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London, United Kingdom: Macmillan, 2008 339 pages. Original dustjacket not price clipped - on spine of d/j three very small indentations. Pictorial dustjacket. This is the 9th novel in the Fethering Mysteries series. As the title suggests - a body is found in the local bookies has all the mystery and intrigue of a Brett novel. Colin Dexter reviewing the book said: "Murder most enjoyable ... An author who never takes himself that seriously, and for whom any fictional murder can frequently form part of the entertainment industry."

New York, USA: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925 No dustjacket. Some age and shelf wear especially to the boards - edges and corners of the boards rubbed and bumped. Spine sun damaged - spin also has a dark round spot (approx. 1 inch) just over the author's first name. Back and front boards have some slight age spots. Sewing of the inside front and back covers lose. No internal markings, clean text pages. Jazz Age romance and sequel to Meherin's popular novel, Chickie, which served as the basis for the First National Picture starring Dorothy Mackaill.

London, U.K. : Collins, 1930 No dustjacket. Some age and shelf wear - edges of boards worn and corners bumped - spine top and tail worn with a small tear at the top of spine. Boards are burgundy artificial leather. Clean text pages - no internal markings. No date or copyright page in this edition - circa 1930. Part of Collins' "Illustrated Pocket Classics" series. With b/w illustrations. Illustrated by R.W. Matthews; Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. Translated from the French. A French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French author in the world.

London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape, 1998 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY. Tight copy as new never been read - slight age and wear to cover edges - no internal markings. "In Bruce Robertson, Welsh has created one of the most misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction, and has written a dark, disturbing and very funny novel about sleeze, power, and the abuse of everything. At last, a novel that lives up to its name." Welsh is the author of 'Trainspotting' and 'The Acid House'

London, United Kingdom: Heinemann, 1986 [First published 1986]. This edition is now out of print. 218pp. Slight age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped - jacket has slight browning around top edge. Jacket design: Claudia Zeff; illustration by Michael Munday. The top edge has some brown spotting. Clean text pages no internal markings. In this novel the sense of alienation and uncertainty which lies beneath and beyond politics and the struggle for power is compellingly evoked. By exploring the themes of love, loyalty and betrayal, and of tradition versus modernity, Christopher Hope creates a world where illusion and game-playing are not merely a refuge, but the means for self-preservation.

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY for the cased edition. Prepublication first edition. [Probable publication date: 3 July 1989.] 340pp. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Novel set in the near future, by one of the leading white opponents of apartheid in South Africa, who was imprisoned for seven years for terrorism. Widely recognized as South Africa's finest Afrikaner poet, Breytenbach is also a distinguished novelist and artist. He has been awarded numerous prizes (literary and artistic) over his writing career (ie the APB literary prize in 1965; Hertzog Prize for Poetry in 1984, 1999, 2008; and Allan Paton Award for Literature). The Companion to African Literatures describes his writings as "marked by a combination of Kafkaesque skepticism and a celebration of life; images connect surreal worlds to the harsh and brutal realities of apartheid, magical realism to critical realism". This title is now out of print.

London, U.K.: Chatto & Windus, 1935 Age and shelf wear - no dustjacket. Orange boards. Corners and edges of boards rubbed & bumped - spine top and tail rubbed - spine sun faded. One inch whitish mark on spine below title. Otherwise tight binding, no pages missing, no markings to pages, clean text pages.
This was Pritchett's third novel about a provincial tannery and people whose lives are centered around it - the main character: Mathew Burkle. It was based on his own work experience in the leather trade. One of last century's masters of the short story. He was knighted in 1975 and died in 1997 at age 96. The novel is divided into four sections: Book 1: The Innocence of Mathew Burkle; Book 2: The Temptation of Mathew Burkle; Book 3: The Fall of Mathew Burkle; Book 4: The Rise of the Women.

Canada: HarperCollins, 2002 Original dustjacket. Age and shelf wear to d/j - edges worn, corners bumped. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Tight copy. First Edition. Canadian Edition. "Like Jurassic Park, the novel serves as a cautionary tale about developments in science and technology; in this case, nanotechnology, genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. The book features relatively new advances in the computing/scientific community, such as artificial life, emergence (and by extension, complexity), genetic algorithms, and agent-based computing. The novel is narrated by the protagonist Jack Forman, who is an unemployed software programmer who used to work for a company called Media Tronics when he was fired for discovering an internal scandal."

London, United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2004 Original dustjacket not price clipped. Tight copy, clean text pages, no internal markings. Dustjacket edges slightly rubbed, small scratch on the back of the d/j (approx 1 inch). Was first published in the UK in 2002 by SixForty Press as 'The Bones in the Womb'. It was shortlisted for the Encore Award in 2003. This is an intense story of a fifteen year old girl whose abductor decides after twelve years to return her to her parents. It is a riveting meditation on the themes of loss and reunion, parents and children, and nature versus nurture.

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOFS FOR THE CASED EDITION (on front cover states "probable publication date 4 September 1989"). Prepublication First Edition. Blue soft cover. 330pp. Clean text pages with no internal markings. Anthology of tales of love lost and found, letters on marriage and fatherhood, together with reflections on cigarette-smoking, baseball and the perils of nearsightedness, including six new pieces - some of the selections were written for The New Yorker. Keillor states that the stories are "at the time of Ronald Reagan, the President who never told bad news to the American people". Garrison Keillor is an American storyteller, humourist, columnist, satirist and radio personality. The host of "A Prairie Home Companion" on the Minnesota Public Radio Show - heard in Britain on BBC 7 "Garrision Keillor's Radio Show". He wrote and appeared in Robert Altman's final film, A Prairie Home Companion… Read More