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REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST: VOLUME 3, The Guermantes Way.
Proust, Marcel.
Book Number: 66075
ISBN: 0143039229
Publisher: Penguin, Reprint 2005.
8vo softcover 619pp. very good.
Price: $25.00

Ovid's Selected Works
Thornton, J. C. & M. J. (editors) [Ovid]
Book Number: 65843
ISBN:
Publisher: J M Dent And Sons Limited, London 1955.
Small 8vo. hardcover. 432pp. index. Very good, owner's details on fep. / good, chipped d/w. Everyman's Library No. 955.
Price: $15.00

The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I
Grene, David & Lattimore, Richmond (editors) [Sophocles]
Book Number: 65845
ISBN:
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, 1954.
8vo. softcover. 206pp. Good, a little underlining, small crease on rear corner, owner's name on fep. Includes Oedipus The King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone.
Price: $10.00

Peter Ibbetson with an Introduction By His Cousin Lady ***** (" Madge Plunket" )
Du Maurier, George
Book Number: 65011
ISBN:
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, London 1924.
8vo. hardcover. 381pp. b/w illus. Good, spine faded, missing fep.,
Price: $15.00

Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire.
Surtees, R.S.
Book Number: 63582
ISBN: 1845882113
Publisher: Nonsuch Classics, UK. 2006.
12mo. softcover. 512pp. Near Fine. Written in 1845, this satire follows the lovable cockney grocer Jorrocks, and takes a stab at the upper-class fox hunting gentry of the day.
Price: $10.00

Tales of The Arabian Nights
Dulken, H. W. (editor)
Book Number: 63225
ISBN: 08900800x
Publisher: Castle USA 1984.
8vo. hardcover. 822pp. b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to endpapers. / Good+ d/w with creased rear flap and small tear at top of spine(repaired). The Text Revised and Emendated throughout by H.W. Dulcken with upwards of 200 Illustrations by Eminent Artists.
Price: $45.00

The Stony Road: A Tale of Humble Life.
By the Author of
Book Number: 43937
ISBN:
Publisher: London, T. Woolmer. N.D.
Small 8vo. green dec. cloth hardcover. 172pp. + ads, b/w frontis with tissue guard. Very good, light rubbing to cover eges, light wear to cover corners, light foxing, mainly to first & last few pages, owner's inscription & very small stail on fep.
Price: $20.00

Three Bear Witness (Testimonies in the USA)
O'Brian, Patrick
Book Number: 58778
ISBN:
Publisher: Secker and Warburg, Stated First Published 1952
8vo. Yellow washed green boards. no d/w. front board slightly bowed, otherwise the copy itself is almost mint, no foxing or toning. Lists The Last Pool as other work by same author.
Price: $75.00

A New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms: Being the Fifth Part of the Travels Into Several Remote Parts of the Worl
Lemuel Gulliver (Swift, Jonathan)
Book Number: 52382
ISBN:
Publisher: Putnam, New York. 1969
8vo. hardcover. 91pp. Very good. / very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

The Tragedy of a Genius
Balzac, Horore de, (translated by Henry Blanchamp
Book Number: 22544
ISBN:
Publisher: New York Brentanto's n.d.
small 8vo. 303pp, red embossed cloth with slight wear to spine crease, embossed spine, Gilt not shiney, The Lotus Library. Cover and spine have 'Tragedy of a Genuis' embossed and title page has 'Tragedy of a Genius' printed
Price: $25.00

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Walls, Jeannette
Book Number: 54849
ISBN: 1416586288
Publisher: Scribner October 6, 2009
8vo hardcover 288pp very good / very good d/w. For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose megaselling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own upbringing, writes in what she recalls as Lily's plainspoken voice, whose recital provides plenty of drama and suspense as she ricochets from one challenge to another. Having been educated in fits and starts because of her parents' penury, Lily becomes a teacher at age 15 in a remote frontier town she reaches after a solo 28-day ride. Marriage to a bigamist almost saps her spirit, but later she weds a rancher with whom she shares two children and a strain of plucky resilience. (They sell bootleg liquor during Prohibition, hiding the bottles under a baby's crib.) Lily is a spirited heroine, fiercely outspoken against hypocrisy and prejudice, a rodeo rider and fearless breaker of horses, and a ruthless poker player. Assailed by flash floods, tornados and droughts, Lily never gets far from hardscrabble drudgery in several states--New Mexico, Arizona, Illinois--but hers is one of those heartwarming stories about indomitable women that will always find an audience. Originally conceived as a biography based on family interviews and historical research, Walls found herself filling in too many blanks for Half Broke Horses to remain a work of nonfiction, so she assumed Smith's indomitable voice and set out to write a novelistic recreation of Smith's unconventional life. Most critics were captivated by Smith's earthy, straightforward style, despite the steady stream of repetitive axioms intermingled with her antics.
Price: $12.00

Lord Jim
Conrad, Joseph
Book Number: 51245
ISBN:
Publisher: International Collectors Library n.d. - The Lois XVI Replica Binding
8vo. Green leatherette boards. Very good. 309pp. Includes original flyer from publishers. Rough cut page edges - lightly toned, printed on heavy texured cream paper, the page tops and spine title and spine and front board decorations are all in 24K gold, and not worn, as stated in flyers from the publishers. Ribbon place marker. Conrad's classic story about the wanderings of Jim in the Middle East and a Malaysian trading post.
Price: $15.00

Ardath. The Story of a Dead Self
Corelli
Book Number: 50761
ISBN:
Publisher: Methuen, London 1897. 10th edition
8vo. red cloth hardcover. 6102pp. Good+. light wear to spine edges, foxing mainly to edges, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $18.00

Thelma : A Norwegian Princess
Corelli
Book Number: 50760
ISBN:
Publisher: Methuen, London 1896. 15th edition
8vo. red cloth hardcover. 615pp. Good+. light wear to spine edges, foxing mainly to edges, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $18.00

Tales of Bandits, Robbers, and Smugglers
various
Book Number: 52682
ISBN:
Publisher: London Burns & Oates. n.d.
8vo. dec. cloth hardcover. Very good, presentation plate inside cover dated 1934. foxing to prelims. wear to back of spine.
Price: $15.00

The Second Jungle Book
Kipling, Rudyard
Book Number: 61392
ISBN: 0333327977
Publisher: London Macmillan 1982. Centenary Edition
8vo hardcover 299pp. b/w illus. very good+. / very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $15.00

Conversations With Eternity: The Forgotten Masterpiece of Victor Hugo
Hugo, Victor
Book Number: 48763
ISBN: 1892138018
Publisher: New Paradigm Books 1998
8vo softcover 260pp. b/w illus. Very good. The first translation into English ever of the most important of the transcripts of these séances, with an introduction by Martin Ebon setting Hugo's channeling experiences in their historical context.
Price: $15.00

Her Benny
Hocking, Silas K.
Book Number: 43972
ISBN: 0900389036
Publisher: The Gallery Press 1968
Small 8vo softcover 200pp b/w illus. very good, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $6.00

Tales from Chaucer
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Book Number: 36378
ISBN:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London, 1967.
8vo. hardcover. 239pp. colour illus by Majorie Walters. very good. / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

Traffics and Discoveries
Kipling, Rudyard
Book Number: 35016
ISBN:
Publisher: London Macmillan 1982. Centenary Edition
8vo hardcover 393pp. very good+. / very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $12.00

Limits and Renewals
Kipling, Rudyard
Book Number: 35009
ISBN:
Publisher: London Macmillan 1982. Centenary Edition
8vo hardcover 398pp. very good+. / very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $12.00

The Light That Failed
Kipling, Rudyard
Book Number: 35005
ISBN:
Publisher: London Macmillan 1981. Centenary Edition
8vo hardcover 292pp. very good+. / very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $12.00

The Roadmender & The Gathering of Brother Hilarius
Fairless, Michael. illustrated by Norman Hepple
Book Number: 28996
ISBN:
Publisher: Collins Clear Type Press, London n.d. circa 1935
8vo. blue cloth covered limp covers in cloth covered slipcase, gilt titles. 254pp. b/w illus. very good+.
Price: $10.00

The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Sutherland, James, editor
Book Number: 2929
ISBN:
Publisher: Book Club Asscociates 1976
1st edition., Fine in dust jacket., Literature topics index, names index, 382 pp
Price: $15.00

Surtees: Scenes and Characters
Surtees, Robert Smith (Cyril Ray, Ed.)
Book Number: 22168
ISBN:
Publisher: London: The Falcon Press, 1948
Small 8vo. hardcover. 96pp. very good, front baord slightly bent. / very good d/w.
Price: $8.00

The Life of Charles Dickens Volume The First 1812-1847
Forster, John
Book Number: 44076
ISBN:
Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London, N.D.
8vo. dec. red cloth hardcover. 313pp. b/w illus. Good, wear to cover corners & spine edges & ends. Front hinge cracke at top.
Price: $35.00

Letters Between a Father and Son: Early Correspondence Between V.S.Naipaul and Family
Naipaul, V.S.
Book Number: 50662
ISBN: 0349113130
Publisher: Abacus September 7, 2000
8vo softcover 333pp very good. In 1949, aged 17, V.S. Naipaul left his native Trinidad to take up an Island Scholarship at University College, Oxford. This volume presents his letters to his father - a journalist with the "Trinidad Guardian" - over four years until his father's death from a heart attack in 1953, aged 47.
Price: $5.00

Chef
Singh, Jaspreet
Book Number: 50663
ISBN: 1408805847
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC March 15, 2010
8vo softcover 256pp very good. Kirpal Singh is travelling on the slow train to Kashmir. As India passes by the window in a stream of tiny lights, glistening fields and huddled, noisy towns, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for fourteen years. Kirpal, Kip to his friends, is timorous and barely twenty when he arrives for the first time at General Kumar's camp, nestled in the shadow of the mighty Siachen Glacier that claimed his father's life. He is placed under the supervision of Chef Kishen, a fiery, anarchic mentor with long earlobes and a caustic tongue who guides Kip towards the heady spheres of food and women. 'The smell of a woman is thousand times better than cooking the most sumptuous dinner, kid,' he muses over an evening beer. Kip is embarrassed - he has never slept with a woman, though a loose-limbed nurse in the local hospital has caught his eye. In Srinagar, Kashmir, a contradictory place of erratic violence, extremes of temperature and high-altitude privilege, Kip learns to prepare indulgent Kashmiri dishes such as Mughlai mutton and slow-cooked Nahari, as well as delicacies from Florence, Madrid, Athens and Tokyo. Months pass and, though he is Sikh, Kip feels secure in his allegiance to India, the right side of this interminable conflict. Then, one muggy day, a Pakistani 'terrorist' with long, flowing hair is swept up on the banks of the river, and changes everything. Mesmeric, mournful and intensely lyrical, "Chef" is a brave and compassionate debut about hope, love and memory, set against the devastatingly beautiful, war-scarred backdrop of occupied Kashmir.
Price: $6.00