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London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1987 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY for the hardback and paperback editions. Prepublication first edition. [Probable publication date 3 August 1987.] Green soft cover. 69pp. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Gross is a well-known English poet and novelist who writes for both teenagers and adults. His poetry collection The Wasting Game was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. This title is now out of print in both hard and paperback editions.

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: 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, 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

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY for the cased and paperback editions (actually copied by Faber from corrected page proofs). Prepublication first edition. [Probable publication date: 18 September 1989.] 55pp. Green soft cover. Clean text pages. "Wolfwatching" was Hughes' 14th collection of poetry - he digs deeply into his own childhood and his family history, as well as writing about nature's violence and the meaning he finds in it. Included in the collection is the poem "The Black Rhino" written for the purpose of raising funds to save this endangered animal. The Library Journal considered reading Wolfwatching was "like visiting a zoo envisioned by Hieronymus Bosch: we're caught between fright and fascination". He was married to the American poet Sylvia Plath until her death in 1963. Ted Hughes is considered one of England's finest modern poets - winning the Whitbread Book of the Year in two… Read More