Allen, James Lane:

A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1901 First English editions. 8vo, pp. xxxii, 286, [2, advertisements], with 48 (including frontispiece) wood-engraved plates. Frontispiece, title and last verso slightly foxed. Original publisher's cloth, richly gilt. The first English editions of these two interesting works by the American novelist James Lane Allen (1849-1925), here handsomely illustrated by Hugh Thomson. First published separately in 1894 and 1895 respectively, they are two parts of the same narrative, concerning Lane Allen's own childhood in Lexington, Kentucky, before and during the American Civil War, and in the Reconstruction period.

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Book number: 53776

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Amis, Martin:

House of Meetings.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2006. First edition, first printing. Author's signature to title-page. 8vo., pp.[vi], 198. Black cloth, silver title to spine, deep red endpapers, fine. Dust jacket with a few tiny marks to rear, price intact, very good indeed. Printed paper 'Signed copy' band around the dust jacket a little creased. Amis's eleventh novel, of fifteen.

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Book number: 54672

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Atwood, Margaret:

The Testaments.

London: Chatto and Windus, 2019. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.[x], 419, [i]. Black cloth, white title to spine, fine. Dust jacket with small pen mark to white area, price intact, near fine. Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (1985), and joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize.

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Book number: 54685

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Boothroyd, A. E.:

Fascinating Walking Sticks.

Bracknell, Berks.: Salix Books, 1970. First edition. 8vo., pp. 206. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Boards and contents clean, slight shelf-wear to edges, very good. Dust-jacket sun-faded to spine and portion of upper cover, a little worn and creased to edges otherwise very good. With photographs by Edward Morgan. "Over 280 different sticks illustrated including gun and swordsticks (and) foreword by Sir Gerald Nabarro, M.P."

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Book number: 53004

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Browning, Robert:

Poems of Robert Browning.

Oxford: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920. 8vo, pp. [viii], 696, with illustrated frontispiece. Slight toning. Contemporary tree calf, gilt border, spine gilt, gilt-lettered morocco label, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, corners, head and foot of spine minimally rubbed. Inscription dated 1921 to front free endpaper.

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Book number: 53496

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Cohen, Morton N:

Lewis Carroll: A Biography.

London: Macmillan, 2015. First UK edition. 8vo., pp. xxiii, 577 + plates. Illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, very good.

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Book number: 54265

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Davidson, Pamela:

Vyacheslav Ivanov and C.M. Bowra: a Correspondence From Two Corners on Humanism.

University of Birmingham Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 2006. 8vo., pp. [xii], 132. Paperback, white covers printed in black and orange. A little light shelf wear, very good. Postcard from the author loosely inserted. Birmingham Slavonic Monographs No. 36.

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Book number: 52166

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Farrar, Frederick W.:

Eric, or Little by Little.

London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, n.d. (c.1913). 8vo, pp. 266 + 6pp. of advertisement at rear, illustrated frontispiece and additional title. Slight browning, light foxing to last few leaves. Publisher's pictorial cloth and endpapers, spine gilt, upper hinge weakened, corners, head and foot of spine a bit bumped, upper board just fading. Inscription "To Martin with Christmas Greetings 1913 from Eric" to fly.

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Book number: 53498

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Fleming, Ian:

Thunderball.

New York: Viking Press, 1961 First American edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.[viii], 248. A few toned marks to margins, pp. 23-4, 73-4 and 119-20 all with a fragment of the top corner margin lost but text unaffected. Yellow cloth, red title to spine, top edge pink. Four small patches of toning to cloth and some toned marks to endpapers all seemingly from old tape, good. Dust jacket very slightly worn at top edge, to rear flap two small tape marks and a short ms note, but very good overall. To ffep, bookplate of Ben and Carole Palmer. Ink stamp of Ben Palmer to ffep, p.101 head margin and rear pastedown. Dust jacket design by S.A. Summit, Inc. First American edition of the ninth story in Fleming's James Bond series. The first (U.K.) edition appeared in March of the same year.

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Book number: 54702

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Hašek, Jaroslav: (Lada, Josef, illus.:)

The Good Soldier Svejk and his Fortunes in the World War.

London: William Heinemann in association with Penguin Books, 1974. First UK edition, third printing. 8vo., pp.xxii, [x], 752. Maps and illustrations in the text. Bright yellow cloth, red title to spine and small illustration to upper board. Endpapers very slightly toned, top edge a little dusty, near fine. Dust jacket a little yellowed with a few tiny marks, price-clipped, very good. Illegible ownership inscription to ffep. Unabridged translation by Cecil Parrott. Hašek had originally envisioned a total of six volumes of Švejk. By the time of his death in 1923 he had completed the first three and was partway through the fourth, which was later finished at the request of the publisher by the journalist Karel Vanek. The volumes are as follows: Behind the Lines (V zázemí, 1921); At the Front (Na fronte, 1922); The Glorious Licking (Slavný výprask,

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Book number: 54675

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[Thackeray] Harden, Edgar F.:

A William Makepeace Thackeray Chronology.

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. First edition. 8vo., pp. xvii, 396. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Spine slightly cocked, mild signs of use with jacket lightly creased to edges, still a good copy. In the publisher's Author Chronologies series.

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Book number: 53936

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Houellebecq, Michel: (Stein, Lorin, trans.:)

Submission.

London: William Heinemann, 2015. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.[iv], 251, [i]. White cloth, black title to spine, publisher's device blindstamped to upper board, fine. Dustjacket a little dusty, price intact, fine. Translated by Lorin Stein.

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Book number: 54680

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Kerr, Philip:

Field Grey

London: Quercus, 2010. First edition, first printing. Black cloth, silver title to spine. Top edge a little dusty, fine. Dust jacket a little rubbed, price intact, very good. Book seven in the Bernie Gunther series of thrillers.

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Book number: 54681

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Kerr, Philip:

Prague Fatale.

London: Quercus, 2011. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.[vi], 439, [i]. Black cloth, silver title to spine. A few tiny dents to upper board, near fine. Dust jacket with scratch to upper, price intact, very good. Book eight in the Bernie Gunther series of thrillers.

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Book number: 54682

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De Labessade, Léon:

Le Droit du Seigneur et la Rosiere de Salency.

Paris: Librairie Ancienne et Moderne Edouard Rouveyre, 1878. First edition, inscribed by the author. 8vo., pp.[vii], xvi, 245, [iv], 248-253, [viii]. Title page in red and black. Original wrappers bound in, includes half-title and advertisements at rear. Contemporary binding of fleur-de-lys-patterned paste paper over boards, edges uncut. Spine toned, cover paper splitting at joints but still firm, corners bumped, very good. Author's inscription of "Hommage" to Edouary Gratpauche to preliminary blank. 'No. 197' pencilled to ffep.

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Book number: 53844

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