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ALINGTON, Adrian (Adrian Richard), 1895-1958 : ANN & AURELIA : SOME CHAPTERS FROM THE LIVES OF TWO FRIENDS.
London : Chatto & Windus, 1934. First edition. The interwoven lives of two girlhood friends – Ann the great actress, Aurelia the homely and suffering. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 23375 – or simply click on the button
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ALINGTON, C.A. (Cyril Argentine), 1872-1955 : BLESSED BLUNDERS. London : Faber & Faber, (1954). First edition : in the variant and almost certainly primary binding of orange-brown cloth, blocked and lettered in maroon. Absent-minded and dotty old autocrat, bright young godson, endless muddles, mismanagement of the village fête, charming young woman – “Everyone will agree they are in good company from beginning to end”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27014 – or simply click on the button
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AMES, Delano (Delano L.), 1906-1987 : A DOUBLE BED ON OLYMPUS. London : Grayson & Grayson, (1936). First edition. “Nor do the characters of Jove and Juno, Apollo and Daphne, Orpheus and Eurydice, thinly veil the identity of any living person ... if they misbehave themselves, that is their own fault”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27293 – or simply click on the button
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APPLIN, Arthur (Arthur Gustavus Trugard), 1873-1949 : THE CHORUS GIRL. London : Sisley’s, [1907]. First edition. Aline Richardson “was just eighteen – and she wanted to forget it. She knew that girls have to get rid of brown legs at that age. In another year it would be in vain to fight against Fate disguised as the Proprieties, her hair would have to go right up and her skirts come right down!” Fate has much more in store for her than this as she joins the theatrical set in Edwardian London – an illuminating and rather shocking backstage novel on the bohemian London of the time from the successful actor-producer Arthur Applin – a world of “the glaring eyes of motors rushing to Savoy and Carlton with burdens of ennui and dyspepsia”. SOLD |
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ARLEN, Michael, 1895-1956 : MAY FAIR : BEING AN ENTERTAINMENT PURPORTING TO REVEAL TO GENTLEFOLK THE REAL STATE OF AFFAIRS EXISTING IN THE VERY HEART OF LONDON ... London : W. Collins Sons & Co., (1925). First edition. A prologue and twelve short stories in Arlen’s best vein – his last great success – London’s “charming people” and their “follies, misadventures, and galanteries”. Includes “The Ace of Cads”, “The Battle of Berkeley Square”, “The Ghoul of Golders Green”, etc. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39318 – or simply click on the button
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ARNOLD, Ralph (Ralph Crispian Marshall), 1906-1970 : HOUSE WITH THE MAGNOLIAS. London : William Heinemann, (1931). First edition. The Kentish novelist and historian’s uncommon first novel. A publisher’s presentation copy, with a Heinemann compliments slip loosely inserted. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26726 – or simply click on the button
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ARNOLD, Ralph (Ralph Crispian Marshall), 1906-1970 : DESPAIR AND DELIGHT. London : Constable & Co., (1939). First edition. “Old Miss Grierson had had her social flowering in the days when a man was a man and was properly rated as such by the ladies. In the year 1908, or thereabouts, one man, however weedy and inefficient, was considered the equal of at least three highly gifted and beautiful women ...”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27026 – or simply click on the button
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AUSTER, Paul (Paul Benjamin), 1947- : THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES. London : Faber & Faber, (2005). First edition : precedes the 2006 New York edition. “I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I traveled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain ...”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39781 – or simply click on the button
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AUSTER, Paul (Paul Benjamin), 1947- : THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES. New York : Henry Holt & Co., (2006). First American edition. Inscribed and signed by Paul Auster, “To Michelle, One for the book club, best Paul Auster x”. The accidental redemption of Nathan Glass, a long-lost nephew working in a bookstore, his colourful employer, a forgery, etc. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44014 – or simply click on the button
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BALLARD, J.G. (James Graham), 1930-2009 : THE DAY OF CREATION. London : Victor Gollancz, 1987. First edition. A river appears in parched central Africa – “classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one else writes with such haunting impact” (William Boyd). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 10010 – or simply click on the button
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BARKER, Nicola, 1966- : WIDE OPEN. London : Faber & Faber, (1998). First edition. Signed by Nicola Barker on the title-page. “Barker once again pushes back the boundaries of comedy, chronicling the dark inner lives of a cast of characters straight from the pages of a social services register” – set on the Isle of Sheppey and winner of the 2000 International Dublin Literary Award. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44422 – or simply click on the button
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BARNES, Julian, 1946- : METROLAND. London : Jonathan Cape, (1980). First edition. Signed by Julian Barnes on the title-page. His first novel – a passage to adulthood and marriage in Betjeman’s Metroland, via a spell in Paris with the exciting Annick during les événements of 1968. Filmed in 1997 with Christian Bale and Emily Watson. £400 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44127 – or simply click on the button
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BARNES, Julian, 1946- : ENGLAND, ENGLAND. London : Jonathan Cape, (1998). First edition. Signed by Julian Barnes on the title-page. His savage satire on England and the idea of England. Shortlisted for the Booker. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39299 – or simply click on the button
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BERNERS, Lord (Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron), 1883-1950 : FAR FROM THE MADDING WAR. London : Constable & Co., (1941). First edition. Emmeline Pocock, daughter of the warden of All Saints, tries to see out the war in her sound-proof room – disturbances from the university town – tangled love drama, the eccentric provost, the sensational reports of Mr Jericho, the volcanic Lady Caroline Paltry, the melancholic Lord FitzCricket, poltergeists, etc. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35939 – or simply click on the button
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BINDLOSS, Harold (Harold Edward), 1866-1945 : THE CONCESSION-HUNTERS. London : Chatto & Windus, 1902. First edition. An early Bindloss, an imperial romance set in West Africa – an area well-known to the author and the subject of his “In the Niger Country” (1898). An adventurer discovers a mahogany forest – desolate outposts, ju-ju, jungle-fever - somewhere perhaps between Conrad and Rider Haggard. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35939 – or simply click on the button
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BIRD, Drayton (Charles Colston Drayton), 1936- : SOME RATS RUN FASTER. London : Secker & Warburg, (1964). First edition. “Albert Jones made it from layabout to property racketeer in three months flat ... Against a backdrop of Manchester’s bright lights and slum streets – its tearaways and whores, students and sharp operators – this picaresque story offers unusual realism and rare entertainment”. An interesting and in some ways archetypal sixties novel – Bird’s first book, written as a young advertising executive, long before he became famous as the doyen of marketing men. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44527 – or simply click on the button
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BRADBURY, Ray (Ray Douglas), 1920-2012 : SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. London : Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963. First British edition. Bradbury’s lyrical, mysterious, dark and fantastic coming of age novel as Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show comes to town – See Mephistophele, the Lava Drinker, the Demon Guillotine, the Dangling Man, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World ... £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40578 – or simply click on the button
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BRAYBROOKE, Neville, 1925-2001 – editor : A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE : A CELEBRATION FOR CHRISTMAS ARRANGED BY NEVILLE BRAYBROOKE. London : Darton, Longman & Todd, (1960). First edition. An extensive anthology of seasonal verse and prose, with decorations by Barbara Jones and children of the Henry Fawcett School. The selection includes a Barbara Jones piece on “Traditional Joys”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26247 – or simply click on the button
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BROOKNER, Anita, 1928-2016 : A MISALLIANCE. London : Jonathan Cape, (1986). First edition. “Blanche Vernon is one of those discreet, smart women one sees in restaurants alone ...”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 10040 – or simply click on the button
