BALLINGER**, W. A and MCNEILLY, W**:
THE NINTH SEXTON BLAKE OMNIBUS: I,THE HANGMAN and THE MUCKRAKERS.

Imprint: LONDON.HOWARD BAKER PRESS LTD.,1972.
Edition: UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[This issue, first published in 1972 in this Howard Baker edition/format by Howard Baker Press Ltd.,London by arrangement with Fleetway Publications.This is the first time ever in book form.After Fleetway ceased publishing the Sexton Blake Library series at the end of its fourth volume in 1963, Blake editor William Howard Baker licensed the character from the IPC Magazines Ltd. company and published a fifth volume independently,via Mayflower-Dell Books, that ran until 1968.He then published a final series of four Sexton Blake novels, using his Howard Baker Books imprint,in 1969.Two complete novels in each omnibus.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price- clip to dw/dj but residual fault from removal of an external price-label removing some of dw/dj background but without affecting any lettering.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,yellow background with red+black lettering design dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without any dust-soiling, foxing or spotting or other blemishes; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original pale duck- egg blue cloth boards/covers with bright, crisp,blocked black ink letters and publisher's device to spine/backstrip, immaculate plain white endpapers with both hinges solid and sound without any splits, tears or cracking.UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,includes Books ONE + TWO [I,THE HANGMAN and THE MUCKRAKERS] with 7-139pp [paginated] with 17 chapters,and 7-142pp [paginated] with 21 chapters respectively, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, and individual title separator pages.See also my book ID rja900420 for another example of this same title in the same format. Sexton Blake,the detective,has been featured in many British comic strips, novels and dramatic productions since 1893.His adventures were featured in a wide variety of publications,in an assortment of languages,from 1893 - 1978. In all,there are more than 4,000+ stories by some 200 different authors.Sexton Blake also featured in many movies,radio serials,and a 1960s,(UK) ITV television series - see my book IDs' rja899829 to rja900220 for some examples. The first Sexton Blake story was 'The Missing Millionaire' by Harry Blyth writing as Hal Meredeth.It was published in the story paper 'The Halfpenny Marvel', No.6,on 20 December 1893.A veritable and successful rival to the likes of Sherlock Holmes,The Saint,Ellery Queen and Nero Wolfe in the detective fiction genre. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item, for correct,insured (where necessary) shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja900520. ISBN: 0703000195.

£ 15.00 (approx. $US 19.52 )

BALLS, RICHARD:
SEX & DRUGS & ROCK 'N' ROLL: THE LIFE OF IAN DRURY.

Imprint: LONDON.OMNIBUS PRESS/BOOK SALES LIMITED,2000.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE-/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around white background with subject's b/w portrait photograph to front panel of dw/dj,with capitalised b/w lettered part title and author's name respectively, remainder of title - IAN DRURY - in bright,crisp capitalised gilt letters,thumbnail portrait repeated to head of spine with similarly coloured lettering to same,but author's name in black lettering and publisher's orange colophon to foot of spine,rear panel with subject's different thumbnail colour photograph and black-lettered publisher's blurb and critics' reviews. Dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges with minimal, sporadic dust fleck blemishes but still bright and clean,fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip which has gentle pushing to both head+foot,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-336pp [paginated] includes author's acknowledgements,a Prologue,14 chapters,24pp contemporary b/w facsimile document,facsimle b/w double-page subject's artwork illustration,and subject's profuse contemporary b/w biographical photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp97/7,pp192/93 and pp288/89 respectively,a Bibliography,Sources,a Discography and an Index; plus [unpaginated] title page,a dedication with blank verso,and a contents list/table also with blank verso. Author's debut book,commenced at the beginning of 1999,interviewing in excess of 50 people in the course of his research for it. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for it's age.It really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness, brightness and lack of detracting faults. This superb biography of one of British rock's true originals begins by revealing that Jack-the -lad,rhyming-slang Ian Drury was actually born in the middle-class London suburb of Harrow.His mother came from a landowning Irish family and his father drove a London bus before becoming a Rolls-Royce chauffeur. To get the true story of the rest of Ian Drury's bizarre life,author Richard Balls delved deep and interviewed many friends and acquaintances dating from the time when polio consigned the seven-year old Drury to a Dickensian world of harsh special schools and tough reliance. From the creation of Drury's dangerous image at art school through the long and spasmodic history of The Blockheads,there emerges a portrait of a uniquely strong personality whose appetites and talents spanned fine art,jazz,rock 'n' roll,theatre and movies.But Ian Drury was no saint.Here,too,are hilarious anecdotes of alcoholic excess,sexual braggadocio and a willful disregard for conventional behaviour that entertained - and occasionally exasperated - his many friends. Throughout his life,Drury mixed with stars and personalities,living with Jane Horrocks for over a year,once indulging in a punch-up with Omar Sharif and even acting in a film made by his art school contemporary Peter greenaway. Helped by Drury in the final months of his life,Richard Balls has succeeded in producing a riveting biography about a deeply emotional man who always acted tough.Between his childhood polio and the adult cancer that killed him at 57,Ian Drury just kept going,always producing original work and always living life to the full."I'm not here to be remembered," he said towards the end of his life."I'm here to be alive." In the course of the book there are vivid insights into a variety of worlds. . . harsh post-war schools for handicapped children. . . the Fifties art school scene that would give birth to so many rockers. . . the ramshackle pub rock circuit of Kilburn & The High Roads and The Blockheads. . . plus a lucky dip of celebrities from Omar Sharif and Robert Mitchum to Jane Horrocks,Peter Blake and Bob Dylan.  Drury's life was always a battle.As rocker, lyricist,artist and actor he was unsentimental and uncompromising.As a man he was harder to fathom - until now.In this classic rock biography,the self-styled "diamond geezer" stands revealed as a real diamond after all. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja1031322. ISBN: 0711877216.

