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ALDISS, Brian (Brian Wilson), 1925-2017 : A SOLDIER ERECT : OR FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE HAND-REARED BOY. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1971). First edition. Signed and dated (1991) by Brian Aldiss on the title-page. The second Horatio Stubbs novel — the unforgettable Forgotten Army in India and Burma — a wildly funny but wholly serious attempt by Aldiss “to recreate it exactly as it was, whether heroic, bawdy or downright bloody unspeakable”. The book's publication in January 1971 led to a newspaper spat between the bookseller turned author and Mark Kahn, reviewer for the “Sunday Mirror” — “Chuck It, Mr Aldiss”, began the review — “I’m sorry that Mr Kahn (last Sunday) found my new novel ... tedious and nasty. War often is tedious and nasty”, came the lofty response, but it is noticeable that only one further Horatio Stubbs novel appeared, not the four that Aldiss originally intended. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44965 — or simply click on the button
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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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AMBLER, Eric (Eric Clifford), 1909-1998 : THE DARK FRONTIER. London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1936). First edition. His uncommon first novel – gripping from the very first page (which concludes with a footnote invoking the Official Secrets Act). “A new writer of international spy stories has arrived ... The central character is Professor Henry Barstow, a highly strung savant ... Following a motoring accident, he takes on the identity of the colourful hero of the thriller he had previously picked up. Then, posing as his real self, he calmly accompanies the unscrupulous representative of a big armament firm to a Continental country, ostensibly with object of helping to acquire information about an atomic bomb ... an ingenious story, cleverly written, and cloaked with such verisimilitude that it does not appear to be far-fetched. More will be heard of Eric Ambler” (Mid Sussex Times, 17th November 1936). £850 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45843 – or simply click on the button
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ARLEN, Michael, 1895-1956 : MAN’S MORTALITY : A STORY. London : William Heinemann, (1933). First edition. International Aircraft and Airways Inc. collapses in 1987 after fifty years of oligarchy in guarding and upholding peace (by war and tyranny if necessary) – a “Pax Aeronautica” tale, providing an interesting contrast and a rather less optimistic vision than that of H. G. Wells’s “The Shape of Things to Come”, which was published in the same year. “Truthfully, I am not certain of Mr. Arlen’s conclusions. At any rate, he has given us a story the tremendous drive of which shatters all criticism, leaving only an excited admiration ... a splendid story splendidly told” (Richard King in “The Tatler”, 1st February 1933). £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43692 – 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 story of young love, told “swiftly and significantly, and a too melodramatic finish to it is skilfully evaded ... there is an instinctive rightness in the management of this first novel that is very promising” (Liverpool Post, 2nd May 1931). 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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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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BANVILLE, John (William John), 1945- : NIGHTSPAWN. London : Secker & Warburg, (1971). First edition. Signed by multiple award-winning John Banville on the title-page — loosely inserted is a 2008 ticket for “An Evening with John Banville”, the occasion on when the book was signed. Night Spawn, Night’s Pawn, Knight’s Pawn — his sometimes disavowed first novel, a fantasy political thriller of sorts set on a Greek island and then in Athens — “crotchety, posturing, absurdly pretentious”, in his own words, but for at least one online commentator, “I am left stunned. I think I have been bludgeoned by beauty”. £500 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44931 — 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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BAUME, Eric (Frederick Ehrenfried), 1900-1967 : DEVIL LORD’S DAUGHTER. London : Falcon Press, (1949). First British edition. The New Zealand born journalist with the tale of mad Sir Fulke Lord, who kills his wife and raises his daughter Georgina as a son. Still disguised as a boy, she escapes and joins Captain Cook’s final voyage of discovery to the South Seas. “A powerful blending of the romantic and the tragic, and a completely compelling narrative” (Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, 14th January 1950). Originally published in New York in 1948, but here with a fresh foreword on the author’s sources, dated London 1949. £40 Currently on display at Bryars & Bryars in central London, please enquire about availability – books@ashrare.com |
