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Fiction (A–M)

[017649] Allende, Isabel. The House of the Spirits. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1985. First UK Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Good. Translated from Spanish by Magda Bogin. Dust jacket has minute scrumples along the top edge. Cloth has worn slighlty at the bottom of the spine. The leaves have yellowed around the edges. £35.00

[014901] Asturias, Miguel Angel. The Green Pope. ill. . London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. . 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Some internal staining. £10.00

[014971] Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace. London: Bloomsbury, 1996. First UK Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. Jacket price-clipped. £15.00

[005004] Bailey, Paul. Old Soldiers. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Good. d/w; jacket a little browned (esp. spine); slight aroma of tobacco £18.00

[014958] Bainbridge, Beryl. Winter Garden. London: Duckworth, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. £15.00

[014959] Bainbridge, Beryl. Sweet William. London: Duckworth, 1975. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. Jacket price-clipped. £15.00

[015134] Bainbridge, Beryl. Injury Time. London: Duckworth, 1977. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Good D/w. Very slight fading to spine of jacket. £15.00

[016750] Barker, Alfred. Woolen and Worsted Spinning. London: Cassel and Company, 1922. 8vo. Cloth. Good + With 100 b/w illustrations. £30.00

[018205] Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. ill. A. E. Jackson. London: Humphrey Milford, . Large 8vo. Half Leather. Very Good Circa 1930's. Rebound in a fine half leather binding with marbled covered boards. With gilt lettering/decorative stamps to the spine. Some foxing to the cuts of the leaves. With colour illustrations by A. E. Jackson. £250.00

[014238] Carter, Angela. Black Venus's Tale. ill. Sutton, Philip. London: Next Editions / Faber & Faber, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Good Spiral bound paperback with b/w woodcuts by Philip Sutton. £10.00

[014250] Cheever, John. Bullet Park. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First UK Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Fair D/w. Jacket nicked and creased, and a little yellowed, with tear (3 cm approx) to front panel. £12.00

[020440] Chenoune, Farid. Hidden Underneath. New York: Assouline, 2005. 1st Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good and Sound / Good & Sound d/w. With many b/w & colour photos. £20.00

[014254] Clarke, Lindsay. Sunday Whiteman. London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. Signed by owner (not by the author). £12.00

[010024] Cornwell, Patricia. From Potter's Field. London: Little, Brown, 1995. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. £12.50

[010025] Cornwell, Patricia. Cause of Death. London: Little, Brown, 1996. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. £12.00

[010022] Cornwell, Patricia. Unnatural Exposure. New York: Putnam, 1997. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Good D/w. £12.50

[010023] Cornwell, Patricia. Point of Origin. New York: Putnam, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. £12.50

[014529] Cortazar, Julio. End of the Game and Other Stories. London: Collins & Harvill, 1968. First UK Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Inscribed by owner (not by author!); a little fading to jacket spine. £10.00

[014963] Crace, Jim. Continent. London: Heinemann, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good + / Fair - Good D/w. Price-clipped jacket slightly faded at spine, a little worn at edges and with promotional sticker attached to front panel. £25.00

[015162] Crace, Jim. Continent. London: Heinemann, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. Promotional sticker attached to front panel of jacket. £30.00

[016177] Crayon, Geoffrey (Irving Washngton). The Alhambra. London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1832. First UK Edition. 8vo. Half Green Leather. Good and Sound First UK edition, precedes US edition, complete in 2 vols, in half green leather, with 45 gilt panels to spines. A little foxing at intervals throughout; some scuffing to boards; owner's bookplate and inscription to FEPs, o/w good and sound. £250.00

[015403] De Bernieres, Louis. Birds Without Wings. London: Secker & Warburg, 2004. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. Jacket price-clipped. £10.00

[014778] Disraeli, Benjamin. The Bradenham Edition of the The Novels and Tales of Bejamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. London: Peter Davies, 1926. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Fair - Good D/w. Complete in 12 vols. Owner's bookplate to FEPs, a little foxing to endpapers; jackets a little creased and nicked, and several have tears and holes. £450.00

[015150] Eggers, David. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. London: Picador, 2000. First UK Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good d/w. £20.00

