Fiction published since 1975
(mostly modern first editions)
Abelman, Paul: Tornado Pratt — Gollancz, 1977, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; red cloth; 223pp; 8x5½". $15 Add to Shopping Cart (fca001)
Alther, Lisa: Kinflicks — Knopff, 1976, with dust cover (a few small tears); white boards with red cloth spine in mint condition; 503pp; 8½x5¾". $21 Add to Shopping Cart (fca002)
Ambler, Eric : The Care of Time — Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1981, 1st edn; in mint condition, with dust cover, dark grey cloth boards; vi+250pp; 'The warning message arrived on Monday, the bomb itself on Wednesday. It became a busy week.' Thus Robert Halliday, ghost-writer, television reporter and man with a past in the world of subterfuge, is drawn into a complex international web of intrigue. 8¾x5¾". $12.00 Add to Shopping Cart (fca078)
Amis, Kingsley: Russian Hide-and-Seek — a melodrama — Hutchinson, 1980, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; blue cloth; 240pp; 8¾x5½". $25 Add to Shopping Cart (fca003)
Amis, Martin: Success — Jonathan Cape, 1978; 1st edn, with dust cover; mint condition; black cloth boards; 224pp; 8x5". $150 Add to Shopping Cart (fca004)
Baxter, John: Bidding — Granada, 1980, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; brown cloth; 410pp, the novel that took the lid off the shenanigans in the high-class auction-house business; 8¾x5¾". $14 Add to Shopping Cart (fca005)
Brown, Christy: Wild Grow the Lilies, an antic novel — Secker & Warburg, 1976, 1st edn, with dust cover in fine condition; brown cloth in mint condition; vi+304pp; 8¾x5½". $23 Add to Shopping Cart (fca008)
Callow, Philip: Janine — John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1977, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; violet cloth; 148pp; 8x5¼". $16 Add to Shopping Cart (fca009)
Canetti, Elias: Earwitness — Fifty Characters translated by Joachim Neugroschel — André Deutsch, 1979, 1st UK edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; grey cloth; viii+102pp; 8¾x5½". $36 Add to Shopping Cart (fca010)
Catling, Patrick Skene: Bliss Incorporated — Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; violet cloth; 196pp; 8x5¼". $16 Add to Shopping Cart (fca011)
Coleman, Terry: Southern Cross — Hutchinson, 1979, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; blue cloth; 446pp; 8¾x5½". $16 Add to Shopping Cart (fca012)
Cook, Lennox: The Manipulator — Michael Joseph, 1978, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; black cloth; 254pp; 8x5¼". $14 Add to Shopping Cart (fca013)
Cope, Jack: My Son Max — Heinemann, 1977, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; brown cloth; 276pp; 8¾x5½". $15 Add to Shopping Cart (fca014)
Coward, Noel : A Withered Nosegay — Carroll & Graf, NY,1987, 1st trade paperback edn; in mint condition with laminated pictorial card covers; 267+5pp ads; three brilliant parodies, reproduced in facsimile from the 1920s originals. Withered Nosegay (1922) is a collection of 10 brief biographies of improbable historical women. Chelsea Buns (1925) is a scathing parody of Edith Sitwell, or "Hernia Whittlebot" in Coward's version; and Spangled Unicorn (1932) is a wicked parody of a "little mag" devoted to [very] modern verse. 7¾x5". $4.00 Add to Shopping Cart (fca083)
Cunninghame Graham, R.B.: Beattock for Moffatt, and the best of R.B. Cunninghame Graham — Paul Harris, Edinburgh, 1979, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; brown cloth; vi+158pp+2pp biblio; 8¾x5¾". $22 Add to Shopping Cart (fca015)
Dahl, Roald: My Uncle Oswald — Michael Joseph, 1979, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; blue cloth; 223pp; 8¾x5¾". $21 Add to Shopping Cart (fca016)
Denham, Lord (Bertie): The Man Who Lost His Shadow — Macmillan, 1979, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; green cloth (a thriller by a retired Lord Chief Justice of England); 224pp; 8x5". $14 Add to Shopping Cart (fca017)
Doctorow, E. L.: Ragtime — Macmillan, 1976; 1st UK edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; olive green cloth; xii+270pp; 8¾x5¾". $50 Add to Shopping Cart (fca019)
Elliott, Janice: The Honey Tree — Hodder & Stoughton, 1978, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; green cloth; 224pp; 8¾x5¾". $16 Add to Shopping Cart (fca020)
Elliott, Janice: The Honey Tree – Hodder & Stoughton, 1978, 1st edn, with dust cover, in near-mint condition, slight tear at top of front b oard; green cloth in mint condition; 224pp; 8¾x5½". $13 Add to Shopping Cart (fca075)
Fielding, Gabriel: Pretty Doll Houses — Hutchinson, 1979, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; brown cloth; 263pp; 8x5¼". $14 Add to Shopping Cart (fca021)
Flanagan, Thomas : The Tenants of Time – ; Bantam Press, 1988, 1st edn ; in mint condition, with dust jacket, red cloth; 746+5pp character list; The Tenants of Time is a work on a grand scale, told with all the grace and dramatic style of the author's previous bestseller The Year of the French. Set during three pivotal decades of Irish history, it focuses on four men who take part in the ill-fated Fenian uprising of 1867 and traces the effect on their lives of the battle of Clonbrony Wood; 9½x6¼". $25.00 Add to Shopping Cart (fca401)
Gardam, Jane: The Sidmouth Letters — Hamish Hamilton, 1980, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; dark brown cloth; 168pp, short stories; 8x5¼". $27 Add to Shopping Cart (fca022)
Gardner, John: The Nostradamus Traitor — Hodder & Stoughton, 1979, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; black cloth; 280pp; 9x5¾". $10 Add to Shopping Cart (fca023)
Gillett, Leslie: The Apprentice — Gollancz, 1978, 1st edn, with dust cover, in fine condition; blue cloth, scuffed along top of front board; 238pp; 8x5¼". $13 Add to Shopping Cart (fca026)
Gillott, Jacky: The Head Case — Hodder & Stoughton, 1979, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; grey cloth; 352pp; 8¾x5¾". $14 Add to Shopping Cart (fca028)
Gordon, Richard: The Sleep of Life — Heinemann, 1975, 1st edn, with dust cover, in near-mint condition; brown cloth; vi+306pp; 8¾x5¾". $10 Add to Shopping Cart (fca029)
Haines, Pamela: Men on White Horses — Collins, 1978, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; grey cloth; 290pp; 8½x5½". $12 Add to Shopping Cart (fca030)
Halls, Geraldine: The last summer of the men shortage — Constable, 1976, 1st edn, with dust cover in near-mint condition; brown cloth in mint condition; 211pp; 8x5¼". $10 Add to Shopping Cart (fca031)
Heath, Lamorna : Candida Rising — Michael Joseph, 1978, 1st edn; with dust jacket, in mint condition apart from a small tear on the fold of the rear blurb, prussian blue cloth boards; 240pp; Seventeen, convent- bred, and still a virgin, delectable Candida sets out to shed her innocence – with a fashionable painter with twenty years' depravity behind him. A Greek island provides passion laced with violence; a pornographic camera session with a hip American photographer; the patronage of a zany Texan millionairess; the attentions of a camp interior designer ... you get the picture; this writer's first novel; 8¾x5½". $36.00 Add to Shopping Cart (fca079)
Humphreys, Emyr: The Best of Friends — Hodder & Stoughton, 1978, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; brown cloth; 412pp; 8¾x5¾". $10 Add to Shopping Cart (fca032)
Hutchinson, R.C. and Martyn Skinner: Two Men of Letters their correspondence, edited and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis — Michael Joseph, 1979, 1st edn, with dust cover in mint condition; black cloth; 219pp+5pp biblio, index, frontis portraits; 8¾x5½". $12 Add to Shopping Cart (fca033)
Hutchinson, R.C.: A Child Possessed — Michael Joseph, 1977, new edn, with dust cover in mint condition; black cloth; 351pp; 8x5". $9 Add to Shopping Cart (fca034)
Hutchinson, R.C.: Johanna at Daybreak — Michael Joseph, 1980, new edn, with dust cover in mint condition; blue cloth; 314pp; 8x5". $11 Add to Shopping Cart (fca035)
Jaffe, Rona : Mazes and Monsters – Hodder and Stoughton, 1982, 1st English edn; with dust jacket in near-mint condition (one small tear on back fold), blue cloth in mint condition, 329pp; Kate, Jay Jay, Daniel, and Robbie were four friends brought together by their obsession with a game of the imagination. Together they created a world of invented terrors and glittering prizes. Alone, each stepped into the darkest part of the mind to find forbidden places and sinister truths. They could have been anybody's children: attractive young students sent to college to prepare for life ...; 8 ¾x5 ½". $14.00 Add to Shopping Cart (fca902)
Keily, Benedict: Nothing Happens in Carmincross — David R.Godine, Boston, 1st US edn; with dust cover in mint condition; cream- coloured boards with brown cloth spine in mint condition; viii+280pp; 8½x5¾". $10.00 Add to Shopping Cart (fca077)
Kirst, Hans Helmut: The Affairs of the Generals translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn — Coward, McCann Geoghegan, 1979, 1st US edn, with dust cover, in near-mint condition; red boards with brown cloth spine; 253pp; 9¼x6¼". $14 Add to Shopping Cart (fca037)
Lewis, Wyndham: The Revenge for Love — Secker & Warburg / The Arts Council, 1982; with dust cover, in mint condition; orange cloth; xvi+378pp; 9x5¾". $8 Add to Shopping Cart (fca040)
Lively, Penelope: Nothing Missing but the Samovar (and other stories) — Heinemann, 1978, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; red cloth; 200pp; 8¾x5¾". $74 Add to Shopping Cart (fca041)
Loosley, William Robert: An Account of a Meeting with Denizens of Another World, 1871 edited and with commentary by David Langford — David & Charles, 1979, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; black cloth; 94pp+2pp biblio — a highly successful spoof describing a flying- saucer visit to a hill outside High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, in 1871, written so brilliantly by Langford that millions of people out there still refuse to believe his claim to authorship; cult collectable; 8¾x5¾". $118 Add to Shopping Cart (fca042)
MacColla, Fionn: The Ministers — Souvenir Press, 1979, 1st edn (posthumous), with dust cover, in mint condition; indigo cloth; vi+262pp; 8x5¼". $10 Add to Shopping Cart (fca043)
Manning, Mary: The Last Chronicles of Ballyfungus — Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1978; 1st edn with dust cover, in mint condition; brown cloth boards; viii+276pp; 8¾x5½". $22 Add to Shopping Cart (fca044)
Manning, Olivia: The Danger Tree — Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1977, 1st edn, with dust cover in fine condition (one tear in front cover at top); powder blue cloth in mint condition; 196pp; 8¾x5¾". $14 Add to Shopping Cart (fca045)
May, Derwent: A Revenger's Comedy — Chatto & Windus, 1979, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; plum coloured cloth; 192pp; 8x5½". $11 Add to Shopping Cart (fca046)
Miller, Henry: Opus Pistorum — Grove Press, NY, 1983, 1st hardcover edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; black boards with black cloth spine; 288pp; 8½x5¾". $55 Add to Shopping Cart (fca047)
Miller, Henry: Crazy Cock — Grove Press / Weidenfeld, NY, 1991, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; green boards with black cloth spine; xxxii+202pp; 8½x5¾". $40 Add to Shopping Cart (fca048)
Miller, Henry: Moloch, or This Gentile World — Grove Press, NY, 1992, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; grey boards with mulberry cloth spine; xviii+266pp; 8½x5¾". $42 Add to Shopping Cart (fca049)
Moorsom, Sasha: A Lavender Trip — John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1976, 1st edn, with dust cover in fine condition (a few small tears); brown cloth in mint condition; 204pp; 8x5¼". $10 Add to Shopping Cart (fca050)
Mulkerns, Val: A Friend of Don Juan — short stories — John Murray, 1988, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; black cloth; x+197pp; 8¾x5½". $11 Add to Shopping Cart (fca051)
O'Faoláin, Sean: And Again — Constable, 1979; 1st edn with dust cover, in mint condition; oatmeal cloth with silver-blocked lettering; 288pp; 8¾x5¼". $38 Add to Shopping Cart (fca054)
Pargeter, Edith: The Marriage of Meggotta — Macmillan, 1979, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; green cloth; 320pp, family tree in endpapers; 8x5". $10 Add to Shopping Cart (fca055)
Plumb, R.T.: A Pebble from Rome — Duckworth, 1977, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; crimson cloth; 194pp; 8¾x5½". $12 Add to Shopping Cart (fca056)
Popescu, Petro: Before and After Edith — Quartet, 1978, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; red cloth; vi+250pp; 8¾x5½". $12 Add to Shopping Cart (fca057)
Raphael, Frederic: Sleeps Six and other stories — Jonathan Cape, 1979, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; grey cloth; 128pp; 8¼x5¼". $32 Add to Shopping Cart (fca059)
Sharpe, Tom: The Wilt Alternative — Secker & Warburg, 1979; 1st edn with dust cover, mint condition; red cloth; viii+212pp; 8¾x5½". $30 Add to Shopping Cart (fca062)
Spencer, Scott: Endless Love — Jonathan Cape, 1980, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; blue cloth; 418pp; hard to find in this condition; 8¾x5¾". $40 Add to Shopping Cart (fca063)
Storey, David: Savill — Jonathan Cape, 1976, 2nd imp, with dust cover, in mint condition; green cloth; 506pp; 8¾x5¾". $16 Add to Shopping Cart (fca065)
Storr, Catherine: Tales from a Psychiatrist's Couch — Quartet, 1977, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; red cloth; viii+152pp; 8¾x5¾". $10 Add to Shopping Cart (fca066)
Target, G.W.: The Triumph of Vice — Duckworth, 1976, 1st edn, with dust cover, in near-mint condition; brown cloth; vi+213pp; 8¾x5½". $12 Add to Shopping Cart (fca067)
Theroux, Paul: Picture Palace — Hamish Hamilton, 1978, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; orange cloth; viii+359pp; 8x5¼". $43 Add to Shopping Cart (fca068)
Townsend Warner, Sylvia: Mr Fortune's Maggot — Virago Modern Classics, facsimile edition, trade paperback in laminated pictorial card covers, 1978, in mint condition; 250pp; 7¾x5". $6 Add to Shopping Cart (fca070)
Waterhouse, Keith: In the Mood – Michael Joseph, 1983, 1st edn, with dust cover in near-mint condition; viridian green cloth in mint condition; iv+250pp; 8¾x5¾". $13 Add to Shopping Cart (fca901)
Weldon, Fay: Praxis — Hodder & Stoughton, 1978, 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; crimson cloth; 269pp; 8¾x5½". $42 Add to Shopping Cart (fca071)
White, Antonia: Frost in May — Virago Modern Classics, reset edition, trade paperback in laminated pictorial card covers, 1978, in mint condition; 271pp; 7¾x5". $6 Add to Shopping Cart (fca072)
