ACKERMAN, JOHN

Dylan Thomas: His Life and Work

London, Oxford University Press. 1965. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [xvi], 202 pp. Green cloth with gilt to orange spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent copy of this perceptive critical analysis of the Welsh poet and his work. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9666

Catalogue: Literature (Secondary)

Keywords: Literature, Criticism, British Writers, Thomas

ACKROYD, PETER

T.S. Eliot

New York, Simon and Schuster. 1984. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. (6), 400 pp. Pictorial wraps. A good copy of this acclaimed biography. Contains numerous b/w plates. Very Good.

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Book number: 9732

Catalogue: Literature (Secondary)

Keywords: Literature, Biographies, British Writers, American Writers, T.S. Eliot

ADAMS, RICHARD

The Tyger Voyage

London, Jonathan Cape. 1976, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Bayley, Nicola. Book, 4to. (3), 32 pp. Illustrated boards. Beautiful verse story by the author of Watership Down, illustrated exquisitely by Nicola Bayley. Very Good/No jacket as issued.

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Book number: 9710

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Bayley, NicolaLiterature, Poetry, Art, British Writers, British Artists

ADIGA, ARAVIND

The White Tiger

New York, Free Press. 2008. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 276 pp. Brown and red boards with silver to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. An excellent copy of Adiga's sensational debut and 2008 Booker Prize winning novel. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9438

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Indian Writers, Booker Prize

AGRICOLA, GEORG

De Re Metallica: Zwölf Bücher Vom Berg- Und Hüttenwesen

Düsseldorf, VDI-Verlag. 1961. Half-Vellum. Book, Folio. xxxii, 564pp. Half-vellum with marbled boards. Top-edge stained red, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Bibliophile reprint of Agricola's (= Georg Bauer, 1494-1555) famous work, this being the German edition of 1961, beautifully produced by the Agricola Gesellschaft. The original Latin work of 1556 is the pre-eminent early work on metallurgy and the various forms of mining. Contains all of the illustrations and initials of the original latin version (294 in total), which were based on Agricola's own drawings of the mining processes and phenomena he personally observed. Loosely inserted is the German laudation of Georg Frabricus to Agricola. A very nice work. Fine/No jacket as issued.

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Book number: 9264

Catalogue: Bibliophile & Illustrated

Keywords: Science, History, Mining, 16th Century, Bibliophile

D'AGUIAR, FRED

Airy Hall

London, Chatto & Windus. 1989, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 63 pp. Decorative card wrappers. Minimal discolouration to spine, otherwise fine. Rare second collection of poetry by renowned award-winning poet and novelist Fred D'Aguiar. Fine.

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Book number: 9003

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, British Writers, Guyanese Writers

D'AGUIAR, FRED

Mama Dot

London, Chatto & Windus - The Hogarth Press. 1985, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 48 pp. Decorative card wrappers with original "Poetry Book Society Recommendation" label to front. The highly acclaimed debut collection by renowned award-winning poet and novelist Fred D'Aguiar. Rare first edition of his debut work in great condition. Fine.

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Book number: 9002

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, British Writers, Guyanese Writers, Debut

AIKEN, CONRAD; (KILLORIN, JOSEPH. ED)

Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken

New Haven, Yale University Press. 1978, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxvi, 350 pp. (+ 20 pp. plates). Brown half-cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent first edition copy of prize-winning poet and novelist Conrad Aiken's correspondence. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 9799

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Correspondence, American Writers, Conrad Aiken

ALLAIN, MARIE-FRANCOISE

The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene

London, The Bodley Head. 1983, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 187 pp. Green cloth with gilt to spine. Top-edge green. Unclipped dustjacket designed by Michael Harvey. Excellent first edition of this publication of uninhibited, free-ranging conversations with the French writer Marie-Francoise Allain, discovering the hidden Greene. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9287

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Biographies, British Writers

ALLENDE, ISABEL

Portrait in Sepia

New York, HarperCollins. 2001, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [x], 304 pp. Brown boards with copper gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent first edition of this fine historical novel. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9657

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Chilean Writers, Allende

AMIS, KINGSLEY

The Old Devils

London, Hutchinson. 1986, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 294 pp. Brown boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket by Alastair Taylor. An excellent first edition of the 1986 Booker Prize winning novel of regret for lost opportunity and destructive selfishness. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9181

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, British Writers, Booker Prize

ANGIER, CAROLE

The Double Bond. Primo Levi: A Biography

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2002, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxvi, 898 pp. Black half-cloth with silver to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Small top-edge remainder spot; otherwise excellent first edition of this meticulously researched, vivid and moving biography, which illuminates the interior life of this major literary figure. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 10026

Catalogue: Literature (Secondary)

Keywords: Literature, Biography, Itailan Writers, Primo Levi

ANISSIMOV, MIRIAM

Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist

Woodstock, The Overlook Press. 1999, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. x, 452 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Green half-cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Excellent first edition in English and first full biography of this complex, private man and major literary figure. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 10024

Catalogue: Literature (Secondary)

Keywords: Literature, Biography, Itailan Writers, Primo Levi

ASHBERY, JOHN

The Tennis Court Oath

Middletown, Wesleyan University Press. 1962, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 94 pp. Illustrated card wraps. A very nice first edition of this famous work of contemporary American poetry. Very Good.

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Book number: 8986

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, American Writers

MACHADO DE ASSIS

The Devil's Church and Other Stories

Manchester, Carcanet. 1985, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (7) 196 pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Nineteen stories (most of them previously untranslated) by Brazil's greatest writer, Machado de Assis (1839-1908), revealing his unique style of psychological realism and wry, painfully funny pessimism. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 9654

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Short Stories, Brazilian Writers, Machado