ENGLISH LITERATURE

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Ali, Monica: BRICK LANE.
London: Doubleday, 2003. Ninth printing. 413, (2) pp. Publisher's hard cover in slightly worn dust jacket.
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Allende, Isabel: DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE.
Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. London: Flamingo, 1999. First English edition. (8), 399 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#167921) 100:-




 

Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): MR BARRETT'S SECRET AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Hutchinson, 1993. First edition. (6), 185 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#105096) 90:-




 

Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): NEW MAPS OF HELL. A Survey of Science Fiction.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1961. First UK edition. 161 pp. Publisher's hard cover in a little worn and mended dust jacket.
(#155607) 150:-




 

Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): RUSSIAN HIDE-AND-SEEK.
A melodrama. London: Hutchinson, 1980. First edition. 239, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): STANLEY AND THE WOMEN.
London: Hutchinson, 1984. First edition. 255, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#105098) 90:-




 

Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): YOU CAN'T DO BOTH.
London: Hutchinson, 1994. First edition. (8), 306 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#105092) 90:-




 

ARABIC SHORT STORIES 1945-1965.
Edited by Mahmoud Manzalaoui. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1989. third printing. 407 pp. Publisher's slightly worn soft cover. Text in English. 33 short stories by 30 authors, amonst others al-Hakim, Mahmoud Taymour, Hakki, Mahfouz, Idris, Suhayr al-Qalamawi, Quddous, el-Kharrat, Zakaria Tamer, Ghada el-Samman, Ghalib Halassa and Samira Azzam.
(#169588) 150:-




 

Atwood, Margaret: PAYBACK. Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth.
London: Bloomsbury, 2008. First UK edition. (8), 230 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#119704) 250:-




 

AUTOGRAPH POETRY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE I-II. Facsimiles of original mansucripts from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century.
Compiled and edited with an introduction, commentary and transcripts by P. J. Croft. London: Cassell, 1973, Limited edition of 1500 copies, this is no 9. XXIII, 93 pages with text & facsimiles + Index; VII, pages 94-197 with text & facsimiles + Index. 2 volumes in publisher's hard cover with cloth spines without dust jackets in slipcase. Illustrated with facsimiles in black-and-white.
(#165404) 500:-




 

Bailey, Anna: TALL BONES.
London: Doubleday, 2021. First edition, first printing. Signed and numbered edition 514/1500. (6), 339, (4) pp. Publisher's hard cover with printed fore edge and dust jacket in mylar cover.
(#158444) 200:-




 

Baldacci, David: THE SIXTH MAN.
New York: Grand Central Publ., 2011. First edition. (10), 416, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#167930) 100:-




 

Bantock, Nick: GRIFFIN & SABINE. An Extraordinary Correspondence.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991. Second printing. (43) pp. 20x20 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover in dust jacket. Both endpapers printed in color. Illustrated by the author in color, partly with pop-up envelopes. Inscription on half title.
(#145928) 100:-




 

Barker, Cicely Mary: A FLOWER FAIRY ALPHABET.
Poems and pictures. London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son, no date (early edition). Half title + 26 pp text + plates, 2 in black-and-white (half title) & 24 in colour. 14,3x10,9 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover with minor trace of use & mounted colour plate, with printed blue endpapers. No dust jacket.
(#176274) 200:-




 

Barker, Cicely Mary: FLOWER FAIRIES OF THE SPRING.
Poems and pictures. London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son, no date (early edition). Half title + 26 pp text + plates, 2 in black-and-white (half title) & 24 in colour. 14,3x10,9 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover with mounted colour plate, with printed blue endpapers. No dust jacket.
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Barnes, Julian: PULSE.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. First edition, second printing. (8), 228 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#172618) 125:-




 

Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989): DREAM OF FAIR TO MIDDLING WOMEN.
Edited by Eoin O'Brien and Edith Fournier. Foreword by Eoin O'Brien. Dublin: The Black Cat Press, 1992. First edition. XVII, (3), 241 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with minor traces of use. Written in 1932 but not published until 1992. Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 1969.
(#174594) 200:-




 

Beerbohm, Max: THE ILLUSTRATED ZULEIKA DOBSON OR AN OXFORD LOVE STORY.
Introduction by N. John Hall. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. New edition reprinted from edition 1911. (20), (8), 350 pp + plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth in slipcase. With printed endpapers. With 80 illustrations in colour by the author in text and with plates.
(#148665) 150:-




 

Blake, William (1757-1827): BLAKE'S POETRY AND DESIGNS. Illuminated Works - Other Writings - Criticism.
Selected and edited by Mary Lynn Johnson and John E. Grant. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. Second edition. XXVI, 628 pp + 16 plates and 3 maps. Publisher's printed soft cover with faded spine and crease on front cover. Illustrated in black-and-white in the text and plates and maps in color. A Norton Critical edition.
(#177943) 125:-




 

Boylan, Clare: BELOVED STRANGER.
London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. First edition. (8), 309 pp. Publisher's hard cover in slighly worn dust jacket. Signed by author in title page "Clare Boylan".
(#166762) 100:-




 

Brickley, Holly: DEEP CUTS.
A Novel. London: Borough Press, 2025. (6), 275, (2) pp. Publisher's hard cover with slightly bumped corners, in dust jacket.
(#176892) 125:-




 

Brink, André (1935-2015): THE WALL OF THE PLAGUE.
London: Faber and Faber, 1984. First edition. 447 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Brodkey, Harold (1930-1996): THE RUNAWAY SOUL.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991. First edition. (11), 835 pp. Publisher's quarter cloth in dust jacket.
(#174460) 150:-




 

Bulfinch, Thomas (1796-1867): BULFINCH'S MYTHOLOGY.
San Diego: Canterbury Classics, 2020. Reprint. XVIII, 686 pp. Publisher's leather bound hard cover with gilted edges. Contains his three books The Age of Fable (Greek Mythology), The Age of Chivalry (Legends of King Arthur, The Mabinogeon) and Legends of Charlemagne.
(#172491) 150:-




 

Burgess, Anthony (1917-1993): THE PIANOPLAYERS.
London: Hutchinson, 1986. First edition. 208 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Illustrated with some sheet music.
(#103399) 150:-




 

Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997) / Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969): AND THE HIPPOS WERE BOILED IN THEIR TANKS.
London: Penguin, 2008. First UK edition, fourth printing. (6), 214 pp. Publisher's slightly bumped hard cover in dust jacket with minor wear. Written in 1945 but not published until 2008.
(#176151) 150:-




 

Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan): BABEL TOWER.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. First UK edition, first printing. (6), 618 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#115152) 150:-




 

Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898): ALICE IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS.
Stockholm: Jan Förlag, 1945. 268, (1) pp. Publisher's printed soft cover with minor wear to the spine. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by the author. English text.
(#176700) 150:-




 

Carter, Forrest (1925-1979): THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE.
Foreword by Rennard Strickland. Albuquerque: The Univesity of New Mexico Press, 2017. Reprint. VI, (6), 216 pp. Paperback in good condition.
(#176741) 90:-




 

Chaudhuri, Amit: A NEW WORLD.
London: Picador, 2000. Second printing. (8), 200 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#174495) 100:-




 

Crane, Stephen: THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE I-II. A Facsimile Edition of the Manuscript.
Edited with an Introduction and Apparatus by Fredson Bowers. USA: Bruccoli Clark Boook, 1973. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. XI, (3), 120, (3); 263 pp. 28,5x19,5 cm. Publisher's cloth, 2 volumes in slipcase. With one portrait in color.
(#164247) 150:-




 

Curry, Neil: THE BENDING OF THE BOW.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1993. Trade edition. (4), 63 pp + plates. Publisher's printed soft cover. Illustrated in black-and-white with images by Jim Dine on plates.
(#141590) 150:-




 

Díaz, Hernán: TRUST.
London: Picador, 2022. New edition. 402, (3) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#167929) 90:-




 

