ALLEN, JAMES LANE

A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath

London, Macmillan. 1909. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Thomson, Hugh. Gilt title with ornate gilt front board of birds and foliage on blue cloth boards which are clean with some wear to head of spine and fading to spine. Internally there is a contemporary name and date to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. All edges gilt. 48 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. xxxii + 286 pages. The American author (1849-1925) was a novelist and short story writer whose work often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. C3B. Good AEG/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000865

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: Kentucky, American Author Thomson, Hugh

ATTA, WINFRED VAN

A Good Place to Work and Die

London, Robert Hale. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709121245). Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Silver title on black boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is just a touch of light foxing to top edge else unmarked. Dustjacket has wear to edges and a small closed tear and is not price clipped. First UK edition. A detective novel set in Illinois where a public relations executive has gone to search for one of his company's vice president's who has gone missing. Stock market frauds and intrigue. SCARCE B2B. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 000950

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: Stock Market Fraud, Illinois 0709121245

BENARD, ROBERT (EDITED BY)

A Short Wait between Trains - an Anthology of War Short Stories by American Writers

New York, Delacorte Press. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0385304862). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing November 1991. A Very Good+ copy with ink mark to top edge else unmarked with dustjacket which has some wear to edges, a small tear and is not priceclipped. Introduction by Knox Burger. 22 short stories by notable American writers including Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Eudora Welty, James Purdy, Bernard Malamud. 13. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 003646

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: War Fiction, Eudora Welty, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Bernard Malamud, James Purdy 0385304862

CLINTON, BILL AND PATTERSON, JAMES

The President Is Missing

London, Century. 2018. (ISBN: 9781780898391). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. 511 pages. The President of the USA disappears and the world is in shock. But the reason for his disappearance is much worse than anyone can imagine. With details only a President can know and the kind of suspense only James Patterson can deliver. As New/Near Fine.

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Book number: 011516

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: Bill Clinton's First Novel 9781780898391

BLAGOWIDOW, GEORGE

In Search of the Lady Lion Tamer

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0151445001). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a very small mark to lower closed edge) with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. A playfully picaresque, erotic, magical novel of love and power, where Jan, a successful middle-aged businessman, finds himself in a Paris art gallery one afternoon, falling hopelessly in love with a lady lion tamer as she gazes out at him from a circus poster. He sets out to find her and the search takes him through most of Europe, plunging him into the dark reaches of his wartime adolescence and culminating in an extraordinary self-education in love, domination, and the human condition. 23. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 007571

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: Lady Lion Tamer Fiction 0151445001

CABLE, GEORGE W.

Old Creole Days

Edinburgh, David Douglas. 1894. Hard Cover, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Author's Edition. Stiff card boards have been covered in brown paper which has been glued to boards. Internally clean and unmarked. Interesting publisher's catalogue to rear which has full page illustration of each title. The American author George Washington Cable (1844-1925) was noted for his realistic stories of Creole life. He served in the Confederate Army in the American War of Independence, and was a great friend of Mark Twain. Comprises short stories :- Sieur George,'Tite Poulette, Belles Demoiselles Plantation, Jean-ah Poquelin, Madame Delicieuse, Cafe Des Exiles and "Poisson Jone". 260 pages. Delightfully illustrated publisher's catalogue of American authors bound in at rear. THE SCARCE DAVID DOUGLAS EDITION 11. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001735

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: George Washington Cable, Louisiana, New Orleans, Creole

CRAWFORD, F. MARION

A Cigarette-Maker's Romance

London, Macmillan. 1891. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt title and gilt publisher's monogram on blue cloth boards which are very clean and with just a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. 265 pages and 55 page publisher's catalogue dated August 1891. The American author, Francis Marion Crawford's (1854 -1909) novel of a woman who falls in love with a man she works with in a cigarette making shop who tells her that he is a Russian Count fallen on hard times but he is not believed, however he is the Count Skariatine. A nice clean Victorian copy of the work. 1. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003893

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: American Victorian Authors, Francis Marion Crawford, Russian Count, Cigarette Shop, Count Skariatine

PRESTON, DOUGLAS AND CHILD, LINCOLN

The Pharaoh Key - a Gideon Crew Novel

New York, Grand Central. 2018, First. (ISBN: 9781455525829). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a very small dent to lower front corner tip) with near Fine dustjacket with similar very small dent. First Edition, First Printing. 311 pages. Effective Engineering Solutions has been inexplicably shut down, and the head of the company, Eli Glinn, has all but vanished. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live. Gideon Crew is contacted by one of his coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who tells him the two have mere hours to collect their belongings before the office closes forever. After years of dedicated service and several high-risk missions, theirs seems like the most ignoble of terminations - until Gideon and Garza happen upon an incredible discoery. After centuries of silence, a code-breaking machine at EES has cracked the long-awaited translation of a centuries-old stone tablet, the Phaistos Disk, that dates back to an otherwise completely unknown, ancient civilization. 13. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 010994

