731. Cuomo, George: Among Thieves

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1969

Hardback 1st UK edition. Nr fine book in very good+ unclipped d/w. Among Thieves is a prison novel masquerading as something more. The action centers on an intramural riot, in which good and evil alike are presumably unmasked. The pivotal character, a petty criminal named Mel Simmons, is the victim of ""society"" and just as inadvertently killed during the riot. Samuel F. Fleishman, Ph.D., Assistant Warden, who is intended to be a more sympathetic type, comes across instead as Mr. Belvedere retained by Bellevue as a comparison shopper. The third character, an innocent named Johnny Mancino, is perhaps the least unreal of all.

733. Curtin, Michael: The League against Christmas

Published by Andre Deutsch, 1989

1st edition hardback with dust wrapper in very good condition. A brilliant farce from the master of comic intrigue and, in Roddy Doyle's words, 'the creator of some of the best barmen in modern literature - Michael Curtin.' The King's Head Solo school - Bateman, Foster, Ellis, Gosling, Hayhurst (they play dealer out, hence five of them) - form an improbable league against Christmas, resolving to spend the time in a symbolic robbery of the diddly club funds in rural Mellick, Co Mayo. But when you ask a social misfit (Bateman), an accountant who likes to cross-dress (Foster), a salesman who carries a piece of lino with him everywhere (Ellis), the King's Head potman (Gosling), and the thrusting editor of Unipolitan woman's magazine (Hayhurst) to carry out the deed a glorious farce is sure to follow. Also hot in pursuit are two misguided police officers, convinced that the King's Head Solo school are in fact terrorist bombers and one Chippendale of a Garda, who happens also to have been 'the best fuckin barman in London'. A nostalgic tribute to the vileness of the 1980s, when the only consolation to be found was a hand of cards in a shabby pub in Shepherd's Bush - with all that might lead to…

734. Cussler, Clive: Atlantis Found

Published by Michael Joseph, 2006

Hardback 2nd impression in fine, as new condition. Around the world ancient artifacts are suddenly appearing, hinting at a catastrophe that will soon visit Earth ... Dirk Pitt is on hand at a Colorado archaeological site where an ancient and mysterious artifact has been found - one that is perhaps linked to other strange objects turning up across the globe. And soon Pitt's skills and ingenuity are desperately needed to rescue the team after a suspicious explosion seals them deep underground. It quickly becomes clear that the artifacts carry a message: a warning of global Armageddon. Yet a shadowy organisation called the Fourth Empire not only wants to stop others from heeding that warning, but is also actively seeking to accelerate the end it foretells. Now Pitt and NUMA must face this diabolical foe, who will stop at nothing to wipe out all life on earth ...

735. Dahl, Roald: More Tales of the Unexpected

Published by Michael Joseph, 1980

1st edition hardback with dust wrapper in near fine condition. Taken from Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss and The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar, plus four brand new stories, Poison; The Sound Machine; Georgy Porgy; Genesis and Catastrophe; The Hitch-Hiker; The Umbrella Man; Mr Botibol; Vengeance in Mine Inc.; The Butler.  

2057. Dahlquist, G. W.: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

Published by Penguin/Viking, London, 2007

1st thus, UK hardback in very good condition, unmarked and in an unclipped dust wrapper. The glassine jacket, originally stuck down at the pastedowns by stickers has been removed leaving small areas damaged at the pastedowns, back and front. A spy, a killer, and an impostor - this book features three extraordinary heroes. Miss Temple didn't come to the city for an adventure - she came to find a husband. But when her fiancé, Roger Bascombe threw her over for no apparent reason, Miss Temple decided to find out why. Yet, following Roger to a masked ball (one with a most sinister purpose) will take Miss Temple very far from the respectable world she has always known ...Cardinal Chang, so thoroughly disreputable that he has been hired to kill a man, is disconcerted to find his masked target has already been assassinated. No longer able to trust those who hired him (if ever he did), he sets out to find who has beaten him to his quarry - and why ...Dr Svenson did not ask to be a chaperone to his Prince, but he is loyal all the same, even when the young prince's debauched appetites put him in the clutches of a cabal of very nasty characters and involve him in a diabolical 'process' that has singular effects on the human mind...

736. Davidson, Muriel: The Thursday Woman

Published by New English Library. 1979

1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. In the tense hush of the courtroom, a man and a woman face each other....an accidental meeting of eyes that sparks a deadly erotic obsession.

79. Davies, Peter Ho: The Welsh Girl

Published by Sceptre, London. 2007.

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. There is a Waterstones book plate signed by the author pasted to the title page. There are no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city; and in a nearby POW camp, a German soldier struggles to reconcile his surrender with his sense of honour. As their lives intersect, all three will come to question where they belong and where their loyalties lie.

737. Davis, Philip J.: Thomas Gray - Philosopher Cat

Published by Souvenir Press, 1989

Hardback 1st UK edition. Fine book and unclipped d/w. This light, philosophical fireside tale wrapped around a mathematical problem tells the story of Thomas Gray, a cat who found herself at Cambridge University helping a historian of mathematics with his research. Two-color illustrations by Marguerite Dorian

282. De Bernieres, Louis: Birds Without Wings

Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 2004

First edition hardback in fine condition, no previous owner names or inscriptions, dustwrapper in fine condition, it has not been price clipped and retains the £17.99 net price. Novel about a small community in South-West Anatolia set against the background of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli Campaign, and the subsequent bitter struggles between Greeks and Turks.

738. Deeping, Warwick: Sorrell and Son

Published by Cassell and Company, 1929

Hardback, 12th impression. 3s. 6d edition nr very good d/w has edge wear and a couple of closed tears, minimal loss to top of spine. Bright clean green cloth boards. Previous owner name to ffep and front pastedown otherwise nr fine. Captain Stephen Sorrell returns from the First World War decorated with the Military Cross but unnerved by the conflict. His mercenary wife has deserted him for 'one of the fellows who stayed behind' and left him responsible for their son Christopher. A promised position in an antique shop fails to materialize and Sorrell faces poverty. Despite losing status he takes a job as a hotel porter, cleaning shoes and carrying luggage. Thus begins the long climb to financial security, his aim, the best education possible for Christopher, the boy to achieve a career which means he will never suffer his father's fate and, in time, that 'Kit' will enjoy a happy and fulfilling marriage. The bond between father and son weathers many a crisis in an uncertain Britain where the class system is eroding and sexual morality, in the thirties, appears to be a thing of the past!

739. Deighton, Len: Mamista

Published by Century, 1991

Hardback 1st edition in very good condition. The dust wrapper is also very good. Spanish Guiana - riddled with war, drugs and rival guerilla factions - is the setting for this adventure about a group of people who find themselves locked into a life or death mission. But for the Pentagon it is just a cynical game being played out around the discovery of oil in the Republic.

740. Dickinson, Peter: Chance, Luck & Destiny

Published by Victor Gollancz, London. 1975

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. There are no previous owner names or other marks. A fascinating and unusual book exploring the tangled kingdom of chance.

1113. Dickinson, Peter: Skeleton-In-Waiting

Published by Bodley Head, 1989

1st edition hardback, d/w back panel slightly scuffed otherwise vg/fine. The sequel to Dickinson's King and Joker brings readers back into the lives of his fictional but convincing British royal family during a crucial period: October 1987 through September 1988. The focus is on Princess Louise, her husband Piers Chandler and their infant son David. Subtly, the author hints at danger when the princess meets Mrs. Walsh, a woman claiming to be a Romanov who escaped during the Russian Revolution. At Walsh's apartment, Louise and baby David are trapped by kidnappers, and she comports herself admirably until rescue comes. But the mysterious Mrs. Walsh, and another Russian on the scene, are killed, leaving the princess determined to learn the secrets that died with them. Thus Louise accompanies Piers to Tashkent and finds out what Walsh had strived to conceal about her past. A superb stylist, the author evokes empathy for the ruling family, especially HRH and her commoner spouse--righteous, regal, and human as any real-life exponent of the arduous royal life.

1112. Dickinson, Peter: The Yellow Room Conspiracy

Published by Little Brown, 1994

1st edition hardback very good with top edge creased, very good, previous owner name on front endpaper, browning on edge papers otherwise a nice copy. Gerry Grantworth died mysteriously in the gas-filled Yellow Room at the Vereker family mansion. Gerry had been the passion of Lucy Vereker and the best friend of her lover, Paul. Now, 36 years later, as the two compare accounts of that fatal day, along with war years, sexual liaisons, political scandals and intimate secrets, they will piece together a deadly puzzle.

741. Dickson, Lovat: Out of the West Land

Published by Collins, 1944

1st edition hardback in very good condition as is the dust wrapper. The pangs and sorrows of young love form the main theme of this well-told and absorbing tale. Elaine McTaviot, the lovely young daughter of Andrew McTaviot, fills her home with her young friends, fellow-students from the nearby university. There is a happy inter-related social life between various interestingly-contrasted characters and their several children, brought together in pleasant hours of relaxation by sleigh-rides and ski-ing trips and excursions through the summer woods. The author foreshadows the grim and terrible future creeping towards, and inevitably overtaking this vital, vigorous and innocent world. Love comes, and from the sunlit security of the youthful scene the characters move into a world of storms, adventure and death.

1114. Dobbs, Michael: Goodfellowe MP

Published by Harper Collins, 1997

Hardback 1st edition. Very good+ in a like unclipped d/w. A new political novel from the bestselling author of the House or Cards trilogy, featuring a brand-new political hero: Thomas Goodfellowe, an MP with the inquiring mind of a parliamentary Morse - and the ruthlessness in pursuit of justice of a backbench Francis Urquhart.

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2006

1st UK hardback edition. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or other marks. When we first met Paula Spencer - in The Woman Who Walked into Doors - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together. Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne.Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the job now seem to come from Eastern Europe, and the checkout girls in the supermarket are Nigerian. You can get a cappuccino in the café, and her sister Carmel is thinking of buying a holiday home in Bulgaria. Paula's got four grandchildren now; two of them are called Marcus and Sapphire.

743. Drabble, Margaret: A Natural Curiosity

Published by Viking, 1989

1st edition hardback, both book and jacket are in fine condition. Liz, Alix and Esther are old friends whose lives continue to cross and uncross. As the years pass, they are more than ever disposed to question, to re-evaluate, to examine their motives and directions in the brutally prosperous, atrocity-hungry society of Britain.

744. Drabble, Margaret: The Witch of Exmoor

Published by Viking, 1996

1st edition hardback in very good condition in a very good dust wrapper. Freda Haxby is as famous for her writing as she is for her eccentricities. But for Daniel Palmer, Rosemary, Grace and their families, she is a monster mother. This is the story of an end-of-the-century family whose comfortable lives are disrupted by a succession of sinister events.

2260. Drake, John: Flint & Silver

Published by HarperCollins, London. 2008

1st edition hardback. The book is in fine condition, there are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper too is fine and unclipped. Pirates of the Caribbean meets Flashman in this rip-roaring, hugely entertaining prequel to Treasure Island. John Silver had never killed a man. Until now, charisma, sheer size and, when all else failed, a powerful pair of fists, had been enough to see off his enemies. But on a smouldering deck off the coast of Madagascar, his shipmates dead or dying all around him, his cutlass has just claimed the lives of six pirates. With their comrade's intent on revenge, Silver's promising career in the merchant navy looks set to come to an end… until the pirate captain makes him an offer he can't refuse. On the other side of the world Joseph Flint, a naval officer wronged by his superiors, plots a bloody mutiny. Strikingly handsome, brilliant, but prey to sadistic tendencies, the path Flint has chosen will ultimately lead him to Silver. Together these gentlemen of fortune forge a deadly and unstoppable partnership, steering a course through treachery and betrayal and amassing a vast fortune. But the arrival of Selina, a beautiful runaway slave with a murderous past, triggers sexual jealousy that will turn the best of friends into sworn enemies … and so the legend of Treasure Island begins.

1646. Du Maurier, Daphne: Three Famous Du Maurier Novels

Published by Gollancz, London, 1982

1st edition hardback. Both book and dust wrapper are very good+. The jacket has a small rubbed area at the bottom edge of the rear panel; it is not price clipped but shows no price. There are no previous owner names or marks. Contains the novels "The King's General", "The Flight of the Falcon" and "The House on the Strand"

Published by Gollancz, London. 1972

Hardback, UK 1st edition in very good condition. There are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is a little rubbed along the edges with some small chips lost but generally very good and not price clipped. Emma, who lives in Cornwall with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, wakes one morning to find that the world has apparently gone mad: no post, no telephone, no radio, a warship in the bay and American soldiers advancing across the field towards the house. The time is a few years in the future. England has withdrawn from the Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy, has decided that salvation lies in a union - political, military and economic - with the United States. Theoretically it is to be an equal partnership; but to some people it soon begins to look like a takeover bid.

745. Duncan, Hal: Vellum: The Book of All Hours 1

Published by Macmillan. London. 2005

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. A magnificent, fantastical literary epic of Heaven and Hell in direct conflict, with sleeper agents who will murder, rape and torture at their master's command, and where the heroes will be lucky to save their own skins.

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1974

1st edition, UK hardback in very good condition. There are no previous owner names. Top edge stained grey, corners slightly bumped. The dust wrapper is present and unclipped but is a little rubbed at the edges with a couple of tears but no loss. Few novelists today can write with such compassion, humour and earthy authenticity of women and her sexual predicament throughout society as Nell Dunn, author of Up The Junction, Poor Cow and The Incurable. Unlike the heroines of these earlier books, Jeanette and Queenie are in late middle age - yet still enslaved by sexual need and social convention.

397. Dunnett, Dorothy: King Hereafter

Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1982

This first edition hardback is in fine condition, it has no previous owner names or inscriptions. The front and back endpapers have the Kings of Scotland and Earls of Northumbria family tree on them. The dust wrapper is in very good + condition, it has some shelf wear to the top edges and a 3cm tear to the top back corner edge, it has not been price clipped. Her highly praised biography of Macbeth.

799. Eco, Umberto: The Island of the Day Before

Published by Secker & Warburg, London. 1995

Fine 1st edition hardback in a fine unclipped dust wrapper. The year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian. There he waits now, alone on the mysteriously deserted Daphne, separated by treacherous reefs from the island beyond: the island of the day before. If he could reach it, time - and his misfortunes - might be reversed. But first he must learn to swim...

746. Egleton, Clive: Last Post for a Partisan

Published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1971

1st edition hardback in very good condition. The dust wrapper is also very good. The second book in the Garnett series following A Piece of Resistance in an England under Russian occupation.

104. Elton, Ben: Popcorn

Published by Simon & Schuster, London. 1996.

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. Bruce shoots movies. Wayne and Scout shoot to kill. In a single night they find out the hard way what's real and what's not, who's the hero and who's the villain. The USA watches slack-jawed as Bruce and Wayne together resolve some serious questions. Does Bruce use erection cream? Does art imitate life or does life simply imitate bad art? And most of all, does sugar-pie really love his honeybun?

2407. Elton, Ben: Two Brothers

Published by Bantam Press, London, 2012

Hardback edition, fourth printing, in fine condition, there are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is also in fine condition and is not price clipped or faded. Berlin 1920. Two babies are born. Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood. As Germany marches into its Nazi Armageddon, the ties of family, friendship and love are tested to the very limits of endurance. And the brothers are faced with an unimaginable choice....Which one of them will survive? Ben Elton's most personal novel to date, Two Brothers transports the reader to the time of history's darkest hour.

2100. Enters, Ian: Up to Scratch

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1990

1st edition UK hardback. The front end paper has been drawn upon and the pages are slightly browned otherwise near fine and signed by the author at the half title page. The unclipped dust wrapper is very good having some surface marks and is lightly rubbed at the edges. Set beneath the damp skies of industrial Yorkshire, Up to Scratch focuses on a young lad as he follows his father into the murky underworld of the illegal sport of dog-fighting.

378. Faulks, Sebastian: Human Traces

Published by Hutchinson, London. 2005.

1st edition hardback in fine, as new condition.The book has no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped and still retains the original £17.99 net price. What is it to be human? This question, as in Birdsong, is at the heart of Human Traces.The story begins in Brittany where a young, poor boy somehow passes his medical exams and goes to Paris, where he attends the lectures of Charcot, the Parisian neurologist who set the world on its head in the 1870s. With a friend, he sets up a clinic in the mysterious mountain district of Carinthia in south-east Austria. If The Girl at the Lion d'Or was a simple three-movement symphony, Birdsong an opera, Charlotte Gray a complex four-movement symphony and On Green Dolphin Street a concerto, then Human Traces is a Wagnerian grand opera.

227. Faulks, Sebastian (writing as Ian Fleming): Devil May Care

Published by Penguin, London. 2008.

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are some minor surface marks to the dust wrapper otherwise fine and unclipped. No previous owner names or other marks. Written to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth on 28th May 1908, Devil May Care is a masterful continuation of the James Bond legacy - an electrifying new chapter in the life of the most iconic spy of literature and film.

Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1991

1st edition, 1st impression UK hardback in very good condition. The book leans slightly. There are no previous owner names. The dust wrapper is also very good and unclipped. It is slightly rubbed at the edges and chipped at the tips, also has a small tear at the front top edge. This is one of the scarce 1st ed's with photo section. This adventure story, based on fact, tells the story of two secret organizations. One, the clinic, consisting of three contract killers, and the other, the feather men, a body of men dedicated to protecting the interest of the men and their families, who serve or have served in the SAS.

2459. Fischman, Bernard: The Man Who Rode His 10-Speed Bicycle To The Moon

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1979

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. There are no previous owner names or inscriptions just some light foxing at the page edges. The dust wrapper is a little rubbed at the edges with a couple of small 1cm tears but is otherwise very good with no fading and it has not been price clipped. Illustrated by Barbara Laza. Anyone who has ever dreamed of a new life that holds something more - a new adventure, a new career, a new love - will find striking parallels to, and perhaps a few answers in, this sensitively wrought fable that takes its reader, along with its hero, over the earth, through the stars, and ultimately back to himself.

747. Fleming, James: The Temple Of Optimism

Published by Jonathan Cape, 2000

Hardback 1st edition. Fine book and unclipped d/w. Born of a famous literary family. This is the author's first novel. And apparently just a short print run making this a scarce book. It's a tale of the relationships of two men and one woman in Derbyshire in 1788. Superficially, the plot is simple: Anthony Apreece covets the land of his young neighbour, Edward Horne. Edward covets Daisy, Anthony's wife.