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316. JOYCE JAMES The Essential James Joyce.  pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape  1948  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.534. "This volume contains the full text of four books Joyce published before and during the First World War: 'Chamber Music,' the early poems which appeared in 1907,'Dubliners,' 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,' and 'Exiles,' a three-act play he wrote in 1914. In addition there are representative extracts from his later books…"  d/w.  price clipped, backstrip to d/w. very sl. stained.   Price: $35.00

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317. JOYCE JAMES (Ed. by Stuart Gilbert). Letters Of James Joyce. illus. with frontis. (photo of the Joyce family in 1924) and two facsimile reproductions, index. pub. Faber Lond.  1957 1st.ed. roy.8vo. pp.438. A collection of more than 400 letters and notes written by Joyce to other authors, publishers, acquaintances and relatives, giving valuable insight into his life and his works. The editor was a long-time friend of Joyce. Fore-edge foxed, price clipped else very good in near fine d/w.   Price: $100.00
318. JOYCE  JAMES Stephen Hero. Part of the first draft  of  `A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' Includes an additional fragment published here for the first time. pub. Lond.  Jonathan Cape 1969 ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.254. Fine.     Price: $25.00

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319. KEROUAC  JACK The Subterraneans. pub. Lond. Andre  Deutsch  1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. Picture of Leslie Carron, who starred as Mardou in the movie, on front panel; cr.8vo. pp.158. Sticky tape marks on both pastedowns and endpapers, small tear to top of d/w., it is a sideway tear, about 5cm down and across spine, but the rest to the d/w. is very good almost fine, boards are very fine.  Price: $115.00
320. KEROUAC  JACK The Subterraneans. pub. Lond. Andre  Deutsch  1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. Picture of Leslie Carron, who starred as Mardou in the movie, on front panel; cr.8vo. pp.158. 'The Subterraneans' is a tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and adventurers existing outside mainstream America's field of vision. Very slight fade to spine, almost mint copy.   Price: $400.00     Convert Currency
321. KEROUAC  JACK  Visions Of Cody. pub. N.Y. McGraw Hill  1972 stated 1st. ed. with the number line 2 through 9 noted on the copyright page, tan end papers, or.cl.  d/w. (dustwrapper is printed in various colors and has a black & white portrait of Kerouac by William Burroughs on the back panel).  8vo.  pp.XII.398.  First  time  pub.  in  its entirety. Actually written in 1951-52, this novel wasn't printed until after Kerouac's death in 1969. It features America in the late forties and early fifties by the author who knew it well. Dustwrapper v/sl. rubbed at lower spine, else near fine.   Price: $100.00

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322. KING STEPHEN The Dark Half. pub. Lond. Hodder &  Stoughton 1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.412.   Price:$35.00
323. KING STEPHEN  Ed. by Beahm George The Stephen King Companion illus. with 50 photographs. pub. London Macdonald & Co 1990 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.366. With over 100 articles, interviews, profiles and synopses. provides essential information on all Stephen King books, films, collectables available. King's works, including appendices which provide an invaluable reference section. Fine.    Price: $40.00

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324. KIPLING RUDYARD Soldiers Three. The Story Of The Gadsbys In Black And White. pub. Lond. Sampson Low, Marsdon & Co. 1892 or. dark blue cl. gilt decorated cover, gilt lettering & design spine, cr.8vo. pp.296. Originally published in pamphlet form in Allahabad in the 1880s. little rubbing, lettering faded to spine, pencil to front free e/paper, else good copy.   Price: $100.00

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325. KIPLING RUDYARD   A Song Of The English. illus. by W. Heath Robinson; 16 mounted colour plates and many small black and white drawings each faced by or followed by a few lines of verse from poems written by Kipling in 1896. pub. London: Hodder & Stoughton, nd. [1915] or. blue cloth with gilt lettering & cover design. a very good copy.   Price: $200.00  (See picture-press   )
326. KIPLING RUDYARD illus. by Donald Maxwell   East Of Suez illus. with 12 colour plates & b/w vignettes by Maxwell, pub. London Macmillan, 1931 1st. ed. or. blue cloth, 4to. pp.72 illustrated selection of Kipling poems, on Calcutta, Bombay, Rangoon, Singapore, Hong Kong etc etc. Neat name to f/free e/paper, little shelf wear else very good copy.     Price: $75.00
327. KNIBBS GEORGE HANDLEY   Book 1 Voices Of The North And Book II Echoes Of Hellas. pub. London. Alston Rivers. 1913 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.292 The author was Commonwealth Statistician 1906-1921 and wrote technological and mathematical works. Some browing to e/papers else fine, d/w. fine. Signed by the author.    Price: $100.00  Convert Currency
328. KOESTLER ARTHUR Dialogue With Death. Translated by  Trevor and  Phyllis  Blewitt. pub. Collins  with  Hamish  Hamilton  nd.(1954)? first pub. in 1937 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.222. A journalist, Koestler was arrested in 1937 by the fascist Franco, during the Spanish Revolution, and sentenced to death. This is a journal of his harrowing prison time, written after his release. d/w. sl. chipped else very good.   Price: $35.00
329. KOESTLER ARTHUR Arrow In The Blue. An Autobiography.  pub. Lond. Collins with Hamish Hamilton 1952 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.308. Koestler recalls his early life in Budapest to his most important commitment of youth: his conversion to Communism in 1931,  sl. spotted to edges, two short closed  tears to d/w. otherwise near fine.    Price: $50.00
330. KOESTLER  ARTHUR  The  Invisible  Writing.  Autobiography 1931-53. being the second volume of Arrow In The Blue. pub. Lond.  Collins  with Hamish Hamilton 1954   1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.432. Closed tear to d/w. at top of spine, slightly shelf worn price clipped otherwise very good.   Price: $45.00
331. KOESTLER ARTHUR The Trail Of The Dinosaur & Other Essays. pub. Lond. Collins 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.253.  Crease in d/w. very slight shelf wear otherwise near fine.   Price: $55.00

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332. KOESTLER  ARTHUR   Reflections  On  Hanging.   pub.   Lond. Gollancz  1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.193.  Draws on his experiences while imprisoned under sentence of death during the Spanish civil war & his subsequent abolitionist activities in Britain to raise an impassioned argument against capital punishment. d/w. chipped at lower spine, 3 short closed tears otherwise v/good.   Price: $55.00
333. KOESTLER ARTHUR The Sleepwalkers. pub. Lond. Hutchinson 1959 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.624. Near fine, d/w. has short closed tear, price clipped, shelf wear, slight spotting of pages to fore-edge.   Price: $70.00
334. KOESTLER  ARTHUR   The Lotus And The  Robot.  Essays.  pub. Lond.  Hutchinson  1960 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  8vo.  pp.296. price clipped d/w. else very fine.   Price: $75.00
335. KOESTLER  ARTHUR Drinkers Of Infinity.  Essays  1955-1967. pub. Lond. Hutchinson 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.291.  A near fine copy of the first collected edition, price clipped.   Price: $45.00
336. KOESTLER  ARTHUR   The Ghost In The Machine pub. London Hutchinson, 1967 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.384. The author's third volume - preceded by "The Sleepwalkers" and "The Act of Creation" - in his study of the mind of man, here investigating the urge for self-destruction. Dustwrappper with very minor wear to extremities, edges, short closed tear to rear of d/w. otherwise v/good.    Price: $70.00
337. KOESTLER ARTHUR The Case Of The Midwife Toad. illus.  with frontis.  & 4 full page plates pub. London  Hutchinson  Publishers 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.188. a short closed tear to front of  d/w.  at spine, tape mark to  past-down  front  e/paper under d/w. otherwise fine.  Price:  $40.00
338. KOESTLER ARTHUR The Call Girls. a Tragi-Comedy. pub.  N.Y. Random House 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.167. Price clipped, slight browning to edges else near fine.   Price: $35.00
339. KOESTLER MAMAINE Living with Koestler. Mamaine  Koestler's Letters  1945-51. Ed. by Celia Goodman illus. with  8  full page  plates  pub.  Lond.  Weidenfeld  and  Nicholson  1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.204. Fine.   Price: $35.00
340. KOESTLER  ARTHUR  The Story Of A  Friendship.  by  George Mikes.  pub. Lond. Andre Deutsch 1983 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.80. 30 years of friendship between George Mikes and Arthur Koestler is explored.   Price: $25.00
341. KOESTLER ARTHUR Arthur  Koestler A Literary and Biographical Study by  John Atkins.  pub.  Lond.  Neville Spearman  Ltd.  1956  1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.224. chipped & short closed  tears  to d/w. otherwise fine.   Price: $30.00
342. LAFOURCADE  GEORGES   Arnold Bennett. A study.  pub.  Lond. F.Muller 1939 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.300. fine.    Price: $35.00
343. LANG  ANDREW (Ed.)  The Blue Poetry  Book.  Illus. with  numerous in-text steel engravings by H.J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. pub. Lond. Longmans 1891 1st. ed. glt.dec.cl. bright picture in gilt embossed on front board of a youth playing a lyre with a leopard and lions and a lizard at his feet. black endpapers. a.e.glt. cr.8vo. pp.352. Contains works by Marlowe, Poe, Shakespeare, Burns, Longfellow, Shelley and others. Owner's neat ink name and prize for music, on verso of front flyleaf. Light shelf wear top & bottom of spine otherwise v/good with a little  light internal spotting.   Price: $150.00
344. LAWRENCE  D.H. Mornings In Mexico. pub. N.Y. Alfred  Knopf 1st.ed. August 1927 this ed. 2nd. printing pub. August 1927 or.dec.cl. 8vo. pp.188. Travel essays written by Lawrence for several publications, including Travel, The Adelphi, The Theatre Arts Monthly, and The Laughing Horse. This was his fourth book. title on spine sl. faded light spotting to edges.   Price: $50.00

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345. LAWRENCE  D.H.  Last Poems. Ed. with an  introduction  by Richard Aldington pub. Lond. Heinemann nd.1933? or.blk. cl. to spine col. paper covered bds. 8vo. pp.182 glt. top. sl. silverfished to side near spine, f/free e/paper cut, otherwise very good.   Price: $60.00
346. LAWRENCE D.H. The  Letters Of D.H. Lawrence. Edited and with an Introduction by Aldous Huxley. Frontispiece plate of D. H. Lawrence. pub. London William Heinemann 1956 or.cl. gilt embossed lettering to the front board and spine; d/w. 8vo. pp. XXXIV.890. Closed tear to d/w. at spine, repaired with old tape from inside, off white d/w. little toned with age, else v/good.   Price: $75.00
347. LAWRENCE D.H. Ed. by Harry T. Moore. The Collected  Letters Of D.H. Lawrence. 2 Vols. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w's. 8vo. pp.1038.II Vols. fine. $175.00
348. LAWRENCE  D.H.  The Collected Letters Of D.H.  Lawrence.  2 Vols. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1977 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.1308. II Vols. fine sm. closed tear vol.II.    Price: $85.00

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349. LAWRENCE FRIEDA      Not I, But The Wind. illus. with 14 b/w. full page plates t/out. pub. Toronto: Macmillan, 1934 1st. Canadian edition. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.298. Memoirs of Frieda Lawrence's 18 years with her husband, D.H. Lawrence with eighty-nine letters, poems and other material written by D.H. includes assortment of correspondence between Lawrence and family members. A fine copy in d/w which printing is faded on the spine.   Price: $85.00
350. LAWRENCE  T.E. Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.  illus. with frontis. & 45 full page plates t/out. 3 folding maps, pub.  Lond.  Jonathan  Cape  1935  1st.ed.  trade   edition or.brn.cl.  glt.ltg. to spine & front bd. 4to. pages  rough cut  to fore-edge & tail, pp.672. sl. bump to spine at  top leaving small pin hole in cl. else fine.  Price: $250.00
351. LAWRENCE T.E. The Mint. A day-book of the  R.A.F.  Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes by 352087 A/c Ross. pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.206. d/w. very sl. marked to front, and  browned to spine.    Price: $145.00
352. LAWRENCE  T.E.   Minorities.  ed.  by  J.M.  Wilson.  Poems selected  by T.E. Lawrence A personal  anthology.  illus. with  frontis. (portrait)  pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape 1971  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.272. An anthology of poetry that appealed to Lawrence and which was collected by him between 1919 and 1927 for his private use. price clipped d/w else fine.   Price: $75.00

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353. LE CARRE JOHN The Looking Glass War. pub. Lond.  Heinemann Publishing 1965  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.246.  The fourth of the Smiley books; Near fine in  the  price clipped d/w.   Price: $75.00
354. LE  CARRE  JOHN   A  Small  Town  In  Germany.  pub.  Lond. Heinemann Publishing Group 1968  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w.  8vo.  pp.306.  price clipped d/w.  else near fine. Price:  $75.00
355. LE  CARRE  JOHN  A  Small  Town  In  Germany  pub.  Lond. Heinemann  1968  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w.  8vo.  pp.306.  price clipped d/w. slight tear to surface of front free e/paper else near fine.   Price: $55.00
356. LE CARRE JOHN The Naive And Sentimental Lover. pub.  Lond. 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.416.  A successful business man encounters a charming if wayward couple who lead him to passions he has been lacking. price clipped else fine.  Price: $50.00
357. LE CARRE JOHN The Naive And Sentimental Lover pub. U.S.A. Knopf 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.455.  Slight crease to crease on inner front flap, else near fine.   Price: $50.00
358. LE CARRE JOHN Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. pub. Lond. Hodder &  Stoughton  1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.350.  Very slightly sunned to lower spine, slight closed tear to rear & front of d/w. at top edge otherwise v/good.   Price: $60.00
359. LE CARRE JOHN The Honourable Schoolboy. pub. Lond.  Hodder &  Stoughton  1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.532. George Smiley is chief of the battered British Secret Service at a time when the betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network. Smiley wants revenge. His method is attack, the quarry Karla, the battleground Hong Kong, and the choice of weapon the Honourable Jerry Westerby. Slight crease to crease on inner front flap, Price clipped else fine.   Price: $40.00
360. LE  CARRE  JOHN   Smiley's  People.  pub.  Lond.  Hodder  & Stoughton 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.327. Concluding novel in the Smiley Spy series. Near fine copy.   Price: $45.00
361. LE CARRE JOHN The Little Drummer Girl. pub. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton  1983  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo.  pp.430.  Fine copy.  Price: $35.00
362. LE  GUIN  URSULA The Farthest Shore.  illus.  with  e/paper maps  pub. Lond. Victor Gollancz 1973 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. cr.8vo. pp.206. v/fine in the price clipped d/w.   Price: $75.00
363. LE  GUIN  URSULA  The Farthest Shore.  llus.  with  e/paper maps  pub. Lond. Victor Gollancz 1973 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. cr.8vo. pp.206. Publisher's not adhered to front free e/paper, neat name to front free e/paper else fine.   Price: $75.00
364. LEIBER  FRITZ The Swords Of Lankhmar.  pub.  Lond. Rupert Hart-Davis 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224. Two sl. foxing spots to top-edge pages, fine in fine and bright dustwrapper.    Price: $275.00
365. LENNON  JOHN A Spaniard In The Works. illus.  with  line drawings by Lennon t/out. some two-tone pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape 1965  1st.ed. or. pictorial, laminated boards 12mo. no d/w. as issued pp.94. eighteen short stories written by John Lennon. A near fine copy.   Price: $150.00
366. LENNON  JOHN In His Own Write illus. with frontis. drawing by Lennon, foreword by Victor Spinetti pub. New York Simon & Schuster 1968 1st. ed. or. coloured pictorial, boards as issued 8vo. pp.36. prev. Felt pen ownership signature on free e/paper otherwise fine.   Price: $115.00
367. LENNON  JOHN  Skywriting  By Word  Of  Mouth.  And  other writings,  including  The Ballad of John and  Yoko.  illus. with  several  dwgs.  t/out.  pub.  Lond.  Pan  Books  1986 or.illus.bds. issued without d/w. 12mo. pp.200. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00
368. LESSING DORIS The Sun Between Their Feet. vol.II of  Doris Lessing's  collected  African stories. pub.  Lond.  Michael Joseph 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.317.  Fine. Price: $55.00
369. LESSING  DORIS  Ripple  From The Storm.   Book  three  of `Children  Of  Violence' pub. Lond.  Hart-Davis,  MacGibbon 1977 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.300. some staining to side edges.   Price: $25.00
370. LESSING  DORIS    Canopus  In  Argos:  Archives.   Documents relating  to the Sentimental Agents In The  Volyen  Empire. pub. N.Y. Knopf 1983 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.178.  Fine.  Price: $30.00

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371. LEVIN  IRA  The Stepford Wives. pub. Lond.  Michael  Joseph 1972  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.159. Levin's best-selling novel about an upper-class suburban town in which all the women become domesticated automatons after four months of living there. His fourth book and basis for the movie starring Katherine Ross and recently remade into a movie starring Nicole Kidman. f/free  e/paper  sl. rubbed otherwise fine.    Price: $50.00
372. LEVIN IRA Veronica's Room. A Melodrama. (play) pub.  Lond. Michael Joseph 1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.87. fine copy.     Price: $30.00
373. LEVIN IRA The Boys From Brazil. pub. London Michael Joseph. 1976  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.254. By the author of The Stepford Wives and Rosemary's Baby a tense thriller of former SS men despatched from South America by "The Angel of Death." d/w. minor shelf wear else fine.   Price: $35.00
374. LEWIS  C.S.  The  Great  Divorce.  A  Dream.  pub.  Lond. Centenary Press 1945 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.118. d/w. lacks 1" piece at spine & chipped fine otherwise.  Price: $45.00
375. LEWIS  C.S. Till We Have Faces. A Myth Retold. pub.  Lond. Geoffrey  Bles 1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.320. A story to two princesses and their transitions. A mythical tale of the past.  Light browning to endpapers from dustwrapper; light shelf wear to rear of d/w. else near fine.  Price: $275.00
376. LEWIS C.S. Reflections On The Psalms. pub. Lond.  Geoffrey Bles 1958 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.150. Lewis' reflections include-"Judgement in the Psalms", The Cursings, Death in the Psalms, "The fair beauty of the Lord", "Sweeter than Honey", Connivance, Nature, A Word about Praising, Second Meanings, Scripture, Second Meanings in the Psalms. price clipped d/w. fine.   Price: $45.00
377. LEWIS  C.S. The Four Loves. pub. Lond. Geoffrey Bles  1960 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.159.  e/papers slightly browned where d/w. ends, faint damp mark to upper board near spine else a very good copy, price clipped.   Price: $45.00
378. LEWIS  C.S. Letters To Malcolm: Chiefly On  Prayer.  pub. Lond.  Geoffrey  Bles  1964  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  cr.8vo. pp.160.  neat  inscrip. to f/free e/paper, closed  tear  to d/w. at spine, price clipped.  Price: $35.00
379. LEWIS  SINCLAIR   Cass Timberlane. A novel  of  Husbands  & Wives.  pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape 1946 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo.   pp.375.  d/w.  price  clipped  and  sl.  chipped   - internally repaired with tape.  Price:  $50.00
380. LEWIS  WYNDHAM  The Demon Of Progress In The  Arts.  pub. Lond.  Methuen 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo.  pp.98. First Edition of this aesthetic essay by Wyndham Lewis, in which the author criticises arbitrary innovation in the arts, and warns of the potentially detrimental effects of 'subversive politics' and technology; 5cm tear to rear of d/w. otherwise near fine.   Price: $55.00
381. LINTON  ELIZA LYNN The Girl Of The Period. A biography  by Herbert  Van Thal illus. with frontis. pub. Lond.  Allen  & Unwin 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.246.  Eliza Lynton "became the first woman to be paid a salary on a famous daily newspaper, whilst her first novel Azeth the Egyptian (1846) was published when she was only 24. From the time when Landor praised her second novel Amymone (1848) she became involved in a circle of famous contemporaries. In addition to Landor and Henry James she met and corresponded with Dickens, Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, Swinburne. Frank Harris, Rider Haggard, Sir Walter Besant and many other eminent Victorians." Fine.    Price: $35.00
382. LIPTON JAMES    An Exaltation Of Larks. Or, The 'Venereal' Game. illus. with b/w. engravings in facsimile, pub. London, Angus and Robertson 1970 First UK edition. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.120. fine copy.   Price:  $45.00

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383. LONDON JACK Written by A Grove Day. Jack London In The South Seas. illus. with several plates t/out. some full page pub. N.Y. Grove Day 1971 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.174.  Price: $35.00

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384. LONGFELLOW HENRY WADSWORTH - Eangellie. with col. frontis & 32 elegant drawings t/out, some full page and lightly coloured, several full page col. plates, pub. U.S.A. Bobbs Merrill 1905 or.glt.dec.cl cr.4to. pp.132. very good copy.   Price: $185.00.  Convert Currency
385. MACAULAY  ROSE Last Letters To A Friend 1952-1958. Ed.  by Constance  Babington Smith. illus. with frontis. &  3  full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Collins 1962 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.288. price clipped d/w. otherwise almost  fine copy.  Price:  $40.00
386. MACLEAN ALISTAIR  H.M.S. Ulysses. with illus. e/paper maps at front and diagram at rear. pub. Lond.  1955  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.320. unclipped pictorial dustwrapper designed by John Rose.  Two  short closed tears to d/w. at spine otherwise near fine.   Price: $60.00
387. MACLEAN ALISTAIR The Guns Of Navarone. pub. Lond.  Collins 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.318. On the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast 1200 British soldiers are trapped and doomed to die unless the venomous, deadly accurate guns of Navarone can be silenced. Navarone, the grim bastion guarding the straits, is an apparently impregnable iron fortress that is the supreme obstacle to any rescue attempt made by the Royal Navy. very sl. shelf wear, short closed tear to rear of d/w. otherwise near fine.   Price: $50.00
388. MACLEAN  ALISTAIR South By Java Head. pub.  Lond.  Collins 1958  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.320.  Story deals with aftermath of the fall of Singapore to the Japanese & adventures of refugees, sl. chipping to d/w. top of spine else near fine.   Price: $40.00

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389. MACNEICE LOUIS -  The Burning Perch pub. Lond. Faber & Faber Ltd., 1963, 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.58. gilt spine lettering. .Poetry:collection of 26 poems. Auden contemporary. Very sl. faded to pink d/w. one very short closed tear otherwise fine copy, price clipped.   Price: $75.00
390. MACNEICE LOUIS One For The Grave A Modern Morality Play. pub. Lond. Faber & Faber Ltd., 1968, 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.90. written by Louis Macneice in 1958-9. It is unrevised and is printed here as he left it. The world premiere was given at the Abbey Theatre Festival during the Dublin Theatre Festival 1966. gilt spine lettering. d/w. sl. browned else fine copy.   Price: $75.00
391. MAILER NORMAN An American Dream. pub. Lond. Andre  Deutch 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.271.  Mailer's fourth novel describes a 32-hour period in the life of Stephen Rojack, war hero, professor and politician, as he undertakes an existential journey amid the good and evil of New York City in the 1960's; the basis for a film starring Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh. Extremities top of d/w. at spine sl. chipped, else fine.   Price: $35.00
392. MAILER  NORMAN  Cannibals & Christians. pub.  Lond.  Andre Deutch 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.334. Collected here are Mailer's now famous interpretation of the Goldwater Convention in San Francisco; his devastating analysis of the United States' policy in Vietnam; his views on sexual attitudes in America; the classic interview he gave to the Paris Review; a sheaf of new poems; a new and startling philosophical dialogue; and two briliant short stories. Two short closed tears to d/w. Name to f/free e/paper else near fine.   Price: $40.00
393. MAILER NORMAN The Armies Of The Night. History as a novel, the  novel as history. pub. Lond. Weidenfeld  and  Nicolson 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.288.   Chronicles author's experiences during four days of Vietnam anti-war demonstrations in Washington D.C., October 1967. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and 1969 Non Fiction National Book Award. Price clipped else near fine.   Price: $50.00
394. MAILER  NORMAN  The Prisoner Of Sex. pub.  U.S.A.  Little Brown  1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240. Mailer takes on the Women's Movement. Nominated for the National Book Award. Price  clipped d/w. previous owner's name in ink on front endpaper. sl. rubbed top and bottom of spine, otherwise very good.   Price: $40.00
395. MAILER NORMAN The Prisoner Of Sex.  pub. Lond. Weidenfeld & Nicholson  1971  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo.  pp.240.  one very sl. chip to print on lower d/w. else fine.  Price:  $40.00
396. MAILER  NORMAN The Executioner's Song. The Story of  Garry Gilmore.  pub. Lond. Hutchinson & Co. 1979  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.1056. It is the true story of Gary Gilmore, who in 1977 became the first person executed in the United States since the reinstitution of the death penalty. Gilmore, a violent yet articulate man who chose not to fight his death-penalty sentence, touched off a national debate about capital punishment. Price clipped else near fine.   Price: $45.00
397. MAILER  NORMAN Tough Guys Don't Dance. pub. Lond.  Michael Joseph 1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.231.  Story of Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer addicted to bourbon, cigarettes & blondes with money. Fine.   Price: $30.00

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398. MALAMUD BERNARD The Fixer. pub. Lond. Eyre &  Spottiswoode 1967  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.352. The Fixer is a story of a man who becomes a victim of unjust arrest and imprisonment. Winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, price  clipped  d/w. sl. spotting to edges, price  clipped  d/w. otherwise very good.   Price: $50.00
399. MALAMUD  BERNARD   The  Tenants. pub.  Lond.  Methuen  1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.230. price  clipped  d/w. else near fine.  Price:  $45.00

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400. MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET Penelope. A comedy in three acts. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1912 1st.ed. or. red cl. sm.8vo. pp.213. Near fine.   Price: $125.00
401. MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET Screenplays by R.C. Sherriff. Quartet. Four  Stories.  illus. with frontis. pub.  Lond.  Heinemann 1948  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.244. Quartet is a mixture of stories by Maugham and screen-plays by Sherriff. Name on  f/free e/paper,  shiort closed tear to d/w. at spine, sl.  browned to d/w. at spine. Very good.     Price:  $45.00
402. MAUGHAM   W. SOMERSET  A  Writer's  Notebook.  pub. Melbourne London Toronto Heinemann 1949 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.349. A collection of random thoughts from Maugham's notebook from 1892 to 1944. Very sl. chipped d/w. small stain, price clipped, v/good.    Price: $30.00
403. MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET Trio. Three Stories. with frontis. & 3 full  page plates t/out. from films,  pub.  Melbourne, London Toronto  Heinemann 1950  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.145. Three of Somerset Maugham's short stories - The Verger, Mr Know-All and Sanatorium - reproduced together with their screen adaptations (by Maugham, R.C. Sherriff, and Noel Langley). d/w.  very short closed tear top of spine, else fine copy.    Price:  $45.00       Convert Currency  Parcel Costs
404. MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET Trio. Three Stories. with frontis. & 3 full  page plates t/out. from films, pub.  Melbourne, London Toronto  Heinemann 1950  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.145. Three of Somerset Maugham's short stories - The Verger, Mr Know-All and Sanatorium - reproduced together with their screen adaptations (by Maugham, R.C. Sherriff, and Noel Langley). d/w.  sl.  chipped at top of spine, lacks piece, price clipped, else very good.   Price: $35.00
405. MAUGHAM  W. SOMERSET Encore. Stories. with frontis. & 3 full  page plates t/out. from films, pub. Lond. Heinemann 1951 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.165. Screen adaptations by T. E. B. Clarke, Arthur Macrae, and Eric Ambler, of three stories. Stories are 'The Ant and the Grasshopper, ''Winter Cruise, ' and 'Gigolo and Gigolette. ' They were adapted for the film 'Encore, ' produced by J. Arthur Rank. Price clipped, very fine.    Price:  $45.00

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406. MAUGHAN  W.SOMERSET   The Vagrant Mood.  Six  essays.  pub. Lond. Heinemann 1952 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.241.  6 essays - Augustus / Zubaran / The Decline and Fall of the Detective Story / After Reading Burke / Reflections on a Certain Book / Some Novelists I Have Known. Price clipped, in the sl. worn, torn d/w. Dustwrapper spine is sl. faded, small piece lacking at lower spine, a very good clean copy otherwise.   Price: $30.00
407. MAUGHAM W.SOMERSET 10 Novels And their Authors. pub. Melbourne London Toronto Heinemann 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.306. Maugham's celebrated essay 'The Art of Fiction', and profiles novels by Fielding, Austen, Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert, Melville, Bronte, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy. fine in sl. torn d/w.    Price: $25.00

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408. MAUGHAM  W. SOMERSET Points Of View. pub. Lond.  Heinemann 1958  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.256.  Maugham's last book, a collection of five literary essays, (The Three Novels of a Poet; The Saint; Prose and Dr. Tillotson; The Short Story; Three Journalists.) Price clipped, two short closed tears to top of spine, else fine.   Price: $40.00
409. MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET - Purely for My Pleasure illus. with 32 full-page coloured plates pub. London: William Heinemann, 1962 1st ed. or.cl. . gilt d/w. 4to. pp.28 pages of text; 32 plates, including Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Monet, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec. A Near Fine Volume with just a small inscription to f/free e/paper prior owner's neat inscription Mr. Maugham's anecdotes about the personalities with whom his collecting and purchases threw him into contact with.   Price: $65.00
410. MAUGHAM  W.  SOMERSET  A  Baker's  Dozen.  Thirteen  Short Stories. The 13 famous Maugham stories chosen by B.B.C. TV. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.292 Selecting thirteen stories from such a prolific and versatile writer is not an easy task. The final choice of Maugham's writing, have divided the stories into three categories. The first, 'Rule Britannia', the second, 'Women of the World' and finally 'Victims of Fate' which contain 'A Man with a Conscience''. Signature  f/free  e/paper  d/w. sl.  creased   & sunned   to backstrip, price clipped.    Price: $25.00
411. MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET A Second Baker's Dozen. Thirteen short stories. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.368. sl. splash marks to lower edge of pages.      Price: $25.00
412. MECKIER  JEROME Aldous Huxley. Satire And Structure.  pub. N.Y. Barnes & Noble 1971 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.223. fine copy.     Price: $30.00
413. MELVILLE HERMAN    Omoo illus. with eight colour plates by Mead Schaeffer pub. London, Hodder and Stoughton,; n. d. c.1924 or. light green cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt pictorial decoration and black stamped titles to front board, pictorial end papers cr.4to. pp. XIII.299. fine copy.     Price: $100.00
414. MILLER  ARTHUR The Misfits. pub. Lond. Secker  & Warburg  1961  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. Photographic dustwrapper designed by A. B. Saunders depicts Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe in a scene from the film & a portrait of Arthur Miller on the back. cr.8vo.  pp.152. closed tear front of d/w. (ab. 6cms long), extremities at spine sl. rubbed, price clipped, v/good otherwise.    Price: $145.00
415. MILLER  ARTHUR After The Fall. (play) pub. Lond. Secker  & Warburg  1965  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  sm.8vo.  pp.128.  price clipped, light spotting to past-down e/papers and free e/papers otherwise fine.   Price: $45.00
416. MILLER  ARTHUR After The Fall. (play) pub. Lond. Secker  & Warburg  1965  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  sm.8vo.  pp.128.  price clipped, very fine. Price: $100.00
417. MILLER  ARTHUR  The  Creation  Of  The  World  And  Other Business.  pub. N.Y. Viking Press 1973 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w. 8vo.  pp.106. d/w. returns creased, sl. w/stain to f/bd.  & d/w.     Price: $35.00
418. MILLER ARTHUR Timebends. A Life. illus. with 32 full  page plates  t/out. pub. London Methuen 1987 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.614. Born 1915, a year after the outbreak of the First World War, aged 14 at the time of the Wall Street Crash, a teenager during the Depression, a student under the New Deal, Miller's story told with astonishing vividness and skill. Near fine copy.    Price: $45.00
419. MILLER HENRY Stand Still Like The Hummingbird. pub. N.Y. New Directions 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.194. dustwrapper  little chipped, rubbed top & bottom of spine, else very good. Price clipped.    Price: $55.00
420. MILLER P.S. The Titan And Other Stories pub. London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.224. Original wrapper art by Hannes Bok. Collects 8 stories. Slight foxing to edges of pages else fine in fine price clipped d/w.   Price: $85.00

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421. MILNE  A.A. Chloe Marr. pub. Lond. Methuen  1946  1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  12mo.  pp.300 The story of Chloe Marr, beautiful, desirable and elusive "-- and of the men who are in love with her. The scene is London, and Mr. Milne's characters move with elegance and grace through Mayfair and the publishing and theatrical worlds." Milne also wrote four adult novels and many plays, essays, novels, articles and most popularly for children's books. Author of Winnie-the-Pooh stories. This was his last novel.  sl.  spotty,  d/w.  very  sl. chipped.    Price: $35.00
422. MITFORD NANCY Voltaire In Love.  illus. with frontis. &  18 full  page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Hamilton  1957  1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.288. Author tells the love story of Voltaire and the Marquise du Chatelet, known as the divine Emilie. Their alliance lasted 11 years, he being the the paramount genius of 18thC. Europe, and she an equally remarkable woman of that age. price clipped, very  sl.  marked d/w. otherwise very good.   Price: $60.00
423. MITFORD  NANCY Frederick The Great. profusely illus.  with plates  t/out.  many full page & col. pub.  Lond.  Hamilton 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.304. fine.     Price: $40.00
424. MOORE GEORGE (Translator). The Pastoral Loves Of Daphnis  & Chloe.  Done into English by George Moore with etchings  by Marcel  Vertes. pub. Lond. Folio Society 1954  or.cl.  4to. pp.95. sl. discolouring of cloth, some browning to top edge - v/good.     Price: $35.00

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425. MOOREHEAD   ALAN   The  Villa  Diana.  illus.   by   Osbert Lancaster.  pub. Lond. Hamish Hamilton 1951 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.150. good copy in the worn d/w.     Price: $45.00
426. MORRIS  WILLIAM The Earthly Paradise A Poem.  In  Twelve Parts. illus. with frontis. Vol.I. Prologue: The Wanderers. II. Atalanta's Race. The Man Born to be King. III. The Doom of  King Acrisius. The Proud King. IV. The Story  of  Cupid and  Psyche.  The  Writing on the Image. V.  The  Love  of Alcestis.  The Son of Crcesus. The Watching of the  Falcon. VI. Pygmalion and the Image. Ogier the Dane. VII. The Death of  Paris. The Land East of the Sun and West of  the  Moon. VIII. The Story of Acontius and Cydippe. The Man Who  Never Laughed  Again.   IX. The Story of Rhodope. The  Lovers  of Gudrun. X. The Golden Apples. The Fostering of Aslaug. XI. Bellerophon  At  Argos.  The Ring  Given  to  Venus.   XII. Hellerophon  in  Lycia.  The  Hill  of  Venus.  pub.  London Longmans  Green & Co. 1905,  12 volumes bound separately in cloth backed paper covered grey boards. The spines are all titled in red and the fronts of the boards are titled in black 12mo.  pp.100-200 per vol.. sl. sunned  &  rubbed  to spine.   Price: $125.00
427. MORTIMER  JOHN Like Men Betrayed.  pub. Lond. Collins (The Book Society Choice)  1953 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.256. An early work of Mortimer, the award-winning playwright and screenwriter, author of the Rumpole stories, this novel features Christopher Kennet, a middle-aged lawyer trying to find his son in London's sleezy night world; short closed tears  to d/w. bottom & lower spine, lacks f/free e/paper.   Price: $50.00
428. MURDOCH IRIS The Unicorn. pub. Lond. Chatto & Windus  1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.319. Two small insect marks to front of d/w. & return on rear of d/w. (almost fits into design) slight flecking to small section for front board, small neat inscription  on f/free e/paper. else v/good.   Price: $75.00
429. MURDOCH IRIS The Italian Girl. pub. Lond. Chatto &  Windus 1964  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.214. Pictorial dustwrapper by Reynolds Stone. Against a hallucinatory background real emotional violence keeps breaking out. Slight wear to  d/w. short closed tear at spine & price clipped., otherwise v/good.   Price: $55.00
430. MURDOCH  IRIS The Red And The Green.   pub. Lond.  Chatto  & Windus 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.319. Set in Dublin, Ireland in 1916 on the eve of the Easter Rebellion, when the whole world was at war. d/w. tape mark upper rear & sl. old tape stains to e/papers. Very good otherwise. Price: $45.00
431. MURDOCH  IRIS The Red And The Green. pub. Lond.  Chatto  & Windus 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.319. Set in Dublin, Ireland in 1916 on the eve of the Easter Rebellion, when the whole world was at war. d/w. slightly chipped to top of spine. Very good otherwise.   Price: $50.00
432. MURDOCH  IRIS The Time Of The Angels. pub. Lond. Chatto  & Windus  1966 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.254. Lovely copy of this 44 year old novel, price clipped.  Very fine.   Price: $50.00

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433. MURDOCH  IRIS   Bruno's Dream.  pub. Lond. Chatto  &  Windus 1969  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.293. Bruno lives in a dream world and is obsessed with spiders. One closed tear to d/w. at fore-edge,  top of spine sl. chipped.     Price: $45.00
434. MURDOCH  IRIS   An  Accidental Man. pub.  London  Chatto  & Windus  1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.377. The story of the comic and yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Ginson Grey, who needs to survive by destroying others. Fine copy  in the price clipped d/w.   Price: $65.00
435. MURDOCH  IRIS   An  Accidental Man.  pub.  Lond.  Chatto  & Windus  1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.377. The story of the comic and yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Ginson Grey, who needs to survive by destroying others. Name to f/free e/paper, price clipped, short closed tear, minor chipping else to d/w. else v/good.   Price: $40.00
436. MURDOCH IRIS The Sacred & Profane Love Machine. pub. N.Y. Viking  Press  1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.374.   d/w. lacks small piece at lower spine & bump to lower spine. A good reading copy only.   Price: $25.00
437. MURDOCH  IRIS   A Word Child. pub. Lond. Chatto  &  Windus 1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.391.  A story of a poor boy, Hilary Burde, who is rescued from a delinquent childhood. Lavender dustwrapper designed by Christopher Cornford with sticker of "£8.95 net U.K. Only" at the bottom of the inside front flap. Very fine.   Price:  $45.00
438. MURDOCH  IRIS Nuns & Soldiers. pub. Lond. Chatto &  Windus 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.505 As mint.     Price: $40.00

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439. NAIPAUL V.S.   An Area of Darkness pub. Lond. Andre Deutsch 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.182. Record of the author's trip to India, his ancestral homeland and a new nation in the aftermath of Empire. Price clipped, short closed tear to top of d/w. & lower fore-edge else v/good copy.   Price: $85.00
440. NAIPAUL V.S. A Bend In The River. pub. Lond. Andre Deutsch 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.296.   The novel is set in Africa, and follows the fortunes of Salim whose forbears originally lived in India. Near fine copy.   Price: $65.00
441. NASH  OGDEN The Private Dining Room & Other  Verses.  pub. Lond. J.M. Dent 1953 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. by Maurice Sendak 8vo. pp.146. Price clipped, fine.   Price: $45.00
442. NASH  OGDEN  Many Long Years Ago. Verses. pub.  Lond.  Dent 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.198. a little spotting  to d/w. bottom edge of back strip little faded, price clipped, - v/good copy otherwise. Contains poems from his first five books of verse.    Price: $40.00 
443. NASH  OGDEN   You Cant Get There From Here.  with  numerous text  illus.  with over 60 drawings by Maurice Sendall.  pub.  Lond.  Dent  1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.179. These were first in magazines, like Harper's Bazaar, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, New York Herald Tribune TV and Radio Magazine, the Saturday Evening Post, etc., and this work presents them in book form, collected. From bank tales, nature notes on such improbable creatures as the Squid and the Manatee, to comments on life and family by a poet who was very "hot" during the 1950's. d/w. light shelf-use, price clipped, else near fine.   Price: $45.00
444. NASH  OGDEN Collected Verse From 1929 On. pub. London  J.M. Dent 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.508.  price clipped else near fine.   Price: $45.00
445. NICHOLS BEVERLEY Selected by. A Book Of Old Ballads.  with e/papers col. frontis. & 15 full page plates t/out.  illus. by   H.M.   Brock   R.I.   pub.   Lond.   Hutchinson   1934 or.glt. dec. suede cl. 4to. pp.XXXIX.280.   Price: $125.00
446. O'BRIEN EDNA  August Is A Wicked Month. pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.221. Set in the South of France this novel by O'Brien is about the plight of women in a man's world & the plight of everyone who lives by the pursuit of love. Photos on cover by Lord Snowdon. Price clipped else near fine.   Price: $50.00
447. O'BRIEN  FLANN The Dalkey Archive. pub. Lond. MacGibbon  & Kee  1964  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.222.  Dalkey is a little town by the sea, yet it is the scene of great events. Irish humour at its best. d/w.  price clipped, very sl. shelf wear at rear of d/w. almost fine.    Price: $135.00