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BROOKNER, Anita, 1928-2016 : BRIEF LIVES. London : Jonathan Cape, (1990). First edition. “They might have met far earlier, since Fay had had success as a singer, and Julia was at one time a famous diseuse, her glamour and repartee a legend. But when Julia sweeps in, wearing ravishing black silk, their celebrity is already past ...”. Love, friendship, dependence and disenchantment. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 15831 – or simply click on the button
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BROPHY, John, 1899-1965 : THE NIMBLE RABBIT. London : Chatto & Windus, 1955. First edition. A comedy of manners on the world of publishing, writing, literary prizes, etc. – set in New York, London and Paris. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35053 – or simply click on the button
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BROSTER, D.K. (Dorothy Kathleen), 1877-1950 : SHIPS IN THE BAY! London : William Heinemann, (1931). First edition. The daughter of the precentor of St. David’s Cathedral in South Wales falls in with a young seaman, a deserter from a privateer, on the run from the Bow Street Runners – but not all is as it seems. Set in 1796 and researched in her usual meticulous way, the story also incorporates the French landing the following year. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41276 – or simply click on the button
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CARR, J.L. (Joseph Lloyd), 1912-1994 : A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY. London : Cornucopia Press, 1990. Second edition : limited to 300 numbered copies, signed both by J. L. Carr and by Ronald Blythe, who provides an introduction. Originally published in a small edition at Brighton in 1980, but here in a slightly revised text, finely designed and printed on mould-made paper at the September Press, and with a fresh preface by the author. £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 32899 – or simply click on the button
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CARY, Joyce (Arthur Joyce Lunel), 1888-1957 : MEN OF TWO WORLDS : THE BOOK OF THE FILM. London : World Film Publications, 1946. First edition. A “Book of the Film” adaptation by E. Fisher of an original story with dialogue by Joyce Cary, adapted via the Herbert Victor and Thorold Dickinson screenplay. Illustrated with stills and studio portraits (Phyllis Calvert, Eric Portman and some seldom seen black actors). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 10119 – or simply click on the button
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CAYWOOD, Mark : VIRGINIA’S QUEST. London : Arthur Gray (Books), [1934]. First edition. “When I first saw the yacht she was lying at anchor in Rushcutter’s Bay, Sydney Harbour” – a sharebroker yearns to return to the South Seas. Shanghaied on the yacht of the beautiful Virginia Mortimer, he is offered a thousand pounds to pilot the yacht on a secret mission. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42256 – or simply click on the button
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CHATWIN, Bruce (Charles Bruce), 1940-1989 : THE SONGLINES. London : Jonathan Cape, (1987). First edition. “In Alice Springs – a grid of scorching streets where men in long white socks were forever getting in and out of Land Cruisers – I met a Russian who was mapping the sacred sites of the Aboriginals”. His finest work – a novel of ideas – a “profound journey into the geography of the mind”. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43323 – or simply click on the button
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CHURCHILL, Winston (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer), 1874-1965 : VICTORY : WAR SPEECHES BY THE RIGHT HON. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL O.M., C.H., M.P. 1945. London : Cassell & Co., (1946). First edition. The great set-piece speeches of 1945 – the atomic bomb, the death of Roosevelt, the 1945 election, etc. The sixth volume of the war speeches, edited by Charles Eade. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17795 – or simply click on the button
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CLARKE, Lindsay (Victor Lindsay), 1939- : THE CHYMICAL WEDDING : A ROMANCE. London : Jonathan Cape, (1989). First edition. His second novel – the winner of the 1989 Whitbread Fiction Prize. Lives intertwined across time – alchemy, occult, fate, passion and obsession. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35131 – or simply click on the button
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COMPTON-BURNETT, Ivy (Dame Ivy), 1884-1969 : A FATHER AND HIS FATE. London : Victor Gollancz, 1957. First edition. A father and three daughters – “A normal part of life may not be a thing to dispense with”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17807 – or simply click on the button
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COMPTON-BURNETT, Ivy (Dame Ivy), 1884-1969 : A GOD AND HIS GIFTS. London : Victor Gollancz, 1963. First edition. “What harm is there in hearing a pin drop?” said Joanna. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 13062 – or simply click on the button
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CONRAD, Joseph, 1857-1924 : UNDER WESTERN EYES. London : Methuen & Co., (1911). First edition. “The man who says he has no illusions has at least that one” – Conrad with his classic of terrorism, set variously in St. Petersburg and Geneva and published 5th October 1911. “Any hesitation seems to lie, not in over-estimating, but in doing justice to the rare truth and beauty of Mr. Conrad’s latest book. No Englishman could have written it” (The Sketch, 25th October 1911). £400 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44581 – or simply click on the button
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CONRAD, Joseph, 1857-1924 : LAUGHING ANNE & ONE DAY MORE : TWO PLAYS. London : John Castle, 1924. First trade edition. Two of just three plays written by Joseph Conrad, adaptations respectively of his stories "Because of the Dollars" and "Tomorrow" - both concerned, as John Galsworthy points out in his introduction, with the theme of "the suffering of a woman capable of self-sacrifice". The introduction by Galsworthy, here appearing for the first time, makes extensive use of Conrad's letters on the plays. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 22050 – or simply click on the button
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CONRAD, Joseph, 1857-1924 : TALES OF HEARSAY. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1925. First edition. Four short stories previously unpublished in book form – “The Warrior’s Soul” – a moving tale of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, written during the Great War; “Prince Roman” – the Polish Patriot; “The Tale” – moral dilemmas at sea in the Great War, and “The Black Mate” – one of his earliest ventures into fiction. With a foreword by R. B. Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936). Published posthumously to the delight and acclaim of contemporary reviewers – “A substantial addition to Conrad’s best work” (The Scotsman); “one of the most remarkable books of short stories ever issued” (Daily Dispatch); “No unconsidered trifles ... They are of the stuff by which he will be judged” (Manchester Guardian). £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44697 – or simply click on the button
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“COOPER, William” – [HOFF, Harry Summerfield, 1910-2002] : FROM EARLY LIFE. London : Macmillan London, (1990). First edition. “Written in the rinsed-pebble prose of an outstanding man of letters” – the early reminiscences of the author of “Scenes from Provincial Life”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38598 – or simply click on the button
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CURTIES, Henry, 1860-1928 : WHEN ENGLAND SLEPT. London : Everett & Co., 1909. First edition. A German invasion by stealth from Captain Curties R.E. – “Vehicles rumbled by with loads of wounded. Before the headquarters of each of the Territorial Battalions, before each bank and each public building, outside Buckingham Palace, stood stolid German sentries. German officers filled the breakfast rooms of the hotels. The Monument was a German look-out post. The guttural tones of the Teuton answered ‘calls’ on the telephone, censored conversations, ‘cut off’ at a second’s notice. The railway stations and the police stations, the telegraph offices and the newspaper offices were in German hands ... London was under martial law, ‘held up’ by two hundred thousand Germans under arms. How had the enemy entered the city? That was the question. None had witnessed their coming. No transports had been sighted. No trains had been commandeered. There was no news of a landing. Curious – and startling! They had materialised, it seemed, out of thin air” (The Sketch, 13th April 1910). £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44523 – or simply click on the button
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DAHL, Roald, 1916-1990 : MORE TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED. London : Michael Joseph, (1980). First edition. A TV-tie-in collection of nine short stories, some old, some new – with four appearing in book form for the first time. Includes “Georgy Porgy”, “The Umbrella Man”, “Mr Botibol”, “Vengeance is Mine Inc.”, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38704 – or simply click on the button
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DAY LEWIS, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972 : THE BURIED DAY. London : Chatto & Windus, 1960. First edition. Autobiography of the poet and (as Nicholas Blake) crime-writer. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 10712 – or simply click on the button
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“DELAFIELD, E.M.” – [DASHWOOD, Edmée Elizabeth Monica, 1890-1943] : THE PROVINCIAL LADY IN WAR-TIME. London : Macmillan & Co., 1940. First edition. Provincial Lady – gas-masks, black-outs, identity-cards, war-work. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27885 – or simply click on the button
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DONLEAVY, J.P. (James Patrick), 1926-2017 : A SINGULAR MAN. London : Bodley Head, (1964). First British edition. His second novel – a dark masterpiece of love and imagination. Originally published in Boston the previous year. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39931 – or simply click on the button
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[DOUGLAS, Norman (George Norman), 1868-1952] – “NORMYX” : UNPROFESSIONAL TALES. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1901. First edition. Beyond the early pamphlets and offprints, Douglas’s first book and his first venture into fiction. He later claimed that just eight copies were sold – a slight exaggeration, but close on 600 copies of the original 750 were still unsold in 1903 and almost certainly pulped. Contains fifteen short stories (including “Elfwater”, “Nocturne”, “The Devil’s Oak”, and “Belladonna”) as well as the fantasy femme fatale novella “Nerinda”, most of the former written in collaboration with his then wife, Elsa Fitzgibbon (1876-1916). £400 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44386 – or simply click on the button
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DOUGLAS, Norman (George Norman), 1868-1952 : AN ALMANAC. London : Chatto & Windus / Martin Secker & Warburg, (1945). First British and first trade edition. A day-by-day almanac of epigrams selected by Douglas from his own earlier works. The text varies considerably from that of the twenty-five copies privately printed at Lisbon in 1941. With decorations by Enid Marx. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 18179 – or simply click on the button
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DUNCAN, Ronald (Ronald Frederick Henry), 1914-1982 : THE DULL ASS’S HOOF : THREE PLAYS. London : Fortune Press, [1940]. First edition. A review copy, and so stamped on front free endpaper. Three verse plays: “The Unburied Dead”, dedicated to Gandhi; “Ora Pro Nobis”, dedicated to Richard March; and “Pimp, Skunk and Profiteer”, dedicated to Ezra Pound. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24923 – or simply click on the button
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DUNCAN, Ronald (Ronald Frederick Henry), 1914-1982 : SAINT SPIV. London : Dennis Dobson, (1961). First edition. Very much a London novel – starting in Stockwell and recounting the satirical tale of a spiv who suddenly finds himself possessed of the power of healing. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29880 – or simply click on the button
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DUNN, Nell (Nell Mary), 1936- : UP THE JUNCTION. London : MacGibbon & Kee, 1963. First edition. Her first and most famous book – sixteen short stories and sketches of working-class life in Battersea and Clapham Junction “Out with the Girls”, “The Tallyman”, etc. Adapted for television by Ken Loach in 1965 and subsequently filmed with Suzy Kendall, Susan George, Dennis Waterman, etc. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37670 – or simply click on the button
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DUNSANY, Lord (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron), 1878-1957 : THE SWORD OF WELLERAN AND OTHER STORIES. London : George Allen & Sons, 1908. First edition. A collection of twelve stories, including “The Kith of the Elf-Folk”, “The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth”, “The Doom of La Traviata”, etc. Illustrated by the great Sidney Sime (1865-1941) and linked to Dunsany’s two earlier collections via the gods and goddesses of Pegãna, who appear in several of the stories. £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43114 – or simply click on the button
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“ENGLISH, Isobel” – [BRAYBROOKE, June, 1920-1994] : FOUR VOICES : A NOVEL. London : Longmans, Green & Co., (1961). First edition. A review copy, with the publisher’s slip loosely inserted. The vagaries of the human heart and the four viewpoints of Penry Crendon (forgotten author and vagrant), his first wife Elizabeth (the devout Catholic), Mona his third (whose weaknesses are vulgarity and the bottle), and Blanche (the woman of sensibility engaged to his son). “She has helped explode the dying myth that the novel is becoming extinct” (John Betjeman). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26232 – or simply click on the button
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FAULKS, Sebastian, 1953- : THE GIRL AT THE LION D’OR. London : Hutchinson, (1989). First edition. His second novel and the one which made his reputation – a slight, dark-haired girl with two heavy suitcases arrives in the small French town of Janvilliers in 1936 to become a waitress at a seedy hotel. “Like the great novels and stories of Flaubert and Maupassant ... quite out of the ordinary ... beautifully written and in the end extraordinarily moving” (Sunday Times). £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44120 – or simply click on the button
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FAULKS, Sebastian, 1953- : BIRDSONG. London : Hutchinson, (1993). First edition. Loosely inserted is Faulks’ printed compliments slip, inscribed and signed by Faulks to Peter Wilkinson, “for his edition of Birdsong”. His fourth and most famous novel, set before and during the Great War. Soon adapted for radio and the stage, with a television version in 2012, starring Eddie Redmayne and Clémence Poésy. £400 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44119 – or simply click on the button
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FORD, Ford Madox [formerly HUEFFER], 1873-1939 : LADIES WHOSE BRIGHT EYES : A ROMANCE. BY FORD MADOX HUEFFER. London : Constable & Co., 1911. First edition. A modern man adrift in the Middle Ages – Ford’s popular fantasy, dedicated to Violet Hunt – “I have worked at it harder, I think, than at any story I ever wrote, because it was to please you”. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39923 – or simply click on the button
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FORD, Ford Madox [formerly HUEFFER], 1873-1939 : NO MORE PARADES : A NOVEL. London : Duckworth, (1925). First edition. “No more hope, no more glory, not for the nation, not for the world I dare say, no more parades”. The second of the “Parade’s End” tetralogy – Christopher Tietjens, “the last Tory”, struggles with love and war. “There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them” (W. H. Auden). £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 18735 – or simply click on the button
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FORD, Richard, 1944- : WILDLIFE. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, (1990). First edition. Signed by Richard Ford on the title-page. His highly acclaimed fourth novel – on the edge of the Great Plains and “coming out into the world as it is and not as we had hoped, but as it resolutely is”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42932 – or simply click on the button
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FORD, Richard, 1944- : WOMEN WITH MEN : THREE STORIES. London : The Harvill Press, (1997). First British edition. Signed and dated (4th September 1997) by Richard Ford on the title-page. “One of the glories of modern American writing” (Jonathan Raban). £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38526 – or simply click on the button
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FRASER, George MacDonald, 1925-2008 : FLASHMAN IN THE GREAT GAME. London : Barrie & Jenkins (1975). First edition. What caused the Indian Mutiny? It began with Lord Palmerston commissioning Flashman at Balmoral – the Siege of Cawnpore, Lucknow, etc., with notable appearances from Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Lord Cardigan, Florence Nightingale, etc. £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44773 – or simply click on the button
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GARNER, Helen, 1942- : THE SPARE ROOM. Edinburgh : Canongate Books, (2008). First British edition. “An unforgettable novel about the distance a friendship must travel, and the depths it must plumb, when confronted by the threat of death. It is full of wisdom, dark laughter, and truth” – the multiple award-winning novel, first published in Australia earlier in 2008. “A book for grown-up people” (Hilary Mantel), “‘The Spare Room’ is a perfect novel” (Peter Carey). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44439 – or simply click on the button
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GLANVILLE, Brian (Brian Lester), 1931- : THE ARTIST TYPE. London : Jonathan Cape, (1967). First edition. “Brian Glanville has a pitiless eye for the frauds and tactics of the sex game” – the “artist type” revenges himself on intellectuals, stockbrokers and slick executives. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44528 – or simply click on the button
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GATHORNE-HARDY, Jonathan, 1933- : ONE FOOT IN THE CLOUDS. London : Hamish Hamilton, (1961). First edition. His first book – a novel set on the rarer fringes of London literary society. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 32183 – or simply click on the button
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GERHARDI, William (William Alexander), 1895-1977 & LUNN, Brian : THE MEMOIRS OF SATAN : COLLATED BY WILLIAM GERHARDI AND BRIAN LUNN. London : Cassell & Co., (1932). First edition. Satan narrates the epic of mankind – his versions of the biblical stories, the days when he possessed Tiberius, Nero, the Caliph, Cromwell and Napoleon, his final possession, last days in a Bayswater boarding-house, and cremation at Golders Green. Gerhardi, or Gerhardie to use the spelling he later adopted, and something of a lost masterpiece – Evelyn Waugh once remarked to him, “I have talent, but you have genius”. He was also the principal model for the central character (Logan Mountstuart) in William Boyd’s “Any Human Heart”. His collaborator, Brian Holdsworth Lunn (1893-1956), of the Lunn travel-agency family, historian and schoolmaster, is chiefly remembered for his “Switchback” autobiography, with its portrayal of wartime mental breakdown. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40682 – or simply click on the button
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GIBBS, Philip (Sir Philip Armand Hamilton), 1877-1962 : DARKENED ROOMS : A NOVEL. London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), [1929]. First edition. The best-selling book of the early months of 1929 – a tragic tale of séances, spiritualism and messages from the other side, which opens with “goings-on” on the corner of Ezra Road and Electric Avenue in Brixton, where “young females a bit short in the frock, with young gents in evening clothes” have taken to turning up in smart cars late at night. Gibbs faultlessly captures the milieu of a certain time, a certain mood and a certain place. Filmed later in 1929 by Louis J. Gasnier – an early talking picture with Evelyn Brent, Neil Hamilton, etc. £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42434 – or simply click on the button
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GIBSON, William (William Ford), 1948- : IDORU. London : Viking, (1996). First British edition. A strange predictive tale of the beautiful, mysterious and entirely virtual media star – from the man who coined the term cyberspace. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37954 – or simply click on the button
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GOLDING, Louis, 1895-1958 : THREE JOLLY GENTLEMEN. London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), [1947]. First edition. American and Scotsman live in enmity on Italian island – Mussolini and Fascism unite them. An uncommon novel from the author of “Magnolia Street”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38972 – or simply click on the button
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GRAHAM, Rigby, 1931-2015 – illustrator : THE POPPY AND THE POMEGRANATE : THE STORY OF DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE OR THE ORIGIN OF THE SEASONS. Leicester : Grange Fibre Co., 1962. First edition. Illustrated in colour throughout and with a stunning colour cover design by Rigby Graham. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 23739 – or simply click on the button
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“GREEN, Henry” – [YORKE, Henry Vincent, 1905-1973] : DOTING : A NOVEL. London : Hogarth Press, 1952. First edition. A middle-aged London couple have evenings apart – alright until a younger woman appears. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38553 – or simply click on the button
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“HAMILTON, Cosmo” – [GIBBS, Henry Charles Hamilton, 1870-1942] : PRISONERS OF HOPE. London : Hurst & Blackett, [1924]. First edition. The playwright and novelist, of whom Dorothy Parker once wrote, “There can no longer be any doubt that it was from Cosmo Hamilton that the cosmic urge derived its name”, with a spicy tale of Tony and Teddy in love with the same woman – Tony successful, Teddy burning with jealousy, man overboard in the South Seas – “There is character in this story; genius in the writing, and artistic richness in the style and setting. A brilliant book ...” (Kensington Post, 5th December 1924). “And there is Lady George Cornish, who was once a barmaid and is still a good sort” (Ralph Straus in The Bystander, 4th March 1925). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44444 – or simply click on the button
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HANLEY, James, 1901-1985 : CAPTAIN BOTTELL. London : Boriswood, 1933. First trade edition. The self-taught former ship’s stoker with a powerful novel of a captain obsessed with his only passenger, the wife of a diplomat. A mysterious stoker named Mulcare joins the crew at the last minute. “You are not reading about a ship, you live on it ... I am happy that Mr. Hanley has achieved this first-rate novel. For me he is now easily first among living writers of sea stories” (Richard Aldington). £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42435 – or simply click on the button
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HARRIS, Robert (Robert Dennis), 1957- : ENIGMA. London : Hutchinson, (1995). First edition. His second novel – Bletchley Park, the Ultra Secret, etc. – filmed with Saffron Burrows, Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, etc., with a Tom Stoppard screenplay, in 2001. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38705 – or simply click on the button
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HARRIS, Robert (Robert Dennis), 1957- : MUNICH. London : Hutchinson, (2017). First edition. Signed by Robert Harris on the title-page. “September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44424 – or simply click on the button
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HARSENT, David, 1942- : FROM AN INLAND SEA. Harmondsworth : Viking, (1985). First edition. “An outrageously funny dinner party, a separation, a shooting weekend, a brutal moment glimpsed through a window, a brawl in a London flat, a manic photographic session, a crazed drive through southern France ... comic and passionate, menacing and desolate” – a novel from the poet also known under other names as the crime writers Jack Curtis and David Lawrence. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11394 – or simply click on the button
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HART, Josephine, 1942-2011 : DAMAGE. London : Chatto & Windus, (1991). First edition. Signed by Josephine Hart on the title-page. Her first novel, dedicated to her husband, Maurice Saatchi, and the basis of the 1992 Louis Malle film, with Jeremy Irons, Miranda Richardson and Juliette Binoche. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39445 – or simply click on the button
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HARTLEY, L.P. (Leslie Poles), 1895-1972 : THE HIRELING. London : Hamish Hamilton, (1957). First edition. A fragile widow, an ex-army chauffeur, love, obsession, and repudiation. Memorably filmed in 1973, with Robert Shaw, Sarah Miles, etc. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44764 – or simply click on the button
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest (Ernest Miller), 1899-1961 : THE SPANISH WAR. London : Fact, (1938). First edition. Hemingway with eye-witness reportage of the Spanish Civil War – the saving of Madrid; the Aragon Front; Teruel; Franco advancing; final despatches. Published as No. 16 in the “Fact Monograph a Month” series. There would appear to be no equivalent American edition. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44683 – or simply click on the button
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HEYER, Georgette, 1902-1974 : BLACK SHEEP. London : Bodley Head, (1966). First edition. Regency novel set in Bath – Stacy Calverleigh has gambled away his fortune and requires an heiress. Young orphan Fanny Wendover fits the bill, but her Aunt Abigail has other ideas – enter Uncle Miles – the Black Sheep. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44441 – or simply click on the button
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HICHENS, Robert (Robert Smythe), 1864-1950 : THE GARDEN OF ALLAH. London : Methuen & Co., (1904). First edition. Hichens’ celebrated international best-seller of love, faith and sand – a socialite seeks solace in the desert with a Trappist monk. There were two silent film versions even before the award-winning Technicolor version with Charles Boyer and Basil Rathbone made by David O. Selznick in 1936. Marlene Dietrich played Domini – “This script – you know it is twash”. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28593 – or simply click on the button
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HICHENS, Robert (Robert Smythe), 1864-1950 : THE CALL OF THE BLOOD. London : Methuen & Co., (1906). First edition. Hermione Lester marries a handsome man, ten years her junior. His grandmother was Sicilian and they venture to Sicily on their honeymoon. Things begin to unravel. Filmed in 1921 with Ivor Novello, Phyllis Neilson-Terry and Desdemona Mazza, and again in 1948 with Kay Hammond, Lea Padovani, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43424 – or simply click on the button
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HUDSON, W.H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 : A HIND IN RICHMOND PARK. London : J. M. Dent & Sons, 1922. First edition. The great naturalist’s final thoughts – on deer, on ears, the wind, ways back to nature, smell, noses, sense of direction, migration, sound, music, art and the unanswered questions. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 10376 – or simply click on the button
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HUGHES, Richard (Richard Arthur Warren), 1900-1976 : HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. London : Chatto & Windus, 1929. First British edition. Hughes’ highly regarded novel of childhood innocence and piracy on the high seas. “I was some fifty years older when I read the book again: a different person reading a different novel, sinister, darker, more poignant and more complex. A High Wind in Jamaica is one of those rare novels that works on more than one level and can appeal to all ages. It changes as we change, and its theme is change herself” (Michael Holroyd). Filmed in 1965 with Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price, Viviane Ventura, etc. Originally published in New York earlier the same year as “The Innocent Voyage”. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43450 – or simply click on the button
