Grahame Thornton, Bookseller

The West Country Book

Trewin, J.C.: · 1981

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

Exeter: Webb & Bower, 1981 1st. ed. larger format HBK + D/W. Foreword by the Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall. 224pp. + 22 colour plates. G+/G+.

The Background of English Literature

Grierson, Herbert: · 1962

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1962 1st. ed. thus large format PBK. No. Y5. 249pp. Good copy.

Jane Austen's Novels

Wright, Andrew H.: · 1962

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1962 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. Y19. Index 206pp. Good copy.

Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson

Knights, L.C.: · 1962

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1962 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. Y15. Index 286pp. Good copy.

The Life and Death of King John

Shakespeare, William: · 1957

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1957 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. B32. 126pp. Some pencil jottings, o/w good copy.

The Penguin New Writing No. 5

Lehmann, John: · 1941

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin, 1941 1st. ed. PBK No. 5 Olive April. Pears advertisement back cover. 144pp. G+ for wartime printing.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan: · 1938

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1938 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. C10. Wood engravings by Theodore Naish. 280pp. Good copy.

Jane Austen

Bush, Douglas: · 1975

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London: Macmillan, 1975 1st. ed. HBK + D/W. Masters of World Literature Series. Index 205pp. From the library of the late Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, with his bookplate pasted inside front cover. Jacket spine lightly soiled, o/w G+/G.

Critics on Jane Austen

O'Neill, Judith: · 1971

£1.50 (€1.80 | $1.98 | ¥316)

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1971 2nd. imp. HBK. 104pp. From the library of the late Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, with his bookplate pasted inside front cover. Good copy.

Jane Austen's Achievement

McMaster, Juliet: · 1976

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Macmillan, 1976 1st. ed. HBK + D/W. 'Papers delivered at the Jane Austen Bicentennial Conference at the University of Alberta'. Index 139pp. From the library of the late Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, with his bookplate pasted inside front cover. Some staining to inside jacke...

The Osprey Guide to Jane Austen

Hardwick, Michael: · 1973

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

Reading: Osprey, 1973 1st. ed. HBK red cloth, gilt lettering and logo on spine. 237pp. From the library of the late Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, with his bookplate pasted inside front cover. Good copy.

Elizabethan Love Stories

Spencer, T.J.B.: · 1968

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1968 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. SL3. 215pp. Good copy.

D.H. Lawrence: Novelist

Leavis, F.R.: · 1964

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1964 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. Y39. Index 332 pp. Top corner back cover creased. o/w good copy.

Ten Novels and Their Authors

Maugham, Somerset: · 1969

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1969 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 2905 Grey/Orange/Black. 301 pp. Good copy.

Tales of Cu Chulaind: Irish Heroic Myths

----: · 1996

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin, 1996 1st. ed. thus pocket PBK. Penguin 60s. Translated by Jeffrey Gantz. 87 pp. VG.

Meeting Dr. Johnson

Boswell, James: · 1995

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin, 1995 1st. ed. thus pocket PBK. Penguin 60s Classics. 51pp. VG.

Penguin Parade Second Series No. 1

Morpurgo, J.E.: · 1947

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin, 1947 1st. ed. PBK. No. 1 1947. 96 pp. + 5 colour + 22 b/w plates. Good copy.

The Penguin New Writing No. 17

Lehmann, John (Ed.): · 1943

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin, 1943 1st. ed. PBK. No. 17 April-June. Jif advertisement back cover. 176 pp. Good copy.

The Sonnets and The Lover's Complaint

Shakespeare, William: · 1938

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1938 1st. ed. thus PBK + D/W. No. B18. 126 pp. Small split head jacket spine. O/w VG/G.

Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare, William: · 1938

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1938 1st. ed. thus PBK + D/W. No. B15. 118 pp. Jacket spine faded, o/w VG/G+.