£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 )

BANKHEAD, TALLULAH:
TALLULAH: my autobiography.

Imprint: LONDON.VICTOR GOLLANCZ,1952.
Edition: UK,8vo HB,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , Minus dw/dj.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG+.No owner inscrptn.Bright,clean,red paper-covered boards with slightly oxidised and dulled stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Endpapers with off-set foxing from absent dw/dj's inner flaps,otherwise generally clean.Top+fore-edges both aged/ toned and minimally foxed/spotted; contents bright,tight,solid and sound.UK, 8voHB minus dw/dj,1st edn,7-288pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, 16 chapters,an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title page,subject's facsimile signatured title page,and dedication. Autobiography of the Southern Belle and actress,Miss Tullulah Bankhead. Please contact seller for correct,insured (where necessary) shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja432112. ISBN: No ISBN.

£ 12.00 (approx. $US 15.62 )

BANKS**, IAIN:
COMPLICITY.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

Imprint: LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN & COMPANY,1997.
Edition: .UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st reprint.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author Signature - without dedication.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st reprint.[First reprint - same year as original publication,1993 of the 1st edn.He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks,including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten blue/ black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated b/w design to white background illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major tears present,though there is a tiny, tiny,miniscule nick towards spine's gutter on rear,top edge and near head of spine/backstrip. Some inevitable but minor scoring/indents - mainly to rear panel of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - an unread copy? Publisher's bright,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a white headband,and silver embossed dw/dj design to a pale grey background,repeated to front endpapers,light grease(?) mark to pale grey rear endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn, 3-313pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters,b/w design (from dw/dj) illustrated chapter separator pages,b/w vignette illustrated chapter head-pieces; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED title page,and Contents list/ table with dedication to verso. Want more Iain BANKS titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die and SIGNED catalogues. Cameron Colley is an obsessive,substance abusing,fully-paid-up Gonzo journalist on an Edinburgh- based newspaper; the kind of man who rolls joints in the car at ninety miles an hour while steering with his knees and shouting at slow drivers. He's totally into his job,a computer game called Despot and an intermittently sadomasochistic love affair. Cameron appreciates a good conspiracy theory as much as the next hack and now he seems to be on the brink of uncovering the grandfather of all conspiracies.But while he's researching a series of bizarre deaths from a few years ago,the police are investigating a sequence that's still going on,and Cameron - complicit as he seems to be - might be able to help them with their enquiries. 'Complicity' vividly explores the morality of greed,corruption and violence and ventures into the darker regions of human purpose.It confirms Iain Banks' status both as an exceptional storyteller and as one of the most imaginative and witty novelists of our time.Sadly no longer with us.Died June 2013. Please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,the stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the less expensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja456113. ISBN: 0316906883.

£ 75.00 (approx. $US 97.60 )

BANKS**, IAIN:
DEAD AIR. **

Imprint: LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN,2002.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks,including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.] NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,white background,sepia scenic photographic illustrated upper panel of dw/dj with white lettering,critics' black lettered reviews) to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/ backstrip,front inner flap's lower corner lightly creased,as is the rear's top edge of the rear inner flap - all constituting the majority of the creasing.To both front+rear board's top edges towards spine/backstrip's gutter edges, have some inexplicable minor,minimal indents - but without commensurate indents on dw/dj. Described hard but fairly and honestly - nowhere as bad as it reads or would appear on viewing. Top edges aged/toned - as usual - with some minimal dust-soiling,fore-edges less aged/toned so brighter and cleaner; contents bright - apart from page-edge toning - tight,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked white ink letters to spine/backstrip and bright,immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-408pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters - each with a small b/w photograph vignette (from dw/dj design) chapter headpiece; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table,and individual chapter separator pages. Want more Iain BANKS titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS, MODERN FIRSTS2, 1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die and SIGNED catalogues. Iain Banks' new novel starts with a bang and then accelerates through one man's political obsessions,manic media manipulations and wildly dangerous private life,speeding through a London of pubs,clubs and geezers of extreme dodginess to a twinned climax of nail-shredding intensity. A novel about politics,trust,paranoia and - perhaps - redemption,'Dead Air' is Ian Banks at his coruscating best. 'Dead Air' is a deliberate parody of the cynicism of political and social self-awareness. "Shock-jock" Ken Nott's politics,while palatable to most contemporary readers,are also presented through such a morally bankrupt man that they are rendered as unpalatable as the Holocaust-refuter whom Nott attempts to thwart by punching in the face (and then denying it ever happened). Bank focuses on a series of set piece hypotheses about the state of the world in the new century, in which he highlights the preoccupation of the middle classes with their own beliefs,while at the same time exposing the individual to the reader's scrutiny. There is little to endear Ken Nott to the reader,and his promiscuous,expensive lifestyle has all of the hallmarks of 1980's callousness, spread with a veneer of pseudo-socialism that indeed makes it the perfect reflection of the downmarket world of "bright young things" in the early 2000's.In 'Dead Air',Banks is once again engaged by the recurring subtexts of the new millennium - avarice,cynicism,and pretensions to libertarianism.[EMcCS.] Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the less expensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja471714. ISBN: 0316860549.

£ 28.00 (approx. $US 36.44 )

BANKS**, LYNNE REID:
Defy the Wilderness.

Imprint: LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1981.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Contents bright and clean with clean fore-edges. Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja985. ISBN: 0701125934.

