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Our new catalogue: an Edward Lear alphabet; a tour of Delft during the time of Vermeer; an Egyptian oasis during the 1940s; Rainer Maria Rilke’s only novel; a journey along the Danube; the first appearance of Danny Hill, Fanny’s brother; Ian Jackson’s funeral book; an early transgender novel only 26 years old; signed books by Peter Carey, Umberto Eco, Frederick Forsyth, Marius Kociejowski, John Le Carré, Alexander McCall Smith, Hilary Mantel, Harold Pinter, Mary Renault, Rose Tremain, Derek Walcott, Alan Warner and Heathcote Williams; a collection of aphrodisiacal recipes; Saeed the Pessoptimist, a Palestinian Israeli; Bali during the 1930s, illustrated; Jacques d’Adelsward Fersen; a moment of Frank Sinatra's time, Melbourne, 1955; and the beginnings of a Capri collection.
London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 2005.
About 'The Great Wyrley Outrages' of 1903 and other things. Uncorrected proof of the first English edition.
Printed wrappers. Fine.
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Norfolk, CT: New Directions. Second American edition, 1962.
The sheets of the second English edition, these a photo-offset reprinting of the original 1929, and a new preface for this edition by Sylvia Beach, ''Our Exag', as it was called is most valuable, indeed indispensable to readers of Finnegans Wake: they would do well to hear what these writers, friends and collaborators of Joyce, followers of his new work as it progressed, have to say on the subject." Apart from Beckett, these writers include Robert McAlmon, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Elliot Paul, William Carlos Williams and John Rodker; and the two letters of protest by G.V. L. Singsby and Vladimir Dixon.
Fine in dustwrapper with a couple of nicks at edges.
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Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. First American edition, 1995.
Thirty-eight essays, letters, memoirs; titles include: 'Memory of Mexico', 'Nonational Boundaries of Surrealism', 'Visit with Leon Trotsky', 'The Night of the Rose-Hotel', 'The Marseilles Deck'; 277pp. plus notes. Has there ever been a more documented movement?
Fine in dustwrapper
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London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1969.
Twelve stories, ten narrated by Qwfwfq. Try pronouncing the narrator's name.
Fine in dustwrapper designed, appropriately for the period, by Om Tentacle.
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London: William Heinemann. First English edition, [1929].
Foreword by Francis Brett Young. Fifteen pieces, 'essays in imaginative literature' of aspects of life on Capri. #237/530 numbered copies printed on mould-made paper at The Windmill Press.
Original cloth. Top edge gilt. Short tear to top edge of prelims., else fine in very good dustwrapper with a snag at the top of the rear panel. Woolf B3 who hadn't seen the dustwrapper.
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New York: New Directions. First American edition, 1968.
Fifty-four poets, from ten countries, all concrete poetry; introductory essay by the editor, translated by Lee Hildreth.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: HarperCollins. First English edition, 1997.
C.W. Sughrue and Milo Milodragovitch team up for the first time.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Beauly, UK: Privately printed, 2010.
Previously in The Scottish Bookman, November 1935 and written while the author was living in penury in Biarritz; #5/45 numbered copies hand-set in Bembo type; inscribed by the publisher printer in the year of publication.
Purple wrappers with printed label. Fine.
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London: William Heinemann. First English edition., 1952.
Proof copy, 'For Your Personal Reading'. A hardboiled team of collaborators: collected and written, barely pseudonymously, by Norman Douglas, introduction by Graham Greene, decorations by Bruce Roberts, without the frontispiece painting by D.H.Lawrence, acknowledgements to Faith Compton Mackenzie and Sybille Bedford for their contributions and help. Meat, fish, game, sauces, desserts, drinks (the mutton cutlets with cognac are the favourite of our packing department); a collection of recipes, all with aphrodisiacal qualities; the author's last book, 'fitting', according to Graham Greene in his introduction. Barry Humphries' copy with his bookplate, a harmonious association.
Printed wrappers. Crown and base of spine worn, tear along top of front cover and spine, owner signature. About very good.
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London: TR Press. First English edition, 1977.
