FICTION & POETRY

Tokyo: The Japan P.E.N. Club, 1996. pp84 & pp86. dos a dos English / French language. Contents; survey J. literature 1995 (Parts 1 & 2); the Bagworm-Tetsuro; Return Flow-Nobuko; A Person's Limits-Kazushi; The Flaming Green Tree-Yoshiko; The Chronicle of the Wind-Up Bird Vols. 1-111-Takayuki; The Voice Prostitute-Minato; Discourse on Japanese Literature-Kunio; The Season After Love-Sachiko.. 1st Edition. Card. Near New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. more information

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Port Moresby: Papua Pocket Poets, 1968. Stapled booklet in excellent condition. Various contributors.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good - Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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London: Faber & Faber, 1975. pp186. Light rub to corners, faded spine; otherwise very good. '..takes the place of T. S. elliot's pioneer edition in 1928 & is very largely the saame as the selection yhat has been available for some years in the United States, thopugh there is additional material. A comprehensive group of the early shorter poems is included. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Cathay and Homage to Sextus Propertius are reprinted complete, and there is a representative selection from the Cantos up to and including Thrones (1959).. First Faber & Faber Paperback Edition. Card. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Bracken Books, 1985. pp 188. Book has light bfading to top edge of boards, o/wise near new. Unclipped jacket is evenly faded with soft creasing to top edge. More than 80 poems; 30 line drawings in olive green.. Second Edtn: First Bracken Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by George Wharton Edwards. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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London Ibadan Nairobi: Heinemann, 1969. pp167.Wear to, & a small nick at the bottom of, spine. Light rub to corners. Small area of moisture at base of front gutter. Otherwise very clean & tight (better than it sounds). From 'African Writers' series.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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London Ibadan Nairob: Heinemann Educational Books, 1968. pp170. Some 'greying' to cover & exterior page edges, o/wise very clean & tight. 'Like its predecessor, Things Fall Apart -whose hero was Obi's-this books protagonist- powerful grandfather, No Longer at Ease tells the story of an African tragically under presure from a changing world.'. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Bruce Onobrakpeya. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Sydney: Picador, 1996. pp279. Pale yellowing to exterior page edges; remainder mark on bottom edge. '..a grrr; pirate story that journeys from the most famous whorehouse in Alexandria through an unidentified, crumbling city that may or may not be some time in the future, to Brighton Town, England, and finally to a ship headed towards Pirate Island, where the stories converge and the vision ends.'. First Australian Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London Bombay Sydney : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1931. pp254. Bookplate (attractive noveau style) of previous owner on front pastedown, occasional fox spots (rare) in body, slight stretching of stitches in middle; 2 page corners have beem folded over at some time. Otherwise clean & tight. still a nice copy. 'The stories that have made him well known throughout the English-speaking worldare based upon intimate experience gained in windjammers in the adventurous days of seamanship.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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London Etc: Pan Books. This is a boxed set of 4 paperback books; the exterior page edges of the books are discoloured, otherwise in very good condition.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Good Plus - Very Good/Boxed - Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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London: Millenium / An Orion Book, 1994. pp184.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. Unpaginated. Small prev. price inked top of ffep, & a few (very sparse, very pale) fox spots to ffeps. Beautifully illustrated.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - As Issued?. Illus. by Mike Wilks. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. pp219. *Small crease & rub on top front corner, light rub to 2 bottom corners, pos on pretitle page. O/wise very clean & tight. Originally published in 1906 in Europe, this is a reprint of the first paperback (1983) edition. 'This novel shocked first Italy, then all Europe, with its powerful feminist statement.Brilliantly written, intensely feltthe novel is of course the scantily disguised autobiogreaphy of Rina Pierangeli Faccio..Today's women, in Italy and elsewhere, should take note of this pioneering work.'. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good*. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. pp57. Book has some slight browning at top edge, & fox to the top exterior page edges. Half a dozen fox spots & 2 short narrow brown strips to pastedown & ffep. Jacket is clipped, with small triangular clips to back flap also. Some fox to reverse of jacket. Small mark on front panel. Both book & jacket are a lot better than they sound - very presentable. Mylar protector.. First Edition. Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Penguin, 1993. pp280. The back cover has a crease at the bottom& small area lifted where price sticker removed. Front cover barely noticable rub to tips. Otherwise excellent. '..a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world..It is a fight for survival that illuminates, with raw immediacy, the grim fate of the masses in pre-Partitian India.'. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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London: Headline, 1999. pp817 plus publisher's ads. As new except for faint yellowing of exterior page edges. 'The seminal novel of the next decade. What Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities did for the Eighties, Andersen's mega-novel will do for the millenium.' 'An essential modern primer on money, the media and technology.Andersen has caaptured lightening in a bottle.'. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Arcadia Books, 2000. pp391. Very light rub to corners, tiny pos & date on ffep. Otherwise near new. Signed by author on title page. 'Michael Arditti;s magnificant new novel is both a devastating portrait of today's Church of England and an audacious reworking of the central myth of Western culture.Shocking events unfold against a backdrop of meticulously observed religious services. High church ritual, evangelical revivalism and the ancestor-worship of the English gentry are all subjected to merciless scrutiny.'. Signed by Author. First British Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London Etc: Heinemann, 1981. pp 183. Crease to bottom front corner, spine & area immediately adjacent faded, exterior & extreme page edges yellowed. Otherwise clean & tight. '...his central story of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn even from those he loves, is most vividly conveyed.' 'a fine treatment of the theme of corruption...the contamination wrought by poverty.'. Reprint. Soft Cover. Good Plus - Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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London Etc: Penguin, 1995. pp151.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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London Nairobi Ibadan: Heinemann, 1969. pp156. Previous owner's name on inside of front cover, heavy fox to top exterior page edges; very small amount of fox to foredge which overlaps onto extreme page edges. 'Rebel is an allegorical novel of great excitement about the conflict of old and new ideas.'. First Edition African Writers Series. Soft Cover. Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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London: Bloomsbury, 1993. pp470 * d/w flaps have creased back where plastic slipcover ends. Maroon ribbon bookmark.. First U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New*. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Faber and Faber Limited*, 2006. pp132. Uncorrected proofs. (2006 is to be published date). '...sees Auster return to more metaphysical territory. A dark puzzle, and a game that implicates both reader and writer alike, it is an ingenious exploration of language, responsibility and the passage of time.'. Uncorrected Proofs . Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". more information

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London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1920. pp87. Top spine one inch and half inch tears parallel with spine,, small shallow piece (less than cm) missing; bottom spinetinr pice missing. Foxed eps & back page, 1/2 in. tanned strip first free ep, top exterior page edges soiled; all else in extremely good condtn; frontis. Boards grey with white spine.. Seventh Edition: 1st Thus*. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London Etc: Penguin Books. pp161. Neat & tight, page edges very slightly yellowed. 'The arrival of young Adolf Hitler in Liverpool comes as something of a nasty shock to his gentile brother Alois and his wife Bridget. Penniless and disillusioned, Adolf is far from the ideal house guest. He lives in fear of being caught for avoiding national service in his native Austria, is dirty and idle and brings only trouble and shame to his brothers household...Wildly funny..she has succeeded in the seemingly impossible task of making Adolf interesting without giving him any sympathy whatsoever.' Or so says the reviewer.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Little Brown and Company, 2001. pp242. Exterior page edges yellowed, o/wise excellent. 'Samuel Johnson,melancholic & in general ill health, is introduced to Hester and Henry Theale..'. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Michael Joseph, 1968. pp407.shelfwear, slight yellowimg , few fox spots on exterior page edges, else good as new.. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Little, Brown & Company, 1998. pp 393. *Very slight flare to top edge of front jacket panel, otherwise all as new. No inscriptions.. First Edition. Cloth. As New/Near - As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: The Folio Society, 1992. pp205. All is as new, except that in one or two places one can tell pages have been gripped to turn. (No marks0.Beautifully illustrated.. Second Edtn: First Thus Facsimile Edtn. Hard Cover. Near - As New/No Jacket ; As New Slipcase. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. more information

