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$18.50
xx58pol201608

Setting the World on Fire


WILSON, ANGUS

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Secker & Warburg 1980

KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Angus Wilson

$15.00
xx58pol201609

As If By Magic


WILSON, ANGUS

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Secker & Warburg 1973

KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels fiction Angus Wilson

$15.00
xx58pol201610

The Old Men at the Zoo


WILSON, ANGUS

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Secker & Warburg 1961

KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels fiction Angus Wilson

$17.50
xx58pol201611

For Whom the Cloche Tolls: A Scrap-book of the Twenties


WILSON, ANGUS & JULLIAN, PHILIPPE

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Secker & Warburg 1973

KEYWORDS: literature satire Angus Wilson

$15.00
xx58pol201612

A Bit Off the Mapp


WILSON, ANGUS

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Secker & Warburg 1958

KEYWORDS: short stories fiction literature Angus Wilson

$18.50
xx58pol201613

Moise and the World of Reason


WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: W H Allen 1976

KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction novels Tennessee Williams

$17.50
xx58pol201615

Injury Time: A Memoir


ENRIGHT, D J

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Pimlico 2003

KEYWORDS: literature literary autobiography autobiographies memoir D J Enright

$14.00
xx58pol201616

Mostly Cloudy


O'SULLIVAN, JAMES

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Independent As Books 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand authors writers literature short stories fiction James O'Sullivan

$22.50
xx58pol201617

Dearest Andrew: Letters From V Sackville-West to Andrew Reiber, 1951-1962


SACKVILLE-WEST, V & REIBER, ANDREW & MacKNIGHT, NANCY (Ed)

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1980

KEYWORDS: letters correspondence V Sackville-West Andrew Reiber literature literary history

$10.00
xx58pol201622

Music for Chameleons


CAPOTE, TRUMAN

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Sphere Books 1982

KEYWORDS: literature literary writings Truman Capote anthologies collection

$20.00
xx58pol201626

The Clown of God


DePAOLA, TOMIE

FIRST UK EDITION, quarto hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Methuen Children's Books 1979

KEYWORDS: illustrated children's literature Tomie DePaola modern first editions

$19.50
xx57pol201642

Indus Journey: A Personal View of Pakistan


KHAN, IMRAN & GOLDWATER, MIKE (Photos)

Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG) gift inscription in ink to half title page; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1990

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature autobiography autobiographies memoir Imran Khan Pakistan culture

$8.50
xx57pol201655

The Giver of Stars


MOYES, JOJO

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 2020

KEYWORDS: popular fiction novels literature Jojo Moyes

$8.50
xx57pol201658

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens


BARRIE, J M

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Wordsworth Editions 1995

KEYWORDS: children's fiction fantasy literature novels J M Barrie Peter Pan

$725.00
1y99f/8

The Stratagem and other stories


CROWLEY, ALEISTER

SCARCE. Sm 8vo, gold & black reptilian patterned boards, white paper label with black lettering to black cloth spine, 140 pp., colophon to p. 140, VG+ (sl soiling to spine, light bruising & chipping to board extrems, v sl bruising to spine extrems, moderate tanning & light soiling/foxing to pg edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev bookseller's sticker to front pastedown, top corners sl folded to pgs 21-24) in d/w VG- ( moderate soiling/tanning & scuffing, light creasing & chipping to extrems & edges, sm closed tear to top corner of back flap, sm adhesive label to rear)

PUBLISHER: The Mandrake Press N/D (1929?)

KEYWORDS: occult 20th century authors fiction magic witchcraft Aleister Crowley literature

$40.00
1y99f/10

Boyhood with Gurdjieff


PETERS, FRITZ

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, blue heavy bds, gilt lettering to spine, 176 pp., VG (sl fading & soiling to boards, light bruising to board/spine edges & extrems, moderate tanning/soiling & foxing to pg edges, moderate tape staining/residue to eps, top edge of ffep removed- approx. 2cm, light tanning, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light foxing throughout) in d/w VG (light soiling & foxing, light chipping to spine extrems, moderate foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1964

KEYWORDS: fiction Victor Gollancz Kather Katherine Mansfield Ernest Hemmingway Gertrude Stein Alice B Toklas literature novels modern first editions

$400.00
1y99f/12

The True Nature of Imposture Fully Display'd in the Life of Mahomet with A Discourse annex'd for the Vindication of Christianity from this Charge. Offered to the Consideration of the Deists of the Present Age.


PRIDEAUX, HUMPHREY

8vo, panelled calf, gilt lettering on red label to second and fifth section of spine, 5 bands, boardered title page, xvi + 260 pp., VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds & spine, bruising to edges & extrems, moderate to heavy cracking to hinges/gutters- boards sl shaky, heavy tanning to pg edges, moderate tanning & foxing to eps & text block, 10cm tear to ffep at gutter- partially detached, owner's inscription to ffep, bookplate to p. ii),

PUBLISHER: E. Curll against Catharine-street in the Strand, J. Hooke against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, W. Mears and F. Clay without Temple-Bar 1723

KEYWORDS: 18th century literature Mahomet Edmund Curll printing publishing criticism antiquarian religion theology Christianity

$70.00
1y99f/17

A Death in the Family


AGEE, JAMES

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, red heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, 339 pp., VG+ (light rubbing/fading & soiling to boards, sl bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pg edges & eps & prelims/terminals, minor foxing sporadic throughout) in d/w VG (light to moderate tanning & foxing, moderate foxing to spine, light creasing to edges, sl brusing & chipping to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1958

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature fiction novel family love tragedy James Agee

$150.00
1y99f/18

Brides of Price


DAVIN, DAN

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, black heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, 254 pp., VG+ (minor rubbing & soiling, minor scuffing to edges, light bruising to extrems, light tanning & light to moderate foxing to pg extrems, light tanning/soiling & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals), in d/w VG+ (light to moderate soiling, light taninng & foxing, spine extrems & edges lightly scuffed)

PUBLISHER: Robert Hale & Company 1972

KEYWORDS: New Zealand fiction literature Oxford England university fiction grief marriage

$40.00
1y99f/22

The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady


BAXTER, JAMES K; WEIR, J E

FIRST EDITION. Ex-library. 8vo, red heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, 99 pp., VG (moderate tape & tape residue to boards, light soiling, light to moderate soiling/fading & bruising/chipping to spine & board extrems, light to moderate tanning & light foxing to pg edges, light tape residue to eps, usual library markings, light marginalia in pencil, light tanning to text block) in d/w VG (light soiling to covers & edges, light bruising & chipping to extrems with tape repairs, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1976

KEYWORDS: James K Baxter J E Weir collected poems modern first editions poems poetry life death literature

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