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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. £50 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. £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39565 – 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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BLIXEN, Karen (Karen Christence, Baroness Blixen-Finecke, 1885-1962) : WINTER’S TALES : BY KAREN BLIXEN (ISAK DINESEN). London : Putnam & Co., (1942). First edition in English of “Vinter-Eventyr” – a collection of eleven short stories on themes suggested by occupied Denmark – themes of courage and resilience, pride and shame, freedom and death, etc. Includes “The Invincible Slave Owners”, “The Heroine”, “Sorrow-Acre”, etc. “All the greatest works of art are allegorical in the sense that they imply more than they state, and illuminate human nature everywhere” (L. P. Hartley reviewing the book in “The Sketch”, 21st April 1943). £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45602 – or simply click on the button
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“BRAMAH, Ernest” – [SMITH, Ernest Brammah, 1868-1942] : KAI LUNG BENEATH THE MULBERRY-TREE. London : Richards Press, (1940). First edition. “Mr. Bramah records the honey-tongued raconteur’s latest stories. They have all the inimitable qualities of the earlier collections ... the most delicate wit, and the shrewdest of observations on human life” (Daily News, 20th March 1940). “Needs no description ... as good as ever, and Mr. Bramah’s genius with the idiom has not failed” (Illustrated London News, 20th April 1940). The last of the five collections of Kai Lung stories published in Bramah’s lifetime – a series begun forty years earlier. £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45606 – 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 ...” — “Miss Brookner writes exquisitely: her moulding of every sentence is a delight ... her impeccable evocations of mood — wet, lonely London summers are her forte — her small flares of wisdom and understanding, and her many moments of utter cleverness” (The Observer). £25 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. £25 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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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 Currently on display at Bryars & Bryars in central London, please enquire about availability – books@ashrare.com |
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CANETTI, Elias, 1905-1994 : AUTO DA FÉ. London : Jonathan Cape, (1946). First edition in English of the banned “Die Blendung” (1935), his first and only novel, translated from the German (under Canetti’s personal supervision) by Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997). A Head without a World, Headless World and The World in the Head. £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30453 – 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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“CHARLES, Gerda” — [LIPSON, Edna, 1915-1996] : THE DESTINY WALTZ. London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1971). First edition. The recipient of the first ever Whitbread Novel of the Year award, her earlier novel “A Slanting Light” having taken the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1963. A novel framed around the making of a documentary on a forgotten Jewish poet (said to be based on Isaac Rosenberg). “We see not only human nature, often treacherous and fallible in action, but a panoramic view of English and Jewish life on many levels of society over the last fifty years”. The present copy is inscribed by the author on the title-page, “To Martyn with warmest good wishes and thanks for everything, Gerda” — the recipient being bookseller Martyn Goff (1923-2015), architect of the Bedford Square Book Bang held that summer, and soon to become the driving force behind the Booker Prize. £400 Currently on display at Bryars & Bryars in central London, please enquire about availability – books@ashrare.com |
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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”. “This great author has made blood-relationship and its attendant psychological maladies her subject. Grim would be the result were it not for Miss Compton-Burnett’s exquisite humour, and the breath-taking twists and turns of each household drama” (The Tatler, 28th August 1957). £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. “To read her stylized, spare and formal novels is to hear the rattle of elegant skeletons, to sit inside the cage while charming and well-bred panthers pick the dinner-bones clean ... a riotously funny, infinitely black comedy about an appalling father” (The Tatler, 4th December 1963). £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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“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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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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[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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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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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. Longmans, Green & Co., (1961). First edition. 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 25181 – 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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FORD [formerly HUEFFER], Ford Madox, 1873-1939 : LADIES WHOSE BRIGHT EYES : A ROMANCE. BY FORD MADOX HUEFFER. London : Constable & Co., 1911. First edition. “A really clever and amusing piece of work, and its attractions are as many as its charming title suggests” (Pall Mall Gazette, 12th August 1911). A modern publisher transported back to the Middle Ages by virtue of railway accident near Salisbury – 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- : 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. Three stories of men and women at the essential moments of truth – “One of the glories of modern American writing” (Jonathan Raban). £40 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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“FORESTER, C.S.” – [SMITH, Cecil Lewis Troughton, 1899-1966] : THE EARTHLY PARADISE. London : Michael Joseph, (1940). First edition. Don Narciso Rich, a liberal lawyer no longer young and almost portly, volunteers to accompany Columbus on his third voyage to the Americas – “Here is history, not in terms of banner and caravel, but in living terms of greed, ambition, thirst, jealousy”. £125 Currently on display at Bryars & Bryars in central London, please enquire about availability – books@ashrare.com |