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448. O'CASEY SEAN Within The Gates. A play of four scenes in  a London  Park. pub. U.S.A. Macmillan & Co.  1934  or.grn.cl. 8vo. pp.203. sl. spotting sl. chip to cl. otherwise v/good.   Price:  $60.00
449. O'CASEY  SEAN   Under A Coloured Cap.  Articles  Merry  and Mournful  with  Comments and a Song. pub.  Lond.  Macmillan 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.277. O'Casey's positive attitudes as a writer - added also are his combative discussions of orthodox beliefs and the myths and mysteries behind them intermingled with a couple of tragic Dublin stories and a few cheery verses from the Green Crow. Slightly faded to spine else near fine.  Price:  $50.00
450. ORMOND LEONEE   George Du Maurier. illus. with numerous plates and illustrations, green endpapers, indexed; pub. London: Routledge & Kegan, 1969 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.516. Critical biography. (Du Maurier, the Victorian cartoonist and novelist, was friendly with James Whistler and Henry James). Fine.   Price: $50.00
451. ORWELL  GEORGE The English People. (No.100 in the  Britain in pictures series) with col. plates & 17 b/w. illus. pub. Lond.  Collins  1947  1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  sm.4to.  pp.48.  Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, v/good copy in the lightly shelfworn d/w.   Price: $75.00
452. ORWELL GEORGE England Your England. And Other Essays. pub. Lond.  Secker  &  Warburg 1953  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.224. sl. fading to spine, lacks sm. piece of d/w at  top of spine otherwise v/good.    Price: $65.00

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453. ORWELL GEORGE  The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of  George  Orwell.  four vols. Vol.I. An  Age  Like  This 1920-1940,  Vol.II.  My Country Right  Or  Left  1940-1943, Vol.III.  As I Please 1943-1945, Vol.IV. In Front  Of  Your Nose 1945-1950. all illus. with frontis. or.cl. d/w.'s 8vo. pp. approx. 490 per vol. price clipped, a fine set.    Price: $300.00
454. ORWELL  GEORGE  The War Commentaries.  Ed. by  W.J.  West. illus. with e/paper maps pub. Lond. Duckworth 1985  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.248.  Contains `the lost texts of Orwell's radio commentaries on the Second World War'. Fine copy.   Price: $45.00
455. ORWELL GEORGE   Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript. Edited by Peter Davinson. Preface by Daniel G. Siegel. pub. Secker & Warburg / M&S Press, 1984 or.cl. d/w. folio pp.XIX.382 Facsimile of the original manuscript is accompanied by a typescript and a brief history of the novel's creation. Fine copy.    Price: $100.00
456. PEAKE   MERVYN   The  Glassblowers.  pub.  Lond.   Eyre   & Spottiswoode  1950  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.40.  lacks rear f/e/paper, sl. water damage rear top of cl. & d/w. sl. traces of damp internally to top of several pages, small figures to f/free e/paper else good in reasonably good dustwrapper.   Price: $200.00
457. PEAKE  MERVYN A Book Of Nonsense. illus. with  text  dwgs. t/out. pub. Lond. Peter Owen 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  8vo. pp.88. A collection of writings and drawings by Mervyn Peake assembled by his widow Maeve Gilmore, none of it -apart from one short extract - has been published before. It includes poems and other pieces, from" The Dwarf of Battersea" to the unfinished " Adventures of Footfruit" written over a period of some thirty-five years. With an introduction by Maeve Gilmore. price clipped else fine.   Price: $40.00
458. PEAKE  MERVYN by John Watney Mervyn Peake. A biography. with frontis. & 234 b/w  illus. pub. Lond. Michael Joseph 1976  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.255. Small neat mane to f/free e/paper else fine.   Price: $45.00
459. PEARSE PADRAIC H.  Plays Stories Poems illus. with frontis. portrait, pub. Dublin: The Talbot Press, reprint October 1950; or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XX.342 appendix.VIII. fine copy.    Price: $50.00
460. PERCY J.C. Editor   Bulls, Ancient & Modern illus. with drawings by Oswald H Cuningham, pub. Dublin Mecredy Percy and Co 1912 2^nd ed. or. illus. boards, green cloth to spine, 8vo. pp.148.30.advts. with illus. for cars from 1912, motor bikes, shell motor Spirit etc, and other motoring advts. Deals with Irish satire, repartee, wit, humour. Little shelf worn, well handled, front past-down illustration partly lacking piece at corner, book is firmly bound, good condition for age.   Price: $60.00
461. PIRSIG ROBERT M. Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle  Maintenance. An  Inquiry  Into Values. pub. Lond. The Bodley  Head  1974 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.412. small damp stain  to  f/free e/paper,  little foxed to page edges   otherwise very good, in a near fine dustwrapper.   Price: $90.00
462. PIRSIG ROBERT M. Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle   Maintenance. An  Inquiry  Into Values. pub. Lond. The Bodley  Head  1974 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.412. Minor shelf wear otherwise near fine.  Price: $175.00
463. PLATH SYLVIA   Johnny Panic & The Bible Of Dreams. Short Stories, Prose & Diary Excerpts. pub. New York, NY, U.S.A. Harper & Row 1979 Stated 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. price-clipped; pp.314. Short closed tear to rear of d/wrapper, near fine. Brings together the best of Plath's surviving stories.    Price: $45.00
464. PLATH  SYLVIA  The Journals Of  Sylvia  Plath  1950-1962. illus.  with  frontis. & 8 full page plates pub.  N.Y.  the Dial  Press  1982 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.370.  previous owner's name to f/free e/paper,  price clipped, return on d/w. crease else v/good. d/w. folded.    Price: $45.00.  

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465. POTOK CHAIM The Chosen. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1967  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.284. price clipped d/w.    Price: $50.00
466. POUND  EZRA Drafts And Fragments Of Cantos CX-CXVII.  pub. Lond. Faber 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.32.  small rust spot to title page otherwise fine (paper fault?).   Price: $55.00
467. PYLE HILARY   Yeats. Portrait of an Artistic Family. profusely illus. with plates throughout, some full page and col. and index. pub. Lond. Merrell Holberton. 1997 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.304. This book is both a catalogue of the Yeats family collection of paintings and a companion to the family's remarkable talents in the visual sphere. Fine copy.    Price: $125.00
468. PYM BARBARA A Few Green Leaves. pub. Lond. Macmillan 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.250.   In this last novel, completed shortly before her death, Barbara Pym examines in her own ironic and highly individual style the quiet revolution in English village life. Fine.    Price: $40.00