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There are 124 books in this catalogue.
The Professor of Desire Roth, Philip
Roth, Philip
Book Number: 65831
ISBN: 0224015656
Jonathan Cape, London 1977. 8vo. hardcover. 263pp. Very good, outer page edges toned, review copy slip stapled to fep. Good d/w chipped on top edge.
Price: $12.00


The World According to Garp
Irving, John
Book Number: 65833
ISBN: 9780297858874
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2009. 8vo. hardcover, boards with window cutout. Illustrated endpapers by Karl Grandin 516pp. Very good, outer page edges toned, spine slighty faded. One of a special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with Weidenfeld & Nicolson's 60th anniversary.
Price: $55.00


The Gospel According to the Son
Mailer, Norman
Book Number: 65837
ISBN: 0679457836
Random House, New York, 1997. 8vo. hardcover. Very good. / Very good d/w. Norman Mailer fused fact and fiction to create indelible portraits of such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, and Lee Harvey Oswald. In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer reimagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western history. Here is Jesus Christ’s story in his own words: the discovery of his divinity and the painful, powerful journey to accepting and expressing it, “as if I were a man enclosing another man within.” In its brevity and piercing simplicity, it may be Mailer’s most accessible, direct, and heartfelt work.
Price: $15.00


Bluebeard
Vonnegut, Kurt
Book Number: 65838
ISBN: 
London Jonathan Cape, 1988 8vo hardcover 300pp. Good, top edge foxed, page edges toned. / Good d/w creased on rear flap.
Price: $18.00


Bulibasha King of the Gypsies
Ihimaera, Witi
Book Number: 65810
ISBN: 0140254323
Penguin 1994. First edition. 8vo. softcover. 291pp. Good, water stain on top corner.
Price: $15.00


The Border Trilogy : All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, and Cities of the Plain
McCarthy, Cormac
Book Number: 65764
ISBN: 9780330334617
Picador 2002 8vo softcover 1056pp very good, spine faded, page edges toned.
Price: $15.00


The Counsellor A Screenplay
McCarthy, Cormac
Book Number: 65765
ISBN: 9781447227649
Picador 2013 8vo softcover 184pp very good.
Price: $15.00


To Sir With Love.
BRAITHWAITE, E.R.
Book Number: 29008
ISBN: 
London: The Bodley Head. 1959. 5th 8vo. hardcover. 188pp. very good,small owner's name on fep. / very good, lightly foxed d/w.
Price: $8.00


Monsignor Quixote
Greene, Graham
Book Number: 65669
ISBN: 0370300235
Bodley Head, London, 1982. First edition. 8vo. hardcover. 221pp. Very good, light foxing. / Good+ creased d/w.
Price: $12.00


The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard
Ballard, J. G.
Book Number: 65471
ISBN: 9780393072624
Norton, New York 2009. 8vo. hardcover. 1199pp. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $35.00


One Arm and Other Stories
Williams, Tennessee
Book Number: 65474
ISBN: 
New Directions Publishing Corporation 1967. 8vo. softcover. 211pp. Very good, light foxing to outer page edges & rear cover.
Price: $12.00


Heaven Has No Favourites
Remarque, Erich Maria
Book Number: 65458
ISBN: 
Panther 1964 8vo. softcover. 223pp. Good-, spine slanted, pages browned.
Price: $6.00


Everyman
Roth, Philip
Book Number: 65449
ISBN: 0224078690
London. Cape. 2006. 8vo hardcover 451pp. very good, page edges lightly toned. / very good d/w.
Price: $25.00


The Poet
Yi Mun-Yol
Book Number: 65395
ISBN: 1860460100
Harville Press, London, 1995. 8vo. hardcover. 206pp. Very good, page edges toned. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00


Armageddon in Retrospect: And Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace
Vonnegut, Kurt
Book Number: 65291
ISBN: 9780224085397
Jonathan Cape, London 2008. First edition. 8vo. hardcover. 234pp. illus. Near Fine. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $18.00


Thinks
Lodge, David
Book Number: 65299
ISBN: 014100021X
Penguin Books, London, 2002. 8vo. softcover. 342pp. Very good, some foxing.
Price: $6.00


