James, Bill.

YOU’D BETTER BELIEVE IT.

Constable & Company Ltd, 1985. 1st UK Ed. 157pp. + [iii]. Marginal browning, otherwise good in d/w. sl. faded to spine.
¶ Constable Crime.

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Jasienski, Bruno.

MAN CHANGES HIS SKIN. Translated from the Russian by H.G. Scott.

Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Works in the USSR, Moscow, Lewningrad, 1935. 1st English Ed. 896pp. E.ps. browned, front f.e.p. sl. creased, head and tail of hinges very sl. tender but firm, grey cloth with 4 brown bands and turquoise title patch to spine, blind embossed price ‘Price 8 Rubies Cloth 1 Extra’ to upper leading corner of lower boards, extremities rubbed, corners sl. bumped, some minor soiling, in browned and chipped Louis Lozowick d/w. with some sl. loss at corners and head and tail of spine.
¶ One of a Limited Edition of 6200 Copies.

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(Joyce). Robinson, James.

JOYCE’S DANTE. Exile, Memory and Community.

CUP, 2016. 1st Ed. 233pp. + [xi]. Very good in d/w.

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Keller, Gottfried.

GREEN HENRY. Translated by A.M. Holt.

John Calder, 1960. 1st UK Ed. Thick 8vo. [viii] + 706pp. From the library of Lionel Carley, f.e.ps. lightly browned, original gilt lettered green cloth lightly faded to spine, in sl. soiled price clipped d/w. lightly browned to spine.

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Lange, Monique.

A BEACH IN SPAIN. with Rue d’Aboukir & The Burial. Translated from the French by J.A. Underwood.

Calder & Boyars, 1971. 1st UK Ed. Slim 8vo. 105pp. + [i] blank + [ii] adverts. Sm. dent to top edge of upper board, good in lightly soiled Judy Hungerford d/w. with text very lightly faded to spine and sl. paperclip mark at head.

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(Lessing). Raman, Ratna.

THE FICTION OF DORIS LESSING. re-envisioning Feminism.

Bloomsbury, 2021. 1st UK Ed. [x] + 317pp. + [i]. Very good in white lettered coloured dec. boards.

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Lessing, Doris.

SHIKASTA. Re. Colonised Planet 5. Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban). Emissary (Grade 9). 87th of the Period of the Last Days. [With] THE MARRIAGES BETWEEN ZONES THREE, FOUR, AND FIVE. (As Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three). [With] THE SIRIAN EXPERIMENTS. The Report by Ambien II, of the Five. [With] THE MAKING OF THE REPRESENTATIVE FOR PLANET 8. [With] DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENTAL AGENTS IN THE VOLYEN EMPIRE.

Jonathan Cape, 1979-83. 1st Eds. 5 vols. Top edge of leaves to vol. 5 blue with colour occasionally seeping onto inner margins, otherwise good in d/w.
¶ Canopus in Argos: Archive series.

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Lewis, Norman.

THE VOLCANOES ABOVE US.

Jonathan Cape Ltd/Book Society Ltd., 1957. 1st Ed. 256pp. Corners sl. bumped, in chipped d/w. browned to spine.

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Lewycka, Marina.

VARIOUS PETS ALIVE AND DEAD.

Fig Tree, 2012. 1st UK Ed., 1st Imp. [viii] + 367pp. + [ix] blank. Ownership ink stamp, otherwise very good in d/w.
¶ Signed by the Author to title page.

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Lowell, Joan.

CHILD OF THE DEEP. An Autobiographical Narrative.

Wiliam Heinemann Ltd., 1929. 1st UK Ed. [x] + 261pp. Blue lettering and vignette to title page and ills. throughout by Kurt Wiese, colour e.p. maps. Early rebind in green morocco with image in blind of schooner to upper board, leather split along firm upper joint, title in blind to spine, t.e.g.
¶ Lowell’s memoir describing her childhood attracted media attention and praise. But the acclaim turned to anger when her autobiography was outed as a fiction and it was revealed that she had been raised at her family's home in a middle-class California suburb. This is the story of Joan Lowell, whose colourful 1929 childhood memoir, The Child of the Deep, about her experiences growing up on a schooner sailing the Pacific Ocean and South Seas in the early years of the 20th century, was the literary sensation and scandal of its time.

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Macdonell, A.G.

THE SPANISH PISTOL And Other Stories.

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1939. 1st Ed. x + 312pp. + [ii] adverts. F.e.ps. sl. browned, good in lightly soiled and sl. chipped d/w.

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Book number: 279918

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Mallea, Eduardo.

CHAVES and Other Stories. Translated from the Spanish by Maria Mercedes Aspiazu, John B. Hughes, Helen B. MacMillan, Harriet de Onís, and Maria Angelica Deulofeu.

Calder & Boyars, 1970. 1st UK Ed. 190pp. Original gilt lettered blue boards very lightly faded to spines, corners very sl. bumped, good in lightly soiled and rubbed Gerald Cinamon d/w. sl. chipped to corners.

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Book number: 287826

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Mallinson, Allan.

THE ‘MATTHEW HERVEY’ NOVELS. A Close Run Thing. The Nizam’s Daughters. A Regimental Affair. A Call to Arms. The Sabre’s Edge. Rumours of War. An Act of Courage. Company of Spears. Man of War. Warrior. On His Majesty’s Service. Words of Command. The Passage to India. The Tigress of Mysore. With Matthew Hervey and the Light Dragoons.

Bantam Press, 1999-2020. 1st Eds. 14 vols. Very good in d/ws., ‘Man of War’ d/w. sl. chipped.
¶ 10 of the volumes Signed by the Author.

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Book number: 286693

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Manning, Olivia.

THE DANGER TREE. A Novel.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. 1st Ed. 196pp. From the Library of General Sir Hugh Michael Rose, good in David Hockney d/w.

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Mare, Walter de la.

BEHOLD, THIS DREAMER. Of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, Love-Dreams, Nightmare, Death, the Unconscious, the Imagination, Divination, the Artist, and Kindred Subjects.

Faber and Faber, 1952. 5th Imp. Large 8vo. viii + 702pp. Colour frontis. and vignette t.p. by Barnett Freedman. Sm. ownership inscription to upper leading corner of flyleaf, marbled e.ps., inner gilt ruling, bound by Hatchards in full blue crushed morocco with gilt initial J.B.B. to lower leading corner of upper board, gilt ruled edges, raised bands and gilt title to sl. faded spine, a.e.g.

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