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: Gideon Crew, Phaistos Disk 9781455525829

DRESNER, HAL

The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books

London, W.H. Allen. 1965, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age toning to endpapers) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First British edition. 192 pages. A professional writer of dirty books includes in one of his epics an imaginary character called Bibbsy Dibbs. There exists, unbelievably, a real Barbara (Bibbsy) Dibbs, who fits the description of her fictional namesake. The girl's father, a retired naval commander, institutes proceedings for libel. The book is in the form of a series of lunatic letters, the most amusing being between the writer and his publisher. The commander might well be one of Henry Cecil's vexatious litigants; and the pornographer reminds one irresistibly of Groucho Marx at his most insulting. This is not a dirty book - but an excruciatingly funny one. B2E. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 009853

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: Bibbsy Dibbs

DRYER, BERNARD V.

The Image Makers

London, Hutchinson. 1959. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yellow title on black boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Coloured pictorial dustjacket by Biro is complete but has wear to edges and chipping to top and bottom G+. Second impression June 1959 (first was also June 1959). A novel set against an international background of America, France and Tangier presenting a colourful tapestry of stories woven together of a plastic surgeon who goes to Paris to rebuild his life, a woman of the haute couture, the leader of the Algerian underground and the head of a banking family. The book by the American novelist and doctor was on The New York Times best-seller list for 37 weeks. B2B. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 001994

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT

This Side of Paradise and Other Classic Works

New York, Barnes and Noble. 2015, First Thus. (ISBN: 9781435146198). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from some minor marks to the closed gilded edges). A decoratively bound heavy volume of x + 852 pages which is unread. ComprisesThis side of Paradise; The Beautiful and Damned; Flappers and Philosophers - 8 stories; Tales of the Jazz Age - 11 stories; PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.48 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST L. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011049

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: 1920's America, Jazz Age 9781435146198

GALLOWAY, DAVID

Tamsen - a Novel of the Tragic Journey of the Donner Party and the Heroism of an Extraordinary Woman

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1983, First. (ISBN: 0151879923). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on quarter cloth and brown boards which have some marks to lower front. Internally very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is VG with a mark to back and is not price clipped. 431 pages. Map endpapers of the Route of the Donner Party. The story of the Donner Party is one of the most calamitous and troubling in the history of the American West. In October of 1846 a party of 79 men, women and children under the leadership of George Donner attempted to cross the Sierra Nevada Mountains to California. Trapped by early snows, 35 of them perished. Those who survived sustained life by consuming the flesh of their dead comrades. This account of their ordeal makes liberal use of the mechanisms of fiction, but at no point does it intentionally depart rom the evidence preserved by history. 22. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 010914

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: George Donner, Donner Party 0151879923

GUTERSON, DAVID

Our Lady of the Forest

London, Bloomsbury. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0747560455). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. Page marker bound in. A novel of Ann Holmes, a teenage girl who sees a vision of the Virgin Mary, she seems an unlikely candidate for revelation, a 16 year old runaway, an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. One November afternoon, in the foggy woods fo North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day and it is up to the new priest, Father Collins, to evaluate the veracity of Ann's sightings: delusion, a product of her occasional drug use, or a true calling to God? And Ann is disturbingly alluring to him, both spiritually and physically. D4B. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 004628

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: Fiction, American Authors, Religious Visitations 0747560455

HENRY, O

The Furnished Room and Other Stories

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1974, First Thus. (ISBN: 0340179465). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with complete dustjacket which has a repaired closed tear to top and a little wear. The American author (1862-1910) was a master of the short story with surprise endings who wrote about the lives of ordinary people in New York. He was born William Sydney Porter but used the pseudonym O. Henry for all his work. This collection comprises 61 short stories. NOT EX LIB C3A. Fine/Good.

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Book number: 003211

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: Fiction, William Sydney Porter, American Author, Short Stories 0340179465

KEELEY, EDMUND

The Libation

London, Faber & Faber. 1959, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on red boards, very clean and unmarked. Internally a little foxing to front endpaper and fore edge with W. H. Smith private library bookplate to front pastedown, else very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is VG+ and is in the original protector. A novel by the foremost Greek poetry translator and American Professor at Princeton. This is his first novel which won the Rome Prize for literature. It tells of a business man, the son of an American missionary, who returns to the Greek village where he grew up to claim his inheritance; and discovers what his inheritance is - in the course of a few nightmare days that overturn his life - precisely what his inheritance is. Piece by piece the past takes shape and the true relationship of the characters he has known since boyhood is revealed. 206. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 000989

Catalogue: Fiction - American Authors

Keywords: Greek Island