Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd (Penguin Group), 1997
ISBN 10: 0241136563 ISBN 13: 9780241136560
Seller: The Warm Springs Book Company, Fremont, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy in a fine, mylar protected DJ. Signed by author on a special "Three to Get Deadly" bookplate and signed again on title page (signatures only); 1st edition. Publisher's Penguin trademark stamp on front endpaper; 8vo., 300 pages. Signed by Author(s).
Published by London UK. 1989. Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group, 1989
ISBN 10: 0241126584 ISBN 13: 9780241126585
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
dark red faux leather "leatherette" hardbound 8vo. with gilt & red spine label. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. 1cm tear on rear, minor wrinkling & rubbuing, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first UK edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). "This is the FEMALE EDITION of the Dictionary." color decorative endpapers. frontis. illustration of zodiacal man. decorative title page. translated from the serbo~croatian by Christina Pribicevic~Zoric. 338p. 2 append. closing notes. list of entries. world literature. slavic literature. medieval history. khazaria. medieval religion. mythology. folklore. legend. vikings. judaism. muslims. islam. christianity. ~ The most talked~about European literary discovery since Perfume~both an acclaimed critical triumph and a major best~seller in country after country, currently being translated from the Serbo~Croatian into eleven languages~Dictionary of the Khazars marks the international debut of a writer whose prodigious gifts explode the normal bounds of fiction. It is a novel about a whole world and a great lost people. It is a book of knowledge. It is all about the present and sometimes about the future, which is why it begins eleven hundred years ago. It is about three great (and unruly) wise men~one Christian, one Jewish, one Moslem~whose disputes about the way the world should be are never done. It's a mystery wrapped in bedazzling philosophy. It's an Arabian Nights romance wrapped in a mystery. It's several murder stories wrapped in a romance. It's an illumination wrapped in secrets. It's a wickedly teasing intellectual game and an astonishing adventure. Its most wonderful characters disappear, only to return in the most impenetrable disguises. It is visited by several devils. And vampires. And a sect of priests who pursue their opponents in their sleep, for they are Dream Hunters. It comes in two versions, one male and one female, which differ only by fifteen (crucial) lines. Readers may choose whichever edition they prefer as their passport: their journey through the world of the Khazars will be different depending on their choice. Either way, all those who yearn to lose themselves in' a novel of love and death and adventure of almost cosmic possibilities should take Mr. Pavic's Dictionary in hand and plunge in. They will be entranced. Milorad Pavic was born in Belgrade. in 1929. He is professor of literary history at the University of Belgrade and is one of Yugoslavia's most acclaimed poets. Dictionary of the Khazars is his first full~length novel. Translated from the Serbo~Croatian by Christina Pribicevic~Zoric.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd./Penguin Group, London UK, 2002
ISBN 10: 0241141699 ISBN 13: 9780241141694
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Fine. First Edition. 481 pages. Dustjacket has slight wear to corners, slight creasing to spine-ends. Book has very light wear with small creases to spine-ends, minimal wear to corners. Text is spotless. Very nice condition.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd./Penguin Group, Middlesex, England
ISBN 10: 0241129230 ISBN 13: 9780241129234
Seller: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, Canada
[0-241-12923-0] 1986. (Mass market paperback) Very good. xiv, 271pp. 8vo. A reassessment of women's roles, from the 12th to the 15th century, in northwestern Europe. The front lower corner is and the pages, up to page 15 are lightly bumped; otherwise, clean, tight, bright, solid, with black and white photographs.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd (Penguin Group), 1983
ISBN 10: 0241108853 ISBN 13: 9780241108857
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 180 pp. Blue cloth boards w. gilt title to spine, colour slightly faded at edge. Blk dust-wrapper w. coloured illustration, ('Can spring be far behind?' by J Armstrong). Slight chipping, small tear at btm of jkt spine. Note on author on rear flap. Age-toning to edge of page. Fiction.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd./Penguin Group., London, UK., 1989
Seller: J J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk, Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
Glossy Pictorial Boards. Condition: Very Good (AVERAGE). No Jacket. Drawing Illustrations Throughout. (illustrator). Reprint edition. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾". Not Signed or Inscribed. HARDBACK.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. / Penguin Group London, 2004
ISBN 10: 0241142369 ISBN 13: 9780241142363
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition advanced reading copy uncorrected proof issued prior to the 2004 hardcover release, first printing of a fine softcover with no jacket as issued. Featuring Andrew Norton, visionary, hack and poet, handed a mysterious package, that sees him quit London and head out on the A13 on an unknown quest.