Doctorow, E. L. (1931-2015): LOON LAKE.
A Novel. New York: Random House, 1980. First trade edition. (7), 258, (3) pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth in dust jacket.
(#102123) 100:-




 

Durrell, Lawrence (1912-1990): NUNQUAM.
A novel. London: Faber and Faber, 1970. First edition. 282, (3) pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket with minor wear.
(#145235) 100:-




 

Durrell, Lawrence (1912-1990): THE IKONS and other poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. First edition. 48 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket.
(#143101) 200:-




 

Durrell, Lawrence (1912-1990): TUNC.
A novel. London: Faber and Faber, 1968. First edition. 316, (1) pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket with minor wear.
(#99311) 100:-




 

Fariña, Richard (1937-1966): BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME.
Introduction by Thomas Pynchon. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983. New edition. XXII, 329 pp. Worn paperback.
(#177197) 125:-




 

Faulks, Sebastian: DEVIL MAY CARE.
Writing as Ian Fleming. London: Penguin 007, 2008. First UK edition. (8), 294, (17) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. With printed endpapers. A James Bond novel.
(#167939) 100:-




 

Feiffer, Jules: HARRY, THE RAT WITH WOMEN.
A Novel. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. First edition. 181, (2) pp. Publisher's hard cover in price clipped dust jacket.
(#122890) 150:-




 

Fischl, Eric / Kincaid, Jamaica: ANNIE, GWEN, LILLY, PAM AND TULIP.
Text by Jamaica Kincaid. Zurich / New York: Parkett / Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989. First trade edition. (20) pp. 31x23 cm. Publisher's pictorial quarter cloth in printed slipcase. Illustrated by Eric Fischl in black-and-white and color. English text. A short story by Kincaid illustrated with reproduced lithographs by Fischl.
(#153681) 150:-




 

Follett, Ken: NEVER.
London: Macmillan, 2021. First edition. (8), 815, (2) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with minor wear.
(#160562) 125:-




 

Follett, Ken: THE HAMMER OF EDEN.
London: Macmillan, 1998. First edition. (6), 410 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#173482) 90:-




 

Follett, Ken: WINTER OF THE WORLD.
London: Macmillan, 2012. First edition. (12), 818, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with minor wear. Part two of the Century-trilogy.
(#173561) 125:-




 

Ford, Richard: THE LAY OF THE LAND.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First edition. (7), 485, (3) pp. Publisher's title decorated hard cover in dust jacket.
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Frost, Mark: THE SECOND OBJECTIVE.
New York: Hyperion, 2007. First edition. (8), 319, (4) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Both endpapers printed with maps in black-and-white.
(#155360) 100:-




 

Fry, Stephen: THE STARS' TENNIS BALLS.
London: Hutchinson, 2000. First edition. (8), 371 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#170188) 100:-




 

Gardner, John (1933-1982): MICKELSSON'S GHOSTS.
A Novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. VIII, 590, (3) pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth in dust jacket. With printed endpapers. Photoillustrated in black-and-white by Joel Gardner.
(#158757) 150:-




 

Genberg, Ia: THE DETAILS. A Novel.
Translated by Kira Josefsson. London: Headline, 2023. First UK edition. (14), 156, (1) s. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#174078) 100:-




 

Grant, Michael: FRONT LINES.
New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2016. First edition. XV, (1), 548, (7) pp. Publisher's pictorial hard cover in dust jacket.
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Greene, Graham (1904-1991): A SENSE OF REALITY.
London: The Bodley Head, 1963. First edition. 140 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket.
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Hall, J. J.: THE CRYSTAL BOWL. Australian Nature Stories.
London: Angus & Robertson, 1981. New edition. 78 s. 25x18,5 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover with slightly worn upper spine. Illustrated in colour and black-and-white by Dorothy Wall.
(#162176) 100:-




 

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928): THE COLLECTED POEMS OF THOMAS HARDY.
London: Macmillan, 1972. Reprint. XXX, (2), 917 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dustjacket with slightly soiled and darkened spine. With name inscription on free endpaper.
(#174654) 125:-




 

Helprin, Mark: SWAN LAKE.
Boston: Ariel Books, 1989. (6), 80, (2) pp + plates. 26x20,5 cm. Publisher's gilted cloth with mounted plate. Illustrated with plates in color by Chris Van Allsburg.
(#177574) 100:-




 

Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961): FIESTA.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. Reprint edition. 286 pp. Publisher's pictorial cloth in dust jacket with minor wear. Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 1954.
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Hilton, James (1900-1954): GOOD-BYE MR. CHIPS.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. First UK edition, second reprint October 1934. 127, (1) pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth with minor traces of use and small wear to head of spine. Without dust jacket. Both endpapers printed in blue. Illustrated in black-and-white by Bip Pares. The book is laid in a parcel box addressed to the author. Presentation inscription from the author on title page "To Ragna with love from memory of a happy mailing, from James Hilton".
(#166429) 350:-




 

Hitchcock, Jane Stanton: SOCIAL CRIMES.
New York: Hyperion, 2002. First edition. (8), 338, (3) pp. Publisher's quarter cloth in dust jacket. Presentation inscription from the author to former Swedish Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Jan Eliasson and wife Kerstin "To Jan and Kerstin. With love and admiration. Jane Stanton Hitchcock".
(#146009) 125:-




 

Hughs, Anne: ANNE HUGHS: HER BOKE.
Edited by Mollie Preston. Introduced by Michael Croucher. London: The Folio Society, 1981. First edition published 1937. 176 pp. Publisher's printed cloth in slipcase. Illustrated with black-and-white linocuts by Tony Evora.
(#148671) 100:-




 

Keating, H. R. F.: BRIBERY, CORRUPTION ALSO.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First American edition. 282 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Signed by the author "H. R. F. Keating".
(#95657) 100:-




 

Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969): MAGGIE CASSIDY.
New York: Avon, 1959. First edition. 188, (4) pp. Paperback with minor traces of use. With name inscription on first page.
(#166509) 450:-




 

Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969): THE DHARMA BUMS.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. First UK edition. (4), 244 pp. Publisher's hard cover without dust jacket, with spotted front cover and faded spine.
(#169114) 200:-




 

Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969): THE DHARMA BUMS.
New York: Signet, 1959. First printing in this edition. 192 pp. Slightly worn paperback.
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Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969): THE SUBTERRANEANS.
Preface by Henry Miller. New York: Avon, 1959. First paperback edition. 126 pp. Paperback with minor wear.
(#166506) 200:-




 

Kosinski, Jerzy (1933-1991): COCKPIT. A Novel.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. First edition. (12), 248, (3) pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth in dust jacket.
(#148478) 200:-




 

Lear, Edward (1812-1888): THE TWO OLD BACHELORS.
Illustrated by Paul Galdone. London: The Bodley Head, 1963. First UK edition. (32) pp. 25,5x17 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover in dust jacket. With printed endpapers. Illustrated with drawings in black-and-white, red and yellow.
(#145233) 200:-




 

Lennon, John (1940-1980): A SPANIARD IN THE WORKS.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. 90, (5) pp. 18x14 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover with minor wrinkling to the lamination, otherwise a very fine copy. Illustrated with drawings in black-and-white, brown and green by John Lennon.
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Lennon, John (1940-1980): A SPANIARD IN THE WORKS / EN SPANN JORD I MASKINERIET.
Lund: Bakhåll, 1997. Första svenska upplagan. 126, (2) s. Limhäftad med vikomslag och lättare bruksspår. Illustrerad med svartvita teckningar av författaren. Med svensk och engelsk parallelltext. Utan den separata CD-skivan.
(#64719) 90:-




 

