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  • A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Issac Bashevis Singer

    £2.50

    Penguin 1980,  18cm by 11cm 303 page paperback reprint. Singer was winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature. Condition: Covers worn and there is the remains of water damage to the last five pages.

  • Blink by Andrea Badenoch 2001

    £10.00

    “It is 1962. The Beatles have released Love Me Do and John Glenn has orbited the Earth. But in this pit village in County Durham, everyone is looking back towards the traditions of the past…”  A First Edition by the Tyneside writer who died in 2004. Macmillan, 2001. 20.5cm by 13.5cm, 309 pages. Hardback in…

  • Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros

    £5.00

    Bloomsbury, 2002. Uncorrected Proof Copy of UK first edition. 23.5cm by 15cm, colour illustrated wraps, 447 pages. Condition: Slight edge-wear and soiling with age. Remains of price sticker in the bottom right hand corner of the rear cover.

  • Corvus A Life with Birds by Esther Woolfson

    £3.00

    Granta, 2008. 20cm by 13cm, 337 pages. Illustrated by Helen Macdonald. The back cover describes this as a “beguiling blend of memoir and natural history…” Condition: Minimal shelf-wear and pages a little browned with ages. Appears unread.

  • Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton 1976

    £2.00

    Penguin Modern Classics. Penguin, 1976. 18cm by 11cm 239 pages. Condition: 3 cm closed tear to bottom edge of title page, pages uniformly browned with age and covers worn and creaed. A well-read copy.

  • Dickens at Doughty Street by John Greaves 1975

    £8.00

    Elm Tree Books, 1975. First edition. Paperback 21.5cm by 14cm, 197 pages with black and white photos and a Foreword by Monica Dickens. The author was at the time of writing, Honorary Secretary of the Dickens Fellowship. This book details the time Charles Dickens and his wife Kate spent in 48 Doughty Street in Bloomsbury,…

  • Elaine of La Signe by Ursula Moray Williams First edition 1937

    £12.00

    Ursula Moray Williams was a Children’s author and this title is one of her earlier books. First edition, lacking dustwrapper, published by Harrap, 1937. 20cm x 14.5cm blue boards. 254 pages. Colour frontispiece and black and white drawings illustrated by the author. Condition: Lacks dustwrapper, there is foxing in the pages and page 33 is…

  • Full House by M.J. Farrell (Molly Keane)

    £4.00

    Virago Press, 1988. Reprint. Virago Modern Classic Number 232. 20cm by 13cm 320 pages. Irish writer. Virago Modern Classics. Condition: page edges uniformly browned plus distinctive lush green cover edges a little worn with creasing towards spine on front cover. Very Good.

  • Granta 101, Spring 2008

    £3.00

    The Magazine of New Writing edited by Jason Cowley and featuring Hilary Mantel, Annie Proulx, Douglas Coupland and more.21cm by 14.5cm 286 pages. Condition: Miniscule shelf-wear. Appears unread. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.

  • Granta 53, Spring 1996

    £3.00

    A paperback magazine of new writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue’s theme is News and features Zoe Heller, Gordon Burn, Fintan O’Toole and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: Crease down front cover and covers slightly yellowed with age. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask…

  • Granta 54, Summer 1996

    £3.00

    A Paperback magazine of new writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled The Best of Young American Novelists and features Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Fae Myenne Ng, Mona Simpson and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 320 pages. Condition: A few pages to the rear of the book have creasing to the bottom corner plus…

  • Granta 56, Winter 1996

    £3.00

    A Paperback Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled: What Happened to Us? Britain’s Valedictory Realism and features John Banville on Anthony Blunt plus Hilary Mantel, Hanif Kureishi, Philip Hensher, Fintan O’Toole and more.21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: A Very Good clean copy. N.B. We have more copies of…

  • Granta 72, Winter 2000

    £3.00

    The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack and featuring Richard Ford, Olga Tokarczuk, Nik Cohn, A.L. Kennedy and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: Clean contents but crease the spine of front cover. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.

  • Granta 73, Spring 2001

    £3.00

    The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Necessary Journeys and features Ian McEwan on Dunkirk plus Decca Aitkenhead, Dayanita Singh, Isabel Hilton plus the untold story of how the FBI pursued James Baldwin. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: edge-wear to covers and page edges. N.B. We have more…

  • Granta 80 Winter 2002

    £3.00

    The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled The Group: Pictures from Previous Lives and features Geoff Dyer, Luke Harding, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Theroux and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: Minimal edge-wear and slight curling to the front cover. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in…

  • Granta 82, Summer 2003

    £3.00

    The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Life’s Like That and features Simon Gray, Lynn Barber and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: some shelf-wear. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.