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New York: Vintage International / Vintage Books, 1997. pp91 plus pub.'s ads. *1997 copyright date; this is a reprint. Light edgewear, otherwise excellent. 'A riveting, lyrical love story, an accomplished historical fiction, a compact, condensed little epic about human hearts in crisis.' 'Silk has the brilliant colors, the compressed life and the enchantment of a mi niature..vividly erotic.'. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London Etc: Oxford University Press, 1953. pp311. Introduction & notes in English by Maurice Baring; otherwise Russian Language. Exlibrary book with the usual library distictions; yellow strip down front/back internal getters where reinforcing library tape has been neatly removed. O/wise clean & tight. Grey boards with gilt marking.. Secon Edition; Reprint. Hard Cover. Good Plus - Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London Etc: Frederick Warne, 2000. pp255. Gorgeously illsustrated.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Illus. by Poems and Picture By Author. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Company, 1981. pp301 plus biography. Rubbed at corners, o/wise as unread. Illustrated. 10 short stories.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Picador - Pan Books in Association with Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1987. pp195. Exterior & etreme page edges have very pale yellowing; 1 tiny spot on top exterior page edges. Otherwise excellent. '..It charts the life of Jeaqn Sarjeant, from her beginnings as a naive, carefree country girl before the war, through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her experience in marriage, her questioning of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China; we learn the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.'. First Picador Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. pp199. Yellowed exterior page edges, 2 remainder stripes on bottom edges. O/wise clean & tight. 'Good Friday. 1977. Merthyr Tydfil. At twenty to midnight a dozen different forces converge - Macky, just out of jail; the gippos and their knives; the Shop Boys, fifty or sixty skinheads in fanatical pursuit of recreational violence; P.C. Phillips, the young copper with something to prove; Mohan Singh, proud owner of the Taj Mahal curry house. The result:mayhem.'. First Edition ; Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Profile Books. pp227. 'The Laying on of Hands- a memorial service for a masseur to the famous goes horribly wrong; The Clothes They Stood Up In - the painful story of what happens to an elderly couple when their flat is stripped completely bare; Father! Father! Burning Bright - the savage satire on a dying man's amily reaction as he asserts control over them from the hospital bed.'. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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London: Phoenix, 2001. pp242. Corners rubbed, exterior page edges yellowed; one page corner has been turned over. Illustrated. '..paints an interesting and comprehensive picture of the Coens and their work.'. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Good Plus - Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 1979. pp213. Jacket unclipped, book's top exterior page edges heavily foxed & a single spot to side foredge, o/wise very clean & tight. 'Pig Earth is a compelling story teller's history of a French peasant community. Everyday gossip, the tales, the events long past or present are narrated in a voice which is the peasant's own..Into Their Labours, a three-part project whichevokes, analyses and records, in both fiction and essay form, the intricate movement from peasant worker to metropolis. Pig earth is the first part of this work.'. Second Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Stellenbosch: A. Burn Wood , 1972. Unpaginated. Card covers with cloth spine, some large pale marks to cover, very minimal marking within. Rubbed at corners. Short nick to an edge. 'A protean blunt & metaphorical madcap & scholarly eclectic and electric prophetic and retrospective WORD GAME based on thoughts while carving the six prototypes for my chess set, and the coming Renaissance of Art, Science and Spirituality as seen in the crtstal ball of our Global System FOR the Grand Master BORIS the Russian bear'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Oblong 13" x 8". more information

