1. Crichton, Michael.

Airframe.

First edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 17 x 25 cm. 351 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Signed by Michael Crichton on the titlepage. Near fine condition. Wrapped in protective mylar.

2. Roth, Philip.

Zuckerman Unbound.

First UK Edition. London, Jonathan Cape, 1981. 20.9 cm x 14 cm. 225 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to edging. Pink decoration to top edges. Very clean inside. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

3. Hawkes, John.

The Blood Oranges.

First Edition. New York, New Directions, 1971. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 271 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

4. Hardy, Thomas.

The Return of the Native.

London, The Folio Society, 1971. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 413 pages with illustrations. Original hardcover with slipcase. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

5. Hardy, Thomas.

The Life and Death of The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Story of a man of Character. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick.

London, The Folio Society, 1990. 15 cm x 23 cm. 335 pages. Original, illustrated hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

6. Golding, William.

The Pyramid.

First Edition. London, Russell Square, 1967. 13 cm x 19 cm. 217 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

7. Forster, Margaret.

The Park.

London, Secker & Warburg, 1968. 13 cm x 20.3 cm. 208 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Content is clean with light foxing to edges. Light discolouration to boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Front endpaper contains previous owner’s stamp.

8. Hasek, Jaroslav.

Den gode soldat Svejk’s eventyr.

Two Volumes. København, Det Schonbergske Forlag, 1967. 11.4 cm x 18.5 cm. Pagination: Volume I: V, 347 pages / Volume II: 239 pages. Original Paperbacks in original case sleeve. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight tears to spine on both volumes. Decorated yellow edges on both volumes. Closed tear to page 103 in Volume I. Only very minor foxing to endpapers and inner covers. Case has some minor wear and rubbed edges. Very good set. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

9. Martinez, Tomas Eloy.

The Tango Singer. Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.

London, Bloomsbury, 2006. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 246 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight.

10. Updike, John.

The Witches of Eastwick.

First edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. 15 x 22 cm. 307 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with minimal signs of rubbing and some minor fraying to the dustjacket.

11. Hardy, Thomas.

The Trumpet-Major: John Loveday, A Soldier in the War with Buonaparte and Robert his Brother. Preface by Thomas Hardy. Introduction by Paul I. Webb. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick.

London, The Folio Society, 1990. 15 cm x 23 cm. XVI, 314 pages. Original, illustrated hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

12. Snow, C.P.

Corridors of Power.

First Edition. London, Macmillan & Co., 1964. 12.5 cm x 19.5 cm. VIII, 408 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

13. Stuart, Francis.

Black List, Section H. A Novel. With a preface and postscript by Harry T. Moore.

First Edition. Carbondale and Edwardsville / London and Amsterdam, Southern Illinois University Press / Feffer & Simons, Inc., 1971. 15 cm x 22 cm. VII, 442 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscription by preowner. Slight spotting/discolouration on page edges. Clean inside with intact binding.

14. Huxley, Aldous / Foreman, Michael (illustrator).

After Many a Summer.

London, The Folio Society, 1980. 16 cm x 23 cm. 239 pages with many illustrations. Original hardcover with slipcase. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small mark on cover. Clean inside with solid binding.

15. Hardy, Thomas.

Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented. With an explanatory note and preface by Thomas Hardy. Introduction by Elspeth Sandys. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick.

London, The Folio Society, 1990. 15 cm x 23 cm. XIX, 418 pages. Original, illustrated hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight spotting on page edges and spine. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding.

16. Bioy Casares, Adolfo

La Invencion y la Trama, Obras escogidas. Edited by Marcelo Pichon Riviere. With an introduction and notes by Marcelo Pichon Riviere.

Barcelona, Tusquets, 1988. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 762 pages. Softcover. Minor, very tiny stain to edge. Otherwise in excellent condition.

17. Witt, Lana.

Slow Dancing on Dinosaur Bones.

