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AMIS, Kingsley (Sir Kingsley William), 1922-1995 : LUCKY JIM : A NOVEL. London : Victor Gollancz, 1953. First edition. His first novel - and one of the most riveting debuts in English fiction. The basis of the 1957 John Boulting film starring Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith, Maureen Connell, etc. SOLD |
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BUCHAN, John, 1875-1940 : PRESTER JOHN. London : Thomas Nelson & Sons, (1910). First edition. Buchan in South Africa with a Haggardesque tale of uprising, myth, fabulous necklace, etc. £400 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 32761 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. |
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CANETTI, Elias, 1905-1994 : AUTO DA FÉ. London : Jonathan Cape, (1946). First edition in English of the banned "Die Blendung" (1935), his first and only novel, translated from the German (under Canetti's personal supervision) by Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997). A Head without a World, Headless World and The World in the Head. £250 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 30453 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. |
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CHANDLER, Raymond (Raymond Thornton), 1888-1959 : FAREWELL, MY LOVELY. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. "It was a warm day, almost the end of March, and I stood outside the barber shop looking up at the jutting neon sign of a second floor dine and dice emporium ...". His second and most widely celebrated novel - a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone of the genre. £750 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 26784 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. |
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CONRAD, Joseph, 1857-1924 : NOSTROMO : A TALE OF THE SEABOARD. London & New York : Harper & Brothers, 1904. First edition : with p.187 misnumbered 871. Conrad's epic masterpiece - wealth, politics and corruption in a fictional Latin American country. £400 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 38978 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. |
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COOPER, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 : THE TWO ADMIRALS. A TALE OF THE SEA. London : Richard Bentley, 1842. First edition. Cooper's epic and poignant tale of two seamen of complementary abilities, intense lifelong friendship, rivalry, Whig and Tory, culminating at the time of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie, etc. Long considered one of the finest ever maritime novels. £400 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 38676 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. |
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"ELIOT, George" - [EVANS, Marian, 1819-1880] : THE MILL ON THE FLOSS. Edinburgh & London : William Blackwood & Sons, 1860. First edition. £500 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 38998 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. |
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"ELIOT, George" - [EVANS, Marian, 1819-1880] : DANIEL DERONDA. Edinburgh & London : William Blackwood & Sons, 1876. First edition, bound from the original eight parts, and with the parts errata slip referring to the misquotation from Tennyson. SOLD |
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FLEMING, Ian (Ian Lancaster), 1908-1964 : FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE. London : Jonathan Cape, (1957). First edition. "Will he take the lure - the beautiful lure called Tania, first proffered to Bond wearing nothing but a black velvet ribbon round her throat?" £350 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 29430 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. |
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HUXLEY, Aldous (Aldous Leonard), 1894-1963 : BRAVE NEW WORLD : A NOVEL. London : Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition. The most influential utopian novel of the twentieth century, set in the London of AD 2540. SOLD |
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[MARRYAT, Frederick, 1792-1848] : MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY. London : Saunders & Otley, 1836. First edition. Marryat's amiable and abidingly popular tale of the making of a seaman - although as one modern critic has it, "there's something here to offend almost everyone". £500 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 38782 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. |
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MAXWELL, Gavin, 1914-1969 : RING OF BRIGHT WATER. London : Longmans, Green & Co., (1960). First edition. "Nowhere in Scotland is more evocative of a specific book than Sandaig, near Glenelg, Inverness-shire, which Maxwell disguised as Camusfeàrna ..." (ODNB). Otters, nature and the basis of the 1968 film, with Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, etc. £250 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 34386 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. |
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"ORWELL, George" - [BLAIR, Eric Arthur, 1903-1950] : NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR : A NOVEL. London : Secker & Warburg, 1949. First edition. One of the major works of the twentieth century - and a novel that is in many ways even more frightening now than it was when first published. SOLD |
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SMART, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Ann), 1913-1986 : BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION I SAT DOWN AND WEPT. London : Editions Poetry London, (1945). First edition. Smart's celebrated fictional account of her love affair with the poet George Barker. £250 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 26007 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. |
SMITH, Dodie (Dorothy Gladys), 1896-1990 : I CAPTURE THE CASTLE. Boston : Little, Brown & Co., 1948. First edition : precedes the 1949 London edition published by Heinemann. £400 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 27005 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
STEVENSON, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 : UNDERWOODS. London : Chatto & Windus, 1887. First edition. A celebrated collection of fifty-four poems, thirty-eight in English and the remainder in Scots - the latter including the first appearance in book form of both "A Lowden Sabbath Morn" and "The Scotsman's Return from Abroad". £250 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 31931 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
STEVENSON, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 : THE BLACK ARROW : A TALE OF TWO ROSES. London : Cassell & Co., 1888. First British edition. Stevenson with a fine tale of the Wars of the Roses. £350 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 32774 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
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[SURTEES, Robert Smith, 1803-1864] : HAWBUCK GRANGE; OR, THE SPORTING ADVENTURES OF THOMAS SCOTT, ESQ. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1847. First edition. Originally published in substantially different form in "Bell's Life in London" as "Sporting Sketches", between October 1846 and June 1847. £250 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 35125 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. |
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THOMAS, Dylan (Dylan Marlais), 1914-1953 : UNDER MILK WOOD : A PLAY FOR VOICES. London : J. M. Dent & Sons, (1954). First edition. With the original preface and musical setting by Daniel Jones. SOLD |
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UNTERMEYER, Louis, 1885-1977 - editor : THE ALBATROSS BOOK OF LIVING VERSE : ENGLISH AND AMERICAN POETRY FROM THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY. London : The Albatross, William Collins Sons & Co., (1933). First British edition. A very handsomely bound copy of this excellent and extensive anthology, arranged chronologically and reaching from early ballads and songs of unknown authorship through the best of the successive centuries to the early years of the twentieth. Edited and introduced by Untermeyer, with collation and revision for the British edition by Ronald H. Boothroyd. £250 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 39033 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. |
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WAVELL, A.P. (Archibald Percival, First Earl), 1883-1950 : OTHER MEN'S FLOWERS : AN ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. London : Jonathan Cape, (1944). The first edition of this enduringly popular anthology - the best of English poetry - all of which, it is said, Wavell knew by heart. SOLD |
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[WILDE, Oscar (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills), 1854-1900] : THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST : A TRIVIAL COMEDY FOR SERIOUS PEOPLE. BY THE AUTHOR OF LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN. London : Leonard Smithers & Co., 1899. First edition : limited to 1,000 copies - this copy not numbered and out of series. Wilde's most famous and most enduring play, published quasi-anonymously after his fall from grace, just eighteen months before he died. £2,000 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 35679 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. |
WILLIAMSON, Henry (Henry William), 1895-1977 : SALAR THE SALMON. London : Faber & Faber, (1935). First edition. £250 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 32090 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
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WODEHOUSE, P.G. (Sir Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975 : VERY GOOD, JEEVES! London : Herbert Jenkins, 1930. First British edition : with the humourous preface not included in the American edition which appeared two weeks earlier. "Jeeves and the Impending Doom", "Jeeves and the Song of Songs" and nine further famous tales - the third Jeeves & Wooster short story collection. SOLD |
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