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  1. JAMES  P.D. Innocent Blood. pub. Lond. Faber 1980  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.276.    Price: $50.00
     
  2. JAMES  P.D. The Skull Beneath The Skin. pub.  Lond.  Faber 1982 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.384. very small crease  to rear fold-over of d/w. otherwise a very good copy.   Price:  $45.00
     
  3. JAMES P.D. A Taste For Death. pub. N.Y. Knopf 1986 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. lg.8vo. pp.459. sl. chip at top of spine.    Price: $35.00
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  4. JAMES  P.D.   Devices And Desires. pub.  Lond.  Faber  1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.408. v/fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  5. JHABVALA  RUTH  PRAWER Three Continents. pub.  Lond.  1987 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.384.    Price: $35.00
     
  6. JOYCE JAMES The Essential James Joyce.  pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape  1948  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.534. "This volume contains the full text of four books Joyce published before and during the First World War: 'Chamber Music,' the early poems which appeared in 1907,'Dubliners,' 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,' and 'Exiles,' a three-act play he wrote in 1914. In addition there are representative extracts from his later books…"  d/w.  price clipped, backstrip to d/w. very sl. stained.   Price: $35.00
     
  7. JOYCE JAMES (Ed. by Stuart Gilbert). pub. Faber Lond.  1957 1st.ed. lge.8vo. pp.437.    Price: $125.00
     
  8. JOYCE  JAMES Stephen Hero. Part of the first draft  of  `A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' Includes an additional fragment published here for the first time. pub. Lond.  Jonathan Cape 1969 ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.254. Fine.     Price: $25.00
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  9. KENEALLY THOMAS Bring Larks And Heroes. pub. Aust. Cassell 1967  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.247. d/w. closed  tear  & sl. discoloured.    Price: $65.00
     
  10. KENEALLY THOMAS Three Cheers For The Paraclete. pub.  Syd. Angus & Robinson 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240.    Price: $45.00
     
  11. KENEALLY THOMAS The Survivor. pub. Lond. Angus & Robertson 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.282.    Price: $55.00
     
  12. KENEALLY  THOMAS   A Dutiful Daughter. pub.  Syd.  &  Lond. Angus  &  Robertson 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  8vo.  pp.183. signature f/free e/paper.    Price: $45.00
     
  13. KENEALLY  THOMAS The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith. pub.  Syd. Angus & Robertson 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.178. two short closed tears to top of d/w. & sl. rubbed to top, f/free e/paper cut.    Price: $75.00
     
  14. KENEALLY THOMAS The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith. pub.  N.Y. Viking Press 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.178 fore-edge pages rough-trimmed, short closed tear top of spine to d/w. otherwise fine.    Price: $60.00
     
  15. KENEALLY  THOMAS Blood Red, Sister Rose. illus. with  map, pub. Lond. 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.382. two  short closed tears to d/w. otherwise fine.    Price: $40.00
     
  16. KENEALLY THOMAS Gossip From The Forest. pub. Lond. &  Syd. 1975  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.222. sl. chip  to  corner lower spine.    Price: $40.00
     
  17. KENEALLY THOMAS Moses The Lawgiver. profusely illus.  with plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. N.Y. Harper &  Row 1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.222. short closed tear  to d/w. bottom of spine   Price:  $40.00
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  18. KENEALLY  THOMAS Season In Purgatory. pub.  Lond.  Collins 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.223. $45.00
     
  19. KENEALLY THOMAS A Victim Of The Aurora. pub. Lond. &  Syd. Collins 1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.222.    Price: $40.00
     
  20. KENEALLY  THOMAS   Ned  Kelly And The  City  Of  The  Bees. (juvenilia) illus. by Stephen Ryan pub. Lond. Jonathan  Cape 1978 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.120.    Price: $30.00
     
  21. KENEALLY  THOMAS  Confederates. pub. Lond.  1979  1st.ed. or.wps.  d/w. 8vo. uncorrected advance proof copy  pp.428. d/w.  has small tear at top of spine and signs of  fraying as d/w. is larger than wps. otherwise fine.    Price: $100.00
     
  22. KENEALLY  THOMAS  Passenger.  A novel.  pub.  Lond.  1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.190.    Price: $30.00
     
  23. KENEALLY  THOMAS   Outback.  illus.  e/papers  many  photo plates  t/out. some full page and col. by Gary  Hansen  and Mark Lang. pub. Syd. Hodder & Stoughton 1983 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.256. minor water marks to top edges very gook otherwise.    Price: $35.00
     
  24. KENEALLY  THOMAS  A Family Madness. published London  Hodder  & Stoughton 1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.316. an almost mint copy.    Price: $35.00
     
  25. KENEALLY  THOMAS  The  Playmaker.  pub.  Lond.  Hodder  & Stoughton 1987 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.310. very fine copy.    Price: $30.00
     
