Fiction from Brief Street Books

Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1989. 245 pages. First edition, third printing. Dust jacket very good with a price-clipped flap, slight sunning along panel edges. A beautiful, bright and first edition, third printing from November 1989 (first printing was October 1989). Small owners inscription to front free endpaper. A true classic.

Tricolour Penguin, the 1958 reprint of the 1950 edition. Bright, small owner's name to front free endpaper, cover just starting at top of spine, lovely for a collector or display. Back cover with author photo and bio. 188 pages plus Penguin advertisements at rear for Tortilla Flat, The Honeyed Peace and Tender is the Night.

First edition and printing from Ace Books Limited. Red and white card cover with photo of Bowen to front. In very good condition. With cover quotes by V.S. Pritchett and Lord David Cecil, and half title verso ad for Between the Acts by Woolf, also by Ace. 125 pages with ads for Ace books at rear. 15 short stories.

Gatefold flaps. 2006 edition of these two books in one volume: Tangi (written 1973) and The Return (2005) about Tama Mahana. By the New Zealand author of The Whale Rider, published in New Zealand.

In very good condition with subscription card and Grove advertisement card page. Second Printing. 182 pages. A lovely copy, great gift or collectors. Photo of Burroughs by Charles Henry Ford to cover, Kerouac blurb on the back. Evergreen Black Cat Book price 95cents to back. A classic.

First thus by Penguin, 1962, price 3/6. No markings inside, in very good condition as seen in photos, light crease to cover. Cover design by R. A. Glendening, blurb to back by Edith Sitwell (!). A classic.

Penguin paperback with notable cover design by David Pelham. 1970, first thus by Penguin. 314 pages. Small owner's inscription to front free endpage. Even toning to all pages, light small waterstain to first 2 pages. Robust and striking, the copy of Death Kit to keep.

Stories by René Lafayette (a pen name of L Ron Hubbard), Eric Frank Russell, Christopher Youd, M.C. Pease, Theodore Sturgeon and Burt MacFayden. 64 pages. Intact cover, in very good condition. Two bookshop stamps on title page.

Paperback in very good condition. 407 pages.

Hardcover, interior unmarked and with binding intact. A few small ink marks to cover, corners slightly bent etc. in keeping with age. First edition, 478 pages. No dust jacket.

159 pages. Slight toning to dust jacket. 1966 printing in very good condition, an attractive book.

A lovely watercolour illustrated graphic novel. Unpaginated. Gorgeous, dystopian story line, lots of animals. For teens and adults.

Penguin A500, 1961 reprint of 1960 edition. "A panel of distinguished scholars and scientists advise you how and what to read" across a large range of fiction and non-fiction. In very good condition, bright and clean. 351 pages. Gloriously dated.

A set of first edition Penguins, 1954-1958 the first six of A Guide to English Literature, including A290, A291, A325, A 379, A402, A413. Overall in very good condition, issues as noted: Vol I, first edition, slight spotting to cover, Vol 2 first edition, very light marks to cover, Vol 3 first edition small intact tear to cover, Vol 4… Read more about this item

First thus as Penguin. Autobiography covering Paris in the 20's, Ireland during the Civil War and Spain - the writer as a young man... In very good condition, slight wear and creasing to cover as seen in photo. 222 pages

Inscribed by the author on title page. Works by novelists, poets and playwrights included. 356 pages. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket, first edition.

Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. A lovely gift! Gorgeous cloth cover, as well as pristine dust jacket. Eighth edition, 1983. Wonderfully illustrated by Jirí Trnka. 188 pages.

Printed 20 December 1934. Les Cinq Dernières Journées is the second volume of the famed Brunelleschi illustrated version of the Decameron with their erotic content. Wonderful condition as seen in photos, perfect for a collector or bookseller looking to complete the set. Softcover in very good+ condition.