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	The Anchor review: number one of a series New York, Doubleday. 1955, First. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 265. This first issue of the Anchor review includes pieces by Arthur Koestler, Andre Malraux, W. H. Auden, Denis de Rougemont and David Riesman. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 9746 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	The Anchor review: second issue New York, Doubleday. 1957, First. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 308. This issue of the Anchor review includes pieces by Marguerite Yourcenar, John Lukacs, W. H. Auden and H. R. Trevor-Roper, and features a long excerpt from Lolita. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 9747 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	Chicago Review: summer 1958, volume 12, number 2 Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 1958, First. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 110, with cover artwork (Fire on the mountain-top, by Toko Shinoda) and four plates. Eleven articles on Zen, including pieces by Alan Watts, Daisetz Suzuki and Kerouac, three works of fiction, including an excerpt by Samuel Beckett, "The Unnamable" translated by the author from the original French, and two book reviews. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 9953 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	ALDRIDGE, JOHN W. After the lost generation: a critical study of the writers of two wars New York, The Noonday Press. 1958, First paperback. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp XVII, 263. First published in 1951, this study discusses the most important works of the young postwar writers of the Forties - Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, John Horne Burns, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal and others, and compares them with three writers of the twenties: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Scott Fitzgerald. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1236] Book number: 10055 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	BALDWIN, JAMES Nobody knows my name: more notes of a native son New York, Dell. 1963, First paperback. Paperback. Small 8vo, wrappers. Pp 190. The last months of the famed American writer's ten-year self-exile in Europe; his return to America and Harlem; his first trip South at the time of the school integration battles. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 530] Book number: 9483 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	CARVER, RAYMOND The stories of Raymond Carver London, Picador. 1985. (ISBN: 0330285521) Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 447. Fifty-one short stories originally published in three collections: Will you please be quiet, please; What we talk about when we talk about love; and Cathedral. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1236] Book number: 10062 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	CHANDLER, RAYMOND The lady in the lake Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1976. (ISBN: 0140008675) Paperback. Small 8vo, wrappers. Pp 237. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 9771 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	CHANDLER, RAYMOND The long good-bye Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1976. (ISBN: 0140014004) Paperback. Small 8vo, wrappers. Pp 320. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 9770 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	CHANDLER, RAYMOND, Pearls are a nuisance London, Pan Books Ltd. 1980. (ISBN: 0330260189) Paperback. Small 8vo, wrappers. Pp 190. Three stories and an essay on the art of detective story writing by Raymond Chandler. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 9652 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	COOKE, ALISTAIR A generation on trial: U.S.A. v Alger Hiss London, Rupert Hart-Davis. 1950, First. Hard Cover. 8vo, black cloth, dust wrapper. Pp XI, 341, XV. The two trials in 1949 of Alger Hiss, who may have supplied Communists with state secrets during the late 1930s. Alistair Cooke, who was present throughout both trials, tells a story of mystery and drama, both personal and political. USD 52.00 [Appr.: EURO 34.75 \| £UK 31.5 \| JP¥ 4589] Book number: 10786 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	COOKSON, PETER W. JR. AND PERSELL, CAROLINE HODGES Preparing for power: America's elite boarding schools New York, Basic Books. 1985, First. (ISBN: 0465062695) Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp X, 260. Two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools in the United States prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep school life and underlife. USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 \| £UK 13.25 \| JP¥ 1942] Book number: 10312 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE The last of the Mohicans London, Blackie & Son. Hard Cover. 8vo, blue cloth, dust wrapper. Pp 295, with frontispiece and three colour plates. A volume in the series: "Blackie's Famous Books". There is no printed date, an inscription on the endpaper is dated 1935. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 11644 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	CRANE, R. S. (ED) Critics and criticism (abridged edition): essays in method by R. S. Crane, W. R. Keast, Richard McKeon, Norman Maclean, Elder Olson and Bernard Weinberg, edited and with a new preface by R. S. Crane Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 1963, Third Impression. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp VII, 276. Phoenix Books. In this volume, the chief exponents of one of the most controversial schools of literary criticism in the 1950s, the "Chicago Critics", state their position. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1236] Book number: 10375 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	DIAMOND, EDWIN Behind the Times: inside the new New York Times New York, Villard Books. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0679418776) Hard Cover. 8vo, half boards, cream boards with black cloth spine, dust wrapper. Very Good. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 10177 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	DICKENS, CHARLES/ CARLO FRUTTERO & FRANCO LUCENTINI The D. case, or, the truth about the mystery of Edwin Drood San Diego, Harcourt, Brace & Company. 1992, First Thus. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp IX, 587. Translated from the Italian by Gregory Dowling. When the world's most famous fictional sleuths convene in Rome - among them Sherlock Holmes, Jules Maigret, Hercule Poirot, Lew Archer and Philip Marlowe - at the top of the agenda is "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", the unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 \| £UK 14.5 \| JP¥ 2118] Book number: 10879 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	DOWD, MAUREEN Bushworld: enter at your own risk New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 2004, First Thus. (ISBN: 039915258X) Hard Cover with dust jacket. 