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HUXLEY, Aldous (Aldous Leonard), 1894-1963 : THE DEVILS OF LOUDUN. London : Chatto & Windus, 1952. First edition. Mass hysteria and possession in seventeenth-century France – with power, corruption and political expediency. The basis of the 1971 Ken Russell film, with Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35086 – or simply click on the button
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JAMES, M.R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936 : A THIN GHOST AND OTHERS. London : Edward Arnold & Co., 1919. First edition. His third collection of atmospheric tales – five stories, including “The Diary of Mr. Poynter”. £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42037 – or simply click on the button
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JOHNSON, Pamela Hansford, 1912-1981: THE UNSPEAKABLE SKIPTON. London : Macmillan & Co., 1959. First edition. Her high comedy of a deluded and utterly unspeakable author at large in Bruges. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39304 – or simply click on the button
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KAVANAGH, P.J. (Patrick Joseph), 1931-2015 : A SONG AND DANCE. London : Chatto & Windus, 1968. First edition. His first novel, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize – set in London and the South of France – “cold indifference ... tugs at them like a dirty wind”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41320 – or simply click on the button
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KIPLING, Rudyard (Joseph Rudyard), 1865-1936 : A CHOICE OF KIPLING’S PROSE : SELECTED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CRAIG RAINE. London : Faber & Faber, (1987). First edition. An extensive selection from across the full range of Kipling’s work, edited and selected by Craig Raine. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17033 – or simply click on the button
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KNEALE, Matthew, 1960- : WHORE BANQUETS. London : Victor Gollancz, 1987. First edition. His uncommon first book – young Englishman trapped in Tokyo, an enforced marriage, and a collision with the world of Japanese organised crime. Winner of Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask awards. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44055 – or simply click on the button
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LANGLEY, Noel (Noel Aubrey), 1911-1980 : THE RIFT IN THE LUTE. London : Arthur Barker, (1952). First edition. An innocent born in the year of the Amorous Dragon – abroad in ancient China. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24791 – or simply click on the button
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LEE, Harper (Nelle Harper), 1926-2016 : TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. London : William Heinemann, (1960). First British edition. The celebrated Pulitzer Prize winner, voted “best novel of the century” in a 1999 poll. £750 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41120 – or simply click on the button
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LEVI, Primo, 1919-1987 : OTHER PEOPLE’S TRADES. London : Michael Joseph, (1989). First (British) edition in English of “L’Altrui Mestiere” (1985). Forty-four essays on everything from astronomy to linguistics and zoology, with autobiographical pieces and on the nature of writing. Translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38601 – or simply click on the button
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LOWRY, Malcolm (Clarence Malcolm), 1909-1957 : DARK AS THE GRAVE WHEREIN MY FRIEND IS LAID. London : Jonathan Cape, (1969). First British edition. An “essential companion” to “Under the Volcano” – Lowry’s return to the scene. Edited by Lowry’s widow, Margerie Bonner, and his first biographer, Douglas Day, from 700 pages of Lowry’s notes and drafts. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42270 – or simply click on the button
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MACDONELL, A.G. (Archibald Gordon), 1895-1941 : LORDS AND MASTERS. London : Macmillan & Co., 1936. First edition. A satirical novel, set in South Kensington, in which “men arrange the affairs of the world, while women stand back and admire”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28020 – or simply click on the button
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MACDONELL, A.G. (Archibald Gordon), 1895-1941 : MY SCOTLAND. London : Jarrolds, (1937). First edition. Reflections and studies on the character and genius of Scotland from the author of “England, Their England”. In the My Country series. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28428 – or simply click on the button
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MACDONELL, A.G. (Archibald Gordon), 1895-1941 : FLIGHT FROM A LADY. London : Macmillan & Co., 1939. First edition : in a dust-jacket over-printed with Macmillan’s Overseas Library information and restrictions on lower flap. An epistolary novel in which the hero flies round the world to escape the “cold blue eyes” of the lady. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27880 – or simply click on the button
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MALLINSON, Allan (Allan Lawrence), 1949- : THE NIZAM’S DAUGHTERS. London : Bantam Press, (2000). First edition. Fresh from the battle of Waterloo, Matthew Hervey departs on a secret mission to India. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40633 – or simply click on the button
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MALLINSON, Allan (Allan Lawrence), 1949- : WARRIOR. London : Bantam Press, (2008). First edition. Brigadier Mallinson with a further instalment of the much-lauded adventures of Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons- South Africa in 1828, Hervey escorts an embassy to Shaka, King of the Zulus. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38573 – or simply click on the button
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“MANSFIELD, Katherine” – [MURRY, Kathleen Mansfield, 1888-1923] : SOMETHING CHILDISH AND OTHER STORIES. London : Constable & Co., (1924). First edition. A collection of twenty-five stories written between 1908 and 1920, including the semi-autobiographical “An Indiscreet Journey”, etc. £150 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39038 – or simply click on the button
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“MANSFIELD, Katherine” – [MURRY, Kathleen Mansfield, 1888-1923] : JOURNAL OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD. London : Constable & Co., 1927. First edition. Mansfield destroyed all but a fragment of her “huge complaining diaries” prior to 1914, but the journal – here edited and introduced by John Middleton Murry – made up of notes for stories, diary entries, unposted letters, comments and confessions, preserves all that she wished to survive for the period 1914-1922. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38981 – or simply click on the button
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MASON, A.E.W. (Alfred Edward Woodley), 1865-1948 : FIRE OVER ENGLAND. London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. First edition. An Elizabethan tale of the days leading up to the Armada – filmed in 1937 with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (their first pairing), as well as Flora Robson, Tamara Desni, James Mason, etc. £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40708 – or simply click on the button
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MASON, A.E.W. (Alfred Edward Woodley Mason), 1865-1948 : MUSK AND AMBER. London : Hodder and Stoughton, (1942). First edition. “A powerful, fascinating novel of the Eighteenth Century in England and Italy; the drama of a primitive crime in a polished setting and the slow working of a strange revenge”. A wartime novel by the popular author of “The Four Feathers”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41161 – or simply click on the button
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MASTERS, John, 1914-1983 : FAR, FAR THE MOUNTAIN PEAK. London : Michael Joseph, (1957). First edition. One of the most powerful of Masters’ Indian tales, commencing in 1902 and charting the career of Peter Savage, administrator, mountaineer, soldier and a man of “ruthless will and stupendous ambition”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38534 – or simply click on the button
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MAUROIS, André, 1885-1967 : WHATEVER GODS MAY BE. London : Cassell & Co., (1929). First edition in English of “Climats” (1928) – a story of love and jealousy, a man and two women – “the familiar triangle in an unfamiliar construction” (The Graphic, 19th October 1929) – from a French author immensely popular in the English-speaking world in the interwar years. Translated by Dr Joseph Collins (1866-1950). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43245 – or simply click on the button
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MONTHERLANT, Henry de, 1895-1972 : LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF AN UPPER CLASS. London : John Miles, (1935). First edition in English of the Grand Prix winning “Les Célebataires” (1934), here in a translation by Thomas McGreevy. A powerful novel of minor aristocracy failing to come to terms with the modern world. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39035 – or simply click on the button
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MOORE, Brian, 1921-1999 : LIES OF SILENCE. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, (1990). First edition. Hostages, terrorists, car-bomb and the Troubles. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43827 – or simply click on the button
