1. Ali, Monica.

Alentejo Blue.

First Edition. London / Toronto / a.o., Doubleday, 2006. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. 299 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New. Signed by the author.

2. [Atwood, Margaret] Buhler Roth, Verena.

Wilderness and the Natural Environment – Margaret Atwood’s Recycling of a Canadian Theme.

Tubigen, Francke Verlag, 1998. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. VII, 206 pages. Original Hardcover with a cover photograph by Tom Thomson ‘Pine Treee’ (Oil on Panel, Art Gallery of Ontario). Important: A few pencil annotations in text. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten – Swiss Studies in English].

3. Barraclough, Simon.

Los Alamos Mon Amour.

Cambridge, Salt Publishing, 2008. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 67 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition. Signed by author.

4. Barrie, J. M.

Mary Rose.

“The Cheapest Edition of this Famous Play” (Dustjacket title) London, Hodder and Stoughton, No date [1942]. 12 x 18 cm. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Beckett, Samuel.

Die Welt und die Hose. Aus dem französischen von Erika Tophoven-Schoningh.

Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1990. 13.5 cm x 22 cm. 44 pages. Illustrated with one full colour reproduction of an untitled oil painting dated 1937 by Bram van Velde (Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre George Pompidou, Paris). Softcover with stitched binding. Bindung und Schnitt nur ganz minimal fleckig / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear, with minor staining on back cover.

6. Beerbohm, Max.

Yet Again.

Melbourne, London, Ontario, William Heinemann Ltd, 1951. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 334 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with a small tear on dustjacket.

7. Bennett, Arnold.

The Human Machine.

London, New York and Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. 13 cm x 19 cm. 151 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Spotting on initial and final pages. Clean inside with solid binding.

8. [Blake, William].

The Selected Poems of William Blake. With Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr. Bruce Woodcock (University of Hull).

Hertfordshire, Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1994. 12.5 cm x 19.5 cm. XXII, 384 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some annotations in pencil on pages V – VI and pages 191 – 196. Previous owners name in ink pen inside front cover.

9. Burke, Kenneth.

Shakespearean Persuasion.

Yellow Springs, Ohio, The Antioch Press, 1964. Octavo. 36 pages. Softcover. Offprint. Very good. Reprinted from the Antioch Review, Spring 1964.

10. [Byron, Lord George Gordon] Marchand, Leslie A.

Byron’s Letters and Journals 1798-1824. Volume I – In My Hot Youth 1798-1810; Volume II – Famous in My Time 1810-1812; Volume III – Alas! The Love of Women 1813-1814; Volume IV – Wedlock’s the Devil 1814-1815; Volume V – So Late into the Night 1816-1817; Volume VI – The Flesh is Frail; Volume VII – Between Two Worlds 1820; Volume VIII – Born for Opposition 1821; Volume IX – In the Wind’s Eye 1821-1822; Volume X – A Heart for Every Fate 1822-1823; Volume XI – For Freedom’s Battle 1823-1824; Volume XII – The Trouble of an Index.

Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1973-1982. 8°. c. 3000 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjackets in protective collector’s mylar. 12 volumes (complete). The dustjackets slightly worn but unclipped. Pages 148 – 156 of volume 1 with very few small stains. Else near Fine or better condition.

11. [Cardinal Manning / Dr. Arnold / General Gordon / Florence Nightingale] Strachey, Lytton.

Eminent Victorians.

London, The Folio Society, 1967. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 286 pages. With 7 illustrations. Original hardcover with original slipcase. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

12. [Cary, Joyce] O’Connor, William Van.

Joyce Cary.

First Edition. New York & London, University of Columbia Press, 1966. 8°. 47 Pages. Original brown and blue illustrated wrappers, stapled (softcover). Very good condition with minor external signs of wear. No text markings, pages clean. [Columbia Essays on Modern Writers. Number 16.]

13. [Conrad, Joseph], Jean-Aubry, G.

Joseph Conrad. Life & Letters.

Two Volumes. London, William Heinemann, Ltd., 1927. 16.5 cm x 25 cm. (VII) 339 pages, (V) 376 pages. Black-and-white illustrations: Volume I – 11, Volume II – 5. Original Hardcover (Dark blue cloth – title in embossed gilt on front and spine). Former library-copy in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Library stamp on frontispiece of Volume I and facing half-title page Volume II. Very slight foxing of pages. One or two faint pencil marks.

14. [Country-House Classic: A Stunning Shakespeare – Edition] – [Shakespeare, William] Irving, Henry / Marshall, Frank A.

The Works of William Shakespeare. Edited by Sir Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall.