£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 )

BANKS**, IAIN M[enzies]:
FEERSUM ENDJINN. **

Imprint: LONDON.ORBIT,1994.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks,including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.] MINT/NMINT. Wrapped+protected/stored from day of issue - therefore an unread copy.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip to dw/dj - assumed a trade export copy/edn as there is no publisher's price to dw/dj's bottom,front inner,lower corner of dw/dj flap.Bright,crisp,glossy,colour pictorial wrap-around illustrated dw/dj by Mark Salwoski; with white embossed and printed lettering to front panel,white printed letters to spine/ backstrip and rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges very lightly toned - nowhere to ubiquitous degree that these publisher's (ORBIT) hardback titles are prone to - contents bright,tight and very clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,4-279pp [paginated] includes 10 Pts/sections comprising 4 chapters each to the first 9 Pts/sections and 6 in the remaining one; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,and 9 individual, identical b/w illustrated Pts/sections separator pages,and to the rear,as last page,publisher's order page. 6th book in his 'The Culture' sequence.An exceptional example in excellent condition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award,Novel,1995.A bravura narration in dyslexic English - into a neatly planned climax. Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel,'THE WASP FACTORY' in 1984.He has then since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.Sadly no longer with us. Died June 2013. Want more Iain M[enzies] BANKS/Iain BANKS titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2, MODERN FIRSTS,1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die,and SIGNED catalogues. Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time. . . Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones. . . Bascule the Teller,in search of an ant,is about to enter the chaos of the crypt. . . And everything is about to change. . . For this is the time of the Encroachment and,although the dimming sun still shines on the vast,towering walls of Serehfa Fastness,the end is close at hand.ThE King knows it,his closest advisers know it,yet still they prosecute the war against the clan Engineers with increasing savagery. The crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent,an emissary who holds the key to all their futures. 'Feersum Emdjinn' is an imaginative tour de force,a stunning novel of bravery and hope,fear and betrayal,strangeness and charm in the face of darkness: it is Iain M. Banks at his unparalleled best. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,the stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the less expensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja583. ISBN: 1857232356.

£ 80.00 (approx. $US 104.11 )

BANKS**, IAIN M [enzies]:
FEERSUM ENDJINN.

Imprint: LONDON.ORBIT,1994.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks,including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.When originally first published in UK,the title was not for sale in America,nor yet published there (then 1994).] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,glossy,colour pictorial wrap-around illustrated dw/dj by Mark Salwoski; with white embossed and printed lettering to front panel,white printed letters to spine/backstrip and rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges very lightly toned - nowhere to ubiquitous degree that these publisher's (ORBIT) hardback titles are prone to - contents bright, tight and very clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4- 279pp [paginated] includes 10 Pts/sections comprising 4 chapters each to the first 9 Pts/ sections and 6 in the remaining one; plus [unpaginated]half-title+title pages,a dedication,and 9 individual,identical b/w illustrated Pts/sections separator pages,and to the rear,as last page,publisher's order page. 6th book in his 'The Culture' sequence. An exceptional example in excellent condition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award,Novel,1995.A bravura narration in dyslexic English - into a neatly planned climax. Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel,'THE WASP FACTORY' in 1984.He has then since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.Sadly no longer with us. Died June 2013. Want more Iain M[enzies] BANKS/Iain BANKS titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2, MODERN FIRSTS,1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die,and SIGNED catalogues. Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time. . . Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones. . . Bascule the Teller,in search of an ant,is about to enter the chaos of the crypt. . . And everything is about to change. . . For this is the time of the Encroachment and,although the dimming sun still shines on the vast,towering walls of Serehfa Fastness,the end is close at hand.ThE King knows it,his closest advisers know it,yet still they prosecute the war against the clan Engineers with increasing savagery. The crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent,an emissary who holds the key to all their futures. 'Feersum Emdjinn' is an imaginative tour de force,a stunning novel of bravery and hope,fear and betrayal,strangeness and charm in the face of darkness: it is Iain M. Banks at his unparalleled best. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,the stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the less expensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja912520. ISBN: 1857232356.

£ 60.00 (approx. $US 78.08 )

BANKS**, IAIN M[enzies]:
INVERSIONS.**

Imprint: LONDON.ORBIT.1998.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks,including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.Not for sale in America,or not yet published there (then - 1998).] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,glossy,colour pictorial wrap-around illustrated dw/dj by Mark Salwoski; with white embossed and printed lettering to front panel,white printed letters to spine/backstrip and rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges with very little,if any,toning - certainly nowhere near to ubiquitous degree that these publisher's (ORBIT) hardback titles are prone to - contents bright,tight and very clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-336pp [paginated] includes 24 chapter and an epilogue, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and 24 identical b/w illustrated chapter headpieces with alternating reversal of background from white to black and back; plus [unpaginated] a Note on the text,and both prologue+epilogue unnumbered.An exceptional example in excellent condition. Some years ago,rocks and fire fell from the sky and the old Empire fell with them.In the lands released from that crushing hegemony,a new world order is about to emerge.Two people in particular can see all this in a wider context. In the winter palace,the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises.But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains,in the service of the regicidal Protector General,the chief bodyguard too has his enemies.But his enemies strike more swiftly,and his means of combating them are more traditional. Both the doctor and the bodyguard have at least one person they care for deeply and who cares for them.None of them,however,can risk saying so. This is the story of two stories.Spiralling round a central core of secrecy,deceit,love and betrayal - and linked more closely than even those involved can know - each climbs to its own devastating climax. 'Inversions' is a dazzling work of science fiction from an author writing at the height of his remarkable powers. Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel,'THE WASP FACTORY' in 1984.He has then since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Sadly no longer with us.Died June 2013. Want more Iain M[enzies] BANKS/Iain BANKS titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2,MODERN FIRSTS, 1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die,and SIGNED catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!  ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,the stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the less expensive book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

Stock number: 912620b. ISBN: 1857236262.

