lamdha books - Catalogue of modern first editions and significant printings

59726 Atwood, Margaret Dancing Girls McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1977. First edition. Presentation sticker on front endpaper. Page edges toned with spotting to upper edges. Dustwrapper unclipped with minor shelf wear. Very good. Click here to order $80

14548 Bail, Murray Holden's Performance Viking, Ringwood, 1987. First edition. Page edges lightly foxed on upper edge. Minor shelf wear to lower boards. Otherwise, fine in like dustwrapper. Click here to order $30

43964 Ballard, J G Hello America Jonathan Cape, London, 1981. First edition, 224pp. Endpapers and page edges lightly toned and spotted. Price-clipped dustwrapper has some creasing to the edges, and small scrape to upper front hinge. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $55

51141 Beckett, Samuel Come and Go: a Dramaticule Calder and Boyars, London 1967. First edition, paperback, 10pp., b/w illustrations. Minor wear. Very good. "A dramaticule" for three female characters. Illustrated with photographs of the first performance in Berlin. Click here to order $40

43799 Beckett, Samuel Company John Calder, London, 1980. First edition, 89pp. Lightly spotted page edges. Crisp copy with very slight spots to fore-edge. Advertisement page listing other works has five titles ticked unobtrusively in black pen. Very good. Click here to order $60

44114 Beckett, Samuel Ends and Odds; Plays and Sketches Faber & Faber, London, 1977. First edition, 104pp. Lightly spotted page edges. Otherwise, minor wear in price clipped dustwrapper. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $45

40868 Belloc, Hilaire (G.K. Chesterton, illus.) The Haunted House Arrowsmith, London, 1927. First edition. Hardcover, b&w illustrations. Owner's name on endpaper. Endpapers and page edges lightly foxed/spotted. Boards slightly scuffed. Good. Click here to order $60

40863 Bellow, Saul Mr Sammler's Planet Viking, New York, 1970. Hardcover, slight edge wear to dustwrapper, otherwise very good. Not price-clipped. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $85

10986 Berger, John The White Bird Chatto & Windus, London, 1985. First edition. Spots to endpapers and page edges, minor wear. Very good in price-clipped dustwrapper. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $65

43426 Berners, Lord The Camel Constable & Co., London, 1936. First edition. Slightly rolled binding. Lightly toned page edges. Slightly soiled dustwrapper with edge and corner wear, chipping and small tears. Not price-clipped. Good to very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $90

43458 Berners, Lord A Distant Prospect A Sequel to First Childhood Constable, London, 1945. First edition, 126pp., with a frontispiece and three photographs. Lightly toned page edges. Dustwrapper slightly discoloured with edge and corner wear and chipping. Not price-clipped. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $85

38952 Betjeman, John Summoned By Bells John Murray, London, 1960. First edition. Foxed prelims and occasional spotting, spotted page edges; very good in slightly chipped and foxed dustwrapper. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $60

38760 Bolan, Marc The Warlock of Love Lupus Music, London, 1969. First edition. Hardcover, 63pp., no dustwrapper. Illustrated boards worn along edges and corners, tarnished with creasing down spinal edge. Very good otherwise. Click here to order $300

7837 Bowles, Paul Midnight Mass Peter Owen, London, 1985. First UK edition. Fine in like dustwrapper. Click here to order $25

43382 Boyd, William An Ice Cream War Hamish Hamilton, London, 1982. First edition. Page edges lightly soiled. Otherwise,, very good in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $40

33489 Bukowski, Charles The Movie: "Barfly" Black Sparrow Press, 1987. First edition. Front endpaper removed, page edges spotted; illustrated boards slightly rubbed at edges, few small bumps, but clean and firm, protected in plastic wrapper. Very good. Click here to order $150

44630 Burgess, Anthony Beds in the East Heinemann, London, 1959. Nice copy with spotted page edges in unclipped dustjacket. Bright and clean first edition. The third in the Malay trilogy. Click here to order $200

12114 Burgess, Anthony Joysprick An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce Andre Deutsch, London, 1973. First edition. Some spotting to prelims; else near fine in dustwrapper with very minor wear only, tiny scrape. Not price-clipped. Click here to order $60

38060 Burnett, W.R. Little Caesar Literary Guild, New York, 1929. First edition, hardback, green cloth with yellow and black decorated boards, 308pp. Near fine. Also with Wings, a 20 page monthly periodical of the Literary Guild of America, Vol.3 No.6 June 1929 in fine condition; this pamphlet contains an article 'Why the Editorial Boards selected "Little Caesar"'. Click here to order $120

46328 Burroughs, William S Queer Viking, New York, 1985. First edition, xxiii, 134pp. Lightly spotted page edges. Slightly rubbed dustwrapper with protective plastic wrap. Very good. Click here to order $50

43018 Byatt, A.S. The Virgin in the Garden Chatto & Windus, London, 1978. Hardcover. First edition. Endpapers and page edges lightly toned and spotted. Red paper boards have small amount of fading to lower corner of front; bumping to tail of spine. Price-clipped dustwrapper lightly toned with minor wear at edges; spine sunned. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $200

45316 Calvino, Italo If on a Winters Night a Traveller Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Secker & Warburg, London, 1981. First edition. Bright crisp copy in clipped dustwrapper. Lightly toned page edges. Slightly scuffed dustwrapper with minor edge wear. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] An intricate fancy involving the reader as its central character, consisting of a series of novels as they begin but never end. Click here to order $80

