Modern and modernist literature and fiction.
In English and English translations of foreign literature.
VG VG light rubbing to DW.
$15 C/B [FE 17]
Contemporary Fiction branch of Readers Union 1960 first edition thus hardcover, 341pp.
Nice reissue of this classic tale, formerly in the collection of the actor Elric Hooper.
association copy, theatre, literature
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket has soiling and edge wear with splits.
Free end paper has rubber stamp for Smith's Bookshop, 103 Manchester Street, and 'Elric James Hooper', the noted Christchurch actor.
$30 C/C
Hodder May 1948 reprint, 544pp.
[#5159 ]
VG VG unclipped DW light surface soiling, light rubbing corner tips
$10 C/B [FE 8]
Methuen 1986 first edition hardcover, 190pp. ISBN 0413598705
VG VG
$10 C/C [FE 9]
Weidenfeld 1990 first edition hardcover, 285pp. ISBN 0297840134
VG VG- DW lightly soiled, small edge tear top corner, book light spine leanfianl page light crease bottom corner.
$15 C/B [FE 15]
Allen Lane 1984 first edition hardcover,248pp. ISBN 071391632X
This new revised edition of the original 1962 publication includes a biographical introduction and a chronology of Borges life and work.
Edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, with an introduction by William Gibson.
ISBN9780811216999
literature, argentine, argentinian
VG+ softback
$15 C/B
New Directions 2007, 256pp.
[#3731 ]
Stated first edition.
G+ hardback with light soiling and fading to boards, inscription to half title, pencil name to title.
$20 C/B
Hodder 1922 first edition, 318pp, map end papers.
[#4740 ]
One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America.
Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.
Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.
ISBN0876852630
charles bukowski, barfly, beat, american, literature
VG softback with minor wear to spine ends.
$15 C/B
Black Sparrow Press 1977 fourth printing, 205pp.
[#3536 ]
The fictionalized account of Bukowski's experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie. Henry Chinaski, (Bukowski), is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot. He reluctantly agrees, and is thrust into the otherworld called Hollywood, with its parade of eccentric and maddening characters: producers, artists, actors and actresses, film executives and journalists. In this world, the artistry of books and film is lost to the dollar, and Chinaski struggles to keep his footing in the tangle of cons that comprise movie making.
Hollywood is Dirty Old Man Bukowski at his most lucid. It overflows with curses, sex, and alcohol. And through it all, or from it all, Bukowski finds flashes of truth about the human condition.
ISBN0876857632
charles bukowski, barfly, beat, american, literature
G+ softback with minor handling soiling.
$15 C/B
Black Sparrow Press 1990 fifth printing, 239pp.
[#3535 ]
Previously unpublished poems.
Bukowski on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling out towards a cock-eyed wisdom.
ISBN1574231650
charles bukowski, barfly, beat, american, literature, poetry
VG softback with minor handling soiling.
$15 C/C
Ecco 2003, 352pp.
[#3537 ]
Celebrating the full range of his extraordinary sensibility and uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a lifetime of experience, from his renegade early work to never-before-collected poems penned during the final days before his death.
Selected by John Martin, Bukowski's long-time editor and the publisher of the legendary Black Sparrow Press, this stands as what Martin calls 'the best of the best of Bukowski'.
ISBN9781847675491
charles bukowski, barfly, beat, american, literature, poetry
VG softback
$30 C/C
Cannongate 2010, 528pp.
[#3538 ]
VG VG short closed tear rear joint of unclipped DW
$10 B/C [FE 6]
Andre Deutsch 1982 first edition hardcover, 96pp with colour illutrations.ISBN 0233974709
A masterpiece of journalism and a powerful crime thriller, inspired by a 300-word article in The New York Times, Capote spent six years exploring and writing the story of Kansas farmer Herb Clutter, his family and the two young killers who brutally murdered them.
An unflinching portrayal of a comprehensible and thoroughly human evil.
ISBN 9780141038391
crime spree, murder, documentary, non fiction, Clutter family Murder,Truman Capote, journalism
VG paperback
$9 A/A
Penguin 2008, 343pp
[PB1669 ]
This first novel by acclaimed Australian songwriter and musician is a fantastic Gothic tragedy.
ISBN9780141045610
modern fiction, australian literature
VG paperback
$8 A/A
Penguin reprint, 312pp.
[PB1595 ]
VG- G light lean to spine, DW price clipped and with short tears at ends of joints, light chipping spine ends and corners, light staining closed edges, sunned DW spine.
$15 C/B [FE 20]
MacMillan 1971 first edition hardcover, 254pp.
1960's experimental novel.
A vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty novel which centres upon the members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Mohawk saint.
ISBN 0586035788
Early pulp edition.
VG paperback
$12 A/B
Panther 1973, 239pp.
[PB1707 ]
The story follows 49 hours in the life of a small town attorney.
