ADAMS, RICHARD

The Tyger Voyage

London, Jonathan Cape. 1976, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Bayley, Nicola. Book, 4to. (3), 32 pp. Illustrated boards. Beautiful verse story by the author of Watership Down, illustrated exquisitely by Nicola Bayley. Very Good/No jacket as issued.

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Book number: 9710

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Bayley, NicolaLiterature, Poetry, Art, British Writers, British Artists

ADIGA, ARAVIND

The White Tiger

New York, Free Press. 2008. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 276 pp. Brown and red boards with silver to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. An excellent copy of Adiga's sensational debut and 2008 Booker Prize winning novel. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9438

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Indian Writers, Booker Prize

D'AGUIAR, FRED

Airy Hall

London, Chatto & Windus. 1989, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 63 pp. Decorative card wrappers. Minimal discolouration to spine, otherwise fine. Rare second collection of poetry by renowned award-winning poet and novelist Fred D'Aguiar. Fine.

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Book number: 9003

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, British Writers, Guyanese Writers

D'AGUIAR, FRED

Mama Dot

London, Chatto & Windus - The Hogarth Press. 1985, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 48 pp. Decorative card wrappers with original "Poetry Book Society Recommendation" label to front. The highly acclaimed debut collection by renowned award-winning poet and novelist Fred D'Aguiar. Rare first edition of his debut work in great condition. Fine.

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Book number: 9002

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, British Writers, Guyanese Writers, Debut

AIKEN, CONRAD; (KILLORIN, JOSEPH. ED)

Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken

New Haven, Yale University Press. 1978, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxvi, 350 pp. (+ 20 pp. plates). Brown half-cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent first edition copy of prize-winning poet and novelist Conrad Aiken's correspondence. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 9799

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Correspondence, American Writers, Conrad Aiken

ALLAIN, MARIE-FRANCOISE

The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene

London, The Bodley Head. 1983, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 187 pp. Green cloth with gilt to spine. Top-edge green. Unclipped dustjacket designed by Michael Harvey. Excellent first edition of this publication of uninhibited, free-ranging conversations with the French writer Marie-Francoise Allain, discovering the hidden Greene. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9287

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Biographies, British Writers

ALLENDE, ISABEL

Portrait in Sepia

New York, HarperCollins. 2001, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [x], 304 pp. Brown boards with copper gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent first edition of this fine historical novel. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9657

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Chilean Writers, Allende

AMIS, KINGSLEY

The Old Devils

London, Hutchinson. 1986, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 294 pp. Brown boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket by Alastair Taylor. An excellent first edition of the 1986 Booker Prize winning novel of regret for lost opportunity and destructive selfishness. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9181

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, British Writers, Booker Prize

ASHBERY, JOHN

The Tennis Court Oath

Middletown, Wesleyan University Press. 1962, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 94 pp. Illustrated card wraps. A very nice first edition of this famous work of contemporary American poetry. Very Good.

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Book number: 8986

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, American Writers

MACHADO DE ASSIS

The Devil's Church and Other Stories

Manchester, Carcanet. 1985, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (7) 196 pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Nineteen stories (most of them previously untranslated) by Brazil's greatest writer, Machado de Assis (1839-1908), revealing his unique style of psychological realism and wry, painfully funny pessimism. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 9654

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Short Stories, Brazilian Writers, Machado

ASTRA

Back You Come, Mother Dear

London, Virago Press. 1986, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 64 pp. Illustrated card wraps. Fine first edition of this personal elegy to the poet's mother. Fine.

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Book number: 9380

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, American Writers

ATWOOD, MARGARET

Cat's Eye

London, Bloomsbury. 1989. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [x] 421 pp. Blue boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. An excellent copy of Atwood's Booker shortlisted seventh novel in hardback. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 9470

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Canadian Writers

ATWOOD, MARGARET

The Circle Game

Toronto, House of Anansi Press. 1978. Soft cover. Book, 12mo. 95pp. Printed card wraps. Margaret Atwood's prize-winning poetry collection. Reprint of her first published work in 1966. Very Good.

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Book number: 9423

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, Canadian Writers

AUDEN, W.H.; ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER

The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938

Princeton, Princeton University Press. 1988, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxxiv, 680 pp. Red cloth with gilt to spine. Beautifully printed first edition of the complete plays and documentary films 1928-38, including 'Paid on Both Sides', The Dog Beneath the Skin', The Ascent of F6', etc. with full textual notes to each work. A fine critical edition. Fine.

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Book number: 9839

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Drama, Plays, Documentaries, British Writers, W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood

AUDEN, W.H.

The Enchafèd Flood or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea

London, Faber and Faber. 1985. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. (12), 127 pp. Illustrated card wraps. A fine copy of the three lectures given by Auden in March 1949 on the psychology of poetic symbols. Fine.

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Book number: 9843

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Essays, Criticism, British Writers, W.H. Auden