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FORSTER, E.M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970 : NORDIC TWILIGHT. London : Macmillan & Co., 1940. First edition. “This pamphlet is propaganda. I believe that if the Nazis won they would destroy our civilisation ...”. In the Macmillan War Pamphlets series. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 10135 – or simply click on the button
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FOWLES, John (John Robert), 1926-2005 : THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN. London : Jonathan Cape, (1969). First edition. Victorian Lyme Regis and the enigmatic Sarah Woodruff – a book for which the note on the dust-jacket about the pagination being correct is perhaps a necessary prelude. Filmed by Karel Reisz in 1981 with a Harold Pinter screenplay, Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, etc. £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45546 – 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). £25 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, 1933-2019 : 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. “A little bit of nonsense, young nonsense at that, but excellently contained ... a young man in love and in and out of money ... filled with wonderfully useful references to the preoccupations of the young. It is fun” (The Sphere, 3rd June 1961). £25 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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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. “The founding father of cyberpunk returns to the techno-decadent 21st century mapped out in his other major works ... Gibson exhibits his greatest strength: intense speculation, expressed in dramatic form, about the near-term evolution of and merging of cultural, social and technological trends, and how they affect character” (Publishers’ Weekly). £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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GOLDING, William (Sir William Gerald), 1911-1993 : THE SCORPION GOD : THREE SHORT NOVELS. London : Faber & Faber, (1971). First edition. “Golding at his playful, ironic and mysterious best” The title story set in ancient Egypt, together with “Clonk Clonk” from a primitive matriarchal society, and “Envoy Extraordinary” from Imperial Rome. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44909 — or simply click on the button
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GORDIMER, Nadine, 1923-2014 : A GUEST OF HONOUR. First British edition. Winner of the 1971 James Tait Black Memorial Prize — “her major work so far, a novel of great substance and power describing an African nation’s struggle to be born and the course of an epic love affair” — an Englishman confronts the inadequacy of his liberal ideas. “Gordimer writes of blacks and whites, but her steady, unblinking eye sees something grey there. You could call it human nature and you would be right. Her true subject is humankind, as it is for every great writer” (Daily Telegraph). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45004 – 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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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, J. Henry (Josiah Henry), 1847-1917 : A ROMANCE IN RADIUM. London : Greening & Co., 1906. First edition. A winged Immortal from the planet Muran visits Earth “for the purposes of research – historical and otherwise”. Not much radium and not much romance, as the reviewer for the “Illustrated London News” (5th May 1906) pointed out – but in visiting the House of Commons, being demonstrated at the Royal Society, attending an “at home”, and interviewing prominent people, there is plenty of scope for some delicate satire on Edwardian Society. Written in his retirement by the Cornish journalist J. Henry Harris. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44865 – or simply click on the button
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HARRIS, Wilson (Sir Theodore Wilson), 1921-2018 : THE AGE OF THE RAINMAKERS. London : Faber & Faber, (1971). First edition. Evidently a review copy, a printed Faber slip loosely inserted “With the author's compliments” and with a typed date of publication. Four mesmeric and haunting “fables” on the author’s native Guyana and its ethnic groups — Macusi, Arecuna, Wapisiana and Arawaks. With striking illustrations by Karen Usborne. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44964 — 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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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. “On his day there is no more subtle novelist writing than L. P. Hartley, and few as satisfying. In The Hireling he is very much on his day ... a triumph of the novelist’s art” (Daily News, 10th July 1957). 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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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. £40 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”. £125 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. £100 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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HOLST, Spencer, 1926-2001 : THE LANGUAGE OF CATS AND OTHER STORIES. London : Jonathan Cape, (1971). First British edition. “A cross between Hans Christian Andersen and Franz Kafka” — twenty of the famous New York underground performer’s miniature stories and fables, including “The Zebra Storyteller”, “The Santa Claus Murderer”, “Bullfinch and Goblin”, “The Hidden Ballroom at Versailles”, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44913 – or simply click on the button
