THOMAS-ELLIS, AERONWY

Christmas and Other Memories: A Daughter Remembers Dylan

London, Amwy Press. 1979, Signed First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 16 pp. Stapled pink illustrated wraps. Fine flat-signed first edition of this scarce title of Dylan Thomas memorabilia. Three articles written by his daughter Aeronwy, reminiscing about her childhood in Laugharne and on dealing with the problems when returning to her childhood home. Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 9696

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Biography, Memoirs, British Writers, Dylan Thomas

ELLSON, HAL

Duke

New York, Scribners. 1949, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xiv, 170pp. Navy-blue boards with silver lettering to spine. Pictorial unclipped ($2.75) dustjacket in excellent condition considering its susceptibility, with only minor shelf-wear and nicks to top and bottom of spine. Scribner 'A' and seal on the copyright page indicating true first edition. Author's classic first book, whose theme dealing with big-city teenagers and juvenile delinquency, set a trend in post-war America. "A novel of teen-age gangsters that will both shock and awaken you.. If you are squeamish, this novel is not for you." Includes the now humorous, "Partial Glossary of Gang Terminology" for the uninitiated. The cover design is itself a great piece of period art. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 8929

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, American Writers

ENG, TAN TWAN

The Gift of Rain

London, Myrmidon. 2007, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (12), 448 pp. Red boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent first edition of Tan Twan Eng's remarkable debut novel and Booker Prize nominee. A novel of cruelty and steadfast courage, exploring the making of South-East Asia, from its Second World War traumas to the present. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9113

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Debut, Malaysian Writers, Tan Twan Eng

ENGER, LEIF

Peace Like a River

New York, Atlantic Monthly Press. 2001, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. [vi], 313 pp. Black half-cloth with blue boards and gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition of Leif Enger's acclaimed debut novel. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9854

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels. Debut, American Writers, Leif Enger

EVANS, NICHOLAS

The Horse Wisperer

New York, Delacorte Press. 1995, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. [xii], 404 pp. Blue haf-cloth with gilt to front and spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket with trifle wrinkling to laminate. A very good first edition of Nicholas Evans's gripping debut novel, a stirring elegy to the power of belief and self-discovery, to hopes lost and found again. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 9887

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Debut, American Writers, Nicholas Evans

EWART, GAVIN

The Collected Ewart 1933-1980

London, Hutchinson. 1989. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 412 pp. Illustrated card wraps with photograph by Jane Ewart. A nice copy of this celebrated poet's collected work. Very Good.

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Book number: 9427

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, British Writers

FAULKNER, WILLIAM

De Familie Sartoris

Haarlem, N.V. Drukkerij de Spaarnestad. 1938. Soft cover. Ill.: Shenton, Edward. Book, 8vo. 318pp. [nd. 1938]. Kennemer Serie No. 12. Dutch edition of Faulkner's classic novel, Sartoris. Very Good.

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Book number: 010079

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Shenton, EdwardLiterature, Novels, American Writers, William Faulkner

FAULKS, SEBASTIAN

Human Traces

London, Hutchinson. 2005, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [vi], 615 pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition of Sebastian Faulks's exploration into the development of psychiatry and psychoanalysis and the search for what it means to be human. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9874

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, British Writers, Sebastian Faulks

FINNERAN, RICHARD J. (ET AL ED.)

Letters to W.B. Yeats (Two Volume Set)

New York, Columbia University Press. 1977, First Edition. Cloth. Book, [Two volumes] 8vo. xviii, 302; xiv, 303-628 pp. Black cloth with gilt to spines. Top-edges tinted navy-blue. Unclipped illustrated dustjackets. Fine set of some five-hundred highly selective collection of letters to the Irish Nobel laureate, previously unpublished, including many of the best-known writers and artists of Ireland and Britain, and casting new light on Yeats's mind and art and on the troubled political relations between Ireland and England. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9821

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Correspondence, Nobel Prize, Irish Writers, W.B. Yeats

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT; (ED. BRUCCOLI, MATTHEW J.)

As Ever, Scott-Fitz: Letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Literary Agent Harold Ober, 1919-1940

London, The Woburn Press. 1973, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxii, 441pp. (+ 16pp. plates). Blue cloth with gilt to spine. Price-clipped illustrated dustjacket. Excellent copy of the correspondence between the writer and his agent, which reveals previously obscure aspects of Fitzgerald's career: his writing habits, the sources of his income, the relationship between his magazine work and his novels, and the meticulous attention he gave to stories, etc. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 10000

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Correspondence, American Authors, Fitzgerald

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT

The Crack-Up

New York, New Directions. 1945, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (6), 347 pp. Brown cloth with black titles to spine. No dustjacket. An excellent first edition (issue with black only title-page, no colophon p. 348, address 67 West 44). Contains autobiographical pieces (including his famous The Crack-Up), Notebooks, Unpublished Letters, other correspondence and various tributes. Edited by Edmund Wilson. Very Good.

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Book number: 9918

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Biography, Memoirs, Lost Generation, Jazz Age, American Writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT; FITZGERALD, ZELDA; (ED. BRYER, JACKSON R.; BARKS, CATHY W.)

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

New York, St. Martin's Press. 2002, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xxxii, 400pp. (+ 8pp. colour plates) Grey boards and unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Excellent first edition of this stunning collection of mostly unpublished letters as well as an extensive narrative on the Fitzgeralds' marriage by the noted Fitzgerald scholars Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks. Introduction by Fitzgeralds' granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 10001

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Correspondence, American Authors, Fitzgerald

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT; (ED. KUEHL, JOHN; BRYER, JACKSON)

Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1971, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. vi, 282 pp. Brown cloth and unclipped dustjacket. Very good copy of the letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Maxwell E. Perkins, which record the relationship between a great writer and the incomparable editor at Scribner's. It is the record of a friendship between two men with very different natures and provides fascinating details about contemporaries such as Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Willa Cather, etc. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 9998

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Correspondence, American Authors, Fitzgerald

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT; (ED. BRUCCOLI, MATTHEW J.)

The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Bruccoli Clark. 1978. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xiv, 359pp. Blue cloth and unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Very nice copy of the first publication of the complete notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald, presenting an inspiring insight into his genius. Edited by leading Fitzgerald authority, Matthew J. Bruccoli. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 10010

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Notebooks, American Authors, Fitzgerald

FITZGERALD, ROBERT

Poems

New York, Arrow Editions. 1935, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [iv], 62 pp. Orange cloth blue titles to spine. Unclipped original thick paper dustjacket. Excellent scarce first edition of this debut collection of fine poetry, printed at Walter Goodwin's Rydal Press. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 9777

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, American Writers, Robert Fitzgerald, Rydal Press