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London : Bodley Head, (1971). First edition. “A novel about obsession, about a pervading fear of reality, and the fantasies that are invited in their place” (publisher’s blurb) — “William Trevor’s best book yet. Poor Miss Gomez stepped from her Jamaican orphanage to serve behind the counter in Bourne & Hollingsworth, then to the top floor of a Soho brothel” (Victoria Brittain in the Illustrated London News, 1st December 1971).
Post 8vo (21cm). (292)pp. Original lavender boards, lettered in gilt; just lightly bruised; some spotting of top edge, but a very good and sound copy in the Michael Harvey dust-jacket — the jacket very good, clean and unworn.

£100

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London : Bodley Head, (1975). First edition. “Good short stories are hard to come by, but when William Trevor produces a new collection one can be sure that they are more than merely good”. Twelve stories, including the title story, as well as “Afternoon Dancing”, “Mrs Silly”, “Office Romances”, etc.
Post 8vo (21cm). (254),[ii]pp. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt; faint spine crease; a few faint spots, but overall a very good copy in the original John Walsh dust-jacket – also very good, fresh and unworn.

£100

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London : Bodley Head, (1980). First edition. Julia Ferndale in Gloucestershire – pleasant, widowed, middle-aged – and Francis Tyte, actor, from a far less pleasant world. The nature of victims, saints, fools, and the nature of perpetrators.
Post 8vo (21cm). (244),[iv]pp. Original maroon boards, lettered in gilt; top edge spotted, but a very good copy in the Hilary Scott dust-jacket – just a touch sunned, but also very good.

£50

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London : Bodley Head, (1981). First edition. A collection of a dozen short stories, including “Downstairs at Fitzgerald’s”, “Sunday Drinks”, “The Paradise Lounge”, etc. “Good short stories are hard to come by, but when William Trevor produces a new collection one can be sure that they are more than merely good”.
Post 8vo (21cm). (256)pp. Original orange boards, lettered in gilt; a few faint signs of age and use, but overall a very good copy in the Michael Harvey and Les Wies dust-jacket – also very good indeed.

£75

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London : Bodley Head, (1990). First edition. A collection of a dozen short stories, including “In Love with Ariadne”, “Honeymoon in Tramore”, “Coffee with Oliver”, etc – “the bewildering complexities of the human condition ... devastating insight, elegiac compassion and densely textured economy”.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (252),[iv]pp. Original blue boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; tiny mark on p.122, but otherwise a very good copy in the dust-jacket – a design featuring a landscape by Paul Camille Guigou – very slightly marked at fore-edges but otherwise very good indeed.

£50

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Alton : Clarion Publishing, [1996]. First edition : one of 249 numbered copies (ex 499) in hardback signed by both author and illustrator. A Trevor short story of marriage in youth and marriage in age, with colour illustrations by Paul Hogarth.
Demy 8vo (22cm). (20)pp. Three illustrations, one double-page. Original terracotta boards, lettered and decorated in black. A very good copy of an attractive production.

£75

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London : Colophon Press, 1997. First edition : one of 200 copies (ex 232) finely printed on mould-made paper, and numbered and signed by William Trevor. “The roomful of important men expectantly await the one whom another has already dubbed the party’s ghost ...” – a Trevor short story.
Royal 8vo (26cm). [ii],26,[ii],[2]pp. Original blue stiff wrappers; paper label; a fine copy.

£75

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London : Viking, (2004). First edition. A collection of a dozen short stories, eight set in Ireland and the other four in a more secular London, “toying with the impact and debris of affairs and ill-judged attachments” (James Urquhart).
Demy 8vo (23cm). [vi],(246),[iv]pp. Original black boards, lettered in gilt; just a hint of bruising, but otherwise a very good copy in the photographic Chris Harrison dust-jacket, also very good.

£50

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