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JOHNSON, Diane, 1934- : BURNING. London : William Heinemann, (1971). First British edition. Signed by the author on the half-title. Her third novel — the removal of their hedge as a fire-precaution leaves Bingo and Barney Edwards of Bel Air defenceless and exposed to the farcical madness of contemporary Los Angeles — hippies, junkies, the alternative psychiatrist-cum-guru next door, his patients, brushes with firemen, welfare services, the police, ice-plants, and the realities of the fire when it comes. “A brilliant comic novel ... full of extraordinary characters and events” (Alison Lurie). £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44982 – 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 first novel – 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. “This is a fine book, its comedy nicely underplayed, making the world seem big and frightening after reading it, and the business of crossing frontiers only for the brave” (Sunday Telegraph, 22nd February 1987). £50 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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KNOX, Collie (Columb Thomas), 1897-1977 – editor : FOR EVER ENGLAND : AN ANTHOLOGY. London : Cassell & Co., (1943). Second impression of the original December 1943 publication – a pleasing presentation copy, inscribed “To Gwen with love from her ageing friend Collie / Christmas 1943” – this his future wife Gwendoline Frances Mary Mitchell (1898-1990), whom he was to marry a few months later. A wide-ranging wartime anthology of uplifting and inspiring quotations on the nature of England and the English, with familiar extracts from Blake, Brooke, Browning, Churchill, Kipling, Masefield, Milton, Shakespeare, Swinburne, Tennyson, Wordsworth, but with a far greater number of lesser-known, more contemporary, and specially commissioned pieces from a variety of voices, including Knox himself and his flatmate, the refugee German actor Olaf Olsen (1919-2000) – “Of a truth, you are a strange, puzzling people. You laugh when you should cry. And when you should cry, you blow your noses very loudly and go for long walks”. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45427 – or simply click on the button
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KNOX, Collie (Columb Thomas), 1897-1977 – editor : FOR EVER ENGLAND. ondon : Cassell & Co., (1943). Second impression of the original December 1943 publication – a pleasing presentation copy, inscribed to the historian Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985), “With best wishes and my thanks”, signed and dated Christmas 1943 by Collie Knox. Bryant was one of the numerous contributors to this wide-ranging wartime anthology of uplifting and inspiring quotations on the nature of England and the English, and has made a pencilled correction to his piece headed “Tradition is in Our Bones”. Elsewhere Bryant has placed pencil marks against other passages. There are familiar extracts from Blake, Brooke, Browning, Churchill, Kipling, Masefield, Milton, Shakespeare, Swinburne, Tennyson, Wordsworth, but a far greater number of lesser-known, more contemporary, and specially commissioned pieces from a variety of voices, including Knox himself and his flatmate, the refugee German actor Olaf Olsen (1919-2000) – “Of a truth, you are a strange, puzzling people. You laugh when you should cry. And when you should cry, you blow your noses very loudly and go for long walks”. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45208 – or simply click on the button
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LANG, Andrew, 1844-1912 : THE DISENTANGLERS. London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1902. First edition. “Wild, roaring fun” (Daily News, 20th November 1902). Two well-connected but impoverished young men recruit a team of likewise young, charming and penniless men and women, available for hire to disrupt and disentangle unfortunate or unsuitable romantic attachments before too much harm can be done either to the lovers or, more particularly, their families – “Adventure of the Exemplary Earl”, “Adventure of the Lady Novelist and the Vaccinationist”, “Adventure of the Fair American”, and other tales. “In ‘The Disentanglers’ we have the apotheosis of the detective-story, with, as Mr. Lang’s Canadian millionaire would say, ‘every modern improvement’, divorced, too, from ‘all that cheap revolver business’, to quote the hero and Disentangler-in-Chief ... Apart from the excellent construction and swing of the stories, there is endless fun in the sly digs at literature, modern and ancient – at the penny novelette, the British Museum girl, and the Celtic minor poet” (The Sketch, 3rd December 1902). £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45601 – 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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LAWRENCE, D.H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 : SONS AND LOVERS. London : Duckworth & Co., 1913. First edition : Roberts’ variant (1), with the cancel title dated 1913. “Review copies have been noted both with the bound-in title without date and with the tipped-in title with date ... as Duckworth’s records were destroyed during the war, a final solution to these bibliographical problems may be impossible” (Roberts). “No other English novelist of our time has so great a power to translate passion into words, but that is neither the beginning nor end of his art” (London Evening Standard, 30th May 1913). £500 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45690 – or simply click on the button
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“LE CARRÉ, John” – [CORNWELL, David John Moore, 1931-2020] : SMILEY’S PEOPLE. London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1980). First edition. The last duel with Karla. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45938 – or simply click on the button
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“LE CARRÉ, John” – [CORNWELL, David John Moore, 1931-2020] : A LEGACY OF SPIES. London : Viking, (2017). First edition : the “exclusive signed edition”, signed by John le Carré on an additional preliminary leaf dated September 2017. Both a prequel and a sequel to “The Spy who Came in from the Cold” – a swansong for George Smiley, Peter Guillam, Bill Haydon, Jim Prideaux and other memorable spies of fiction. “Poignant and brilliant” (Robert McCrum in The Guardian). £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45726 – 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. £20 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. “I welcome the chance to read these pages, which come from the draft-plan of another masterpiece” (Dominic Le Foe in The Illustrated London News, 12th July 1969). £50 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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LOWRY, Malcolm (Clarence Malcolm), 1909-1957 : OCTOBER FERRY TO GABRIOLA. London : Jonathan Cape, (1971). First British edition. Lowry’s final novel, completed in draft form before his death and edited from his marginal notes and instructions by his widow, Margerie Bonner. A journey “on which hangs the meaning of his being” to the island off Vancouver. “Had he lived and worked it into the dense rich complexity of Under the Volcano it would have been another such masterpiece ... the familiar Lowry hallmarks of occultism, subtlety with words, vivid recurring images, the theme of lost homes and an endless journey ... Lowry’s search for humanity’s lost equilibrium” (Victoria Brittain in the Illustrated London News, 1st November 1971). “A species of ecstatic prose that has all but gone out of existence” (Matthew Corrigan in the New York Times, 25th October 1970). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45060 – or simply click on the button
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McCARTHY, Mary (Mary Therese), 1912-1989 : BIRDS OF AMERICA. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1971). First edition. Signed by Mary McCarthy on the title-page. “An absorbing novel about a young man’s voyage into adulthood, enlivened by Mary McCarthy’s needling wit ... an authentic and thoughtful slice of cultural history” (Hilary Mantel). Dodging the draft in 1960s Paris — “Fiercely intelligent, insatiably combative, McCarthy’s novels invite controversy” (Penelope Lively). “Miss McCarthy provides some exquisitely funny scenes, but as usual in her writing the pain is left visible not so much as an inch under the surface” (Victoria Brittain, in the Illustrated London News, 1st November 1971). £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45066 – 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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McEWAN, Ian (Ian Russell), 1948- : THE INNOCENT. London : Jonathan Cape, (1990). First edition. Signed by Ian McEwan on the title-page. “It is 1955 and post-war Berlin is crawling with subterfuge” – a young British technician involved in electronic surveillance encounters a beautiful young German called Maria. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45652 – or simply click on the button
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MALAMUD, Bernard, 1914-1986 : THE TENANTS. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1971). First edition. A Jewish writer with writer’s block and a black writer, “between soul and revolution”, in a New York tenement — co-tenants of a landlord keen to evict. “Malamud in his novels and stories discovered a sort of communicative genius in the impoverished, harsh jargon of New York. He was a myth-maker, a fabulist, a writer of exquisite parables ... He is a rich original of the first rank” (Saul Bellow). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45028 – 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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MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel García, 1927-2014 : NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL. London : Jonathan Cape, (1971). First British edition. The title-story and the eight short stories of the “Big Mama’s Funeral” sequence, first published in Colombia and Mexico in 1961-1962. “One of the richest pieces of writing this exceptional author has produced” (Victoria Brittain in the Illustrated London News, 1st October 1971). The second of his books (and the first of his short stories) to appear in a British edition, the translations those of J. S. Bernstein first published in the United States. Márquez was awarded the Nobel in 1982 “for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination”. £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44933 – or simply click on the button
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MASEFIELD, John (John Edward), 1878-1967 : SARD HARKER : A NOVEL. London : William Heinemann, (1924). First edition. “A singularly interesting and well-written novel of breathless adventure ... the book is so well written, its adventures so abundant, that I would wish to end with unqualified praise and say that this should be, and will be, one of the books that all must read” (The Sphere, 8th November 1924). £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45686 – 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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“MAYBURY, Anne” – [BUXTON, Anne, 1910-1993] : I’LL WALK WITH MY LOVE. Hanley : R. & L. Locker, (1947). Second edition. Gaynor Frost is in love with brilliant young surgeon, Shane Lodester, but her adopted sister Marcia dazzles him into an engagement. A rival for Marcia’s hand kills himself and Gaynor is compelled to take the blame. First published by Mills & Boon in 1940. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45270 – or simply click on the button
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MILLER, Henry (Henry Valentine), 1891-1980 : MY LIFE AND TIMES. New York : Gemini Smith / Playboy Press, (1971). First edition. The richly illustrated life and times of a much-banned author — writing, painting, California, Paris, childhood — “Today’s naked generation has learned nearly everything from him — everything, that is to say, except his bookishness, his capacity for recapturing innocence, his sense of wonder, his sense of words ... Miller talking his life instead of writing it (he has written it already) ... Durrell thinks that Miller’s lifework is the best confessional writing since Rousseau. He is probably right” (Anthony Burgess in the New York Times, 2nd January 1972). £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45011 – 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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MORGAN, Charles (Charles Langbridge), 1894-1958 : THE FOUNTAIN. London : Macmillan & Co., 1932. First edition. A great success in its day and winner of the Hawthornden Prize. Morgan draws on his Great War experiences for a subtle and ethereal love story – a British officer interned in a castle, a Dutch aristocrat, and his English step-daughter married to a German officer. “The Fountain is written as beautifully as it is possible for a book to be” (John Bayley, in The London Review of Books, 7th February 1985). £100 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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MOSLEY, Nicholas, 1923-2017 : NATALIE NATALIA : A NOVEL. London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1971). First edition. “I was a politician and I was getting out of politics because I was ashamed ... I went to that part of the country I was supposed to represent — represent as a hole might represent a bucket”. Stream of consciousness and a mind in torment from Anthony Greville, M.P. — politics, adultery — “I sometimes called Natalia Natalie instead of Natalia, when she was the ravenous rather than the angelic angel” — and excursions into the interplay of power and politics. “An outstanding novel. It throws into the melting-pot the whole problem of the predicament of living and it needs to be read more than once” (Elizabeth Harvey for the Birmingham Daily Post, 26th June 1971). “One of the most interesting and gifted English novelists writing today” (Vernon Scannell). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45003 – 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 : IN A FREE STATE. London : André Deutsch, (1971). First edition. Winner of the 1971 Booker Prize, described by the judges as “a work of great distinction, beautifully written, deeply felt, addressing itself with an often disturbing irony to the problems of uprooting and dislocation in the post-colonial world”. Less a novel than a novella introduced by two short stories — an Indian servant in Washington, D.C., two brothers from the West Indies in London, two English diplomats in East Africa — all within a framing narrative. “Its revolutionary nature still remains untarnished; indeed, the experimental side seems magnified at a time when mainstream deployment of the terms avant-garde and experimental, even form, seems to have fallen into misuse” (Neel Mukherjee in the Paris Review, 20th February 2018). £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44955 – 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 collaborate!” – 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 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42159 – or simply click on the button
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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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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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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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RAPHAEL, Frederic (Frederic Michael), 1931- : WHO WERE YOU WITH LAST NIGHT? London : Jonathan Cape, (1971). First edition. “When a woman tells you her past, you can be sure she intends you to be her future, you can quote me there” — the interior monologue of a very ordinary man with a mind to murder his wife. “Its theme is the habitual duplicity of civilized life. Conspiracy, says Frederic Raphael, is the inevitable partner of permanence; we share our beds with strangers”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44935 – 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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ROTH, Philip (Philip Milton), 1933-2018 : OUR GANG (STARRING TRICKY AND HIS FRIENDS). New York : Random House, (1971). First edition. A raging satire on Richard Nixon, still President in 1971, and the debasement of political language to the Orwellian formula — “designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”. Dwight Macdonald in the New York Times called it “far-fetched, unfair, tasteless, disturbing, logical, coarse and very funny ... in short, a masterpiece”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44984 – 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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RUTTER, Frank (Francis Vane Phipson), 1876-1937 & OTHERS – editors : ART AND LETTERS : AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY. London : Frank Cass & Co., (1970). A facsimile reprint of the complete run of all ten issues of the influential quarterly originally published between 1917 and 1920. With contributions from Richard Aldington, T. S. Eliot, Ronald Firbank, Stephen Hudson, Ford Madox Hueffer, Aldous Huxley, Wyndham Lewis, Katherine Mansfield, Wilfred Owen, Ezra Pound, Herbert Read, Dorothy M. Richardson, Isaac Rosenberg, Frank Rutter, Siegfried Sassoon, Walter Sickert, Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, etc. – as well as illustrations by H. Gaudier-Brzeska, Harold Gilman, Charles Ginner, Nina Hamnett, E. McKnight Kauffer, Wyndham Lewis, John Nash, Paul Nash, C. R. W. Nevinson, Lucien Pissarro, Walter Sickert, Edward Wadsworth, and others. Frank Cass Library of English Little Magazines No. 16, edited by B. C. Bloomfield. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35849 – 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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“SAGAN, Françoise” — [QUOIREZ, Françoise, 1935-2004] : SUNLIGHT ON COLD WATER. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1971). First edition in English of “Un Peu de Soleil dans l’Eau Froide”. Troubled Parisian journalist at the point of despair escapes to the country, where he meets a new and extremely respectable married woman. “A sad love story set in Paris and Limoges, told with brevity, compassion and elegance. Sagan misses nothing” (Daily Mirror, 4th November 1971). “It is when love becomes immoderate that tragedy enters”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44995 – 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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SAROYAN, William, 1908-1991 : THE TROUBLE WITH TIGERS. London : Faber & Faber, (1939). First British edition. Six sequences of Saroyan short stories – “Mr. Saroyan is so diverse, so expressive, that he is never a bore and always amusing ... Seldom cynical, occasionally angry, he is always seeing, watching, understanding, and transposing, into his highly artificial prose that achieves the ultra-natural, the ways, foibles, desires and idiocies of mankind ... he has a spate of words at need and sometimes lets them tumble over one another, but always as trained acrobats, never with casual effect or effort” (Birmingham Daily Post, 21st March 1939). £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45338 – 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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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, the horrors of partition, etc. “Is there nothing more gullible in the whole animal world than a human being? One has this hysterical belief in the non-recurrence of the abysmal, I suppose. One always imagines one has reached the nadir and that the only possible next move is up and out”. £100 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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SHAW, George Bernard, 1856-1950 : THE INTELLIGENT WOMAN’S GUIDE TO SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM. London : Constable & Co., 1928. First edition. “You can introduce almost any measure of Socialism or Communism into England provided you call it by some other name. Propose Socialistic confiscation of the incomes of the rich, and the whole country will rise to repel such Russian wickedness. Call it income-tax, supertax, and estate duties, and you can lift enough hundreds of millions from the pockets of our propertied class to turn the Soviet of Federated Russian Republics green with envy”. Begun as a letter to his sister-in-law, Shaw’s mansplaining apologia for socialism eventually ran to eighty-four chapters. He later claimed that although he had taken “the utmost pains to make it intelligible, clear, lucid, unambiguous, simple, and unmistakeable ... only one man in the civilized world has understood it; and that man is Albert Einstein”. £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45742 – 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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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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SMITH, Dodie (Dorothy Gladys), 1896-1990 : I CAPTURE THE CASTLE. London : William Heinemann, (1949). First British edition. “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining-board” – the travails of Cassandra Mortmain. Her first novel – an eccentric classic brought to an even wider audience by the 2003 film with Bill Nighy, Romola Garai, Rose Byrne, etc. £500 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27004 – or simply click on the button
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SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander (Aleksandr Isaevich), 1918-2008 : STORIES AND PROSE POEMS. London : Bodley Head, (1971). First edition in English. Six novellas and short stories, together with sixteen poems from the winner of 1970 Nobel Prize, “for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature”. Translated by Michael Glenny. “His new collection, with its stoical, plain, inward beauty, movingly reminds us that Solzhenitsyn seems never to have written a line that was not somehow tinged with hope” (Kirkus Review). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45050 – 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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STEIN, Gertrude, 1874-1946 : FERNHURST, Q.E.D., AND OTHER EARLY WRITINGS. New York : Liveright, (1971). First edition. “The three writings issued in this volume — two for the first time and the longer Q.E.D. in a corrected edition — represent the first steps of Gertrude Stein’s literary progress”. “Fernhurst”, begun in 1904, is a fictional account of a scandalous love triangle; the slightly earlier “Q.E.D.” is a suppressed autobiographical novel concerning another love triangle, while the family saga of “The Making of Americans” appears in the form of an unpublished early draft. With a note on the texts by Donald Gallup and a lengthy introduction by Leon Katz. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44991 – or simply click on the button
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THEROUX, Paul (Paul Edward), 1941- : JUNGLE LOVERS. London : Bodley Head, (1971). First British edition. Signed by Paul Theroux on the title-page. An early novel from Theroux, set in Malawi, where he had worked for the Peace Corps in 1963-1965, before being thrown out of both the Peace Corps and Malawi for assisting a political opponent of Hastings Banda to escape the country. The novel, published at just about the time Theroux and his family settled in England, was banned in Malawi for many years. “Linguistic exuberance, imaginative daring, a splendid ear for the rhythms of speech, a keen eye for human oddity” (The Scotsman). £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45048 – 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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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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TRYON, Thomas, 1926-1991 : THE OTHER. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First edition. Inscribed, signed and dated (May 1971) by the author on the front free endpaper. Runaway best-seller success for this first novel from the Hollywood film star — a psychological horror-upon-horror story set in 1930s Connecticut, itself instantly turned into a film. £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45045 – or simply click on the button
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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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UPDIKE, John (John Hoyer), 1932-2009 : RABBIT REDUX. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First edition. The sequel to “Rabbit, Run” (1960), set against the background of the Summer of Love — “Ten years have passed; the athletic escapist has become a paunchy conservative, and Eisenhower’s becalmed America has become 1969’s lurid confusion of technology, fantasy, and emergency. Rabbit is abandoned and mocked, his home is invaded, the world of his childhood decays into a mere sublunar void; still he clings to semblances of patriotism and paternity”. Acclaimed on first publication — “A rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit. A masterpiece” (Time Magazine), “Without doubt, the finest novel John Updike has written” (Julian Symons in the Sunday Times), and acclaimed now, “One of the most gifted American realists ... John Updike’s surpassingly eloquent valentine to his country” (Joyce Carol Oates in 2015). £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44992 – 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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“WESTON, Mary” – [HAWKES, Onèra Amelia Merritt, 1877?-1951] : ONE AMERICAN CHILD : THE BEGINNING OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. London : Allan Wingate, (1949). First trade edition. The charting of a late nineteenth-century American childhood – beautiful mother, feckless father, extremes of fortune – from the redoubtable Mrs Hawkes, trained zoologist, traveller and writer. A “book of uncommonly invigorating charm”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39303 – 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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WILDEBLOOD, Peter, 1923-1999 : WEST END PEOPLE : A NOVEL. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1958). First edition. Wildeblood is best-known for his “Against the Law” (1955) – an account of his imprisonment for homosexuality which led more or less directly to the Wolfenden Report and decriminalisation – but he appears here in much lighter vein with an amusing novel of Soho life – gang warfare interferes with one of the area’s staple industries and Cora and the working girls are obliged to found the National Youth Movement for the Prevention of Hooliganism in Soho (NYMPHS for short). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45824 – 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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