Nerve by Francis, Dick - 1964

Saskatoon: Tthistledown Press, 1989. Book. Illus. by Rutherford, Kath Kornelsen. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Limited/Numbered Signed. Fine, unread copy, in a fine jacket. # 50 of 124 numbered and signed. ( there were also 26 lettered copies )..

313+[7 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 3/4' x 5") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with black lettering in gilt rectangular box to spine and black lines running through from spine to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Young Fane, attached to the American Embassy in London, gets into trouble in Germany through the machinations of the beautiful Liselotte, who is an agent of Dr Grundt, called Clubfoot. Objects which Fane has lost are later offered for sale to the United States Government and the young attaché is being hunted down by G-men, but Fane has disappeared somewhere in Central Europe. His twin sister, Patricia, organizes an expedition to find him before the Secret Service men can lay hands upon him. For this endeavor she enlists four soldiers of fortune. The story of the operations of Patricia's friends, the G-men, and Clubfoot's gang moves with speed and mounting tension. Condition: Some intermittent foxing, previous owner's name on front pastedown, slight stains to covers,… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. Signed on the second blank page following the free end-paper by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Plum cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine to very good dust jacket, with abrasion to the lower spine around the publisher's name. The author's masterpiece, and one of the most important books of the seventies.

John Lehman, London, 1952. First edition, UK. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Book has light toning, unobtrusive previous owners name in ink on last page, slight bumping at corners and spine. Dust jacket has edge wear and creasing, dust shadow and light soiling on rear cover, tears at top edge, price clipped. Blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in maroon on spine.In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.

London: Faber & Faber, 2001. Signed on the title page by Orhan Pamuk. First edition / First printing. The British edition is the correct first English language edition. Illustrated wrappers. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A paperbound original in a dust jacket. Pamuk was the 2006 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award in 2003.

PARGETER, Edith (Ellis Peters)The Fair Young Phoenix (first edition with wrapper)Heinemann 1948 First edition 1st impression. Hardback with jacket. Red board with black title plate. Small half moon shaped piece out on base of front board. Jacket chipped and tattered on edges, piece out on spine head and bottom RH corner. Now in archive sleeve. See scan. End papers tanned. Internally clean and sound. No inscriptions. Prompt, secure UK dispatch. Pargeter's eighth book. It is very unusual to find this rare title with its wrapper.
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Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1972. First edition / First printing. A paperback original. Orange and purple perfect-bound wrappers. Near fine with very slight fading to the orange paper spine. Sharp copy. The author's first book. Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Stone Diaries. Born in the U. S. She lived in Canada most of her adult life. This title was not published in the U.S.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Times Books, 1997. Signed on the front-free end-paper by President Carter with his full name: Jimmy Carter. First edition / First printing. Tan paper spine, light beige paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy.