New York: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1975. Edition: Revised edition. Book Condition: Good. Generally recognised as the definitive guide to Kerouac's work. No marks or inscriptions but foxing to all page edges, to endpapers and preliminaries; only intruding to pages very occasionally.
Michael Joseph, 1978. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Autobiography from renowned author, illustrator and naturalist. The book is generally tight and clean with black boards fresh. Fine in all respects to book and unclipped jacket, slightly sunned. Illustrated by the author.
Edinburgh: AK Press, 1997. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Rare, small press edition of work aimed at school children and introduced as "Here are poems dat are bad for you. The rejects. My favourites." Book in very presentable condition with no marks or inscriptions. Very clean and.....
Pavilion, 2020. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Nice little selection of whimsical verses. Unread and seems new. No dust jacket (as issued).
Gollancz, 1951. Edition: 1st UK, 3rd impression. Book Condition: Very good. The stated third impression but jacket has "First cheap edition 5/-" splash so perhaps 1st thus. Signed by author and dedicated "To Polly" in 1954. Patch was George Bernard Shaw's private secretary for 30 years and thus offers a......
London: Hutchinson, 1965. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Attractive combination of Behan's prose reflections and poetry, and Hogarth's illustration. Book has no mark or inscriptions, no spotting or foxing, with binding tight. Boards vey fresh, attractive and clean. Jacket, unclipped & intact, has some sunning to spine.....
Carcanet, 1993. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression, signed. Book Condition: Fine. Signed to title page and confirmation of such by author on hotel compliments slip. Not that Brian Cox, nor that one...but the academic and founder-editor of Critical Quarterly. The TLS stated that 'the level of accomplishment is consistently high.'.
London: Quercus, 2021. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. From humble origins in Dundee, Scotland, Cox has become a Hollywood mainstay and regular on both large and small screen. This autobiography is fine in all respects, approaching near mint condition and appears unread. There is just a very.....
Macmillan, 1989. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Literary luminaries such as Amis (K), Bayley, Brennan and Lodge, inter alia, contributed to this tribute volume compiled enthusiastically by Salwak, who seems very much in awe of his subject. There is a series of largely unseen photographs. The book.....
1964, Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Analysis of the treatment of love in Shakespeare & D.H. Lawrence amongst others. A very nice and clean book.
John Murray, 2018. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Near mint. Very interesting slice of publishing history and folklore, in the form of diverse authors' letters to their common publisher, John Murray.
London: Quartet, 1991. Edition: 2nd edition. Book Condition: Fine. Episodic reminisces from Jarman's eventful life. Book is very clean and appears very lightly read. No marks or inscriptions. Like jacket is unclipped with just a little shelf wear to rear panel and some foxing to the rear, imperceptible to front.....
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London: Jonathan Cape, 2004. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: As new. Very detailed and obviously approved biography of Fowles giving copious insight into the genesis of such classics as The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman. This book is in as new and unread state.
Dillon's, 1968. Edition: 1st UK thus, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. A superbly produced little volume with an outstanding quality of paper. Reprises original 1882 publication. The paper is dulling a little and the jacket has a little cracking to extremities.
Faber, 1988. Edition: 1st UK, 1st edition. Book Condition: Very good. Interesting account of the Angry Young Men and Kitchen Sink afficionados. Clean and tidy and great reference. There is slight toning to the text block and the spine is sunned.
John Murray, 1985. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Good. Original 1985 edition of scholarly work by acknowldged Grassic Gibbon expert Ian Campbell, of the University of Edinburgh. This little book is generally tight and clean but with text block coming away from binding in two places.
Duckworth, 1998. Edition: 1st UK, 5th impression. Book Condition: Near mint. A frank, intimate and very moving memoir by Iris Murdoch's husband.
London: Methuen, 1986. Edition: 1st Uk, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. From December 1966 until October 1967, the month of his murder by his lover Kenneth Halliwell, controversial and newly celebrated playwright Joe Orton kept diaries of both his professional and expansive personal lives. Frank and explicit, these writings.....
London: Methuen, 1962. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Play-script in handsome volume with boards fresh and clean and no marks or inscriptions to interior. Unclipped jacket complete with some discolouration to rear panel and all round handling wear.
The Critical Quarterly, Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Contains The Whitsun Weddings, Church Going, Meet the Family, My Sad Captains, Pibroch and many other poems offered by these acclaimed British poets. the booklet is a little dog-eared to extremities.
London: Nelson, 1935. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Anthology known mainly for The End of the Road and Little Mary Crosbie, these poems concern the author's interest in the human response to the Westmorland landscape. Book in high quality laid paper with deckle (untrimmed) edges, with.....
Knopf, 2020. Edition: 1st US, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Amis' last novel, so is semi-autobiographical and perhaps verges on self-obsession in a rather closed world (not a new accusation for this writer). Deals interestingly with three of Amis' friends/mentors/influences - Bellow, Hitchens & Larkin. This is a very well-presented.....
Hutchinson, 1968. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Signed by author to front free endpaper "Maureen Duffy, November 1987". This collection of poems was Duffy's first, and joins her extensive canon of novels, play-scripts and TV/film screenplays. Duffy was a well known, early activist for numerous causes.....
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, undated. Edition: No remarks. Book Condition: Fine. Undated but possibly early 1960s. Well-produced book, red boards clean and fresh with internals unmarked. Some faint pencil mark prices to front end paper. High quality paper stock unfoxed with attractive red stain to top edge. Copious introduction and.....