 | Hello and welcome to our first (and last) newsletter for 2024. We have you sent you this message because you are either our customer or a friend, perhaps happily both. On the other hand, if you’d prefer not to receive any future newsletters, please just unsubscribe, and we apologise for this intrusion. As a guide, henceforth we will send similar messages roughly once every couple of months. Otherwise…in our first year of business we have been amazed at the good rapport we have established with our many customers, and some of you are already regulars – thank you all for putting your faith in us. We have been pleased at the level of sales and remain convinced of our core belief that good quality books never go out of fashion. Now we’d like to show you some (mainly) new stock from our principal areas of interest.
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________________________________________________________________________________________ We are enjoying our latest acquisitions in vintage children's fiction. Please let us know your interests.  | The Diddakoi.
Rumer Godden.
London: Macmillan, 1972. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Signed by the author to the front end paper. Such a special and unique book, this work won the Whitbread... (#1629)
Price: £725.00 | |  |  | Sea Witch Comes Home.
Malcom Saville.
London: George Newnes, 1960. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Fourteenth adventure in Savile's incredibly popular and successful 'Lone Pine' series. This is a first printing by Newnes... (#1435)
Price: £60.00 | | |  | The Map that Came to Life.
H.J. Deverson.
London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Edition: 5th impression UK. Book Condition: Fine. Early psycho-geography for children, perhaps, this fascinating and unique book describes a walk in the countryside through the... (#1613)
Price: £125.00 | | | Many of our customers will like our new Enid Blyton stock, amongst which  | Adventures of the Wishing Chair.
Enid Blyton.
London: George Newnes, 1968. Edition: 14th impression. Book Condition: Fine. A later printing and abridged edition, but nonetheless attractive - and scarce. This is a fine example of the book... (#1627)
Price: £60.00 | | | | | |  | Noddy Be Careful!
Enid Blyton.
Sampson, Low, Marston, 1956. Book Condition: Very good. A nice, clean and tidy example, with only a neat owner's inscription to the "Book belongs to" box. Originally poor quality paper... (#1595)
Price: £15.00 | | | In Modern Fiction, just a glimpse of what we've seen recently  | The Shadow Out of Time and other tales of horror.
H.P. Lovecraft.
London: Gollancz, 1968. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. A posthumous collection of stories and a novella assembled by the publisher and also including those written with collaborator... (#1610)
Price: £110.00 | | |  | Atomised.
Michel Houellebecq.
Heinemann, 2000. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Julian Barnes said of this Fench novel, "A novel which hunts big... (#1012)
Price: £105.00 | | |  | The Rotters' Club.
Jonathan Coe.
London: Viking Penguin, 2001. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Part of Coe's travels, in various books, through the personal and political landscapes of the same British families... (#1608)
Price: £155.00 | | |  | A Very Scotch Affair.
Robin Jenkins.
London: Gollancz, 1968. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. An intimate study in betrayal and deception, but also the search for identity and validity, this famous Scottish novel... (#1607)
Price: £42.00 | | |  | The Mountain.
Henri Troyat.
London: W.H. Allen, undated. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Troyat's best-known work, published in French as La Neige en Deuil in 1952 and rapidly translated into English... (#1344)
Price: £155.00 | | | | |  | Case Study.
Graeme Macrae Burnet.
Salford: Saraband, 2021. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Signed without dedication by the author to the title page, this book is fine in all respects. Shortlisted for... (#1588)
Price: £45.00 | | | Our List It wouldn't be close to the New Year, if we didn't have our very own List of 2024! Nicest sale: by a country mile, “The Search for Morag”, to a great customer in the locus (still looking for Nessie’s cousin…). Best value: future investment grade Angus MacVicar’s “Space Agent” was a good bargain for the customer, we believe. Book most missed by us: Nathalie Sarraute’s “Tropisms and the Age of Suspicions”. Beautiful paper quality and a difficult read. That’s only to page 15 (as far as we got). We've still got some Kundera for the cafe. Longest distances: Alasdair Gray’s poems to our dear customer in Japan, and Teddy Lester (a vintage rugger tale, appropriately) to New Zealand. A book we were surprised to sell: None - there are collectors, enthusiasts, hobbyists and searchers for everything imaginable. The more obscure the better, we say. The fastest sale: Wilfred’s Annual from 1934 – about an hour after listing. More here. One we wish we’d kept and read first: Enid Blyton “The Six Bad Boys”. Here, rarely, Blyton dropped the fantasy and attempted something of a contemporary social-realist novel for children, which is now regarded somewhat (grudgingly, by some critics) for its measured insight into the family problems of the day. The one that got away: It must be Invisible Dick by Frank Topham, a pseudonym, and an early DC Thomson foray into children’s literature. This was gone in about six hours from listing. We hope we don’t see it for four times the price elsewhere, as that would be a nominatively deterministic inverted result of impressive proportion (but good luck nonetheless). This rare book is so important in the children’s canon, and for all sorts of reasons; the title is the least of it. All these books went to (really) good homes. Our favourite vintage twins now say, "all good wishes for the season."  | Topsy and Tim's Snowy Day.
Jean and Gareth Adamson.
Blackie, 1970. Edition: 1st UK, 2nd impression (1970). Book Condition: Fine. This scarce book is presented in startlingly good condition for a children's book and appears unread. The delightful colour... (#940)
Price: £50.00 | | | And so do we. All the best for 2025. Please contact us at any time. Gareth @ Really Good Books |