Fourteen Volumes (Complete Set). London, The Gresham Publishing Company, 1907. 16.4 cm x 22.9 cm. Circa 3,657 pages. With Colour Frontipieces. With many hundred black and white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover. With decorative gilt ornament and titles to spine and front boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor edgewear, discolouration to edges and minor foxing only. Binding strong. Clean and bright interiors. Front endpapers contain previous owner’s name. [The Henry Irving Shakespeare- Volume 1-14].

15. [Cowper, William] Thomas, Gilbert.

William Cowper and the eighteenth century.

New and revised edition. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1948. Octavo. Portrait-Frontispice, 347 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard, with his Exlibris on the pastedown.

16. Davis, Lindsey.

Three Hands in the Fountain.

London, Century, 1997. 15.5 cm x 24 cm. 295 pages. Three black and white maps at beginning of book. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by author. [The Falco Series (No. 9 of 20)]

17. [De Foe, Daniel] Chadwick, William.

The Life and Time of Daniel De Foe with Remarks Digressive and Discursive.

New York, Burt Franklin, 1968. 14.5 x 22cm. Frontispiece, (8), 464 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition, as new other than some very mild spotting to top edges. [Burt Franklin: Research and Source Works Series 328, Essays in Literature and Criticism, 19].

18. Dickens, Charles.

Christmas Books.

London, Paul Elek Limited, 1960. 12.5 x 18.5cm. 254 pages, with illustrations from engravings. Original softcover. Fair condition with some signs of external wear and a faded dampstain. [Bestseller Library].

19. Dickens, Charles.

Sketches By Boz.

Volume 1. New York / Cambridge, Hurd and Houghton / Riverside Press, 1869. 12 cm x 17 cm. VIII, 338 pages. Original hardcover. Very good condition with some clear signs of wear. Contains inscription and plate by pre-owner.

20. Dobbs, Michael.

House of Cards.

Signed by author. Revised Edition. London, Harper, 2007. 18 cm. 383 pages. Original, signed paperback. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

21. Dyson, Edward.

The Golden Shanty.

Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1929. Small-8°. 179 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth with bound in original dustjacketcover by Phil May. Rubbed and used binding. Inside little foxing. From the Australiana collection of Colin Roderick (ask for more titles).

22. Eliot, T.S.

Ausgewählte Gedichte [Selected Poems].

Bilingual Edition: Englisch und Deutsch / Erste Ausgabe. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 149 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Der Schutzumschlag minimal angeraendert und mit einigen wenigen Gebrauchsspuren / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to the dustjacket.

23. Eliot, T.S.

Milton. Annual Lecture on a Master Mind. Henriette Hertz Trust of the British Academy 1947.

Third Impression 1948. London, Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1948. 8°. 19 pages. Softcover / Original brochure. Spine with some minor splitting and minor tears to rear wrapper. Otherwise very good.

24. Eliot, T.S.

The Cocktail Party. A Comedy by T.S. Eliot.

Second Impression of the First Edition ! London, Faber and Faber Ltd., MCML [1950]. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 167 pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

25. [Eliot, T.S.] Jones, Genesius.

Approach to the Purpose – A Study of the Poetry of T.S. Eliot.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. 15 cm x 22 cm. 351 pages. Original Hardcover (green cloth with embossed gilt lettering on spine). Former library copy in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some marking and entries to front free endpaper and marked over stamp on titlepage.

26. [Emerson, George Waldo] Brydges, Sir S. Egerton.

Censura Literaria. Containing Titles, Abstracts and Opinions of Old English Books. With Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities. With the articles classed in chronological order under their separate heads.

Second Edition. 7 of 10 volumes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10. (Incomplete). London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. 16 cm x 24 cm. Vol. 1: VIII, LXIII, 432 pages. / Vol. 2: VIII, 450 pages. / Vol. 3: VII, 434 pages. / Vol. 4: VII, 435 pages. / Vol. 6: VIII, 416 pages. / Vol. 8: VIII, 411 pages. / Vol. 10: VIII, 580 pages. Original Hardcover. Volume 1 has dampstaining on boards, front board detached. Volume 8 has small dampstain on front board. All volumes with stronger rubbing, fading on boards, otherwise good condition with content intact.

27. [Fielding, Henry] Thomas, Donald.

Henry Fielding.

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. X, 436 pages. Dustjacket design by Anita Turpin with a further 12 pages of black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Front of jacket with an illustration of an engraving of Henry Fielding by John Basire after a sketch by Hogarth, 1733. Back of Jacket ‘The Laughing Audience’ by Hogarth, 1733. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

28. [Fletcher, John / Massinger, Philip].

