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Modern First Editions. A large collection of upwards of 1800 volumes of modern literature, with many authors represented by extensive collections of their works, the volumes including, but not limited to:
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Modern First Editions. A large collection of upwards of 1800 volumes of modern literature, with many authors represented by extensive collections of their works, the volumes including, but not limited to:
literature & poetry: Siegfried Sassoon (The Path to Peace, 1 of 500 copies; Vigils, one of 272 copies in niger morocco; Lenten Illuminations; The Road to Ruin; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, 1 of 750 copies), T.E. Lawrence (The Mint, 1 of 2000 copies), Hugh Walpole (extensive collection, some in jackets or remains of jackets), E.M. Forster, Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden, Jon Wain, Denton Welch, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Treece, Edward Upward, William Plomer, Jocelyn Brooke, John Masefield (Sard Harker; Odtaa), John Buchan (The House of the Four Winds; Sick Heart River), Robert Graves (Penny Puce), William Golding, Keith Douglas, John Masefield, Paul Theroux (Girls at Play; The Mosquito Coast; The Family Arsenal; The Black House), Paul Bailey, Melvyn Bragg, Kingsley Amis, John Fowles, Angus Wilson, A.N. Wilson, Alun Lewis, Francis King, Elizabeth Taylor, Ronald Frame, Peter Green, Compton Mackenzie, R.F. Delderfield, John Braine, Christopher Isherwood, Robin Maugham, Nancy Mitford, Jennifer Johnston, W. Somerset Maugham, Wilfred Owen, Piers Paul Read, Forrest Reid, Graham Greene, Lawrence Durrell, William Boyd (An Ice-Cream War), Graham Swift, Alan Hollinghurst (The Swimming-Pool Library), T.H. White (Gone to Ground; England have my Bones; The Master), Bruce Chatwin (Utz; The Songlines, What am I doing Here?), Lindsay Clarke, Gore Vidal, David Guterson, Iain Pears, Tim Parks, Jonathan Coe, David Plante and others crime, adventure and historical fiction: P.D. James (An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, Shroud for a Nightingale, Death of an Expert Witness, The Black Tower), Linsdey Davis (Shadows in Bronze, The Iron Hand of Mars), Francis Clifford, Nicholas Freeling, Peter Dickinson, Berkeley Mather, 'Bryher'' Simon Shaw, Wilbur Smith, Andrew Taylor, George Shipway, Peter Driscoll, Gerald Seymour, Morris West, P.F. Chisholm, Lionel Davidson, Janwillem van de Wetering, John Lawton, Colin Dexter (The Dead of Jericho), Philip Kerr, Philip Hook, Anthony Price, Robert Harris, Mark Hebden, Robert Richardson, Rupert Ridpath, Alan Scholefield, Nicholas Blake, Hugh Fleetwood, Desmond Bagley, Gerald Hanley, Robert Ludlum, Patrick Ruell, Reginald Hill, Ken Follett, and others travel: Colin Thubron, Norman Lewis, Laurens van der Post and others
8vo, chiefly first editions (a few later editions or re-issues, a small number of reprints), original cloth bindings, the vast majority in dust-jackets (except where not called for) (a quantity)
literature & poetry: Siegfried Sassoon (The Path to Peace, 1 of 500 copies; Vigils, one of 272 copies in niger morocco; Lenten Illuminations; The Road to Ruin; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, 1 of 750 copies), T.E. Lawrence (The Mint, 1 of 2000 copies), Hugh Walpole (extensive collection, some in jackets or remains of jackets), E.M. Forster, Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden, Jon Wain, Denton Welch, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Treece, Edward Upward, William Plomer, Jocelyn Brooke, John Masefield (Sard Harker; Odtaa), John Buchan (The House of the Four Winds; Sick Heart River), Robert Graves (Penny Puce), William Golding, Keith Douglas, John Masefield, Paul Theroux (Girls at Play; The Mosquito Coast; The Family Arsenal; The Black House), Paul Bailey, Melvyn Bragg, Kingsley Amis, John Fowles, Angus Wilson, A.N. Wilson, Alun Lewis, Francis King, Elizabeth Taylor, Ronald Frame, Peter Green, Compton Mackenzie, R.F. Delderfield, John Braine, Christopher Isherwood, Robin Maugham, Nancy Mitford, Jennifer Johnston, W. Somerset Maugham, Wilfred Owen, Piers Paul Read, Forrest Reid, Graham Greene, Lawrence Durrell, William Boyd (An Ice-Cream War), Graham Swift, Alan Hollinghurst (The Swimming-Pool Library), T.H. White (Gone to Ground; England have my Bones; The Master), Bruce Chatwin (Utz; The Songlines, What am I doing Here?), Lindsay Clarke, Gore Vidal, David Guterson, Iain Pears, Tim Parks, Jonathan Coe, David Plante and others crime, adventure and historical fiction: P.D. James (An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, Shroud for a Nightingale, Death of an Expert Witness, The Black Tower), Linsdey Davis (Shadows in Bronze, The Iron Hand of Mars), Francis Clifford, Nicholas Freeling, Peter Dickinson, Berkeley Mather, 'Bryher'' Simon Shaw, Wilbur Smith, Andrew Taylor, George Shipway, Peter Driscoll, Gerald Seymour, Morris West, P.F. Chisholm, Lionel Davidson, Janwillem van de Wetering, John Lawton, Colin Dexter (The Dead of Jericho), Philip Kerr, Philip Hook, Anthony Price, Robert Harris, Mark Hebden, Robert Richardson, Rupert Ridpath, Alan Scholefield, Nicholas Blake, Hugh Fleetwood, Desmond Bagley, Gerald Hanley, Robert Ludlum, Patrick Ruell, Reginald Hill, Ken Follett, and others travel: Colin Thubron, Norman Lewis, Laurens van der Post and others
8vo, chiefly first editions (a few later editions or re-issues, a small number of reprints), original cloth bindings, the vast majority in dust-jackets (except where not called for) (a quantity)