  • Granta 84, Winter 2003

    £3.00

    The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Over There How America Sees The World and features Edmund White, James Kelman, Paul Theroux, Studs Terkel, Gary Shteyngart and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: Minimal edge-wear with a couple of Granta leaflets laid in. N.B. We have more copies…

  • Granta 89, Spring 2005 The Factory

    £3.00

    The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack and featuring Isabel Hilton, Luc Sante, Tessa Hadley plus a rare interview with James Joyce. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: very clean and tight. Appears unread. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.

  • Granta 94, Summer 2006

    £3.00

    The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. Travel writing special featuring John Burnside, Michel Faber, Tessa Hadley and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: Clean contents but slight wear and creasing to covers. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.

  • Have the Men Had Enough? by Margaret Forster

    £3.00

    Penguin, 1990. Reprint paperback. 20cm by 13cm coloured illustrated wraps, 251 pages. Described by Anita Brookner as “An extremely skilful and angry novel…” Condition: Minimal edge-wear to covers and page edges uniformly browned with age. Appears unread.

  • Hermetic Definition by H.D.

    £8.00

    Carcanet Press, 1972. First paperback edition. Blue card wraps 20cm by 14cm, 117 pages. This previously unpublished poem is contemporary with her Trilogy. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: wraps slightly edge-worn and curled to edges, pages minimally browned and page edges a little…

  • Lavengro by George Borrow

    £5.00

    George G. Harrap, 1947. Reprint. The Holborn Library edition.  18cm by 12cm red cloth boards, 548 pages. From the author of The Romany Rye. Condition: Board edges slightly sunned, some browning to prelims and dusty top edge.

  • Lewis Carroll’s Ripon by Maurice Taylor

    £5.00

    Did you know Lewis Carroll  visited Ripon during sixteen of his creative years? This pamphlet “attempts to put that into context.” Printed by Ripon Cathedral, 2005. Reprint of 1998 first edition. 21cm by 14.5cm , 16 pages, illustrated throughout with mostly b&w photos and illustrations. Condition: Clean contents but some wear to spine and slight…

  • Mantissa by John Fowles

    £3.00

    Triad Grafton Books, 1988. 18cm by 11cm, colour illustrated wraps, 190 pages. Condition: Minimal shelf-wear, page edges uniformly browned with age. Appears unread.

  • Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

    £3.50

    Penguin, 2000. Reprint Penguin Modern Classics. 19.5cm by 13cm illustrated wraps, 288 pages. Introduction by Paul Bailey who writes of this novel: “a timeless masterpiece…every page is informed by her profound scholarship…” Condition: Slight shelf-wear with light browning with age to page edges. Appears unread.

  • Outlaw of Gor by John Norman

    £4.00

    A Star Book. Tandem Publishing, 1979. Reprint. 18cm by 11cm, 254 pages. Volume two of the Chronicles of Counter-Earth. Condition: Covers edge-worn and pages uniformly browned with age.

  • Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo 1994

    £4.00

    Mexican novel written in 1955, describes a man’s search for his unknown father. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden with a Foreword by Susan Sontag. Paperback 20cm by 13cm, 122 pages Serpent’s Tail reprint from 1994. Condition: Page edges uniformly browned with age and slight edge-wear to covers. Very Good.

  • San Camilo, 1936 by Camilo José Cela

    £4.00

    Duke University Press, 1998. Third Printing in paperback. 23.5cm by 14.5cm 302 pages. Translated from Spanish by John H.R. Holt.  Cela was winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989. Condition: front cover slightly sunned towards spine, covers slightly soiled and edge-worn but contents clean. Appears unread.

  • Strix magazine No. 3 Spring 2018

    £5.00

    Poetry and Short Fiction magazine edited by Ian Harker and Andrew Lambeth and printed in Leeds, 2018. 29.5cm by 15cm brown card wraps. Features Glyn Edwards, Tom Kelly, Jane Burn, Joe Williams, Jayne Shipley and more. Condition:  Minimal edge-wear to covers. Near Fine.

  • Strix magazine No. 5 Autumn 2018

    £5.00

    Poetry and Short Fiction magazine printed in Leeds, 2018. 29.5cm by 15cm brown card wraps. Features Jane Burn, Joe Williams, Ian Harker, Arji Manuelpillai and more. Condition: Covers slightly soiled and edge-worn.