A collection of traditional Egyptian funeral chants and wedding songs, translated by John Heath-Stubbs and Shafik H. Megally, inscribed by the latter.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. First American edition, 2002.
Anger, grief, shame and other emotions, alone and in combination, in literature and in our daily lives.
Spots of foxing to foredge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. First English edition., 1997.
Twenty-four chapters from the origins to new ways of studying with exceptions, irregularities and other pitfalls netted along the way; illustrated, indexed and cross referenced, 488pp., laid out brilliantly, well beyond any electronic equivalent.
Scattered foxing along top edge, very good in fine dustwrapper.
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London: Bantam Press. First English edition, 1989.
The London Limited Editions issue, #18/150 copies, signed by the author; the most intricately plotted of his novels.
Blue grey cloth and marbled boards. Spots of foxing to top edge, else fine in glassine dustwrapper as issued.
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London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1988.
An obsessive passion; the London Limited Editions issue: #98/150 copies signed by the author.
Spots of foxing to top edge, else fine in glassine dustwrapper.
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Berkeley, CA: Ian Jackson. First American edition, 2018.
Jan Cosinka's lexicon, 'My old friend Alan Davidson was commemorated in 2004 with what I believe was the first funeral cookbook in English. Why not, I thought, a funeral lexicon, with all of the corpse's favorite words and sayings? ... the bulky manuscript of 'A Glossary of Cosinkan' ... will remain a work-in-progress until finally 'crystallised' for posthumous publication, may be printed verbatim on my decease.' Ian Jackson, aka Jan Cosinka, died on 18 February 2018. 250 copies.
Printed wrappers. Fine.
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London: Readers International. First English edition, 1989.
Sub-titled "A Palestinian who became a citizen of Israel", first published in Arabic in 1974.
Fine in dustwrapper sunned on spine.
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London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1994.
A pesky Englishman in Belgium; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Berkeley, CA: Ian Jackson. First American edition, 2017.
Published in Dutch in 1937, first English translation here by Roger Kuhn, introduced by him. Parallel text of the Dutch manuscript facing the English translation. See the publisher's webpage for some background and detail to this elegant production.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine. 250 copies.
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London: Profile. First English edition, 2016.
Insults through the ages, divided into subject and context, up to and including Brexit, 'unchallenged master of the self-inflicted wound', Nicholas Soames on Boris Johnson; 425pp., indexed.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Frederick Warne. First English edition, 1926.
A droll introduction to one of the author's worlds and a mission statement of sorts: illustration and six lines of verse for each letter; produced circa 1849, through two private collections on its way to the publisher; #869/1000 numbered copies.
Illustrated grey cloth. Bookplate. Faint spotting to endpapers, spine darkened. Very good.
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London: John Murray. First English edition, 2003.
Collects thirty-nine pieces, a combination of extracts from his books, introductions to those of others and pieces originally in journals; subjects include: a cave on the Black Sea, sash opening windows, cold sores, early reading and desert island books and notes on Spain in a letter to Diana Cooper; edited by Artemis Cooper, 274pp.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Allen Lane. The Penguin Press. Reprint, 2001.
The author's anthology of writings he considered to be essential reading – thirty pieces by familiar and less familiar voices, many with their roots in Levi's experience of Auschwitz, based on salvation through laughter, knowledge, and understanding the injustice of suffering and the stature of man; translated with an introduction by Peter Forbes, afterword by Italo Calvino setting out the background to the project – many writers invited etc. – and his way in to Primo Levi's selection.
Spots of foxing to foredge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Pantheon Books. First American edition, 2004.
Isabel Dalhousie #1; signed by the author in the year of publication.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Pantheon Books. First American edition, 2007.
Precious Ramotswe #8; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Zurich: Lars Muller. First Swiss edition, 2012.
A chapter in the life of the Palladian villa - featuring a diverse cast of residents, guests and visitors, its restoration by Catherine, Baroness d'Erlanger and Albert (Bertie) Clinton Landsberg - which is brought to a close by World War Two. English text.
Printed boards with vignette. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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New York: Harry N. Abrams. First American edition, 2001.
One hundred+ authors, 13th century to Georges Perec, short entry re the author facing full page colour reproduction of a page of manuscript; 275 illustrations, 140 colour.
