1. Thurber, James.

The Beast in Me and Other Animals. A New Collection Of Pieces And Drawings About Human Beings And Less Alarming Creatures.

London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1949. 14.3 cm x 22 cm. X, 340 pages. Black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Good+ condition. Dustjacket in poor condition. Spine and cover stained and faded. Minor foxing to pastedowns, endpapers and edges. Otherwise, interior bright and clean.

2. [Clouston, Storer] / [Blackwood, William & Sons].

Blackwood’s Magazine (Number 1509).

Edinburgh / London, William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 1941. 15 cm x 23.5 cm. 14 pages Advertisments, 88 pages. Several black and white advertisements of the era. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Blackwoods Magazine (Number 1509. Vol. 250)].

3. Doyle, Arthur Conan.

The Last Galley – Impressions and Tales. With Illustrations.

First Edition. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. Octavo. Frontispice (in colour), VI, 298, (6) pages. With both illustrations present. Hardcover / Original, illustrated publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt illustration to front board. Poor but firm condition with endpapers to front and rear perfectly attached. Some some minor staining to some pages. Wonderful collection of short stories by Doyle.

4. Allende, Isabel.

The Stories of Eva Luna. [SIGNED with drawing by Isabel Allende]. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.

Uncorrected Advance Proof. New York, Atheneum, 1990. 13.5 x 21cm. 335 pages. Original softcover in protective sleeve. Excellent condition, as new. Signed by Isabel Allende with a drawing of a lower by Allende beside it.

5. Wynne, May / Cecily M. Rutley / Nancy Howard / Pauline Dunstan / Ethel Talbot / Jessie Pope / Agnes Grozier Herbertson etc. etc.

The Story Wonder Book for Boys and Girls. With Seven Colour Plates and Hundreds of Two-Colour and Other Pictures [by Margaret Tarrant, Mary Brooks, Anne Anderson, May Smith and others].

London / Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co., No year [c.1930]. 18.5 cm x 25.5 cm. 224 pages. Original Illustrated Hardcover with coloured illustrations. The often damaged and worn book was recently restored and professionally rebound and is now a tight and firm version for generations to come. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of pre-owner on endpaper in pen and pencil. A few marks on endpaper and content page. Otherwise in very good condition. [The Wonder Book Series].

6. Van der Berg, Laura.

What The World Will Look Like When All The Water Leaves Us.

Advance Reader Copy. Westland, MI, Dzanc Books, 2009. 14 x 21.5cm. 205 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, as new.

7. Tóibín, Colm.

The Empty Family.

First Edition. New York / London / a.o., Scribner, 2011. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 275 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New.

8. Spottiswoode, W. Hugh.

Winter’s Pie Being the Christmas Number of “Printers’ Pie”.

London, The Sphere & Tatler Ltd., 1914. Colour Frontispiece. 32 pages of advertisements, 112 pages, colour and black and white plates and illustrations. Original Softcover. Poor condition of the binding with strong signs of external wear. Cover damaged and in poor condition. Open tear to rear cover illustration. Front cover illustration missing. Pages separated from cover. Contains moderate foxing to edges. Pages tanned. Otherwise interior clean, no markings. Colour Pear’s Health and Beauty advertisement to rear. The illustraions inside in very good condition (see images).

9. Saunders, George.

In Persuasion Nation. Riverhead Books – A member of the Penguin Group.

New York, Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2006. 13.5 cm x 21 cm. 228 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by author.

10. O’Connor, Frank.

Die lange Strasse nach Ummera: Elf Meistererzählungen aus Irland. Ausgewählt und übertragen von Elisabeth Schnack.

Zürich, Diogenes Verlag, 1959. 11 x 18,5cm. 228 Seiten. Gebundene Ausgabe. Leineneinband. Sehr guter Zustand.

11. Lethem, Jonathan.

Men and Cartoons.

New York / London / a.o., Doubleday, 2004. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 160 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition. Signed by author.

12. Kizaki, Satoko.

The Phoenix Tree and other stories. Translated by Carol A. Flath.

First Edition. Tokyo, Kodansha International, 1990. 15 x 22 cm. 242 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

13. Irving, Washington.

Knickerbocker’s History of New York & Knickerbocker Miscellanies.

New York, P.F. Collier & Son, No Year (c. 1920). 14.5 cm x 20 cm. 450. Frontispiece illustration – engraving entitled ‘Dutch Weight’. Original Hardcover. (Black cloth with embossed decoration on front board – title embossed in gilt on spine.) Very Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor pencil markings on rear endpaper. [The Works of Washington Irving].

14. Graver, Elizabeth.

Have You Seen Me ?

Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburg Press, 1991. 15.5 cmx 23.5 cm. 170 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

15. Dostoyevsky / Banine (Translator) / Joly, Louis (Illustrator).

La Femme D’un Autre ou le mari sous le lit.

Paris, Julliard Sequana, 1945. 12.5 cm x 17 cm. 87 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with signs of external wear. Slight tear to lower and top spine and edges of cover. Some stronger spotting on cover. Slight tear on inside of back cover. Small section of front endpage missing. Inscription by preowner.

16. Dehn, Olive / Meldrum, Roy / Compton Mackenzie / Jean Margaret Hamilton / Madeleine Nightingale / et. al.

No. Fourteen [14] Joy Street. A Medley of Prose & Verse for Boys and Girls.

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, No Year [c.1930]. 18.3 cm x 24.8 cm. Frontispiece, 246 pages. Black and white and several tipped-in colour-illustrations. Illustrators include Harry Rountree, C.T.Nightingale, Maria Wolff, Mary Baker, Audrey Teago, Josephine Leslie etc. Original Hardcover. Decorative cloth boards. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Good+ condition. Binding a little shaky but holding with endpapers intact. Minor wear and rubbing to cover. Moderate foxing to edges. Minor foxing to pages throughout. Many previous owners names in ink to half-title and title pages. A few colour markings throughout. Pages separating from book block in places.

17. Chopin, Kate.

The Awakening and Other Stories. Edited with an introduction and notes by Pamela Knights.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. 13 x 19.5cm. (60), 410 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. [Oxford World’s Classics].

18. Calvino, Italo.

Idilios y Amores Difíciles. Traducción de Attilio Dabini.

Primera edición. Buenos Aires, Editorial Losada, 1962. 15 x 20.5cm. 262 páginas. Encuadernación en rústica. En buen estado, la encuadernación puede presentar signos de desgaste. Páginas intonsas.

19. Blicher, Steen Steensen.

Udvalgte Noveller. llustreret af Carl Thomsen.

København, Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1899. 19.8 cm x 29.1 cm. 802 pages. Original Hardcover. Quarter leather and marbled binding. Raised bands and gilt decoration on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Corners and spine rubbed. Tanned deckled edges. Illustrated exlibris dated 1974 by Erik Haugaard on front pastedown. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Some pages separated from book block. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

20. Bin Gorion, Micha Josef.

Born Judas. Altjüdische Legenden und Volkserzählungen. Aus dem Hebräischen von Rahel Bin Gorion. Auswahl und Nachwort von Emanuel Bin Gorion.

Erste Auflage. Frankfurt/Main, Insel Verlag, 1981. 10.8 cm x 17.6 cm. 271 Seiten. Softcover / Kartoniert. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. / Sehr guter Zustand.

21. Benítez Rojo, Antonio.

The Magic Dog and Other Stories. Selection, edition and introduction by Frank Janney.

First edition. Hanover, N.H., Ediciones del Norte, 1990. 12.5 x 20cm. (13), 261 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition.

22. Bellow, Saul (editor) / Botsford, Keith (Editor).

the noble savage.

New York, Meridian Books, 1961. 12 cm x 20 cm. 256 pages. Original softcover in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

23. Alexie, Sherman.

The Toughest Indian in the World.

Uncorrected Advance Proof. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. 14 x 21cm. 229 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition.

24. Alexie, Sherman.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.

Special Reader’s Edition. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993. 15 x 23cm. (10), 223 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, as new.

25. Alexie, Sherman.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.

Special Reader’s Edition. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993. 15 x 23cm. (10), 223 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. Signed by the author on title page.

26. Cairns, Clem / Walton, Jula (Editors).

Fish Anthology 2010. A Matter of Luck & Other Stories, & Poems.

Cork, Fish Publishing, 2010. 14 cm x 22 cm. VI, 164 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Fish Anthology 2010].

27. Ury, Marian.

Tales of Times Now Past – Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection. Translated and with an Introduction by Marian Ury.

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1979. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. XI, 199 pages. Eight black-and-white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket design by Randall Goodall. Very fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.