[003705] Eliot ,George. The Mill on the Floss. London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1860. 8vo. 1st edition ("Carter" binding variant A). Original orange-brown diagonal ripple-grained cloth, spine lettered & decorated in gilt. Some page turns, 1 small stain, some slight wear to covers, slight scuff vol I, otherwise a good & sound set £695.00

[004147] Eliot, George. Silas Marner, Clerical Life. London: Will. Blackwood & Sons, 1901. 8vo. finely bound in ½ brown leather with an ornate gilt Art Nouveau floral design with red inlays £150.00

[004150] Eliot, George. Felix Holt. London: Will. Blackwood & Sons, 1901. 8vo. finely bound in ½ brown leather with an ornate gilt Art Nouveau floral design with red inlays £150.00

[017584] Ellis, Bret Easton. Lunar Park. London: Picador, 2005. 1st Edition. 8vo. Cloth Coverd Boards. Good / Fair-Good. Dust jacket has blemishes and scatches due to usage. £15.00

[015062] Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides. London: Boomsbury, 1993. First UK Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Good D/w. Jacket a little grubby. £35.00

[014961] Evans, Nicholas. The Horse Whisperer. London: Bantam Press, 1995. 8vo. Cloth. Author. Good / Good D/w. Very slightly slanted; jacket a little worn at edges. £30.00

[005817] Feinstein, Elaine. All You Need. London: Hutchinson, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. d/w £15.00

[000217] Feuchtwanger, Lion. Jew Suss: A Historical Romance. London: Henry Pordes Ltd, 1998. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New D/w. Facsimile Reprint (39th edition). Published Price: £16.95. £9.99

[014964] Fowles, John. The Ebony Tower. London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Fair D/w. Jacket creased, torn, chipped, and slightly spotty, and with a small stain to spine. £20.00

[016516] France, Anatole. The Gods are Athirst. ill. Austen, John. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1933. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Good D/w. In full cloth, gilt, with dust jacket and with 12 colour plates and numerous b/w decorations by John Austen. Corners very slightly bumped, spine rubbed (with loss to gilt lettering) , jacket frayed and torn, and a little spotted. £50.00

[012364] France, Anatole. Histoire Comique. Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1930. 8vo. Half Leather. Good and Sound in half leather, gilt, with 6 compartments to spine, text in French. With pen inscription, some foxing; a little wear to boards, corners and spine. £35.00

[006160] French, Nicci. The Memory Game. London: William Heinemann, 1997. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. Author`s first novel. £24.00

[014853] Fuentes, Carlos. The Death of Artemio Cruz. London: Collins, 1964. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. £10.00

[004003] Gaarder, Jostein. The Solitaire Mystery. London: Pheonix House, 1996. First UK Edition. Large 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. d/w, b/w illus. £15.00

[014893] Gallegos, Romulo. Dona Barbara. New York: Peter Smith, 1948. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. A little fading to boards and spine. £10.00

[018900] Gissing, George. Short Stories of To-day and Yesterday. London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1929. 8vo. Cloth. Fair - Good FEP browned. Presentation copy from the author Henry Williamson to Sir John Heygate. £45.00

[018899] Gissing, George. In the Year of Jubilee. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. 8vo. Cloth. Fair - Good Foxing to half and title page. Spine faded. £45.00

[018895] Gissing, George. Demos: A Story of English Socialism. London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1928. 8vo. Cloth. Fair - Good Some wear to the boards o/w good & sound. Spine faded. £35.00

[018886] Gissing, George. Born in Exile. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1970. 8vo. Cloth. Good & Sound / Good + D/w. With an Introduction by Walter Allen. £25.00

[018897] Gissing, George. Our Friend the Charlatan: A Novel. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1901. First US Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fair - Good Some wear to the boards o/w good & sound. Spine faded. With new endpapers. 1st US edition. £40.00

[006959] Golding, William. The Inheritors. London: Faber & Faber, 1955. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Good D/w. In very good condition, with slight chipping to otherwise. Good jacket. £225.00

[020658] Gordimer, Nadine. The Conservationist.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. ISBN: 0224010352. Joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1974 (with Stanley Middleton’s Holiday); Gordimer went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. A deeply fascinating study of a wealthy industrialist, both reckless and calculating, subconsciously seeking human alienation as a form of self-preservation. This copy of the first edition is inscribed (not by the author) to the late anti-apartheid campaigner Ethel de Keyser. 252 pages, brown cloth in dustjacket, near fine. £50.00