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London Etc: Picador, 2002. pp335. Extreme & exterior page edges yellowed & an occasional spot within; some very sparse additional discolouration to foredge. Previous owner's name on dedication page. Otherwise very clean & tight. '...is an imaginative history of a great town, a series of explorations partly factual, partly intuitive and partly personal. It is the tale of Victorian optimism - of faith in hydropathy, in manufacturing, in the railways. it is also an examination of Ilkley's place on the faultline between the two great forces which have informed English life and culture - its rural heritage, and the industrial revolution. It is a about the north, about industry, commerce and medicine, and, above all, it is one small story of the England of the fifties, and the lost dreams of that era. Neither a travel nor a history book, this is a moving return home to the place that made the writer what he is.'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good Plus - Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd, 1930. pp 369 & ads. Minimal foxing to back ep. Gilt stamp letters and illustration to front board.Gift inscription to first free ep. Reprint of Golden Treasury edition of original 1924 publication.Includes notes, index of writers & first lines.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Paladin / Grafton Books, 1987. pp368. Has remainder mark on bottom exterior page edges, name, date & numeral on first free ep. 'A major achievement in speculative fiction..a disturbing and sober reflection on what it means to be human.'. First Paperback Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Headline Book Publishing, 1999. pp248. Jacket has light edgewear, o;wise as new. Book has yellowed exterior page edges. 'A suvccessful banker. A waspish literary agent. An insexure car mechanic, Three very different men with nothing in common. Except that they're all members of the Broken Hearts Club..But when a woman is slashed to deeath in her apartment after a particularly emotional meeting of the Broken Hearts Club, it seems as if therapy may have got out of control. '. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1988. pp351. *Soft crease to 1 corner, & a very few tiny pale marks. The story of a London women, infatuated with Douglas Fairbanks Jnr until she transfers her infatuation to an Australian newspaper scion, She pursues him to his homeland..By the founder of Spare Rib, the excellent English feminist magazine.. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Paper. Very Good*. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Sinclair Stevenson , 1990. pp314. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep, jacket unclipped., very slight darkening of back jacket panel. Otherwise excellent. 'Brilliant - a Citizen Kanee of a novel/' - Daily Telegraph. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Flamingo, 1995. pp239. Tiny amount of edgewear to back cover edges.Sixteen tales.. First Flamingo Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good - Very Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. pp159. Rubbed on top of spine boards & corners, wear to side of spine, previous owner's name has been "twinked" out on ffep. Yellowing and pale fox to foredges. Classic.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: University Paperbacks Methuen, 1960. pp302. Prev. owner's name with price on ffep, short notation on dedication page, otherwise very crisp and tight. '..a series of studies of the work and personality of some fifty French poets. He seeks to establoish their "literary identity" and in doing so reveals the changes that have taken place in French poetry over five centuries.'. Second Edtn; First Thus Series Edtn. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1987. pp167. Pale fading of spine & area adjacent, 2 or 3 tiny spots to front cover panel, slight yellowing of pages but otherwise very clean & tight. 'Drawing from both the shorter poems and the long philosophical work, The Testament of Beauty, with which the Poet Laureate crowned his career, Cecil offers the present-day reader the opportunity to assess a talent that has suffered undeserved neglect in recent times.'. First Thus Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Secker & Warburg, 1974. pp274. *d/w has rubbing near spine top which has removed a couple of v. small spots of colour. * very faint yellowing of pages, or maybe they were cream to begin with. By the author of 'My left Foot'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-Near New*/Very Good- Near New*. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1887. pp356 plus pub.'s ads. *Printed from the 1856 edition of her verse, with the '...numerous important additions and alterations made for that edition.' An exlibrary book with the usual library distinctions, marbled boards a little worn at edges, spine browned, gift to library sticker on pastedown, & prev. owners name & date (1888) on ep. Eps tanned, some very rare instances of fox within text block.Otherwise tight & clean.. Reprint*. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket - As Issued ?. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London & Toronto / New York: J.M. Dent & Sons / E. P. Dutton, 1932. pp560 plus pp4. An Everyman's Library book. Decorated eps. Boards excellent, some pale fox spots to front eps & a pale tanning strip to eps, & 3/4" tear along spine crease.Top & bottom foredges darkened, side foredge has pale browning & a very few tiny spots, Unclipped jacket has edgewear to top edge, tiny chips & crease at spine head. Much better than it possibly sounds.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good*. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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