AMIS, KINGSLEY

Green Man, the

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0224617400. First Edition. A Very Good+ blue Hardcover with gilt titles to the spine. Blue top edges. A sound binding with clean & unmarked pages. Light spine end bumping with a bump to the bottom front cover corner. The DJ is clipped, glossy with cover rubbing and edgewear. "A ghost story for adults. Like all good coaching inns, the Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy, rumoured to have killed his wife. However, the landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the renaissance of the malevolent Underhill. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic powers. "; 7.75"; 253 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 27243

Catalogue: Fiction, Horror, Classics, Fantasy, British Literature

Keywords: 0224617400 Fiction > Horror Classics British Literature Fantasy Fiction Horror Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature

HUXLEY ALDOUS

Brave New World Revisited

Chatto & Windus, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, Second Impression. Blue Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. In Very Good+ condition with a sound binding, clean & unmarked pages. Light spine end wear. The DJ is Good+, clipped with wear to the cover edges and spine hinges. "The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece." ; Square Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 164 pages. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 26728

Catalogue: Classics, Science Fiction, Dystopian, Fantasy

Keywords: Science Fiction & Fantasy Classics Dystopian Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Classics

LEWIS C. S.

Four Volumes: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the Magician's Nephew, Prince Caspian, the Silver Chair

Putton Publisher, 1979. Mass Market Paperback. All four Mass Markets are in Very Good+ condition. A sound binding, clean, unmarked pages. All published by Puffin in 1979. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 800 pages. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 26312

Catalogue: Fiction, Classics, Fantasy

Keywords: Fiction > Classics Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Classics

WHITE E. B.

Stuart Little & the Trumpet of the Swan. 2 Volumes

Harper & Row, 1970. Hardcover. Two volumes both in Very Good++ condition. Both copies have the previous owner's names on the front end paper and half titles pages. The binding is tight and all pages are bright & unmarked. Sturat Little pictures by Garth Williams, Trumpet of the Swan pictures by Edward Frascino. Light spine end bumping. The DJs are Very Good with some small tears to the top and bottom of The Trumpet's edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 210 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 26732

Catalogue: Classics, Children's Fiction, Animals, Fantasy

Keywords: Children's Fiction Classics Animals Fantasy Fiction Animals Classics