Published by Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd., | Penguin Group, Penguin Books Ltd., 27 Wrights Lane, London First Edition Thus . 1988., 1988
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First edition thus in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 240 pp with 31 monochrome photographic plates. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. MUSIC [Classical].
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd./Published by the Penguin Group, London, New York, Toronto, ON, Canada, et al., 1993
ISBN 10: 0241133718 ISBN 13: 9780241133712
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 277 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear and crisp pages. Minimal pen markings on text.
Published by Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Penguin Group, 27 Wrights Lane, London First Edition . London 1990., 1990
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First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards,white title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 280 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper with sun bleaching to the red of the spine, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0241129869 MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.
Published by Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Penguin Group, Penguin Books Ltd., 27 Wrights Lane, London First Edition . London 2001., 2001
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First edition hard back binding in publisher's original donkey brown paper covered boards, brown metallic title and author lettering to the spine, blue end papers. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 179 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Fine condition price clipped dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0241140676 MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd./Penguin Group, London
ISBN 10: 0241130638 ISBN 13: 9780241130636
Seller: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, Canada
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[0-241-13063-8] 1994, 1st British edition. (hardcover) Fine in very good dust jacket. xx, 699pp. 8vo. Biography, brilliantly researched, in which new connections are drawn between Virginia Woolf the woman and the literary genius. Black and white photographs. Jacket shows wear along the top edge, closed tears, lightly curled. Fine / Very Good copy.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group / Random House, London, 1998
ISBN 10: 0241140528 ISBN 13: 9780241140529
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Mike Terry, illustrations by Mary Rayner (illustrator). 1st Edition. First collected edition, subsequent impression with number line '3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2'. Illustrated boards as issued. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight yellowing to page block, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 382pp, illustrated. Ronald Gordon King-Smith (1922-2011), was a prolific English writer of children's books, primarily using the pen name Dick King-Smith. He is best known for 'The Sheep-Pig', set in rural England, where King-Smith spent twenty years as a farmer, it features a lone pig on a sheep farm. It was adapted as the movie 'Babe' in 1995.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group, London, 1993
ISBN 10: 0241134315 ISBN 13: 9780241134313
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Helen Manning (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£15.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 484pp. Born of Cuban/Irish parents, Emilio Montez O'Brien grows up surrounded by women, the youngest child of a family of fourteen sisters. His awareness of female charms blossoms at a very early age. As an adult he becomes a famous movie star. By the author of 'The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love'.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group, London, 1988
ISBN 10: 0241019257 ISBN 13: 9780241019252
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Mark Thomas (illustrator). Reprint. First published as a collected edition in the UK in 1964, this is s fifth impression of 1988. Ex library with usual stamps and defects, but not bad for ex library with fairly discreet stamps on copyright page and rear pastedown only. fFep torn away. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, some lean, not price clipped (£15.99), no personal iscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg copy. 332pp. It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler's (1888-1969), definitive take on the hard boiled detective story first appeared. Here then, from the well thumbed pages of "Black Mask" and "Dime Detective Magazine", are eight of his finest stories. Sharper than a hoodlum's switchblade, more exciting than an unexpected redhead and stronger than a double shot of whisky, they are packed full of the punchy poetry and laconic wit that makes Chandler the undisputed master of his genre.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd (Penguin Group), London, 1993
ISBN 10: 0241125006 ISBN 13: 9780241125007
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, hardcover, signed by Ackroyd on the title page, the book has a slight lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a moderate ding to the tail of the back cover, and a very faint area of soiling near the upper fore corner of the half title page. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Near Very Good copy in an unclipped, Very Good dust jacket, which has bumps with thin creasing to the spine ends and corners, some faint rubbing with a touch of edge wear to the covers, and minor sunning to the spine. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0241142040 ISBN 13: 9780241142042