£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 )

BANKS**, IAIN M[enzies]:
LOOK TO WINDWARD: The New Culture Novel.

Imprint: LONDON.ORBIT,2000.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks,including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork,by Mark Salwowski, illustrated dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+ foot of dw/dj's spine/backstrip minimally bumped with some reciprocal creasing,some inevitable but light superficial scoring/indents to dw/dj - but without affecting the boards beneath.Top+ fore-edges lightly aged/toned - as usual/normal but still bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-357pp [paginated] includes a prologue,16 chapters and an Epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,an epigram,a dedication,and Contents list/table. Want more Iain M[enzies] BANKS titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die and SIGNED catalogues. It was one of the less glorious incident of a long-ago war.It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now,eight hundred years later,the light from the first of those ancient deaths has reached the Culture's Orbital called Masaq'.For the Hub Mind,overseer of the massive bracelet world,its arrival is particularly poignant.But it may still be eclipsed by events from the Culture's more recent past. When the Chelgrian Ziller,a composer of galactic renown living in self-imposed exile on Masaq',learns that an emissary from his home world is being sent to the Orbital,he fears what he assumes to be the worst: that the Chelgrians want him to return. But the composer is far from being the only thing on the Chelgrian emissary's mind.His mission has another purpose; one so secret he does not know it himself at first.Discovering its nature will take him on a journey into his past and the haunting memories of another terrible war whose legacy threatens to be much more than just an unfortunate diplomatic incident. 'LOOK TO WINDWARD' is Iain M. Banks' most powerful novel to date and an extraordinary work of the imagination. Ferociously intelligent,wildly original and hugely enjoyable,it is a masterpiece of science fiction. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the less expensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja601916. ISBN: 1857239695.

£ 32.00 (approx. $US 41.64 )

BANKS**,IAN:
STONEMOUTH.

Imprint: LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN,2012.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks,including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,b/w marble(?) effect illustrated dw/dj with glossy black+red lettering to front,similar colour letters to spine/backstrip and rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Both head+ foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean with no foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate black flecked red endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,3-357pp [paginated] includes 19 chapters with story spanning over Friday evening until Tuesday morning,last page as a short, potted biography of author; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,a With thanks page,title separator page,and individual day's separator pages. Want more Iain M[enzies] BANKS titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2,MODERN FIRSTS,1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die and SIGNED catalogues. Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston,and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life,staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up. An estuary town north of Aberdeen, Stonemouth with it's five mile beach,can be beautiful on a sunny day.On a bleak one it can seem to offer little more than seafog,gangsters,cheap drugs and a suspension bridge irresistible to suicides.And although there's supposed to be a temporary truce between Stewart and the town's biggest crime family,it's soon clear that only Stewart is taking this promise of peace seriously.Before long a quick drop into the cold grey Stoun begins to look like the soft option and as he steps back into the minefield of his past to confront his guilt and all that it has lost him,Stu uncovers ever darker stories, and his homecoming takes a more lethal turn than even he had anticipated. Tough,funny,fast paced and touching, 'Stonemouth' cracks open adolescence,love, brotherhood and vengeance in a rite of passage novel like no other. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included or postage FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja955421. ISBN: 9781408702505.

£ 22.00 (approx. $US 28.63 )

BANKS**, IAIN:
THE CROW ROAD.

Imprint: LONDON.SCRIBNERS,1992.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.] FINE+/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated b/w illustrated upper panel of dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A tiny,closed tear/nick to rear,top corner of dw/dj.Head of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,some light superficial indents/impressions to upper panel and slightly more noticeable scoring and slightly heavier impressions/indents to rear panel of dw/dj - in either case,without affecting the boards beneath.Top edges coloured dark grey,fore-edges slightly,lightly and partially thumbed/grubbed; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain grey cloth boards with black cloth blind spine with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt decoration (detail from dw/dj design to head of spine) and bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettered title+ publisher to spine/backstrip and immaculate grey publisher's repetitive-name (Scribners) decorated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3- 501pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,b/w illustrated chapter separator pages and 4pp blanks at rear. Want more Iain BANKS titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS, MODERN FIRSTS2, 1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die and SIGNED catalogues. 'The Crow Road' begins with one of the most memorable paragraphs in modern literature: "It was the day my grandmother exploded.I sat in the crematorium listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony with Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I relfected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach." This is the voice of Prentice McHoan,the middle son of an affluent Scottish family whose narrative forms the greater part of the book, while the rest is told in the third person,a kind of saga of the McHoan,Watt,and Urvill families.Away at university,Prentice finds himself returning to his family home (or rather, after a falling out with his father over religious belief,to the home of his Uncle Hamish). Another uncle,Rory,hasn't been seen in eight years.As the mystery of Uncle Rory's fate takes greater and greater hold on the text,Prentice takes on the role of fallible detective,charged with making sense of all that happened to the generations before him and piecing together fragments to form a single truth. 'The Crow Road' is a novel about death: desire in relation to death,the body in life and death, and the exhuming of buried secrets.By the end of the book,despite the concentration on a bleak and stark Scottish landscape,the real map is created within Prentice's mind,as he reaches inside himself to discover the lost truths of a generation and the fragility of memory. [EF.] Iain Banks' new novel describes recurrent rites of passage in a complex but enduring Scottish family.His central character's preoccupations with death,sex,drink,God,illegal substances and the motor car are lovingly embedded in his rich descriptions of the Scottish landscape: with 'The Crow Road',his finest novel yet,the author has come home. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the less expensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja548615. ISBN: 0356206521.