Remainder stripe bottom edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Short Books. First English edition, 2010.
Iris Murdoch's letters to Frank Thompson and David Hicks during World War Two, interspersed with extracts from her journals, are published for the first time as part of editor Peter J. Conradi's campaign to rectify Murdoch's two-dimensional portrayal in her widower's memoirs and the film 'Iris'.
Edited and introduced by Peter J. Conradi.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Secker and Warburg. First English edition, 1965.
Five stories:'The Temptation of Quiet Veronica' and 'The Perfecting of a Love' first published in 1911; 'Grigia', 'The Lady from Portugal' and 'Tonka' in 1924.
Fine in near fine dustwrapper.
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London: London Limited Editions. First English edition, 1991.
Lawrence Norfolk's first book; #28/150 numbered copies signed by the author.
Brown cloth and marbled patterned boards. Top edge dusty, else fine in transparent dustwrapper.
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London: Bloomsbury. First English edition, 2012.
The story of a young orphan's rise from scullery boy in a manor house to the greatest cook of his generation in the cornucopian kitchens of seventeenth century England; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: John Murray. First English edition, 1984.
The author's thoughts on the duties and obligations of the biographer in a 30pp. essay followed by portraits of Lauro de Bosis, Ruth Drpaer, Gaetano Salvemini and Ignazio Silone, all in some manner members of the Italian Resistance during World War Two; photographs, annotations, index.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1934.
Beginning from Florence and heading south: Giuseppe Orioli's account of a walking tour in Southern Italy with Norman Douglas and Charles Prentice; 27 prints, photographs and other reproductions.
Hamilton Collection copy. Fine in dustwrapper with the title page vignette in place.
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Beauly, UK: Privately printed, 2009.
First and only previous publication of this story by the American writer and poet was in the November 1916 issue of Century Magazine; #41/65 numbered copies printed on Accent Fresco paper, hand-set in S.B. Perpetua by Alan Anderson; dedicated to Barry Humphries, and inscribed by the printer publisher.
Purple wrappers with printed label. Faint crease to top front left corner, else fine.
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New York: G.P. Putnam's. First American edition, 2005.
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa; an Ed Harris movie in 2008.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Putnam's Sons. First American edition, 2008.
Everett Hitch moves on from Appaloosa and arrives in Resolution, a new town in the Old West, 'so new the dust has yet to settle.'
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Warwick: Greville Press in association with The Delos Press. First English edition, 2002.
Selected by Antonia Fraser, with an introduction by her, 'Harold is fortunate, I believe, to be able to mark the turning-points in his life through poetry ... '
Printed wrappers, sewn. Faint bump to head of spine, else fine. Label of David and Judy Gascoyne. 300 copies.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 2000.
An exact transcription of the twenty-three journals and journal fragments held by Smith College, Massachusetts, written by Sylvia Plath between the ages of eighteen and thirty, illuminating her student years, marriage to fellow writer Ted Hughes, and two years of living and working in New England; with the full text of the two journals which Ted Hughes unsealed just before his death in 1998; edited and annotated by Karen V. Kukil.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Norfolk, CT: New Directions. First American edition, 1940.
A bumper issue: Paul Goodman, Eudora Welty, James Agee and Walker Evans, Parker Tyler, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Orwell, many others; followed by a "Surrealism" supplement, 178pp., contributors include, from "Pre-Surrealists": Arthur Rimbaud, Franz Kafka, Alfred Jarry, "Surrealists": Michel Leiris, Magritte, Paul Eluard; 579pp. total, followed by "Literary Information", 40pp. of advertisements for books, bookshops, small press magazines and publishers; the book dedicated to the men of the Royal Air Force.
Spots of foxing to extremities, very good in dustwrapper with nicks at the crown and base of spine.
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New York: W.W. Norton. First American edition, 1930.
The author's only novel: semi-autobiographical, written while living in Paris, first published in German in 1910; and also known in English as The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
Snag to p.5 not affecting text, else fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: The Viking Press. First American edition, 1934.
Beginning in New York in 1914; the author's third book to appear in English after 'Job' and 'The Radetzky March'.
Fine in dustwrapper with three small marks on the front panel.
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London: Granta and Penguin. First English edition, 1991.
Seventy essays and reviews: Philip Roth, John Le Carre, Grace Paley, Italo Calvino, Satyajit Ray, The Assassination of Indira Gandhi, Rudyard Kipling, and Censorship; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 2005.
The author's Kashmiri novel; signed by Salman Rushdie.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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[Portland, ME]: [Thomas B. Mosher]. First American edition in this format, 1923.
Eight narrators retell the medieval legend of the crusade by 30,000 children to Jerusalem and its tragic consequences; translated by Henry Copley Greene; introduction by John L. Foley; four hundred and fifty copies printed on Kelmscott handmade paper (total edition 500).
Fine in very good chipped and torn glassine dustwrapper.
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Loanhead, UK: The Tragara Press. First English edition, 2004.
The distinguished 19th century short story, author of 'The Children's Crusade', and now better known as the uncle of Claude Cahun. Contains a review by the author of a biography of Marcel Schwob, 13 letters to the writer and his wife. The colophon notes that the 'idea for the book came from Barry Humphries' who is also noted as the owner of the author's letters reproduced here. Edited with notes by Alan Anderson, and inscribed by him in 2006; #43/60 numbered copies (total edition 75 copies)
Purple wrappers with printed label. Handset by Alan Anderson and printed on Teton paper. All fine.
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Manchester: Carcanet. First English edition, 1985.
The author's second collection of poetry; inscribed by Vikram Seth.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: Fourth Estate. Reprint., 2004.
Seventy commissioned personal accounts of humiliation, embarrassment, shame; contributors include: Margaret Atwood, Geoff Dyer, Edna O'Brien, Julian Barnes, William Trevor, A.L. Kennedy and Anne Enright.
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New York: Harcourt Brace and Co. First American edition, 1930.
The author's last book and, in Svevian sequence, his first to be published in America; Zeno followed later that year; and, also in Svevian fashion, a book that delicately juggles tragedy and comedy. Translation and introduction by Beryl de Zoete.
Fine in very good dustwrapper.
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Kilworth Beauchamp: Troubador Publishing. First English edition, 2013.
'Scenes from the World of Italo Svevo', from the diary of his younger brother; translated by Carmine G. Di Biase.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Budapest: Corvina Press. First English edition, 1963.
The author's first novel, originally published in 1934, set in a castle in North Wales, host to all the conventions required of isolated castles of Wales and elsewhere. Translated from the Hungarian by Lili Halapy and inscribed by her to Peter Brook in Budapest in 1964. Pushkin Press have been successfully republishing the idiosyncratic Hungarian author's works in the last few years.
Very good in dustwrapper chipped along the edges
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London: Sinclair-Stevenson. First English edition, 1992.
Beginning in 1952, and now an early transgender novel; the London Limited Editions issue: #29/150 copies signed by the author.
Cloth and marbled boards. Fine in glassine dustwrapper with chips and tears at the crown and base of the spine.
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London: Allen and Unwin. First English edition, 1958.
The war of 1839-1842 as described in, mostly, the diary of Commissioner Lin, reservedly referred to on the dustwrapper blurb as 'the bugbear of the English.'
Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1998.
Tougher than Tony: a Scottish girls' school choir on tour; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Portsmouth: Callum James. Second English edition, 2007.
A first hand account by the American expatriate writer of his friendship with, and insights about, Oscar Wilde; first published in 1936 by Constable. Introduction by Alan Anderson of the Tragara Press; #7/100 numbered copies signed by the publisher.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1988.
A poetic encounter between the author and a hermit dolphin in the south-west of Ireland; inscribed to Anthony Astbury, founder of the Greville Press, by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1989.
The author's long illustrated poem about 'Nature's land-whale'; 176pp; inscribed to Anthony Astbury by Heathcote Williams in the year of publication.
Anthony Astbury's bookplate. Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Jonathan Cape. First English illustrated edition, 1990.
Illustrated edition of the author's encounter with the hermit dolphin; first published in 1988. Inscribed by the author to Anthony Astbury in the year of publication.
Fine in near fine dustwrapper.
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