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About this catalogue
Welcome to our Christmas, smallest and last catalogue for the year. Recent purchases, others that don't fit neatly into subject catalogues, and a vein of books from a collection that we bought three years ago and we thought had all been catalogued. Or, books about chess, tattooing, dogs, cancer, London, beach attire, walking, the never ending World War One, and sadism in the movies; others signed by Wilfred Thesiger, Jeanette Winterson, George Grosz, William Robinson, Margaret Atwood, Ian Rankn, Ben Hecht, Richard Hughes, and Michael Ondaatje; and three sets of Robert Crumb trading cards of American musicians.
Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from all of us here underneath the tennis court at Badger Books. And many thanks to our customers and colleagues for their business and support during the year.
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
Boston: Houghton Mifflin first American edition, 2000.
Forty-six stories, arranged chronologically, 1903 to 1999; contributors include O.Henry, Melville Davisson Post, Susan Glaspell, Ring Lardner, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Margaret Millar, the pillars of the pantheon, and up to Dennis Lehane; biographical notes on the contributors and foreword by the editor.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London Fields
London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1989.
Samson Young narrates the story of Keith Talent and others; signed by the author
Faint edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Mum & Mr. Armitage
London: Gerald Duckworth. First English edition, 1985.
Twelve stories, the author's first collection; signed by Beryl Bainbridge.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Circa 1492 - Art in the Age of Exploration
Washington and New Haven: National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press. First American edition, 1991.
Exhibition catalogue. Twenty-eight essays, 500+ colour reproductions: a survey of the World's Art around the end of the 15th century and before the Europe colonised and appropriated it.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Smut - Two Unseemly Stories
London: Faber and Faber and Profile Books. First English edition, 2011.
'The Greening of Mrs Donaldson' and 'The Shielding of Mrs Forbes', complete; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper in slipcase as issued.
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A Year with Maggie's
London: Royal Academy of Arts and Maggie's. First English edition, 2015.
The artist's illustrated journal of a year spent at the Maggie's Centre, Charing Cross Hospital, London, for cancer patients and their families; inscribed by the author to Susan [Lasdun].
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper. Printed invitation to the launch laid in.
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Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
London: Victor Gollancz. First English editions with these illustrations, 1984.
Two volumes. The complete texts and forty-four full page colour illustrations by Justin Todd of these enduring worlds.
Edgewear and spots of foxing to Through the Looking Glass, else both volumes very good in fine dustwrappers. The two volumes
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The Devil and All
London: The Nonesuch Press. First English edition, 1934.
Six droll, diabolical stories including the wonderful 'The Devil, George, and Rosie' featuring George Pennywhistle who is placed in charge of a females only circle of Hell; #721/1000 copies signed by the author, frontispiece by Blair Hughes-Stanton
Original green cloth. Gilt lettering on cover a little mottled, else fine.
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The James Joyce Murder
New York: Macmillan. First American edition, 1967.
Kate Fansier #2; literary archive, recently deceased publisher, interested parties, some unscrupulous ...
Small brown mark on the margins of p80-87, not obscuring any text, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Winter's Tales
New York: Random House. First American edition, 1942.
Eleven stories, the first beginning on a barque going from Marseilles to Athens.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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A Dog At All Things
London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1953.
An anthology re dogs: species, origins, characteristics, events influenced, relationships with their two legged masters, or is the last the other way around? Contributors include Martial, Shakespeare, Virgil, Emily Dickinson, Cervantes, Virginia Woolf, Booth Tarkington, as well as public bulletins and the mostly reliable "Anonymous"; 175pp.
Spots of foxing to extremities, else very good in dustwrapper.
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Dogs Bodies
London: Abelard Schuman. First English edition, 1970.
Text accompanied by pen and ink drawings of a long, hard look at man's best friend; the giver and demander of unconditional love; inscribed by the author on 4th July 1978.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Dogs
Polyiphiloi. First English edition, 2009.
Fourteen reproductions of paintings and sculptures by the artist all featuring dogs engaged in recognisable, though diverse, activities.
Pictorial wrappers. Postcards 10 x 15cms., all fine and ready to use.
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Provence - from Minstrels to the Machine
London: George Allen and Unwin. First English edition, 1938.