£ 65.00 (approx. $US 84.59 )

BANKS**, IAIN:
THE STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE. ** [Author SIGNED copy. **]

Imprint: LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN,2007.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: 'To Luke Happy 30th! Iain Banks'.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. [He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's neat, handwrtten,blue ink,warm and personal dedication +signature: 'To Luke Happy 30th! Iain Banks',to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Some miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges though inevitably and slightly aged/toned are still bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog- ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - possibly an unread copy? Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original maroon cloth boards with uncoloured blocked title to upper board and bright,crisp, clean,white ink blocked letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED+dedicated,1st edn,1-390pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED+dedicated title page,a dedication, Thanks,and 6pp blanks to rear. Want more Iain BANKS titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die and SIGNED catalogues. Full of his trademark warmth,humanity and inventiveness,this wonderfully vivid story of family turmoil,compromised loyalties and hidden origins is Iain Banks's most compelling novel since 'The Crow Road' (then 2007). Please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the less expensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja536015. ISBN: 9780316731058.

£ 60.00 (approx. $US 78.08 )

BANKS**, LYNNE REID:
THE WARNING BELL.

Imprint: LONDON.HAMISH HAMILTON,1984.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Spine/ backstrip slightly faded,slight creasing (shelf-wear?) to top+bottom edge dw/dj - no tears! Fore-edges slightly aged as usual/normal. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja421. ISBN: 0312000170.

£ 15.00 (approx. $US 19.52 )

BANKS**, LYNNE REID:
TIGER, TIGER.**

Imprint: LONDON.HARPER COLLINS,2004.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj,by Sarah Perkins; with negligible shelf-wear and creases to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - an unread copy? Sharp-cornered,unblemished publisher's original red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-230pp [paginated] includes prologue+ epilogue and 16 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table,and to rear, author's notes + 6pp publisher's adverts for 3 titles. See also book ID rja374610 for another similar example. Lynne Reid Banks's 'TIGER,TIGER' is a hugely powerful and epic novel set against the dazzling backdrop of ancient Rome.This compelling and uplifting story about friendship,brotherhood and battling against the odds will grip all who read it. Two tiger cubs are snatched from their native jungle and shipped to Rome.On arrival at this strange land crowded with noisy "two-legs" they are cruelly separated.One cub becomes the princess's pampered and adored house pet.The other, fiercer,cub is trained to become the star performer in Caesar's bloodthirsty circus. Princess Aurelia detests her father's brutal "sport",but must keep her feelings secret - no one dares criticise the almighty Caesar! The only person she can confide in is the slave Julius,her tiger's keeper.But such a friendship is equally forbidden: should the Emperor find out,his anger would be terrible and the punishment severe. But friendship and love cannot be dictated,and neither tiger nor man is destined for a life in chains.In a world dominated by Caesar's will,all must fight for freedom. . . . . Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

Stock number: rja804518. ISBN: 0007190417.

£ 11.99 (approx. $US 15.60 )

BANKSY**:
Wall and Piece.**

Imprint: LONDON.CENTURY,2006.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj(as issued),1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , No dw/dj,as issued,wraps.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,Qrto wraps/s/back,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,14th imp,thus.[Number line 15 17 19 20 18 16 14.Originally and first published in UK,Qrto HB, 2005 by the same publisher,this being a subsequent s/back issue.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj,as issued - pristine - and virtually as new.Bright,clean,wrap-around,colour photographic artwork by BANKSY,illustrated covers; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners, and immaculate plain white endpapers to recto and verso of respective card covers. Circular,red,adhesive sticker label with b/w lettering "NOW WITH 10% MORE crap" to it's centre.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.UK,Qrto wraps,10- 238pp [paginated] includes profuse b/w+colour photographs and illustrated examples of the artist's work throughout the book and some occasional text.See also,book ID rja667017 for the another wraps/s/back edn of same work/title. Graffiti artist Banksy decorates streets,walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cities throughout the world.His identity remains unknown but his work is witty,subversive and prolific.Artistic genius,political activist,painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable,except may be when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Witty and subversive,his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction,policeman with smiley faces,rats with drills,and umbrellas.If you look hard enough you'll find your own.His statements,incitements,ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals. 'Graffitti is not the lowest form of art. . . .There is no elitism or hype,it exhibits on some of the best walls a town has to offer,and nobody is put off by the price of admission.A wall has always been the best place to publish your work. The people who run our cities don't understand graffitti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit.But if you just value money then your opinion is worthless. They say graffitti frightens people and is symbolic of the decline in society,but graffitti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians,advertising executives and graffitti writers. The people who truly deface neighbourhoods are the companies that scrawl their giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff.They expect to be able to to shout their message in your face from every available surface but you're never allowed to answer back.Well,they started this fight and the wall is the weapon of choice to hit them back. Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place.Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.' Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item,for correct shipping/ P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja528615. ISBN: 1844137864.

£ 12.99 (approx. $US 16.91 )

BANNON, JAMES:
RUNNING WITH THE FIRM: My Double Life as an Undercover Hooligan.

