustwrapper (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Click here to order $35

74972 Rushdie, Salman Haroun and the Sea of Stories Granta Books with Penguin Books Ltd., London, 1990. First edition: octavo; hardcover; black boards with silver-gilt spine-titling, blue endpapers; 218pp. Mild scattered spotting to text block edges. Blue illustrated dustwrapper mildly rubbed and edgeworn, one or two spots. Very good to near fine. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $25

9674 Rushdie, Salman The Satanic Verses Viking/Penguin, Ringwood, Vic., 1988. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 547pp. Spotted text block edges; mild offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper mildly worn; sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $60

215641 Salinger, J.D. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, 1959 [1963]. First edition, third state (dedication page following colophon). Hardcover, octavo; blue cloth boards with gilt spine titling; 248pp. Mild rubbing and browning to board edges and corners with some softening at spine panel extremities; Owner's name; toning to text block edges with one or two small faint marks and spots. Worn and well-rubbed dustwrapper with tiny missing segments at spine panel extremities and corners, spine very slightly sunned; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film with white paper backing. Not price-clipped. Very good. Click here to order $35

43017 Sontag, Susan The Benefactor Farrar, Straus and Co., New York, 1963. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 273pp. Endpapers and text block edges toned and spotted. Paper boards with cloth spine; bent head and tail of spine. Price-clipped dustwrapper toned and spotted; chipping and creasing to head and tail of spine and upper and lower edges; 2cm tear to rear upper spine hinge; scuffed corners. Else very good. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $40

69924 Stein, Gertrude (edited by Robert Bartlett Haas) How Writing is Written Volume II of the Previously Uncollected Writings Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974. Limited edition of 750 hardcover copies, octavo, 161pp. Lightly toned and faintly spotted text block edges; cream card dustwrapper foxed especially at edges and spine browned; minor wear to edges. Otherwise very good to near fine and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $85

88691 Thompson, Hunter S Gonzo Papers, Vol. I: The Great Shark Hunt Strange Tales from a Strange Time Rolling Stone Press Book, Summit Books, New York, 1979. First edition: hardcover, octavo; black papered boards with white centre decoration, cloth spine and silver gilt spine titling; 602pp. Minor wear; spotting to text block edges and mild offsetting to endpapers. Dustwrapper slightly toned at edges with mild wear and a few spots. Very good and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $100

47403 Traven, B. (Basil Creighton, trans.) The Treasure of Sierra Madre Chatto & Windus, London, 1934. First UK edition: octavo; hardcover; 295pp., top edges dyed brown. Ex-library: joints professionally repaired; boards slightly rubbed; library marks on spine; library stamps on page 1 and 295; free endpapers missing; toned on the text block edges and some internal foxing. Lacks original dustwrapper; now with replacement facsimile dustwrapper. A fair copy only of a scarce title. Click here to order $200

48582 Updike, John Assorted Prose Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1965. First US edition. Hardcover, octavo; yellow cloth boards with gilt upper board and spine titling; 326pp., top edges dyed brown. Moderate wear; spotting to boards and front board bowed; spotting to text block edges and one or two spots otherwise. Very good in like dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $75

200347 Vidal, Gore The Judgment of Paris A Novel William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1953. First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 354pp. Mild wear; somewhat shaken; spine extremities softened; text block edges toned with some spotting; light offset to the endpapers; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; previous owner's name in ink to the first blank page and the half-title page. Price-clipped dustwrapper is well rubbed and sunned along the spine panel; chipping to the spine panel extremities and flap turns; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $75

7914 Vidal, Gore Palimpsest: A Memoir Andre Deutsch, London, 1995. First UK edition. Octavo hardcover; illustrated boards with black spine titling; 435pp., b&w plates and illustrations, untrimmed page edges. Binding very slightly cocked; wear to board edges and corners; one or two faint scattered spots on text block. Glassine dustwrapper with wear to edges, chipping at corners. Very good. Click here to order $30

68067 Waugh, Evelyn Officers and Gentlemen Chapman & Hall, London, 1955. First UK edition. Hardcover, octavo; blue boards with gilt spine titling, top edge dyed blue; 335pp. Owner's initials. Minor wear; mild offsetting to endpapers with some scattered spotting thereafter; browned text block edges with some spotting. Illustrated blue dustwrapper with foxed rear panel, tiny missing segments at spine panel extremities and corners and tear on lower front corner; creasing on lower front panel. Very good and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film with white paper backing. Click here to order $80

West, Nathaniel The Day of the Locust Grey Walls Press, London, 1951. First UK edition. Hardcover, octavo; dark blue boards with gilt spine titling; 207pp. Minor wear; boards slightly scuffed and corners bumped; binding slightly rolled; offsetting to endpapers; lightly browned text block edges. Blue card dustwrapper with red decorative element in the centre; browned spine and edges and mild wear and chipping to edges. Good to very good and protected in archival film with white paper backing. $70

68071 [William Butler Yeats] Yeats, William Butler Synge and the Ireland of his Time with a Note Concerning a Walk through Connemarra with Him by Jack Butler Yeats T.M.MacGlinchey for the Irish University Press, Shannon Co. Clare Ireland, 1970. Octavo; hardcover; 43pp. Minor wear; sticker ghost to front pastedown. Near fine. Facsimile of the 1911 Cuala Press edition. Click here to order $60

66133 Williams, William Carlos The Build-Up Random House, New York, 1952. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 335pp. Owner's name. Lightly toned and spotted text block edges with faded top edge dyed blue. Spotted beige card dustwrapper with browned spine and missing segments on head of spine and corners, some chipping, small tears and a few scrapes. Now protected in archival film with white paper backing. Very good. Click here to order $45

71962 Williamson, Henry The Golden Virgin MacDonald, London, 1957. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 448pp. Owner's name. Tape marks and spots on endpapers; scattered spotting on preliminaries and title page with browned and spotted text block edges; bright dustwrapper with rubbing to rear panel and wear and chipping to edges. Very good otherwise and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. A novel in the Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight sequence. Click here to order $70

71964 Williamson, Henry The Innocent Moon MacDonald, London, 1961. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 415pp. Owner's name. Upper endpaper corner clipped and small bookseller's stamp on pastedown; foxing to endpaper and a few random spots on preliminaries and title page; browned and spotted text block edges; bright dustwrapper with rubbing to rear panel and light foxing; slight wear to edges. Very good otherwise and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. A novel in the Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight sequence. Click here to order $80

71963 Williamson, Henry Lucifer Before Sunrise MacDonald, London, 1967. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 515pp. Upper endpaper corner clipped and small bookseller's stamp on pastedown; browned and spotted text block edges; dustwrapper with rubbing to rear panel and browned edges; slight wear and chipping to edges. Very good otherwise and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. A novel in the Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight sequence. Click here to order $65

46854 Woolf, Virginia (Introduction by Mitchell A. Leaska, ed.) The Pargiters The Novel-Essay Portion of "The Years" The Hogarth Press, London, 1978. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 167pp. Mild wear; spine extremities softened; text block edges lightly spotted; very faint offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper mildly rubbed and sunned along the spine panel; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. There were 2,500 copies issued in January 1978. Click here to order $65

46855 Woolf, Virginia (Mary Lyon, ed.) Books and Portraits Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf The Hogarth Press, London, 1977. First edition thus: hardcover, octavo; pale coral rexine boards, pictorial dustwrapper printed in mustard yellow and black, designed by Angelica Garnett; 221pp. Minor wear; text block edges spotted; two small spots on dustwrapper front. Otherwise near fine and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $40