NO RESERVE Hlasko (Marek) The Eighth Day of the Week, translated by Norbert Guterman, jacket with rubbing and minor chipping to head and foot, light toning, 1959 § Roth (Joseph) The Radetzky March, translated by Michael Hofman, jacket with rubbing to spine tips and corners, 2002 §Gombrowicz (Witold) Pornografia, translated by Alastair Hamilton, light foxing, jacket with light toning, a little creased at head and foot, light rubbing to extremities, 1966 § Cela (Camilo José) The Hive, translated by J. M. Cohen, jacket spine lightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light surface soiling, 1953 § Haffner (Ernst) Blood Brothers, translated by Michael Hofmann, 2015 § Koeppen (Wolfgang) A Sad Affair, New York, 2003, first or first English editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 17 others, largely works translated by Hofmann, as well as some of his poetry, 8vo (23)
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![Housman (A.E.) A Shropshire Lad, first edition, American issue [one of 150 copies], title printed in red and black, bookplate](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/1cc5cb5d-91eb-4edc-9cc0-af2500c6fce5/468x382.jpg)
Housman (A.E.) A Shropshire Lad, first edition, American issue [one of 150 copies], title printed in red and black, bookplate of Christopher Clark Geest, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, usual light browning to text margins, endpapers toned with scattered spotting, original parchment-backed boards, new paper label to spine, spine and margins of boards browned, parchment spotted, rubbed, preserved in custom cloth drop-back box, [Carter, Sparrow & White 2], 8vo, New York, 1897.⁂ Housman's most popular poetry collection in the more scarce American issue. 500 sets of sheets were printed, with 350 for the UK and 150 given a cancel title and issued in the US.
![Howard (Elizabeth Jane) [The Cazalet Chronicles], 5 vol., comprising The Light Years, jacket price-clipped, light creasing to](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/87d956e7-da97-48c1-a12b-af2500cb2091/468x382.jpg)
Howard (Elizabeth Jane) [The Cazalet Chronicles], 5 vol., comprising The Light Years, jacket price-clipped, light creasing to spine ends, 1990; Marking Time, jacket with light creasing to head and foot, 1991; Confusion, jacket with very light sunning to spine, light creasing to head, 1993; Casting Off, signed by the author on title, jacket with light sunning to spine, 1995; All Change, 2013, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine overall, 8vo.⁂ Howard's best-selling family saga series, now very difficult to find in first edition in good condition.
NO RESERVE Hughes (Ted) Lupercal, first edition, browning to endpapers, original cloth, rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, some marginal toning to panels, short nick to head of upper panel, a sharp and excellent copy overall, 8vo, 1960.⁂ A sharp copy of Hughes' second collection.
NO RESERVE Hughes (Ted) Crow, jacket spine browned with chip to head, light soiling and toning to front flap, 1970 § Peake (Mervyn) Selected Poems, jacket with light browning to spine, short nick with creasing to head of upper panel, light surface soiling and toning to panels, 1972 § Auden (W. H.) and Chester Kallman. The Magic Flute, jacket with light toning to spine, two short nicks with creasing to head of spine, 1957 § Gunn (Thom) Molly, jacket with light toning to spine, 1971, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 18 others, Faber, 8vo (22)
Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, first edition, mail sticker and ink ownership name to pastedown, very faint scattered spotting to first and last few pages, one or two light finger-soiling marks, original cloth, light marks to upper cover, spine lightly faded, joints and extremities a little rubbed and frayed, 8vo, 1932.
![James (Henry) The Two Magics. The Turn of the Screw [and] Covering End, first edition, title printed in red and black, 32pp.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/daaebca1-7492-464a-9f07-af2500c9e023/468x382.jpg)
James (Henry) The Two Magics. The Turn of the Screw [and] Covering End, first edition, title printed in red and black, 32pp. advertisements at rear, light browning to endpapers, small armorial bookplate of Robert, Earl of Crewe, original issue blue cloth with four irises in blind to upper cover, lettered in gilt, light discolouration to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, extremities a little rubbed, an excellent copy, [Edel & Laurence A52a; Tymn 3-123], 8vo, William Heinemann, 1898.⁂ The first edition in book form of Turn of the Screw, one of the best and most influential ghost stories ever published.