Imprint: LONDON.EBURY PRESS/EBURY PUBLISHING,2013.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with gold colour and b/w lettering to front; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-326pp [paginated] includes a prologue,37 chapters and an Epilogue, Acknowledgements and About the author to its reverse; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and author's note and contents list/table. In 1995,a film called I.D.,about an ambitious young copper who was sent undercover to track down the 'generals' of a football hooligan gang, achieved cult status for its sheer brutality and unsettling insight into the dark and often bloody side of the so-called beautiful game. The film was so shocking it was hard to believe the mindless events that took place could ever happen in the real world.Well,believe it now. . . Almost twenty years on,the man behind the film has explosively revealed that the script was largely a true story.That man,James Bannon,was the ambitious young copper.The football club was Millwall F.C. and the gang that he infiltrated was The Bushwackers,among the most brutal and fearless in English football. In 'Running with the Firm',Bannon shares his intense and dangerous journey into the underworld of football hooliganism where sickening levels of violence prevail over anything else. He introduces you to the hardest thugs from football's most notorious gangs,tells all about the secret and almost comical police operations that were meant to bring them down,and,how once you're on the inside,getting out from the mob proves to be the biggest mission of all. A disturbing but compelling read,this is the book that proves fact really is stranger than fiction. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja779518. ISBN: 9780091951511.

£ 22.00 (approx. $US 28.63 )

BANVILLE**, JOHN:
Ghosts. ** [Author SIGNED copy.]

Imprint: LONDON.SECKER & WARBURG,1993.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.[2nd novel in his 'Frames' trilogy,with 'The Book of Evidence' and 'Athena',the other two novels.Banville was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1989 for 'The Book of Evidence', and eventually won the prize in 2005,with 'The Sea'.] NFINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,neat,black ink,handwritten author's signature to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,protected,author colour portrait painting illustrated upper wrap,critics' reviews to rear panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges or corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned - as usual/normal - basically the only fault. Publisher's bright,unblemished,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate pale blue/grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,3-244pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,4 Pts and 2pp blanks to rear. A nameless man,a man with a past,nursing his guilt for a nameless crime,waits on an island for the god of redemption to arrive.What comes instead is a strange band of castaways who play out an imitation of life: the life that he forfeited years before.Their loves,fears,regrets and false hopes remind him of what he has lost, while one of their party - the mysterious Felix - reminds him of the past he wants to forget.The twin shadows of the guilty man and his unwelcome visitor cast a long chill over the Arcadian isle - suffered as it is with the rosy pinks of Watteau and the timeless spirit of comedia dell'arte - until the novel's painted backdrops begin to roll away and reveal the simple, terrible drama of crime and its punishment. Invoking all lost souls and every enchanted island,the book is an extraordinary balance of gaiety and menace - a dark comedy shot through with anguish,a dream of passion and loss.The record of a tormented journey back to the 'human world',of despair assuaged by art and imagination,'Ghosts' is a theatrical and exquisitely written fiction by one of our finest living writers. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item,for correct [insured or uninsured at own risk] shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja26587. ISBN: 0436199912.

£ 80.00 (approx. $US 104.11 )

BANVILLE**, JOHN:
THE LOCK-UP. [A STAFFORD & QUIRKE MYSTERY.]

Imprint: LONDON.Faber & Faber Ltd.,2023.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated front of dw/dj with capitalised,white-lettered title and sub-title and author's name,along with author credit as Bestselling author of 'SNOW'; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author and title as the front's and publisher's white-lettered colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with critics' blue+white-lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear,to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges bright,crisp,clean without blemish/ foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound – pristine,as new - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean/unblemished, sharp-cornered,original plain pale blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettering to spine/backstrip,a black headband, and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,3-341pp [paginated] includes 3 instalments/sections comprising 1,5,and 10 chapters and an Epilogue and Author's Note to last paginated page (pp341); plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,an epigram page (Sir Thomas Wyatt),individual instalment/ section separator pages,pp339/40 blank and publisher's 2pp advertisement for author's already published 'SNOW' and APRIL in Spain' the first two Strafford & Quirke mystery novels. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for its cleanliness, brightness and lack of detracting faults. The Sunday Times bestselling author of 'Snow' and 'April in Spain' returns with Strafford and Quirke's most troubling case yet. 1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city, the body of a young woman is discovered, an apparent suicide.But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play.The victim's sister, a newspaper reporter from London, returns to Dublin to join the two men in their quest to uncover the truth. But, as they explore her links to a wealthy German family in County Wicklow, and to investigative work she may have been doing in Israel, they are confronted with an ever-deepening mystery.With relations between the two men increasingly strained, and their investigation taking them back to the final days of the Second World War, can they join the pieces of a hidden puzzle? Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja1116124. ISBN: 9780571370979.

£ 16.99 (approx. $US 22.11 )

BARBER**, ANTONIA:
CATKIN: MOUSE HUNTER, CLOSER THAN FRIEND, WIND DANCER AT THE BOUGH'S END. [ Illustrated by J. P. Lynch.**]

