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London : Michael Joseph, (1964). First edition. A collection of twelve short stories, "by a master, who, at his best, equals Chekhov and who seems incapable of writing a shop-worn phrase" (The Sphere, 4th April 1964). Not published in the USA. Post 8vo (21cm). 192pp. Original pale mauve-grey boards, blocked and lettered across spine in gilt; a very good copy in the Kenneth Farnhill dust-jacket, also very good barring a few faint marks and a couple of tiny nicks.
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THE FABULOUS MRS V.
by BATES, H.E. (Herbert Ernest), 1905-1974 :
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FAINTLEY SPEAKING.
by MITCHELL, Gladys (Gladys Maude Winifred), 1901-1983 :
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London : Michael Joseph, (1954). First edition. "If an impecunious author had not accidentally intercepted a telephone call, the mysterious case of Miss Faintley might have defied even Mrs Bradley's efforts at solution ... It seemed at first unlikely that she, a prim, quiet schoolmistress, could have anything to do with gang-work - or with currency smuggling" - F. E. Pardoe in the Birmingham Daily Post (13th April 1954) noted "It is certainly the best she has written for some years ... Mrs Bradley is a perennial joy", while for the News Chronicle, "Mrs Bradley is easily the best woman detective in fiction". Crown 8vo (20cm). (224)pp. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt; top edge a touch dusty, but otherwise a very good, bright and sound copy in the Peter Rudland dust-jacket - just lightly rubbed, with a short tear to one corner, but otherwise very good.
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FAMILIARS.
by GROSS, Philip, 1952- :
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Liskeard : Harry Chambers / Peterloo Poets, (1983). First edition. Signed by Philip Gross on the title-page. His first collection - nineteen poems, including "The Site of the Crystal Palace", "The Ice Factory", "A Plague of Jellyfish", etc. Demy 8vo (22cm). 32pp. Original green pictorial wrappers, printed in black; very good.
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FAMILY SINS & OTHER STORIES.
by "TREVOR, William" - [COX, William Trevor, 1928-2016] :
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London : Bodley Head, (1990). First edition. A collection of a dozen short stories, including "In Love with Ariadne", "Honeymoon in Tramore", "Coffee with Oliver", etc - "the bewildering complexities of the human condition ... devastating insight, elegiac compassion and densely textured economy". Demy 8vo (23cm). (252),[iv]pp. Original blue boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; tiny mark on p.122, but otherwise a very good copy in the dust-jacket - a design featuring a landscape by Paul Camille Guigou - very slightly marked at fore-edges but otherwise very good indeed.
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FAST COMPANY.
by "PAGE, Marco" - [KURNITZ, Harry, 1909-1968] :
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New York : Pocket Books, (1943). First paperback edition. "Rare Books and Raw Murder Mix". Originally published in 1938 - and made into a film starring Melvyn Douglas the same year, a sequence of events that led to the former reporter Harry Kurnitz becoming a witty and stylish Hollywood screenwriter (Hatari, Pretty Baby, Shadow of the Thin Man and many more). Foolscap 8vo (17cm). [iv],204pp. Original pictorial wrappers - a design by Leo Manso (1914-1993); all edges red; spine a little worn and lightly sunned; a reasonable copy.
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THE FATAL FACE.
by LE QUEUX, William (William Tufnell), 1864-1927 :
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London : Hurst & Blackett, [ca.1930]. First paperback edition. First published in 1926 - "One has to take it from Mr Le Queux that the truth about the mystery around which this excellent story revolves was known only at Downing Street ... Lady Mignon of course, might have been poisoned by the drug that baffled the doctors ... But instead of that, she marries; and it is not the clever Paillard whom she marries; though she forgives him ..." (The Scotsman, 17th May 1926). Demy 8vo (22cm). 96pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; slightly chipped and a little worn; some minor spotting and browning, but a good copy. No copy of this edition located in any major library worldwide.
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A FATHER AND HIS FATE.
by COMPTON-BURNETT, Ivy (Dame Ivy), 1884-1969 :
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London : Victor Gollancz, 1957. First edition. A father and three daughters – "A normal part of life may not be a thing to dispense with". "This great author has made blood-relationship and its attendant psychological maladies her subject. Grim would be the result were it not for Miss Compton-Burnett's exquisite humour, and the breath-taking twists and turns of each household drama" (The Tatler, 28th August 1957).Crown 8vo (20cm). (208)pp. Original maroon boards, lettered in gilt; a couple of spots, but a very good and bright copy in the original Gollancz yellow dust-jacket, printed in magenta and black – just lightly tanned, lightly marked and slightly worn at tips.
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FAULKNER ON FIRE ISLAND.
by WILSON, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1922-2016 :
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New York : [Phoenix Bookshop], 1979. First edition : limited to 250 copies. Privately published as a Christmas Greeting - and inscribed and signed by Wilson. An account of his discovery of the original typescript of Faulkner's first novel, together with the manuscripts of unpublished poems and stories. Crown 8vo (19cm). [iv],(8)pp. Facsimile. Original stapled wrappers; staples just a touch rusted, but a very good copy in the original Phoenix Book Shop envelope.
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THE FAVERSHAM BOOK TRADE 1730-1900.
by GOULDEN, R.J. (Richard John), 1945- :
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Faversham : Faversham Society, 1996. First edition. Biographical notes on over 100 individuals in some way connected with the book trade through Faversham's history - booksellers, stationers, printers, etc. Faversham Papers No. 51. Pott folio (30cm). (xx),(54)pp. Plates. Original stapled sheets; lower cover a little creased and spotted, otherwise very good.
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FAVERSHAM CHURCH, KENT.
by BAYNES, Thomas Mann, 1794-1854 :
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London : George Virtue, 1830. A handsome antique print - a view from the churchyard of the parish church of St. Mary of Charity, with its eighteenth-century crown spire. Engraved by Henry Adlard (1799-1893) from an original study by the landscape painter Thomas Mann Baynes. Originally produced for the "England's Topographer" series of Kent views (London : 1828-1831). Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 104 x 150mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.
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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
by BROWNING, Robert, 1812-1889 :
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London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1884. First edition. Prologue, epilogue and twelve connected fancies - Browning adopting the persona of a Persian soothsayer to cover various religious and moral topics. Foolscap 8vo (18cm). [viii],(144),[viii]pp. Original deep olive cloth, blocked on upper cover in black; ruled and lettered across spine in gilt; grey endpapers; very lightly worn and slightly darkened; front endpaper a little strained; a few internal marks and spots, but still a good and partly unopened copy.
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FERNHURST, Q.E.D., AND OTHER EARLY WRITINGS.
by STEIN, Gertrude, 1874-1946 :
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New York : Liveright, (1971). First edition. "The three writings issued in this volume - two for the first time and the longer Q.E.D. in a corrected edition - represent the first steps of Gertrude Stein's literary progress". "Fernhurst", begun in 1904, is a fictional account of a scandalous love triangle; the slightly earlier "Q.E.D." is a suppressed autobiographical novel concerning another love triangle, while the family saga of "The Making of Americans" appears in the form of an unpublished early draft. With a note on the texts by Donald Gallup and a lengthy introduction by Leon Katz. Demy 8vo (23cm). [8],xxxiv,214pp. Original black cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and blind; a few specks on top edge, but otherwise a very good, bright, clean, and sound copy in the dust-jacket - the jacket with some mild rubbing, a couple of small scratches, and some very minor wear, but also very good. re
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FEUDAL ISLAND.
by HOLDRIDGE, Desmond, 1906-1946 :
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New York : Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1939). First edition. A visit to the extraordinary island of Marajó at the mouth of the Amazon - a place where isolated feudal traditions "stem straight from the Conquistadors". Post 8vo (21cm). [x],242,[ii],[2]pp. Striking photo plates by the author. Endpaper maps. Original pictorial cloth; very good in a slightly sunned, lightly chipped and price-clipped dust-jacket.