10755 Camus, Albert Caligula and Three Other Plays Knopf, New York, 1958. First edition. Owner's name, slight spotting to page edges, some foxing and minor wear to wrapper. Not price-clipped. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $40

47340 Capote, Truman The Dogs Bark Public People and Private Places Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1974. First Edition, xix,419pp. Dustwrapper slightly foxed at blurbs, with minor edge wear and price-clipped in clear wrap. Light spotting to top and fore edges, otherwise very nice, clean copy. Click here to order $75

44505 Capote, Truman In Cold Blood A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences Hamish Hamilton, London, 1966. First UK Edition, 284pp. Foxed page edges. Previous owner's name stamp on fep. Binding slightly rolled. Price-clipped dustwrapper slightly spotted with edge and corner wear, very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $50

43594 Capote, Truman Music for Chameleons Random House, New York, 1980. First edition. Very good in like dustwrapper. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $45

46327 Capote, Truman Selected Writings of Truman Capote Random House, New York 1963. First edition, 460pp. Slight foxing on fore edge; slightly chipped dustwrapper and faded on spine; otherwise neat clean copy in protective clear wrap. Click here to order $150

43696 Carey, Peter Oscar and Lucinda UQP, St. Lucia, Qld., 1988. First edition. Endpapers and page edges toned and spotted. Cloth boards have tape marks front and rear and other minor wear. Dustwrapper worn along edges with small crease to upper front corner. Good to very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $60

56766 Carter, Angela Shadow Dance Heinemann, London, 1966. First edition. Lightly browned page edges with spotting on upper edge. Illustrated pink dustwrapper (professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film) with minor edge and corner wear; small scrape on upper front corner. Otherwise,, very good to near fine. Click here to order $95

45667 Chatwin, Bruce The Songlines Viking, New York, 1987. First US edition, 293pp. Page edges lightly toned with remainder mark on fore edge. Unclipped dustwrapper lightly worn at edges. Binding slightly rolled. Good to very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $50

58291 Chatwin, Bruce The Songlines Jonathon Cape, London, 1987. First UK edition, 293pp. Endpapers and page edges toned with minor spotting. Clipped dustwrapper lightly worn at edges; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $60

40800 Chatwin, Bruce Utz Jonathan Cape, London, 1988. First edition, page edges spotted. Dustwrapper slightly scuffed. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $40

36448 Chatwin, Bruce The Viceroy of Ouidah Summit Books, New York, 1980. First US edition. Binding very slightly rolled. Page edges spotted. Very minor wear to dustwrapper corners and edges. Not price-clipped. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $50

45654 Chatwin, Bruce What Am I Doing Here Jonathan Cape, London, 1989. First UK edition, 367pp. Slight foxing to turn-ins of unclipped dustwrapper; minor toning of page edges, otherwise bright and clean. Very good. Click here to order $35

52354 Chesterton, G.K. (Eric Gill, illus.) Gloria in Profundis: The Ariel Poems, number 5 Faber & Gwyer, London, 1927. Stapled pamphlet. Very light soiling; else, near fine. Wood engravings by Eric Gill. Click here to order $70

8088 Dahl, Roald Sometime Never Collins, London, 1949. First edition. Few spots to endpaper, upper page edges, water stain on initial page of text; else, very good in slightly foxed dustwrapper, wear to edges, chip at head of spine, small tear to edge of rear internal panel. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Author's uncommon third book. Click here to order $200

46787 Dibdin, Michael The Last Sherlock Holmes Story Jonathan Cape, London, 1978. First edition, 192pp. Dustwrapper price clipped, in clear protective wrap. Some foxing to fore and bottom edges, tape marks to endpapers, a couple of small surface tears to pastedowns. Author's first book. Click here to order $100

43547 Dinesen, Isak Anecdotes of Destiny Random House, New York, 1958. First edition. Owner's name stamp on endpaper. Endpapers and page edges toned with slight spotting. Cloth boards slightly soiled with some spotting on front upper corner. Dustwrapper unclipped (price $3.75) and toned with chipping and creasing to head and tail of spine; tear in lower front spine hinge; small chip missing from lower rear edge; scuffed flap hinges and corners. Good to very good. Professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $100

43548 Dinesen, Isak Out of Africa Random House, New York, 1938. First edition. Owner's name and ex-libris bookplate on endpaper. Endpapers and page edges toned with slight spotting. Terracotta cloth boards with black spine have gilt flamingo on front very slightly worn. Dustwrapper unclipped and toned with chipping and creasing to head and tail of spine; scuffed flap and spine hinges and corners; sunned spine. Book -of-the-Month Club review slip laid in. Good to very good. Professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $800

43550 Dinesen, Isak Seven Gothic Tales Harrison Smith and Robert Haas Inc., New York, 1934. First edition. Endpapers and page edges toned with slight spotting; two water stains to top edge. Paper boards with cloth spine have gilt title on spine and front; spotting and rubbing to edges; dye stain to upper rear edge; slightly worn with bumped corners. Dustwrapper unclipped and toned with chipping and creasing to edges; large piece missing from tail of spine; small pieces missing from upper front edge, front spine hinge, and head of spine; scuffed flap and spine hinges and corners; sunned spine. Good to very good. Professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $350

43549 Dinesen, Isak Winter's Tales Random House, New York, 1942. Wartime edition. Endpapers and page edges toned with slight spotting. Red cloth boards very slightly worn with bumped corners. Dustwrapper unclipped and toned with chipping and creasing to head and tail of spine; chipped and creased upper front edge; scuffed flap and spine hinges and corners; sunned spine. Good to very good. Professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $95

36655 Fitzgerald, F. Scott This Side of Paradise Grey Walls Press, 1948. First UK edition. Owner's name, spotting to page edges; else, very good in toned price-clipped dustwrapper lightly worn at edges. A fine copy. Click here to order $200

43479 Forster, E M The Hill of Devi Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1953. First American edition, 267pp., slightly worn lower board edges and corners. Very lightly toned page edges. Discoloured rear panel of dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Minor edge wear. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $110

56669 Fowles, John The Magus Jonathan Cape, London, 1966. First edition hardcover. Owner's bookplate on endpaper. Faint bookseller's stamp on pastedown. Light spotting on endpaper, page edges lightly browned with random diffuse spotting - top edge stained mauve. Board edges lightly discoloured along edges with some minor wear at corners. Illustrated dustwrapper with light edge wear. Very good otherwise. Click here to order $100

8761 Frame, Janet The Adaptable Man Pegasus Press, London, 1965. First UK edition. Minor spotting to endpapers, lightly discoloured page edges; very good otherwise in worn dustwrapper with chipped edges and corners. Some shelf wear and spotting. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $32

36475 Frame, Janet Daughter Buffalo George Braziller, New York, 1972. First US edition. Owner's name on endpaper. Dustwrapper moderately worn with edge and corner wear, spine faded. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $40

36474 Frame, Janet The Edge of the Alphabet George Braziller, New York, 1962. First US edition. Owner's name on endpaper. Page edges lightly discoloured. Dustwrapper slightly shelf worn with wear along edges and corners. Not price-clipped. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $60

36472 Frame, Janet Living in the Maniototo George Braziller, New York, 1979. First US edition. Owner's name on endpaper. Binding slightly rolled. Minor wear; otherwise very good in like dustwrapper. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $32

36583 Frame, Janet The Reservoir & Snowman Snowman George Braziller, New York, 1963. First edition. Two hardcover volumes in slipcase. Dustwrappers slightly worn along edges and corners. Slipcase worn along edges and corners with fading and shelf wear. Both volumes very good in good slipcase. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $60

8745 Frame, Janet A State of Siege George Braziller, New York, 1966. First edition. Owner's name, minor wear only. Near fine in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Click here to order $45

58889 Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman at the Charge From The Flashman Papers 1854-1855 Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1973. First edition. Spotting to prelims and, particularly, page edges, tiny stain to lower edges; else, very good in like dustwrapper. Fourth in series. Click here to order $100

57250 Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman in the Great Game Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1975. First edition. Hardcover, 336pp. Owner's name on half title. Page edges lightly toned and spotted; pages 125 and 127 have chips and tears along lower fore edge. Boards have some wear to lower edges. Dustwrapper not price clipped; chipping and creasing to head and tail of spine; piece missing from upper front corner and upper rear spine hinge; other minor chipping to edges; scuffed corners. Else, very good. Click here to order $55

38420 Frye, Northrop Anatomy of Criticism Princeton University Press, 1957. First edition. Hardback, gilt lettering on spine; water rippling to bottom half-inch of prelims and first 8 pages; occasional pencil annotations, owner's name on endpapers; pages and boards otherwise very good; dustwrapper with faded spine, damage to head of spine and one corner and some discolouration. Not price-clipped. Good to very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $120

38970 Garner, Helen Monkey Grip McPhee Gribble, 1977. First edition. Owner's name on endpaper. Slightly rolled binding. Board edges damaged. Spotting to endpapers and page edges. Dustwrapper chipped over spine. Rear panel discoloured. Some shelf wear. Good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $45

47567 Graves, Robert The Antigua Stamp Random House, New York, 1937. First American edition. Top-edge only trimmed; original rust-brown cloth, front board has label facsimile of stamp, top corner of front board slighly bumped; bottom edge of boards slightly rubbed; attractive bookplate on pastedown (previous owner's name crossed-out). Dustwrapper chipped and rubbed in clear protective wrap. A clean, neat copy. Published 8th March 1937. Click here to order $250

14872 Graves, Robert Homer's Daughter Cassell, London, 1955. First edition. Foxed prelims, spotted page edges, light wear; very good in lightly soiled price-clipped wrapper, chipping to upper edge and tail of spine panel. Click here to order $65

46454 Graves, Robert Watch the North Wind Rise Creative Age, New York, 1949. First US Edition, 290pp. Bound in cloth textured paper. Dustwrapper not price clipped; some chipping. Board edges and corners slightly worn. Text very clean with browning along page edges. Good to very good. Click here to order $45

47696 Greene, Graham A Burnt Out Case Heinemann, London, 1961. First edition. Slight creasing and minor rubbing to dustwrapper, in clear protective wrap. Slight spotting to edges, small water stain at heel of spine; otherwise clean, sound copy. Click here to order $45

45907 Greene, Graham The Labyrinthine Ways New York, Viking, 1940. Second issue with pages 165 & 256 cut in to correct mistaken transposition of first issue. Without author's note. Original yellow cloth. Dustwrapper has 2 cm section missing at head of spine as well as two other smaller chips at heel. Some browning to pastedowns, text otherwise clean. Dustwrapper protected by clear bookwrap. Nice copy. Both issues seem to have been limited to 3,500 copies each. US edition of The Power and the Glory. Click here to order $1000