This award winner was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Turned into a feature film in with Lana Turner.
VG hardback in VG- unclipped dust jacket, soiled to spine, light edgewear.
Book closed edges dusty.
$10 C/C
Longmans 1958 first UK hardcover, 570pp.
[#5380 ]
G+ paperback
$5 A/A
Penguin 1974, 233 pages. ISBN0140018328[PB1418 modern literature ]
A lonely academic Englishman meets and exchanges places with his double, a French aristocrat, while visiting France, finding himself caught up in the intrigues and passions of the complex French family.
G+ hardback with no dust jacket.
Closed edges browned.
$10 C/B
Victor Gollancz 1957 first edition, 368pp.
[#5209 ]
Penguin 1985 ISBN 0140007466 VG paperback [PB383 ]
Penguin 2000 ISBN 9780141182636 FINE paperback [#2145]
First US paperback edition by Red Seal Books.
G+ paperback with age browned paper stock, mild edge foxing and pencil name to half-title and title, glue perishing but still holding.
$9 C/B
Modern Age Books Inc. New York 1937, 280 pages.
[#2559 ]
FN FN
$15 C/C [Item# 225 FE]
Michael Joseph 1997 first edition hardcover, 272pp. ISBN 0718142454
VG VG small hole to upper joint of unclipped DW, bookseller stamp to fep, slightly foxed closed edges.
$10 C/B [FE 7]
Michael Joseph 1960 hardcover, 191pp.
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast.
ISBN9780571245895
fiction, british, 20th century, faber firsts
VG paperback
$7 A/B
Faber 2009, 225pp.
[#3445 ]
In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prizewinning author Gnter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through his short war-time service in the Waffen-SS, and the late 1950s, when his book The Tin Drum was published.
ISBN9781846550621
autobiography, german literature, tin drum
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with sun faded spine
$20 C/C
Harvill Secker 2007 first edition, 425pp.
[#3462 ]
Green's famous novel set in Vietnam.
G hardback with no dust jacket, the page with printed quotes also has another handwritten in ink.
Some sporadic pencil notes in text.
$8 C/B
Heinemann 1956 third printing, 247pp.
[#5158 ]
VG VG lacks fep, unclipped DW sunfaded spine.
$15 C/C [FE 22]
Bodley Head 1978 first edition cloth, 339pp.
VG+ VG+ DW unclipped under plastic sleeve, minimal light soiling to fep.
$10 C/C [FE 10]
Century 1998 first edition hard cover,348pp. Australian issue. ISBN 0712678212
VG+ VG+ DW unclipped under plastic sleeve, minimal light soiling to fep.
$10 C/C [FE 11]
Century 1997 first edition hard cover, 366pp. Australian issue. ISBN 0712661360
VG+ VG+ DW unclipped under plastic sleeve, top corner of fep clipped.
$10 C/C [FE 12]
Century 1996 first edition hard cover, 401pp. Australian issue. ISBN 071266131X
VG+ VG+ DW unclipped under plastic sleeve.
$10 C/C [FE 13]
Century 1995 first edition hard cover, 434pp. Australian issue. ISBN 0712654593
VG+ VG+ DW unclipped.
$10 C/C [FE 16]
Century 1999 first edition hard cover, 435pp. ISBN 0712678263
VG+ VG+ slight fading of red titling to spine of unclipped DW, minimal surface soiling to DW.
$40 C/B [FE 46]
Heinemann 1966 first edition hardcover, 254pp. Spy thriller where Quiller must defeat a band of assassins.
Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy, and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to. That's some catch...
ISBN9780099529125
VG trade paperback
$10 C/C
Vintage 2011, 540 pp. [#2895 modern literature ]
Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy, and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to. That's some catch...
ISBN9780099477310
american, literature, WWII
VG- trade paperback
$9 C/C
Vintage 1994, 519 pp
[#3430/BOX#4 ]
The story of a volunteer ambulence driver wounded on the Italian front, the beautiful British nurse with whom he falls in love, and their journey to find some small sanctuary in a world gone mad with war. Drawn from Hemingway's own experiences.
ISBN0684801469
american literature, ww1, first world war, war journalist
VG+ softback
$10 C/B
Scribner 1995, 332pp.
[#3541 ]
An early printing of this Nobel prize winning novel.
G+ hardback with no dust jacket, minor foxing to closed edges
$20 C/B
Jonathan Cape December 1952 third impression, 127pp.
[#3183 ]
The first printing of this edition of Hemingway's Nobel prize winning novel. This has illustrations by C F Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard.
VG- hardback with no dust jacket. Minor rubbing to spine ends and corners,pencil inscription to free end paper.
$30 C/B
Reprint Society 1953 first edition thus, 117pp.
[#3286 ]
Written after Hemingway's 1953 safari in Africa, this work is a blend of autobiography and fiction, the final work from the 20th century literary giant.
