FAULKNER, WILLIAM.

Absalom, Absalom!

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1975. "As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a Negro butler. From then on, Sutpen was determined to be a Virginia plantation owner himself". Pp 316. 2 sketch maps. Name to verso front cover. Edge stain to lower corner of first 24 pages - not affecting text. Pages toned. P/b. Spine and cover scuffed. Illustrated cover. G.

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FAULKS, SEBASTIAN.

The Girl at the Lion D'Or.

London: Hutchinson, 1989. 0091734517. Reprint. "The Girl at the Lion d'Or is set against a background of social and political restlessness, the beginning of the downhill road to Vichy. An unashamedly romantic story, it is enriched by its steady contemplation of its underlying themes: the moral integrity of desire, the meaning of a single action, and the strange nature of the physical world." Pp.253. Olive cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG. **"The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks, was the author's second novel. Set in the tiny French village of Janvilliers in 1936. Together with Birdsong and Charlotte Gray, it makes up Faulks' France Trilogy. The character Charles Hartmann is common to all three books."(wiki).

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FERGUSON, NEIL.

Bars of America.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986. 1st ed. Fiction. "A cityscape of gas stations and banks, interstate freeways, rundown motels, fast-food eats, diners and downtown bars. The USA in the Eighties". Pp. 152, inscrip. to fep, slight toning to pages. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, illustd. d/w. G+/G+.

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FILBY, RAY.

The Sun and the Moon of Alexandria.

Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd, 1993. 1st ed. Fiction. "The book sheds light on the history of the spread of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean through the story of four young people living in Alexandria in the first century AD." Pp. 454, + 5 maps and 8 plans, promotional ephemera loosely enclosed. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w has small mark to top of spine. VG/G+.

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FISHER, DAVID.

Compartments.

London; W.H. Allen, 1972. 0491006020. 1st ed. A novel by the author of Crisis. "A novel of relationships and affections.. an essentially adult novel, not merely in its sophisticated attitude to moral freedom, but in the way it unaffectedly accepts the way real people think and behave in the real world." Pp. 208. Maroon cloth, d/w designed by Ken Reilly Ltd, price clipped. VG/VG.

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FISHER, STEVE.

I Wake Up Screaming.

London:Robert Hale,1943. 1st British ed. The classic film noir, based on this book, was made in 1941 starring Victor Mature, Betty Grable and Carol Landis. Pp.216,slight toning to pages. Black cloth, red title and silver gun to spine, edges slightly rubbed. Scarce. VG.

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FORD, NORMAN R.

The Black The Grey and The Gold.

London: Souvenir, 1962. 0. 1st British edition. A novel about a scandal at a military academy. "Here is the fictional behind-the-scenes world of West Point, from the cadets' quarters to the officers' homes." Pp.450, light toning to endpapers. Brown cloth, dustwrapper has toning to edge folds and has a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

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FORD, ELIZABETH.

The Green Beetle.

London: Hurst & Blackett, 1972. 1st ed. Fiction. Pp. 184, toning to pages. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. G+/G+.

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FORESTER, C.S.

The Sky and the Forest.

London: Michael Joseph,1948. 1st ed. Pp.219,slight toning to endpapers. Red cloth, d/w rubbed and chipped. VG/G.

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FORSTER, E. M.

Collected Short Stories.

Harmondsworth: Penguin/Pelican, 1975. "All the stories in this book were written before the First World War. Many of the stories express an instinctive beleif in the force of Nature." Pp, 221, page edges slightly toned. P/b, illustrated cover. G.

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FOSS, MICHAEL.

Looking for the Last Big Tree.

London: Michael O'Mara, 1986. 0948397152. 1st ed. "Looking For The Next Big Tree is a novel about man's search for new frontiers, about regaining a lost paradise. The setting is the north-west coast of Canada, the time-scale two centuries, the protagonists the local Indians, Spanish and British explorers of the 18th Century and a young Englishman of the 1950's." Pp.242. Brown cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

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FOSTER, PETER.

Last Voyage From Ipswich.

Ipswich: Peter Foster(Privately printed), 1995. 0952762501. 'Special Limited Edition'. "Another small British Merchant ship has been sold off to a new owner in Jamaica who has hired a crew of six unemployed British seamen to take her across the Atlantic..Once at sea, they discover that the owner has packed her holds with a cargo of high explosives for extra profit, and intends to exhibit the run-down ship in Kingston Harbour as an example of a once mighty British Merchant Fleet complete with crew.. Tales selected and adapted by the Author from many of his stories published in 'The Coaster' ". Pp.239, signed by author to title page, illustrated bookplate of Hengrave Hall, Bury St Edmunds, to inside front cover, library pocket to rear endpaper. Pbk. G+.

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FOX, PAUL.

The Daughter of Jairus.

London: W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd, nd. nd. Novel. "Perhaps never before has the complex character of Judas and his relationship with Jesus been so subtly portrayed." Pp. 200, slight spotting to page edges not affecting text. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w has clear wrap. G+/G+.

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FRANCIS, DICK.

10-lb Penalty.

London: Michael Joseph, 1997. 1st ed. Thriller. "Dick Francis seems never to lose any of his capacity to thrill his readership." Pp. 272. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/VG.

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FRASER, ANTONIA.

Cool Repentance. A Jemima Shore mystery.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. 1st ed. Fourth Jemima Shore mystery, set against a theatrical background. Pp. 222. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, illustd. d/w, slight sunning to spine and back cover. VG/G.

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