AUSTER, PAUL

The Book of Illusions

New York, Henry Holt and Company. (ISBN: 0-8050-5408-1). 2002, 1st US Edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 321pp. 8vo. Traces an author's fascination with the oeuvre of an obscure silent fim star as he tries to cope with the insurmountable grief he experiences from the the deaths of his wife and children in a plane crash. First US edition. Fine / fine copy. Jacket in loose, protective mylar sleeve.

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Book number: 129574

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Literature, Collectible Books, First Editions, Literature - American 0805054081

AUSTER, PAUL

The Brooklyn Follies

New York, Henry Holt and Company. (ISBN: 0-8050-7714-6). 2006, 1st US Edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 306pp. 8vo. A narrative of the glories and mysteries of life and family and the redemptive power of love. First US edition. Fine / fine copy. Jacket in loose, protective mylar sleeve.

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Book number: 129572

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Literature, Collectible Books, First Editions, Literature - American 0805077146

AUSTER, PAUL

Hand to Mouth; A Chronicle of Early Failure

New York, Henry Holt and Company. (ISBN: 0-8050-5406-5). 1997, 1st US Edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 449pp. 8vo. Autobiography, and one that is like no other. First US edition. Fine / fine copy. Jacket protected in loose, mylar sleeve.

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Book number: 129569

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Literature, Autobiographies, Collectible Books, First Editions, Literature - American 0805054065

AUSTER, PAUL

Invisible

New York, A Frances Coady Book / Henry Holt and Company 978-0-8050-9080-2. (ISBN: 978-0-8050-9080-2). 2009, 1st US Edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 308pp. 8vo. Like most of Auster books, there are stories within stories here. The book tells an uninterrupted narrative in 3 voices, travels between time and distance from 1967 and 2007 and from Morningside Heights to Paris to the Carribean. Told in 4 parts with each section told in a different voice by 3 narrators. First US edition. Fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 129565

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Fiction, Collectible Books, First Editions, Psychological Fiction 9780805090802

AUSTER, PAUL

Man in the Dark

New York, A Frances Coady Book / Henry Holt and Company 978-0-8050-8839-7. (ISBN: 978-0-8050-8839-7). 2008, 1st US Edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 180pp. 8vo. Dystopian novel that tells of a civil war and the new secession after the US presidential elections of 2000. First US edition. Fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 129568

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Literature, Collectible Books, Dystopian Literature, First Editions, Literature - American 9780805088397

AUSTER, PAUL

The Music of Chance

New York, Viking. (ISBN: 0-670-83535-8). 1990, 1st US Edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 217pp. 8vo. Auster's 6th novel, a story about the small, important things we can do at a time when everything seems to be done to us. Jacket in loose, protective mylar sleeve. First US edition. Fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 129566

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Absurdist Fiction, American Literature, Collectible Books, First Editions, Literature - American, Philosophy 0670835358

AUSTER, PAUL

Oracle Night

New York, Henry Holt and Company. (ISBN: 0-8050-7320-5). 2003, 1st US Edition. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 243pp. 8vo. Auster's 11th novel, a meditation on time and its nature and the labyrinth of imagination. First US edition. Fine / fine copy. Jacket in loose, protective mylar sleeve.

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Book number: 129571

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Literature, Collectible Books, First Editions, Literature - American 0805073205

AUSTER, PAUL

Sunset Park

New York, A Frances Coady Book / Henry Holt and Company 978-0-8050-9286-8. (ISBN: 978-0-8050-9286-8). 2010, 1st US Edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 309pp. 8vo. A story about the dark months of the economic collapse of 2008 and subsequent reconnection. First US edition. Fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 129567

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Literature, Collectible Books, First Editions, Literature - American 9780805092868

AUSTER, PAUL

Timbuktu

New York, Henry Holt and Company. (ISBN: 0-8050-5407-3). 1999, 1st US Edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 181pp. 8vo. Signed. First US edition. The story of Mr. Bones, one of the most memorable dogs ever to grace the pages of a novel. Fine / fine copy. Jacket protected in loose, mylar sleeve.

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Book number: 129570

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Literature, Collectible Books, First Editions, Literature - American, Signed Editions 0805054073

AUSTER, PAUL

Travels in the Scriptorium

New York, Henry Holt and Company. (ISBN: 0-8050-8145-3). 2007, 1st US Edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 145pp. 8vo. Vintage Auster. A day in the life of Mr. Blank, the protagonist whose world, turns out, is not so different from our own. First US edition. Fine / fine copy. Jacket in loose, protective mylar sleeve.

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Book number: 129573

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Literature, Collectible Books, First Editions, Literature - American 0805081453

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Freespace

Vancouver, Freespace. 1971. (Card covers) Fine. 4to, soft card cover;. Volume 1, no. 1 (July 1971) of Freespace magazine; includes articles, poetry and black and whote photographs.

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Book number: 115050

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature-Canadian, Canadian Literature, Canadiana, Literature, Non-Prairie Canadiana

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Penguin Drop Caps (Complete Set in 26 Volumes)

Penguin Books. 2014. (Cloth) As new in as new dust jacket. Various. Still in original shrinkwrap. Beautiful set. Titles include: A for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; B for Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre; C for Willa Cathers' My Antonia; D for Charles Dickens' Great Expectations; E for George Eliot's Middlemarch; F for Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary; G for William Golding's Lord of the Flies; H for Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha; I for Kazuo Ishiguro's an Artist of the Floating World; J for James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; K for Sue Monk Kidd's the Secret Life of Bees; L for Chang Rae Lee's Native Speaker; M for Herman Melville's Moby Dick; N for E. Nesbit's Five Children and It; O for John O'Hara's Butterfield 8; P for Marcel Proust's Swann's Way; Q for Ellery Queen's the Greek Coffin Mystery; R for Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories; S for John Steinbeck's Cannery Row; T for Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club; U for Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter the Wreath; V for Voltaire's Candide or Optimism; W for Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems and Prose; X for Xinran's Sky Burial; Y for W. B. Yeats' When You Are Old : Early Poems and Fairytales; Z for Carlos Ruiz Zafon's the Shadow of the Wind. COMPLETE.

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Book number: 120771

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Liiterature, Classic Literature, Fiction, Poetry, Prose, Verse

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The Schoolgirls' Own Annual 1937

London, The Amalgamated Press LTD. 1937. (Pictorial cover) Very good, no dust jacket. 222pp. Illustrated covered boards, frontispiece plus three other full page colour illustrations. Many B & W thoughout. Covers show this smallest amount of wear, majority on edges. Internally near fine.

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Book number: 114255

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Children's Literature, Juvenile, Literature

AVALLONE, MICHAEL

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

New York, Ace Books, Inc.. 1965. (Mass market paperback) Good. 160pp. 12mo. Wrappers with shelfwear, rubbed at extremities. Black mark (remainder?) to fore-edge. Spine ever-so slightly cocked. Previous bookseller's rubber-stamp to title page. Else internally clean. Based on the MGM-Arena TV series. Ace books, G-553.

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Book number: 120639

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Espionage, Cold War, Fiction, Television

AVERILL, ESTHER

Flash; The Story of a Horse, a Coach-Dog and the Gypsies

London, U.K. Faber and Faber, Limited. 1934. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 31+. 4to. Illustrated boards, lightly rubbed. Colour illustrations by Fedor Rojankovsky. A very good, clean, bright, solid copy.

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Book number: 125519

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Children's Literature, Children's Literature, Literature - Children's