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MORGAN, Charles (Charles Langbridge), 1894-1958 : THE FOUNTAIN. London : Macmillan & Co., 1932. First edition. Morgan draws on his Great War experiences in the Netherlands – a great success in its day and winner of the Hawthornden Prize. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38695 – or simply click on the button
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NAIPAUL, V.S. (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 : THE LOSS OF EL DORADO : A HISTORY. London : André Deutsch, (1969). First edition. The Port of Spain and the twinned stories of the dispossessed conquistador and the later Venezuelan revolution. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27400 – or simply click on the button
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NAIPAUL, V.S. (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 : THE OVERCROWDED BARRACOON AND OTHER ARTICLES. London : André Deutsch, (1972). First edition. A collection of essays and articles – Naipaul on being an Indian West Indian, on London, on cricket, on India, on John Steinbeck and Monterey, on Norman Mailer and New York, on Jacques Soustelle, on St. Kitts, on Anguilla, on Mauritius, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27420 – or simply click on the button
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NASH, Irene : FOLLOWING A STAR. London : Arthur Gray (Books), [1934]. First edition. “Someone once said that the parties in Hollywood sounded like school treats compared to those given by Maisie Bellamy” – film critic Peter Day knows everyone in the Elstree set – young Lucinda Carey does not. Conflicts between love and career, “the glamour of the film world; written with first-hand knowledge”. £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42255 – or simply click on the button
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NIN, Anaïs, 1903-1977 : THIS HUNGER – . New York : Gemor Press, (1945). First edition. “The unveiling of women is a delicate matter. It will not happen overnight. We are all afraid of what we shall find”. One of 1,000 copies of the regular edition, illustrated with five woodcuts by “Ian Hugo” – Nin’s husband Hugh Parker Guiler (1898-1985). This copy signed by Nin and amicably inscribed to Raymond Daum – “Hoping we may colloborate!” – Raymond Witham Daum (1923-2003), cameraman and archivist, perhaps best-known for his “Walking with Garbo” (1991). His archive documenting his friendships with Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo and other well-known figures is now housed at the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. £500 Currently on display at Bryars & Bryars in central London, please enquire about availability – books@ashrare.com |
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“O’BRIEN, Flann” – [O’NOLAN, Brian, 1911-1966] : THE DALKEY ARCHIVE. London : MacGibbon & Kee, 1964. First edition of the last novel published in his lifetime – “the best comic fantasy since ‘Tristram Shandy’” – mad scientist plots the end of the world, time travel used to age whiskey, both James Joyce and St. Augustine with speaking parts, etc. £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42284 – or simply click on the button
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Ó’FAOLÁIN, Seán – [WHELAN, John Francis, 1900-1991] : A NEST OF SIMPLE FOLK : A NOVEL. London : Jonathan Cape, (1933). First edition. The daughter of a county family marries the son of one of the tenants and is rejected by her kith and kin – a fine and unsentimental novel of Irish life. “From this straightforward account of the lives of a few Irish families we get an almost complete conception of the problem of Ireland” (Aberdeen Press, 12th October 1933). £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43020 – or simply click on the button
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“ORWELL, George” – [BLAIR, Eric Arthur, 1903-1950] : THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEORGE ORWELL : VOLUME THREE. A CLERGYMAN’S DAUGHTER. London : Martin Secker & Warburg, (1997). A definitive edition of Orwell’s second novel, originally published in 1935, restoring for the first time a number of previously censored readings, and indicating other passages known to have been “toned down”. Edited, and with a lengthy textual note by Peter Davison. First published in this form in 1986. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30585 – or simply click on the button
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“ORWELL, George” – [BLAIR, Eric Arthur, 1903-1950] : ORWELL : THE WAR COMMENTARIES. London : Gerald Duckworth & Co. / British Broadcasting Corporation, (1985). First edition. The rediscovered texts of George Orwell’s wartime radio broadcasts, transmitted weekly from December 1941 (Pearl Harbor) through to February 1943. Passages originally deleted by the wartime censor have been restored where legible. “The first large-scale unpublished work of Orwell’s to appear since his early death in 1950”. Edited, introduced and extensively annotated by the late W. J. (Bill) West (1942-1999), who discovered the lost original manuscripts. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43464 – or simply click on the button
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[“PARROTT, Ursula”] – [TOWLE, Katherine Ursula, 1900-1957] : EX-WIFE. London : Brentano, (1929). First British edition. An intriguing and sensational first novel, first published anonymously in New York earlier the same year, and soon turned into a film as “The Divorcee” (1930), for which Norma Shearer won an Academy Award for best actress. “As a young woman’s comment on marriage, divorce and sex equality, seen in a city like New York, it is a profoundly moving revelation” (Daily Mirror). Towle herself, who usually wrote under the name Ursula Parrott, had been divorced in 1928 – and was again in 1932, 1938 and 1944. Nine of her other novels and short stories were also made into films, including “Strangers May Kiss”, “Next Time We Love” and “There’s Always Tomorrow”. £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43310 – or simply click on the button
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PEARS, Iain (Iain George), 1955- : STONE’S FALL. London : Jonathan Cape, (2009). First edition. Signed and dated (2009) by Iain Pears on the title-page. Love story, murder mystery, espionage and the enigma of John Stone, arms manufacturer and manipulator of markets before the Great War – set in Venice, Paris and London. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43460 – or simply click on the button
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PRIESTLEY, J.B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984 : WONDER HERO. London : William Heinemann, (1933). First edition. Priestley on crusade, exploring the fractured society of the 1930s – the metropolitan world of the press, night-clubs, fashionable hostesses, bankers and incipient fascism, satirised and contrasted with the stark reality of northern industrial decay. A novel much admired by Ramsay MacDonald. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40709 – or simply click on the button
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PRITCHETT, V.S. (Sir Victor Sawdon), 1900-1997 : THE CAMBERWELL BEAUTY. London : Chatto & Windus, 1974. First edition. Nine short stories – antique dealers and their fantasies; the lady from Guatemala; Molly – “as noisy as a blowlamp, but pretty”; an innocent abroad; an ambitious film-producer, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24814 – or simply click on the button
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PYM, Barbara (Barbara Mary Crampton), 1913-1980 : THE SWEET DOVE DIED. London : Macmillan, (1978). First edition. Humphrey Boyce and his nephew rescue the exquisite Leonora from a book auction and the book-dealers “hunched over the table in their shabby clothes” – “The sale room is no place for a woman”, declares Humphrey, in a memorable opening line. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43465 – or simply click on the button
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PYNCHON, Thomas (Thomas Ruggles), 1937- : MASON & DIXON. London : Jonathan Cape, (1997). First British edition. Pynchon’s Grand Tour of the Enlightenment’s dark hemisphere. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39095 – or simply click on the button
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PYNCHON, Thomas (Thomas Ruggles), 1937- : INHERENT VICE. London : Jonathan Cape, (2009). First British edition. “It’s the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A. ... a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists”. Filmed in 2014 with Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, etc. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43108 – or simply click on the button
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RICHARDS, Grant (Franklin Thomas Grant), 1872-1948 : CAVIARE. London : Grant Richards, 1912. First edition. A most attractive presentation copy, inscribed, signed and dated (January 1912) by Grant Richards to his eldest son, Gerard Franklin Grant Richards (1901-1916). His first novel and our first introduction to his character, the elegantly raffish ‘Amiable Charles’, here heading south to winter in Monte Carlo and beyond. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40983 – or simply click on the button
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RICHARDS, Grant (Franklin Thomas Grant), 1872-1948 : THE AMIABLE CHARLES. London : Cassell & Co., (1935). First edition. An attractive presentation copy, inscribed and signed to ‘Hélène from her father, the author Grant Richards’ – Hélène Charlotte de Berquely Richards (b.1908) became Richards’ step-daughter on his marriage to her widowed mother, Maria Magdalena Ágnes Csanády de Berquely, in 1915. The last of the raffish continental adventures of the very amiable Charles Caerleon, who had first appeared in ‘Caviare’, published by Richards himself in 1912 – ‘Young wives are the sunderers of friendship’. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40984 – or simply click on the button
