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MODERN FIRST EDITIONS |
1. Adams, Douglas: So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish. London: Pan, 1984 (1st edition). Hardback, 8vo, pp 191. The Hitch-Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy 4. Fine in dust jacket with hologram to the front, light scuffing otherwise Vg/Fine. Stock ref 15369. £5.00
2. Adams, Richard: The Iron Wolf and Other Stories. London: Allen Lane, 1980 (1st edition). Hardback, small 4to, pp 142, illustrated with colour plates by Yvonne Gilbert and b/w drawings by Jennifer Campbell. Vg in Vg price-clipped dust jacket. Stock ref 15360. £1.50
3. Aldiss, Brian: The Secret of This Book. London: Harper Collins, 1995 (1st edition). Hardback, 8vo, pp prelims+334. Illustrations by Rosamund Chorley and Brian Aldiss. Fine in near Fine dust jacket. Stock ref 7769. £8.00
4. Allende, Isabel: Daughter of Fortune. London: Flamingo, 1999 (1st English edition). Hardback, large 8vo, pp 399. Near Fine in near Fine dust jacket. Stock ref 8972. £6.50
5. Banks, Iain: A Song of Stone. London: Abacus, 1997 (1st edition). Hardback, large 8vo, pp 280. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Stock ref 13648. £8.50
6. Banks, Iain: The Business. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999 (1st edition). Hardback, large 8vo, pp 393. Vg in rubbed dust jacket. Stock ref 12684. £5.00
7. Banks, Iain: Whit. London: Little, Brown and Company, 1995 (1st). Hardback. Vg/F in like dust jacket. pp 456. Stock ref 33. £7.00
8. Banks, Iain M.: Look to Windward. London: Orbit, 2000 (1st edition). Hardback, large 8vo, pp 357. Fine in near Fine dust jacket. Stock ref 10576. £8.50
9. Cecil, Henry: Not Such an Ass. London: Hutchinson, 1961 (1st edition). Hardback, 8vo, pp 208. Jacket and end papers designed by Ardizzone. Top fore-edge dust stained otherwise Vg in dust jacket with handling marks to the rear otherwise Vg. Stock ref 21360. £10.00
10. Crookes, Gary: The Sorensen Four Incident. The Sotok Press, 2003 (1st edition). Hardback, 8vo, pp 314. Fine in near Fine dust jacket. ISBN 3980867609. Stock ref 19606. £8.50
11. Didion, Joan: Democracy: A Novel. London: Chatto and Windus, 1984 (1st edition). Hardback, 8vo, pp 234. Vg+ in Vg+ dust jacket. Stock ref 7002. £7.00
12. Eliot, T.S.: The Elder Statesman. London: Faber, 1959 (1st edition). Hardback, 8vo, pp 109. Owner's name and date to ffep otherwise Vg in edge-worn dust jacket with small closed tears to the top spine edges G-. Stock ref 19040. £5.00
13. Genet, Jean: Our Lady of the Flowers. London: Anthony Blond, 1964 (1st English edition). Translated by Bernard Frechtman and with an Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Hardback, 8vo, pp 318. Near Fine in dust jacket with a tiny nick to the top rear spine edge, otherwise near Fine under loose film. Stock ref 14480. £20.00
14. Golding, William: Fire Down Below. London: Faber, 1989 (1st edition). Hardback, 8vo, pp iv+313. Fore-edges yellowing otherwise Vg+ in dust jacket, creased the length of the spine otherwise Vg+. Stock ref 17149. £5.00
15. Golding, William: The Double Tongue. London: Faber, 1995 (1st edition). Hardback, 8vo, pp viii+165. Vg+ in Vg dust jacket. Stock ref 17150. £5.00
16. Gray, Alasdair: Lanark: A Life in 4 Books. New York: George Braziller, 1985. Hardback, large 8vo, pp 561 with illustrations by the author. Fine in dust jacket, very lightly grazed to two corners, Vg+. Stock ref 11894. £25.00
17. Harris, Thomas: Hannibal. London: Heinemann, 1999 (1st edition). Hardback, large 8vo, pp 486. Vg+ in non-price-clipped Vg dust jacket. Stock ref 4349. £5.00
18. Heller, Joseph: Closing Time. London: Simon and Schuster, 1994 (1st edition). The Sequel to Catch 22. Hardback, large 8vo, pp 465. Near Fine in near Fine dust jacket. Stock ref 8973. £7.50
19. Heller, Joseph: Good as Gold. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Hardback, 8vo, pp 447, A little light spotting to fore-edges, Simon and Schuster logo stamped on lower fore edge, otherwise Vg+ in Vg dust jacket with a crease to the rear fold-in. Stock ref 7175. £5.00