ISBN9780099282129
africa, big game, hunting, fiction
G+ paperback
$5 A/A
Arrow Books 2004, 307pp.
[PB1588 ]
Exhaustive biography of this man's man, war correspondent, big-game hunter, big-game fisherman, and exceptional author.
Large heavy book. Edition= A-3,69[C]
literature, american, novelist, twentieth century.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Name to free end paper, faint tape stain to endpapers.
$20 D/D
Charles Scribners 1969 cloth, 697pp + plates.
[#4297 ]
One Hundred more of the Master's stories introduced by James Hilton.
Thin rice paper but still a hefty book.
VG hardback in VG- price clipped jacket with some wear.
$20 C/C
Hodder 1955 sixth impression, cloth, 1128pp.
[#4726 ]
A Faustian story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope.
A "savage indictment of bourgeois society".
This self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf can be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of intellectual hypocrisy.
ISBN 9780141045535
Translated by Basil Creighton, revised by Walter Sorrell
VG paperback
$8 A/A
Penguin 2009, 253pp.
[PB1665 ]
A coming of age novel concerning a young girl on a country estate.
VG hardback in G dust jacket with spine sunned, soiled, edge chipping, closed edges dusty.
$25 C/B
Spearmann 1953 first UK edition, 186pp.
[#5380 ]
Four stories by Aldous Huxley; Chawdron, The Rest Cure, The Claxtons, After the Fireworks.
First edition
modern first edition fiction, short stories.
G+ hardback with no dust jacket. Spine soiled. Name to free end paper, and mild foxing.
$20 C/C
Chatto and Windus 1930 first edition, 324pp.
[#3604 ]
An early printing of this famous dystopian novel by a man well acquainted with many of the thinkers behind eugenics and other mind and population control disciplines such as psychiatry and social planning.
dystopian fiction, early edition, mind control, social engineering
G+ hardback with no dust jacket, light wear, rubbed corners, ink number to both paste downs, mild age browning.
$55 C/C
Chatto 1932 fifth impression, cloth, 306pp.
[#3657 ]
An early printing of this famous dystopian novel by a man well acquainted with many of the thinkers behind eugenics and other mind and population control disciplines such as psychiatry and social planning.
dystopian fiction, early edition, mind control, social engineering
G+ cloth hardback with NO dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Chatto and Windus 1938 new edition, (8)306(1)pp.
[#4433 ]
VG- G+ soiled cloth, inscription to fep, foxed closed edges, DW edge wear and short closed tears with tidy paper reinforcing to the reverse.
$15 C/B [FE 23]
Collins 1951 first edition cloth, 288pp.
VG VG DW minor edge wear or short edge tears.
$10 C/C [FE 24]
Collins 1962 first edition cloth, 318pp.
VG VG short edge splits to spine ends and corners of unclipped DW.
$10 C/C [FE 25]
Collins 1977 first edition hardcover, 349pp. ISBN0002214229
VG VG name to fep,lightly chipped spine ends and corners of unclipped DW.
$12 C/B [FE 26]
Collins 1960 first edition hardcover, 320pp.
VG VG light foxing to endpapers, dusty top edge.
$15 C/B [FE 27]
Collins 1958 first edition hardcover, 255pp.
VG VG- light edge wear to price clipped DW, erased pencil to fep.
$10 C/B [FE 28]
Collins 1958 first edition hardcover, 255pp.
VG VG spine ends of DW splitting at fold, unclipped.
$10 C/B [FE 29]
Collins 1956 first edition hardcover, 256pp.
VG VG DW taped down to endpapers but still a tidy copy in same DWunder plastic sleeve, name top paste down.
$10 C/B [FE 30]
Collins 1954 first edition hardcover, 255pp.
VG VG price clipped DW.
$10 C/B [FE 31]
Collins 1965 first edition hardcover, 320pp.
A science fiction type novel set in the future where no one is fertile, apocalyptic theme.
ISBN 0679418733
modern first edition
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, quarter cloth.
Small scuff to cover and one small remainder spot to closed bottom page edge.
$15 C/C
Knopf 1992 first US edition, 241pp.
[#4559 ]
G+ paperback, name blacked out to inside cover
$5 A/A
Penguin 1977, 121 pages. ISBN0140042725 [PB1419 modern literature ]
Deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. "Ulysses" has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable.
ISBN9780141184432
VG trade paperback
$15 C/C
Penguin 2000, lxxxix 1195pp.
[#3114 ]
Complete edition with introduction, bibliography, appendices, maps and explanatory notes.
ISBN0192839993
VG paperback
$8 C/B
Oxford World's Classics 2000, lx+279pp.
[#3383]
Signet ISBN 0451525442 With intro. by Hugh Kenner. VG paperback $5 A/B [PB1304]
KAZANTZAKIS Nikos Christ Recrucified
G+ spine and covers sunned $7 C/C Faber 1977 large paperback, 470pp ISBN 0571066720 [#1905 modern literature]
VG VG- name to fep, unclipped DW rubbed at edges, light chip spine ends, short closed tear top corner of lower panel.
$15 C/C [FE 44]
Collins 1975 first edition hardcover, 222pp.
Kerouac achieved his 'Satori' moment during a hectic period in Paris. First UK paperback edition, ISBN0704310163
G+ paperback, light wear to wraps
$15 A/A
Quartet 1973, 116pp. [PB1428 modern literature ]
Jack Kerouac writes a coming of age novel set in the USA, and follows the character through college, war-time navy, and the avant-garde undergorund scene. A good reading copy only, or maybe useful as an upgrade dust jacket. ISBN0233960791
G hardback in VG- dust jacket. Ex-library with stamps, some tape rust to endpapers, closed edges foxed, rear hinge loosened, tape stains to boards, unclipped DW has small symbol to spine, and some minor tape rust to edges of fold in flaps.
$45 C/C
Andre Deutsch 1969 first UK edition hard cover, 280pp. [#2480 modern literature ]
ISBN0704330180
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket, soft covers slightly rubbed
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. The subject of an Oscar-winning film starring Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness. This is the film tie-in paperback release with stills from the film at the centre of the book, and the cast details etc on the covers.
SIGNET 451-W6752
VG paperback, pen name at front page.
$10 A/B
New American Library/ Signet, undated (1975). 272pp + photographs.
[PB1526 ]
A biography of D H Lawrence which reveals his search for emancipation from his mother and the forging of his sexual identity.
Examines the influences and relationships that shaped the young Lawrence.
ISBN9780749003173
English Literature, biography, Twentieth century, british, modernist
VG- softback, corner creased.
$15 C/C
Allison and Busby 1998, 316pp + plates.
[#4503 ]
A classic novel set in the Deep South in the 1930s, in which lawyer Atticus Finch defends an innocent black man accused of raping a white girl.
ISBN0330241184
Pulitzer Prize, american literature,
G+ paperback
$7 A/B
Pan 1974, 285pp.
[PB1598 ]
War-time short writings by V S Pritchett, C Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, Sartre, Lorca, Auden, Isherwood and others.
Some first publications.
Literature, Anthology, Short Stories, Penguin first edition
Paperback with sewn sheets in paper wrapper, war time issue cheaper paper, spine has strip of clear tape along the edge and on to both wrappers, convent library stamp to half title and title, small grease spot bottom margin rear few pages.
$9 A/A
Penguin 1941 first edition, 143pp.
[PB1587 ]
Verse, prose, poety and art.
First printings of some of the contents.
Includes Frank Sargeson, Alan Curnow etc.
literature, british, commonwealth, new zealand content
#27 Spring 1946.
G+ paperback
$10 A/B
Penguin Books, 192pp + plates.
[#5285-27 ]
#29 Autumn 1946.
G+ paperback
$10 A/B
Penguin Books, 186pp + plates and adverts.
[#5285-29 ]
A novel about the relationships between six people which deals with so many daring themes for its time.
British, fiction, first edition
G+ cloth hardback, top of fep clipped, joints rubbed, spine ends frayed.
$10 C/C
Chatto 1930 first edition, 318pp
[#4951 ]
A collection of reviews of books yet to be written
VG paperback
$14 A/A
Mandarin 1991 paperback, 229pp ISBN 074930538X [#2314 fiction ]
VG
$15 C/B [Item# 8 FE]
Cape 1955 first edition in original pictorial wrappers with folding flaps (price clipped) maybe a proof? Sewn binding. Simmering antagonisms in a post Civil War Spanish fishing village. 259pp
Being the Discursive & Improbable Account of Sundry Journeyings in Search of the Characters, the Plot and Other Essential Raw Material for a Novel in the Romantic Tradition.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket. Jacket has some rubbing or chipping to corners and spine ends. Head of spine tape repaired. Endpapers have mild foxing.
$25 C/B
Peter Davies 1949 first edition, 214pp.
[#3291 ]
VG VG unclipped, closed edges yellowed.
$30 C/D [FE 2]
Granada 1984 first edition hardcover, 672pp. ISBN 0346114185
G+ G name to fep, small stain fore edge of pages, DW chipping and torn at spine ends and corners and with tape repair.
$5 C/C [FE 32]
Collins 1974 first edition hardcover, 192pp. US Cavalry vs Paiute Indians in Nevada 1870s.ISBN 0002215470
VG VG DW spine sunned, unclipped.
$15 C/C [FE 33]
Collins 1968 first edition hardcover, 254pp.
VG- VG- head of fep trimmed, DW spine sunned, unclipped.
$10 C/C [FE 34]
Collins 1968 first edition hardcover, 254pp.