Uncorrected Advance Proof. New York, Scribner, 1996. 15.5 x 23.5cm. 352 pages. Original softcover in protective cover. Book-Block cleanly detached, otherwise in very good condition.

18. Wilson, Christopher.

Cotton.

Uncorrected Proof Copy. Orlando, Harcourt, Inc., 2005. 15 x 23cm. 314 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

19. White, Ruth.

Sweet Creek Holler.

First Edition. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 215 pages. Jacket illustration by Ted Lewin. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Extensive Highlighting and pencil markings within text by Masako Haugaard, who translated the book into Japanese. This was her working-copy. Good+ condition externally with only minor external signs of wear. Small stain to endpaper. Minor foxing to edges and staining to Hardcover. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

20. Valin, Jonathan.

Life’s Work: A Harry Stoner Novel.

Uncorrected Galley Proof. New York, Delacorte Press, 1986. 13.5 x 21cm. 252 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition.

21. Twain, Mark.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Edited by Bernard L. Stein.

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1979. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 475 pages. All the original illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library].

22. Theroux, Paul.

Picture Palace.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 359 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

23. Swift, Jonathan.

Gulliver’s Travels. Illustrated by Hans Baltzer and edited by Elaine Moss.

Second Impression. Originally published by Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin W8. London, Constable Young Books Ltd. 1964. 21.5 cm x 30 cm. 176 pages. Generously illustrated in colour throughout. Original Hardcover with black-and-white illustration on front cover and title on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some slight damage to corners (bumped).

24. Straight, Susan.

I Been In Sorrow’s Kitchen And Licked Out All The Pots.

Advance Reading Copy. New York, Hyperion, 1992. 15.5 x 23.5cm. 326 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition.

25. Straight, Susan.

Blacker Than A Thousand Midnights.

Advance Reader’s Edition. New York, Hyperion, 1994. 15.5 x 23.5cm. 388 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, as new.

26. Stoker, Bram.

The Mystery of the Sea.

Chichester, Chichester Institute of Higher Education, 1998. 13 cm x 20 cm. XIV, 300 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

27. Stendhal / Seager, Allan (Translator) / Barr, Roger (Illustrator).

Memoirs of a Tourist. Preface by Allan Seager.

Evanston, Northwester University Press, 1962. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. XIII, 305 pages. With many illustrations. Original hardcover with protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. Considerable underlining by preowner. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding.

28. Sheffield, Elisabeth.

Fort Da: A Report.

Advance Reading Copy. Tuscaloosa, Fiction Collective 2 / The University of Alabama Press, 2009. 13.5 x 21cm. 310 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, as new.

29. Rowland, Laura Joh.

Shinju.

Advance Reader’s Edition. New York, Random House, 1994. 15 x 23.5cm. 350 pages. Original softcover in protective sleeve. Excellent condition, as new.

30. Roth, Philip.

Sabbath’s Theater.

Advance Reading Copy. Boston / New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. 15.5 x 23cm. 451 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition.

31. Pater – Downes, David Anthony.

The Temper of Victorian Belief. Studies in the Religious Novels of Pater, Kingsley, and Newman.

New York, Twayne Publishers. 1972. 8°. 159 Pages. Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition.

32. Ondaatje, Michael.

Divisadero.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 15 cm x 22 cm. 273 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Deckled Edges. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

33. O’Nan, Stewart.

A World Away.

Advance Reader’s Copy. New York, Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1998. 15.5 x 23cm. 338 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

34. Oe, Kenzaburo.

An Echo Of Heaven. Translated by Margaret Mitsutani.

Uncorrected Galley Proof Copy. Tokyo / New York / London, Kodansha International, 1996. 15 x 23cm. 205 pages. Original softcover in protective Mylar. Excellent condition.

35. Oates, Joyce Carol.

Angel Of Light.

Uncorrected Page Proof Copy. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1981. 13.5 x 21.5cm. (13), 440 pages. Original softcover in protective sleeve. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

36. Nabokov, Vladimir.

The Enchanter – His Long Lost Novel. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.

London, Picador, published by Pan Books, 1987. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. 127 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket painting – F Vallatton, 1913. Author photograph – Philip Halfman. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor inscription by previous owner on front pastedown.

37. Mowat, Farley.

Born Naked.

First Edition. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1993. 15 x 22 cm. 256 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition. Clean and tight copy.

38. Morris, Wright.

Love Among the Cannibals.

First Edition. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1957. 14 cm x 21 cm. 253 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

39. Michener, James A.

The Novel.

New York, Random House, 1991. 16 cm x 24 cm. 446 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

40. Michener, James A.

The Covenant.

Middlesex, The Leisure Circle, 1980. 16 cm x 24 cm. XII, 873 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

41. Lily Tuck.

Interviewing Matisse or The Woman Who Died Standing Up.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1991. 15 cm x 22 cm. 148 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and deckled edges. Jacket Design by Chip Kidd. Author photograph by Bill Hayward. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

42. Leonard, Hugh.

Home Before Night.

London, André Deutsch Limited, 1979. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 202 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some brown spots on edges. Clean inside with solid binding.

43. Le Clerc, M.E.

Mistress Beatrice Cope or Passages in the Life of a Jacobites Daughter.

London, Hurst and Blackett, Ltd. No date (c.1900). 13 cm x 19 cm. 335 pages. Original hardcover Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some wear along cover-edges. Browning and spotting of page-edges. Binding slightly strained in places but intact. Clean inside.

44. L’Amour, Louis.

To Tame A Land.

Advance Reading Copy. New York, Bantam Books, 2007. 13 x 19cm. 255 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, as new. [The Louis L’Amour Legacy Editions].

45. Johnson, Samuel.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. Edited with an Introduction by Geoffrey Tillotson and Brian Jenkins.

London, Oxford University Press, 1971. 13.5 cm x 21 cm. XXX, 145 pages. Illustrated with one photographic black and white reproduction of the title page of the first volume of the first edition, 1759. Original Hardcover (blue cloth with embossed gilt lettering). Name of prewoner on endpaper (tiny entry). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with a very few pencil marks in margins. [Oxford English Novels – General Editor: James Kinsley].

46. Jackson, Jon A.

The Diehard: A Novel.

New York, Random House, 1977. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 217 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

47. Irving, John.

Last Night in Twisted River.

New York, Random House, 2009. 17 cm x 24 cm. 554 pages. Jacket design by Gabrielle Bordwin with a jacket image by Everett Irving. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

48. Humphreys, Emyr.

Unconditional Surrender.

First Edition. Bridgend, Wales, Seren, Poetry Press Wales Ltd, 1996. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 156 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

49. Hobbie, Douglas.

The Day.

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1993. 13 cm x 22 cm. 241 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, close to new condition. [A John Macrae Book].

50. Hill, John Spencer.

The Last Castrato.

New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1995. 14.5 cm x 14.5 cm. 269 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

51. Hemingway, Ernest.

Die grünen Hügel Afrikas.

13.-20.Tausend. Hamburg, Rowohlt Verlag Hamburg, 1954. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 250 Seiten. Original Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag / with dustjacket. Colour photograph of Ernest Hemingway on back cover of dustjacket from ‘Look, New York’. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

52. Hardy, Thomas.

Far from the Madding Crowd. Introduction by Bel Mooney. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick.

London, The Folio Society, 1990. 15 cm x 23 cm. XVIII, 413 pages. With several illustrations. Original, illustrated hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. In original slipcase. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight scuffing on spine. Clean inside with solid binding.

53. Hamilton, Jane.

The Book of Ruth.

Boston / New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. 14.5 cm x 21.6 cm. 328 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Only very minor discolouration to edging and very minor foxing to spine/ hardcover. Very intact dustjacket with no wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

54. Gunn, Kirsty.

Rain.

Advance Reader’s Edition. New York, Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. 12.5 x 18.5cm. 95 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, as new.

55. Grossmith, George / Grossmith, Weedon.

The Diary of a Nobody. Drawings by John Lawrence.

London, The Folio Society, 1969. 12 cm x 22 cm. 165 pages with illustrations. Original hardcover with slipcase. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

56. Greene, Graham.

The End of the Affair.

New York, The Viking Press, 1966. 13 x 19.5cm. 240 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition, some signs of external wear including suning and bumping, mild foxing to edges. Previous owner’s name on half-title page. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. [Compass Books, No. C83].

57. Green, Terence M.

Shadow of Ashland.

Advance Reading Copy. New York, Forge / Tom Doherty Associates, 1996. 12.5 x 19cm. 221 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, as new.

58. Frey, Stephen W.

The Takeover.

Uncorrected Proofs Copy. New York, Dutton Books, 1995. 15.5 x 23cm. 352 pages. Original softcover in protective sleeve. Excellent condition, as new.

59. Frame, Janet.

The Carpathians.

London, Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 1988. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 196 pages. Dustjacket designed by AB3 Design with an illustration by Dulce Tobin. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

60. [Forster, E.M.] Armstrong, Paul B.

E.M. Forster Howard’s End ‘Only Connect’. Authoritative Text, Textual Appendix, Backgrounds and Context Edited by Paul B. Armstrong.

New York, London, W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. 13 cm x 21 cm. XIII, 473 pages. Cover photograph – Forster at age six on a pony with his mother in front of Rooksnest. Author portrait – Forster in 1938 by Howard Coster. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

61. Follett, Ken.

A Place Called Freedom.

Advance Reader’s Edition. New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1995. 15.5 x 23.5cm. 405 pages. Original softcover in protective sleeve. Excellent condition.

62. Farrar, Frederic W.

Eric, or, Little by Little. A Tale of Roslyn School. With an Introduction by John Rowe Townsend.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1971, 14.5 cm x 22.2 cm. 288 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor fading to upper and lower outer hardcover. Foxing and fading to edges and both endpapers. Fading to spine of dustjacket and minor fraying. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen’s Translator Erik Haugaard.

63. Disraeli, Benjamin.

Contarini Fleming: A Psychological Romance. With an Introduction by Philip Guedalla.

Volume four of twelve (Incomplete). London, Peter Davies, 1927. 16 cm x 23,5 cm. XI, 364 pages. Hardcover / Original black cloth with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Blind stamp on front cover with gilt ornaments and lettering on spine. Exlibris / Bookplate of Peter Tiarks Ede on front pastedown. Chipping to dustjacket, otherwise in good condition with some signs of external wear. The Bradenham Edition.

64. Diderot, Denis.

The Nun. Translated and with an Introduction by Leonard Tancok. Lithographs by Charles Mozley.

London, The Folio Society, 1972. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 168 pages. With 7 illustrations. Original hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and ornaments to boards. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine slightly faded.

65. Dershowitz, Alan M.

Just Revenge.

New York, Warner Books / A Time Warner Company, 1999. 15.2 cm x 23.5 cm. 322 pagrs. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Page 29/30 is missing. Signed by the author on the title page.

66. De Bernières, Louis.

Corelli’s Mandolin. [Captain Corelli’s Mandolin].

Advance Reader’s Edition. New York, Pantheon Books, 1994. 14.5 x 22cm. 437 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, with only very minor signs of shelfwear.

67. Boyle, T.C.

Riven Rock.

New York, Viking, 1998. 15 cm x 22 cm. XII, 466 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Unrevised proof edition. Binding slightly damaged in centre of book.

68. Bosse, Malcolm.

Stranger at the Gate.

New York / London / a.o., Simon and Shuster, 1989. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 620 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Publishers logo stamped on bottom edge.

69. Agnon, S.Y.

Two Tales. Betrothed & Edo and Enam, Translated from the Hebrew by Walter Lever.

New York, Schocken Books, 1966 14 cm x 22 cm. 237 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Gilt lettering on spine and embossed illustration on front cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

70. Oates, Joyce Carol.

Angel of Light.

New York, E.P. Dutton, 1981. 16 cm x 24 cm. 434 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by Joyce Carol Oates.

71. Huxley, Aldous.

Eyeless in Gaza.

First Edition. London, Chatto & Windus, 1936. 15.5 cm x 21 cm. 620 pages. Original Hrdcover / Publisher’s cloth. Excellent, very good + condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding firm ! Name of preowner in pencil to endpaper.

72. Malouf, David.

Remembering Babylon.

Uncorrected Bound Galley Copy. New York, Pantheon Books, 1993. 14 x 21cm. 202 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. Signed by the author on title page.

73. Lie, Jonas.

Familien paa Gilje. Interiør fra firtiaarene. Med tegninger af Erik Werenskiold.

København, Gyldendal Boghandels Forlag, 1903. 20.3 cm x 26.6 cm. 227 pages. Many black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Patterned boards and leather corners and spine, gilt title. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Corners and spine rubbed. Only minor foxing to endpapers and half-title page. Edges tanned, minor foxing. Pre-owner ink stamp on half-title page (″A.Chr.Haugaard). From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

74. Kumin, Maxine.

The Designated Heir.

New York, The Viking Press, 1974. 14.5 cm x 21.3 cm. 174 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by Author on title-page. Endpaper and half-title are slightly separated.

75. Chabon, Michael.

Wonder Boys.

Advance Reader’s Edition. New York, Villard Books, 1995. 14 x 21cm. 369 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. Signed by the author Michael Chabon on the titlepage.

76. La Varende, Jean de.

La Dernière Fête.

Paris, Flammarion, 1953. 13,5 cm x 19 cm. 382 pages. Original Hardcover. Half leather binding with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine in protective Mylar. Inscribed and signed by Jean de la Varende on half title / Avec dedicace de l’auteur: “Pour Gerard Argenton, amicalmend – La Varende”. No. 14 / 20 exemplaires sur papier fil d’Arches. Exlibris / Bookplate of Baron de Mélogue. Top edge gilt. Excellent condition !

77. Grey, Zane.

The Rainbow Trail. A Romance.

New York, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1915. 12.8 cm x 19.2 cm. Colour Frontispiece. 372 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Front endpaper separated from book block. Spine separated from book block. Edges slightly tanned. Minor wear to spine. Otherwise clean. Contains loose ephemera: Post Card “Lydon Mfg. Co. Chicago, U.S.A.”

78. [Viereck, Peter] Eliot, Alexander.

Proud Youth.

First Edition. New York, Farrar, Straus & Young, 1953. 13 cm x 21 cm. 222 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Marble coloured boards, top edge green. Personal copy of the american poet Peter Viereck, signed and inscribed with a long inscription by his father George Sylvester Viereck: “For Peter – Xmas 1953 – G.S.V. – The most startling book I’ve come across this side of pornography, written by a descendent of President Eliot”.

79. Kiely, Benedict.

Honey Seems Bitter.

London, Methuen and Co Ltd., 1954. 13 cm x 19 cm. 194 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket, designed by Geoffrey Ireland, in protective Mylar. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Inscribed / Signed by Benedict Kiely during his time as visiting Professor in Eugene, Oregon in 1965 on the titlepage: “For Bill Smith – One against 1000. DR the Solomon Martini – Ben Kiely – Sept. 1965”.

80. Gardner, John / O’Donohue, Thomas (illustrator).

Nickel Mountain: A Pastoral Novel.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. 15 cm x 22 cm. 313 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by John Gardner.

81. Blais, Marie-Claire.

La Belle Bête [Mad Shadows].

Paris, Flammarion, 1961. 12 cm x 18 cm. 183 pages. Original softcover in protective mylar. One of only five copies of the very rare first french edition. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. / Trente exemplaires sur velin chiffon des Papeteries de Lana dont vingt-cinq numerotes de 1 a 25 et cinq exemplaires numerotes de I a V. This is Exemplaire Numero I / V !!!