[004718] Greene, Graham. The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1943. First Edition. 8vo. Very Good half bound in tan leather, with 5 raised bands to spine, gilt lettering & gilt decorative motifs, gilt top-edge, marbled end-papers £295.00

[010801] Grisham, John. The Street Lawyer. London: Century, 1998. First UK Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Good D/w. £10.00

[011046] Hartley, L P. Facial Justice. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. £30.00

[011941] Harvey, John. Living Proof. London: Heinemann, 1995. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. £10.00

[011940] Harvey, John. Easy Meat. London: Heinemann, 1996. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. £12.00

[006197] Hergesheimer, Joseph. Triall By Armes. London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929. First Edition. Small 4to. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Fair / Fair. d/w, with glasseine wrapper. No 156 of a limited edition of 530, signed by the author. Endpapers a little browned, jacket very slightly chipped. £24.00

[008443] Hill, Reginald. Another Death in Venice. London: Collins Crime Club, 1976. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. £85.00

[010770] Hollinghurst, Alan. The Folding Star. London: Chatto & Windus, 1994. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Good D/w. A little wear to edges of jacket; price-clipped. £15.00

[017250] Howes, Barbara (ed). From the Green Antilles: Writings of the Caribbean. London: Souvenir Press, 1966. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Poor d/w. A little tears to edges of the jacket. £15.00

[014938] Huxley, Aldous. The Genius and the Goddess. London: Chatto & Windus, 1955. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Fair D/w. Inscribed by owner (not by author!); a little slanted; jacket slightly faded and stained at spine, and a little nicked and frayed. . £15.00

[014939] Isherwood, Christopher. The World in the Evening. London: Methuen, 1954. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Fair - Good D/w. Jacket a little nicked, creased and frayed, with holes to top of rear panel and to top of spine, with loss to lettering. £30.00

[014125] Joyce, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare & Company, 1925. . 8vo. Half Black Leather. Very Good Rebound in 1/2 black leather binding, gilt. A little foxing, including some to title page and half title, o/w in very good condition. £895.00

[003072] Kent, Alexander. Honour This Day. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Good / Fair. d/w. Jacket chipped, sl. cocked £28.00

[005762] Kipling, Rudyard. The Naulahka: A Story of West and East. London: William Heinemann, 1892. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fair some foxing & browning; corners v. slightly bumped, some staining to boards; owner's inscription to title page £30.00

[020176] Le Fanu, Sheridan. The House By The Churchyard. London: Anthony Blond, 1968. . 8vo. Cloth. Very Good & Sound / Very Good d/w. Good & clean copy. £20.00

[011703] MacFall, Haldane. The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1913. 8vo. Cloth. Good and Sound With b/w frontispiece. Presentation copy, signed by the author. £75.00

[010791] Malamud, Bernard. Dubin's Lives. London: Chatto & Windus, 1979. First UK Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Good D/w. £12.00

[008089] Malamud, Bernard. The Natural. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. First UK Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine / Fine D/w. £375.00

[008490] Malamud, Bernard. Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1969. First UK Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good d/w. £15.00

[015027] Malkani, Gautam. Londonistani. London: Fourth Estate, 2006. 8vo. Cloth. Fine / Fine D/w. No 98 of a limited edition of 500 signed and dated by the author. In slipcase. £45.00

[008880] Marquand, John P. Melville Goodwin, USA. London: Robert Hale, 1952. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Fair D/w. Endpapers a little browned, jacket chipped, creased and torn, with pen-marking to rear panel. £18.00

[010793] Millar, George. My Past Was an Evil River. London: William Heinemann, 1946. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Fair D/w. Very slightly slanted; some wear ro jacket, includuing fading to spine. £12.00

[010309] Miller, Henry. Max and the White Phagocytes. Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1938. 8vo. Paper Wrappers. Good Wrappers a little frayed at edges and lined at spine, o/w good. £200.00

[007023] Mo, Timothy. An Insular Possession. London: Chatto & Windus, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Good D/w. d/w, Jacket a little chipped and creased. £18.00

[014985] Murdoch, Iris. The Book and the Brotherhood. London: Chatto & Windus, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. £25.00

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