VG- VG- head of spine worn, DW some edge and fore edge chipping, tape residue to endpapers,foxed closed edges, comes with BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE band.
$15 C/C [FE 35]
Collins 1963 first edition hardcover, 255pp.
Near Fine Near Fine small nick to tail of DW, faint foxing closed edges.
$15 C/C [FE 36]
Collins 1969 first edition hardcover, 255pp. Another copy VG in lightly worn and slightly chipped DW $10.
VG VG short tear at bottom edge of front of price clipped DW.
$15 C/C [FE 37]
Collins 1973 first edition hardcover, 222pp. ISBN 0002219476
VG VG name to fep, faint tape offsetting, small tear top spine corner of price clipped DW.
$10 C/C [FE 38]
Collins 1966 first edition hardcover, 255pp.
VG+ VG small tear to tail of DW lower panel, price clipped.
$15 C/C [FE 39]
Collins 1967 first edition hardcover, 256pp.
Translated by H T Lowe-Porter, and with a postscript by the author on The Making of the novel.
ISBN 0436272377
VG+ hardback in VG+ dustwrapper which is price clipped and bears Secker and Warburg logo to the tail.
$25 C/C
Nationwide Book Service 1979 reprint, 729pp.
[#4902 ]
The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) is a dialectic novel set in a sanatorium high in the Swiss Alps.
ISBN0140014756
German literature, modern fiction, Nobel prize for literature 1929
VG- paperback
$8 A/B
Penguin reprint, 716pp.
[PB1594, BOX#2]
Mark Thewliss and his fiance board the nine ton cutter Sea Flower to practise for a thrilling race on the sea.
A romantic story examining the lives of young 1920s socialites.
VG- cloth hardback, some edge foxing towards rear pages.
$25 C/B
Hodder 1930 first edition, 312+8pp adverts
[#4950 ]
Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression.
Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent stepdaughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s, yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing.
Almost fifty years after its first publication, Lolita remains a powerful tale of perversion and love gone wrong.
ISBN9780141037431
VG paperback
$8 A/B
Penguin 2008, 361pp.
[PB1528, 1629 ]
An erotic literary work by this feminist icon.
fiction, literature, erotica
VG- hardback with no dust jacket.
A few pencil numbers to end paper, boards slighlty soiled by dust and handling.
A few page corners have been folded over.
$20 C/B
Spearman 1955 First Edition, 136pp.
[#4248 ]
Nin's personal diaries where she explores her friendships, writing, and personal life and difficulties.
Includes Henry Miller and his wife June, and Anais discusses her psychoanalytic sessions.
These expurgated diaries cover; Volume I (1931 1934), Volume II (1934 1939), Volume III (1939 1944), Volume IV (1944 1947).
ISBN0156260298
Anais Nin, Paris, Left Bank, Henry Miller, women's writing, 1930s, 1940s, avant garde, bohemia, feminism
G+ softbacks in slip case.
Some reading wear and minor soiling.
$55 D/D
Harvest Books 1966-1971 (maybe later printings). 369+357+327+235pp.
[#4140 ]
Transcript of an interview with Anais Nin, where she speaks of her work, and her mentors.
Henry Miller, Left Bank, Literature, Avant Garde, Feminist
G+ softback
$15 C/A
Village Press 1973 first UK edition, 35pp.
[#4110 ]
A semi-autobiography of Nuttal with huge amounts of references to all the 1960s counterculture figures such as William S Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ,Timothy Leary and many more artists, philosophers and radical, poets etc.
american left, hippies, beatnik, literature, avant garde
VG paperback
$10 C/B
Paladin 1972, 252pp.
[#4134 ]
First published in 1925, this novel of the Irish Rebellion won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
ISBN 0224605429
Irish literature, twentieth century, fiction, Ireland
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Jacket has strongly sunfaded spine, Pen gift inscription to inside of cover.
$10 C/B
Jonathan Cape 1971, 272pp.
[#4704 ]
A collection of twelve stories.
ISBN 0340042753
modern first edition
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Publisher lamination at lower joint lifting but not split or chipped.
$25 C/C
Hodder 1969 first UK edition, 336pp.
[#4706 ]
A novel set in the 1920s.
ISBN 0340128917
modern first edition
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket ( price clipped).
$35 C/C
Hodder 1970 first UK edition, 249pp.
[#4707 ]
A novel concerning a Broadway playwright.
ISBN 0340029587
modern first edition
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
Publisher lamination on dust jacket at fore edge fold and joints lifting but not split or chipped.
$25 C/C
Hodder 1968 first UK edition,, 297pp.
[#4708 ]
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy' and 'Fever 103 degrees', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.
ISBN0571086268
VG softback
$9 C/ letter rate overseas
Faber 1972, 86pp.