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Tim Platt (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight yellowing to page block, not price clipped (£16.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 244pp. Sarah is in prison. Every fortnight she is visited by George, the private eye she employed to observe the final stage of her husband's affair. The visits and the days between lead George back into Sarah's past and into events he can picture only too well, while bringing him ever closer to a time he can't quite imagine, when she will once again step out into the clear light of day. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group, London, 1991
ISBN 10: 0241129540 ISBN 13: 9780241129548
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jackt photo by Richard Pomeroy (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLUE PEN ON TITLE PAGE 'With best wishes from Helena Drysdale'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom od jacket and spine, 'Signed by the Author' band present, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£16.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy. 273pp, illustrated. Helena Drysdale was leaving for Madagascar when family papers revealed that her ancestors traded there during the 19th century. There were hints of piracy and slave trading. Madagascar was not their only haunt. There was also Zanzibar with its plump sultans and the Comoros Islands. Helena and her photographer husband, Richard Pomeroy, set off to follow in their wake and find any lingering family connections. Their four month journey takes them from old colonial Mombasa to the labyrinthine alleys of Zanzibar, from Muslim ceremonies of 'second marriage' in the Comoros Islands to ancestor worship in Madagascar and annual exhumations of the dead. They are travellers in a traveller's world: everyone comes by sea from somewhere else; everyone shares ancestral dreams of leaving and arriving. The story is an exploration not only of the wilder parts of these Indian Ocean Islands, of their culture and history, but also of our relationship with our ancestors. Quite scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / The Penguin Group, London, 1963
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The Author (illustrator). First Edition. Very good book in blue cloth covers with bright gilt titles on red panel to spine. Internally very good; a book from the library of the author, John Fowles and with his bookplate on the flyleaf; copiously and attractively illustrated. The dust jacket is near fine; price clipped.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group, London, 2001
ISBN 10: 0241141303 ISBN 13: 9780241141304
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Simon D. Warren (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. SIGNED, WITHOUT DEDICATION, BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (£16.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 441pp. Exiled from life elsewhere, a former writer is the narrator of Paul Theroux's first novel since KOWLOON TONG. Newly married and having recently taken over the management of a hotel in Honolulu, he is drawn into the chaotic lives of his guests and into the distinctive customs and rhythms of the distant island. As witness to the many contrasting, and often ribald, chronicles of the hotel's characters, he ultimately finds personal salvation through returning to writing once again. The result is this novel in eighty distinct episodes, a Chaucerian sequence of strange pilgrims and just as strange islanders confronting each other, and their fate, in the rooms of the seedy hotel. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group, London, 2009
ISBN 10: 0241142180 ISBN 13: 9780241142189
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Gray318 (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 385pp. The story goes that in 1841, the poet John Clare escaped from High Beach Asylum in Epping Forest and, heading towards his home in Northborough, covered eighty miles over three and a half days. On foot and alone, he was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce, a woman already three years dead. In Iain Sinclair's hands, the bare facts of John Clare's story turn both strange and elliptical. Armed with curiosity and a sense that his work has from the first been haunted by Clare, Sinclair together with fellow diviners and other stragglers of the road sets out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness and to explore his own obsession with the poet. Keats, De Quincey, Blake, Pepys, Shelley, Joyce, Beckett, artist Brian Catling and magus Alan Moore, along with Sinclair's wife Anna, who shares a connection with Clare, are his fellow travellers on a journey that becomes an exercise in memory and erasure encompassing parents, grandparents and other ancestral ghosts. The mad, wonderful, hallucinatory and physical prose of Clare finds new expression in Sinclair's deep digging fiction of biography where memoir, history, travel, mystery and dream story combine in a magnificent eulogy to madness and to sanity, along the borders of which may lie the poet's muse. Quite a scarce book (unsurprisingly!).
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0241144205 ISBN 13: 9780241144206
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. In common with most of Roger Deakin's books, this copy seems to have been dragged out into the countryside with its owner and been a bit soiled and rain wetted in consquence. Decorated boards, no jacket as issued, dark green endpapers. Some slight wear to top and bottom of covers and spine, some damp cockling to page block, corners bruised, some grubby fingerprints to page fore edges, price on back board (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally cleanish tight and square, overall a vg copy. 309pp. For the last six years of his life, naturalist and author Roger Deakin (1943-2006), kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often impassioned, they reveal the way he saw the world, whether it be observing the teeming ecosystem that was Walnut Tree Farm, thinking about the wider environment, walking in his fields, on Mellis Common or on his travels at home, or contemplating his past and his present life. 'Notes from Walnut Tree Farm' collects the very best of these writings, capturing Roger's extraordinary, restless curiosity about the natural and human worlds, his love of literature and music, his knack for making unusual and apposite connections, and of course his distinct and subversive charm and humour. Together they cohere to present a passionate, engaged and in spite of the worst pressures of contemporary life an optimistic view of our changing world.
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Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group / Random House, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 024151570X ISBN 13: 9780241515709
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Getty Images (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, 'Signed Copy' sticker to front jacket, gift inscription to ffep, not price clipped (£12.99), internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks unread. 105pp. Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Home vans. Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy a flat. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness. But above all, keep your head down. Keep quiet. And keep going. The narrator of 'Assembly' is a Black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question, is it time to take it all apart? The author's debut novelette, endorsed by Bernadine Evaristo. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group / Random House, London, 2017
ISBN 10: 0241272955 ISBN 13: 9780241272954
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, second impression with '2' on copyright page. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLUE PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'To Jans and Uzman in fellowship. Hari Kunzru'. Some minuscule edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, bottom corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (£14.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 273pp. A dizzying, nail biting ghost story about modern America from the bestselling author of 'The Impressionist'. Two twenty something New Yorkers, Seth awkward and shy and Carter the trust fund hipster. They have one thing in common, an obsession with music. Rising fast on the New York producing scene, they stumble across an old blues song long forgotten by history and everything starts to unravel. Carter is drawn far down a path that allows no return, and Seth has no choice but to follow his friend into the darkness. Electrifying, subversive and wildly original 'White Tears' is a ghost story and a love story, a story about lost innocence and historical guilt. This unmissable novel penetrates the heart of a nation's darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge and exploitation, and holding a mirror up to the true nature of America today. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group / Random House, London, 2019
ISBN 10: 024138981X ISBN 13: 9780241389812
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jacket and illustrations by Jackie Morris (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in the USA in 1927, this is a fifth impression of the 'New Exclusive Signed Edition' of 2019, with '005' on copyright page. SIGNED BY JACKIE MORRIS, ON 'EXCLUSIVE SIGNED EDITION' PAGE, WITHOUT DEDICATION IN BLACK PEN. In almost 'as new' condition, with 'Signed Copy' sticker to front jacket, not price clipped (£12.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 207pp, illustrated, illustrated endpapers. Little Eepersip doesn't want to live in a house with doors and windows and a roof, so she runs away to live in the wild, first in the Meadow, then by the Sea, and finally in the Mountain. Her heartbroken parents follow her at first, bringing her back home to 'safety' and locking her up in the stifling square of the house. But she slips away once more, following her wild heart out of the door and far away. American author Barbara Newhall Follett (1914-c.39), was just thirteen years old when she published 'The House Without Windows' in 1927. The book went on to become a million copy bestseller. Years later, as an adult herself, Barbara followed in the footsteps of her radical heroine, dissatisfied with the limitations of life as a respectable married woman, she walked out of her house one day and simply disappeared (it is now thought she was murdered by her husband, the body was never discovered and he was never brought to trial). An extraordinary feminist fable for the next generation of nature lovers and escapees to discover and cherish. Newly introduced by Jackie Morris, and filled with her beautifully drawn art 'The House Without Windows' is an irresistible paean to the natural world and its transcendent effect on the human heart. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).