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FIELD AND HEDGEROW : BEING THE LAST ESSAYS OF RICHARD JEFFERIES.
by JEFFERIES, Richard (John Richard), 1848-1887 :
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London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1889. First edition : [the undifferentiated second impression, with the misprints corrected and in the paler binding]. A collection of twenty-nine essays, including Nature and Books, The Country Sunday, Buckhurst Park, House-Martins, Field Words and Ways, Summer in Somerset, etc. Crown 8vo (20cm). viii,332 + 16pp advertisements dated June 1888. Original decorative cloth; spine a little worn and slightly creased; front endpaper cracked and split; a little marked; somewhat spotted; somewhat shaken and loose, but a serviceable copy. Miller & Matthews B26.3.
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FIELD OF 13.
by FRANCIS, Dick (Richard Stanley), 1920-2010 :
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London : Michael Joseph, (1998). First edition. A collection of thirteen short stories. Medium 8vo (25cm). (x),(274),[iv]pp. Original brown boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; very good indeed in the dust-jacket - also very good indeed.
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THE FILLY WORE A ROD.
by "JANSON, Hank" - [FRANCES, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] :
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London : New Fiction Press, [1952]. First edition. Interesting in bringing into the plot the Basque game of Fron-Ton (pelota). Although the original Heade artwork (bosomy redhead in state of undress) was replaced before publication by a slightly toned-down but very knowing strawberry-blonde (again from Heade - see Holland pp.90-91) - the novel still managed to be the subject of eleven local authority destruction orders (Holland p.323). The penultimate book in the Third Series - later republished as "Lose This Gun" under the Alexander Moring imprint in 1958. Crown 8vo (19cm). 125,[iii]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; some minor wear and slight creasing; a few slight marks, but a very good copy. Just two copies (British Library and National Library of Scotland) located in major libraries worldwide.
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THE FILLY WORE A ROD.
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London : New Fiction Press, [1952]. First edition. Not one of Janson's best - but interesting in bringing into the plot the Basque game of Fron-Ton (pelota). Although the original Heade artwork (bosomy redhead in state of undress) was replaced before publication by a slightly toned-down but very knowing strawberry-blonde (again from Heade - see Holland pp.90-91) - the novel still managed to be the subject of eleven local authority destruction orders (Holland p.323). The penultimate book in the Third Series - later republished as "Lose This Gun" under the Alexander Moring imprint in 1958. Crown 8vo (19cm). 125,[iii]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; lightly worn and slightly creased, with some short splits and a small tear to the lower wrapper; text faintly tanned in places, but a good copy. Just two copies (British Library and National Library of Scotland) located in major libraries worldwide. Williams & Holland 35.
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THE FIND OF A LIFETIME : SIR ARTHUR EVANS AND THE DISCOVERY OF KNOSSOS.
by HORWITZ, Sylvia L. (Sylvia Laibman), 1912-1995 :
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London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1981). First British edition. A biography of the extraordinary and "very odd" archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941). Medium 8vo (24cm). x,278pp. Plates. Portraits. Original boards; a very good copy in the dust-jacket.
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FISTS OF FORTUNE : THE STORY OF AN OBSCURE BOXER'S RISE TO FAME [DROP-HEAD TITLE].
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London : U.T.B., [1944]. First edition. "'Ha! Poachers again, b'gad!' The Earl of Lindale paused suddenly in his springy stride and stood staring keenly at the riot of greenery just ahead ...". Crown 8vo (19cm). 32pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; a little worn at spine; staples rusted and wrappers now detached, but otherwise a good copy of a rare and fragile item. Just a single copy (Bodleian) located in major libraries worldwide.
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FIVE AUTUMN SONGS FOR CHILDREN'S VOICES.
by HUGHES, Ted (Edward James), 1930-1998 :
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Crediton : Richard Gilbertson, (1968). First edition : one of just twenty-six numbered copies (of 500) inscribed with a complete verse from the first song in the poet's hand and signed and dated 3rd January 1969 by Ted Hughes. A collection of five poems. Crown 4to (25cm). [ii],(10)pp. Original fluorescent pink stapled wrappers, lettered in black; just a hint of rubbing, but a very good copy of this fragile production. Sagar A18 - noting that no copy of this issue had been seen by the compilers.
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