The writer on his lifelong passion for the 'real France' and which, according to Julian Barnes, '... the official 'France' - northern, bureaucratic, centralising - had long ago conquered and attempted to dismantle and to strip of its language: Provence'; illustrations by [Janice] Biala, the author's partner during the 1930s.
Fine in very good dustwrapper with a few nicks at the edges.
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The Carpathians
Auckland: Century Hutchinson. First New Zealand edition, 1988.
The author's eleventh and last novel published in her lifetime is concerned with the Puamahara, the memory flower, and its distinctive powers. Inscribed by Janet Frame to her friends the American artists Bill Brown and Paul Wonner, 'something small for Christmas ... from southern Jaybird Janet with love'
A little edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper.
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A High Wind in Jamaica
London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1929.
The author's first novel. A wonderful hybrid of children, pirates, hurricanes, the tropics and a hard look at what children are capable when placed in a particular set of circumstances. First published in America as The Innocent Voyage, this title later that year in England, and the second American edition followed suit; signed by the author on the half-title.
Fine in very good dustwrapper darkened on the spine, nicked at the crown and with a couple of chips
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The Black Tower
London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1975.
Adam Dalgleish #5.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Aren't You Rather Young To Be Writing Your Memoirs?
London: Hutchinson. First English edition, 1973.
Nine pieces written between 1960 and 1973; introduction, 22pp., by the author.
Remainder dot bottom edge, offsetting to prelims, else very good in dustwrapper with a couple of nicks
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The Forwarding Agent
London: The Toby Press. First English edition, 1999.
The only novel by the former director of the BBC World Service, a spy thriller set in the Middle East; inscribed by Austen Kark in the year of publication.
Original blue cloth and pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Letters from London
Port of Prince, Trinidad and Tobago: Prospect Press. First Trinidadian edition, 2003.
Seven essays written within months of James' arrival in London in 1932, age 31, published in the Port of Spain Gazette that year and, as he noted later in Beyond a Boundary, 'About Britain, I was a strange compound of knowledge and ignorance.'
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Slow Burn City
London: Picador. First English edition, 2016.
'London in the 21st Century' by the architecture critic for The Observer; inscribed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Or Shall We Die?
London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1983.
McEwan's words for Michael Berkeley's music; introduction, 13pp., by the author.
Very good in first issue dustwrapper darkened on the spine.
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The Innocent
London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1990.
Berlin 1955, an English Post Office technician and the locals; signed by the author.
Review copy with publisher's embargo slip laid in. Top edge a little dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Yallah
New York: McDowell, Obolensky. First American edition, 1957.
Photographs of northwest Africa by Peter W. Haeberlin. Introduction by Paul Bowles, 'How much we could learn from them [African people] about man’s relationship to the cosmos, about his conscious connection with his own soul. Where we could learn why, we try to teach them the all-important how, so that they may become as rootless and futile and materialistic as we are.'
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Idyll Wheel
Deakin, ACT: Officina Brindabella. First Australian edition, 1989.
'Cycle of a year at Bunyah, New South Wales, April 1986 - April 1987'; thirteen poems and preface; wood engravings by Rosalind Atkins; #211/290 numbered copies signed by the poet. Brindabella #16
Original cloth and boards with vignette. Fine in mylar dustwrapper.
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The Dalkey Archive
London: MacGibbon and Kee. First English edition, 1964.
The authorship of Ulysses is challenged by none less than its author himself: welcome to Dalkey, a seaside suburb of Dublin, or, for the purposes of this novel, a creation of Mr. O'Brien.
A spectacular copy. Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Night Gardener
New York: Little, Brown. Reprint, 2006.
A serial killer in Washington, DC; inscribed by the author.
Very good in fine dustwrapper.
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Paeans for Peter Porter
London: Bridgewater Press. First English edition, 1999.
A celebration for Peter Porter - an expatriate generation of one, correspondent and host to successive generations of Australian writers - on his seventieth birthday by twenty of his friends: Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Alan Brownjohn, Geoffrey Burgon, Wendy Cope, Allen Curnow, Ian Duhig, D.J. Enright, U.A. Fanthorpe, Barry Humphries, Clive James, David Malouf, Les Murray, Sean O’Brien, C.K. Stead, George Szirtes, Ann Thwaite, Anthony Thwaite, William Trevor, Kit Wright - a harmonious blend of local and Australian contributors - who have all signed this state. One hundred and thirteen copies printed, this is one of the 26 in quarter cloth and marbled paper boards, not numbered and marked as a contributor's copy.