[#3048 ]
Sylvia Plath's only novel, the life of Esther Greenwood, from schooling to work and a mental breakdown, and of a year in a mental asylum.
A semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before Plath's suicide
modern literature, female, feminist, american, ted hughes, depression
G+ paperback which has been contact sealed
$8 A/B
Faber 1980, 258pp. [#4114 ]
Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published before her death in 1963.
Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery that would later confirm her status as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century.
ISBN 0571098649
women's literature, British
VG softback.
$8 A/A
Faber 1987, 79pp.
[#4565 ]
Sylvia Plath's correspondence from her time at Smith College in the 1950s, meeting and marriage to Ted Hughes, and up to her death in 1963.
Edited by Aurelia Schober Plath.
ISBN 0060133724
VG- cloth hardback, light fade to spine, missing the dustjacket.
$20 C/C
Harper & Row 1975 first edition, 502pp.
[#5729 ]
Memoir by a Smith College roommate and friend of Plath, which casts light on her work and psychology.
ISBN0571104924
G+ softback with some handling wear. Sewn binding but in card wraps.
$8 C/A
Faber 1976, 88pp.
[#3003 ]
"The best critical biography of Plath yet, poet Stevenson's volume offers a convincing reinterpretation of a complex and controversial life." Publishers Weekly.
ISBN9780395538467
G+ softback with mild creases to covers. Remainder striped bottom closed page edge.
$15 C/C
Houghton Mifflin 1989 first edition, 413pp.
[#3004 ]
The elderly half-forgotten author Maurice Kingsley uses his beautiful fashion model niece Jessica's life as a model for a book, embroidering it with his own quirky insights into a surprise best-seller, a modern parable for a wasted life that becomes a candidate for the Booker Prize.
ISBN 0571150160
fiction, novel, british, The Singing Detective
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, but lacks fep, name and date to half title.
$10 C/B
Faber 1987 first edition, 184pp.
[#4842 ]
VG trade paperbacks
$10 per volume C/C
Vintage 1996, various pagination per volume. [#2675 modern literature ]
Jo-Jo Peltz and his wife move to Alphabet City, a slum on the Lower Eastside of Manhattan.
Returning to the same block where his grandparents lived in 1903, he finds the neighborhood drastically changed by gangs and random crime.
ISBN9780586089217
New York, fiction
G+ paperback, cover creased.
$7 C/B
Paladin 1990 UK paperback original, 285pp.
[#5210 ]
The first Penguin paperback printing in the year after the first UK edition was released by Heinemann.
american literature, modern fiction
G+ paperback with some mild foxing
$10 A/A
Penguin 1964 first edition thus, 157pp.
[PB1593 ]
Crime Passionel, Men without Shadows, The Respectable Porstitute. Translated from the French by Kitty Black. First English edition.
Vg hardback with name to paste down and minor foxing to closed top edge in a G+ dust jacket with loss to tail of spine, chipped at head and with some foxing.
$10 C/B
Hamish Hamilton 1949, 187pp [#2725 modern literature, play script, theatre ]
VG paperback
$5 A/A
Penguin 1977, 158 pages. ISBN0140027270 [PB1417 autobiography, literary ]
The loving friendship between Simone de Beauvior and Jean-Paul Sartre lasted for over half a century and ended with Sartre's death in 1980.
Adieux is a devastatingly frank account of the last years of Sartre's life and his death.
It also consists of long conversations which they taped in 1974 at the onset of his increasing blindness, in which, under de Beauvior's gentle probing, Sartre expresses himself fully - on women and politics, his childhood, religion and food.
ISBN9780140183283
existentialism, French, philosophy, politics
VG paperback
$10 C/B
Penguin 1985, 453pp.
[#4412 ]
VG VG DW rubbed to corners, unclipped.
$30 C/C [FE 21]
Calder & Boyars April 1966 second impression of first UK edition, hardcover, 234pp.
VG VG- unclipped DW lightly sunned spine with light edge wear to spine ends and corners.
$30 C/C [FE 14]
Hodder 1962 hard cover, 574pp. Genealogical and map endpapers, historical novel in time of Jacobite Uprising early eighteenth century.
VG VG private library stamp to title,small pen doodle rear fep, unclipped DW chipped at head of spine.
$10 C/C [FE 18]
Hodder 1966 first edition hardcover, 384pp map endpapers. Historical fiction set in 10th century Cornwall as well as Iceland and Vinland.
Complete, Authoritative 1831 text of Framkenstein by Mary Shelley, with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from five contemporary critical perspectives. critical history by Mary Lowe-Evans, psychoanalytic criticism by David Collings, feminist criticism by Johanna M. Smith, Marxist criticism by Warren Montag, Cultural criticism by Lee E. Heller.
ISBN0312044690
VG softback, pen name at head of title page
$20 C/C
Bedford/ St Martins 1992, x 352pp. [#2818 modern literature]
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket with chipped spine ends and splits down fore edge folds, brown spot at head of front cover.