Imprint: LONDON.WALKER BOOKS LTD.,1994.
Edition: UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn. [Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by J. P. Lynch,illustrated dw/dj panels,with black+green lettering to front; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A small indent,without penetration,centrally to front spine/backstrip's gutter's edge and lightly affecting concomitant spot beneath.A small closed tear to foot of same too.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glazed boards with dw/djs' repeated design/illustration with bright,crisp,black ink printed letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate beige illustrated endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,44pp [unpaginated includes endpapers],colour illustrated title page,medieval style illumination designs to page border edges,part page and 15 full-page,full colour,2 double-page full colour illustrations by J. P. Lynch throughout the text and the book. Catkin is a cat so small that he can sit on the palm of a man's hand.He lives with a Wise Woman at the top of a hill,at the foot of which live a farmer,his wife and their only child,Carrie. Seeing some danger coming towards the girl,the Wise Woman gives Catkin to her as a guardian - and the two love each other dearly.But one day, while Carrie sleeps in the bushes and Catkin chases a butterfly,the Little People come out from their home inside the hill and take the child,leaving a changeling in her place.Only Catkin can rescue her.He must go into the land of the Little People and win her back from their Lord and Lady,whose riddles and powers of enchantment will test his courage and cleverness to the full. 'Catkin' has the richness and resonance of a favourite fairy tale.Enchantingly written by the author of 'The Mousehole Cat' - see my book ID rja368110 - it is illustrated with dazzling skill,beauty and imagination by J. P. Lynch. Antonia Barber has written many books for children,including 'The Mousehole Cat',which was the Smarties Book Prize children's choice.It was also commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal and won the British Book Award as Illustrated Children's Book of the Year.It has now been dramatized as an animated film.She has twice been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal - for 'Ghosts' (later turned into the popular film 'The Amazing Mr Blunden') and 'The Ring in the Rough Stuff'. Patrick James Lynch born 2 March 1962,Belfast, grew up in 'The Troubles',known professionally as P. J. Lynch,is an Irish artist and illustrator of children's books.Attended Brighton College of Art and on leaving in 1984, he began working on children's books.His first illustrated book,Alan Garner's 'A Bag of Moonshine' - a collection of folklore tales from England and Wales - won him the 1987 Mother Goose Award.Since then folklore - traditional stories,legends,and fairy tales — has been a recurring subject of his work.He has also won the Kate Greenaway Medal for 1995 and 1997. 'The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey' by Susan Wojciechowski,published by Walker Books in 1995, proved to be very popular in the US,with sales in excess of 1 million copies.It also won the Christopher Medal,and a movie based on the book was released in 2007.He won his second Greenaway Medal two years later for illustrating 'When Jessie Came Across the Sea' by Amy Hest (London, Walker Books, 1997). As well as a children's book illustrator, J. P. Lynch has created posters for both Opera Ireland and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.He has also illustrated four sets of Christmas stamps,as well as other individual stamps.In 2006 Lynch completed work on two large scale murals in oils,on the theme of Gulliver's Travels for the Cavan County Library. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja746517. ISBN: 074452573X.

£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 )

BARBER**, ANTONIA:
THE MOUSEHOLE CAT.** [Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.**]

Imprint: LONDON.WALKER BOOKS LTD.,1990.
Edition: UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn. FINE/NFINE.Residual impression of erased pencilled,previous owner's name (in childish hand) to top of title-page,and no price clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible creasing to edges,a small nick with slight rubbing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean.Publisher's bright,clean, original plain green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and blue marbled-effect endpapers. Slight rubbing to both head+foot of spine/ backstrip and all four corners - mainly due to shelf-wear.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn,32pp [unpaginated] includes colour vignetted title-page,12 full-page,plus 1 double-page,full colour illus all by Nicola Bayley. At the far end of England is the fishing village of Mousehole,so named because of the smallness of its harbour mouth.Once,a cat called Mowzer lived there with an old fisherman called Tom; and Mowzer's life was very pleasant,because Tom loved her and she loved Tom.Every day they ate mouthwatering meals of fresh fish - morgy-broth,baked hake,kegeree,or star-gazy pie. But then,one terrible winter,the Great Storm-Cat came clawing and snarling and leaping at the harbour walls so that no boat could go out to fish.And soon,with Christmas coming,there was no food left in Mousehole. It was then that Tom and Mowzer set out in their little boat,to try and save their village.As they crossed the harbour towards the Mousehole gap,the voice of the Great Storm-Cat rose all around them like a giant caterwauling; and Mowzer knew that either she must soothe the Storm-Cat's anger,or she and Tom must surely die. Antonia Barber tells this dramatic and moving story so well that the sweet voice of Mowzer and the fury of the Great Storm-Cat seem to sing from the page; and the strength and beauty of Nicola Bayley's illustrations bring a vivid and shimmering sense of truth to this long-ago Cornish adventure. Nicola Bayley,born Singapore,1949.Studied graphic design at St. Martin's School of Art and illustration at the Royal College of Art.Soon after she left college,Jonathan Cape published her first illustrated children's book,'Nicola Bayley Book of Nursery Rhymes',which was outstandingly successful and was followed a year later by 'Tyger Voyage' - see my book ID's rja424112,rja424212 (miniature 1st edns/books) and rja424412,rja424512 for true UK,1st edns; both books were translated into seven languages. The fantasy world that she paints is secure and tranquil and full of carefully worked detail.Her jewel-like colours are sometimes applied with a distinctive stippling technique to produce a varied texture.She is particularly well-known for her pictures of cats and her most popular books include 'The Patchwork Cat' (see my book ID rja28608) and,for Walker Books,the series 'Copycats'.She is also the illustrator of 'Merry-Go-Rhymes' and 'Bedtime and Moonshine' (both Walker Books). Want some more Nicola BAYLEY illustrated books/titles? Please check my CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogue for other and similar titles. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja368110. ISBN: 0744507030.

