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PARKIN, Molly

Full Up

London: Michael Joseph, 1976

8vo, pp. 223. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

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GARNER, Alan

Red Shift

London: Collins, 1973

8vo, pp. 158. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.

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BANKS, Iain

A Song Of Stone

London: Abacus, 1995

8vo, pp. 280. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

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STUART, Alexander

The War Zone

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989

8vo, pp. 207. Original orange boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

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OKRI, Ben

Songs Of Enchantment

London: Cape, 1993

8vo, pp. 297. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.

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CASTRO, Adam-Troy
Lost In Booth Nine
Woodinville: Silver Salamander Press, 1993

8vo, pp. 208. Original black boards, lettered in red on front panel and spine.

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JAMES, P.D
The Children of Men
London: Faber and Faber, 1992

8vo, pp.239. Original black boards, lettered in white on spine A near fine, unread copy with just the lightest of edgewear... [more]

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MALLINSON, Allan
Warrior In South Africa, Matthew Hervey clashes with the warrior king of the Zulus
London: Bantam, 2008

8vo, pp.337. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. A fine, unread copy.... [more]

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COETZEE, J.M.
Slow Man
London: Secker & Warburg, 2005

8vo, pp.265. Original card wrappers. Very lightly marked here and there, otherwise a fine, unread copy.... [more]

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AUDEN, W.H.
Collected Longer Poems
New York: Random House, 1969

8vo, pp. 356. Original green three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to spine, gilt 'A' to front panel, publisher's device in red to spine. Top... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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GREENE, Graham
A Sort Of Life
London: Bodley Head, 1971

8vo, pp. 216. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

First edition, second issue, with 'J.M. Barrie' to p. 177.

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AUDEN, W.H.
City Without Walls
New York: Random House, 1969

8vo, pp. 124. Original tan three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to spine, author's initials embossed to front panel. Top edge black, leading... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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[ed. PLATH, Sylvia]
American Poetry Now
N.p. [Hull]: Oxford University Press, N.d. [1961]

8vo, pp. 24. Original stapled stiff paper wrappers.

First edition, issued as the Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement Number 2.

Introduction, acknowledgements and selection by Plath. Contributors include Anne Sexton, Denise Levertov and Adrienne Rich.

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PLATH, Sylvia
Poetry 1960 An Appetiser
Hull: Critical Quarterly, N.d. [1960]

8vo, pp. 24. Original printed paper wrappers.

First edition. SYLVIA PLATH'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN BOOK FORM.

This pamphlet, an anthology of '50s writers, new poems by established poets and prize poems, trumpets on the front wrapper the inclusion of work from, among others, Kingsley Amis, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, John Wain and Philip Larkin. Sylvia Plath's poem, Medallion, is on p. 20, and had won a Critical Quarterly prize in 1959.

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RAVEN, Simon
The Sabre Squadron
London: Anthony Blond, 1966

8vo, pp. 239. Original brown boards, lettered in silver to spine. Printed dustwrapper.

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BANKS, Iain
A Song Of Stone
London: Abacus, 1995

8vo, pp. 280. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Black endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper.

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CHATWIN, Bruce
Utz
London: Cape, 1988

8vo, pp.154. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Author's photographic portrait to rear panel.

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TREVOR, William
The Children Of Dynmouth
London: Bodley Head, 1976

8vo., pp. 222. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition. Booker shortlisted, and winner of the Whitbread Prize.

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