$5 C/C
Heinemann 1960 first edition, 312pp,
[#915 ]
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket with edge wear and minor edge chipping.
$15 C/C
Heinemann 1960 first edition, 312pp.
[#5699 ]
VG- hardback in G+- dust jacket with edge wear, short tears to folds and minor edge chipping. Lacks free end paper.
$10 C/C
Heinemann 1960 first edition, 312pp.
[#5700 ]
VG VG- unclipped DW worn to edges with mild chipping to upper fore edge corners, light spine lean.
$15 C/C [FE 45]
Collins 1981 first edition hardcover, 365pp, Crime serial killer thriller set in Moscow made into a blockbuster film. ISBN 0002222787.
The Misadventures of Topper
A comic fantasy involving sex, much drinking and ghosts.
This is the first Topper title, and was published with that title also.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Minor chipping to spine ends, light soiling to rear wrapper.
$30 C/B
Methuen 1956, 312pp
[#5393 ]
A thriller set on the seas of Africa and Antarctica.
" The 'Golden Prince' is deposed: once the flamboyant chairman of a huge shipping consortium, now the captain of a salvage tug such is the revolution in the life of Nick Berg.
Then a cruise ship, stranded with six hundred people in the frozen wastes of the Antarctic, could be his chance to fight back. His heroic salvage of the liner in some of the most terrifying weather on this planet sweeps him back to even greater power and an even more deadly conflict with the man who has supplanted him as chairman."
ISBN0434714119
G hardback in G worn and soiled but generally intact price clipped dust jacket with sunned spine. Small pen note to paste down.
$10 C/C
Heinemann 1978 first edition, 377pp.
[#3269 ]
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket with lightly sunned spine and has been contact sealed with small bookseller label underneath the contact film, the contact is to the exterior of the jacket only, not wrapped around to the reverse. Old cellotape rust to edge of fold in flaps and paste downs, endpapers slightly discoloured from offset foxing, light foxing to closed edges.
$20 C/C
Heinemann 1978 first edition, 377pp.
[#238 ]
Another instalment in the Courtney saga. " Sean Courtney, who made and lost 5 million on the goldfields of the Witwatersrand and fought his way through the bloody battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War, now makes his final appearance as soldier, statesman and power in the land.
War and a bitter estrangement have lost him his own sons. But when Fortune brings him young Mark Anders, a man as dear to him as his own blood, Sean is drawn into a drama as turbulent as any in his life.
From the devastation of the trenches in northern France, through the violence of the Johannesburg strikes during the early 'twenties, to the serene splendours of the African wilderness, this novel vibrates with Sean's towering personality and is driven forward with unquenchable energy by young Mark, relentless in his pursuit of justice."
ISBN0434714100
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with minor handling and minor sun fade to front panel.
$10 C/C
BCA 1977 published same year as the Heinemann first issue. 539pp.
[#3270 ]
Part of the Courteney saga.
ISBN 033365330
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$15 C/C
MacMillan 1997 first edition, 554pp, map endpapers.
[#5431 ]
Part of the Courtney saga.
ISBN 0434714208
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket.
Name to free end paper.
$15 C/C
Heinemann 1989 first edition, 461pp + adverts.
[#5432 ]
Part of the Courtney saga.
ISBN 0434714186
keywords
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket.
Small pen marks next to list of titles, name to free end paper, very minor spotting to closed edges.
$15 C/C
Heinemann 1987 first edition, 627pp + adverts.
[#5433 ]
VG VG unclipped DW, light spine lean.
$25 C/C [Item# 30 FE]
Heinemann 1985 first edition hardcover, 435pp + adverts. ISBN 043471416X
VG VG unclipped DW, light spine lean, faint offset adhesive ghost to feps from DW cover.
$25 C/C [Item# 31 FE]
Heinemann 1984 first edition hardcover, 367pp + adverts. ISBN 0434714151.
VG VG- minor mark from erased pencil top corner of fep, DW price clipped with some edge wear and sunned spine, light splits at joint ends, minor water spot very tip of bottom corner rear pages.
$45 C/C [Item# 39 FE]
Heinemann 1974 first edition hardcover, 307pp. ISBN 434714079.
A biography of the author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, famously persecuted by Stalinist Russia, who fictionalised his experiences in his novels.
ISBN 0349104433
russia, literature, cold war, soviet, stalin
G+ paperback
$8 C/B
Abacus 1973 soft cover 445pp+ plates
[#4949 ]
A novel of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, which Steinbeck used a a vehicle for describing the Salinas Valley in detail.
An epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love s absence.
ISBN9780142004234
Steinbeck Centennial Edition
VG softback, sewn sheets and French flaps.
$10 C/C
Penguin2002 first thus edition, 601pp
[#4408 ]
The novel that won John Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 endures as his masterpiece. An extraordinary book which caused a storm of controversy, it remains one of the most powerful and persuasive novels of human tragedy and endurance ever written.
The narrative follows the destiny of the Joads, a family of refugee farmers from Oklahoma who abandon the dustbowl to head west, for the fields and orchards of California. Travelling in a beat-up truck with all their possessions, they are impelled by hope of work, but the promised land turns out to be a world of labour camps, hungry people and broken dreams, the scene of an elemental conflict between migrant workers and company thugs.
ISBN9780749391553
american modern literature
VG- paperback
$8 A/ B
Minerva 1992, 535pp.
[#3451 ]
Culled from archive tapes stored at the National Library of Wales following the death of Colin Edwards, who had interviewed everyone he could find with a Dylan Thomas connection as the groundwork for an intended biography.
David N. Thomas has edited the transcribed tapes, discovering startling new information about Thomas's life and writing.
Volume One covers Dylan's life to the age of twenty, when he left Swansea for what he hoped would be a bohemian life in London.
ISBN9781854113481
Wales, Welsh, Celtic, poetry, literature, biography
VG softback with gift inscription to first page.
$15 C/C
Seren / Poetry Wales Press 2003, 314pp.
[#4229 ]
Judy's father, Captain Woolcot, found his vivacious, cheeky daughter impossible; but all seven children were really too much for him and most of the time they ran wild at their rambling riverside home, Misrule.
Step inside and meet them all; dreamy Meg, and Pip, daring Judy, naughty Bunty, Nell, Baby and the youngest, 'the General'.
Come and share in their lives, their laughter and their tears.
ISBN 9780143204862
australian, children's fiction, colonial
VG paperback
$8 A/A
Penguin 2010, 177pp.
[PB1666 ]
Sequel to Rabbit, Run, Updike resumes the spiritual quest of Harry Rabbit Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the former athlete has become a thirty-six-year-old conservative, and America has become the 1960s world of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, and his home invaded by a runaway and a radical. Yet he clings to semblances of decency and responsibility, and yearns to belong and to believe.
ISBN0233957049
VG- hardback in VG- price clipped dust jacket with small splt at corner fold and some edge wear. Book closed edges dusty.
$15 C/C
Andre Deutsch 1972 first edition, 407pp
[#3146 ]
VG VG lightly soiled DW chipped at head of sunned spine, feps browned.
$15 C/C [Item# 10 FE]
T Werner Laurie 1954 first edition hardcover, 497pp. Sixth century Constantinople and the rise of Theodora from courtesan to Empress of the Roman Empire. Historical fiction.
Three Volume complete set.
G+ cloth hardbacks, name and book label to paste down, spine lean, light wear.
$35 C/C
Ernest Benn 1926 first edition, 885pp. Stated Dominions and Colonies edition.
[#4859 ]
VG VG unclipped DW small split head of fore edge fold, light surface soiling rear panel. ISBN 0224023632
$10 C/C [FE 19]
Cape 1986 first edition hardcover, 288pp.
Reissue of this novel first issued in 1928.
G+ brown cloth hardback with no dust jacket, name stamp to free end paper.
$10 C/B
Faber 1944 reprint (first thus), 418pp.
[#5128 ]
A novel in which Harry Preston (a thinly disguised Colin Wilson) moves to 1950s London looking for adventure.
Moving into the impoverished and seedy world of the emerging Beat Generation, he lives in bed-sits and associates with actors, prostitutes and assorted Soho Bohemians.
VG- hardback in VG dust jacket.
Jacket unclipped and tidy, slightly handling soiled. Book has minor foxing to closed edges.
$30 C/B
Victor Gollancz 1961 second impression before publication, 224pp.
[#5094 ]
G hardback in G dust jacket. Ex library with stamps etc.
Jacket has shelf mark to spine and some tape residue to upper and lower edges, head of spine a little chipped.
Book rebound in red library cloth.
$15 C/B
Victor Gollancz 1961 second impression before publication, 224pp.
[FE48 ]
G ex library with stamps etc. book boards have some tape staining.
$20 C/B [FE 47]
Gollancz 1963 first edition hardcover, 272pp. DW may be useful for a better copy.
G lower joint splitting, light soiling to cloth, private library stamps to fep, top corner of fep trimmed, light tape rust to endpapers, binding loosening at rear hinge, closed edges lightly foxed, small stain to rear fep and last page of adverts, a good binding copy to recase in original boards.
$30 C/C [FE 43]
Herbert Jenkins 1931 stated first edition, 280pp + 8pp adverts.
Virginia Woolf's most popular novel.
VG- paperback.
$6 A/A
Grafton 1988, 192pp. ISBN 9780586044506
[PB1559 ]
VG- paperback.
$6 A/A
Panther 1977, 192pp. ISBN 0586044507
[PB1702 ]