  26. KENEALLY THOMAS The Playmaker. pub. N.Y. Simon &  Schuster 1987 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.354.    Price: $35.00
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  27. KENEALLY  THOMAS Towards Asmara. pub. N.Y. Warner  Books  1989 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.290.  pages  to  front  edge rough-cut.  Price:$35.00
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  28. KEROUAC  JACK The Subterraneans. pub. Lond. Andre  Deutsch  1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. Picture of Leslie Carron, who starred as Mardou in the movie, on front panel; cr.8vo. pp.158. Sticky tape marks on both pastedowns and endpapers, small tear to top of d/w., it is a sideway tear, about 5cm down and across spine, but the rest to the d/w. is very good almost fine, boards are very fine.  Price: $115.00
     
  29. KEROUAC  JACK The Subterraneans. pub. Lond. Andre  Deutsch  1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. Picture of Leslie Carron, who starred as Mardou in the movie, on front panel; cr.8vo. pp.158. 'The Subterraneans' is a tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and adventurers existing outside mainstream America's field of vision. Very slight fade to spine, almost mint copy.   Price: $400.00     Convert Currency
     
  30. KEROUAC  JACK  Visions Of Cody. pub. N.Y. McGraw Hill  1972 stated 1st. ed. with the number line 2 through 9 noted on the copyright page, tan end papers, or.cl.  d/w. (dustwrapper is printed in various colors and has a black & white portrait of Kerouac by William Burroughs on the back panel).  8vo.  pp.XII.398.  First  time  pub.  in  its entirety. Actually written in 1951-52, this novel wasn't printed until after Kerouac's death in 1969. It features America in the late forties and early fifties by the author who knew it well. Dustwrapper v/sl. rubbed at lower spine, else near fine.   Price: $100.00
     
  31. KEROUAC  JAN Baby Driver. A story about myself. pub.  N.Y. St. Martins Press 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.208. fine copy.  Price:$35.00
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  32. KHAYYAM OMAR The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Fitzgerald, Edward - Translator -- With Illustrations (frontis. & 27) photographed from life studies by Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming. pub. NY: Dodge Publishing Co. 1912 2nd prtg. or. dec. cl. cr.4to. glt. dec. to spine & front board; pp. unpaginated, mbld. e/papers, very sl. sunning to rear board, else fine.   Price: $300.00   Convert Currency
     
  33. KING  STEPHEN  The Eyes Of The Dragon. illus.  with  dec. title page & 8 full page dwgs. by David Palladini pub. N.Y. Viking 1987 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.326.   Price: $45.00
     
  34. KING STEPHEN The Dark Half. pub. Lond. Hodder &  Stoughton 1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.412.   Price:$35.00
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  35. KING STEPHEN Dolores Claiborne. pub. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton 1992 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.242.    Price:$35.00
     
  36. KIPLING RUDYARD Soldiers Three. The Story Of The Gadsbys In Black And White. pub. Lond. Sampson Low, Marsdon & Co. 1892 or. dark blue cl. glt. ltg. to spine, 8vo. pp.296. little rubbing but generally a good copy.    Price: $100.00
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  37. KIPLING RUDYARD  - A Song Of The English. illus. by W. Heath Robinson; 16 mounted color plates and many small black and white drawings each faced by or followed by a few lines of verse from poems written by Kipling in 1896. pub. London: Hodder & Stoughton, nd. [1919] or. blue cloth with gilt lettering & cover design. a very good copy.   Price: $150.00  Convert Currency
     
  38. KIPLING RUDYARD illus. by Donald Maxwell   East Of Suez illus. with 12 colour plates & b/w vignettes by Maxwell, pub. London Macmillan, 1931 1st. ed. or. blue cloth, 4to. pp.72 illustrated selection of Kipling poems, on Calcutta, Bombay, Rangoon, Singapore, Hong Kong etc etc. Neat name to f/free e/paper, little shelf wear else very good copy.     Price: $75.00
     
  39. KNIBBS GEORGE HANDLEY   Book 1 Voices Of The North And Book II Echoes Of Hellas. pub. London. Alston Rivers. 1913 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.292 The author was Commonwealth Statistician 1906-1921 and wrote technological and mathematical works. Some browing to e/papers else fine, d/w. fine. Signed by the author.    Price: $100.00
     
  40. KOESTLER ARTHUR Dialogue With Death. Translated by  Trevor and  Phyllis  Blewitt. pub. Collins  with  Hamish  Hamilton nd.(1954)? first pub. in 1937 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.222. d/w. sl. chipped.    Price: $30.00
     
  41. KOESTLER ARTHUR Arrow In The Blue. An Autobiography.  pub. Lond. Collins with Hamish Hamilton 1952 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.308. sl. spotted to edges, two short closed  tears to d/w. otherwise near fine.    Price: $50.00
     
