Search Results: British Fiction from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

London: The Women's Press, 1985 reprint. 1985 reprint. INSCRIBED by author on title p. 182pp. paperback: near Very Good [some age browning to top & fore edges; else nrVG] The second novel by the Dublin born lesbian feminist academic and writer Anna Livia Julian Brawn (1955-2007), who wrote under the pen name Anna Livia.

London: Macmillan. 1960 2nd ptg. 376pp. red cloth sm 8vo: Good+ in a worn but not tattered dj. A novel set in the same college as the author's earlier work The Masters, part of the Strangers and Brothers sequence. English physicist and novelist C. P. Snow (1905-80) was Baron Snow.

Andover, UK: Pitkin Pictorials, 1989 reprint. 32pp. illus. paperback sm 4to: Fine. An illustrated guide book depicting the story of Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll's model for his Alice in Wonderland.

New York: Garland, 1986. 649pp. illus. hardback sm 4to in pictorial boards in gilt: Very Good in a Good dj [a small crease on front cover; spine strip is slightly pulled @ spine head; else VG; dj = some small tears & rubs @ extremities; else G] A fat Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (Vol. 585) volume featuring over 650 entires by 94 scholars spanning 1,500 years.

London: The Richards Press. 1949 1st ed. 456pp. green cloth 8vo: Good+ in a worn and torn dj [age browning of endpp; else G+] An anthology of excerpts from 52 British writers down the ages ranging from Chaucer to Robert Louis Stevenson with brief biographical information on each subject. The Oxford-educated Stuart Petre Brodie Mais (1885-1975) was a prolific English writer and pioneer radio broadcaster.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998 1st Am. ed. 249pp. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [short rem. line bottom edge; else F] Comic historical fiction about the rise and fall of Regency England's greatest boxing contender, a freed American slave called "Black Ajax." One of the characters in this clever novel is Captain Buck Flashman, father of Fraser's (1925-2008) best known character Harry Flashman, who appears in his picaresque novels about the 19th century British Empire.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1929 1st ed. 323pp. black cloth sm 8vo w/pictorial spine label: Very Good in a worn but not tattered dj now protected in a Brodart poly cover [age browning of endpp & top edge; else a very nice clean, complete & tight copy] A novel of the British coal mines by a writer from a coal mining village.

New York: International Polygonics, 1991 1st ed. thus. 186pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good. Cover praise for English writer and jurist, Henry Cecil Leon (1902-76) from P. G. Wodehouse. Originally published in 1961.

New York: Viking, 2006 advance uncorrected proofs. 314pp. paperback 8vo: Fine.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1978 1st ed. thus. 145pp. paperback: near Very Good [text is completely age browned in the usual Penguin manner; else a clean, complete & tight copy with no creases]

New York: Walker & Co., 1987 1st ed. 252pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj [hint of darkening to top & fore edges; else nrF] A thriller set in the Himalayas.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1986 1st ed. thus of revised King Penguin ed. 142pp. paperback: Good [text is completely age browned; top edge is foxed; else a clean, complete & uncreased copy] Anthony Burgess called Alasdair Gray "The first major Scottish writer since Walter Scott."

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991 1st Am. ed. 192pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [touch of age browning to top & fore edges; else nrF; dj = bit of rubbing @ spine ends; else nrF] A nice copy of the medievalist author’s seventh novel based on the true story of the possible murder of the English royal princes in the Tower of London by their uncle, King Rchard III. The prolific English writer Paul Doherty (b. 1946) brings the expertise of an Oxford D.Phil. to his historical mysteries.

London: Picador, 1985 reprint. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 190pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; edge foxing; else a clean, complete & tight copy] On the Booker Prize short list, this novel won the 1985 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Cover praise from Graham Greene, Joseph Heller, Germaine Greer, John Irving, John Fowles, et al.

London: Futura, 1987 1st ed. thus. 288pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; edges are foxed; else a nice clean and uncreased copy] A comic novel about East meets West in London, originally published in 1973. This is the tie-in edition for the 1986 film of the same name.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World/Harbinger Books, 1962 1st ed. thus. 253pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [ink name inside front cover; text is age browned; else a nice clean & tight copy] A POW camp novel, the fourth novel by the English Nobel Prize Literature Laureate Sir William Golding (1911-93).

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960 reprint. 468pp. grey cloth 8vo: Good in a Good dj [text is completely age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] Alexander Raban Waugh (1898-1981) was fellow English novelist Evelyn Waugh’s (1903-66) elder brother.

New York: Knopf, 1973 3rd ptg. 205pp. beige cloth 8vo: Good+ in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [owner's round emboss on front fly leaf; some foxed spots @ top edges of cover cloth; cover boards have a tendency to splay outward; else a clean, complete & tight copy] Hilarious stories based on the author's personal experience of Scottish regiments. The fictional one herein is posted to Africa and the Middle East immediately after World War II. Fraser (1925-2008), famous for his "Flashman" novels set during the Victorian heyday of the British Empire, outdoes even Flashman in some of these tales.

New York: Simon & Schuster Fireside Books, 1989 1st ed. thus. 160pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [text is age browned; short rem. line bottom edge; else nrVG] A witty portrait of middle class life in Delhi by the award winning Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927-2013), a German born novelist who married into Indian life, originally published in 1962.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2001 1st ed. INSCRIBED boldly on title p. by author. 305pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.