No Longer at Ease
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£500.00
No Longer at Ease
By Chinua Achebe
First edition, first impression. The author’s second work and the second book in the African Trilogy.
Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A little fading to top portion of upper board with a spine slant and gift inscription to front endpaper, otherwise very good.
The original dust jacket is price-clipped with some fading to the spine panel and soiling, primarily to flap folds, and a couple of nicks to top edge and some browning to verso.
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Categories: First Edition, Modern First Editions
No Longer at Ease
By Chinua Achebe
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The BFG
Children's Fiction, First Edition, Modern First Editions, Roald Dahl
The BFG
By Roald Dahl
First edition, first impression, published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape with illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Original grey cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A near fine book with a bump to the bottom edge of upper board and very light toning to edges.
The original and unclipped dust jacket has a soft crease to the top portion of spine panel and to lower flap with a very small nick to spine foot and to top edge of lower flap, otherwise very good or better.
£150.00
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The Earthsea Trilogy
First Edition, Modern First Editions, Science Fiction, Ursula Le Guin
The Earthsea Trilogy
By Ursula Le Guin
Three Volumes. First UK editions, first impressions, published between 1971 to 1973 by Victor Gollancz. A highlight series of high fantasy.
A Wizard of Earthsea:
Original brown cloth with lettering to spine in gilt with green endpapers and paste-downs. A near fine book with light spotting to edges, but contents entirely clean otherwise. The original and unclipped dust jacket is also near fine with the slightest hint of fading to the spine panel, some marginal toning to verso and a few unobtrusive marks to top fore-edges.
The Tombs of Atuan:
Original blue cloth with lettering to spine in gilt with pale green endpapers and paste-downs. Light spotting to edges with a few spots to front and rear endpapers and paste-downs, else near fine in a near fine and unclipped dust jacket with some very moderate fading to spine panel and marginal toning to verso with a hint of rubbing to spine head, else near fine.
The Farthest Shore:
Original grey cloth with lettering to spine in gilt and purple map endpapers and paste-downs. Near fine with some spotting to edges in a near fine dust jacket with minor fading to the spine panel and marginal, light spotting to verso.
A very attractive and uniquely well-preserved set.
£2,250.00
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The Harry Palmer Books: Ipcress File, Horse Under Water, Funeral in Berlin, Billion Dollar Brain
Crime and Thriller, First Edition, Modern First Editions, Showcase, Signed First Editions
The Harry Palmer Books
By Len Deighton
Four Volumes. All first editions, first impressions, published between 1962-1966. Vol I is the correct first issue, without the reviews. Vol II contains the rare crossword competition insert (here blank). Volume I is inscribed by the author to the title page with the note from the author “there are not many copies of this edition!”
Orange, red, black and blue boards, consecutively; lettered in gilt to spines with publisher’s devices to foot; Vol II and III with classification stamp in colour and blind to upper board; Vol IV with white brail design to upper cover, and in the iconic silver dust jacket; all dust jackets unclipped, and designed by Raymond Hawkey; decorative endpapers in all but Vol I; the books generally very good to near-fine, clean, with some mild pushing to spine tips and marking to outer edges of the text block; small stain to p. 11 of Vol I; the wrappers with some darkening to edges and pushing to spine tips; a couple of small creases, nicks and closed tears; front flap of Vol II with paper flaw causing crease and particularly obscuring the price; Vol III a little more rubbed to spine ends, and faint spotting to inside flap; Vol IV a little more creased to the flaps, and lightly rubbed to rear panel.
Deighton’s pinnacle works, and the books which “challenged the nature of British spy fiction”. The series follows protagonist Harry Palmer through a variety of challenges and settings, which include Cold War brainwashing, atomic weapons tests, ice-melting technology, secret plots, murders, and eggs contaminated with a deadly virus.
Inspired by his experiences working for an advertising agency (when he was the only employee not to have been educated at Eton), Deighton wrote a novel based around a gritty, nameless, working-class protagonist who he later named Harry Palmer. The character proved hugely popular with the British public, the success of which the author (modestly) puts down to the fact that The Ipcress File was published in the same year as Fleming’s Dr. No. As well as this series, Palmer also featured in a series of later novels, including An Expensive Place to Die (1967) and Spy Story (1972). Of the present four books, Horse Under Water was the only one not to be adapted to film. The others all starred Michael Caine in the lead role.
Deighton famously avoids book signings, interviews and literary festivals, making signed copies of his works rare indeed.
£2,750.00
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The Sea, The Sea
First Edition, Iris Murdoch, Modern First Editions, Signed First Editions
The Sea, The Sea
By Iris Murdoch
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1978.
Original green cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket with a closed tear to bottom corner of upper flap with associated tape repair to verso and a few fairly faint spot to top of front and rear flaps. Rare signed.
£875.00