Narrativa e romanzi

The secret meeting

Rhode, John · 1951 · Aucott & Thomas

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Fair in Poor dust jacket Geoffrey Bles First Edition Reading copy, an ex library hardback with the usual stamps, page edges foxed, in a dustjacket which is laminated to the boards. 256 pages

Raffles of the Albany

Perowne, Barry (Atkey, Philip) · 1976 · Aucott & Thomas

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Poor in Good dust jacket Cassell and Company Limited First Edition Reading copy, an ex library hardback with the usual stamps & stickers, front board pulled, page edges foxed, in an unclipped dustjacket. 214 pages

Gibraltar prisoner

Perowne, Barry (Atkey, Philip) · 1942 · Aucott & Thomas

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

Good with no dust jacket Cassell and Company Limited First Edition Clean hardback tightly bound in blue boards with black titles, spine tanned, boards rubbed aand worn, page edges foxed, no inscriptions. 184 pages

Murder by request

Nichols, Beverley · 1960 · Aucott & Thomas

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Fair in Poor dust jacket Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd First Edition Clean & tightly bound hardback book with a name, date and place on the front endpaper, in a price clipped dustjacket which is chipped and creased with old tape repairs and a closed tear to the front cover...

Shadow agent

Martyn, Wyndham · 1941 · Aucott & Thomas

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Fair with no dust jacket Herbert Jenkins Limited First Edition Clean hardback book, tightly bound in orange boards with black titles, scribble on spine, cloth rubbed and worn with marks, page edges foxed, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions. 304 pages, plans on endpapers

De Zomer

Camus, Albert · 1976 · von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Zonen

€11.00 ($12.12 | £9.18 | ¥1,935)

De Bezige Bij 88 pag Eerste druk Amsterdam Zeer goede staat

Taras Bulba (Modern Library Classics)

Gogol, Nikolai · 2004 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Modern Library First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Modern Library, 2004, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, xxi+141pp. As new. The First New Translation in Forty Years Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol's epic tale recounts bot...

The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel (Penguin Classics)

Marquis, Don · 2006 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Penguin First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Penguin, 2006, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, xlii+346pp. Mild age tone to paper, else as new. Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis, who was frequently compared to M...

Elective Affinities (Penguin Classics)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von · 1978 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Penguin Trade softcover. Published London: Penguin, 1978. 8vo. wrappers, 300pp. Mild age tone to paper. Near fine. Condemned as immoral when it was first published, this novel reflects the conflict Goethe felt between his respect for the conventions of marriage and the possi...

Benchley Lost and Found (Dover Humor)

Benchley, Robert · 1970 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Dover Publications First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Dover, 1970. 8vo. wrappers, 183pp., illustrated. Near fine. These "39 prodigal pieces" show Robert Benchley at the height of his whimsicality, damning with gentle urbanity all the things that peeve every one o...

Memories of Mistresses

Luigi Barzini · 1986 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Mcmillan First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Mcmillan, 1986, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 311pp. Very good. Very Good No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 311

No Name

Collins, Wilkie · 1978 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Dover Pubns First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Dover, 1978, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 609pp., with 16 period illustrations. slight foxing edges/endpapers. Very good. Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian E...

The Great Fire

Hazzard, Shirley · 2004 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Picador Trade softcover. Published NY: Picador 2004, ninth printing. 8vo. wrappers, 326pp. Some age toning to paper, else near fine. The Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate ...

Travesties: A Play

Stoppard, Tom · 1975 · The Wild Muse

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Grove Press First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Grove Press, 1975, second printing. 8vo. wrappers, 99pp. Paper age toned, else very good. Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- Jame...

Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land

Stoppard, Tom · 1976 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Grove Press First edition, trade softcover. Published NY:Grove Press, 1976, second printing. 8vo. wrappers, 75pp. Near fine. Near Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 2nd Printing NY 8vo 75

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul: Two Plays

Stoppard, Tom · 1978 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Grove Press First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Grove Press, 1978, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 124pp. Near fine. It is Tom Stoppard's very special skill as the master comedian of ideas in the modern theater to create brilliant, biting humor out of serious concern...

Appleby's Other Story (28) (Inspector Appleby)

Innes, Michael · 2000 · The Wild Muse

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

House of Stratus First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire: House of Stratus, 2000, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 179pp. Fine. During a walk to Elvedon House, palatial home of the Tythertons, Sir John Appleby and Chief Constable Colonel Pride are stunned to ...

Appleby And The Ospreys (35) (Inspector Appleby)

Innes, Michael · 2000 · The Wild Muse

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

House of Stratus First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire: House of Stratus, 2000, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 159pp. Fine. Clusters, a great country house, is troubled by bats, as Lord and Lady Osprey complain to their guests, who include first rate det...

The Tryst (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Dibdin, Michael · 2003 · The Wild Muse

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2003, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 168pp. As new. "One of my patients thinks somebody's trying to kill him," Aileen Macklin says to her husband over breakfast. A psychiatri...

Thanksgiving (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Dibdin, Michael · 2002 · The Wild Muse

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2002, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 182pp. As new. Thanksgiving is a moving portrait of the profound effects of love when all that seems to remain is loss and grief. Unhinge...