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Ackroyd, Peter. Milton In America. Sinclair-Stevenson 1996. [75794 ]
Near Fine in dustwrapper £16 

Adams, Herbert. Victory Song. Collins Crime Club 1943. [67609 ]
Scarce in dustwrapper. Good (contents clean but cloth damp-affected, “Xmas 1943” in ink on flyleaf) in VG slightly edge-worn and dusty dustwrapper £95 

Adams, Richard. The Girl In A Swing. Allen Lane 1980. [72783 ]
The suppressed first issue (with the publisher's name on the title page and the heroine's name printed as Käthe throughout). SIGNED by the author to the title page. Fine in dustwrapper £120 

Ahlberg, Janet and Allan. It was a Dark and Stormy Night. Viking 1993. [75685 ]
Fine in dustwrapper. A lovely copy £15 

Aird, Catherine. Harm’s Way. Collins Crime Club 1984. [68104 ]
SIGNED. VG (tiny ink name) in slightly rubbed price-clipped dustwrapper £35 

Aldiss, Brian W. Forgotten Life. Gollancz 1988. [75807 ]
Near Fine in dustwrapper (small nick to bottom of spine) £11 

Aldiss, Brian. Moreau's Other Island. Cape 1980 [75716 ]
SIGNED (twice!) to the flyleaf & the title page. Near Fine (previous owner’s bookplate) in dustwrapper £30 

Ali, Monica. Brick Lane. Doubleday 2003. [75579 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £60 

Allingham, Margery. Mr Campion: Criminologist. The Crime Club Doubleday Doran, New York 1937. [75497 ]
Seven short stories. Precedes the UK edition by two years, and contains two more stories. Queen’s Quorum. Fine in attractive VG+ dustwrapper (priced at $2 as called for), slightly worn to the spine ends £295 

Ambler, Eric. The Night-Comers Heinemann 1956. [75799 ]
VG+ (ink name) in price-clipped dustwrapper £40 

Ambler, Eric. Doctor Frigo. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1974. [69244 ]
Near Fine in dustwrapper (with a tiny closed tear to top of spine) £30 

Amis, Kingsley. Stanley And The Women. Hutchinson 1984. [75793 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £18 

Amis, Kingsley. One Fat Englishman. Gollancz 1963. [66730 ]
Fine in price-clipped dustwrapper £32 

Amis, Kingsley. Memoirs. Hutchinson 1991. [66440 ]
SIGNED. Fine in dustwrapper £66 

Amis, Kingsley. Girl, 20. Cape 1971. [75792 ]
Near Fine in VG+ dustwrapper £30 

Amis, Kingsley. The Alteration. Cape 1976. [72539 ]
With the ownership signature of writer Julian Mitchell on the flyleaf, underneath which he has written “Critics forum”. Fine (but pages browned as usual) in dustwrapper £40 

Amis, Kingsley. Collected Short Stories. Hutchinson 1980. [72769 ]
SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in spine-faded dustwrapper £75 

Amis, Martin. London Fields. Cape 1989. [66568 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £35 

Amis, Martin. The Moronic Inferno And Other Visits To America. Jonathan Cape 1986. [71192 ]
A collection of essays. Near Fine (minor bumping to spine) in dustwrapper - laminate somewhat creased £40 

Anthology. New Directions 1939. New Directions, Connecticut 1939. [75696 ]
An anthology devoted to significant trends in contemporary writing. Contributors include Federico Garcia Lorca, Henry Miller (an excerpt from Tropic of Capricorn), Kenneth Patchen, Elizabeth Bishop, Dylan Thomas, Harry Levin on James Joyce, Lawrence Durrell, William Carlos Williams and John Berryman. VG in slightly edge-worn and spine-faded dustwrapper £50 

Archer, Jeffrey and Searle, Ronald. Cat O’Nine Tales. Macmillan 2006. [75762 ]
SIGNED by Archer on the title page. Short stories by Archer, illustrated by Searle. Fine in dustwrapper £35 

Arlott, John. The Snuff Shop. Michael Joseph 1974. [75569 ]
SIGNED by Arlott on the flyleaf. Foreword by Kingsley Amis. Illustrated by Ray Evans. Fine in original gilt-decorated blue boards £45 

Armitage, Simon. The Dead Sea Poems. Faber 1995. [75844 ]
SIGNED Fine in decorated paper boards as issued £30 

Arnott, Jake. truecrime. Sceptre 2003. [75845 ]
A paperback original. Signed by Arnott on the title page. Fine in decorated card covers as issued £16 

Atwood, Margaret. Wilderness Tips. Bloomsbury 1991. [75843 ]
SIGNED by Attwood on the title page. Fine in dustwrapper £25 

Bainbridge, Beryl. According to Queeney. Little Brown 2001. [75585 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £15 

Bainbridge, Beryl. Every Man For Himself. Duckworth 1996. [75785 ]
Near Fine in dustwrapper £15 

Banks, Iain. Canal Dreams. Macmillan 1989. [68638 ]
Fine in dustwrapper £48 

Banks, Iain. Espedair Street. Macmillan 1987. [71142 ]
Fine in dustwrapper (couple of vertical creases to laminate) £60 

Banks, Iain. Walking On Glass. Macmillan 1985. [68625 ]
His second novel. Fine in dustwrapper £95 

Banville, John. Prague Pictures. Bloomsbury 2003. [70193 ]
Part of the “The Writer and the City” series. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in dustwrapper £38 

Banville, John. Shroud. Picador 2002. [75842 ]
SIGNED by Banville on the title page. Fine in dustwrapper £35 

Bates, H.E. The Face Of England. Batsford 1952. [70798 ]
Illustrated with 40 colour photographs by A.F. Kersting. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper £36 

Beardsley, Aubrey. The Uncollected Work Of Aubrey Beardsley. The Bodley Head. 1925. [65257 ]
Introduced by C. Lewis Hind. Original blue cloth-boards with Beardsley’s designs to front, rear and spine. An extensive collection of his drawings, cariacatures, letters & sketches. VG+ - a little bumped and faded to top and base of spine £295 

Beerbohm, Max. Mainly On The Air. Heinemann 1946. [71445 ]
Publishers’ review slip laid in. Near Fine - a little foxing to the fore-edge in VG++ dustwrapper, a little spine darkened with some very minor edgewear £70 

Benchley, Peter. Jaws. Deutsch 1974. [75800 ]
VG+ (spine a little discoloured and rubbed) in dustwrapper £60 

Bennett, Arnold. The Matador Of The Five Towns. Methuen 1912. [66623 ]
VG (slightly rubbed and a little dusty and faded to the spine) £45 

Benson, E.F. Alan. Fisher Unwin 1924. [65412 ]
VG indeed bright copy £70 

Bentley, E. C. Trent's Last Case. Nelson [1913]. [72331 ]
A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. VG+ attractive bright clean copy £195 

Blaker, Richard. Night-Shift. Heinemann 1934. [75477 ]
INSCRIBED “To Mr Flower with the good wishes of the Wilson Rubber Co. & the kind regards of the author. Richard Blaker. Xmas 1934”. A Hubin listed mystery. VG (slight wear to top of spine) in attractive pictorial Youngman Carter dustwrapper which is slightly edge-worn, marked and creased, with a few short closed tears and a small chip to top of spine, affecting the “T” in “Shift” only slightly £95 

Bloch, Robert. Psycho II. Corgi 1982. [75737 ]
VG indeed (pages a little browned) in edgeworn dustwrapper £16 

Blunden, Edmund. Poems 1914 - 1930. Cobden - Sanderson 1930. [70730 ]
No.118 of a limited edition of 2120 copies. SIGNED. VG in original blue buckram, unevenly faded and with a light stain to the rear panel. £120 

Blyton, Enid. Puzzle For The Secret Seven. 4th impression, Brockhampton 1965. [73136 ]
Near Fine in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper £25 

Blyton, Enid. The Secret Seven Adventure. Reprint, Brockhampton Books 1965. [73128 ]
Near Fine in VG dustwrapper (a little edge-worn, with one or two closed tears, selotape reisdue to verso) £25 

Blyton, Enid. Secret Seven Mystery. Fifth impression, Brockhampton Books 1965. [73126 ]
Near fine in dustwrapper (spine ends a little bumped) £29 

Blyton, Enid. The Secret Seven. Reprint, Brockhampton Books 1952. [73124 ]
VG+ (front board a little marked, ink name to ffep) in dustwrapper (a little edge-worn, some tape repairs to verso of rear panel, a little loss to top of spine) £28 

Blyton, Enid. Good old Secret Seven. Reprint, Brockhampton Books 1964. [73123 ]
Near Fine in dustwrapper (spine ends a little bumped, lightly foxed) £22 

Blyton, Enid. Well Done Secret Seven Reprint, Brock Books 1965. [73107 ]
Near Fine in VG+ dustwrapper £22 

Blyton, Enid. Go Ahead Secret Seven. Reprint, Brockhampton Books 1965. [73106 ]
Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper £22 

Blyton, Enid. Fun for the Secret Seven. Second impression, Brockhampton Books 1965. [73101 ]
Near Fine in dustwrapper (spine ends a little worn) £28