£ 10.00 (approx. $US 13.01 )

BARBER ,RICHARD & BARKER, JULIET:
TOURNAMENTS: JOUSTS,CHIVALRY AND PAGEANTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

Imprint: UK.SUFFOLK.BOYDELL PRESS,1989.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,Large Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj. Bright,clean,glossy,laminated,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj [depicting a furious melee from a late 14thC Florentine cassone (wedding chest) - Musee, Tours; photograph Scala - the border is from the opening page of the contemporary biography of Jacques de Lalaing (Bibliotheque Nationale,Paris)]; with negligible shelf- wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean.Bright,clean,orange paper-covered boards with colour,mediaeval scenic illustrated feps+b/w similar contemporary scenic,rear eps.UK,large Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-225pp includes b/w scroll vignette illustrated half-title, double-page colour illustrated title page, contents list,illuminated colour illustrated frntis,prologue,8 chapters, epilogue,glossary,profuse b/w+colour contemporary illustrations,select biblio, notes and an index. The romantic image of the tournament, where steel-clad knights fought to win the love of ladies watching them,has perhaps been the reason why serious historians have tended to regard them as frivolous occasions.Lately,however,this attitude has changed,and the present book,which draws on recent research,is the first to present a coherent picture of the tournament. The subject proves to be a fascinating one, giving an extraordinary range of insights into the medieval mind,and into the origins of many of the attitudes that colour life and behaviour in the western world today.The tournament is the first sport for which detailed rules and regulations survive: from its history emerges the concept of 'fair play',and the word itself survives as a description of many of today's sporting events.There are unexpected parallels with modern sport - the problems of public order,with entire towns on full police alert for tournaments,and the emergence of sporting heroes whose prowess has little practical aplication.The tournament reflects,as might be expected,the history of warfare; but many aspects of theatre are also found in the tournament.Indeed,every theatre censor in Europe until the last few decades would have banned the occasion in 1428 when the Spanish king and his knights jousted on Sunday dressed as God and the Twelve Apostles.The details of tournaments yield unexpected and lively vignettes of mediaeval life: a father's proud record of his son's first tournament,an 80-year-old knight jousting with his grandson,a knight begging for advice on 'magic arts', knights practising in the streets of Venice with bells on their trappings to warn bystanders to get out of the way. The visual aspects of the tournament are shown in a series of illustrations which bring the text vividly to life,and which include some of the finest surviving mediaeval manuscripts.Heavy tome - 1.3Kg unpackaged!! Please contact seller,because of the value and the weight of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! US/Canada/S.America and other Zone 1 countries - book not available due to UK Post Office's prohibitive shipping costs - check on Royal Mail's dot com website - unless prepared to pay that shipping - my apologies!

Stock number: rja22956. ISBN: 0851154700.

£ 28.00 (approx. $US 36.44 )

BARCLAY,LINWOOD**:
TOO CLOSE TO HOME.**

Imprint: LONDON.ORION BOOKS,2008.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,red monochrome illustrated dw/dj,with b/w and reddish- brown lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Immaculate, bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-341pp [paginated] includes a prologue and 44 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,acknowledgements and to the rear,a note about the author. Canadian author's second book,after his debut 'No Time for Goodbye' - an acclaimed bestseller. When the Cutter family's next-door-neighbours,the Langleys,are gunned down in their house one hot July night,the Cutter's safe,predictable existence is instantly shattered.For violent death to have come so close to them is as shocking as it is inexplicable.The Langleys were an ordinary suburban family.If they could be the victims of an act of random brutality,then surely nobody's safe. But although he feels guilty for thinking it,Jim Cutter can take one positive from the tragedy: if the Langleys were just in the wrong place at the wrong time,then at least lightning is unlikely to strike twice in the same spot. Unless,of course,the killers went to the wrong house . . . At first the idea seems crazy.But with no other plausible explanation for the Langley slayings,Jim finds himself wondering if his own family could be harbouring secrets he knows nothing about - and so begins a disturbing journey of discovery that will turn the Cutter's world upside down. But the final secret,the secret that could save them or destroy them,is in the one place nobody would ever think of looking . . . Since April 2013,and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja758117. ISBN: 9780752888620.

£ 14.99 (approx. $US 19.51 )

BARKER**, PAT:
ANOTHER WORLD.

Imprint: LONDON.VIKING PENGUIN,1998.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,orange monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj,with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Dw/dj's spine/backstrip inevitably and lightly sunned/ faded.Top+fore-edges with ubiquitous but lightly ageing/toning,otherwise bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, would appear unread apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered - bottom two corners bumped with reciprocal creasing,front corner bumped the more heavier - original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain tan endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-277pp [paginated] includes 20 chapters; plus [unpaginated] blank half-title,title page,a dedication,an epigram and 2pp blanks at rear. During the hazy Newcastle summer,Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying.A proud and resilient man,he has long outlived his peers but not the memories of his youth.As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors surrounding his brother's death in the painful days before his own. Meanwhile at Lob's Hill,on the other side of the city,Nick and his pregnant wife Fran are failing to keep the peace in their increasingly fractious home.Looking after two-year-old Jasper is an exhausting business,made more so by the resentments of stepchildren Gareth and Miranda.In an attempt to unite the family Fran organizes the children into decorating the living room.Gradually,as the old wallpaper is peeled away,a vigorous and obscene drawing of an Edwardian family is revealed.The portrait is an excercise in hate: it reveals the history of their home,casting a terrifying shadow over the family. As events at Lob's Hill unfold,Nick begins to learn his grandfather's buried secrets,and comes to understand the power of old wounds to leak into the present. 'Another World' is an extraordinarily powerful study of memory,and of the various ways in which the violent past returns to haunt and distort the present. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Stock number: rja566915. ISBN: 0670870587.

£ 18.00 (approx. $US 23.43 )

BARKER**, CLIVE:
CABAL.

Imprint: LONDON.COLLINS,1989.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Want more Clive BARKER titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2 and SIGNED catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Stock number: rja429. ISBN: 0671626884.

£ 30.00 (approx. $US 39.04 )