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RICHARDSON, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller), 1873-1957 : INTERIM. London : Duckworth & Co., (1919). First edition. Christmas in 1896 and Miriam arrives in Putney to stay with the Broom sisters. It was in the previous year that the phrase “stream of consciousness” was first used in a literary context, specifically to describe the style of Richardson’s “Pilgrimage” sequence of novels, of which this is the fifth and probably the most experimental – “Never, perhaps, has the familiar definition of a realistic novel as a ‘transcript from life’ been capable of a more exact application than in the case of the series of books in which Miss Dorothy Richardson is recording the experiences of her heroine ... brimful of the most brilliantly vivid impressions ... a curious reminder that life is a flashing succession of photographic impressions” (The Scotsman, 22nd December 1919). £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43674 – or simply click on the button
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“ROHMER, Sax” – [WARD, Arthur Henry, 1883-1959] : THE ORCHARD OF TEARS. London : Methuen & Co., (1918). First edition. Rohmer tries to escape from the Doctor Fu Manchu genre with a restrained but serious excursion into the occult and philiosophical novel. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 33410 – or simply click on the button
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ROLFE, Frederick (Frederick William), 1860-1913 : DON RENATO : AN IDEAL CONTENT. A HISTORICAL ROMANCE BY FR. ROLFE (BARON CORVO). London : Chatto & Windus, 1963. First published edition : the trade issue. Rolfe’s long-lost early novel, set in Rome in the early sixteenth century, first printed and prepared for publication in 1908-1909 but never issued. Edited and introduced by Cecil Woolf. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29829 – or simply click on the button
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RUNYON, Damon (Alfred Damon), 1884-1946 : SHORT TAKES : WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR BY DON IDDON. London : Constable & Co., (1948). First British edition. A selection of over seventy of the best of the short stories and articles arranged under various headings. Includes “Tripping over Trivia”, “Horse Sense”, “Larcenous Ladies”, “A Dog’s Best Friend”, “Smoking Ladies”, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43496 – or simply click on the button
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SADLEIR, Michael (Michael Thomas Harvey), 1888-1957 : THESE FOOLISH THINGS : A STORY. London : Constable & Co., (1937). First edition. Young love in France – “a book which begins and ends with their farewell, under the cliff-like side of a Cunarder on the docks of Cherbourg in the rain”. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29795 – or simply click on the button
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SANSOM, C.J. (Christopher John), 1952- : DOMINION. London : Mantle, (2012). First edition. “1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk ... dark authoritarian rule; press, radio and television are controlled .. there are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43455 – or simply click on the button
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SANSOM, William, 1912-1976 : THE LOVING EYE : A NOVEL. London : Hogarth Press, 1956. First edition. “One moment the window was empty, a dark square – and the next this strange new woman was standing against the sill ...” – the rich and private jungle within the brick façades of Kensington. A fine novel from this quirky and neglected master of London lives. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39499 – or simply click on the button
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SANSOM, William, 1912-1976 : THE CAUTIOUS HEART : A NOVEL. London : Hogarth Press, 1958. First edition. A part-time jazz pianist in a small London club falls for an unusual young woman – “This one face contains his future. Why?” – an elegant novel from “one of the modern masters of English prose” (Anthony Burgess) – “His observation, wit and use of words are fresh, exciting and beautiful” (John Betjeman). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43851 – or simply click on the button
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SCHIMANSKI, Stefan, -1950 & TREECE, Henry, 1911-1966 – editors : A MAP OF HEARTS. London : Lindsay Drummond, [1944]. First edition. A collection of twenty-one wartime short stories – from Mulk Raj Anand (Lottery), John Heath-Stubbs (That on Parched Mountains), J. F. Hendry (The Catacomb of Love), Rayner Heppenstall (The Bird has Flown), Inez Holden (To-day at the Bureaucracy), Gwyn Jones (Take us the Little Foxes), Mary Lavin (The Statue in the Grounds), John Pudney (The City of Copious Libations), Alan Ross (Pain), William Sansom (From the Water Junction) and others, including the two editors themselves. With biographical notes on the contributors. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44129 – or simply click on the button
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SCHREINER, Olive (Olive Emilie Albertina), 1855-1920 : UNDINE. London : Ernest Benn, (1929). First British edition : in a secondary but nonetheless striking dust-jacket – an art deco design by “Barbara” in Benn’s 3/6 Library format. Her first novel, previously unpublished but pre-dating “The Story of an African Farm” (1883) and taking up the same themes of childhood and adolescence in nineteenth-century South Africa. With an explanatory introduction by her husband, Samuel Cron Cronwright-Schreiner. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25830 – or simply click on the button
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SCOTT, Paul (Paul Mark), 1920-1978 : A DIVISION OF THE SPOILS : A NOVEL. London : William Heinemann, (1975). First edition. The final volume of Scott’s “Jewel in the Crown” quartet – the British Raj moves inexorably towards its end. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25831 – or simply click on the button
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“SHUTE, Nevil” – [NORWAY, Nevil Shute, 1899-1960] : A TOWN LIKE ALICE. London : William Heinemann, (1950). First edition. “A novel from one of the best of living story-tellers ... He writes of England, a little, of Malaya during the war and after it, and of the Australian outback most of all ... To be able to produce, and with every page to sustain that extraordinary tension, is this writer’s individual gift ... it has given us some mesmerically readable novels, of which A Town like Alice ... is the best so far” (The Sphere, 17th June 1950). £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44796 – or simply click on the button
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SILLITOE, Alan, 1928-2010 : THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE RUNNER. London : W. H. Allen, 1959. First edition. His second book, winner of the Hawthornden prize, the title novella memorably filmed by Tony Richardson, with Tom Courtenay and Michael Redgrave, in 1962. With eight further short stories, including “On Saturday Afternoon”, etc. £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39608 – or simply click on the button
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SINGER, John – editor : NEW SHORT STORIES : 1945-1946. Glasgow : William MacLellan, (1946). First edition. Inscribed, signed and dated (1981) by John Singer. Thirty-one new short stories – by Mulk Raj Anand, Anna Kavan, Hugo Manning, Hugh MacDiarmid, Henry Miller (Murder in the Suburbs), Elizabeth Taylor (Husbands and Wives), Fred Urquhart, John Waller, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28433 – or simply click on the button
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SMART, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Ann), 1913-1986 : BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION I SAT DOWN AND WEPT. London : Editions Poetry London, (1945). First edition. “I am standing on a corner in Monterey, waiting for the bus to come in, and all the muscles of my will are holding my anticipation to face the moment I most desire”. Smart’s celebrated fictional account of her love affair with the poet George Barker (1913-1991) – “a visceral journey into the human heart, written in a language so urgent, raw and lyrical that each sentence is a bruise or a kiss” (Raffaella Barker). £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26007 – or simply click on the button
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SPARK, Muriel (Dame Muriel Sarah), 1918-2006 : THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE. London : Macmillan & Co., 1961. First edition. Miss Brodie in her prime in pre-war Edinburgh – the basis of the 1969 film with Maggie Smith, etc. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43890 – or simply click on the button
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SPARK, Muriel (Dame Muriel Sarah), 1918-2006 : THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS. London : Macmillan & Co., 1963. First edition. “Few people alive at the time were more delightful, more ingenious, more movingly lovely, and, as it might happen, more savage, than the girls of slender means”. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42752 – or simply click on the button
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SPRING, Howard (Robert Howard), 1889-1965 : A SUNSET TOUCH : A NOVEL. London : Collins, 1953. First edition. A London bank-clerk pursues a strange inheritance in remote Cornwall. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38571 – or simply click on the button
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THEROUX, Paul (Paul Edward), 1941- : SAINT JACK : A NOVEL. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1973. First edition. Jack Flowers, Singapore fixer and pimp, in a spot of trouble with the locals – memorably filmed by Peter Bogdanovich in 1979, with Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42931 – or simply click on the button
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THEROUX, Paul (Paul Edward), 1941- : KOWLOON TONG. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997. First edition. Hong Kong on the eve of the hand-over to China – Bunt Mullard struggles to adapt and a young woman disappears from his factory. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42930 – or simply click on the button
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THIRKELL, Angela (Angela Margaret), 1890-1961 : PRIVATE ENTERPRISE : A NOVEL. London : Hamish Hamilton, (1947). First edition. Barsetshire in its first post-war summer – evacuees departed and a very charming young widow arrives to turn a few heads. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39512 – or simply click on the button
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TROLLOPE, Joanna, 1943- : THE BEST OF FRIENDS. London : Bloomsbury, (1995). First edition. Inscribed and signed by Joanna Trollope on the title-page. Two intelligent, ordinary, recognisable families intertwined in friendship in a country town – intimacy, betrayal and loyalty. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39917 – or simply click on the button
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TROLLOPE, Joanna, 1943- : MARRYING THE MISTRESS. London : Bloomsbury, (2000). First edition. Signed by Joanna Trollope on the title-page. Judge abandons his wife of forty years for a barrister half his age, but neither woman behaves quite as expected. “Just as one has forgotten the intense pleasure of reading Trollope, along comes another flawless novel” (Library Journal). SOLD |
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TUROW, Scott (Scott Fredrick), 1949- : THE BURDEN OF PROOF. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. First edition. Signed by the author on the title-page. The “Presumed Innocent” attorney finds his wife has killed herself. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 10226 – or simply click on the button
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TYLER, Anne, 1941- : MORGAN’S PASSING. London : Chatto & Windus, (1980). First British edition. “You would say he was a man who had gone to pieces, or maybe he’d always been in pieces: maybe he’d arrived unassembled ...”. A fine early Anne Tyler. Originally published in New York earlier the same year. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37867 – or simply click on the button
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TYLER, Anne, 1941- : NOAH’S COMPASS. London : Chatto & Windus, (2009). First British edition. A pedant adrift in his own life. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39656 – or simply click on the button
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UPWARD, Edward (Edward Falaise), 1903-2009 : THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AND OTHER STORIES. London : Penguin Books, (1988). A reprint, in the Penguin Modern Classics series, of this collection originally published by Heinemann in 1969. Signed by Edward Upward on the title-page. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24952 – or simply click on the button
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UPWARD, Edward (Edward Falaise), 1903-2009 : THE UNMENTIONABLE MAN. London : Enitharmon Press, 1994. First edition : [one of 1,000 copies in wrappers]. Signed by Edward Upward on the title-page. Six short stories, including “A Ship in the Sky”, with an introduction by Frank Kermode. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24950 – or simply click on the button
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VERNEY, John (Sir John), 1913-1993 : FINE DAY FOR A PICNIC. London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1968). First edition. Satirical and still fresh fable of town-planning in Sussex. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20738 – or simply click on the button
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WAIN, John (John Barrington), 1925-1994 : STRIKE THE FATHER DEAD : A NOVEL. London : Macmillan & Co., 1962. First edition. An absorbing novel which takes us from 1942 to the birth of rock and roll – with the revolving viewpoints of a Professor of Classics, his runaway teenage son subsisting on the fringes of legality in wartime London and becoming a jazz pianist, and Eleanor – sister to the first and aunt to the second. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38600 – or simply click on the button
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WENTWORTH-JAMES, Gertie de S. (Gertrude de Soilleux), 1874-1933 : SECRET PLACES. London : Stanley Paul & Co., (1924). First edition. One of the author’s “smartly witty novels, self-consciously progressive especially about sex, published between 1908 and 1929” (Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction). “A frank and convention-defying story” (Aberdeen Press, 1st January 1925). The rather supercilious Lily Kesterton lives in the worst part of Kensington with her rather dull husband, but longs for high society and the smart set of bright young things exemplified by her friend Mrs Flare – a character who could slip effortlessly and without alteration into the pages of any of Evelyn Waugh’s early novels. “An entertaining and brightly written story. All the characters are well drawn” (Times Literary Supplement). For more on Gertie Wentworth-James, see my Bookhunter on Safari blog-post of 4th May 2017. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42977 – or simply click on the button
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WESKER, Arnold (Sir Arnold), 1932-2016 : CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING : A PLAY IN TWO ACTS. London : Jonathan Cape, (1962). First edition. Square-bashing with the RAF – and the undermining of a rebel. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36804 – or simply click on the button
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“WEST, Nathanael” – [WEINSTEIN, Nathan Wallenstein, 1903-1940] : A COOL MILLION : THE DISMANTLING OF LEMUEL PITKIN. London : Neville Spearman, (1954). First British edition. The dismantling of the American dream – a sharp satire originally published in New York in 1934. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24793 – or simply click on the button
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WHITE, Edmund (Edmund Valentine), 1940- : THE FLÂNEUR : A STROLL THROUGH THE PARADOXES OF PARIS. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, (2001). First edition. A sixteen-year sojourn in Paris, wandering “through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Parisians ... an exhilarating adventure with a most seductive companion”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44452 – or simply click on the button
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WHITE, Patrick (Patrick Victor Martindale), 1912-1990 : THE EYE OF THE STORM. London : Jonathan Cape, (1973). First edition. White’s novel of a matriarch and her impact – drawing on his own relationship with his mother. Published in the year White won the Nobel Prize. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17794 – or simply click on the button
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WILSON, Angus (Sir Angus Frank Johnstone), 1913-1991 : SUCH DARLING DODOS AND OTHER STORIES. London : Martin Secker & Warburg, 1950. First edition. The author’s second book – a collection of eleven stories, including “Sister Superior”, “Heart of Elm”, “What do Hippo’s Eat”, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25731 – or simply click on the button
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WILSON, Angus (Sir Angus Frank Johnstone), 1913-1991 : A BIT OFF THE MAP AND OTHER STORIES. London : Martin Secker & Warburg, 1957. First edition. Eight stories in which various characters seek, cheerfully or desperately, to get their bearings on the new map of post-war English society. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38988 – or simply click on the button
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WILSON, Angus (Sir Angus Frank Johnstone), 1913-1991 : SETTING THE WORLD ON FIRE. London : Martin Secker & Warburg, (1980). First edition. A novel of the varying and complex moods of post-war England 1948-1969 – and the very different attitudes and careers of two brothers. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38599 – or simply click on the button
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WILSON, Edmund, 1895-1972 : MEMOIRS OF HECATE COUNTY. New York : Doubleday & Co., 1946. First edition. Wilson’s celebrated collection of short stories of the “lost generation” – “the adventures of an egoist among the bedeviled”. Banned on first publication. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 10236 – or simply click on the button
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WOLFE, Tom (Thomas Kennerly), 1931-2018 : THE KANDY-KOLORED TANGERINE-FLAKE STREAMLINE BABY. London : Jonathan Cape, (1966). First British edition. Wolfe’s first collection – twenty-two essays and half a dozen caricatures. An entirely new voice in journalism skyrockets metaphors, neologisms, hip-talk and learned reference into the pursuit of the form and style of the new. Includes “The Fifth Beatle”, “The First Tycoon of Teen”, “The Last American Hero”, “The Girl of the Year”, “The Nanny Mafia”, “A Sunday Kind of Love”, “The Woman Who Has Everything”, “Why Doormen Hate Volkswagens”, etc. First published in New York the previous year, but here in the period-defining dust-jacket by Jonathan Miller. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42570 – or simply click on the button
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