20. Jong, Erica: How to Save Your Own Life. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977 (1st edition). Hardback, large 8vo, pp 310. Vg+ in dust jacket with a crease to the rear fold-in, otherwise Vg+. Price includes UK postage. Stock ref 11275. £5.00
21. Keillor, Garrison: The Book of Guys. London: Faber, 1994 (1st English edition), Hardback, 8vo, pp prelims+340. Near Fine in near Fine dust jacket. Stock ref 9942. £5.00
22. Keillor, Garrison: Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. New York: Viking, 1987 (1st edition). Hardback, large 8vo, pp xxiii+244. Black felt-tip line across front-fore-edge, otherwise Fine in Fine dust jacket. Stock ref 9941. £6.00
23. King, Stephen: Gerald's Game. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1992 (1st edition). Hardback, 8vo, pp 342. Vg+ in Vg+ dust jacket. Stock ref 6999. £6.50
24. Kneale, Matthew: English Passengers. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000. First edition 11th printing (11 on copyright page). Hardback, pp x+463. Winner of the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Stock ref 4575. £10.00
25. le Carre, John: Sarratt and the Draper of Watford and Other Unlikely Stories About Sarratt from International Authors. October, 1999. Hardback, 8vo, pp 64. Two copies of the booklet: The People of Sarratt on Midsummer's Day 21 June 1999 loosely inserted. Vg+ in Vg+ dust jacket. Stock ref 18245. £5.00
26. Litvinoff, Emanuel: A Death Out of Season. London: Michael Joseph, 1973 (1st edition). Hardback, 8vo, pp 284. Novel based on the siege of Sydney Street. Vg+ in Vg+ dust jacket. Stock ref 13800. £7.50
27. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: News of a Kidnapping. London: Jonathan Cape, 1997 (1st edition). Hardback, large 8vo, pp vi+291. Vg+ in dust jacket with a tiny nick to the front fore-edge, otherwise Vg+. Stock ref 12203. £5.00
28. McEwan, Ian: Black Dogs. Nan A Talese/Doubleday: New York, 1992 (1st). Hardback. Vg in like dust jacket. pp xxii+152. Stock ref 32. £7.50
29. Mortimer, Penelope: Long Distance. London: Allen Lane, 1974 (1st edition). Hardback, 8vo, pp 239. Vg+ in Vg+ dust jacket. Stock ref 7181. £7.50
30. Potter, Dennis: Blackeyes. London: Faber and Faber, 1987 (1st). Hardback. Vg/F in like dust jacket. pp 184. Stock ref 31. £15.00
31. Pratchett, Terry: Wings. London: Doubleday, 1990 (1st). Hardback. pp 158. F in like dust jacket under loose film. The Third Book of The Nomes. Stock ref 291. £20.00
32. Pratchett, Terry: Truckers. London: Doubleday, 1989 (1st). Hardback. pp 190. F/M in like dust jacket under loose film. The First Book of The Nomes. Stock ref 289. £20.00
33. Rankin, Ian: Resurrection Men. London: Orion, 2001 (1st edition). Hardback, large 8vo, pp prelims+440. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Stock ref 9938. £10.00
34. Roth, Philip: Portnoy's Complaint. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969 (1st). Hardback, pp 274. The lamination on the dust jacket has contracted causing wrinkles on the dust jacket and some marking of the end papers. Otherwise Vg. Stock ref 550. £10.00
35. Ryan, Chris: Stand By, Stand By. London: Century,1996 (1st). Hardback, 8vo, pp 245. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Stock ref 4561. £5.00
36. Sillitoe, Alan: Key to the Door. London: W.H. Allen, 1961 (1st edition): Hardback, 8vo, no dust jacket. Head of spine creased. Vg. Stock ref 6515. £2.50
37. Thomas, Dylan: The Beach of Falesa. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964 (1st edition). Hardback, 8vo, pp 124. Hotel stamp on ffep, a couple of page corners creased otherwise G/Vg in chipped, worn and torn dust jacket with some loss to the front top spine edge and surface missing to the foot of the spine. Price includes UK postage. Stock ref 12860. £5.00
38. Vonnegut, Kurt: Hocus Pocus. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990 (1st edition). Hardback, large 8vo, pp 303. Fine in Vg+ dust jacket. Stock ref 10428. £10.00
39. Woolf, Virginia: Books and Portraits: Some Further Selections From Her Literary and Biographical Writings. London: The Hogarth Press, 1977 (First Edition). Hardback, pp x+221. Fine/Mint in Fine/Mint dust jacket. Stock ref 2891. £25.00
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