Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980 from

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. Light blue title on darker blue cloth boards. Some very light marks to front and only a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges and endpapers else clrean and unmarked. Overall a Good+ copy. 23 stories and appendice of The Year Book of the British and Irish… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1960. Gold title on blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a small name to front pastedown else very clean and unmarked. The second of the author's 'Alexandria Quartet' novels. The quartet is set in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s. The city itself… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1960. Gold title on orange cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a small name to front pastedown else very clean and unmarked. The fourth of the author's 'Alexandria Quartet' novels. The quartet is set in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s. The city itself… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1960. Gold title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a small name to front pastedown and an inscription to front endpaper else very clean and unmarked. The first of the author's 'Alexandria Quartet' novels. The quartet is set in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in the… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1959. Gold title on blue cloth boards have fading to spinebut no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has chipping, wear to edges, soiling to back and is not price-clipped. 246 pages. Daniel Skipton is both an original and an archetype, the eternal genius manque. He is at first sight a comic figure, an expatriate… Read more about this item

London: George G. Harrap, 1958. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with just a little age darkening to fore edge with complete dustjacket. An exciting story of modern power politics set against a seafaring background, where Brett Manning is sent to Archangel on a business trip, and in thick fog his ship is in collision with the Gregory Kotovsky. Brett and… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. White titles on black cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A novel set in World War II in late summer 1940, in the Kentish valleys, of Hurricanes, Heinkels and Dorniers and the RAF. B2C. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1957. Silver title on red boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket by Robin Ray is complete and is protected by a plastic cover. The author is one of many pseudonyms of Trevor Dudley-Smith (1920-1995) a prolific award winning crime and thriller writer who had many works made into… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1928. Black titles on red boards which are clean with some shelfwear to spine head, tail and sides. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges and endpapers else clean and unmarked. Not dated but The British Library has this as 1928. The story of Mary Flower's life presented as The Infant in 1860, The Girl in 1870,… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1959. Gold title on blue boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is not price-clipped. The author is one of many pseudonyms of Trevor Dudley-Smith (1920-1995) a prolific award winning crime and thriller writer who had many works made… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: T and T Clark, 1991. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket 263 pages. This entertaining collection sets out to discover what, if the true spirit of the Scottish nation is to be found expressed in its laws, some of the nation's greatest writers have had to say on legal subjects. Of course, many of Scotland's leading… Read more about this item

London: William P. Nimmo, 1876. 'Carefully Selected with a Biography of the Author by D. Laing Purves: and Original and Authentic Notes.' Gilt title on black cloth boards which have wear to spine head and tail and corner tips. Internally there is age darkening to pages, the single page of contents is loose, there is a name and… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1929. Gilt title and monogram on blue leather boards (Macmillan Luxury Edition) which have fading to spine and wear to corner tips. Internally there is a decorative coloured bookplate to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. 319 pages. Silk page marker bound in. Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a prolific author of various… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979. A Very Good unmarked copy which has corner creasing to a few pages with VG+ dustjacket . Another delightful collection of eight stories by the author gathered from her various books and linked by their country setting. These are traditional tales, fast moving, sometimes funny, quite often with an unsuspecting twist and there is magic,… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. A Very Good unmarked copy which has a very minor indentation to top edge and age darkening to closed edges with dustjacket which has two small repaired closed tears and is not price clipped. This is the first of a quartet of novels which will span the four decades from the thirties to the… Read more about this item

London: W.H. Allen, 1979. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. TRUE FIRST EDITION. 171 pages. Lady Lettice Patch is what you'd call a plump person. Since the death of Sir Bertie, she's done very little but eat and trundle out torrid prose. So it's off, then, to Slivers Health Farm to… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1951. Gold title on black cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear and a small bump to one lower corner tip. Internally there is a little light foxing to endpapers, closed edges and to the first few pages else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good copy for its age. Dustjacket has light wear… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1979. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy (Fine apart from a very thin line of fading to top of spine) with VG+ dustjacket which is priceclipped. This is the creator of 'Desert Island Discs' personal compilation of the best desert island literature; it is an entertaining account of the desert island in fact… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper with year. Silver title on blue boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked apart from a small old price (20/-) written on front endpaper. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket with design by Charles Mozley has some light foxing, hardly any wear… Read more about this item

London: Hammond, Hammond, 1961. Black title on yellow boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear and with some light foxing to top edge. Internally very clean and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket by Sax is not price clipped. A novel set in Japan, where a young chemical engineer unwittingly finds himself the illegal owner… Read more about this item