Quarter cloth and marbled boards. Fine.
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The Black Book
London: Orion Books. First English edition, 1993.
John Rebus #5, tartan noir; signed by the author.
Review copy with local publisher's slip laid in. Fine in dustwrapper.
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Shadow in Sunlight - an Old Tale of Modern Provence
London: Blackie and Co. First English edition, 2001.
A group of English friends holidaying in France, seemingly random attacks on farm animals, an ancient legend, a detective from Paris: it could only be Provence; inscribed to Anthony Astbury of the Greville Press by the author in the year of publication.
Pictorial wrappers. One corner bumped, else fine.
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The Coast of Utopia
London: Faber and Faber. First English editions, 2002.
Three volumes: 'Voyage', 'Shipwreck' and 'Salvage', the complete trilogy. Politics, love, betrayal, life under Nicholas I in Russia, 1833-1866. Michael Bakunin, Ivan Turgenev, Vissarion Belinsky, Alexander Herzen, Alexander Pushkin and other artists, agitators and thinkers appear as characters, hoping to change an imperfect world, debating abstract ideas like liberty, democracy, censorship, and revolution, or leading their daily lives, including love triangles, family tensions, and personal tragedy such as Herzen's real life loss of his child Kolya in a shipwreck.
The trilogy has more than 70 characters, performed by around 40 actors, and, to date, has been produced in London, New York, Moscow and Tokyo between 2002 and 2009.
Fine in matching dustwrappers. The three volumes
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Paul Strand - Photographs 1915-1945
New York: Museum of Modern Art. First American edition, 1945.
The first photography monograph issued by the Museum, errata slip tipped-in; inscribed by the author.
Fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple of chips at the crown of the spine.
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Why We Build
London: Picador. First English edition, 2012.
A wide net of everything the author knows and has thought about buildings; inscribed by the author.
A little canted, else fine in dustwrapper.
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The Modern Crime Story
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press. First English edition, 1980.
Text of a lecture given at York University, Toronto, December 1975 by the prolific crime novelist; #108/125 numbered copies printed by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press.
Plain wrappers with printed label. Fine.
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Lanna Style - Art and Design of Northern Thailand
Bangkok: Asia Books. First Thai edition, 2000.
History of the kingdom in northern Thailand: emergence, golden age, decline, revival; illustrated throughout with colour photographs of Ping Amranand; 240pp., glossary.
Fine in dustwrapper
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My Kenya Days
London: HarperCollins. First English edition, 1994.
Beginning with his first visit in 1960 and, like many other of the author's destinations, now long gone; illustrated, indexed; signed by the author.
Two faint spots on title page, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Sacred Country
London: Sinclair-Stevenson. First English edition, 1992.
Mary Ward's discovery, aged six, 'I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy.' Signed by the author.
Extremities evenly tanned, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Long Distance Paths of England and Wales
Newton Abbot, Devon: David and Charles. First English edition, 1977.
Illustrated guides and histories to eight paths, another chapter on shorter paths, and a general introduction to long distance walking and protocols on the trail; produced well before the current boom.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and Water and The Broken Road
London: John Murray. First English editions, 1977-2013.
Three vols. The complete journey: from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, on foot, in 1933, on £1.00 per week. The Broken Road - from the Iron Gates to Mount Athos was published posthumously in 2013, edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper; this copy is signed by them.
Top edge dusty on A Time of Gifts, else the three volumes fine in dustwrappers, the first two vols. both designed by John Craxton. The three vols.
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The.PowerBook
London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 2000.
Hard copy novel structured and inhabited electronically, and, these notwithstanding, still about love; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Children of the Sun - a Narrative of 'Decadence' in England after 1918
New York: Basic Books. First American edition, 1976.
The effect of World War One on a select group of English men, or the lives of Harold Acton, Brian Howard, Kim Philby, Evelyn Waugh, and forty of their friends.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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