Bill Hogan, Signed (3 results)

Condition: Good. Black & White photograph. 4 x 5 inches, including border. Very Good. Mounted on board. Minor residue of glue on surface. Signed and inscribed in the plate. From a collection of photographs and other ephemera removed from the scrapbook of a radio music enthusiast.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce memoir from Mrs. Edna Turley Carpenter, a resident of the small town of Manchaca, near Austin in the Hill Country of central Texas. Signed and inscribed by both editors, as well as Mrs. Carpenter. Near fine in gray boards with former owner's sticker applied to ffep, near the inscriptions. Very good, price-clipped jacket with light wear to extremities.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Granta, King's College, Cambridge University in 1980. Original Wraps. The BOOK is in near FINE condition with a little creasing at spine tips and a hint of toning to the text block. No Jacket as issued. Light creeping to the upper page corner of the first 60 pages, possibly a production issue. Free from inscriptions and erasures. This copy is lacking the one page OUP insert at page 108. Illustrated with full-page black and white drawing cover design by John Blanche. The Contents: Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (first part ); Angela Carter: Cousins; Desmond Hogan: Southern Birds; Alan Sillitoe: A Scream of Toys; Emma Tennant: Alice fell; Russell Hoban: Ridley Walker; J.K. Klavans: God, He Was Good. With a section titled 'A Symposium on the British Novel, with contributions by: Lorna Sage, Chris Bigsby, Frederick Bowers, James Gindin and Christine Brooke-Rose. A very hard to find early issue Granta magazine - containing the first part of Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children'. The two relevant chapters "The Perforated Sheet" (pages 17 to 32) and "Mercurochrome" (pages 32 to 46) are the earliest and only publications of parts of his novel 'Midnight's Children' in any form. This copy has been Signed (without dedication) by Salman Rushdie, Alan Sillitoe and Chris Bigsby at their respective entries. Scarce to find with such attributes. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Author(s).