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London: Heinemann, 1987. First UK edition, second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. If you love Douglas Adams's peculiar sense of humour about the physical universe, an irrepressible mix of Monty Python and Steven Hawkins, then his detective novels, which follow seamlessly on from the Hitchhiker series, will strike you as hilarious. This is the first and is full of his perversely logical nonsense. Pages show some age toning.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. The second highly silly adventure involving Dirk Gently, some Viking gods and an eagle. Conan Doyle meets Conan the Barbarian, as Adams indulges in his Monty Python side.

When the much-beloved Douglas Adams died unexpectedly in 2001, his computers were found to contain many unpublished pieces, the most interesting of which are gathered here. This book is not only marvellous for lovers of his wit, but a fascinating history of computer technology; Adams was regarded as a guru in this area and was always the first to test new devices and write about them in the Press. We see him struggling with every aspect of the web, suggesting improvements and predicting trends that are only now coming true, years later. Hardcover.

New York: Harmony Books, 1992. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/fine. Book has slight spine lean and one crese to first end page, otherwise book and jacket are in perfect condition. Arthur Dent discovers he has sandwich-making skills and a daughter he never even knew about, while various versions of planet Earth are systematically destroyed by those kill-joys, the Vogons.

The fourth book in the Hitch-Hiker trilogy. : London: Pan Books. . First UK edition. . Hardcover.. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. . With full numberline, book is in fine condition, jacket has one closed tear to top front. Cover has holographic label depicting a dinosaur or a walrus, depending on how you look at it. Just before the end of the world, all the dolphins mysteriously vanish, but they leave a message...

The first new collection of humorous pieces from the very busy Mr. Allen in 25 years.
Eighteen extended gags from the master, most of which first appeared in The New Yorker.
Perfect copy.

A perfect copy of Woody Allen's third collection of occasional humour, most of which had appeared in The New Yorker.
Hardcover.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1969. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Amis lived in the States for two periods in 1958-9 and 1967 and out of these visits comes this satire of life amongst the rich, as our hero tries to understand and then woo the daughter of an American heiress

New York: Random House, 1966. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A perfect copy of Amis's rare, early farce about a fraudulent social club, conceived and written with his friend Robert Conquest, the poet and Russian specialist. Dirty goings-on lead to several types of cover-up.

New York: Viking Press, 1978. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. When did you first notice something was wrong?" An Oxford Don seeks help through sex therapy in Amis' thirteenth novel. Book and cover show slight age darkening, otherwise immaculate.

First printing. Amis has written a satirical novel about an alternative religious future for Europe, where Luther was made a Pope and the Protestant Church never happened. In this society, the Church holds terrifying sway, controlling the singers it needs for services and encouraging the castrating of choir boys with particularly sweet voices.
A fine dystopian fantasy. Hardcover

Random House Inc/Harmony Books, 1999. . First printing. . Hardcover.. As New in as new dust-jacket. . 208 pp. A perfect copy, with full numberline, SIGNED by Amis on the title page.

Here are 34 essays by the ever self-aware Amis, ranging through meetings and reviews of the famous, from Elton John and the Rolling Stones to J. G. Ballard and Philip Larkin. When Madonna refuses to see him, he writes about her publicity machine instead. My favorite is a review of the great Kasparov/Karpov chess battle in 1986. Book and jacket in excellent condition. Hardcover.

Martin Amis provides a gripping reminder why Stalin's reign of terror must not be forgotten, or forgiven.
He laments the ease with which the horrors of the Gulag are now being routinely glossed over.
Hardback with jacket, in fine condition.

Amis's fourth novel, about a woman with total amnesia, who does not know if her condition is a blessing or a curse. Hardcover

A scathing satire on the state of modern England and the dumbing down of popular culture.
A perfect copy, SIGNED on the title page. Hardcover

A perfect example of the author's first novel, winner of the Whitbread Award, a comic story of Ruby Lenox, born above a pet shop in York in the middle of the twentieth century.
She is determined to understand both the family that precedes her (four previous generations of women) and the life that awaits her.
As New in as new dust-jacket.

Hardcover.

A very good copy of an early collection of poems.
Book has slight dirt to block edges
Very good jacket is clipped.

All the writings that Auden wished to preserve from his first creative decade are recorded in this seminal volume, edited by Edward Mendelson.
Unpublished journal entries and a chapter from an early book are also included, laying the ground work for Auden's later status as one of the giants of 20th-century poetry.
Jacket fine, book edges have slight wear.

Auden's last collection of poems, including those written upon his return to England in 1972.
The Entertainment of The Senses, his last work for the stage is also included.
Hardcover