781. Grisham, John: The Firm
Published by Century, London. 1991
Scarce 1st edition UK hardback. Very good in condition. White cloth boards slightly soiled at the edges and the pages are browning. The dust wrapper is also very good being only slightly rubbed at the edges and is unclipped. Mitch McDeere is a young, intelligent and ambitious lawyer. When he gets a job with a top law firm in Memphis, he is delighted, but soon Mitch discovers that the firm is listening in on his phone calls and that the FBI want to speak to him.
Published by Hutchinson, 1977
Hardback 1st UK edition. Very good book and price clipped d/w only slightly rubbed. Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past. Later filmed, it became the most popular TV serial of the decade. Slavery and the Deep South.
783. Haley, Alex: Queen
Published by Macmillan, 1993
1st edition hardback in very good condition. The dust wrapper is also very good. Opening in Ireland, this book follows the author's family history from his great-great-grandfather, James Jackson to Queen, his grandmother. James Jackson was sent to the US from Ireland and there his son and a slave, Easter, had a daughter - Queen, Alex Haley's grandmother.
784. Hamilton, Patrick: The West Pier
Published by Viking, 1985
Hardback 1st thus. Very good d/w. Book is very good+. Introducing Ernest Ralph Gorse, "one of the most discreetly perverted horrors of modern fiction". "The best novel written about Brighton"-Graham Greene
785. Handley, Max: Oliver Poges Lives!
Published by Arlington Books, 1970
Hardback 1st edition. Nr fine in very good unclipped d/w. Authors first novel. A book unlike any other, god bless him. It's a series of letters detailing increasingly more bizarre suicide attempts. Read it.
786. Hanna, Bruce: Fatal Moments
Published by Angus & Robertson, 1987
A fine 1st edition hardback in a fine dust wrapper. Thriller, Set during the Cedar trade - the red Gold Rush - in 19th century Australia.
787. Hardy, Robin: The Education of Don Juan
Published by Macmillan, 1980
1st edition hardback in very good condition. The dust wrapper is also very good. Don Juan. Born in 1921 to a Spanish duchess. Raised in a household of women, he was inexorably drawn to the female of the species, highborn and low. And as 20th-century history swept from the Spanish Civil War to the Nazi occupation of France through the Battle of Britain, pure-hearted and warm-blooded, handsome and heroic Don Juan embarked on a life adventure that thrust him into the most violent political and military battlegrounds of our times--and into the arms of the most thrillingly dangerous and powerful women of Europe.
788. Harper, Patrick: The Serpent's Circle
Published by Macmillan, 1985
1st edition hardback in very good condition. The jacket is also very good. A historical religious debut novel about the Catholic Church.
2264. Harris, Robert: Fatherland
Published by Hutchinson, London. 1992
Hardback 1st edition. Very good in a very good price clipped dust wrapper which is slightly rubbed at the edges. There are no previous owner names or marks. Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth -- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
790. Harrison, Carey: Cley
Published by William Heinemann Ltd, 1991
1st edition hardback in very good condition. The jacket is also very good. A novel of sexual conspiracies set against the English countryside.
789. Harrison, Colin: Bodies Electric
Published by Bloomsbury, 1993
Fine 1st edition hardback in a fine dust wrapper. Jack Whitman is head of long-range planning at a major media empire. Two years have passed since his cherished wife, pregnant with their first child, was killed in a mindless spasm of New York violence. Now, emotionally numb and blindly ambitious, and with the corporation on the verge of a merger, Jack is caught in a power-play between the scheming CEO and the ageing chairman. Taking the subway home one night, Jack meets Dolores, a beautiful, troubled woman who, with her young daughter, is on the run from her dangerously jealous husband. Against every instinct of urban survival, Jack takes them in, gradually uncovers Dolores' tragic secret, and begins to fall in love. When Jack Whitman's two worlds collide, he is plunged into a perilous fight for his home, his job, his life.
2068. Harvey, Jack (pseudonym of Ian Rankin): Blood Hunt
Published by Headline, London, 1995
1st edition hardback, both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in near fine condition. The book leans very slightly otherwise fine. It begins with a phone call. Gordon Reeve's brother has been found dead in his car in San Diego. The car was locked from the inside; a gun was in his hand. In the US to identify the body Gordon realises that his brother has been murdered. What's more, it's soon obvious that his life is in danger too. Once back in Scotland he finds out his home has been bugged by professionals. But Reeve is a professional too. Ex-SAS, he was half of a two-man unit with someone he came to fear, then to hate. It looks like his nemesis is back...
This is a Rare and highly sought after title, with the d/j well protected in a cover sleeve. The third book in the series, 8vo 375pp First Edition 1st Impression.
2272. Hassel, Sven: The Legion of the Damned
Published by George Allen & Unwin, London. 1980
Second impression, hardback. Originally printed in 1957. Both, book and dust wrapper are in very good condition. The dust wrapper is a little rubbed at the top and bottom edges and the book leans very slightly. There are no previous owner names or marks. Legion of the Damned was the first of 14 novels written by Sven Hassel, a Danish volunteer who served in the German army throughout World War II. Never before had violence been described in such hideously graphic detail: it was a far cry from British or American war novels. Based on Sven Hassel's own horrific experiences fighting on the Russian Front, Legion of the Damned won critical acclaim across Europe and America and was translated into 15 languages.
791. Hawes, James: A White Merc with Fins
Published by Jonathan Cape, 1996
Hardback very good+ unclipped d/w, fine book. 1st edition of the author's first novel. Take four ne'er-do-wells: a 28-year-old ex-public schoolboy who can't bear the idea of setting down; Suzy the Black Widow, who has a deliciously flat stomach and drives like she's breathing through the carbs; Brady the Reservoir Dogs fetishist; and Chico the fat Portuguese waiter. Add some plastic guns, the IRA and a white Merc with fins and you have a plan. What plan? The plan to walk into Michael Winner's private bank and walk out with half a million quid. Fast, clever, stylish, funny and utterly compulsive, this is a first novel with everything.