Innes,Michael (1906-1994)

SILENCE OBSERVED

London, Gollancz 1st edition first printing 1961 . Octavo brown boards spine gilt titled 192pp. Nice caligraphic initials L.H. 1962 tips bumped & slightly rubbed but contents clean and tight.

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Book number: F72878

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: crime fiction first edition

James, Henry (1843-1916)

THE AMBASSADORS [on cover "complete and unabridged"]

London, Wordsworth Classics 1992 Cover after a detail of painting by John Singer Sargent. . Paperback card covers (edges rubbed) half title + titlepage + introduction +380pp + booklist. Clean tight and no loose pages or tears.

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Book number: F74950

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: classic novel

James,G.P.R.) (but no author given on TP or elsewhere)

COMMISSIONER: Or, De Lunatico Enquirendo, with 28 Illustrations on Steel by Phiz

Dublin, Curry,Jun.(ie Jr.) and Co. London Wm.S.Orr, Edinb.Fraser & Co first 1st edition in book form 1843 Steel engraved plates (28 as listed) by Phiz (ie Hablot K. Browne) . Octavo roan spined marbled boards but lacking leather to spine but covers firmly attached (tips rubbed) xv+(i)+440pp first issued in parts and here still carrying the part numbers I-XIV at the foot of each section. Plates are mostly rather foxed else neat and tight copy. Last page with a sour marginal note in pencil. *Humorous novel includes cross dressing a man in stays and women's attire and later the women revolt and get the upper hand and later it ends up happily. Aside from the foxed plates rest of bookblock in nice condition.

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Book number: F68072

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: humorous fiction illustrated Irish

James, Henry (1843-1916)

THE SPOILS OF POYNTON

Harmondsworth Middlesex, Penguin Books 1964 Cover illustration by Philippe Julian. . Paperback in Penquin Modern Classics (tips rubbed and 1cm split to foot of spine) 192pp. Neat tight copy, no marks and no loose pages.

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Book number: F74074

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: classic novel

Johnson,Samuel

RASSELAS A Tale.

London, Jones & company 1825 Portrait frontis. +Engraved pictorial titlepage . 88 x 53mm embossed wine red cloth with gilt black paper spine label [edges worn head of spine with some loss of cloth/hinges worn but covers securely attached] All Edges Gilt [8p=publishers booklist] +frontis. + Engraved title +160pp which includes printed titlepage in pagination.A clean tight copy with no marking except one corner creased. Part of the publisher's Diamond Classics series of which only 9 were listed so far in this miniature series.

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Book number: F75741

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction classic

Jong,Erica

ANY WOMAN'S BLUES

New York, Harper&Row first edition 1990 . Octavo cloth spined boards in slightly edge nicked dust jacket 362pp V.G+

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Book number: F49322

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: first edition feminist women

Jong,Erica

FANNY being the true history of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones. A Novel.

London, Granada 1st British edition 1980 Dust jacket by Owen Wood . Octavo blindstamped boards in dust jacket (sl.wrinkle to covering of board/tips sl.rubbed) 496pp V.G+ in V.G+ jacket. *18th Century English setting for this funny feminist novel.

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Book number: F52525

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: first edition heroine witch pirate traveller

Keane,Molly

TIME AFTER TIME

London, Abacus reprint 1988 . Paperback (slight shelf rubbing) 247pp sl.edge toning else V.G

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Book number: F58770

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction Irish Ireland setting

Keating,H.R.F.

MURDER OF THE MAHARAJAH

London, Collins first edition 1980 . Octavo boards in dust jacket (tips slightly rubbed) 290pp near Fine in jacket sun-faded to spine else near Fine also. *The author's contribution to the Collins Crime Club 50th anniversary this murder mystery is a classic set in 1930's India of the Raj.

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Book number: F62772

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: crime mystery murder India British Raj

Lanchester, John

MR. PHILLIPS

London, Faber & Faber 1st edition first printing 2000 . Octavo boards in dust jacket (near fine in near fine dust jacket) 247pp no marks or signs of use. *Lanchester's second novel. The previous book won the Whitbread first novel award, the Hawthornden prize, the Betty Trask prize and was translated into 20 languages. Here is the second novel in as new condition.

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Book number: F73889

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: novel first edition

Lane,Elinor Macartney

NANCY STAIR a novel

London, Heinemann but printed in USA by Appleton & Co. 1905 . Octavo grey cloth gilt lettered spine (fore-edge with some loss of color but perfectly sound and tight) fontis portrait with lettered tissue +xii+(2)+385pp name & booksellers stamp on FEP else V.G

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Book number: F67779

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: American printed murder romantic fiction

Lawrence,D.H.

PORNOGRAPHY AND OBSCENITY

London, Faber & Faber Criterion Miscellany No.5 1929 . Octavo card wrap in orange printed dust jacket (small chip loss to head/foot of hinge/max of 1" splitting to fold but orange wrapper completely split at hinge with some loss along hinge/partly split at front flap/rubbed and some closed tears) 32pp 1cm discoloration to flap and inside of cover where small tape used to be. Halftitle, TP and Contents clean and uncut. *Author of Lady Chatterly discusses definitions of pornography and taste and the abuse of censorship in art and literature.

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Book number: F63547

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: literature censorship pornography obscenity

Lehmann,Rosamond

A SEA-GRAPE TREE

London, Collins 1st edition 1976 . Octavo boards with gilt title to spine in dust jacket (minor shelf rubbing/jacket with sl.creases to head of spine but not price clipped) 160pp. Top third of fly leaf removed probably to remove inscription else clean tight crisp copy. *A new novel published in 1976 by this skilful author after a gap of several years.

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Book number: F71845

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction first edition

Linklater, Eric

SEALSKIN TROUSERS AND OTHER STORIES

London, Hart-Davis first edition 1947 Woodengravings by Joan Hassall. . Octavo gilt blue cloth (tips rubbed/lower cover sl.marked) 127pp lacks front free endpaper. The half title is foxed but all pages clean and white, no marks, no tears, no inscription with all pages tight. Five stories.

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Book number: F57949

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: short stories first edition

Longfellow,Henry Wadsworth (John Gilbert illustrator)

POETICAL WORKS OF Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW eight engravings on Steel

London, Routledge 1867 Plates (8) by J. Moore/W.Banks & Son. . Small octavo green blindstamped pebbled cloth (head/foot of spine worn/tips sl.worn/a bit marked) xi+516pp includes Notes & Index Gathered into groups of poems eq. Poems on Slavery, Ballads,translations, Hiawatha,Evangline, Voices of the Night, birds of Passage etc.

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Book number: F67938

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: poetry