Search Results: Books from TBCL The Book Collection Library

Lafayette: Perdu University (1969), 1969. Soft cover. Soft cover. Original decorated wraps. Contains Critical Studies by: Benstock, White, Jenkins, Herring, Steinberg, Geckle, Murphy and a Checklist of Joyce Criticism compiled by Phillip F. Herring, Maurice Beebe and Walter Litz. Fine.

Lafayette: Perdu University (1958), 1958. Soft cover. Soft cover. Original decorated wraps. Contains Critical Studies by: Litz, Kaye, Redford, Aitken Russell, Bierman and a 20 page Checklist of Joyce Criticism. Fine.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Raban, Jonathan. OLD GLORY An American Voyage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. 8vo., 312pp. A fine copy in like dustwrapper. Neat name to second free endpaper.

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Marah Ellis Ryan. TOLD IN THE HILLS. A NOVEL. Chicago Rand, McNally,1905. Publisher's decorative designed & blocked green cloth. 8vo., 362pp. First Edition, second printing. Sm. 8vo., 362pp. A very good or better copy showing light use at the spine extremities & tips. This novel is set in New Orleans & the Pacific Northwest.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1978), 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. A fine copy in pc dustwrapper. An excellent encyclopaedic compilation of the vast field of the paranormal. An outstanding, fascinating & readable modern metaphysical reference. With Notes & bibliography.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1991), 1991. Soft cover. Soft cover. Advance Uncorrected Proof Copy by this highly acclaimed, seasoned novelist, essayist, reviewer and tennis aficionado, whose cudos from authors Graham Greene, Larry McMurtry, William Styron, Robert Pen Warren, Pat Conroy and James Jones have proven w ell-deserved. Once again, Mewshaw brings to his craft a unique voice, introducing 'literary journalism' to his crime fiction, as investigative reporter, Tom Hiller, Jr., akin to Woodward and Bernstein and Joe McGinnis, returns home to his native Ba l timore to solve the murder of his own father. 8vo. 288 pp. Fine in wraps as issued.

New York: Harpercollins, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Raban, Jonathan. HUNTING MISTER HEARTBREAK: A Discovery of America. New York: Harpercollins, 1991. First American Edition. 8vo., a fine copy in like dustwrapper.

New York, [1949]: Permabooks, 1949. 1st Edition, Thus. Soft cover. 1st Edition, Thus. Soft cover. [Faulkner, William] STORIES FOR MEN. New York (1949). 12mo., 244pp. First Permabooks Edition. Edited by Charles Grayson. With Faulkner, Caldwell, Burnett, Cain, Farrell, Edmonds, etc. An unusual format for a paperback in hardcover glossy prited boards. A fine copy with the usual light brownig to the text endemic to every copy. Very uncommon. Contains TURN ABOUT by Faulkner.

London: Collins, The Crime Club, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn mystery. A near fine copy in black cloth, (tiny bump to the top and bottom edge of the front board) gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh neatly price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper with some overall light use. 8vo. 277 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. 8vo., pp. 275. Beige cloth backed peach boards, A fine copy in the delicate copper & silver coloured dustwrapper marred only marginally by the presence of a lightly stamp RH/house remainder ma rk on the bottom edge. Lovely copy.

London: Hamish Hamilton, (1952), 1952. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Hardcover. First Edition. Thick 8vo., pp. 1033. Original orange cloth, gilt lettering on the spine. First book appearance in England of Salinger's "For Esme- With Love and Squalor, " In England, "Nine Stories" was published as " Esme-With Love and Squalor " in 1953, by Hamish Hamilton. Stephen Spender devotes an important essay on Bloomsbury and James Thurber contributes five stories (Bowden D213). With contributions by many others as well. A near fine, lightly spine-faded copy lacking the dustwrapper . Reprinting many of the most famous stories first printed by Hamilton.

New York: New Direction, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Trade Edition of Williams second book of poetry. 8vo., pp. 93. Aquamarine cloth. Title stamped in silver on the spine. The pictorial dustwrapper is a reproduction of one of Williams' paintings. The last poem, 'Tangier': The Speechless Summer' , is dedicated to Paul and Jane Bowles. A fine fresh copy.

London: Michael Joseph, (1983), 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. A fine copy in pc dustwrapper.

London: Cassell, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Cleeve Brian. HESTER. London: Cassell, 1979. 8vo., 377pp. First Edition. A fine fresh copy in illustrated dustwrapper with wraparound colour art depicting a Revolutionary battle scene. "Mr. Cleeve's powers of story-telling have developed even more surely: this is his most fiery, most dramatic novel yet. in Hester he has created a character with a truth and a depth of passion which bring her vibrantly alive." A novel of the French Revolution & its times.

London: Collins, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Raban, Jonathan. FOR LOVE & MONEY. Writing. Reading. Travelling. 1969-1987. London: Collins Harvill, 1987. A fine copy in like dustwrapper. The author gave up teaching in 1969 to become a professional writer. This book is a record of nearly twenty years in the trade, the picaresque adventure story of a life in print: setting up shop as a writer; pubs, little magazines; hunting commission.

London: Faber and Faber, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Durrell, Lawrence. SICILIAN CAROUSEL. London: .Faber and Faber, 1977. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. "Sicilian Carousel is the personal perception of a place and a people by an artist who has the selectivity to see and the style to decribe what he sees as well as any prosodist currently writing." - Harper's.

London: Michael Joseph, (1983), 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. A fine copy in dustwrapper [with a small closed tear].

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983, 1983. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. First Edition of Ephrom's "wickedly funny" first novel. 8vo., pp. 183. A fine fresh copy in duswrapper. The perfect recipe for the entertaining film starring Jack Nicholson & Meryl Streep.

NY: Viking, (1989), 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition of Chatwin's personal selection of his own stories, profiles and travelogues. Published posthumously. 8vo. Fine in a fine dustwrapper.

New York: Viking, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. 8vo., pp. 293. Purple topstain as required. A fine copy in dustwrapper, publisher's (file copy) stamp of Penguin Book, Markham, Canada on front pastedown. Author's superb fourth book. A profoundly philosophical and speculativ e book on man and nature in Aboriginal Australia.