James (Henry) A Small Boy and Others, first English edition, photogravure frontispiece, original cloth, light bumping and faint rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine, tear with light creasing to foot of upper fore-edge, vertical crease to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light finger-soiling to panels, an excellent example overall, [Edel & LaurenceA71b], 8vo, 1913.⁂ The first volume of James' autobiography, rare in the dust-jacket in such condition.
![Bentley (E. C.) Trent's Last Case, small ink ownership name to front free endpapers, original blind-stamped cloth, [1913] § M](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/087faabd-8b6c-4ae7-95d2-af2500ca9e01/468x382.jpg)
Bentley (E. C.) Trent's Last Case, small ink ownership name to front free endpapers, original blind-stamped cloth, [1913] § Mason (A. E. W.) At the Villa Rose, half-title browned, 1910 § Allingham (Margery) Sweet Danger, 1933, first editions, original cloth, extremities lightly bumped and frayed, spines a little faded, still overall very attractive copies; and 7 others, detective fiction, 8vo (10)⁂ First title is scarce, "one of the three best detective stories ever written" - Agatha Christie.
Jhabvala (Ruth Prawer) Heat & Dust, signed by the author on title, label pasted below author's name, browning to front endpapers, slight bumping to spine ends, jacket spine sunned, light creasing to head and foot, 1975; Like Birds Like Fishes and other stories, jacket price-clipped light surface soiling and faint creasing, 1963; A Backward Place, jacket price-clipped and a little spotted, 1965, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine generally; and 6 others by the same, 8vo (8)⁂ A very good group of works by Jhabvala, including her Booker-Prize winning novel Heat & Dust, scarce signed.
Joyce (James) Chamber Music, first edition, first impression, pictorial title, bookplate of Maxwell Steinhardt to pastedown, very faintly offset, small paper repair to front free endpaper (nicked), original cloth, gilt, third variant binding with thin wove endpapers and the poems in signature C poorly centred on the page, very light rubbing to spine ends, otherwise a very excellent copy, [Slocum & Cahoon A3], 12mo, 1907.⁂ Joyce's first published volume of poetry, scarce in the first issue, preceded only by the separately published poems Et tu Healy (of which no printed copies are known) and the rare broadside The Holy Office.The priority of the second and third variants is undetermined but now thought that very few copies of the first edition were actually gathered and bound in 1907, perhaps only 50-100. When Joyce was at the height of his fame later in the 1920s, Elkin Mathews seem to have "rediscovered" the remainder of his poems and bound them up in a slightly darker green cloth. Maxwell Steinhardt was a retired lawyer and an avid book collector. An admirer of George Bernard Shaw, he was president of the Shaw Society of America.
Kerr (Judith) Mog the Forgetful Cat, first edition, illustrations by the author, original pictorial boards, light bumping to spine ends and corners, dust-jacket, price-clipped, minor chipping to foot of spine and lower corner, light creasing to head and foot, but a near-fine example otherwise, 8vo, 1970.⁂Kerr's classic children's book, rare in the dust-jacket in such lovely condition.
NO RESERVE Kerr (Philip) If the Dead Rise Not, 2009 § McDermid (Val) Killing the Shadows, 2000 § Grimes (Martha) The Old Contemptibles, 1991 § Dibdin (Michael) And Then You Die, 2002, first editions, signed by the authors to title, original boards, dust-jackets, very light creasing to spine tails, else fine copies; and 51 others, crime and detective thrillers, 8vo (55)
Kipling (Rudyard) The Jungle Book, light finger-soiling, ink gift inscription to endpaper, lower hinge cracked, shelf-lean, spine darkened, split to lower joint, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, rubbed, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 2pp advertisements, contemporary ink gift inscription to endpaper, spine faded, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, light marking to covers, 1895, first editions, frontispieces and illustrations by J.L.Kipling and others, spotting, original pictorial cloth, slight shelf-lean, g.e., 8vo (2)
Kipling (Rudyard) Kim, half-title, frontispiece, 9 plates, 1901; The Second Jungle Book, book-label to pastedown, half-title and other occasional light foxing, 1895, first English editions, modern half morocco, light rubbing to extremities and joints, spines faded, still overall attractive copies, 8vo (2)
Kipling (Rudyard) Just So Stories, first edition, first state, plates and illustrations by the author, ink gift inscription dated 1902 to endpapers, some scattered spotting, first state pictorial cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine lettering and decoration rubbed away (as often), some rubbing to covers, [Livingstone 267], 4to, 1902.⁂ In the first state binding which was blocked with a white colouring that was highly prone to rubbing.
![[Birkin (Charles Lloyd, editor)] The "Creeps" Omnibus, first edition, light marginal toning, original cloth, spine darkened,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/34ddff66-ad50-43fe-80f5-af2500cb17e8/468x382.jpg)
[Birkin (Charles Lloyd, editor)] The "Creeps" Omnibus, first edition, light marginal toning, original cloth, spine darkened, covers spotting, dust-jacket, flaps detached but present, tear running down upper joint and into front panel with panel separated and with large chip to foot, significant portion of loss to lower panel, chipping, creasing and fraying to head and foot, 8vo, [1935].⁂ A classic omnibus, exceptionally rare in the dust-jacket in any condition.
Larkin (Philip) Jill, light edge spotting, remains of library labels to front pastedown and endpaper, original boards, light rubbing to spine, Fortune Press, 1946; The Whitsun Weddings, original cloth, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, minor chipping to head of spine and corners, an excellent copy, 1964, first editions; and a first edition of High Windows, 8vo (3)⁂ A loosely inserted bookseller's note states that Jill came from the collection of Harry Chambers, founde and director of the Peterloo Poets and Phoenix Pamphlets.
NO RESERVE Larkin (Philip) The Whitsun Wedding, light soiling to front free endpapers, manuscript number to spine in black pen, lightly faded to extremities, jacket price-clipped, top fore-edge and spine darkened and chipped, small loss to lower spine, remnants of manuscript number to spine tail, 1964; Collected Poems, spine faded on boards, jacket spine lightly faded, otherwise a fine copy, 1988; Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite, 1992, first editions, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets; and 12 others by or relating to Larkin, 8vo (15)
Le Carré (John) The Spy Who Came in from The Cold, first edition, strip of loss to pastedown and endpaper from lower fore-edge, light foxing to first few pp. and margins of text, original boards, spine lightly faded, dust-jacket, spine very lightly faded, corners a little chipped, very faint ring stain to upper panel with some browning, otherwise still in effect a bright copy, 8vo, 1963.
![Le Carré (John) [The Karla Trilogy], 3 vol., comprising Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, cut signature of Alex Guinness facing titl](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/481e4d70-139f-403f-8d82-af2500ca54f6/468x382.jpg)
Le Carré (John) [The Karla Trilogy], 3 vol., comprising Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, cut signature of Alex Guinness facing title, jacket spine sunned, small nick to head of lower panel, 1974; The Honourable Schoolboy, light bumping to spine tips and corners, jacket spine tips and corners rubbed, closed tear to foot of lower fore-edge, 1977; Smiley's People, jacket a little rubbed at head and foot, light sunning to spine, 1980, first editions, cut signature of the author to titles, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent copies, 8vo.
Le Carré (John) The Honourable Schoolboy, 1977; Smiley's People, 1980; The Russia House, 1989, first editions, very faint foxing to first few pp., original boards, lightly marked, dust-jackets, first two with light creasing and fraying to extremities, heavier to first with chipping; and 2 others by Le Carré, 8vo (5)
NO RESERVE Le Carré (John) Smiley's People, 1979 § Oscar and Lucinda, 1988 § Braine (John) Stay With Me Till Morning, jacket spine lightly sunned, 1970 § MacLean (Alistair) The Guns of Navarone, cloth lightly marked, 1957, first editions, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, light chipping to corners; and 54 others, modern literature, 8vo (68)
Le Carré (John) A Perfect Spy, first edition, signed by the author on title, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, light creasing to head, otherwise excellent, 8vo, 1986⁂ Le Carré's semi-autobiographical novel regarded by many as his greatest. Philip Roth called A Perfect Spy "the best English novel since the war".
Le Carré (John) The Night Manager, signed by the author and dated June '93 on title, jacket with light creasing to head, 1993; A Small Town in Germany, light browning to endpapers, jacket price-clipped, closed tear to head of rear flap, light sunning to spine, 1968, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 8 others by the same, 8vo (10)
Blackwood (Algernon) A Prisoner in Fairyland, splitting to upper hinge but holding firm, 1913; Incredible Adventures, 1914; The Wave. An Egyptian Aftermath, inscriptions to front pastedown, covers rubbed, 1916, first editions, browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light rubbing to extremities; and 5 others by the same, 8vo (8)
NO RESERVE Le Carré (John) A Legacy of Spies, 2017 § Ali (Monica) In the Kitchen, 2009 § Parker (Robert B.) Crimson Joy, signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, 1988, exclusive or first editions, signed by the author to title or endpapers; and 53 others, crime and detective fiction, 8vo (56)
![Lees-Milne (James) Some Cotswold Country houses, signed by the author to title, illustrations, 1987; [Diaries] 12 vol., Cease](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/a9ec745f-273e-45c7-808a-af2500c708d5/468x382.jpg)
Lees-Milne (James) Some Cotswold Country houses, signed by the author to title, illustrations, 1987; [Diaries] 12 vol., Ceaseless Turmoil second impression, Ancestral Voices and Caves of Ice jacket price-clipped, 1975-2005, first editions, original boards or cloth, dust-jackets, some light creasing to spine heads, otherwise excellent copies; and another by the same, 4to & 8vo (14)
NO RESERVE Leon (Donna) Death at La Fenice, very faint stamp and price inscription to pastedown, 1992; The Anonymous Venetian, 1994; A Venetian Reckoning, 1995; Acqua Alta, 1996, first editions, signed by the author to title, original boards, spine ends lightly bumped, dust-jackets, light creases to spine ends but overall fine copies; and 26 others by Leon, first editions, most signed, 8vo (31)
Levi (Primo) Moments of Reprieve, translated by Ruth Feldman, 1986; The Mirror Maker, 1990; Other People's Trades, 1989; The Sixth Day, 1990, first English editions, all but the first translated by Raymond Rosenthal, original boards, dust-jackets, light creasing to spine heads, otherwise near-fine copies; and another first English edition of Levi, 8vo (5)⁂ Rare group of Levi's first English editions.
*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Lewis (C.S.) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, first edition, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, bookplate removed from front free endpaper, endpapers browned, original cloth, spine end extremities rather discoloured and soiled, spine ends lightly frayed, seventh impression dust-jacket, price-clipped, tear along upper panel repaired, or or two other closed tears, nicks and frays to extremities but overall still in effect an attractive and sharp copy, 8vo, 1950.
Litten (Irmgard) A Mother Fights Hitler, light browning to endpapers, light toning to jacket, 1940 § Kohler (Pauline) I Was Hitler's Maid, portrait frontispiece, jacket with light toning to spine, some chipping and fraying to head and foot, [1940], first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 3 others, similar, 8vo (5)⁂ A good group of works both fiction and non-fiction relating to the Second World War and Germany during the 1930s and 40s. The first was published in the US as Beyond Tears, the second was a fabricated account of Hitler's private life produced by the British Ministry of Information.
NO RESERVE Lively (Penelope) Corruption, 1980 § Brookner (Anita) Lewis Percy, 1989 § Rubens (Bernice) I Sent a Letter to my Love, 1975 § Fitzgerald (Penelope) The Gate of Angels, 1990, first two with ALs from the author laid down to front free endpaper with original envelope loosely inserted, all signed by the author to pastedown or bookplate, original boards, spine ends bumped, dust-jackets,lightly toned but near-fine overall; and 89 others, female authors, 2 others by Lively and Brookner signed, 8vo (94)
Maby (Joseph Cecil) By Stygian Water, first edition, initialed presentation inscription from the author to F. D. Ommanney dated Oxford, 1934 to endpaper, light scattered foxing, original blue cloth, lettered in yellow, spine a little rubbed and faded, dust-jacket priced at 5/-, light toning and 2 splash marks to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short tears to head of joints, a few short nicks and light creasing to head and foot, old tape repairs to verso, light rubbing, a very good, bright copy, 8vo, 1933.⁂ A rare collection of supernatural stories by Maby who was also a noted author on dowsing and paranormal research. We can trace no other presentation copies or copies in the striking dust-jacket. Francis Downes Ommanney (1903-80), writer and biologist who took part in a number of research expeditions to Antarctica.
MacKinnon (Andrew) The Monty Trio Investigate, signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, , 1947 § Bell (Josephine) Death in Clairvoyance, 1949 § Corbett (James) Gallows Wait, 1947 § Porcelain (Sydney A.) The Purple Pony Murders, 1948, first editions, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, light chipping and creasing to extremities and spine ends, some creasing to panels; and 7 others, detective fiction, 8vo (11)
NO RESERVE Mallinson (Allan) The Nizam's Daughters, 2000; A Regimental Affair, 2001; A Call to Arms, 2002; The Sabres Edge, 2003; Rumours of War, 2004, first editions, signed or with signed presentation inscriptions from the author to titles, original boards, dust-jackets, mint copies; and 15 others from the author's Matthew Hervey series, many signed, some duplicates, 8vo (20)
Mann (Thomas) Buddenbrooks, 2 vol., vol.1 cloth a little rodent-damaged, 1924; The Magic Mountain, 2 vol., 1927; Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, 1954; The Black Swan, 1954, first English editions, original cloth, light fading, last two with dust-jackets, rather creased and frayed, first worn and torn; and 3 others by Mann, including a 2 vol. first American edition of Joseph in Egypt in the original slip-case, 8vo (9)
![[Manning (Frederick)] The Middle Parts of Fortune, 2 vol., number 180 of 520 copies, first title printed in red & black,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/c2756402-d192-46b2-9631-af2500cb5ada/468x382.jpg)
[Manning (Frederick)] The Middle Parts of Fortune, 2 vol., number 180 of 520 copies, first title printed in red & black, original cloth, t.e.g., a fine pair, 8vo, The Piazza Press, issued to subscribers by Peter Davies, 1929.⁂ A remarkably attractive copy of Manning's most loved work. Originally published anonymously due to the shocking nature of its content for the times, published the following year in expurgated form. The book's depictions of the brutality, futility and mundanity of war were said to have inspired Hemingway to read the novel yearly, 'to remember how things really were so that I will never lie to myself nor anyone else about them.'
![Manning (Olivia) [The Balkan trilogy], 3 vol., comprising The Great Fortune, 21'- price sticker to jacket front flap, rubbing](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/14ece1c3-b3c1-4cdf-8d45-af2500cb4458/468x382.jpg)
Manning (Olivia) [The Balkan trilogy], 3 vol., comprising The Great Fortune, 21'- price sticker to jacket front flap, rubbing and minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light creasing to head, 1960; The Spoilt City, light damp-staining to a few corners, tide-mark to spine and head of upper cover, jacket price-clipped, spine ends and corners a little chipped, some creasing and fraying to head of upper panel, extremities rubbed, 1962; Friends and Heroes, signed presentation inscription from the author to Francis King on endpaper, additionally signed by the author on title, light toning to jacket, the odd nick and light creasing to head, 1965, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and an uncorrected proof of The Great Fortune, 8vo (4)⁂ Manning's acclaimed Balkan trilogy, comprising the first half of her Fortunes of War series, increasingly difficult to find the complete series, especially inscribed copies. Francis King (1923-2011) novelist, short story writer and literary and theatre critic.
![Mantel (Hilary) [The Thomas Cromwell trilogy], 3 vol., comprising Wolf Hall, cut signature of the author on title, jacket wit](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/939abe1c-a45a-4a84-8c35-af2500c92920/468x382.jpg)
Mantel (Hilary) [The Thomas Cromwell trilogy], 3 vol., comprising Wolf Hall, cut signature of the author on title, jacket with slight creasing to spine tips and corners, 2009; Bring Up the Bodies, signed by the author on title, sticker and a few dents to upper panel, light creasing to spine tips and corners, 2012; The Mirror and the Light, signed by the author on limitation f. at front, jacket with sticker to upper panel, light creasing to foot of spine, 2020, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine generally, 8vo.⁂ Mantel's celebrated series, charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the first two in the series won the Booker Prize in their respective years.
Blyton (Enid) The Land of Far-Beyond, first edition, illustrations by Horace Knowles, ink gift inscription to endpaper, original pictorial cloth, fine, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, patch of light toning to upper panel, minor chipping to head of spine, short closed tear to head of upper panel, an excellent example, 8vo, 1942.
