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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.
(#95744) 90:-




 

Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): STANLEY AND THE WOMEN.
London: Hutchinson, 1984. First edition. 255, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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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.
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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:-




 

Barnes, Julian: PULSE.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. First edition, second printing. (8), 228 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#172618) 125:-




 

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:-




 

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:-




 

Brink, André: THE WALL OF THE PLAGUE.
London: Faber and Faber, 1984. First edition. 447 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#119376) 90:-




 

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): JUNKIE.
London: New English Library, 1966. New UK edition. 159, (1) pp. Publisher's worn soft cover with markings on lower edge. Olympia Press Traveller's Companion Series
(#171710) 200:-




 

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:-




 

Cameron, Ann: COLIBRÍ.
New York: Frances Foster, 2003. First edition. (8), 227, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Presentation inscription from the author "Ann Cameron".
(#93848) 90:-




 

Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898): ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS.
Stockholm: Zephyr Books, The Continental Book Company, 1946. 347, (5) pp. Publisher's printed soft cover. Without dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings in black and white by Mervyn Peake. Inscription on half title dated 1954. English text. A Library of British and American Authors, Vol. 67.
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Couperus, Louis (1863-1923): ECSTASY.
Translated by A. Teixteira de Mattos and John Gray. London: Pushkin Press, 1998. First printing. 157 pp. 16,5x12 cm. Publisher's, slightly worn, soft cover with flaps with mounted plate.
(#170193) 125:-




 

Coupland, Douglas: ALL FAMILIES ARE PSYCHOTIC. A Novel.
New York: Bloomsbury, 2001. First US edition. (6), 279, (3) s. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Coupland, Douglas: LIFE AFTER GOD.
New York: Pocket Books, 1994. First edition. (6), 360, (1) s. 16,5x12 cm. Publisher's quarter cloth in dust jacket. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings.
(#170191) 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:-




 

DeLillo, Don: UNDERWORLD.
New York: Scribner, 1997. First edition, sixth printing. 827 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with minimal traces of use.
(#170681) 200:-




 

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:-




 

Doyle, A. Conan (1859-1930): SHERLOCK HOLMES. The Complete Stories.
Ware: Wordsworth, 2007. Reprint. 1408 pp. Publisher's gilded cloth. Illustrated in black-and-white with the original illustrations from Strand Magazine.
(#173829) 150:-




 

Dumas, Alexandre (1802-1870): THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO.
New York: Barnes & Noble, 2011. VIII, 1065 pp. Publisher's decorated bonded-leather with gilted edges.
(#173942) 150:-




 

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.
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Durrell, Lawrence (1912-1990): THE IKONS and other poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. First edition. 48 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket.
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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.
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Eggers, Dave: ZEITOUN.
San Fransisco: McSweeney's books, 2009. First edition, first printing. 351 pp. Publisher's printed hard cover. With wrap-around sleeve on rear board.
(#128517) 100:-




 

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1888-1965): MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL.
Stockholm: Zephyr Books, 1945. New edition. 87, (1) pp. Publisher's soft cover in dust jacket. English text. Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 1948.
(#171003) 90:-




 

ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BALLADS.
Edited with an Introduction and Critical Notes by Robert Graves. London: Heinemann, 1957. First edition. XXVI, (2), 163 pp + black-and-white frontispiece plate. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#127377) 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: A PLACE CALLED FREDOM.
London: Macmillan, 1995. First UK edition. (6), 490 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with a small mended tear.
(#167937) 90:-




 

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:-




 

Fry, Stephen: TROY.
London: Michael Joseph, 2020. Ninth printing. V, (7), 413, (1) + plates pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Illustrated with plates in colour and black-and-white.
(#173941) 125:-




 

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:-




 

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.
(#150430) 100:-




 

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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Greene, Graham (1904-1991): IT'S A BATTLEFIELD.
New York: The Viking Press, 1982. New edition. (6), 216, (1) pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket.
(#170456) 100:-




 

Greene, Graham (1904-1991): OUR MAN IN HAVANA. An Entertainment.
London: Heinemann, 1958. First UK edition. (6), 273 pp. Publisher's cloth without dust jacket.
(#99520) 100:-




 

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:-




 

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 winner 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:-




 

Hornby, Nick: HIGH FIDELITY.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1995. First edition, second impression. 253 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with slightly faded spine.
(#170203) 100:-




 

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:-




 

Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963): BRAVE NEW WORLD..
Stockholm: Zephyr, 1943. Reprint. (6), 306 pp. Slightly worn and soiled soft cover. Without dust jacket. With name inscription on half title.
(#172030) 150:-




 

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 / EN SPANN JORD I MASKINERIET.
Lund: Bakhåll, 1997. Första svenska upplagan. 126, (2) s. Limhäftad med vikomslag. Illustrerad med svartvita teckningar av författaren. Med svensk och engelsk parallelltext. Med separat CD-skiva i pärmficka i bakre omslaget.
(#146882) 450:-




 

Lundkvist, Artur (1906-1991): KVINNOR OCH FÅGLAR / FEMMES ET OISEAUX / WOMEN AND BIRDS.
Förord av Michel Ragon. Malmö: GKM Siwert Bergström, 1998. Ny upplaga. 98, (2) s. Inbunden i förlagets dekorerade klotband. Illustrerad i färg och svartvitt av Corneille. Text på svenska, engelska och franska.
(#123698) 150:-




 

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:-




 

McEwan, Ian: LESSONS.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2022. Reprint. (8), 486 pp. Large paperback.
(#173828) 90:-




 

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.
(#144200) 75:-




 

Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977): LOLITA I-II
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. First edition, third printing. 189, (3); 223, (1) pp. 2 volumes in publisher's printed soft covers with light wear and slightly soiled spines. English text. No 66 in the Traveller's Companion series.
(#164960) 2000:-




 

Naipaul, V. S. (1932-2018): LETTERS BETWEEN A FATHER AND SON.
With introduction and notes by Gillon Aitken. London: Little, Brown, 1999. First UK edition. XIII, (1), 333 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Nobel Prize winner in literature 2001.
(#171942) 125:-




 

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:-




 

Nowak, Mark: COAL MOUNTAIN ELEMENTARY.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2009. First edition, first printing. (8), 181, (3) pp. Publisher's printed soft cover. Photoillustrated in color by the author and Ian Teh.
(#169489) 100:-




 

Oates, Joyce Carol: MY SISTER, MY LOVE: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike.
New York: HarperCollins, 2008. First edition. (10), 562 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#158243) 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:-




 

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:-




 

Sale, Charles (1885-1936): THE SPECIALIST.
London: Putnam, 1952. Thirty-sixth impression. 29, (1) pp. Publisher's pictorial hard cover without dust jacket. Illustrated in black-and-white by William Kermode.
(#162183) 125:-




 

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.
(#128237) 90:-




 

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 HISTORIES AND POEMS OF SHAKESPEARE.
The text of the Oxford edition prepared by W. J. Craig; with introductory studies of the several plays and poems by Edward Dowden, and a full glossary. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1915. (6), 1214, (1) pp + title plate. 18x13,5 cm. Publisher's full leather with richly gilded faded spine, and marbled edges. Inscription dated 1921 on free page.
(#170736) 500:-




 

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:-




 

Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950): THE ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK GIRL IN HER SEARCH FOR GOD.
London: Constable, 1936. Reprinted in August. 74, (3) pp. Nice picrorial full leather binding with printed endpapers. Illustrated in black-and-white by John Farleigh. With bookplate on paste-down endpaper.
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Simak, Clifford D. (1904-1988): SHAKESPEARE'S PLANET.
Newton Abbot (UK): Readers Union, 1977. New edition. (4), 181 pp. Publisher's hard cover in slightly worn dust jacket.
(#172246) 90:-




 

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 Winner in literature 1962.
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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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Strindberg, August (1849-1912): THE PEOPLE OF HEMSÖ.
Translated by Elspeth Harley Schubert. Introduction by P. F. D. Tennant. Stockholm: Bonniers, 1959. The Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation. 220 pp. Publisher's title decorated hard cover, without dust jacket.
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THE OXFORD LIBRARY OF CLASSIC ENGLISH SHORT STORIES I-II. Volume I: 1900-1956 - Volume II: 1956-1975.
Introduction by Roger Sharrock. London: Guild, 1989. New edition. XIII, (1), 394; VIII, 497 pp. Two volumes in publisher's gilded quarter cloth.
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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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Tournier, Michel: THE FETISHIST AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Collins, 1983. First UK edition. 220 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with a small mended tear.
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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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Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966): COMEDIES. Decline and Fall - Vile Bodies - A Handful of Dust - Black Mischief - Scoop - Put Out More Flags.
Introduction by David Lodge. London: Folio Society, 1999. XXVII, (3), 214; (10), 209; (10), 223; (8), 212, (1); (10), 224, (1); (12), 215, (1) pp. Six volumes in publisher's printed hard covers. In slip case. Illustrated with plates in colour by John Holder. A Handful of Dust and Decline and Fall with slightly bumped upper corners.
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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.
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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.
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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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