British Fiction from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New Haven: Yale, 1985. 352pp. illus. brown cloth sm 8vo: ex lib. copy; dj = tipped down in mylar jacket public library style w/usual markings from a deletion; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy. Includes 80 wonderful illustrations by the author.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1984 1st ed. 271pp. hardback 8vo: near Very Good in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [top and fore edge foxing & some browning to endpp; else a clean, complete & tight copy] An espionage thriller set in the American South by the English writer Price (1928-2019).

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. 309pp. beige cloth 8vo w/blue spine & gilt decorations: near Very Good/no dj. A biography of the author's maternal grandmother.

London: Faber & Faber, 2013 1st ed. thus. 278pp. paperback: near Fine.

New York: Penguin/Virago Press, 1985 1st ed. thus. 320pp. paperback: Very Good [text is age browned; else VG] A novel by the Irish writer Keane (1904-96), originally published in 1937.

New York: William Morrow, 2016 1st ed. 320pp. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

London: Collins Fontana, 1971 reprint. 352pp. paperback: Very Good+ [text is age browned; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A literary novel based on MacHardy's (1920-96) personal experiences as a "below decks" submariner that Alistair Maclean called "The finest submarine story to come out of either World War." The Glasgow Herald called the novel "the submariner's bible."

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1983 reprint. 348pp. paperback: Very Good [text is age browned in the usual Penguin manner; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A World War I thriller featuring the character Richard Hannay by the British writer and politician Buchan (1875-1940), originally published in 1919.

Andover, UK: Pitkin Pictorials, 1989 reprint. 32pp. illus. paperback sm 4to: Fine. An illustrated guide book depicting the story of Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll's model for his Alice in Wonderland.

New York: Viking, 2006 advance uncorrected proofs. 314pp. paperback 8vo: Fine.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1999 advance reading copy. 360pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine [small speck on rear free endpp.; else a nice crisp copy]

New York: International Polygonics, 1991 1st ed. thus. 186pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good. Cover praise for English writer and jurist, Henry Cecil Leon (1902-76) from P. G. Wodehouse. Originally published in 1961.

New York: Frank F. Lovell. undated. 414pp. grey decorated cloth 12mo: Good/no dj [text is completely age browned in the acidic Victorian manner; back cover is smudged and darkened; else a complete & tight copy] An uncommon theological novel by the prolific English writer F. W. Robinson (1830-1901).

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1978 1st ed. thus. 145pp. paperback: near Very Good [text is completely age browned in the usual Penguin manner; else a clean, complete & tight copy with no creases]

New York: Viking, 1992 book club ed. 243pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a near Fine dj.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2001 1st ed. INSCRIBED boldly on title p. by author. 305pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

London: HarperCollins. 2007 limited ed. SIGNED by author (No. 971 of 1,000). 230pp. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in pictorial slipcase. A collectible copy of this humorous novel by Fraser (1925-2008), most famous for his Flashman series.

New York: Garland, 1986. 649pp. illus. hardback sm 4to in pictorial boards in gilt: Very Good in a Good dj [a small crease on front cover; spine strip is slightly pulled @ spine head; else VG; dj = some small tears & rubs @ extremities; else G] A fat Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (Vol. 585) volume featuring over… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown/Atlantic Monthly Press, 1950 1st ed. 276pp. illus. red cloth 8vo w/gilt pheasant decoration: Good+ in a worn dj [some age darkening of edges & endpp; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A novel about a beautiful game bird trying to survive during the difficult years 1937-44, by the prolific English natural history writer Williamson (1895-1977), most famous… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1993 1st ed. thus. 250pp. paperback: Good [couple of owner ink stamps; text is age browned; edges are foxed; else a complete & tight copy] No. 2 of The Wimbledon Trilogy by the English novelist & playwright Williams (b. 1948).