Fiction from Lansdowne Books

Fine Hardcover in slipcase. Blue and brown cloth with gilt decorations in a fine brown slipcase. Illustrated Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two… Read more about this item

As new Hardcover. Purple spine with gilt lettering and purple boards and richly illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Special Edition. First Folio Society edition in 2009. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. No inscriptions or bookplates. Preface by Peter Kemp. Colour illustrations by Katherine Streeter.

Hardcover limited First Edition. First Print. Mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set in 1922. Map endpapers of Thebes with uncut pages. Near Fine in near fine dust jacket now in protective mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Unclipped Very Good Condition now in protective mylar: . Illustrated Brown boards with gilt spine letters. 1st Edition, 'First Published 1982' on copyright page. Firmly bound, tight and square. Small inscription on ffep. This is a nice copy of the 1st Edition all in Very Good condition.

Cloth cover with pages clean and tight and 249 marginal sketches. Dust jacket (price-clipped) with a few chips and now in a protective sleeve. A light hearted autobiography.

Stated First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with uncut pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A near fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria. Smiley takes us back to Kansas in 1855, a place of rising passions and vast uncertainties. Narrated… Read more about this item

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. The correspondence of Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem, at turns enigmatic, sumptuous, and romantic, reveals dangerous undercurrents and strange forces at work in the universe. These powers have… Read more about this item

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean A diplomat takes his two daughters out of school in England to be with him in India. Once they get there however, he spends almost no time with them and it transpires that they are merely cover for his affair with a… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good : Blue cloth hardcover with title stamped in gilt onto spine. Minor bumps and fading to top edge of spine. DJ with beautiful idyllic wrap-around tropical art work done by Biro, some wear to top edges, now in archival mylar. Previous owners inscription. Otherwise well-preserved with pages clean and tight. Overall a very good copy. This novel… Read more about this item

First Edition first impression. Black cloth boards. Silver lettering to spine with pages clean and tight. Near fine original dust jacket unclipped. DJ now protected in our mylar sleeve. Overall a very nice copy.

1st Edition. Hardcover with unclipped jacket light wear at top and bottom of spine panel . Dust jacket is now protected with a mylar cover. Light rubbing to Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. First book club edition. Through a vivid canvas layered with intrigue, conspiracy and murder, Rebecca West has created a… Read more about this item

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Delightfully illustrated with decorative endpages. Overall a very nice copy. A delightful story of the Cotswold village and its much-loved residents, Miss Read's warm and humorous observation of the drama of… Read more about this item

Hardcover. 1st Edition. ,Condition: V.G+ . Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: V.G.+ D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Slight yellowing to pages due to age. Previous owners bookplate. Overall a very nice copy of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. 1984

A very clean and tight copy. The dust jacket has minor wear and in now in protective mylar. A Rare Edition The young narrator of this story tells of life in 1930s Italy as a Jew. He is fascinated with the aristocratic Finzi-Contini family, who live behind walls on an expansive estate. The beautiful Micòl Finzi-Contini first invites the narrator… Read more about this item

First UK Edition. Hutchinson. London. 1987. 1st Printing. . b/w illustrations. Original quarter cloth in dust jacket. Dust Jacket in mylar cover. Black and white illustrations by Peter Chapman. Sometimes fairy tales can come true even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicia nor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to… Read more about this item

Hardback, Very nice blue pebbled/textured cloth with decorative black paneling to front with coloured vignette plate of a small boy in centre of front cover, with gilt lettering to spine and front. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped, rear top corner slightly rubbed at edge. Cover clean and smart. Some minor darkening and minor foxing to free endpapers.… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ Norman Lindsay (illustrator). 1954 Reprint. The text is illustrated with both coloured and black-and-white drawings by the author, some full page, some half page and some three-quarter page. Pale coloured boards with dark blue coloured illustration and titles to the front panel and dark blue coloured titles to the spine. The famous children's story of a… Read more about this item

Quarto format black hardback brown lettering to the spine. Price un-clipped DJ. Illustrated with more than 150 colour photos, drawings. Clean pages. . 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, full number line present. In excellent condition. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. Special illustrated edition. SCARCE in 1st/1st. This is heavy book postage to be advised.

British first edition, first printing. Published by Collins in 1981. Virtually no wear to jacket. Jacket is unclipped. Covers are clean and bright with mylar protective cover. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in good condition with faint toning to front endpaper. The tiny island paradise of Zenkali is turned upside down when a civil… Read more about this item