1. 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.

2. Irving, Washington.

The Sketch Book, Legends of the Conquest of Spain / [Including the Biography of Irving:] “A Life of Washington Irving” by Richard Henry Stoddard.

New York, London The Co-operative Publication Society, Inc., No date (c. 1920). 14.5 cm x 20 cm. 561 pages. Frontispiece illustration – portrait of Washington Irving dated 1851. Original Hardcover (black cloth with embossed decoration – title embossed in gilt on spine). Good condition with minor signs of external wear. Front board a little shaky. Some minor pencil markings on back free endpaper. [The Works of Washington Irving].

3. West, Morris.

Proteus.

First Edition. London, Collins, 1979. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 273 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4. Tan, Amy.

The Valley of Amazement.

London, Fourth Estate, 2013. 15.5 cm x 24 cm. XIV, 589 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. 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).

6. Smiley, Jane.

A Thousand Acres.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 371 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled fore edge. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear to the Mylar ! Signed by Jane Smiley on the titlepage. In 1992 Jane Smiley won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this publication !

7. Smart Bell, Madison.

Straight Cut.

First Edition. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1986. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 230 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8. Rhodes, Elvi.

Doctor Rose.

London, Corgi Books, 1989. 10.5 cm x 17.5 cm. 256 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor foxing to endpapers and edges.

9. Redel, Victoria.

Where the Road Bottoms Out – A Collection of Stories.

New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1995. 13.5 cm x 21 cm. 171 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition+ with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by author. Yellow top edge decoration.

10. 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.