ALDISS, BRIAN

The Hand-Reared Boy

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1970, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297179608). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good unmarked copy which has a very minor indentation to top edge and age darkening to closed edges with dustjacket which has two small repaired closed tears and is not price clipped. This is the first of a quartet of novels which will span the four decades from the thirties to the sixties, in the form of fictitious autobiography. NOT EX LIB B2B. Very Good/Very Good.

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Katalog: Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980

Sonstige Stichworte: 0297179608

O'BRIEN, EDWARD J. ( EDITED BY )

The Best Short Stories of 1927 - I: English

London, Jonathan Cape. 1928, First. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Light blue title on darker blue cloth boards. Some very light marks to front and only a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges and endpapers else clrean and unmarked. Overall a Good+ copy. 23 stories and appendice of The Year Book of the British and Irish Short Story, The Best British and Irish Short Stories - An Index, Articles on the Short Story, Volumes of Short Stories Published in Geat Britain and Ireland and Biographical Notices. Features early works by H.E. Bates, John Metcalfe, V.S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen, Sean O Faolain, Lennox Robinson, Edward Sackville West et al. C3B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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CLAPHAM, WALTER

Night Be My Witness

London, Jonathan Cape. 1952. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. White titles on black cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A novel set in World War II in late summer 1940, in the Kentish valleys, of Hurricanes, Heinkels and Dorniers and the RAF. B2C. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Sonstige Stichworte: War Fiction, Kent, Heinkel, Dornier, Hurricane

CLARK, ELIZABETH

Country Tales to Tell

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1979. (ISBN: 9780340225127). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Smith, Cara Lockhart. A Very Good unmarked copy which has corner creasing to a few pages with VG+ dustjacket . Another delightful collection of eight stories by the author gathered from her various books and linked by their country setting. These are traditional tales, fast moving, sometimes funny, quite often with an unsuspecting twist and there is magic, fairies and animals and all of the stories are meant to be read out aloud. Delightfully illustrated especially for the book by Cara Lockhart Smith. NOT EX LIB D4E. Very Good/Very Good.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Short Stories, Magic, Fairies, Read Aloud Stories 9780340225127 Smith, Cara Lockhart

CROFT-COOKE, RUPERT

Fall of Man

London, White Lion Publishers. 1976, First Thus. (ISBN: 0727400568). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title and motif on grey boards very clean and unmarked VG+. Pictorial dustjacket is complete with a little shelf wear and with the price crossed through. A novel written under the author's real name who also used the pseudonym Leo Bruce. First published by Macmillan in 1955 this novel is the story of Antony Scaw, as told by his friend, whose orderly life is changed by forces which mark him down as rebellious and non conformist. It plots his life from childhood before the First World War and his marriage to "one of the Bright Young Things" up to the present where the stubbornly independent man sees society's revenge on him. It reflects, perhaps, the author's own experiences as a non conformist and as a homosexual, who was prosecuted in 1953 and imprisoned and warned that he should not write about this which forced him to go to Morocco to live and write. A SCARCE TITLE B2E. Very Good/Good.