Literature
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Grass for his Pillow.
London: Macmillan, 2003. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[14] 306. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and black endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. The first sequel to 'Across..... More
The Bird of Night.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1972. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 186. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd with printed price of £1.95 net. Neat ownership to flyleaf, a little dustiness to top edge else a fine copy. Shortlisted for the Booker..... More
Lake Wobegon Days.
London: Faber and Faber, 1997. [Modern Literature] FABER LIBRARY FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 395; [9]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at £12.99 to rear. Illustrated chapter headings. Blue endpapers. Very light toning to edges, slight scuffing and wearing to..... More
Blood from a Stone.
London: William Heinemann, 2005. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 276. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £15.99. Lightly browned throughout. A fine..... More
Earthly Remains.
London: William Heinemann, 2017. [Crime thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 308; [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Cartographic endpapers. Publisher's black cloth, bronze titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £18.99 to front flap. Some light bumping to..... More
Suffer the Little Children.
London: William Heinemann, 2007. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 264. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £15.99. Lightly browned throughout. A fine copy. The sixteenth in..... More
A Venetian Reckoning.
London: Macmillan, 1995. [Crime Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 231 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. Text block gently toned. A fine copy. The fourth in the popular Commissario Brunetti series, set in Venice. More
A Venetian Reckoning.
London: Macmillan, 1995. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 231 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. A fine copy, with author's signature to title page. The fourth in the popular Commissario Brunetti series, set in..... More
The Great Profundo and Other Stories.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. [Short stories]. DEDICATION COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.143;[1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Dedication to author's daughter Ciara, inscription reads: 'with love, Next year will be better, Dad, 21. Oct. 87.' Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With..... More
Lamb.
Belfast: Blackstaff Press; and London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. [Irish Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.152. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, price at £4.95, and re-priced with a yellow label..... More
James Joyce and the German Novel 1922-1933.
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1976. [Literary criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 194; [2]. Publisher's orange cloth, silver titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket unpriced. Interior bright and clean. Some offsetting to upper cloth from jacket, top extremity sunned. Jacket heavily sunned to upper and spine..... More
The Otto Penzler Collection of Bibliomysteries. A Catalogue of First Editions of Mystery Fiction Set in the World of Books, 1849-2000.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2017. [Bookseller's Catalogue] SIGNED COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] 147 [1]. With occasional in-text colour images. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at $10.00. A fine, as-new copy. A prime sale catalogue of book-related..... More
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