AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON

The Flitch of Bacon or the Custom of Dunmow

George Routledge and Sons London HB. Hardcover. Undated, but the author's printed dedication is dated 1854. Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert. Red cloth, decorated in black, spine lettering gold, worn, marked and sunned, decorative end papers marked, much age-spotting to prelims, one gathering loose, but generally good. 290pp 0. Good.

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Book number: 4938

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: GENERAL, DUNMOW FLITCH, NOVEL, FICTION, AINSWORTH General

ASH, WILLIAM

Right Side Up

Howard Baker London 1st 1984 HB. (ISBN: 070300266x). Hardcover. A comic Marxist novel. Signed by the author (to Margaret with love from Bill 1984) to blank prelim. VG in VG DJ. 208pp 0. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 8671

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 070300266x NOVEL, FICTION, MARXISM, COMMUNISM, SIGNED, INSCRIBED, ASH Signed

BALLANTYNE, R M

Lost in the Forest

Nisbet & Co London HB. Hardcover. Undated. Blue illustrative cloth covers (fully rigged ship) a little worn and marked, prize label to ffep, coloured frontis, pages yellowed, generally VG in DJ with paste-on illustration, edge-worn, with a chip to the spine, somewhat discoloured but basically sound, good. 120pp 0. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 7096

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: FICTION, NOVEL, CHILDREN'S JUVENILE, BALLANTYNE, DUST JACKET Children's

BALLANTYNE, R. M.

Martin Rattler

Nelson London n.d. hdbk. Hardcover. Green, decorated, boards - a nice edition. Attractive cartouches on spine and front board. Colour frontis + 3 other colour plates. Good. Bumped to edges and corners of boards. Inscribed by previous owner (1923). 282pp 0. Good.

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Book number: 1876

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: CHILDREN, NOVEL, JUVENILE FICTION, BALLANTYNE, FORESTS OF BRAZIL Children's Classics

BARSTOW, STAN

Ask Me Tomorrow

Black Swan London 1990 PB. Soft cover. Signed by the Author on the half-title page VG. Smart tight inscribed copy. 254pp 0. Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 6314

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: GENERAL, FICTION, NOVEL, BARSTOW, SIGNED General

HANS BAUMANN

Son of Columbus

London, Oxford University Press. 1973. Hardcover. Reprint. Translated by Isabel and Florence McHugh, illustrated by William Stobbs. Accompanying his father on Columbus' fourth voyage. VG, no inscriptions, in edge-worn, price-clipped, good DJ. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 12488

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: CHILDREN'S, JUVENILE, FICTION Children's

BIRMINGHAM, GEORGE A.

The Grand Duchess

Hodder & Stoughton London HB. Hardcover. No publish date. From a prolific Irish author. Probable reprint of a novel first published in 1924 and set in Central Europe. Good, some wear to spine, wear to corners of boards. Mottled page block. No dustjacket. 319pp 0. Good.

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Book number: 8896

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: NOVELS, FICTION, GENERAL IRISH AUTHORS, JAMES OWEN HANNAY General

BLAIR, SUZI, ED.

New Fiction: Fingerprints: Crime Shorts

Peterborough, New Fiction. 1992. (ISBN: 1874304076). Soft cover. An anthology of short murder stories. Illustrative covers a little worn and marked, name and address stamped to title page (Brent Hodgson, one of the featured authors), otherwise generally VG. Very Good.

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Book number: 11449

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 1874304076 FICTION, SHORT STORIES, CRIME

BRAINE, JOHN

Stay with Me Till Morning

Magnum Books Methuen Paperbacks Ltd London 1978 PB. (ISBN: 0417019904). Soft cover. Inscribed by the Author. Good - pages yellowing. 176pp 0. Good. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 6312

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0417019904 GENERAL, FICTION, NOVEL, BRAINE, SIGNED General

BARE WRITERS: WENDY BROCK, VIVIEN FOULKES-JAMES, LEAH JEAN LINDSAY, VIV LOWERY

High Tide: Poems and Stories

Bare Writers. (ISBN: 9781499610970). Soft cover. An anthology. Missing title page, otherwise clean, bright and sound, good. Good.

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Book number: 11634

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 9781499610970 POETRY, FICTION, ANTHOLOGY Poetry

BRONTE, CHARLOTTE

The Twelve Adventurers and Other Stories

London, Hodder & Stoughton. Hardcover. Undated - introductory note by Clement Shorter dated 1925. Childhood writings by the Brontes. Quarter cloth in blue, spine edges strengthened, boards much worn and marked, no inscriptions, sound, good. 0. Good.

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Book number: 11252

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: CHILDREN'S, JUVENILE, BRONTES Children's

BUNKER, AMY D

Milingi

Blackie Glasgow 1st 1973 HB. (ISBN: 0216896487). Hardcover. VG, corner clipped from ffep, in VG but price-clipped DJ 127pp 0. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 5509

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Keywords: 0216896487 GENERAL, FICTION, NOVEL, BUNKER General

JOHN BUNYAN, J L CARR ED.

John Bunyan

J L Carr Kettering PB. Soft cover. Undated, first, 85 in J L Carr's pocket library. Selections from Pilgrim's Progress, with woodcuts by Christopher Fiddes. Stapled booklet, VG. 16pp 0. Very Good.

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Book number: 8543

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: J L CARR, POCKET LIBRARY, BUNYAN, PILGRIM'S PROGRESS Classics

BURTON, S H ED.

Science Fiction

Longman Harlow 1981 PB. Soft cover. Second impression. An anthology in the series Heritage of Literature. Contains Requiem by Robert Heinlein; A Present from Joe, by Eric Frank Russell; Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed, by Ray Bradbury; Protected Species, by H B Fyfe; The New Wine, by John Christopher; Nightfall, by Isaac Azimov;The Windows of Heaven, by John Brunner; Youth, by Azimov; The Star, by Arthur C Clarke. Ex-school library, minimal marking, good. 245pp 0. Good.

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Book number: 7787

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: GENERAL, SHORT STORY, SCI FI, General

CALDWELL, MILLER

The Last Shepherd: A Rural Novel Set in Dumfries and Galloway

Netherholm. 2010. (ISBN: 9780755206414). Soft cover. A novella based on a film script, based on a story by Jim Ramsay. The scribbled name to the front cover verso might be Jim Ramsay. Otherwise VG. Very Good.

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Book number: 11949

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 9780755206414 SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, FICTION Scottish