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London : Hamish Hamilton, (1982). First edition. His third novel – “It is far too hot for sustained fighting ... we will all melt like ice-cream in the sun” . Evelyn Waugh meets John Buchan as eccentric settlers take up arms in the East African Campaign of the First World War.
Demy 8vo (23cm). [xii],370,[ii]pp. Map. Original blue boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; a faint hint of bruising; a couple of edge spots, but overall a very good copy in the Paul Webb dust-jacket – also very good.

£100

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London : Hamish Hamilton, (1984). First edition. Henderson Dores – shy, English, self-conscious and nearly forty – stands worrying in the middle of Park Avenue, New York City.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (256)pp. Original blue boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; text a touch tanned as usual, but a very good copy in the Lyn Duncombe dust-jacket – price-clipped but also very good.

£40

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London : Sinclair-Stevenson, (1993). First edition. “His name is Salvador Carriscant and thus begins Kay Fischer’s journey into the past of this beguiling and seductive older man who claims to be her father ...”.
Medium 8vo (25cm). [viii],(324),[iv]pp. Original black boards, lettered in gilt; just a hint of bruising, but overall a very good copy in the Robin Rout dust-jacket – also very good.

£40

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Cambridge : 21 Publishing, (1998). First edition. Signed by William Boyd on the title-page. A biography of the New Jersey artist Nat Tate, who contrived to destroy almost his entire output of Abstract Expressionism before killing himself in 1960. Except that the entire story is a fiction, as the name (think National Gallery, Tate) might suggest. A celebrated hoax, decked out with blurbs from David Bowie and Gore Vidal, both of whom were in on the prank, which managed to fool and embarrass a surprising number of “experts” unwilling to admit they had never heard of Tate.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). (70),[ii]pp. Numerous illustrations, some full-page, some coloured. Original green cloth, lettered in blue; a very good copy in the dust-jacket – the jacket also very good.

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London : Bloomsbury Publishing, (2015). First edition. Amory Clay (1908-1983), photographer. “An utterly compelling read ... the images give the reader just the right amount of unease about what sort of book it is. This is quite deliberate, Boyd taking pleasure in wrong-footing us, as when Amory, the narrator of her own life story, casually drops on the first page that her father tried to kill her” (Mary Hoffman, The Independent, 30th July 2015).
Medium 8vo (25cm). (x),(448),[iv]pp. Photo illustrations. Original navy boards, blocked and lettered in gilt. A very good copy indeed – clean, bright and sound, in an equally very good dust-jacket.

£25

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