Fry,Christopher (Ronald Searle illustrator)

SLEEP OF PRISONERS

London, Oxf.Univ Press/Cumberlege 1st edition 1951 Dust jacket by Ronald Searle . Small octavo cloth in slightly torn with no real loss dust jacket (tips rubbed) 51pp in price clipped & slightly browned jacket with minor chips. Else very good clean tight copy.

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Book number: F67725

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: play drama war pressure religion

Galsworthy,John

FLOWERING WILDERNESS Sequel to 'Maid in Waiting'

London, William Heinemann Ltd 1st first edition 1932 Titlepage in red and black with Heinmann logo. . Octavo green cloth gilt titled to cover and spine (tips & covers slightly rubbed) 280pp half title present. Pale foxing to first few and last few pages else very clean and crisp.

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Book number: F72530

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction

Galsworthy,John

OVER THE RIVER

London, Heinemann 1st edition 1933 . Octavo green gilt cloth in edge chipped dust jacket (tips rubbed) 322pp titlepage in red and black no inscription V.G in jacket with V shaped piece repaired on back. *FINAL FORSYTH Novel.

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Book number: F56795

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction first edition English

Gann,Ernest K.

TWILIGHT FOR THE GODS

London, Hodder&Stoughton 1st edition 1956 . Octavo boards in torn dust jacket (tips rubbed) 255pp slight edge foxing else V.G

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Book number: F47918

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: first edition

Gardner,Helen (editor)

OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE 1250-1950

Oxford, Clarendon Press reprint 1973 . Octavo blue cloth gilt (tips slightly worn/slight wrinkle down mid-spine) xii+974pgs. *A fine selection of English Potry edited by Dame Helen Gardner. Very nice copy, clean and crisp.

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Book number: F62584

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: poetry

Gash,Jonathan

LOVEJOY - THE GRAIL TREE

London, Mysterious Press/Arrow books 1988 . Paperback (small surface loss to top corner/1cm split to lower hinge/edges sl.rubbed) 190pp slight edge tanning but still neat.

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Book number: F71915

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: antiques murder mystery crime

Goldsmith,Oliver

SELECT WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH comprising The Vicar of Wakefield, Plays and Poems

London, Macmillan and Co. 1901 . Octavo blue Prize calf gilt on 5 raised bands spine compartments gilt also gilt dent. Blindtooled rev. (spine bit faded/sl.damage to head of spine/tips rubbed/sl.marked) All edges marbled to match the endpapers xii+434pp Prize label to pastedown from Sir John Deane's Grammar School Witton, Northwich.

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Book number: F69105

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: novel plays poems prize binding

Goldsmith,Oliver (1730?-1774) ed. by A.M. Williams

VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. Edited for use in Schools by A.M. Williams .. 24 Coloured Photographs by R. Johnson, Chelsea

London, William Collins, Sons, & Co. Ltd. Collins' School Series 1903 by inscription Colour pbotographs (24) of actors dressed in the characters of the story by R. Johnson + 1 black white photograph. . Octavo blue pictorial cloth (tips worn/rubbed) 272pp including notes. Booklist on endpapers, neat inscription Willie from Mrs. Bushnell Xmas 1903.

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Book number: F71701

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: photographic staged plates classic novel

Gordon,Richard

DOCTOR AND SON

London, Book Club/Joseph 1959 approx) Dust jacket by Jeudwine . Small octavo boards in dust jacket (tips slightly rubbed) 184pp V.G+ in slightly chipped without loss jacket. *Another humorous novel in the Doctor in the House series made into a successful series of films.

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Book number: F67276

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction medical humor

Gordon, Richard

DOCTOR AT LARGE

London, Michael Joseph 3rd impression but 1st published edition as first & 2nd impressions were pre-publication) 1955 . Octavo black boards spine with white stethascopes & gilt title (bit rubbed/tiny 4mm split to top hinge) 208pp endpapers slightly foxed else clean and tight. *Medical humorous novel made into film.

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Book number: F73685

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: medical humor fiction first

Grant-Adamson, Lesley

PATTERNS IN THE DUST

London, Faber and Faber 1st edition first pinting 1985 . Octavo black boards silver titled to spine in dust jacket (1" of tape residue to boards where jacket secured but jacket complete with minimal wear to tips) 191pp includes half title, titlepage & dedication. Ex library with round stamp to verso of titlepage only. *This is a the author's first book, an atmospheric murder mystery which uncovers the secret side of village life. It received a very flattering review from the doyen of female crime writers P.D. James: "she knows how to create an atmosphere of unease and incipient horror and her heoine is an attractive mixture of intelligence, resourcefulness and vulnerability. It is a debut to be welcomed".

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Book number: F74951

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: crime fiction first book first edition

Gray,(Thomas) & (William) Collins + James Thomson

POETICAL WORKS + THE SEASONS

London, Herwood & Bowyer 1844 . Two Volumes watered silk blue binding with traces of gilt spine titles (hinges split, edges worn) 104x65mm All Edges Gilt 154pp 181pp inscription on FEP else neat and tight. These little silk bindings were soon given up by the publishers as they did not last well.

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Book number: F62172

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: poetry Victorian silk binding

Greene,Graham

BURNT-OUT CASE, A

London, Heinemann 1st edition 1961 . Octavo black cloth in edge rubbed dust jacket (marked by white paint? splash) 256pp internally V.G+ in V.G jacket

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Book number: F62598

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction first edition

Grey, Zane (1872-1939)

THE HASH-KNIFE OUTFIT

London, Hodder & Stoughton 1st yellow jacket edition 1950 Cowboy silhouette to titlepage. . Octavo paperback (crease to cover/spine rubbed & bit wrinkled/dusty) 256pp. Paper edge browned, slightly cocked but no loose pages and no tears or marking. Blue endpapers.

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Book number: F73945

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: Western cowboy fiction

Grey,Zane

MYSTERIOUS RIDER a novel by Zane Grey

London, Harper & Bros./Musson Book Co. Canada 1st edition later impression 1921 Frontispiece By Frank Tenney Johnson . Octavo green pictorial cloth (tips rubbed/slight wear to foot of spine) 336p+ list of Grey's books to that date. 1st Canadian edition.

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Book number: F67724

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: Western fiction