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Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd/Penguin Group, London, 1988
ISBN 10: 0241125367 ISBN 13: 9780241125366
Seller: Makovski Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). First Edition. Black/gilt cloth hardback - almost imperceptibly bumped - in chipped/minimally edge-creased DJ. xvii + 411pp., including b/w family trees as well as additional b/w illustrations. Maroon inside covers/eps. Faint blemishes on vertical page edges. A Good copy. The price includes an allowance for any extra UK P&P - the item weighs well in excess of 850g. Overseas buyers should contact the seller direct to negotiate appropriate P&P fees.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group / Random House, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0241141842 ISBN 13: 9780241141847
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Covers and illustrations by David Nash, David Holmes, Mary Newcomb et al (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Decorated boards, no jacket as issued. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of covers and spine, price on back cover (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally clean square and tight, looks almost unread. 391pp, illustrated. From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, Roger Deakin embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Central Asia and Australia, in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with wood and with trees. Meeting woodlanders of all kinds, he lives in shacks and cabins, builds hazel benders, and hunts bush plums with aboriginal women. At once autobiography, history, a traveller's tale and a work of natural history 'Wildwood' is a lyrical and fiercely intimate evocation of the spirit of trees, in nature, in our souls, in our culture, and in our lives. Roger Deakin (1943-2006), kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often impassioned, they reveal the way he saw the world, whether it be observing the teeming ecosystem that was Walnut Tree Farm, thinking about the wider environment, walking in his fields, on Mellis Common or on his travels at home, or contemplating his past and his present life. Quite a scarce book.
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Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd./Penguin Group, London UK, 2002
ISBN 10: 0241140102 ISBN 13: 9780241140109
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good. First Edition - Later Print Run. 261 pages. Signed on half-title page - by author. Light wear to edges and corners of dustjacket which has a black background. Clean and tidy hardback binding. Pages in very clean condition. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 0241427231 ISBN 13: 9780241427231
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jacket by Sarah Young (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '001' on copyright page. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. In 'as new' condition, not price clipped (£18.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, unopened, unread. 307pp, illustrated endpapers. Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors, all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, kept company by the women they stole from it. The women of Troy. Helen, poor Helen. All that beauty, all that grace, and she was just a mouldy old bone for feral dogs to fight over. Cassandra, who has learned not to be too attached to her own prophecies. They have only ever been believed when she can get a man to deliver them. Stubborn Amina, with her gaze still fixed on the ruined towers of Troy, determined to avenge the slaughter of her king. Hecuba, howling and clawing her cheeks on the silent shore, as if she could make her cries heard in the gloomy halls of Hades. As if she could wake the dead. And Briseis, carrying her future in her womb, the unborn child of the dead hero Achilles. Once again caught up in the disputes of violent men. Once again faced with the chance to shape history. Masterful and enduringly resonant, ambitious and intimate 'The Women of Troy' continues Pat Barker's extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest classical myths, following on from the critically acclaimed 'The Silence of the Girls'. A future classic, scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group / Random House, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 0241144140 ISBN 13: 9780241144145
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacjet by Gray318 (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '001' on copyright page. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITH THOUT DEDICATION, IN BLUE PEN, ON 'EXCLUSIVE SIGNED EDITON PAGE'. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some very slight fading to extremities of jacket, corners rubbed and bruised, some yellowing to page block, slight lean, not price clipped (£18.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg only copy. 296pp. Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic 'NW' follows four Londoners, Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan, after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they've made, the people they once were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. Funny, poignant and vividly contemporary 'NW' is as brimming with vitality as the city itself. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).