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Fightin, New and Collected Stories

Chicago, Thunders Mouth Press. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0938410148) Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) rubbed spine, name and stamp to half title, 111pp Native American creative writing short stories. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002963

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Native American Indian Minority Fiction Literature Short Stories 0938410148

WILLIAMS JOHN A.

The Angry Ones

New York, Ace. 1960, First Edition. Mass Market Paperback, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (200 gram rate) good only reading copy, spine leans, rubbed joints, label residue to cover, discoloured soiled pages, stamp to tile, 192pp, pen name to rear wrapper, paperback original first publication in a reading copy only. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006863

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Pulp Ficiton Paperback Original Pbo Race Mixing Miscegenation Black Collectable Ace D-420

MICHENER JAMES A

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

London, Secker. 1953, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. lacks free end paper, pen gift inscription to half title, heavy foxing to prelims and page edges, dust jacket unclipped but with some wear and some loss to spine ends and corners, 136pp, Naval jet bombers from aircraft carriers over Korea, (500 gram rate). Good/Good.

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Book number: 011416

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: American Literature Fiction Korean War Fiction Naval Aviation Aircraft Carrier Jet Bomber

MICHENER JAMES A

Caravans

London, Secker. 1964, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. price clipped DW light edgewear, rear panel surface soiled to the white, name and address to fep (over decorative endpaper map) and name at head of title page, 384pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003058

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: American Modern Litearturer Afghanistan Setting First Edition Fiction

MICHENER JAMES A

Caravans

London, Secker. 1964, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. spine leans, short split at head of spine, top edge red dusted with some fading, lacks dust jacket, 384pp. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008984

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: American Modern Litearturer Afghanistan Setting First Edition Fiction

HENTY G A

Condemned as a Nihilist, a Story of Siberia

London, Blackie. reprint. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: Walter Paget. red cloth with decoration of Siberian in cold weather clothing to cover and spine, fep trimmed top corner, faint hints of foxing mainly to closed edges, DW unclipped priced at 3/6 net, reprint in the New Popular Edition, scarce DW near complete, surface rubbed and dust soiled, small edge tears, chip from tail of spine, 352pp + colour frontis and b&w plates by Walter Paget?. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 004000

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Popular Edition British Victorian Fiction Russia Imperial Tsar Tsarist Historical Fiction Henty Russia, Russian History, Historical Fiction, Children's Literature, Series Books, England, British History, British Empire, Siberia, Prison Camp, Walter Paget

MICHENER JAMES A & DAY A GROVE

The Fires of Spring

Sydney, Dymocks. 1950, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Green cloth cover, gilt over red section on spine, spine and corners bumped, page ends dust stained. sunned to the head and tail of the spine, paencil residue to corner of fep, 495pp text clean, first Australian issue. no DW. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 012573

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Michener First Edition American Fiction Literature

ANDREWS A A

Gun Country

London, John Gresham. 1965, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ex-Library, (500 grams) ex lending library, unclipped DW has surface lifting from along top edge of front panel otherwise tidy, book has spine lean, tape residue, stamps etc, good reading copy, 160pp. Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004512

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Western Novel Fiction Wild West Cowboy

CARTER F.A. & CHARLES DICKENS

Haywire Dickens ( French's Monologue Series No. 59 )

London, Samuel French. 1953, First Edition. Original Wraps, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Booklet, (200 gram rate) minor signs of age no faults, 28pp in wrappers, caricature of orator by Joyce Dennys to cover, short peices to recite giving the synopsis of various Dickens works. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005633

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Charles Dickens Scratch Notes Reciter Recitation Oration Haywire Condensed Ephemera

WILLIAMS JOHN A.

On the Way Out (uncorrected proof)

London, Hutchinson. 1962, First Edition. Original Wraps, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Galley/Proof, off white paper wrappers with printed details, spine leans and is sunned, this is the 'uncorrected proof copy on proofing paper', sewn and with the wrapper glued on, 254pp +2 pp adverts, number thirty in the New Authors Limited series. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 007175

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Modern First Edition Fiction New Authors Limited Number Thirty Proof Advanced Reading Copy

HENTY G A

The Young Buglers, A Tale of the Peninsula War

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1910, reprint. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: Conrad H. Leigh. red cloth with gilt and colour decoration, colour pictorial paper illustration with Hussars (?) on cover and spine ( as published) backstrip sunfaded, ink inscripiton to fep "Isaballa Rua Sunderland Xmas 1915" , prelims, 336pp +4 col. plates + 10pp maps +16pp adverts, top corner of maps shows faint watermark, a tidy copy showing some minor age, no major faults. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010564

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: British, Victorian Fiction, Historical Fiction, G.A. Henty, Children's Literature, England, British History, Peninsula War, Napoleonic, Napoleon, Isaballa Rua Sunderland Conrad H. Leigh

SYMONDS JOHN ADDINGTON

Walt Whitman a Study

London, George Routledge. 1893, First Edition. Cloth, 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall. (500 grams) assumed first, only date is to the preface 1893, small owner inscription to fep dated 1922, cloth rubbed, titling dulled, 160pp. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004221

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Walt Whitman Biography Criticism Study Literature Poetry Verse

MACNEICE LOUIS TRANSLATES AESCHYLUS

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

London, Faber. 1955, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. (500 gram rate) tidy copy, DW price clipped, minor browing to endpapers, third impression, 71 pages, clean copy, verse translation. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 010859

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Greek Literature, Classical Literature, Aeschylus in English, Verse, Greek Tragedy, Louis Macneice, Classics

MYKLE AGNAR

The Song of the Red Ruby

London, Barrie & Rockliff. 1961, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. unclipped dust jacket with small nick at head of spine, book and dust jacket show minor age browning, clean copy, translation from Norwegian, 335pp, contains a sexual revelation for mature readers, Sangen om den røde rubin, first English Translation, contorversial and banned in Finland due to the explicit sexual descriptions. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 011728

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Sangen Om Den Røde Rubin, First English Translation, Norwegian, Fiction, Literature, Novel, European, Modern First Edition, Erotica

STRICKLAND AGNES

How Will it End? In Three Volumes

London, Richard Bentley. 1865, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. (2kg rate, so double standard shipping, contact by email for a quote ) three volumes in uniform green cloth, blind embossed boards with gilt decorative spines, rubbed with some splitting to cloth at spine ends and small splits in parts of the joints, handling soiled, paste down in volume one has a W H Smith & Sons library plate, with an address label pasted on to this for 7 Prince's Gardens, Prince's Gate, vols. two and three have the Princes Gate label pasted ove where the W H Smith label has been remove (but leaving some remains), each volume has had the fep removed, hinges are loosened or split, but collations attached to the boards by the binding cords, (ii) 282+ (1); (ii) 299; (ii) 294+(i)pp, tired set, but still in good condition for a reading or reference copy. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010651

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Victorian, Fiction, Novel, Triple Decker, First Edition, Romance,