FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT

Poems: 1911-1940

Bloomfield Hills, Bruccoli Clark. 1981, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xviii, 189 pp. Red cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket. Excellent first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's poetry. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Foreword by James Dickey. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9999

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, American Authors, Fitzgerald

FITZGERALD, ZELDA

Save Me the Waltz

London, The Grey Walls Press. 1953, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (8), 272 pp. Red cloth with black titles to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent first edition published in Britain of Zelda Fitzgerald's semi-autobiographical novel written while resident at a psychiatric clinic in 1932. Being a thinly veiled account of their tumultuous marriage, her famous husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, tried to suppress the publication and it proved to be the only novel she wrote. Uncommon in this condition. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 9912

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Lost Generation, American Writers, Zelda Fitzgerald

O'FLYNN, CATHERINE

What Was Lost

Birmingham, Tindal Street Press. 2007. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. [viii], 246 pp. Illustrated card wraps. Unblemished second impression of this unique debut. Nominated for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize for Fiction, and winner of the Costa First Book Award. Fine.

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Book number: 9646

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Debut, British Writers, O'Flynn

FOWLES, JOHN

Daniel Martin

London, Jonathan Cape. 1977, Signed First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (6), 704 pp. Brown boards with gilt to spine and blue top-edge. Unclipped dustjacket designed by Mon Mohan, with author's photograph to rear. Flat-signed by John Fowles on title-page. An excellent signed first edition of this bildungsroman in which Fowles "probably revealed more of myself than anywhere else". Includes original typed signing invitation - 6 October 1977 at Hatchard's in Piccadilly - loosely inserted. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 9291

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, British Writers, John Fowles

FRAZIER, CHARLES

Cold Mountain

New York, Atlantic Monthly Press. 1997. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 358pp. Dark blue boards with gilt to black cloth spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. A later printing of Charles Frazier's National Book Award winning novel, which was made into the equally successful film of the same name. A very nice copy. Fine/Very Good.

Neale Williams Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 9042

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, American Writers

FRAZIER, CHARLES

Thirteen Moons

New York, Random House. 2006, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [viii] 424pp. Pale blue boards with gilt to tan cloth spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. A flawless first edition of Frazier's second novel, building on the success of the National Book Award winning 'Cold Mountain'. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9041

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, American Writers

FRISBIE, FLORENCE (JOHNNY)

Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka

New York, Macmillan. 1948, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. x, 241pp. Turquoise boards with red ornamentation to front and spine. Extremely rare and fragile, unclipped dustjacket has some loss and minor chipping and is separating along spine-crease. Now protected in archival cover. Sub-titled 'The Autobiography of a South Sea Trader's Daughter' this is the rare autobiographical narrative of Florence "Johnny" Frisbie (b. 1932), daughter of the American novelist and travel writer, Robert Dean Frisbie. Encouraged to write by her father, Johnny wrote her novel from her own journals. It deals with her life on the Cook Islands atoll and her bond with her father and family. Extremely rare with dustjacket. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 8912

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Biography, Polynesia

FROST, ROBERT

The Complete Poems of Robert Frost

London, Jonathan Cape. 1951, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Blue-green boards with gilt to spine. Top-edge tinted in similar colour. Neat bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. Striking, unclipped (18s. net) decorative dustjacket in fine condition. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 8946

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, American Writers, Frost

FUENTES, CARLOS

Inez

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2002, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [x], 150 pp. Red boards. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. An excellent first edition of Fuentes's magical novel of love and art, life and death. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9659

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Mexican Writers, Fuentes

FUENTES, CARLOS

The Old Gringo

London, Andre Deutsch. 1986, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 199pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. An excellent first UK edition of Fuentes's novel set during the chaos of the Mexican Revolution and attempts to address the Mexican identity. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9174

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Mexican Writers

FUENTES, CARLOS

The Years with Laura Díaz

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2000, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. [x], 516 pp. Black half-cloth with red boards. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. An excellent first edition of Fuentes's epic story full of psychological insight and heartbreaking drama.. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9658

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Mexican Writers, Fuentes

GALLICO, PAUL

Mrs Harris Goes to New York

London, Michael Joseph. 1960, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 12mo. 191pp. Beige boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. An excellent first edition copy of this ever-popular Gallico title. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9266

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, British Writers

GARNETT, DAVID

The Flowers of the Forest

London, Chatto & Windus. 1955, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [xii], 252 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Red cloth boards with gilt to spine. Top-edge tinted red. Dustjacket strengthened to inside. First edition of the second part of David Garnett's highly acclaimed autobiography, here providing insight into his intimate friends of the Bloomsbury Group such as Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, and Clive and Vanessa Bell, as well as D.H. Lawrence and other famous people outside it. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 10048

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Biography, Bloomsbury Group, British Writers, Garnett

GARNETT, DAVID

The Golden Echo

London, Chatto & Windus. 1953, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xii, 272 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Red cloth boards with gilt to spine. Top-edge tinted red. A nice first edition of the first part of David Garnett's highly acclaimed autobiography, here providing a natural and human account of figures such as Conrad, Galsworthy, W.H. Hudson, Rupert Brooke and D.H. Lawrence. A fine writer in his own right, Garnett was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group. Fine/Good.

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Book number: 10047

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Biography, Bloomsbury Group, British Writers, Garnett

GINSBERG, ALLEN (TRANS. SIMON VINKENOOG)

Plutonian Ode / Plutonische Ode

Heerlen, Uitgeverij 261. 1980, Limited. Hardcover. Book, Bilingual (English and Dutch) signed limited edition of Ginsberg's Plutonian Ode. Printed in an edition of 1,000 copies, the first 100 of which were numbered and signed by Allen Ginsberg and the translator (Dutch poet and friend Simon Vinkenoog). This is number 18. Black boards with silver lettering to front and spine. 32pp. Unblemished and with fine signatures. Fine/No jacket as issued. Signed by Author and Translator.

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Book number: 8928

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, American Writers, Ginsberg