44019 Greene, Grahame The Return of A J Raffles Simon & Schuster, New York, 1976. First US edition, 92pp. Lightly toned and spotted page edges. Boards very slightly warped. Texta mark on bottom edge, otherwise crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper with some scuffing and edge wear. An Edwardian Comedy in Three Acts, based, somewhat loosely, on E.W. Hornung's characters in The Amateur Cracksman. Urbane, witty and impeccably funny, Greene's play is also a brilliant and ironic portrait of English manners and attitudes at the turn of the 20th century, in the aftermath of the Wilde case. Click here to order $40

43581 Hemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940. Early printing. Lacks publisher's "A" or colophon on title page but has second state dustwrapper with $2.75 price. Owner's name, dated 1952, on front endpaper, toning to pastedowns and endpapers, some darkening to upper page edges, beige boards; very good in moderately worn and chipped dustwrapper. Click here to order $140

43557 Hemingway, Ernest A Moveable Feast Sketches of the Author's Life in Paris in the Twenties. Charles Scribners' Sons, New York, 1964. First edition. 211pp., b/w photographs. Denoted A-3.64[H] on copyright page, the 'A' indicating first printing, '3.64' being month and year of publication. Page edges toned and soiled, two pages in body of book stained, few pages rippled. Sticker residue on front endpaper. Grey mottled paper boards with rust cloth spine and gilt title; scuffing to lower edges and bumped corners. Dark blue dustwrapper tarnished with chipping and creasing to head and tail of spine; scuffed corners; unclipped. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $300

43423 Herr, Michael Dispatches Alfred Knopf, New York, 1977. First edition. Lightly toned page edges. Otherwise,, minor wear only; very good to near fine in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Click here to order $220

43336 Highsmith, Patricia Ripley's Game Heinemann, London, 1974. First UK edition. Toned page edges. Edge wear to price-clipped dustwrapper with scuffing. Otherwise, good to very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $120

40786 Highsmith, Patricia Ripley's Game Alfred Knopf, New York, 1974. First edition hardcover, minor edge wear to price-clipped dustwrapper. Otherwise, very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $100

47415 Huxley, Aldous The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems Blackwell, 1918. Limited to 250 copies, 48 pages. Ex libris bookplate on pastedown, "Hiram S Gans". Untrimmed on all edges. Browning to endpapers. Slight rubbing to hinges; backstrip chipped at head. Clean and tidy copy. Author's second book, the third in the Initiates series 'A Series of Poetry by Proved Hands'. Click here to order $100

43156 Huxley, Aldous Jesting Pilate The Diary of a Journey. Chatto & Windus, London, 1927. Second impression. B&w illustrations. Endpapers and page edges toned and spotted. Cloth boards faded with gilt title on spine; small split to head of spine; bumping to tail of spine; spine sunned; 2 small dents to lower and upper rear edges. Dustwrapper toned and stained; head of spine and small piece of adjacent front cover missing; tail of spine creased and chipped; front and rear hinges of spine rubbed; large tears to rear upper edge and rear flap hinge; all corners scuffed with tear to upper front and piece missing from upper rear. Good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] With 22 illustrations of scenes in India, Burma, Malaya, the Pacific and America. Click here to order $100

30182 Idriess, Ion L. Across the Nullarbor A Modern Argosy. Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1951. First edition. Hardcover, 248pp., b/w photographs. Prelims and page edges toned and spotted. Cloth boards somewhat rubbed to head and tail of spine. Dustwrapper clipped; large piece missing across head of spine; smaller chip missing from tail of spine; tear and creasing to lower rear edge; all hinges scraped; corners scuffed and creased; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good to very good. Click here to order $50

46656 Isherwood, Christopher My Guru and His Disciple Eyre Methuen, London, 1980. First edition, 338pp. Owner's name on endpaper. Endpapers and page edges lightly toned and spotted. Unclipped dustwrapper lightly worn at edges; spine sunned. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $35

47907 Isherwood, Christopher (Sylvain Mangeot, illus.) People One Ought to Know Macmillan, London, 1982. First Edition. Colour illustrations. A collection of 29 nonsense poems. Minor wear, very good in like dustwrapper and protective plastic wrap. Click here to order $35

13619 Ishiguro, Kazuo The Remains of the Day Faber & Faber, London, 1989. First edition. Faint spotting to page edges; else, near fine in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Click here to order $140

36443 Keneally, Thomas The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1972. First edition. Binding slightly rolled, owner's name on endpaper. Lightly toned page edges. Dustwrapper worn along edges and corners. Not price-clipped. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Classic misspelling of 'Jimmie' on dustwrapper of first edition. Click here to order $65

11610 Keneally, Thomas The Fear Cassell, Sydney, 1965. First edition. Owner's name, some foxing, spotting to page edges; good to very good in moderately worn dustwrapper, few tiny tears to edges. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $50

43347 Keneally, Thomas Schindler's Ark Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1982. First edition. Lightly toned page edges. Slightly scuffed dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Minor wear. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $100

43482 Koestler, Arthur Darkness at Noon Macmillan, New York, 1941. First American edition. Lightly spotted edges of pastedown and endpaper. Page edges foxed. Dustwrapper scuffed with edge and corner wear some chipping. Good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $75

41086 Lawrence, D.H. The Man Who Died Martin Secker, London, 1931. First edition. Small quarto, hardcover, 97pp. Decorated boards, paper with rough cut edges, some marks and remnants of past paste-downs, occasional pencil marking, browning to endpapers, some glue marks on rear verso, green cloth boards with head and tail of spine with some fraying, corners bumped, some edge wear, stains and fading, good. 'The original title of this story was The Escaped Cock. The present title was decided upon by the author shortly before his death.' 'This edition is limited to 2000 copies for sale in England and the United States of America. The type has been distributed.' Click here to order $450