Beggar’s Bush. Edited by John H. Dorenkamp.

First published 1647 Folio of ‘Comedies and Tragedies’ Beaumont and Fletcher. The Hague, Paris, Mouton & Co, 1967. 15 cm x 22 cm. 202 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor pencil markings in text and back flap of dustjacket.

29. [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.

30. 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.

31. [Frame, Janet], Alley, Elizabeth

The Inward Sun – Celebrating the Life and Work of Janet Frame. Selected and Edited by Elizabeth Alley.

Wellington, New Zealand, Daphe Brasell Associates Press, 1994. 14 cm x 22 cm. 214 pages. One black and white portrait photograph of Janet Frame by Jane Ussher on frontispiece. Softcover. Designed by Margaret Cochran. Edited by Ruth Munro. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare ! Out-of-Print !

32. Frimet, Hillel / William Carlos Williams.

The Broken Promise and Other Poems. With an Open Letter to William Carlos Williams.

No.121 of a Limited Edition. New York, Survival Press, 1959. 15.3 cm x 22.4 cm. 62 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor discolouration to edging, endpapers and pages. Signed by the author Hillel Frimet on half-title page. Errata-leaf loosely inserted. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard. With his bookplate / Exlibris to front pastedown (Exlibris design by Brian Lalor).

33. Garnett, David.

The Grasshoppers Come. Wood Engravings by R.A. Garnett.

New York, Brewer, Warren & Putnam. 1931. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 143 pages. Some black and white wood engravings throughout. Original Hardcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear and tear. From the library of Toronto Professor of English Literature, Jerome H. Buckley, with his name on endpaper.

34. Glazier, Lyle.

Decadence and Rebirth – Haceteppe Lectures in American Literature.

Ankara, Haceteppe University Press, 1971. 8°. 188 pages. Original brochure. Used, but in good condition. Binding slightly damaged to the backcover only. Absolutely rare !!

35. Goddard, Robert.

Mitten im Blau.

Zürich, Schweizer Verlagshaus, 1992. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 467 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

36. Goebel, Joey

Commonwealth.

San Francisco, MacAdam Cage, 2008. 15 cm x 23 cm. 511 pages. Softcover with author photograph by Isolde Ohlbaum. Book design by Dorothy Carico Smith. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper.

37. Golding, William.

The Brass Butterfly: A Play in Three Acts.

First Edition. London, Faber and Faber, 1958. 13 cm x 21 cm. 80 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear.

38. 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.

39. [Golding, William] Carey, John.

William Golding, The Man and his Books, A Tribute on his 75th Birthday.

London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1986. 14 cm x 22.5 cm 191 pages. Dustjacket with a photograph by Phil Sayer and eight further photographic illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with a short inscription and date in ink by the previous owner on the front free endpaper.

40. [Golding, William] Kinkead-Weeks, Mark / Gregor, Ian.

William Golding: A Critical Study.

London, Faber and Faber, 1967. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. 257 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

41. Graham, Henry Grey.

Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1901. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XII, 441 pages. Includes an illustrated Frontispiece with a reproduction of a mezzotint after Allan Ramsay (protected with a tissue guard). With a further 31 black-and-white illustrations (portraits). Original Hardcover (blue cloth with gilt lettering). Very good condition with some signs of external wear. Some foxing evident with one illustration plate detached. An interesting Exlibris / bookplate with the engraved Motto: ‘Semper Paratus’ from the library of Albert A. Smith on front pastedown.

42. Greenblatt, Stephen.

Hamlet in Purgatory.

Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2001. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. XII, 322 pages. 8 Colour Plates, 10 figures. Cover illustration ‘Vision of the Otherworld’ Hieronymus Bosch. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

43. Griffiths, Gareth.

A Double Exile. African and West Indian Writing between two cultures. [Including a chapter: Childhood and Leavetaking: Growing Up in the Caribbean].

First Edition. London, Marion Boyars, 1978. 8°. 205 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition. (Critical appraisals series)

44. 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.

45. 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.

46. 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.

47. 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.

48. 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.

49. Hitchings, Henry.

The Secret Life of Words – How English Beacame English.

First American Edition. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 16 cm X 23.5 cm. 440 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

50. Hughes, Ted.

Ted Hughes. Foreword by Jeanette Winterson.

No Place of Print, Produced by the Guardian in association with Faber and Faber, 2008. 12.5 cm x 21 cm. 22 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Clean inside. [Great poets of the 20th century series].