Pp. [viii]+408, 4 full page maps; med. 8vo; bottom fore-corner of boards bumped; dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Little, Brown & Company, London, 2004. First edition. *Author's third novel; signed by him on the title page.
Pp. [viii]+232(last colophon); med. 8vo; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in silver, red papered boards, bottom fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005. First edition. *Signed by both authors on the title page.
Or man as he is not. Drawings by Cecil Keeling. Pp. x+262, frontispiece and 9 plates printed in lilac & black, pictorial endpapers; qr. black cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, edges a trifle rubbed; top edges lilac (faded); tiny chip to bottom edge pp. 259/260...
Pp. [vi]+256(last blank); two-tone cloth, spine lettered in silver, upper board in blind; dust wrapper; text block browned, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1998. First edition. *Winner of the Miles Franklin Award for 1999.
Pp. 318(last blank); corners of boards lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, National Book Council award winner sticker on front panel; edges of leaves slightly soiled; Macmillan, Melbourne, 1980. First Australian edition. *Author's first novel; joint winner of The AgeBook of the Year for 1980.
Pp. x+50; printed paper wrappers, stapled, a trifle marked; Visionvox Titles, 1993.
Introduction and Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. Pp. xxiv+270(last blank), frontispiece plus 16 plates, 2 full page maps, appendices, index; med. 8vo; qr. maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial glazed papered boards; within maroon card slipcase; a few leaves slightly creased; The Folio Society, London, 2000. Second printing. *Originally published...
Pp. 222(last blank); dust wrapper, bottom edge slightly rubbed; production (trimming) fault pp. 93-6; Macmillan, London, 1974. First U.K. edition. Loder, p. 10. *With publisher's review slip tipped-in at front.
Pp. 288; boards slightly soiled, the fore-corners lightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and creased, edges a trifle rubbed; free endpapers faintly offset, several corners lightly creased, occasional slight soiling; Hutchinson, London, 1968. First edition. *The author's second novel, signed by her on the title page.
Pp. [vi]+242; dust wrapper; Viking Press, London, 2004. First edition. *Author's first novel.
Pp. 316(last blank); price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly worn; fore-edges of leaves a trifle soiled; Souvenir Press, London, 1966. First edition. *Author's first novel.
Notes on contemporary American fiction. Pp. xx+266(last blank), bibliographies; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed, small surface graze to front panel, the back panel a trifle soiled; Doubleday , New York, 1963. First edition. *Ten well-known critics describe and evaluate the work of seventeen leading American writers of the...
Pp. 112; boards slightly sprung; bottom fore-corner of lower board lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed and split, the front panel slightly scratched; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves slightly soiled, including a tiny damp stain; Michael...
Collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honore de Balzac. Translated into modern English by Alec Brown. With drawings by Mervyn Peake. Pp. viii+408, frontispiece plus 23 plates printed in two colours; roy. 8vo; brown canvas, lettered in gilt and decorated in darker brown &...
Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage. With an Introduction by Richard Aldington and illustrations by Rene ben Sussan. Pp. xviii+272(last blank), coloured frontispiece, title page vignette, 6 plates (1 double page), and text illustrations; roy. 8vo; qr. green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, patterned cloth boards; within card...
Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage. Introduction by Frederic R. Jameson. Pp. xxxvi+238(last blank)+[4](advertisements, last blank), series patterned endpapers, notes, select bibliography, chronology; maroon cloth, spine blocked in black and lettered & ruled in gilt; partial dust wrapper (as issued, comprising a front panel and flap only, with no.....
Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage, with an Introduction by Francois Mauriac, and illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. Pp. xviii+318(last colophon), coloured frontispiece, title page vignette, and text illustrations (some full page); narrow impl. 8vo; qr. navy morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, corners a......
Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage. Introduction by Donald Adamson. Pp. xxxiv+238, series patterned endpapers, select bibliography, chronology; maroon cloth, spine blocked in black and lettered & ruled in gilt; partial dust wrapper (as issued, comprising a front panel and price-clipped flap only, with no backstrip or back panel);...
The Life of Balzac. Translated by Norman Denny. Pp. 574 frontispiece portrait, plus 32 plates, bibliography, chronological list of works, index; bottom fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; top edges red; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, with stains from several tape repairs on reverse; bookseller's sticker at foot...
Pp. 272, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, select bibliography, index; cr. 4to; edges of boards slightly bruised; top edges yellow; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split, bookseller's sticker on front flap; 2 tiny surface chips to upper endpapers, the lower free endpaper and edges of...
Being some account of the divers doings of the associated shades. Pp. [viii]+172(last blank), frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 7 plates; f'cap. 8vo; pictorial olive green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, red & black, lightly worn; inked ownership inscription on upper free endpaper, the upper hinge starting, tiny ink...
Pp. [viii]+390; med. 8vo; fore-edge of lower board faintly bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased; edges of leaves faintly soiled; Little, Brown & Company, London, 2007. First edition.
A novel. Engravings by Clifford Webb. Pp. 252+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece, title page vignette, 7 full page illustrations, pictorial tailpiece, 3 full page maps; impl. 8vo; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in half brown morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, the top fore-corners slightly bruised; t.e.g., others...
Pp. [vi]+214; spine a trifle bruised at extremities; dust wrapper, slightly damp stained on reverse; Picador, London, 2000. First edition. *Banville's fourteenth novel, The Sea, won the Booker Prize in 2005.
Pp. [vi]+408(last blank); dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; edges of leaves faintly soiled; Picador, London, 1997. First edition. *Banville's fourteenth novel, The Sea, won the Booker Prize in 2005.