43008 Llosa, Mario Vargas The Time of the Hero Grove Press, New York, 1966. Hardcover. First translated edition. Endpapers and page edges lightly toned and spotted. Dustwrapper lightly worn at edges. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $35

36409 Lowell, Robert (Sidney Nolan, illus.) Near the Ocean Drawings by Sidney Nolan Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1968. Square quarto hardcover, 125pp., b&w drawings. Minor wear only; very good in like dustwrapper. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $65

42904 Loy, Mina The Last Lunar Baedeker Jargon Society, Highlands, 1982. First edition. Small quarto hardcover, 334pp., slightly soiled and spotted page edges. Dustwrapper slightly worn along edges and corners. Not price-clipped. Very good otherwise. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] The original publication was a mere 60 pages. Here, not only her poetry, but tracts, manifestoes, documents of a curious life, are gathered. Click here to order $140

49576 MacDiarmid, Hugh A Lap of Honour MacGbbon & Kee, London, 1967. First edition, 68pp. Page edges foxed, corners bumped. Minor wear, otherwise, very good in like dustwrapper. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $45

43571 Mailer, Norman The Naked and the Dead Rinehart and Company, New York, 1948. Presumed second impression. Publisher's colophon on copyright page with the number 2 adjacent. Dustwrapper has four newspapers on rear inner fold. Owner's bookplate and name stamp, few faint spots to page edges and endpapers; else, very good to near fine in foxed dustwrapper, few tiny scrapes and wear to edges. Click here to order $800

38912 Malouf, David Child's Play & The Bread of Time to Come 2 Novellas George Braziller, New York, 1981. First US edition. Page edges spotted. Dustwrapper slightly shelf worn and scuffed. Not price-clipped. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $45

33601 Malouf, David An Imaginary Life Chatto & Windus, London, 1978. First edition. Light spotting to page edges; else, very good in lightly worn, price-clipped dustwrapper, small stain to edge of front panel and spine. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $200

40945 Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Chronicle of a Death Foretold Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1983. First edition. Few spots to front endpaper, initials in red pen; light spotting to upper page edges; else, very near fine in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Click here to order $100

38422 Marquez, Gabriel Garcia (Gregory Rabassa, trans.) In Evil Hour Harper & Row, New York, 1979. First edition. Hardback, gilt lettering on spine; owner's name on endpaper; near fine in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Click here to order $90

38423 Marquez, Gabriel Garcia (Gregory Rabassa, trans.) Innocent Erendira and Other Stories Harper & Row, New York, 1978. First edition. Hardback, gilt lettering on spine; owner's name on endpaper; near fine in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Click here to order $100

38424 Marquez, Gabriel Garcia (Gregory Rabassa, trans.) Leaf Storm and Other Stories Harper & Row, New York, 1972. First edition. Hardback, gilt lettering on spine, decorated boards; owner's name on endpaper; near fine in like price-clipped dustwrapper. Click here to order $240

43453 Matthiessen, Peter At Play in the Fields of The Lord Random House, New York, 1965. First edition. Very slightly worn board edges and corners. Lightly toned page edges. Slightly scuffed price-clipped dustwrapper, very light soiling and discolouration of spine. Minor wear; else, very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $150

43507 Merton, Thomas The Seven Storey Mountain Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1948. Early printing [b.7.48]. Black cloth with price-clipped dustwrapper bearing reviews from Evelyn Waugh, Clifton Fadiman, Grahame Greene et al. Photographs on rear panel including 'Trappists at work in the fields' with the reference to the author. Endpapers and page edges toned and spotted. Boards have minor wear to edges. Dustwrapper tarnished; piece missing from head of spine; tear to lower front joint; large tear to upper rear with some small chips missing; creasing to spine and flap hinges with some scraping; old sellotape to upper and lower edges front and rear with consequent staining. Good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $250

46252 Miller, Henry Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch Heinemann, London, 1958. First UK edition, 355pp., b/w illustrations. Cloth marked at heel; dustwrapper chipped head and tail. Clean and neat otherwise in defective dustjacket. Good. Click here to order $65

46549 Miller, Henry Henry Miller's Book of Friends Santa Barbara, Capra, 1976. First Edition. Dustwrapper rubbed at extremities, price clipped. Top edge slightly spotted, otherwise fine. Click here to order $45

47506 Miller, Henry Just Wild About Harry New Directions, New York, 1973. First US edition, 127pp. Dustwrapper a little rubbed, price-clipped in clear wrap. Light spotting to edges; otherwise nice clean, sound copy. Click here to order $70

46390 Miller, Henry and Fraenkel, Michael Hamlet: Volume II Carrefour, New York, 1941. Paperback, 465pp. First edition. Slightly rubbed and browned; otherwise sound neat copy in protective clear wrap. Good. Click here to order $150

40583 Mishima, Yukio Acts of Worship Seven Stories Harper Collins, London, 1990. First UK edition. Some spotting to upper page edges; else, very good to near fine in lightly worn dustwrapper. Click here to order $25

43353 Mitford, Nancy Voltaire in Love Hamish Hamilton, London, 1957. First edition. Owner's name on endpaper. Foxed endpapers. Board edges and corners worn. Slightly toned page edges and faded upper page edges. Slightly soiled dustwrapper with chipping at corners. Not price-clipped. Good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $65

40944 Morley, Christopher The Haunted Bookshop Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1921. Second state. Moderate wear, mild offsetting, spotting to page edges, wear to edges of boards, minimal fraying. Good to very good. Click here to order $80

42909 Naipaul, V.S. An Area of Darkness An Experience of India Andre Deutsch, London, 1964. Hardcover. First edition. Endpapers and page edges toned and spotted. Dustwrapper lightly worn, with some some chipping along edges and a small scrape on upper front hinge. Not price-clipped. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $95

43109 Naipaul, V.S. A Bend in the River Andre Deutsch, London, 1979. First edition. Page edges lightly toned and spotted. Price clipped dustwrapper lightly worn at edges. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $32

43569 Naipaul, V.S. A Congo Diary: signed copy Sylvester & Orphanos, Los Angeles, 1980. First edition, signed, number 61 of 330. Near fine. Red cloth boards with black embossed design on front with some marks to upper front. Click here to order $400

43466 Naipaul, V.S. The Mimic Men Andre Deutsch, London, 1967. First edition. Page edges foxed and spotted. Slightly discoloured dustwrapper with minor scuffing and edge wear. Not price-clipped. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $65

42905 Naipaul, V.S. Mr Stone and the Knights Companion Andre Deutsch, London, 1963. Hardcover. First edition. Endpapers and page edges toned and spotted with some internal spotting. Dustwrapper price clipped and toned, with chipping and creasing on head and tail of spine, scraping on front and rear hinges, and one medium and one small scrape to upper front cover. Spine sunned. Good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $50

42906 Naipaul, V.S. The Overcrowded Barracoon and other articles Andre Deutsch, London, 1972. Hardcover. First edition. Owner's name and date on endpaper. Endpapers and page edges lightly toned and spotted. Dustwrapper lightly worn at edges. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $40

43020 O'Brian, Patrick Blue at the Mizzen Harper Collins, London, 1999. First edition. Endpapers and page edges lightly toned and spotted. Blue cloth boards have bumped corners. Dustwrapper lightly worn at edges. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $50

39151 O'Brian, Patrick The Thirteen Gun Salute Collins, London, 1989. First edition. Light browning to first and last 30 pages - this is common to this first printing; near fine in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Click here to order $350

43389 O'Brien, Tim If I Die in a Combat Zone Calder & Boyars, London,1973. First edition. Lightly toned page edges, minor wear, otherwise, very good in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $200

43434 O'Brien, Tim Speaking of Courage: signed Neville, Santa Barbara, 1980. Signed limited edition, this 94 of 300 copies. Green cloth boards with minor spotting. Near fine. Click here to order $175

14545 Ondaatje, Michael The English Patient: signed copy Bloomsbury, London, 1992. First edition. Signed on title page. Owner's signature and date, very faint spotting to page edges; very good to near fine in foxed and lightly worn dustwrapper, small stain to edge of rear panel (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Click here to order $125

49644 Orwell, George Dickens, Dali and Others: Studies in Popular Culture Reynal and Hitchcock, New York, 1946. First American edition, 243pp. Off white cloth on boards. Page edges foxed. Grey dust jacket with discoloured rear panel, edge wear and chipping in protective matt bookwrap. Good to very good. Click here to order $100

49807 Orwell, George Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays Harcourt Brace, New York, 1950. First US edition, second state wrapper. Grey linen grain cloth on boards. Owner's name, spotted page edges; overall a clean neat copy in chipped dustwrapper, some light foxing. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] The essays are the same as in the British edition, but in a different order (Fenwick, D3b). Click here to order $120

46548 Orwell, George (W.J. West, ed.) Orwell: The War Commentaries & Orwell: The War Broadcasts Duckworth, London, 1985. First editions, 248pp. & 308pp. Faint spotting to page edges. Minor wear, very good in like unclipped dustwrappers in protective plastic wraps. The lost texts of Orwell's radio commentaries on WWII. Click here to order $100

48388 Pinter, Harold The Proust Screenplay Eyre & Methuen, London, 1978. First edition. 165pp. Pencil dedication on half-title page with top corner rubbed. Tear on back panel of dustwrapper, otherwise neat copy in clear bookwrap. Very good. With the collaboration of Joseph Losey and Barbara Bray. Click here to order $32

48606 Pirsig, Robert Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Bodley Head, London, 1974. Hardcover, 417pp. Endpapers and page edges lightly toned and spotted. Boards have very minor wear to lower edges. Dustwrapper not price clipped; slightly chipped and creased at head and tail of spine; other slight scuffing to edges; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $120

43001 Pound, Ezra The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Collected Edition) Faber and Faber, London, 1964. Hardcover, 798pp. Owner's name and date on endpaper. Endpapers and page edges lightly toned and spotted. Dustwrapper lightly worn at edges; some chipping and creasing to head and tail of spine; small tear in rear spine hinge; discoloured rear cover. Else, very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $80

43553 Powell, Anthony The Acceptance World Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1955. First edition. Endpapers and page edges toned and spotted. Paper boards with cloth spine have slight scuffing to edges and corners. Dustwrapper unclipped and tarnished; some spotting to edges; chipping and creasing to head and tail of spine and edges; rubbed spine and flap hinges; scuffed corners. Good to very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $150

43503 Powell, Anthony A Buyer's Market Charles Scribners' Sons, New York, 1953. First edition. Endpapers and page edges toned and spotted. Red cloth boards with very minor wear to lower edges and corners. Dustwrapper toned with chipping and creasing to head and tail of spine; small tear to lower rear edge; small scrape on upper front cover; tear over lower front corner with piece missing; corners scuffed; not price clipped. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $400

38414 Powell, Anthony Casanova's Chinese Restaurant Heinemann, London, 1960. First edition. Very good in dustwrapper with fading to spine, some edge wear and tiny chipping. Not price-clipped. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Fifth volume in The Music of Time sequence. Click here to order $135

