ALDISS, BRIAN

The Hand-Reared Boy

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1970, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297179608). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good unmarked copy which has a very minor indentation to top edge and age darkening to closed edges with dustjacket which has two small repaired closed tears and is not price clipped. This is the first of a quartet of novels which will span the four decades from the thirties to the sixties, in the form of fictitious autobiography. NOT EX LIB B2B. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 009888

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

Keywords: 0297179608

O'BRIEN, EDWARD J. ( EDITED BY )

The Best Short Stories of 1927 - I: English

London, Jonathan Cape. 1928, First. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Light blue title on darker blue cloth boards. Some very light marks to front and only a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges and endpapers else clrean and unmarked. Overall a Good+ copy. 23 stories and appendice of The Year Book of the British and Irish Short Story, The Best British and Irish Short Stories - An Index, Articles on the Short Story, Volumes of Short Stories Published in Geat Britain and Ireland and Biographical Notices. Features early works by H.E. Bates, John Metcalfe, V.S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen, Sean O Faolain, Lennox Robinson, Edward Sackville West et al. C3B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011297

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

CLAPHAM, WALTER

Night Be My Witness

London, Jonathan Cape. 1952. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. White titles on black cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A novel set in World War II in late summer 1940, in the Kentish valleys, of Hurricanes, Heinkels and Dorniers and the RAF. B2C. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011231

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

Keywords: War Fiction, Kent, Heinkel, Dornier, Hurricane

CLARK, ELIZABETH

Country Tales to Tell

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1979. (ISBN: 9780340225127). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Smith, Cara Lockhart. A Very Good unmarked copy which has corner creasing to a few pages with VG+ dustjacket . Another delightful collection of eight stories by the author gathered from her various books and linked by their country setting. These are traditional tales, fast moving, sometimes funny, quite often with an unsuspecting twist and there is magic, fairies and animals and all of the stories are meant to be read out aloud. Delightfully illustrated especially for the book by Cara Lockhart Smith. NOT EX LIB D4E. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 010182

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

Keywords: Short Stories, Magic, Fairies, Read Aloud Stories 9780340225127 Smith, Cara Lockhart

CROFT-COOKE, RUPERT

Fall of Man

London, White Lion Publishers. 1976, First Thus. (ISBN: 0727400568). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title and motif on grey boards very clean and unmarked VG+. Pictorial dustjacket is complete with a little shelf wear and with the price crossed through. A novel written under the author's real name who also used the pseudonym Leo Bruce. First published by Macmillan in 1955 this novel is the story of Antony Scaw, as told by his friend, whose orderly life is changed by forces which mark him down as rebellious and non conformist. It plots his life from childhood before the First World War and his marriage to "one of the Bright Young Things" up to the present where the stubbornly independent man sees society's revenge on him. It reflects, perhaps, the author's own experiences as a non conformist and as a homosexual, who was prosecuted in 1953 and imprisoned and warned that he should not write about this which forced him to go to Morocco to live and write. A SCARCE TITLE B2E. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 001311

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

Keywords: 0727400568

DRURY, MAJOR W. P.

The Passing of the Flagship and Other Stories

London, Chapman Hall. 1915, First Thus. Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Black decoration and title on salmon pink cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers and light foxing to closed edges else a clean, tight and unmarked copy. Certainly in Very Good condition especially for its age. Dustjacket has taped repairs but is complete.The new and cheaper edition. First published in 1902, it comprises 10 short stories from the noted writer and playwright (William Price Drury, C.B.E. formerly Major and later Lieutenant-Colonel. 1861-1949) - The Passing of the Flagship; The Dragon of Pyramid Hill; Aceldama; The Blankfile; An Audience with His Majesty; Casserbanker the Second; Concerning a Treaty with France; The Stranger Within the Gates; The Rising of Joga; That Which was Lost. B2A. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 001240

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

EDELMAN, MAURICE

Shark Island

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1967. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper with year. Silver title on blue boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked apart from a small old price (20/-) written on front endpaper. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket with design by Charles Mozley has some light foxing, hardly any wear and is not price clipped. Second impression (first was also 1967). A novel of moral dilemmas, where the British Administrator of a decaying Caribbean island is under pressure from the Government to authorise a development scheme promoted by a syndicate of U.S. gamblers. Sympathetic to the islanders' wish to preserve their simple, religious society, the Administrator soon finds himself in conflict with the visiting Minister of State. The author evokes all of the contradictions of the Caribbean - turquoise skies and hurricanes, placid seas and the monsters beneath them, simple faith, hot-gospellers, buccaneers, missionaries, luxury clubs, hungry children, sophistication and primitive reversions and voodoo. 1. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 007192

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

Keywords: Fiction Caribbean Island, Voodoo

FIELDING, HENRY

The History of Amelia (Complete Two Volume Set)

London, Hutchinson. 1905. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: George Cruikshank. COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES. Gilt title and floral decoration to spine and blind embossed floral decoration to front with gilt facsimile signature of Fielding on green cloth boards. Boards are very clean and unmarked with just a trace of wear to spine corners. Internally some light foxing to endpapers and some of the plates else very clean and unmarked. 8 illustrations by George Cruikshank. A very attractive set of one of Fielding's classic novels in above average condition for it's age. NOT EX LIB B2A. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002402

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

Keywords: George Cruikshank

HANLEY, GERALD

Without Love

London, Collins and The Book Society. 1957. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good + unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which has a small loss to spine tail and is not price clipped. This edition issued on first publication by the Book Society in association with William Collins, March 1957. A novel set in the summer of 1954 where Michael Brennan is ordered to kill a renegade to the subversive international organisation he is serving in Barcelona. He has killed before, often and without compunction, as a member of the S.S. in Russia and the communist resistance in France but he suddenly finds himself suspecting that the God of his youth may after all exist and can a man go on meditating murder and still hope for mercy at the end. If he refuses to commit it, the Organisation's summary punishment will certainly leave no chance for a last minute of grace. His sister arrives from England and offers one way out of his dilemma and his fiery Spanish mistress another. B2C. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003352

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

Keywords: Fiction, Barcelona, Ss

HULL, MACDONALD

The Cultured Pearl

London, Hammond, Hammond. 1961, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black title on yellow boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear and with some light foxing to top edge. Internally very clean and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket by Sax is not price clipped. A novel set in Japan, where a young chemical engineer unwittingly finds himself the illegal owner of a very young Japanese girl, Masa Suzuki and assisted by his American chief and friend, seeks a formula to produce in her the perfection in Japanese and Western womanhood, a gem of the Orient. The author's second novel. Uncommon in such a very good condition dustjacket 24. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003630

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

Keywords: Fiction, Japan, Korean War

JACOB, NAOMI

The Heart of the House

London, Hutchinson. 1951, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gold title on black cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear and a small bump to one lower corner tip. Internally there is a little light foxing to endpapers, closed edges and to the first few pages else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good copy for its age. Dustjacket has light wear to edges, a taped repair to the complete edge alongside spine and is price clipped. Set against a background of Yorkshire and Bournemouth, its characters are Drake Marsden, son of a prosperous solicitor in a Yorkshire country town, estate agent to Sir Robert Maudesley, an autocratic but impoverished landowner who treats him badly. Drake's sister Edith and Maudesley's son and heir Sholto are secretly in love, though they both know that Sir Robert expects Sholto to marry wealth and set the estate on its feet again. The story tells of Edith's act of sacrifice and the subsequent coming into her life of Bill Gollantz, and of Drake's love for Flora Willis, who runs a pub. NOT EX LIB NOT BOOK CLUB C3D. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 008665

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

Keywords: Yorkshire, Bournemouth

JOHNSON, PAMELA HANSFORD

The Unspeakable Skipton

London, Macmillan. 1959, First. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on blue cloth boards have fading to spinebut no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has chipping, wear to edges, soiling to back and is not price-clipped. 246 pages. Daniel Skipton is both an original and an archetype, the eternal genius manque. He is at first sight a comic figure, an expatriate living and starving by turns in the city of Bruges, preying on visitors in the most disreputable and preposterous manner when his finances touch rock bottom: in this book trying to exploit appalling Dorothy Merlin, the verse dramatist, her bookseller husband, Cosmo Hines, her subjugated friends Duncan Moss and Matthew Pryar; and finding out that, despite appearances, they are persons to be reckoned with. Not Book Club. B2C. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 011282

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

Keywords: Comic Fiction, Bruges

LOTHIAN, ANDREW

Lawful Occasions

Edinburgh, T and T Clark. 1991, First. (ISBN: 0567096017). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket 263 pages. This entertaining collection sets out to discover what, if the true spirit of the Scottish nation is to be found expressed in its laws, some of the nation's greatest writers have had to say on legal subjects. Of course, many of Scotland's leading writers were themselves lawyers; Scott, Stevenson, Boswell, W.E. Aytoun and J.G. Lockhart were all members of the Scottish bar, John Buchan of the English. Others such as D.M. Black, James Allan Ford, Eric Linklater, Joan Lingard and J. Macdougal Hay have found inspiration in the powerful symbols and accomplishments of judges and practitioners. B2C. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 011000

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

Keywords: Scottish Authors and Lawyers, Scottish Writers on Legal Subjects 0567096017

MACKENZIE, COMPTON

The Seven Ages of Woman

London, Hutchinson. 1928. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Black titles on red boards which are clean with some shelfwear to spine head, tail and sides. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges and endpapers else clean and unmarked. Not dated but The British Library has this as 1928. The story of Mary Flower's life presented as The Infant in 1860, The Girl in 1870, The Maiden in 1880, The Wife in 1890, The Mother in 1900, The Widow in 1910 and the Grandmother in 1920. NOT BOOK CLUB 11. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011217

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

MARSDEN, WALTER

The Wasps' Nest

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1948, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition August 1948. Dark blue title on grey cloth. A very clean and unmarked copy with coloured pictorial dustjacket showing a map of Syria with a wasps' nest. Dustjacket has some wear and a small tear at top of spine but is complete. This is a novel of modern Syria and the author's presentation of the Levant is based on personal experience. An acclaimed novel which won an award from the Society of Authors. SCARCE WITH DUSTJACKET B2E. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 001226

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980