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London : Bodley Head, (1971). First edition. “A novel about obsession, about a pervading fear of reality, and the fantasies that are invited in their place” (publisher’s blurb) — “William Trevor’s best book yet. Poor Miss Gomez stepped from her Jamaican orphanage to serve behind the counter in Bourne & Hollingsworth, then to the top floor of a Soho brothel” (Victoria Brittain in the Illustrated London News, 1st December 1971).
Post 8vo (21cm). (292)pp. Original lavender boards, lettered in gilt; just lightly bruised; some spotting of top edge, but a very good and sound copy in the Michael Harvey dust-jacket — the jacket very good, clean and unworn.

£100

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London : Bodley Head, (1980). First edition. Julia Ferndale in Gloucestershire – pleasant, widowed, middle-aged – and Francis Tyte, actor, from a far less pleasant world. The nature of victims, saints, fools, and the nature of perpetrators.
Post 8vo (21cm). (244),[iv]pp. Original maroon boards, lettered in gilt; top edge spotted, but a very good copy in the Hilary Scott dust-jacket – just a touch sunned, but also very good.

£50

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London : Bodley Head, (1981). First edition. A collection of a dozen short stories, including “Downstairs at Fitzgerald’s”, “Sunday Drinks”, “The Paradise Lounge”, etc. “Good short stories are hard to come by, but when William Trevor produces a new collection one can be sure that they are more than merely good”.
Post 8vo (21cm). (256)pp. Original orange boards, lettered in gilt; a few faint signs of age and use, but overall a very good copy in the Michael Harvey and Les Wies dust-jacket – also very good indeed.

£75

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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.

£50

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London : Colophon Press, 1997. First edition : one of 200 copies (ex 232) finely printed on mould-made paper, and numbered and signed by William Trevor. “The roomful of important men expectantly await the one whom another has already dubbed the party’s ghost ...” – a Trevor short story.
Royal 8vo (26cm). [ii],26,[ii],[2]pp. Original blue stiff wrappers; paper label; a fine copy.

£50

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