8vo, red boards, dust wrapper. Pp 523. In her first book, the celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist delivers a scorching - and often scorchingly funny - illumination of the Bush administration's fractured adventures in empire-building. As New/As New. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5737] Book number: 10287 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	DOWN, MAUREEN Bushworld: enter at your own risk London, Viking Press. 2004. (ISBN: 067091584x) Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 523, with a new introductory essay. A collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Yimes columnist's writings between 1992 and 2004. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 10609 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	DUNNE, DOMINICK People like us New York, Bantam. 1989, First paperback. Paperback. Small 8vo, wrappers. Pp 454. A saga of high society in New York. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 9750 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	EDMONDS, WALTER D., Young Ames London, The Reprint Society. 1943, Second. Hard Cover. 8vo, yellow cloth with black label on the spine. Pp 382. A novel set in New York of the 1830s. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 12010 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	EMERSON, RALPH WALDO Essays: 1st and 2nd series London, J. M. Dent. 1906, Reprint. Hard Cover. 8vo, brown cloth with blind stamped crest on the front cover. Pp 358, with an introductory note by Ernest Rhys. A volume in the series "Everyman's Library". USD 27.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.25 \| £UK 16.25 \| JP¥ 2383] Book number: 9859 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	EMERSON, RALPH WALDO Essays (first, second and third series) by Ralph Waldo Emerson London, Ward Lock. 1911. Hard Cover. 8vo, blind stamped green cloth, with gilt lettering and design on the spine. Pp 416. A volume in the World Library series. USD 21.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 \| £UK 12.75 \| JP¥ 1853] Book number: 10367 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	EMERSON, RALPH WALDO The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, comprising his essays, lectures, poems, and orations. Volume 1 of 3, including essays, representative men, and poems London, George Bell. 1884. Hard Cover. 8vo, blind stamped green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Pp VIII, 494. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 9590 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	FAULKNER, WILLIAM Knight's gambit: six stories by William Faulkner London, Chatto & Windus. 1951, First edition published in the UK. Hard Cover. 8vo, blue cloth, corners slightly frayed and dented, no marked staining or other damage. Pp 218, pages clean and tight. Good. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 167 \| £UK 150.25 \| JP¥ 22064] Book number: 9586 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	FAULKNER, WILLIAM Sanctuary Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1953. Paperback, 11x18 cm. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 253. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 11731 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT Tender is the night: a romance (with the author's final revision) Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1974, Reprinted. Paperback, 11x18 cm. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 352, with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 530] Book number: 11756 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.

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	The Anchor review: number one of a series New York, Doubleday. 1955, First. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 265. This first issue of the Anchor review includes pieces by Arthur Koestler, Andre Malraux, W. H. Auden, Denis de Rougemont and David Riesman. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 9746 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	The Anchor review: second issue New York, Doubleday. 1957, First. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 308. This issue of the Anchor review includes pieces by Marguerite Yourcenar, John Lukacs, W. H. Auden and H. R. Trevor-Roper, and features a long excerpt from Lolita. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 9747 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	Chicago Review: summer 1958, volume 12, number 2 Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 1958, First. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 110, with cover artwork (Fire on the mountain-top, by Toko Shinoda) and four plates. Eleven articles on Zen, including pieces by Alan Watts, Daisetz Suzuki and Kerouac, three works of fiction, including an excerpt by Samuel Beckett, "The Unnamable" translated by the author from the original French, and two book reviews. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 9953 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	ALDRIDGE, JOHN W. After the lost generation: a critical study of the writers of two wars New York, The Noonday Press. 1958, First paperback. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp XVII, 263. First published in 1951, this study discusses the most important works of the young postwar writers of the Forties - Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, John Horne Burns, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal and others, and compares them with three writers of the twenties: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Scott Fitzgerald. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1236] Book number: 10055 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	BALDWIN, JAMES Nobody knows my name: more notes of a native son New York, Dell. 1963, First paperback. Paperback. Small 8vo, wrappers. Pp 190. The last months of the famed American writer's ten-year self-exile in Europe; his return to America and Harlem; his first trip South at the time of the school integration battles. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 530] Book number: 9483 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	CARVER, RAYMOND The stories of Raymond Carver London, Picador. 1985. (ISBN: 0330285521) Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 447. Fifty-one short stories originally published in three collections: Will you please be quiet, please; What we talk about when we talk about love; and Cathedral. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1236] Book number: 10062 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	CHANDLER, RAYMOND The lady in the lake Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1976. (ISBN: 0140008675) Paperback. Small 8vo, wrappers. Pp 237. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 9771 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	CHANDLER, RAYMOND The long good-bye Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1976. (ISBN: 0140014004) Paperback. Small 8vo, wrappers. Pp 320. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 9770 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	CHANDLER, RAYMOND, Pearls are a nuisance London, Pan Books Ltd. 1980. (ISBN: 0330260189) Paperback. Small 8vo, wrappers. Pp 190. Three stories and an essay on the art of detective story writing by Raymond Chandler. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 9652 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	COOKE, ALISTAIR A generation on trial: U.S.A. v Alger Hiss London, Rupert Hart-Davis. 1950, First. Hard Cover. 8vo, black cloth, dust wrapper. Pp XI, 341, XV. The two trials in 1949 of Alger Hiss, who may have supplied Communists with state secrets during the late 1930s. Alistair Cooke, who was present throughout both trials, tells a story of mystery and drama, both personal and political. USD 52.00 [Appr.: EURO 34.75 \| £UK 31.5 \| JP¥ 4589] Book number: 10786 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	COOKSON, PETER W. JR. AND PERSELL, CAROLINE HODGES Preparing for power: America's elite boarding schools New York, Basic Books. 1985, First. (ISBN: 0465062695) Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp X, 260. Two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools in the United States prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep school life and underlife. USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 \| £UK 13.25 \| JP¥ 1942] Book number: 10312 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE The last of the Mohicans London, Blackie & Son. Hard Cover. 8vo, blue cloth, dust wrapper. Pp 295, with frontispiece and three colour plates. A volume in the series: "Blackie's Famous Books". There is no printed date, an inscription on the endpaper is dated 1935. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 11644 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	CRANE, R. S. (ED) Critics and criticism (abridged edition): essays in method by R. S. Crane, W. R. Keast, Richard McKeon, Norman Maclean, Elder Olson and Bernard Weinberg, edited and with a new preface by R. S. Crane Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 1963, Third Impression. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp VII, 276. Phoenix Books. In this volume, the chief exponents of one of the most controversial schools of literary criticism in the 1950s, the "Chicago Critics", state their position. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1236] Book number: 10375 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	DIAMOND, EDWIN Behind the Times: inside the new New York Times New York, Villard Books. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0679418776) Hard Cover. 8vo, half boards, cream boards with black cloth spine, dust wrapper. Very Good. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 10177 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	DICKENS, CHARLES/ CARLO FRUTTERO & FRANCO LUCENTINI The D. case, or, the truth about the mystery of Edwin Drood San Diego, Harcourt, Brace & Company. 1992, First Thus. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp IX, 587. Translated from the Italian by Gregory Dowling. When the world's most famous fictional sleuths convene in Rome - among them Sherlock Holmes, Jules Maigret, Hercule Poirot, Lew Archer and Philip Marlowe - at the top of the agenda is "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", the unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 \| £UK 14.5 \| JP¥ 2118] Book number: 10879 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	DOWD, MAUREEN Bushworld: enter at your own risk New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 2004, First Thus. (ISBN: 039915258X) Hard Cover with dust jacket. 8vo, red boards, dust wrapper. Pp 523. In her first book, the celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist delivers a scorching - and often scorchingly funny - illumination of the Bush administration's fractured adventures in empire-building. As New/As New. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5737] Book number: 10287 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	DOWN, MAUREEN Bushworld: enter at your own risk London, Viking Press. 2004. (ISBN: 067091584x) Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 523, with a new introductory essay. A collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Yimes columnist's writings between 1992 and 2004. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 10609 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	DUNNE, DOMINICK People like us New York, Bantam. 1989, First paperback. Paperback. Small 8vo, wrappers. Pp 454. A saga of high society in New York. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 9750 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	EDMONDS, WALTER D., Young Ames London, The Reprint Society. 1943, Second. Hard Cover. 8vo, yellow cloth with black label on the spine. Pp 382. A novel set in New York of the 1830s. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 12010 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	EMERSON, RALPH WALDO Essays: 1st and 2nd series London, J. M. Dent. 1906, Reprint. Hard Cover. 8vo, brown cloth with blind stamped crest on the front cover. Pp 358, with an introductory note by Ernest Rhys. A volume in the series "Everyman's Library". USD 27.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.25 \| £UK 16.25 \| JP¥ 2383] Book number: 9859 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	EMERSON, RALPH WALDO Essays (first, second and third series) by Ralph Waldo Emerson London, Ward Lock. 1911. Hard Cover. 8vo, blind stamped green cloth, with gilt lettering and design on the spine. Pp 416. A volume in the World Library series. USD 21.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 \| £UK 12.75 \| JP¥ 1853] Book number: 10367 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	EMERSON, RALPH WALDO The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, comprising his essays, lectures, poems, and orations. Volume 1 of 3, including essays, representative men, and poems London, George Bell. 1884. Hard Cover. 8vo, blind stamped green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Pp VIII, 494. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 9590 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	FAULKNER, WILLIAM Knight's gambit: six stories by William Faulkner London, Chatto & Windus. 1951, First edition published in the UK. Hard Cover. 8vo, blue cloth, corners slightly frayed and dented, no marked staining or other damage. Pp 218, pages clean and tight. Good. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 167 \| £UK 150.25 \| JP¥ 22064] Book number: 9586 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	FAULKNER, WILLIAM Sanctuary Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1953. Paperback, 11x18 cm. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 253. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 11731 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.
	FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT Tender is the night: a romance (with the author's final revision) Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1974, Reprinted. Paperback, 11x18 cm. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 352, with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 530] Book number: 11756 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton.