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MALOUF, David

London: Chatto & Windus 1996

8vo, pp.214. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to the spine. A little light sunning to spine, otherwise a fine copy... [more] .

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£35.00

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THEROUX, Paul

The Consul's File

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977

8vo., pp. 192. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First UK edition.

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£50.00

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ADDONIA, Sulaiman

The Consequences Of Love

London: Chatto & Windus, 2008

8vo, pp. 346. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'David, What can I say.... Thank you for your wonderful support. Best Wishes,... [more]

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£50.00

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BENTINE, Michael

The Condor and the Cross

London: Bantam Press, 1987

8vo, pp. 399. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, photographic portrait of the author to rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£45.00

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SPARK, Muriel
The Comforters
London: Macmillan, 1957

8vo, pp. 233. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated, later issue dustwrapper.

First edition of Spark's first novel,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£150.00

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GREENE, Graham
The Comedians
London: Bodley Head, 1966

8vo, pp. 313. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition.

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£95.00

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WHITE, Patrick
The Cockatoos
London: Cape, 1974

8vo, pp. 307. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge blue.

First edition.

A collection of six novellas and short... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£65.00

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JAMES, P.D
The Children of Men
London: Faber and Faber, 1992

8vo, pp.239. Original black boards, lettered in white on spine A near fine, unread copy with just the lightest of edgewear... [more]

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£40.00

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TREVOR, William
The Children Of Dynmouth

London: Bodley Head, 1976

8vo., pp. 222. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition. Booker shortlisted, and winner of the Whitbread Prize.

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£45.00

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BINYON, Laurence

The Burning Of The Leaves And Other Poems

London: Macmillan, 1944

8vo, pp. 18. Original paper wrappers.

First edition.

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£25.00

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NORTON, Mary

The Borrowers Avenged

London: Kestrel Books, 1982

8vo, pp. 285. Original brown boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition of the last volume in the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£20.00

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NORTON, Mary

The Borrowers Aloft

London: J.M. Dent, 1951

8vo, pp. 154. Original blue boards, lettered in red to spine. Line drawing in red to front panel. Illustrated endpapers and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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NORTON, Mary
The Borrowers Afloat
London: J.M. Dent, 1959

8vo, pp. 176. Original blue boards, lettered in red to spine. Line drawing in red to front panel. Illustrated endpapers and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£75.00

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McCARTHY, Cormac
The Border Trilogy
London: Picador, 1992-8

8vos. Vol. I: Original cream boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Vols. II and III: Original black boards, lettered in gilt to... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£125.00

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[MILLER, Henry] ed. PERLES, Alfred
The Booster, Christmas Special
Paris: P.p., 1937

Small 8vo, pp. 48. Original green stiff paper wrappers, printed in black to front and rear panels.

First edition.

In 1937, and for reasons best known to himself, the head of the American Country Club of France entrusted its house journal to the editorial control of Alfred Perlès, encouraging him to bring in his literary friends and turn it into 'something really good'. Perlès took him at his word. Henry Miller, William Saroyan and Lawrence Durrell were installed as Literary Editors, which was a solid start, but alarm bells must have started to ring when Michael Fraenkel opened the Department of Metaphysics and Metempsychosis, and Walter Lowenfels was appointed to the key position of Head of Butter News. The newly conceived organ was relaunched in September 1937 and followed a less than predictable orbit before crashing to earth seven issues later in April, 1939. (It was lucky to get to seven: when Durrell published a piece about an old man being fucked to death by Eskimo Nell, the name of the magazine was changed to Delta at the insistence of a management understandably fearing legal action.)

This is the third issue, which bears the seasonal title 'The Tri-Lingual Womb Number'. It features contributions from Gerald Durrell (Death), Henry Miller (How to Lead the Podiatric Life) and Perlès (Limbs Ancient and Modern), as well as Saroyan, Raymond Queneau and Anais Nin.

A scarce survivor, and a bizarre literary side street.

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DUNNING, John
The Bookman's Wake
New York : Scribner, 1995

8vo, pp. 351. Original tan and maroon quarter boards, lettered in red and tan-on-red on spine.

First edition. The second of Dunning's biblio-mysteries featuring the bookloving detective... [more]

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£45.00

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DeLILLO, Don
The Body Artist
London: Picador, 2001

8vo, pp. 124. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First UK edition.
Review copy: London Review of Books slip laid in.

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£15.00

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[Olympia Press] DURRELL, Lawrence
The Black Book
Paris: Olympia Press, 1959

Small octavo, pp. 301. Original green stiff paper wrappers.

First issue of the two Olympia Press versions issued by Maurice Girodias.
First published by Girodias' father Jack Kahane... [more]

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£50.00

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