CLASSICS OF FICTION / LITERATURE

BEHN Aphra 
Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave

Spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn's story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of the earliest English novels (1688).
With an informative introduction by Lore Metzger.
ISBN9780393007022

VG softback
$8 A/B
WW Norton (1973), xv 78pp
[#5528 ]

CARROLL Lewis 
The Hunting of the Snark

With illustrations by Henry Holiday and notes by Martin Gardner.
ISBN 0140434917

VG paperback
$7 A/B
Penguin Classics 1995, 126pp.
[#2212 ]

CERVANTES (Miguel de Servantes Saavedra) translated by MOTTEUX 
Adventures of Don Quixote de La Mancha

Nicely bound in linen with gilt to spine, but on reasonably cheap paper.
Still a nice copy for the collection.
Spanish literature, Chandos Classics,

VG cloth hardback with no dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Frederick Warne, London, undated ( c. 1900), xxxvi 567+4pp adverts.
[#5123]

CLELAND John 
Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.

Cleland's classic novel of Fanny's advance in society through prostitution which has been claimed as the first 'pornographic' novel.

Good only softback in soiled yellow wrappers.
$10 C/B
Luxor Press 1966, 189pp+ plates
[#975 ]

VG softback in red wrappers. Slipped in is a four page advertising flyer for other Luxor Press titles.
$30 C/B
Luxor Press 1966, 189pp+ plates
[#976 ]

CRAWFORD Marion F.  
Marion Darche, a story without comment.

A novel set in New York.

VG- cloth hardback.
Ink name (H W Williams) at head of free end paper and title page.
Small ink stain to closed top edge of first 3 leaves.
$20 C/C
MacMillan and Co. 1895, 309pp + 54 page advertising catalogue for MacMillan dated September 1895.
[#5270 ]

FLAUBERT Gustave 
Madame Bovary

A story of provincial life, set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and an ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity.
ISBN9780140440157
french literature, nineteenth century

VG paperback
$5 A/A
Penguin Classics 1985, 361pp.
[PB1589 ]

HAWTHORNE Nathaniel 
The Scarlet Letter

Introduction by Nina Baym and notes by Thomas E. Connolly.
The story of a woman persecuted by the narrow Puritan Boston society that was the author's own heritage. The book examines the circumstances of Hester Prynne's illegitimate pregnancy, reveals the shocking identity of the father, and attacks this society for blaming the innocent.
ISBN9780140390193
american, literature, 19th century, puritan, Hester Prynne

G+ paperback
$6 A/A
Penguin 1986, 284pp.
[#PB1547]

HAWTHORNE Nathaniel 
Tanglewood Tales; A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

Greek myths rewritten for children. Includes Theseus and the Minotaur; Antaeus and the Pygmies; Dragon's Teeth; Circe's Palace; Proserpina, Ceres, Pluto, and the Pomegranate Seed; Jason and the Golden Fleece.

VG hardback cloth, extra gilt decorated spine. Front endpaper has copperplate ink inscription awarding book to Geoffrey Harcourt Kent of Warlingham, dated 1895.
$30 C/C
Frederick Warne undated, 379pp. In the Chandos Classics series. [#2930 classics, literature ]

KIPLING Rudyard 
The Jungle Book + The Second Jungle Book

Pair of nice matching cloth-bound editions of the Jungle Books, with decorations in the text by J. Lockwood Kipling.
Printed on quality paper.
British Literature, the Raj, anthropomorphism, Mowgli, white man's burden

VG- cloth hardbacks.
Free end paper of Second book clipped at corner.
$40 C/C
MacMillan and Co. 1955, vii 277pp. and 1952, 299pp.
[#5269 ]

KIPLING Rudyard 
The Brushwood Boy
Illustrated with colour plates by F H Townsend.

A story of the early life of an English Army officer, from his early childhood and schooldays, to his return from India at the end of his first tour of duty there. Interwoven is an account of his dreams, in which a young girl features: he has met her only once, but she has penetrated his mind; and is his constant companion and grows up as he does. The dreams have a consistent theme and imaginary countryside. On his return home, he meets this same girl; who does not realise that she has featured in his dreams for some 21 years – nor does he realise that she, too, has dreamed about him, and the same imaginary countryside, for the same period of time. He reveals himself to her; she realises that he is, indeed, her ‘Brushwood Boy’ (from the pile of brushwood which is the starting point for their dreams) – and the story ends there. Pages printed on the recto side only.

G+ hardback. Gilt decorated cloth has some rubbing wear and soiling. Some handling soiling to pages.
$30 C/C
MacMillan 1921, fourth printing of the illustrated edition. 92pp + plates.
[#3107 ]

MacDONALD George 
At the back of the North Wind

Illustrated by E. H. Shepard with coloured plates and drawings.
A classic tale of the Victorian cab-driver, with elements of the fairy-tale and Scottish folklore.
A young boy is befriended by the North Wind who lets him fly with her on her assignments.

VG cloth hardback with G+ dust jacket with some edge wear and short edge tears.
$20 C/C
Childrens Illustrated Classics series number 36.
J.M. Dent 1959, 325pp + plates.
[#5275 ]

G+ paperback, red pen name to head of pp5 'Sadie G Balkind'.
Airmont Classics CL100 illustrated in line
$7 A/B
Airmont Books 1966, complete and unabridged, 288pp.
[PB1293 ]

MARLOWE Christopher 
Doctor Faustus

Edited by John D. Jump, with introductory essays before the text of The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.
ISBN0423757105
renaissance theatre, Mephistophiles, Mephostophilis, Mephistopheles, conjuring, theurgy, damned arts, grimoire, pact with the devil

VG softback, name at front.
$8 C/A
Methuen's English Classics 1986, 180pp.
[#5111]