![Mantel (Hilary) [The Thomas Cromwell trilogy], 3 vol., comprising Wolf Hall, signed by the author with quote "'Once, in the d](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/e66c9255-fbc0-4109-a2aa-af2500c9306f/468x382.jpg)
Mantel (Hilary) [The Thomas Cromwell trilogy], 3 vol., comprising Wolf Hall, signed by the author with quote "'Once, in the days of time immemorial...' Hilary Mantel, 10 vi 09" on title, jacket with very slight sunning to spine, 2009; Bring Up the Bodies, signed by the author on title, 2012; The Mirror and the Light, 2020, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, fine copies, 8vo.⁂ Mantel's celebrated series, charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the first two in the series won the Booker Prize in their respective years.
NO RESERVE Mantel (Hilary) The Mirror and the Light, jacket slightly loose and lightly creased, 2020 § Walters (Minette) The Echo, fine copy, 1997 § Le Carré (John) Smiley's People, endpapers lightly spotted, jacket creased and extremities rubbed, spine faded, 1980, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and c.200 others, modern literature, 8vo (c.205)
NO RESERVE Marquez (Gabriel Garcia) One Hundred Years of Solitude, first English edition, ink ownership name to lightly browned endpapers, original boards, spine ends lightly bumped and discoloured, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light rubbing and short tears to edges, some neatly repaired with glue, tear to lower panel repaired with glue, 8vo, 1970.
Marquez (Gabriel Garcia) Love in the Time of Cholera, board spine ends bumped, 1988; The General in his Labyrinth, 1991; Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 1982; Innocent Eréndira and other Stories, small hole to jacket upper panel, 1979, first English editions, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, some flaps browned or lightly spotted, some heads a little frayed but overall sharp and crisp editions; and 3 others by the same, 8vo (7)
Martin (A. E.) Sinners Never Die, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, jacket with loss to lower half of spine, chipped and torn with panels separating, New York, 1944 § McGerr (Pat) Save the Witness, chip to foot of upper panel, extremities rubbed, 1950 § Allingham (Margery) The Tiger in the Smoke, jacket price-clipped, spine browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1952, first American or English editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 6 others, detective fiction, 8vo (9)
NO RESERVE Masters (John) Bhowani Junction, endpapers a little browned, 1954; Bugles and a Tiger, some light browning and spotting to endpapers and few few pp., 1956; The Road Past Mandalay, 1961; Pilgrim Son, jacket lightly toned and yellowed, 1971, first editions, original boards, spine ends bumped, dust-jackets, very light creases or small closed nicks to extremities, but very sharp copies overall; and 17 others by Masters, 8vo (21)
NO RESERVE McCall Smith (Alexander) The Right Attitude to Rain, 2006; The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, 2007; La's Orchestra Saves the World, 2008; Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, 2009, first editions, signed by the author to title; and 22 others by the same, most signed by the author, 8vo (26)
Amis (Kingsley) That Uncertain Feeling, 1955; I Like it Here, 1958; Take a Girl Like You, light foxing to endpapers, margins and fore-edges, 1960; New Maps of Hell, 1961, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, very small nicks to corners and spine ends, one or two light instances of soiling or spotting but overall very clean and crisp copies; and 26 others by Amis, 8vo (30)
Blyton (Enid) Five Go to Mystery Moor, light browning to endpapers, jacket with short split to foot of upper joint, 1954; Five Go on a Hike Together, 1951; The Secret Seven, ink ownership inscription and light browning to endpapers, jacket price-clipped, 1949; Five Go to Demon's Rocks, 1961, first editions, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, the odd short nick with light creasing to head and foot, but excellent or near-fine generally, 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE McEwan (Ian) The Child in Time, jacket spine sunned, flaps a little marked, 1987; Black Dogs, 1992; The Day Dreamer, jacket sunned, 1994; Atonement, 2001; Machines Like Me, 2019, first editions, first two signed by the author to title, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine or fine copies; and 9 others by McEwan, 8vo (14)
McEwan (Ian) Atonement, 2001; Solar, 2010; For You, 2008; The Children Act, 2014; Nut Shell, 2016; first editions, signed by the author to title, original boards, light bumping to spine ends, dust-jackets, one or two light creases to jacket spine ends, otherwise fine copies; and 14 others by McEwan, first editions, one or two others signed, some duplicates, 8vo (18)
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