  42. KOESTLER  ARTHUR  The  Invisible  Writing.  Autobiography 1931-53. being the second volume of Arrow In The Blue. pub. London  Collins  with Hamish Hamilton 1954  2nd.imp.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.431. lower edges sl. bumped - fine. otherwise.    Price: $35.00
     
  43. KOESTLER ARTHUR The Trail Of The Dinosaur & Other Essays. pub. Lond. Collins 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.253.    Price: $75.00
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  44. KOESTLER  ARTHUR   Reflections  On  Hanging.   pub.   Lond. Gollancz  1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.193. near  fine, d/w. chipped & sl. rubbed.   Price: $65.00
     
  45. KOESTLER ARTHUR The Sleepwalkers. pub. Lond. Hutchinson 1959 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.624.. near fine, d/w. has short closed tear, price clipped, small signature in pencil to f/free e/paper.   Price: $70.00
     
  46. KOESTLER  ARTHUR   The Lotus And The  Robot.  Essays.  pub. Lond.  Hutchinson  1960 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  8vo.  pp.296. price clipped d/w.   Price: $100.00
     
  47. KOESTLER  ARTHUR Drinkers Of Infinity.  Essays  1955-1967. pub. Lond. Hutchinson 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.291. neat inscription f/free e/paper, sl. spotting d/w. &  edges otherwise fine.   Price: $65.00
     
  48. KOESTLER  ARTHUR  The Ghost In The Machine pub. London Hutchinson, 1967 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.384. The author's third volume - preceded by "The Sleepwalkers" and "The Act of Creation" - in his study of the mind of man, here investigating the urge for self-destruction. Dustwrappper with very minor wear to extremities, edges, short closed tear to rear of d/w. otherwise v/good.    Price: $70.00
     
  49. KOESTLER ARTHUR The Case Of The Midwife Toad. illus.  with frontis.  & 4 full page plates pub. London  Hutchinson  Publishers 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.188. a short closed tear to front of  d/w.  at spine, tape mark to  past-down  front  e/paper under d/w. otherwise fine.  Price:  $40.00
     
  50. KOESTLER  ARTHUR  The Roots Of  Coincidence.  pub.  Lond. Hutchinson 1972 3rd.imp. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.160. fine copy.   Price: $25.00
     
  51. KOESTLER ARTHUR The Call Girls. a Tragi-Comedy. pub.  N.Y. Random House 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.167. fine copy.  Price: $40.00
     
  52. KOESTLER ARTHUR Janus. A Summing Up. pub. Melb. Hutchinson 1978 1st.ed. (Aust.) or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.354.   Price: $35.00
     
  53. KOESTLER MANAINE Living with Koestler. Mamaine  Koestler's Letters  1945-51. Ed. by Celia Goodman illus. with  8  full page  plates  pub.  Lond.  Weidenfeld  and  Nicholson  1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.204.   Price: $35.00
     
  54. KOESTLER  ARTHUR  The Story Of A  Friendship.  by  George Mikes.  pub. London Andre Deutsch Publishers 1983 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.80.  Price: $25.00
     
  55. KOESTLER ARTHUR A Literary and Biographical Study by  John Atkins.  pub.  Lond.  Neville Spearman  Ltd.  1956  1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.224. chipped & short closed  tears  to d/w. otherwise fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  56. LAFOURCADE  GEORGES   Arnold Bennett. A study.  pub.  Lond. F.Muller 1939 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.300. fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  57. LANG  ANDREW (Ed.)  The Blue Poetry  Book.  with  numerous illus. by H.J. Fors and Lancelot Speed. pub. Lond. Longmans 1891 glt.dec.cl. a.e.glt. 8vo. pp.351. cloth a little worn top & bottom of spine otherwise v/good with a little  light internal spotting.    Price: $75.00
     
  58. LAWRENCE  D.H. Mornings In Mexico. pub. N.Y. Alfred  Knopf 1st.ed. August 1927 this ed. 2nd. printing pub. August 1927 or.dec.cl. 8vo. pp.188. Travel essays written by Lawrence for several publications, including Travel, The Adelphi, The Theatre Arts Monthly, and The Laughing Horse. This was his fourth book. title on spine sl. faded light spotting to edges.   Price: $50.00
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  59. LAWRENCE  D.H.  Last Poems. Ed. with an  introduction  by Richard Aldington pub. Lond. Heinemann nd.1933? or.blk. cl. to spine col. paper covered bds. 8vo. pp.182 glt. top. sl. silverfished to side near spine.   Price: $40.00
     
  60. LAWRENCE D.H. The  Letters Of D.H. Lawrence. Edited and with an Introduction by Aldous Huxley. Frontispiece plate of D. H. Lawrence. pub. London William Heinemann 1956 or.cl. gilt embossed lettering to the front board and spine; d/w. 8vo. pp. XXXIV.890. Closed tear to d/w. at spine, repaired with old tape from inside, off white d/w. little toned with age, else v/good.   Price: $75.00
     
  61. LAWRENCE D.H. Ed. by Harry T. Moore. The Collected  Letters Of D.H. Lawrence. 2 Vols. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w's. 8vo. pp.1038.II Vols. fine. $175.00
     
  62. LAWRENCE  D.H.  The Collected Letters Of D.H.  Lawrence.  2 Vols. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1977 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.1308. II Vols. fine sm. closed tear vol.II.    Price: $85.00
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  63. LAWRENCE FRIEDA      Not I, But The Wind. illus. with 14 b/w. full page plates t/out. pub. Toronto: Macmillan, 1934 1st. Canadian edition. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.298. Memoirs of Frieda Lawrence's 18 years with her husband, D.H. Lawrence with eighty-nine letters, poems and other material written by D.H. includes assortment of correspondence between Lawrence and family members. A fine copy in d/w which printing is faded on the spine.   Price: $85.00
     
  64. LAWRENCE  T.E. Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.  illus. with frontis. & 45 full page plates t/out. 3 folding maps, pub.  Lond.  Jonathan  Cape  1935  1st.ed.  trade   edition or.brn.cl.  glt.ltg. to spine & front bd. 4to. pages  rough cut  to fore-edge & tail, pp.672. sl. bump to spine at  top leaving small pin hole in cl. else fine.  Price: $250.00
     
  65. LAWRENCE T.E. The Mint. A day-book of the  R.A.F.  Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes by 352087 A/c Ross. pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.206. d/w. very sl. marked to front, and  browned to spine.    Price: $145.00
     
  66. LAWRENCE  T.E.   Minorities.  ed.  by  J.M.  Wilson.  Poems selected  by T.E. Lawrence A personal  anthology.  illus. with  frontis. (portrait)  pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape 1971  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.272. An anthology of poetry that appealed to Lawrence and which was collected by him between 1919 and 1927 for his private use. price clipped d/w else fine.   Price: $75.00
     
  67. LEACOCK  STEPHEN   Ed.  J.B.  Priestley.  The  Bodley  Head Leacock.  pub. Lond. Bodley Head 1957 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.464. a very good copy.    Price: $30.00
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  68. LE CARRE JOHN The Looking Glass War. pub. Lond.  Heinemann Publishing 1965  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.246. fine in  the  price clipped d/w.    Price: $65.00
     
  69. LE  CARRE  JOHN   A  Small  Town  In  Germany.  pub.  Lond. Heinemann Publishing Group 1968  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w.  8vo.  pp.306.  price clipped d/w.  Price:  $75.00
     
  70. LE CARRE JOHN The Naive And Sentimental Lover. pub.  Lond. 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.416. fine.    Price: $50.00
     
  71. LE CARRE JOHN The Naive And Sentimental Lover. pub. U.S.A. Knopf 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.455.   Price: $50.00
     
  72. LE CARRE JOHN Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. pub. Lond. Hodder &  Stoughton  1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.350.  price clipped, very sl. chip to top of d/w.    Price: $35.00
     
  73. LE CARRE JOHN The Honourable Schoolboy. pub. Lond.  Hodder &  Stoughton  1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.532. inscription f/free e/paper (running along spine) fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  74. LE  CARRE  JOHN   Smiley's  People.  pub.  Lond.  Hodder  & Stoughton 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.327.   Price: $45.00
     
  75. LE CARRE JOHN The Little Drummer Girl. pub. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton  1983  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo.  pp.430.  neat inscription f/free e/paper.   Price: $40.00
     
  76. LE  GUIN  URSULA The Farthest Shore. illus.  with  e/paper maps  pub. Lond. Victor Gollancz 1973 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. cr.8vo. pp.206. v/fine in the price clipped d/w.   Price: $75.00
     
  77. LEHMANN  ROSAMOND The Ballad And The Source. pub.  Lond  & Syd.  Collins  1945 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.318.  d/w. torn slightly, chip lower right corner otherwise fine.  Price: $40.00
     
  78. LEIBER  FRITZ The Swords Of Lankhmar.  pub.  Lond. Rupert Hart-Davis 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224. Two sl. foxing spots to top-edge pages, fine in fine and bright dustwrapper.    Price: $275.00
     
  79. LENNON  JOHN A Spaniard In The Works. illus.  with  line drawings by Lennon t/out. some two-tone pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape 1965  1st.ed. or. pictorial, laminated boards 12mo. no d/w. as issued pp.94. eighteen short stories written by John Lennon. A near fine copy.   Price: $150.00
     
  80. LENNON  JOHN  Skywriting  By Word  Of  Mouth.  And  other writings,  including  The Ballad of John and  Yoko.  illus. with  several  dwgs.  t/out.  pub.  Lond.  Pan  Books  1986 or.illus.bds. issued without d/w. 12mo. pp.200.   Price: $50.00
     
  81. LESSING DORIS The Sun Between Their Feet. vol.II of  Doris Lessing's  collected  African stories. pub.  Lond.  Michael Joseph 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.317.  Price: $45.00
     
  82. LESSING  DORIS  Ripple  From The Storm.   Book  three  of `Children  Of  Violence' pub. Lond.  Hart-Davis,  MacGibbon 1977 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.300. some staining to side edges.   Price: $25.00
     
  83. LESSING  DORIS    Canopus  In  Argos:  Archives.   Documents relating  to the Sentimental Agents In The  Volyen  Empire. pub. N.Y. Knopf 1983 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.178.   Price: $35.00
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  84. LESSING  DORIS  Canopus  In  Argus:  Archives.   Documents Relating  To The Sentimental Agents In The  Volyen  Empire. pub.  Lond.  Johathan Cape 1983 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.180.  Price: $35.00
     
  85. LESSING  DORIS The Fifth Child. pub. Lond.  Jonathan  Cape 1988 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.134.  Price: $35.00
     
  86. LEVIN  IRA  The Stepford Wives. pub. Lond.  Michael  Joseph 1972  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.159. Levin's best-selling novel about an upper-class suburban town in which all the women become domesticated automatons after four months of living there. His fourth book and basis for the movie starring Katherine Ross and recently remade into a movie starring Nicole Kidman. f/free  e/paper  sl. rubbed otherwise fine.    Price: $50.00
     
  87. LEVIN IRA Veronica's Room. A Melodrama. (play) pub.  Lond. Michael Joseph 1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.87. fine copy.     Price: $30.00
     
  88. LEVIN IRA The Boys From Brazil. pub. London Michael Joseph. 1976  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.254. By the author of The Stepford Wives and Rosemary's Baby a tense thriller of former SS men despatched from South America by "The Angel of Death." d/w. minor shelf wear else fine.   Price: $35.00
     
  89. LEWIS  C.S.  The  Great  Divorce.  A  Dream.  pub.  Lond. Centenary Press 1945 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.118. d/w. lacks 1" piece at spine & chipped fine otherwise.  Price: $45.00
     
  90. LEWIS  C.S. Till We Have Faces. A Myth Retold. pub.  Lond. Geoffrey  Bles 1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.320. A story to two princesses and their transitions. A mythical tale of the past.  Light browning to endpapers from dustwrapper; light shelf wear to rear of d/w. else near fine.  Price: $275.00
     
  91. LEWIS C.S. Reflections On The Psalms. pub. Lond.  Geoffrey Bles 1958 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.150. price clipped d/w. fine.   Price: $35.00
     
     
  92. LEWIS  C.S. The Four Loves. pub. Lond. Geoffrey Bles  1960 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.159.  d/w.  a  little  water stained sl. stain to cloth otherwise a good copy.   Price: $30.00
     
  93. LEWIS  C.S. Letters To Malcolm: Chiefly On  Prayer.  pub. Lond.  Geoffrey  Bles  1964  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  cr.8vo. pp.160.  neat  inscrip. to f/free e/paper, closed  tear  to d/w. at spine, price clipped.  Price: $35.00
     
  94. LEWIS  SINCLAIR   Cass Timberlane. A novel  of  Husbands  & Wives.  pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape 1946 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo.   pp.375.  d/w.  price  clipped  and  sl.  chipped   - internally repaired with tape.  Price:  $50.00
     
  95. LEWIS  SINCLAIR  Ed. and with an introduction  by  Harrison Smith.  From  Main  Street To Stockholm.  The  Letters  of Sinclair  Lewis 1919-1930. illus. with frontis.  pub.  N.Y. Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1952 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.307. fine in the worn d/w.  Price: $35.00
     
  96. LEWIS  WYNDHAM  The Demon Of Progress In The  Arts.  pub. Lond.  Methuen 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo.  pp.98. First Edition of this aesthetic essay by Wyndham Lewis, in which the author criticises arbitrary innovation in the arts, and warns of the potentially detrimental effects of 'subversive politics' and technology; 5cm tear to rear of d/w. otherwise near fine.   Price: $55.00
     
  97. LINTON  ELIZA LYNN The Girl Of The Period. A biography  by Herbert  Van Thal illus. with frontis. pub. Lond.  Allen  & Unwin 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.246.  Eliza Lynton "became the first woman to be paid a salary on a famous daily newspaper, whilst her first novel Azeth the Egyptian (1846) was published when she was only 24. From the time when Landor praised her second novel Amymone (1848) she became involved in a circle of famous contemporaries. In addition to Landor and Henry James she met and corresponded with Dickens, Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, Swinburne. Frank Harris, Rider Haggard, Sir Walter Besant and many other eminent Victorians." Fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  98. LIPTON JAMES    An Exaltation Of Larks. Or, The 'Venereal' Game. illus. with b/w. engravings in facsimile, pub. London, Angus and Robertson 1970 First UK edition. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.120. fine copy.   Price:  $45.00
     
  99. LOFTING  HUGH Doctor Dolittle And The Secret Lake.  illus. with col. frontis. & many dwgs. t/out. by author pub.  pub. Jonathan  Cape  1949 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.352.  slightly spotty  to edges, d/w. silverfished slightly to  return  at rear board, otherwise almost fine copy.  Price: $60.00
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  100. LONDON JACK Written by A Grove Day. Jack London In The South Seas. illus. with several plates t/out. some full page pub. N.Y. Grove Day 1971 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.174.  Price: $35.00
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  101. LONGFELLOW HENRY WADSWORTH - Eangellie. with col. frontis & 32 elegant drawings t/out, some full page and lightly coloured, several full page col. plates, pub. U.S.A. Bobbs Merrill 1905 or.glt.dec.cl cr.4to. pp.132. very good copy.   Price: $185.00.  Convert Currency
     
  102. MACAULAY  ROSE Last Letters To A Friend 1952-1958. Ed.  by Constance  Babington Smith. illus. with frontis. &  3  full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Collins 1962 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.288. price clipped d/w. otherwise almost  fine copy.  Price:  $40.00
     
  103. MACLEAN ALISTAIR  H.M.S. Ulysses. with illus. e/paper maps at front and diagram at rear. pub. Lond.  1955  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.320. unclipped pictorial dustwrapper designed by John Rose.  Two  short closed tears to d/w. at spine otherwise near fine.   Price: $60.00
     
  104. MACLEAN ALISTAIR The Guns Of Navarone. pub. Lond.  Collins 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.318. On the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast 1200 British soldiers are trapped and doomed to die unless the venomous, deadly accurate guns of Navarone can be silenced. Navarone, the grim bastion guarding the straits, is an apparently impregnable iron fortress that is the supreme obstacle to any rescue attempt made by the Royal Navy. very sl. shelf wear, short closed tear to rear of d/w. otherwise near fine.   Price: $50.00
     
  105. MACLEAN  ALISTAIR South By Java Head. pub.  Lond.  Collins 1958  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.320.  Story deals with aftermath of the fall of Singapore to the Japanese & adventures of refugees, sl. chipping to d/w. top of spine else near fine.   Price: $40.00
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  106. MACNEICE LOUIS -  The Burning Perch pub. Lond. Faber & Faber Ltd., 1963, 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.58. gilt spine lettering. .Poetry:collection of 26 poems. Auden contemporary. Very sl. faded to pink d/w. one very short closed tear otherwise fine copy, price clipped.   Price: $75.00
     
  107. MACNEICE LOUIS -    One For The Grave pub. Lond. Faber & Faber Ltd., 1968, 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.90. gilt spine lettering. :A modern morality play. d/w. handled, else fine copy.   Price: $75.00
     
  108. MAILER NORMAN An American Dream. pub. Lond. Andre  Deutch 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.271. small neat  signature f/free e/paper d/w. sl. chipped.  Price: $40.00
     
  109. MAILER  NORMAN  Cannibals & Christians. pub.  Lond.  Andre Deutch 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.334. small tear  to d/w. otherwise fine.  Price: $35.00
     
  110. MAILER NORMAN The Armies Of The Night. History as a novel, the  novel as history. pub. Lond. Weidenfeld  and  Nicolson 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.288.    Price: $40.00
     
  111. MAILER  NORMAN  The Prisoner Of Sex. pub.  U.S.A.  Little Brown  1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240. price  clipped d/w. signature f/free e/paper, sl. rubbed.    Price: $40.00
     
  112. MAILER NORMAN The Prisoner Of Sex. pub. Lond. Weidenfeld & Nicholson  1971  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo.  pp.240.  d/w. very slightly chipped. $35.00
     
  113. MAILER  NORMAN The Executioner's Song. The Story of  Garry Gilmore.  pub. Lond. Hutchinson & Co. 1979  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.1056. fine copy.    Price: $35.00
     
  114. MAILER NORMAN Ancient Evenings. pub. Lond. Macmillan  1983 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.710.    Price: $40.00
     
  115. MAILER  NORMAN Tough Guys Don't Dance. pub. Lond.  Michael Joseph 1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.231.    Price: $30.00
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  116. MALAMUD BERNARD The Fixer. pub. Lond. Eyre &  Spottiswoode 1967  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.352. price  clipped  d/w. sl. spotting to edges otherwise v/fine.    Price: $45.00
     
  117. MALAMUD  BERNARD   The  Tenants. pub.  Lond.  Methuen  1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.230.   Price:  $45.00
     
  118. MASTERS  JOHN   The Venus Of Konpara.  pub.  Lond.  Michael Joseph  1960  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.256.  d/w.  slightly. chipped.    Price: $30.00
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  119. MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET Penelope. A comedy in three acts. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1912 1st.ed. or. red cl. sm.8vo. pp.213. Near fine.   Price: $125.00
     
  120. MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET Screenplays by R.C. Sherriff. Quartet. Four  Stories.  illus. with frontis. pub.  Lond.  Heinemann 1948  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.244. Quartet is a mixture of stories by Maugham and screen-plays by Sherriff. Name on  f/free e/paper,  shiort closed tear to d/w. at spine, sl.  browned to d/w. at spine. Very good.     Price:  $45.00
     
  121. MAUGHAM   W. SOMERSET  A  Writer's  Notebook.  pub. Melbourne London Toronto Heinemann 1949 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.349. A collection of random thoughts from Maugham's notebook from 1892 to 1944. Very sl. chipped d/w. small stain, price clipped, v/good.    Price: $30.00
     
  122. MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET Trio. Three Stories. with frontis. & 3 full  page plates t/out. from films,  pub.  Melbourne, London Toronto  Heinemann 1950  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.145. Three of Somerset Maugham's short stories - The Verger, Mr Know-All and Sanatorium - reproduced together with their screen adaptations (by Maugham, R.C. Sherriff, and Noel Langley). d/w.  very short closed tear top of spine, else fine copy.    Price:  $45.00       Convert Currency  Parcel Costs
     
  123. MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET Trio. Three Stories. with frontis. & 3 full  page plates t/out. from films, pub.  Melbourne, London Toronto  Heinemann 1950  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.145. Three of Somerset Maugham's short stories - The Verger, Mr Know-All and Sanatorium - reproduced together with their screen adaptations (by Maugham, R.C. Sherriff, and Noel Langley). d/w.  sl.  chipped at top of spine, lacks piece, price clipped, else very good.   Price: $35.00
     
  124. MAUGHAM  W. SOMERSET Encore. Stories. with frontis. & 3 full  page plates t/out. from films, pub. Lond. Heinemann 1951 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.165. Screen adaptations by T. E. B. Clarke, Arthur Macrae, and Eric Ambler, of three stories. Stories are 'The Ant and the Grasshopper, ''Winter Cruise, ' and 'Gigolo and Gigolette. ' They were adapted for the film 'Encore, ' produced by J. Arthur Rank. Price clipped, very fine.    Price:  $45.00
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  125. MAUGHAN  W.SOMERSET   The Vagrant Mood.  Six  essays.  pub. Lond. Heinemann 1952 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.241.  6 essays - Augustus / Zubaran / The Decline and Fall of the Detective Story / After Reading Burke / Reflections on a Certain Book / Some Novelists I Have Known. Price clipped, in the sl. worn, torn d/w. Dustwrapper spine is sl. faded, small piece lacking at lower spine, a very good clean copy otherwise.   Price: $30.00
     
  126. MAUGHAM W.SOMERSET 10 Novels And their Authors. pub. Melbourne London Toronto Heinemann 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.306. Maugham's celebrated essay 'The Art of Fiction', and profiles novels by Fielding, Austen, Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert, Melville, Bronte, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy. fine in sl. torn d/w.    Price: $25.00
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  127. MAUGHAM  W. SOMERSET Points Of View. pub. Lond.  Heinemann 1958  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.256.  Maugham's last book, a collection of five literary essays, (The Three Novels of a Poet; The Saint; Prose and Dr. Tillotson; The Short Story; Three Journalists.) Price clipped, two short closed tears to top of spine, else fine.   Price: $40.00
     
  128. MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET - Purely for My Pleasure illus. with 32 full-page coloured plates pub. London: William Heinemann, 1962 1st ed. or.cl. . gilt d/w. 4to. pp.28 pages of text; 32 plates, including Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Monet, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec. A Near Fine Volume with just a small inscription to f/free e/paper prior owner's neat inscription Mr. Maugham's anecdotes about the personalities with whom his collecting and purchases threw him into contact with.   Price: $65.00
     
  129. MAUGHAM  W.  SOMERSET  A  Baker's  Dozen.  Thirteen  Short Stories. The 13 famous Maugham stories chosen by B.B.C. TV. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.292 Selecting thirteen stories from such a prolific and versatile writer is not an easy task. The final choice of Maugham's writing, have divided the stories into three categories. The first, 'Rule Britannia', the second, 'Women of the World' and finally 'Victims of Fate' which contain 'A Man with a Conscience''. Signature  f/free  e/paper  d/w. sl.  creased   & sunned   to backstrip, price clipped.    Price: $25.00
     
  130. MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET A Second Baker's Dozen. Thirteen short stories. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.368. sl. splash marks to lower edge of pages.      Price: $25.00
     
  131. MECKIER  JEROME Aldous Huxley. Satire And Structure.  pub. N.Y. Barnes & Noble 1971 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.223. fine copy.     Price: $30.00
     
  132. MELVILLE HERMAN    Omoo illus. with eight colour plates by Mead Schaeffer pub. London, Hodder and Stoughton,; n. d. c.1924 or. light green cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt pictorial decoration and black stamped titles to front board, pictorial end papers cr.4to. pp. XIII.299. fine copy.     Price: $100.00
     
  133. MILLER  ARTHUR The Misfits. pub. Lond. Secker  & Warburg  1961  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. Photographic dustwrapper designed by A. B. Saunders depicts Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe in a scene from the film & a portrait of Arthur Miller on the back. cr.8vo.  pp.152. closed tear front of d/w. (ab. 6cms long), extremities at spine sl. rubbed, price clipped, v/good otherwise.    Price: $145.00
     
  134. MILLER  ARTHUR After The Fall. (play) pub. Lond. Secker  & Warburg  1965  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  sm.8vo.  pp.128.  price clipped, light spotting to past-down e/papers and free e/papers otherwise fine.   Price: $45.00
     
  135. MILLER  ARTHUR After The Fall. (play) pub. Lond. Secker  & Warburg  1965  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  sm.8vo.  pp.128.  price clipped, very fine. Price: $100.00
     
  136. MILLER  ARTHUR  The  Creation  Of  The  World  And  Other Business.  pub. N.Y. Viking Press 1973 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w. 8vo.  pp.106. d/w. returns creased, sl. w/stain to f/bd.  & d/w.     Price: $35.00
     
  137. MILLER ARTHUR Timebends. A Life. illus. with 32 full  page plates  t/out. pub. London Methuen 1987 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.614. a fine copy.     Price: $45.00
     
  138. MILLER HENRY Stand Still Like The Hummingbird. pub. N.Y. New Directions 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.194. dustwrapper little chipped & rubbed.     Price: $55.00
     
  139. MILLER P.S. The Titan And Other Stories pub. London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.224. Original wrapper art by Hannes Bok. Collects 8 stories. Slight foxing to edges of pages else fine in fine price clipped d/w.   Price: $85.00
     
  140. MILLIGAN  SPIKE The Little Pot Boiler.  illus. with  plates  dwgs. t/out. pub. Lond.  Dennis  Dobson  1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.90. short closed tear to d/w. at spine otherwise fine.   Price: $40.00
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  141. MILLIGAN SPIKE Milligan's Arc Ed. by Spike Millign & Jack Hobbs. illus. with dwgs. t/out. some full page, pub. U.K. M & J Hobbs 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.112. almost fine copy.   Price: $40.00
     
  142. MILLIGAN SPIKE "Rommel" "Gunner Who?" A confrontation  in the  desert.  War biography Vol.2. with illus.  e/papers  & text  plates t/out. pub. Lond. Michael Joseph 1974  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.192. short closed tear to front of  wp. fine otherwise.   Price: $30.00
     
  143. MILLIGAN SPIKE - Dip The Puppy illus. with drawings t/out. pub. London: M & J Hobbs / Michael Joseph, 1974 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.48. A children's tale in picture book format, written throughout in Milligan's own hand. large pink boards with the same illustration as the jacket.. One of a series of four. Presentation school sticker to f/free e/paper else fine copy.   Price: $50.00
     
  144. MILLIGAN SPIKE - Spike Milligan's Transports of Delight illus. with a compendium of humourous captions to old photos. pub. line London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974 1st ed. Laminated pictorial boards, no dustjacket as issued. Neat name to front past down e/paper. else fine.    Price: $30.00
     
  145. MILLIGAN SPIKE Monty His Part In My Victory. with  e/paper illus.  &  text  plates t/out. some full  page  pub.  Lond. Michael Joseph 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.128. price clipped d/w.    Price: $30.00
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  146. MILLIGAN SPIKE Mussolini His Part In My Downfall. with e/paper illus. & text plates t/out. some full page pub. Lond. Michael Joseph 1978 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.288.    Price: $30.00
     
  147. MILLIGAN  SPIKE  Where  Have All The  Bullets  Gone?  War Biography  Vol.5 with e/paper illus. & many  plates  t/out. some  full  page  pub. Lond. Michael  Joseph  1985  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.260. price clipped.    Price: $30.00
     
  148. MILLIGAN  SPIKE Open Heart University. Poems. with  illus. by  Laura  Milligan, Jack Hobbs and Spike  Milligan.  pub. Lond. M/& J. Hobbs & Michael Joseph 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.71.    Price: $30.00
     
  149. MILLIGAN SPIKE    It Ends With Magic. A Milligan Family Story. with text plates t/out. some full page pub. Lond. Michael Joseph 1990 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.XII.244. fine copy.     Price: $40.00
     
  150. MILLIGAN SPIKE    Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan pub. London Virgin Books 1996 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.140. "As befits a tale of earthy, horsey folk, earthy, horsey, strong language is used." Spike Milligan's zany interpretation of the classic story. Very fine.   Price: