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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 is described by Durrell as becoming as much of a complex character as the human protagonists of the novels. 11. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Balthazar
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The Best Short Stories of 1927 - I: English
by O'Brien, Edward J. ( Edited By )
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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 Short Story, The Best British and Irish Short Stories - An Index, Articles on the Short Story, Volumes of Short Stories Published in Geat Britain and Ireland and Biographical Notices. Features early works by H.E. Bates, John Metcalfe, V.S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen, Sean O Faolain, Lennox Robinson, Edward Sackville West et al. C3B. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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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 is described by Durrell as becoming as much of a complex character as the human protagonists of the novels. 11. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Country Tales To Tell
by Clark, Elizabeth
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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, fairies and animals and all of the stories are meant to be read out aloud. Delightfully illustrated especially for the book by Cara Lockhart Smith. **** NOT EX LIB **** D4E. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Smith, Cara Lockhart. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Cultured Pearl
by Hull, Macdonald
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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 of a very young Japanese girl, Masa Suzuki and assisted by his American chief and friend, seeks a formula to produce in her the perfection in Japanese and Western womanhood, a gem of the Orient. The author's second novel. **** Uncommon in such a very good condition dustjacket **** 24. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Fall Of Man
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London: White Lion Publishers, 1976. Gold title and motif on grey boards very clean and unmarked VG+. Pictorial dustjacket is complete with a little shelf wear and with the price crossed through. A novel written under the author's real name who also used the pseudonym Leo Bruce. First published by Macmillan in 1955 this novel is the story of Antony Scaw, as told by his friend, whose orderly life is changed by forces which mark him down as rebellious and non conformist. It plots his life from childhood before the First World War and his marriage to "one of the Bright Young Things" up to the present where the stubbornly independent man sees society's revenge on him. It reflects, perhaps, the author's own experiences as a non conformist and as a homosexual, who was prosecuted in 1953 and imprisoned and warned that he should not write about this which forced him to go to Morocco to live and write. *** A SCARCE TITLE *** B2E. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over…
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Fast and Loose
by Parkin, Molly
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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 fight the flab. She unites joyously with Dame Agatha Tatters, ravishing Flower Fowler (nipples like steeples) and other ballooning females. Not to mention the lads - paunchy Flab Pottle, Windsor Shag and fading pop-idol, Kid Lips. The battle of the bulge is fought under the stern supervision of the Slivers staff with their strict discipline and motley proclivities. All are greedy for food, sex or both, and there's enough at Slivers to satisfy the most ravenous appetite. B2C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Girls
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London: Heinemann, 1967. Gold title on brown boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a coloured decorative bookplate to front endpaper else clean and unmarked. Dustjacket has wear and a few very small tears and is not price clipped. An early novel under the author's pseudonym (real name Rosemary Ellerbeck) who was born in South Africa and which was controversial for the time. C3E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Hand-Reared Boy
by Aldiss, Brian
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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 sixties, in the form of fictitious autobiography. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Heart of the House
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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 to edges, a taped repair to the complete edge alongside spine and is price clipped. Set against a background of Yorkshire and Bournemouth, its characters are Drake Marsden, son of a prosperous solicitor in a Yorkshire country town, estate agent to Sir Robert Maudesley, an autocratic but impoverished landowner who treats him badly. Drake's sister Edith and Maudesley's son and heir Sholto are secretly in love, though they both know that Sir Robert expects Sholto to marry wealth and set the estate on its feet again. The story tells of Edith's act of sacrifice and the subsequent coming into her life of Bill Gollantz, and of Drake's love for Flora Willis, who runs…
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The History Of Amelia (COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET)
by Fielding, Henry
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London: Hutchinson, 1905. COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES. Gilt title and floral decoration to spine and blind embossed floral decoration to front with gilt facsimile signature of Fielding on green cloth boards. Boards are very clean and unmarked with just a trace of wear to spine corners. Internally some light foxing to endpapers and some of the plates else very clean and unmarked. 8 illustrations by George Cruikshank. A very attractive set of one of Fielding's classic novels in above average condition for it's age. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2A. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by George Cruikshank. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Justine
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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 1930s and 1940s. The city itself is described by Durrell as becoming as much of a complex character as the human protagonists of the novels. 11. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Keepers of the King's Peace
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London: Ward, Lock Black title on red boardswhich has a bump to head of spine else clean and unmarked with no bumping to corners. Internally clean, tight and unmarked with no previous owner name or inscriptions. Very Good+ copy . The Dustjacket is not price clipped has just a little wear to spine head and tail but is still very bright VG. An adventure story set in West Africa by the master of the genre (1874-1932). Not dated but c. late 1930's / early 1940's. C3C. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Lawful Occasions
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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 writers were themselves lawyers; Scott, Stevenson, Boswell, W.E. Aytoun and J.G. Lockhart were all members of the Scottish bar, John Buchan of the English. Others such as D.M. Black, James Allan Ford, Eric Linklater, Joan Lingard and J. Macdougal Hay have found inspiration in the powerful symbols and accomplishments of judges and practitioners. B2C. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Mr. Justice Maxell
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London: Ward, Lock Brown title on pink boards which have a few minor marks. Internally clean, tight and unmarked. A Good + copy. Dustjacket has some light wear to edges and is not price clipped. Not dated but circa 1930's./ early 1940's. The author introduces us to a financier with whom sharp practice is a profession and knight errantry a foible. Rescuing a girl from an Arab theatre in Tangiers, he becomes involved in appalling difficulties but he never loses his zest for life and his almost boyish humour, characteristics which are surely the author's own. C3D. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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The Mystery of the 'Gregory Kotovsky'
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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 one member of the crew are rescued, but they are forced to continue the voyage in the Russian vessel to an unnamed destination, which turns out to be a secret Soviet submarine base in the South Atlantic. Brett and his fellow prisoner realise that with the incriminating knowledge they possess, they will never be allowed to reach England alive. Luckily there are Latvians among the crew who are only too willing to help them plan a daring escape. 11. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Night Be My Witness
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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. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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The Passing Of The Flagship and Other Stories
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London: Chapman Hall, 1915. Black decoration and title on salmon pink cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers and light foxing to closed edges else a clean, tight and unmarked copy. Certainly in Very Good condition especially for its age. Dustjacket has taped repairs but is complete.The new and cheaper edition. First published in 1902, it comprises 10 short stories from the noted writer and playwright (William Price Drury, C.B.E. formerly Major and later Lieutenant-Colonel. 1861-1949) - The Passing of the Flagship; The Dragon of Pyramid Hill; Aceldama; The Blankfile; An Audience with His Majesty; Casserbanker the Second; Concerning a Treaty with France; The Stranger Within the Gates; The Rising of Joga; That Which was Lost. B2A. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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The Pillars of Midnight
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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 films. A novel of a smallpox outbreak in a small South of England town and as the epidemic spreads and takes its toll, the doctor's own life shows increasing symptoms of another kind of trouble, one dating back to a night spent with the wife of a colleague, a moral sickness which changes lives as radically as the epidemic. *** NOT EX LIB *** 1. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Roy Plomley's Desert Island Book
by Plomley, Roy
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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 and fiction. Illustrated throughout. **** NOT EX LIB **** 11. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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