  • Strix magazine No. 6 Winter/Spring 2019

    £5.00

    Poetry and Short Fiction magazine edited by SJ Bradley,  Ian Harker and Andrew Lambeth and printed in Leeds. 29.5cm by 15cm brown card wraps. Features Jane Burn, Joe Williams, Lydia Harris, Avril Joy and more. Condition:  Minimal edge-wear to covers. Near Fine.

  • Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

    £4.00

    Granta, 2011. First paperback edition. Nearly 20cm by 13cm, 331 pages. “An intoxicating brew of keen-edged satire, social prophecy, linguistic exuberance and emotional wallop” David Mitchell. Condition: an unread copy with shelf-wear to bottom edge.

  • The Carpathians by Janet Frame 1989

    £5.00

    First UK paperback by Pandora, 1989. Fantastic fiction by New Zealand’s Janet Frame. Almost 20cm by 13cm 196 pages. Condition: Page edges browned with age but book appears unread.

  • The Easter Party by Vita Sackville-West 1955

    £5.00

    First edition thus, Mermaid Books, 1955. 19cm by 12.5cm 189 pages in illustrated boards. Condition: front board a little bowed and some fading to the orange of the covers.

  • The Estate by Issac Bashevis Singer 1975

    £4.00

    Penguin 1975 18cm by 11cm 334 page paperback reprint. The Estate concludes Singer’s epic story which began with The Manor. Condition: Ink signature of previous owner on title page plus notes on rear of final page dated 17/3/1979 about literature.

  • The Good Companions by J.B. Priestley Penguin 1966

    £4.00

    A Penguin Modern Classic. First published by Heinemann in 1929, this is a 1966 reprint of the Penguin edition first published in 1962. 18cm by 11cm, 618 pages. Cover illustration by Paul Hogarth. Condition: in the top left hand corner of the front cover there is the eivience of a fight with one of those…

  • The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

    £3.00

    Harper Perennial, 1992. US paperback reprint. 20cm by 13.5cm, 452 pages. Condition: Page edges uniformly browned with age. Appears unread.

  • The Man Who Was Loved by Kay MacCauley

    £3.00

    Telegram, London,  W2 5RH, 2006. First paperback edition. 20cm by 13cm illustrated wraps, 392 pages. Robert Plant is quoted on the covers: “A breathtaking debut.”  Condition: Shelf-worn with slight water damage to top edge of front cover and fly-leaf. Book appears unread.

  • The Most Beautiful Woman in Town by Charles Bukowski

    £10.00

    City Lights Books, San Francisco, [1988]. Reprint paperback 20cm by 13.5cm, 240 pages. A collection of 30 short stories. Condition: Very Good tight, bright copy. Spine sunned, slight soiling and shelf-wear to pages.

  • The Romany Rye by George Borrow

    £8.50

    John Murray, 1907. Reprint. Sub-titled “A Sequel To Lavengro” this is “a new edition containing the unaltered text of the original issue, with notes, etc, by the author of The Life of George Borrow.” 20.5cm by 13cm blue cloth boards, 403 pages.  Condition: Spine and board edges sunned, weak hinge to rear board, scattered foxing…

  • The Swimming Pool Season by Rose Tremain 2003

    £3.00

    Vintage, 2003. First published by Hamish Hamilton in 1985. This 20cm by 13cm paperback has 274 pages. Condition: edge-wear to cover and pages and pages uniformly browned with age.

  • The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda

    £3.00

    Graywolf Press, [1990s]. Reprint paperback, 21.5cm by 13.5cm, 201 pages. Translated and with an introduction by David Rosenthal. Gabriel García Márquez is quoted on the cover: “The most beautiful novel published in Spain since the Civil War.” Condition: Covers a little faded and shelf-worn but book appears unread.

  • The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox

    £3.00

    Vintage, 200. Reprint paperback. 20cm by 13cm, 241 pages. Described in a Times review as “fine, rich, satiny and unpredictable as the vintages that it describes…” Condition: some shelf wear and pages uniformly browned. Appears unread.

  • Waggoners’ Walk by Barbara Clegg and Alan Downer

    £3.50

    British Broadcasting Corporation, 1975. First edition. Paperback 17.5cm by 11cm, 175 pages with 8 pages of black and white photos. Tie-in with the BBC Radio 2 series set in Hampstead which ran from 1969 to 1980. Condition: covers a little edge-worn, pages uniformly browned with age.