Lennon, John (1940-1980): A SPANIARD IN THE WORKS / EN SPANN JORD I MASKINERIET.
Översättning av Bengt Sahlberg. Lund: Bakhåll, 1997. Första svenska upplagan. 126, (2) s. Limhäftad med lätt nött vikomslag. Illustrerad med svartvita teckningar av författaren. Med svensk och engelsk parallelltext. Med separat CD-skiva i pärmficka. The CD contains excerpts from interviews and 4 songs never released on record before: "My Life", "Dear John", Lord, Take This Makeup Off Me" och "Make Love, Not War". Med CD-skiva i pärmficka i bakre omslaget. CD-n innehåller inspelningar från Lennons sista år, dels med utdrag från intervjuer dels med 4 sånger som inte blivit utgivna tidigare: "My Life", "Dear John", Lord, Take This Makeup Off Me" och "Make Love, Not War".
(#175779) 250:-




 

Lessing, Doris (1919-2013): THE STORY OF A NON-MARRYING MAN and Other Stories.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. 318 pp. Publisher's hard cover in slightly worn dust jacket. Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 2007.
(#4388) 100:-




 

Mailer, Norman (1923-2007): BARBARY SHORE.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. First UK edition. 286 pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth in a little worn and mended dust jacket.
(#147549) 150:-




 

Maxwell , Charles Herbert (1845-1937): ADVENTURES OF THE WHITE GIRL IN HER SEARCH FOR GOD.
London: The Lutterworth Press, 1933. Second edition (third impression). 23, (1) pp. Publisher's printed hard cover with a little worn spine. With publisher's ticket.
(#169131) 125:-




 

Miller, Henry (1891-1980) / Brassaï (Gyula Halász 1899-1984): QUIET DAYS IN CLICHY.
Paris: Olympia Press, July 1956. First and orignal edition. 171, (2) pp. + plates with 29 black-and-white photoillustrations (including 2 double sided) by Brassaï. Private nicely bound modern cloth, covers with flaps bound in. With bookplate on rear side of first flap, and with small stain on free page and rear side of back flap.
(#172113) 5000:-




 

Murray, Les (1938-2019): FREDY NEPTUNE.
Collingwood (AU): Black Inc, 2007. New edition. 276 pp. Large paperback. With stamp on half-title. A novel in verse.
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Nishimoto, Keisuke: STRANGE TALES FROM JAPAN. 99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural.
Collected and retold by Keisuke Nishimoto. Translated by William Scott Wilson. Tokyo: tuttle, 2024. Reprint. 318, (2) pp + (32) pages of plates. Large paperback. Illustrated with plates in colour.
(#177395) 90:-




 

Novak, Barbara: THE MARGARET-GHOST.
A Novel. New York: George Braziller, 2003. First edition. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Presentation inscription from the author 2003 to former Swedish Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Jan Eliasson and wife Kerstin "Barbara".
(#142011) 100:-




 

Oates, Joyce Carol: SON OF THE MORNING.
A novel. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1978. Book club edition. (4), 342 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with one small mended tear.
(#124690) 90:-




 

Omar Khayyam (1048-1131): THE RUBA'IYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
Translated by Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs. London: Penguin, 1988. Reprint. 128 pp. Large paperback. Illustrated in colour.
(#163622) 75:-




 

Osborne, John (1929-1994): THE WORLD OF PAUL SLICKEY. A Comedy of Manners with Music.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First edition. 96 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket with minor wear. Inscription on free endpaper.
(#155297) 125:-




 

Parsons, Tony: STORIES WE COULD TELL.
London: HarperCollins, 2005. First edition. (8), 309 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#170189) 100:-




 

Phillips, Jayne Anne: MACHINE DREAMS.
London: Faber & Faber, 1984. First UK edition. (14), 331 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#125594) 125:-




 

Powys, John Cowper (1872-1963): A GLASTONBURY ROMANCE.
London: MacDonald, 1966. Reprint. 1120 pp. Publisher's cloth in slightly damaged dust jacket.
(#177750) 125:-




 

Reese, Laura: TOPPING FROM BELOW.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. First edition. XVI, 364 pp. Publisher's quarter cloth in dust jacket. An excellent copy. An explosive, erotic novel about two sisters, each of whom embarks upon a voyage into the heart of evil and a game with a seductive man who knows no rules or limits.
(#102130) 100:-