38413 Powell, Anthony The Kindly Ones Heinemann, London, 1962. First edition. Owner's name on endpaper, moderate wear, dustwrapper with slight fading on spine and shelf wear; otherwise good in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $80

38412 Powell, Anthony The Military Philosophers Heinemann, London, 1968. First edition. Owner's name on endpaper; dustwrapper with slight fading on spine and shelf wear; otherwise near fine in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Notable copy. Ninth volume in The Music of Time sequence. Click here to order $140

43349 Powell, Anthony Venusberg & Agents and Patients Periscope-Holliday, New York, nd. First American edition. Board edges and corners worn. Page edges foxed. Price-clipped dustwrapper worn along edges and corners with tarnishing and chipping. Small tears on head and tail of spine. Good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $150

52491 Rice, Anne Interview with the Vampire Macdonald, London, 1976. First edition. Page edges lightly toned. Near fine in like dustwrapper; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $125

14547 Roy, Arundhati The God of Small Things Flamingo, London, 1987. First edition. Foxing to page edges. Shelf wear to lower boards. Otherwise, very good in like dustwrapper. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $40

9124 Singer, Isaac Bashevis A Crown of Feathers Jonathan Cape, London, 1973. First UK edition. Slight spotting to upper page edges; else, near fine in moderately worn dustwrapper, fraying to edges, bookseller's sticker. Click here to order $25

8100 Singer, Isaac Bashevis The King of the Fields Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, New York, 1988. First edition. Spotting to upper page edges & a few further spots; else, near fine in like dustwrapper. Click here to order $25

38362 Snow, C P The Conscience of the Rich Macmillan, London, 1958. First edition, in Sidney Nolan dustwrapper. Owner's name on endpaper. Lightly foxed page edges. Dustwrapper worn along edges and corners with creases and chipping. Good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $30

43017 Sontag, Susan The Benefactor Farrar, Straus and Co., New York, 1963. Hardcover. First edition. Endpapers and page edges toned and spotted. Paper boards with cloth spine; bent head and tail of spine. Price-clipped dustwrapper toned and spotted; chipping and creasing to head and tail of spine and upper and lower edges; 2cm tear to rear upper spine hinge; scuffed corners. Else, very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $120

39855 Stevens, Wallace Harmonium Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931. Second edition, 151pp. Beige boards. Dustwrapper browned around edges and spine, torn along spine and head and tail, otherwise very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $250

38397 Stoppard, Tom Lord Malquist & Mr Moon Anthony Blond, London, 1966. First edition. Owner's name on endpaper. Minor wear only; else, very good in dustwrapper with slight wear to edges. Not price-clipped. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $50

58407 Suskind, Patrick Perfume The Story of a Murderer. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1986. First English edition. Hardcover. Endpapers and page edges toned. Dustwrapper chipped and creased at head and tail of spine; other minor wear to edges; scuffed corners; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $60

35735 Tanner, Lt-Col. William ('Bill') The Book of Bond or Every Man His Own 007 With Reversible Bookjacket For Work in The Field Jonathan Cape, London, 1965. First edition. Spotting to upper page edges; else, fine in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. This copy exhibits a minumum of wear and is in truly remarkable condition. The spoof book by Kingsley Amis. Click here to order $500

40943 Thomas, Dylan Rebecca's Daughters Triton, London, 1965. First edition. Faint foxing to endpapers, spotted page edges, light rubbing to upper board edges; very good in dustwrapper worn at edges. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $28

43384 Thompson, Hunter S Hell's Angels The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs Random House, New York, 1967. First edition. Owner's name on endpaper. Page edges lightly browned. Price clipped dustwrapper worn along edges and corners with chipping. Otherwise, good to very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Author's first book. Click here to order $1000

41179 Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings: deluxe edition George Allen & Unwin, London, 1972. Second impression. Rice paper edition of complete work in one volume. Light spotting to prelims, one page miscut with crease; else, near fine in moderately worn slipcase with some scraping to edges, bumping to corners. Click here to order $400

49826 Vidal, Gore Rocking the Boat Little Brown, Boston, 1962. First edition, 300pp. Neat copy in chipped and creased dustwrapperprotected in clear bookwrap. Board edges and corners slightly worn, corners slightly bumped. Page edges lightly toned. Tape marks on front endpaper. Dustwrapper worn along edges and corners with chipping and tears. Some tarnishing along edges. Good Collection of essays and commentaries examining the American political and literary scenes since World War II. Click here to order $45

34709 Waugh, Evelyn (Amory, Mark ed.) The Letters of Evelyn Waugh Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1980. First edition. Owner's name on endpaper. Dustwrapper worn along edges and corners with chipping. Otherwise,, very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $35

14875 Wells, H G The Dream Jonathan Cape, London, 1924. First edition. Tape outline marks to foxed endpapers, spotting to page edges; very good to near fine in like price-clipped dustwrapper. Remarkable copy. Click here to order $200

30178 White, Patrick The Eye of the Storm Jonathan Cape, London, 1973. First edition. Spotting to endpapers and page edges; else, very good to near fine in like dustwrapper. Click here to order $35

41076 White, Patrick The Ploughman Beacon Press, Sydney, 1935. First edition. No.65/300 copies. Slight scrape front pastedown, slight indentation to front endpaper and title page from paperclip, erasure at base of title page, rear hinge slightly split at lower section but holding. Boards moderately worn with few light stains, bumping tail of spine and corners. Quite good copy of the rarest White book. Click here to order $3500

