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TEARNE, Roma
Brixton Beach
London: Harper, 2009
8vo, pp. 408. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
Longlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards.
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COLEMAN, Lonnie
Ship's Company
Boston: Little, Brown, 1955
8vo, pp. 229. Original grey boards, lettered in green on spine.
First edition.
A compendium of vignettes of wartime life aboard the U.S.S. Nellie Crocker, including one about the... [more]
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BOURJAILY, Vance
The Hound of Earth
New York: Scribner's, 1955
8vo, pp. 250. Original black boards, lettered in black and yellow on spine.
First edition.
Bourjaily's second novel, about an atomic scientist haunted by post-Hiroshima guilt. Some... [more]
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GREEN, Julian
The Transgressor
New York: Pantheon, 1957
8vo, pp. 222. Original white hessian boards, initialled in brown, black spine lettered in gilt.
First edition in English, first published as Le Malfaiteur in Paris the previous... [more]
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BURNS, John Horne
The Gallery
New York: Harper & Bros., 1947
8vo, pp. 342. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
The author's first novel is barely a novel at all, more a loosely-connected series of short,... [more]
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WILLINGHAM, Calder
End As A Man
New York: Vanguard Press, 1947
8vo, pp. 240. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition of the author's first book, in a striking dustjacket designed by Roy Sanford.
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OTIS, Harry
The Keval, And Other Gay Adventures
Los Angeles: One Incorporated, 1959
8vo, pp. 106. Original stiff card wrappers.
First edition.
Young 2953
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BARR, James [pseud. FUGATE, James]
Quatrefoil
New York: Greenberg, 1950
8vo, pp. 373. Original black boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition of the author's first book, inscribed by Barr to Richard Yates on the front free... [more]
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CENDRARS, Blaise
Confessions of Dan Yack
London: Peter Owen, 1990
8vo, pp. 120. Original tan boards, lettered in black on spine.
First English-language edition, originally published in French by Au Sans Pareil in 1929.
A fine copy.
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McINTOSH, Harlan Cozad
This Finer Shadow
New York: Dial Press, 1941
8vo, pp. 408. Original blue-green boards, lettered in green on front panel and spine.
First edition.
This Finer Shadow was rejected by every publisher it was sent to during... [more]
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EDMUNDS, Murrell
Sojourn Among Shadows
Idaho: Caxton, 1936
8vo, pp. 144. Original grey boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine.
First edition.
Murrell Edmunds (1898-1981) was from a distinguished Southern family, and abandoned a legal... [more]
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[ARAGON, Louis] ANONYMOUS
Irène
Paris: Chez L'Auteur [Jean-Jacques Pauvert], 1952
8vo, pp. 108. Variant binding: blue stiff paper wrappers, white title label on front panel. Fifth (blank) leaf missing, as in all copies. French text.
Second... [more]
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CAREY, Peter
Illywhacker
London: Faber, 1985
8vo, pp. 600. Original red boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
Carey's second novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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BURNS, John Horne
A Cry Of Children
New York: Harper & Bros., 1952
8vo, pp. 276. Original grey and blue three-quarter cloth, lettered in white on spine.
First edition.
Published a year before Burns' death in Florence of a cerebral haemorrhage,... [more]
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DeLILLO, Don
The Body Artist
London: Picador, 2001
8vo, pp. 124. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition.
Review copy: London Review of Books slip laid in.
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STONE, Grace Zaring
The Grotto
New York: Harper Bros., 1951
8vo, pp. 249. Original pale blue textured boards and black spine, lettered in gilt at spine.
First edition.
'Grace Zaring Stone is the first novelist who has dared to write frankly ... [more]
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ADDONIA, Sulaiman
The Consequences Of Love
London: Chatto & Windus, 2008
8vo, pp. 346. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'David, What can I say.... Thank you for your wonderful support. Best Wishes,... [more]
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ARCHER, Jeffrey
A Quiver Full Of Arrows
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980
8vo, pp. 190. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
First collection of short stories from one of Britain's leading perjurors.
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WILNER, Herbert
All The Little Heroes
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966
8vo, pp. 487. Original pink and blue cloth, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO KAY BOYLE : 'For Kay, In all respect and reverence, and in love... [more]
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[ed. JOLAS, Eugene]
Transition No. 22
The Hague: Servire Press: February 1933
8vo, pp. 179. Original outsize printed paper wrappers,inevitably worn at edges.
First edition.
With contributions from Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, Eugene Jolas and Stuart ... [more]