 

Rowling, J. K.: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS.
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. First edition. 607 pp. Publisher's printed hard cover in dust jacket with minor traces of use. Part seven in the Harry Potter series. The first edition was released with two different covers, this it the so called "children's edition".
(#120644) 100:-




 

Rowling, J. K. / Tiffany, John / Thorne, Jack: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD. Parts One and Two.
London: Little, Brown, 2016. Ninth printing. (8), 343 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dustjacket with minor traces of use.
(#176089) 100:-




 

Sansom, William: GOODBYE.
A Novel. London: The Hogarth Press, 1966. First edition. 252, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#102127) 250:-




 

Shaffer, Peter: EQUUS AND SHRIVINGS. Two Plays.
New York: Atheneum, 1975. Second printing. 211, (4) pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth in dust jacket.
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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): TEMPEST / TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA / MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR / TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL / MEASURE FOR MEASURE (BY WILLIAM SHAKSPERE) - WITH THE LIFE OF SHAKSPERE.
Leipsic: Brothers Schumann, No date (ca 1840). (2), XXXV (Charles Symmons: The Life of Shakspere), (1); 59, (1); 58, (2); 72; 64; 72 pp. 12x8,5 cm. Contemporary half leather with pictorial spine. Inscription on free endpaper.
(#152909) 250:-




 

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.
New York: Royal Composing Room, 1976. ? pp. 21x20,5 cm. Publisher's title decorated cloth with leather spine in slipcase. Design by Daniel Haberman. Illustrations in black-and-white by Isadore Seltzer.
(#142712) 150:-




 

Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950): THE ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK GIRL IN HER SEARCH FOR GOD.
London: Constable, 1933. Reprinted in April. 74, (3) pp. Publisher's printed hard cover with cloth spine. With printed endpapers. Illustrated in black-and-white by John Farleigh. Inscription in black on free page.
(#169129) 150:-




 

Smith, Martin Cruz: TOKYO STATION.
London: Macmillan, 2002. First UK edition. (10), 339, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#167935) 100:-




 

Steinbeck, John (1902-1968): THE FORGOTTEN VILLAGE.
With 136 photographs from the film of the same name by Rosa Harvan Kline and Alexander Hackensmid. New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First edition, first printing May 1941. 143 pp. 26x18,5 cm. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Without dust jacket. Photoillustrated in black-and-white. Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 1962.
(#130562) 250:-




 

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894): ISLAND NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS. Consisting of The Beach of Falesá, The Bottle Imp & The Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell, 1893. First edition. (8), 277, (18) pp. Publisher's pictorial cloth with minor wear at head of spine. With 26 black-and-white illustrations in text, and title plate in black-and-white & colour lithograph map "Sketch map of the beach and surrounding country".
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Strindberg, August (1849-1912): A MADMAN'S DEFENCE. (Le plaidoyer d'un fou).
Translation based on Ellie Schleussner's version, The Confession of a Fool, revised and edited by Evert Sprinchorn. London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. First edition of this translation. 303 pp. Publisher's cloth in damaged and mended dust jacket.
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Strindberg, August (1849-1912): A WITCH.
Translated by Mary Sandbach. Venice (US): The Lapis Press, 1991. (121) pp + plates. 26x18,5 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover with partly faded cover. Illustrated with plates in color.
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Strindberg, August (1849-1912): LUCKY PETER'S TRAVELS AND OTHER PLAYS. Lucky Peter's Travels / The Father / Lady Julie / Playing with Fire / The Bond.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. The Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation. 319 pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth with minor wear, without dust jacket.
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Stuart, Douglas: SHUGGIE BAIN.
London: Picador, 2020. New edition. (10), 430, (3) s. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#176527) 90:-




 

Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941): GITANJALI.
New Delhi: Rupa & Co, 2004.Fifth impression. (6), 142 pp. 16,5x14 cm. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with faded spine and minor traces of use. Illustrated in black-and-white. Text in English. Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 1913. Includes the 103 poems from the Gitanjali and the Nobel prize acceptance speech.
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THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, FOR THE YEAR MDCCCXXIII, MDCCCXXIV AND MDCCCXXV. Being an Impartial Selection of the most Exquisite Essays, Jeux d'esprit, and Tales of Humour, Prose, and Verse. With explanatory notes.
London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co, 1825, 1825 and Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826. 3 volumes of which the first in second edition. First volume illustrated with a portrait of His Majesty, and six humorous designs by Cruikshank. XV, (1), 576 pp. Second volume with a portrait of Lord Noel Byron drawn by Wageman and engraved by Woolnoth. Wood engravings in text designed by Rowlandson, Cruikshank and others. XX, 568 pp. Third volume with a portrait of Sir Walter Scott engraved after a miniature by Woolnoth. Wood engravings in text designed by Cruikshank engraved by Bonner. XIX, (1), 530 pp. Three contemporary rebacked half leather volumes with preserved old spines and new free endpapers. All three volumes with minor foxing.
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Towles, Amor: THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY.
London: Hutchinson Heinemann, 2021. First GB edition. (10), 592 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Both endpapers printed with maps. Copy signed by the author on title page "Amor T".
(#175157) 200:-




 

Trollope, Anthony: THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET.
Introduction by Julian Symons. London: The Folio Society, 1980. First edition published 1867. 772, (1) pp. Publisher's quarter cloth in slipcase. Both endpapers printed with maps. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Peter Reddick.
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Tucker, James: RALPH RASHLEIGH.
London: Folio Society, 1977. 341, (1) pp. Publisher's pprinted cloth. Without slipcase. Both endpapers printed with maps. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Nigel Lambourne.
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Twain, Mark (pseudoym för Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910): THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN.
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1947. New edition. 377, (2) pp + plates. Publisher's printed cloth in damaged and mended dust jacket. Illustrated in black-and-white in the text and with color plates by Baldwin Hawes.
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Updike, John (1932-2009): RABBIT AT REST.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First trade edition. (10), 512, (6) pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth in dust jacket.
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Wahlöö, Per (1926-1975): THE GENERALS.
Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate. New York: Pantheon, 1974. First American edition. (8), 277, (1) pp. Publisher's pictorial cloth in slightly worn dust jacket with faded spine.
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Wallace, Irvine: THE THREE SIRENS.
London: Cassell, 1964. First UK edition. 550, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Willie, The: THE COCKROACH HOTEL. (Dedicated to his Cockroach Partner, Pete Larouche).
Introduction by Douglas Blazek. Foreword by Charles Bukowski. San Francisco: Black Rabbit Press, 1968. Edition of 500 copies. (32) pages. 28x22 cm. Stapled wrappers with minor traces of use. Four black-and-green screenprints, including front cover, by Tom L. Kryss.
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Wodehouse, P. G. (1881-1975): A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS.
London: Jenkins, no date. Fifteenth printing. 319 pp. Publisher's cloth with minor traces of use. Without dust jacket.
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Wolfe, Tom (1931-2018): THE PUMP HOUSE GANG.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. First printing. X, 309 pp. Publisher's quarter cloth in dust jacket. 0,5 cm at tail of spine a little faded, otherwise a nice copy. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by the author.
(#166428) 500:-




 

YANKEE DOODLE'S LITERARY SAMPLER OF PROSE, POETRY & PICTURES. Being an Anthology of Diverse Works Published for the Edification and/or Entertainment of Young Readers in America Before 1900.
Selected and introduced by Virginia Haviland and Margaret N. Coughlan. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974. (10), 466, (1) pp. 28,5x22 cm. Publisher's embossed cloth in damaged and mended dust jacket.
(#164074) 150:-




 

Yatim, Debra H.: OF ACEH AND TURNING TIDES - Songs for My Sisters.
Poems. Jakarta: acehkita Foundation, 2005. 71 pp. Publisher's printed soft cover. Sparsely photoillustrated in black-and-white.
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