The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald; A Selection With Notes by Malcolm Cowley
Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Notes by Malcolm Cowley; Illustrated by John Collier
Book Number: 65239
ISBN: 
The Franklin Library, 1977. 8vo. full leather with gilt dec. & titles, raised bands, all edges gilt, maroon watered silk endpapers & pastedowns. Colour frontis, 586pp. Near Fine. Limited edition.
Price: $35.00


THREE BODLEY HEAD MONOGRAPHS: Henry Treece by Margery Fisher, C.S. Lewis by Roger Lancelyn Green, and Beatrix Potter by Marcus Crouch
Fisher, Margery, Roger Lancelyn Green, and Marcus Crouch
Book Number: 64040
ISBN: 0370007980
The Bodley Head, London, 1969. 8vo. hardcover. 224pp. Near Fine. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $22.00


Red Dog
de Bernieres, Louis
Book Number: 63775
ISBN: 1740510852
Alfred A Knopf, Sydney, 2001. Small 8vo hardcover 120pp illus. Very good / Very good+ d/w with slightly faded spine. Readers familiar with the epic sweep of Louis de Bernires' previous novels, and especially his phenomenally successful Captain Corelli's Mandolin, might be shocked by this small volume of (literally) shaggy dog stories. But those who have enjoyed the humour of those same novels will appreciate this sleeker, slimline de Bernires.nnIn 1998, de Bernires visited the mining towns of Western Australia and stumbled across a bronze statue of Red Dog (1971-1979) outside Dampier. Inspired by this legendary canine, he made another visit, collecting the stories of his life and gently fictionalising them. We follow Red Dog, the itinerant, resourceful, if flatulent hero (
Price: $8.00


Beyond the Pale and Other Stories
Trevor, William
Book Number: 63610
ISBN: 
The Folio Society, London, 2010. 8vo. hardcover in slipcase. New in plastic wrap.
Price: $20.00


On The Road. The Original Scroll
Kerouac, Jack
Book Number: 63534
ISBN: 9780141189215
Penguin Books, 2007 8vo. softcover. Very good.
Price: $10.00


Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, and Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays
Wolfe, Tom
Book Number: 63425
ISBN: 0553144421
Bantam Books 1980 8vo. softcover. 370pp. Very good, page edges toned.
Price: $6.00


The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Wolfe, Tom
Book Number: 63426
ISBN: 
Mayflower 1972 8vo. softcover. 370pp. Very good, page edges toned.
Price: $6.00


Back to Blood
Wolfe, Tom
Book Number: 63400
ISBN: 9780224097284
Jonathan Cape, UK 2012. 8vo. softcover. 706pp. Very good+.
Price: $9.00


Tales of Ordinary Madness
Bukowski, Charles.
Book Number: 63279
ISBN: 0872861554
City Lights Books, 1983 8vo softcover 238pp. Good+, bottom corner bumped.
Price: $12.00


The Rum Diary
Thompson, Hunter S.
Book Number: 63282
ISBN: 0747543151
London Bloomsbury, 1998 8vo softcover 204pp very good, cover creased. This roman-a-clef is about a drunken young journalist. It is Hunter S. Thompson's only work of fiction.
Price: $8.00


A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Murdoch, Iris
Book Number: 63215
ISBN: 0701115343
Chatto & Windus, London, 1970. First edition. 8vo. hardcover. 402pp. Very good, foxing to outer page edges. / Very good clipped d/w.
Price: $45.00


The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories
Kurlansky, Mark
Book Number: 26727
ISBN: 0224061461
Jonathan Cape, 2001 8vo hardcover 301pp. very good, spine slanted, page edges toned. / very good d/w. "The White Man in the Tree" is a comedy of cultural misunderstanding set in the Caribbean, New York and Paris, a novella and eight stories about people who, because of their differences, misjudge each other.
Price: $10.00


On The Road. The Original Scroll
Kerouac, Jack
Book Number: 62373
ISBN: 9781846140204
Penguin Books, 2007 8vo. hardcover. Very good, some light foxing, mainly o outer page edges.
Price: $45.00


Theory Of War
Brady, Joan
Book Number: 40163
ISBN: 0233988106
Andre Deutsch 1993 8vo hardcover 209pp. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00



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