7713 White, Patrick The Tree of Man Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1956. First edition. Light foxing to prelims, spotting and some dustiness to upper page edges; very good in foxed dustwrapper with wear to edges and tiny chip to corner extremity. Click here to order $100

11692 White, Patrick The Vivisector Jonathan Cape, London, 1970. First edition. Very faintly foxed endpapers, with owner's bookplate on pastedown and name on endpaper; page edges lightly spotted with top edge stained black; else, very good in illustrated dustwrapper with minor edge wear, professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $45

46557 Williams, William Carlos In the American Grain Macgibbon & Kee, London, 1966. First English edition, 234pp. A slim band of foxing on endpapers, page edges foxed. Minor wear otherwise, very good in price clipped card dustwrapper. Click here to order $40

38337 Wilson, Angus Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Secker & Warburg, London, 1956. First edition, owner's name on endpaper. Page edges spotted. Dustwrapper worn along edges and corners with chipping. Light discolouration to rear panel. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $40

7260 Winterson, Jeanette The Passion Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1987. First edition. Faint spotting to upper page edges, rear endpaper removed, scraped pastedowns resulting from removal of adhesive; else, very good to near fine in like dustwrapper. Click here to order $35

10263 Winterson, Jeanette Written on the Body Jonathan Cape, London, 1992. First edition. Owner's name on endpaper. Slight shelf wear. Very good in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $35

36506 Winton, Tim Shallows Allen & Unwin, North Sydney, 1984. First edition. Minor wear only; near fine in like dustwrapper. Exceptional copy. Author's second book. Click here to order $300

43346 Wolfe, Tom The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1968. First edition. Lightly toned rough-cut page edges. Some spotting on upper page edges. Price-clipped dustwrapper lightly worn and chipped along edges and corners, with some minor creasing and tarnishing. Good to very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $650

46853 Woolf, Virginia Books and Portraits: Some further selections from the literary and biographical writings of Virginia Woolf. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1978. First American Edition, 221pp. Lilac papered boards, black cloth spine. Pictorial dustwrapper printed in black, lilac and grey. Lightly toned page edges with spotting. Minor tear to front panel of dustwrapper; otherwise very good in protective plastic wrap. Bibliography states First American Edition BCDE. There were 10,000 copies issued in February 1978. Edited and with a Preface by Mary Lyon. 48 essays and reviews. Click here to order $30

46855 Woolf, Virginia Books and Portraits: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf Hogarth, London,1977. First edition, 221pp. Pale coral rexine boards, pictorial dustwrapper printed in mustard yellow and black, designed by Angelica Garnett. Bookplate. Minor wear; very good in like dustwrapper. Protective plastic wrap. There were 5,600 copies published in August 1977. Click here to order $40

7821 Woolf, Virginia The Flight of the Mind The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1888-1912 Hogarth Press, London, 1975. First edition. Endpapapers faintly foxed; else, very good in slightly tarnished dustwrapper. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $60

46854 Woolf, Virginia The Pargiters Hogarth, London, 1978. First edition, 167pp. Rose-red rexine boards. White pictorial dustwrapper printed in pink and black, designed by Angelica Garnett. Lightly toned page edges. Minor wear otherwise; very good to near fine in like dustwrapper. There were 2,500 copies issued in January 1978. The Novel-essay portion of The Years. Edited with an introduction by Mitchell A. Leaska. Click here to order $65

7822 Woolf, Virginia The Question of Things Happening The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1912-1922 The Hogarth Press, London, 1976. First edition. Slightly foxed endpapers; else, very good in slight worn dustwrapper, minor foxing to internal panels. Click here to order $60

38421 Woolf, Virginia (Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie, eds.) The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 3 of 5 Volumes Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1977-1980. Three volumes of a five volume set. Hardback, gilt lettering on spine. Vol.1 1915-1919, 356pp., 1977; Vol.2 1920-1924, 371pp., 1978; Vol.3 1925-1930, 384pp., 1980. Owner's name on endpaper; light shelf wear; near fine. All dustwrappers not price-clipped. Click here to order $180

39619 Woolf, Virginia (Nigel Nicolson, ed.) The Letters of Virginia Woolf: six volumes Comprising: The Flight of the Mind 1888-1912; The Question of Things Happening 1912-1922; A Change of Perspective 1923-1928; A Reflection of the Other Person 1929-1931; The Sickle Side of the Moon 1932-1935; Leave the Letters Till We're Dead 1936-1941. Hogarth Press, London, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980. Six first edition hardcover volumes, owner's name in Vols.1, 2, 3 & 4. B&w plates in Vols, 1, 2 & 4. Lightly spotted endpapers and page edges. Slight sunning to dustwrapper spines of Vols. 5 & 6. Diffuse and scattered spotting on spines of dustwrappers on Vols. 2, 3 & 6. Minor wear otherwise. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $450

41075 Wyndham, John The Day of the Triffids Michael Joseph, London, 1951. First edition. Slight protrubence beneath front pastedown which has caused indentation in preliminary pages, bookseller's sticker, lightly foxed endpapers and pastedowns, spotting to page edges, upper edges of boards lightly faded; else, very good in like price-clipped dustwrapper with some light wear to edges; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $2500

40794 Yourcenar, Marguerite Coup de Grace Secker & Warburg, London, 1957. First edition. Owner's name on pastedown, bookseller stamp on endpaper. Lightly toned page edges. Price-clipped dustwrapper slightly chipped along edges, with some scuffing. Otherwise, very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $32