748. Folsom, Allan: The Day after Tomorrow

Published by Little Brown and Company, 1994

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper is also fine. This novel weaves together three stories of international intrigue. In the first a doctor is forced to confront his father's killer, in the second a detective investigates a series of horrific murders, while in the third an international organization devises a master plan of apocalyptic dimensions.

749. Forbes, Bryan: A Song at Twilight

Published by Collins, 1989

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The jacket is fine too. A Bryan Forbes spy thriller set in London, Moscow and Leningrad. As Britain descends into anarchy, discredited MI6 officer Alec Hillsden, exiled in Leningrad, tries to smuggle out of Russia evidence that will expose the socialist British Prime Minister as a puppet of the Soviet Government.

750. Forbes, Colin: Cross of Fire

Published by Pan Books, 1992

1st edition hardback in fine condition. When an SIS agent investigating a paramilitary organization in Bordeaux is strangled it can only spell trouble for Tweed and Paula Grey. Tweed faces imminent catastrophe as one murder follows another, and savage riots break out in France, the mob active in Lorraine.

751. Forbes, Colin: Shockwave

Published by Pan Books, 1990

1st edition hardback in fine condition. Tweed, faced with the accusation of murdering and raping a mysterious girl, has to flee into snowbound Europe. Paula Grey accompanies him on his flight. But Europe's top security chiefs, once his friends, are warned to track him down.

752. Forester, C.S.: Lieutenant Hornblower

Published by Michael Joseph, 1952

Hardback 1st edition. Very good+ d/w, slightly edge worn with 1/4" nicks to top & toe of spine. But bright & clean, retaining the colour to the spine. Slight bump & crease to back board. otherwise fine. The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannon shot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafaring cunning to overcome his first challenge in independent command on the high seas. And while blood and violence flow thick and fast aboard a beleaguered HMS Renown, the aftermath of war promises intrigue of an entirely different order: Maria, a young señorita, who might just soften the steely resolve of a young lieutenant. This is the second of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.

753. Forester, C.S.: The Good Shepherd

Published by Michael Joseph, 1955

Hardback 1st edition. Very good book in nr fine unclipped d/w. Jacket and ep's illustrated by David Cobb. Black cloth boards ever so slightly marked. A really nice copy. World War II's Battle for the Atlantic is told through the story of an England-bound convoy protected by a thin screen of American, British and Canadian destroyers and corvettes. The Good Shepherd is the captain of the American destroyer. As the senior Allied officer, he takes command of the escort vessels, even though he has had no combat experience. As always, Forester does an excellent job of putting the reader on the bridge with the American captain as he makes the myriad of decisions on defending the convoy, deploying his escorts and fighting his own ship through numerous U-boat wolfpack attacks.

754. Forester, C.S.: Captain Hornblower R.N.

Published by Michael Joseph, London. 1965

1st thus. Omnibus edition hardback in very good condition. There is a number writen on the title page but no other marks, possibly ex-library but without the usual associated faults. The dust wrapper is fine and unclipped. Contains Hornblower and the Hotspur, The Happy Return and A Ship of the Line.

755. Forester, C.S.: Admiral Hornblower

Published by Michael Joseph, London. 1972

Second impression of the 1966 1st edition. Omnibus edition hardback in very good condition. There is old tape residue at the pastedowns otherwise near fine. The dust wrapper is price clipped but there are no other marks or previous owner names. Contains Flying Colours, The Commodore, Lord Hornblower and Hornblower in the West Indies. Very tight, very clean, very tidy.

756. Forster, Margaret: Mothers Boys

Published by Chatto&Windus, 1994

1st edition hardback in fine condition. A teenage boy is attacked and abused by two others in a moment of gratuitous violence. One of the attackers, a 15-year-old brought up by his respectable working-class grandmother, is tried and found guilty - but refuses to explain or to incriminate his partner.

757. Forsyth, Frederick: Icon

Published by Bantam, 1996

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper is not clipped. It is 1999 and Russia is on the edge of total implosion. Social and moral order has collapsed and what small semblance of control there is, is being imposed by mafia-like criminal gangs. While public opinion in the West is largely indifferent, the political analysts are less sanguine - Russian meltdown will make the disintegration of the Balkans look like the collapse of a cup-cake. Out of the chaos, however, a single charismatic voice is starting to be heard - that of Igor Komarov, a visionary patriot who claims he can restore Russia's greatness and bring prosperity to the masses. He even woos Western political leaders with a rather more realistic analysis of the way forward for Russia. Komarov is set to win the next election when a document is smuggled into the British Embassy in Moscow. It's called The Black Manifesto and it appears to show Komarov's secret agenda - his political blueprint is really Mein Kampf, the rebirth of Russia will be as a New Third Reich with Komarov as Fuhrer. But can the document be authenticated? And what can the Western Alliance's most secret Trilateral Commission do about it if it is? They need to find another voice the masses will listen to and obey rather than Komarov - an icon they can cleave to and trust. Once, not that long ago, he was called the Tsar.

758. Forsyth, Frederick: The Afghan

Published by Bantam Press, 2006

1st edition hardback in fine condition. Signed by the author on the title page. Protected dust wrapper is price clipped. When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation in the works, they are primed for action - but what can they do? They know nothing about the attack: the what, where or when. They have no sources in Al Qaeda, and it's impossible to plant someone. Impossible, unless . . . The Afghan is Izmat Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afghan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a 25-year veteran of war zones around the world, a dark, lean man born and raised in Iraq. In an attempt to stave off disaster, the intelligence agencies will try to do what no one has ever done before - pass off a Westerner as an Arab among Arabs - pass off Martin as the trusted Khan. It will require extraordinary preparation, and then extraordinary luck, for nothing can truly prepare Martin for the dark and shifting world he is about to enter. Or for the terrible things he will find there . . .

759. Fowles, John: The Collector

Published by Jonathan Cape, London. 1963

1st edition hardback. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper (no reviews) are in near fine condition. Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is understand her captor, and so gain her freedom. THE EXCESSIVELY SCARCE issue in black cloth. This has long been held to be the true first issue, described variously as an export issue, a review issue or a trial binding. We favour the latter i.e. trial binding, as far too few copies show up for this to be an export issue, and it is extremely unlikely that a special binding would have been attempted for review issues. This is by far the scarcest of all Fowles' books, and is the equivalent rarity to the true first issue of Fleming's Man With The Golden Gun (with golden gun in foil). Ahearne in 2000 noted a copy on the internet at $11290, stating that it was not possible to give an accurate assessment of value.

290. Francis, Dick: Break In

Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1985

First edition hardback book in very good condition, browning to pages/page edges, spine edges having bumping, there are no inscriptions or owner marks. The dustwrapper is in very good condition, rubbing to the extremities especially the spine edges and corners, it has not been price clipped and still retains the £8.95 net price. A champion steeplechase jockey becomes the target of the press as he comes to the defense of his brother-in-law.

760. Francis, Dick: The Danger

Published by Michael Joseph, 1983

Hardback 1st edition. Very good+ book in nr fine price clipped d/w. A beautiful Italian girl driving home in an open top sports car, a little boy playing on a south Coast beach and the Senior Steward of the Jockey Club on his way to a press reception in Baltimore. One after the other they suffer the same nightmare ordeal - kidnapping. But there is one thing connecting these particular cases. For the Italian girl is a jockey and the little boy an only son of a race horse owner. A picture of the person behind this international chain of crime starts to emerge - a lover of Verdi, a man with a cool and calculating brain and an aficionado of the racing world. Andrew Doublas, brought in to advise and help the victims and their families, proceeds with all his customary diplomacy and courage. Only to find himself playing a dangerous part: the role usually reserved for his clients...

761. Francis, Dick: Twice Shy

Published by Michael Joseph, 1981

1st edition hardback. Both book and jacket are near fine in condition. The dust wrapper is price clipped. When physics teacher Jonathan Derry is unwittingly given some computer tapes containing a bookie-breaking betting system, his sharp-shooting abilities come in extremely handy against the thug who comes looking for them. Fourteen years later, Jonathan's brother William is about to fall victim to the same thug. But this time, William is determined to play a cautious and crafty game. After all, once bitten . . .

762. Francis, Dick: Reflex

Published by Michael Joseph, 1980

1st edition hardback in fine condition. Unclipped jacket only very slightly sunned at the spine. The book is unmarked with only faint yellowing of the pages. "Reflex" features Philip Nore, a steeplechase jockey with a passion for photography which ultimately helps him unravel a mysterious web of intrigue, blackmail and murder following the death of a ruthless racehorse photographer.

2129. Francis, Dick: Slay-Ride

Published by Michael Joseph, London. 1973

Hardback, 1st edition in an unclipped dust wrapper in very good condition. The book leans slightly otherwise near fine. David Cleveland is looking forward to Norway. A change of scenery, an old friend and a straight-forward looking case. An English jockey has gone missing; and so have the racecourse takings. It all looks so simple until a dead body turns up ... unannounced. The Racecourse Committee fields questions like some Norwegian Politburo and the only answers Cleveland gets are violent ones ... from a gang of professional killers. So, with maverick Marxist Erik Lund playing minder, he constructs a trap for his would-be assailants ... with himself as bait.

311. Francome, John: Dead Weight

Published by Headline, London. 2001.

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names. The dustwrapper is not clipped and retains the original £16.99 publishers price at the front flap. There's no hiding place for a jump jockey when his courage deserts him. After a crashing fall, champion rider Phil Nicholas returns to racing, but though his body has healed, his mind has not. Flashbacks of his accident invade his dreams, rob him of his sleep - and freeze him in the saddle. While Phil is battling to overcome his fear, his weighing-room colleague Adrian Moore is viciously attacked after losing a race he should have won. It's the start of a vendetta by someone determined to hurt those who break the rules of racing. If Phil wants to save the sport - and the woman he loves - it's time for him to recover his nerve...

326. Francome, John & James Macgregor: Eavesdropper

Published by Macdonald, London. 1986.

1st edition hardback. Both book and dustwrapper are very good. There is a blank previous owners book plate to the front endpaper. And the unclipped dustwrapper has been laminated for protection but the lamination is wrinkled at the rear panel. A racing thriller in the Dick Francis tradition, Francome's debut novel.

Published by 4th Estate, London. 2010

1st UK hardback edition. The book is in fine condition so too is the dust wrapper. There are no previous owner names or other marks. A very collectable 1st printing -- the now famous print run with errors, later corrected for subsequent printings. In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of too much liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's intensely realized characters, as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.

763. Fraser, George MacDonald: Flashman

Published by The Book Club, London. 1970

1st thus. Book club hardback in near fine condition. The boards have had a slight knock at the bottom corners and the dust wrapper is only very slightly rubbed at the edges and tips otherwise fine and appears to be unread. A cheap alternative to a true first edition which can now cost several hundreds of pounds in this condition. The career of Harry Flashman the cad from Tom Browns School days. This is the first of the Flashman papers 1839-1842, an epic tale of debauchery and clumsy rise to fame/infamy.

1628. Frayn, Michael: Spies

Published by Metropolitan Books, New York, 2002

1st edition US hardback. Near fine book and unclipped dust wrapper. In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys suspect that the comfortably ordinary houses in the Close and their inhabitants are not what they seem. As Keith, the leader in all their enterprises authoritatively informs the trusting Stephen, the whole district is riddled with secret passages and underground laboratories - hideaways for any number of murderers, unsung war heroes and secret agents. Then one day Keith announces an even more disconcerting discovery: the Germans have infiltrated his own family. And when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for.

453. Freeman, Devery: Father Sky

Published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, London, 1980

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dustwrapper is unclipped and would be fine also apart from a small 1cm tear at the bottom rear hinge. When miltary school cadets sieze control of their academy, an alumni of the school, now a journalist, must find a way to defuse the situation.This book was the source for the movie "Taps" and its plot is defintely better than that of the movie.