2149. Jarman, Peter: Three Journeys into the Labyrinth

Published by Digithurst. 1990

1st edition hardback. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in very good condition. There is some spotting of the preliminary pages but generally very good. Three ways high technology and the media can bend your mind. Written by Peter Kruger, under the pen name of Peter Jarman, this novel builds three different stories around the same set of events. The book uses each story to illustrate the differences between our conscious and subconscious perception of the real world - and how the mass media and modern technology alters the relationship between them. The book, written before wide scale use of the Internet, predicted many of the pitfalls of living in a multimedia age. The theme was developed further in the sequel, Fahrenbrink.

95. Jordan, Neil: Shade

Published by John Murray, London. 2004.

Large trade sized paperback with dust wrapper. ARC proof copy in fine, possiby unread condition. Unclipped and unmarked. From the author of The Crying Game. Ireland, 1950. Nina Hardy wakes in the big house where she grew up. Now aged fifty, she has returned to the fading beauty of her old home, and its unkempt gardens, its views of the wild Irish Sea, and its long-buried memories. With her childhood friend George, she is seeking peace from a turbulent world. But by the end of the day, a brutal crime will have been committed, which will alter their lives forever.

Published by Century, London. 2012

UK paperback 1st edition proof copy in very good condition. Large format paperback, only very slightly creased at the spine otherwise clean and tight. There are no other marks or inscriptions. Book one in the Ryan Drake series of thrillers. Ryan Drake is a man who finds people who don't want to be found. Once a soldier in the British Army, he now works for the CIA as a 'shepherd' - an elite investigation team that finds and brings home missing agents. But his latest mission - to free a prisoner codenamed Maras from a maximum security prison and bring her back to US soil within forty-eight hours - is more dangerous than anything he and his team have attempted before.

2268. Kane, Ben: Hannibal: Fields of Blood

Published by Preface Publishing, London. 2013

1st edition hardback. Both, book and dust wrapper are in fine, as new condition. Hannibal's campaign to defeat Rome continues as he marches south to confront his enemy. With him is a young soldier, Hanno. Like his general, Hanno burns to vanquish Rome. Never has the possibility seemed so likely. But a stealthy game of cat and mouse is being played as Rome's generals seek to avoid confrontation. Eventually the two armies meet under a fierce summer sun. The place is Cannae - the fields of blood. The battle will go down in history as one of the bloodiest ever fought, a battle in which Hanno knows he must fight as never before - just to stay alive.

Published by Allen Lane, London, 1978

1st edition, UK hardback in very good condition. There is a previous owner's gift inscription at the front endpaper. The boards have slight wear at the bottom edge and some creasing at the spine. The dust wrapper is also very good and not price clipped; only a little rubbed at the edges. The Far Pavilions is the story of an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess. It is the story of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, of high adventure and of the clash between East and West. To the burning plains and snow-capped mountains of this great, humming continent, M.M. Kaye brings her exceptional gifts of storytelling and meticulous historical accuracy, plus her insight into the human heart.

830. Keillor, Garrison: Leaving Home

Published by Viking, 1987

1st US edition hardback in fine condition, the jacket is fine too. In this collection of Lake Wobegon stories, Keillor takes his readers back to that world, the place that is everybody's home town 'where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.' Leaving Home is a tribute to the life and people of Lake Wobegon, an elegy and a celebration, narrated with the gentle wit for which Garrison Keillor has been acclaimed.

831. Keillor, Garrison: Leaving Home

Published by Faber & Faber, 1988

Hardback 1st UK edition. D/w is clipped otherwise f/f. A collection of Lake Wobegon stories.

832. Kellerman, Jonathan: Private Eyes

Published by Macdonald & Co, London. 1991

1st UK edition hardback in near fine condition, the spine leans slightly. The book has no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper has a couple of small closed nicks to the top spine edges; it has not been price clipped and still retains the original £13.95 net price. This is a very big and heavy book. Psychologist Alex Delaware regards Melissa Dickinson as one of his greatest achievements. A tormented seven year old when she first appeared in his LA surgery, two years on she was fully recovered. Years later, Melissa contacts Alex, desperate for him to help her mother, Gina. Gina was a budding Hollywood starlet until a vicious acid attack left her disfigured. Crippled with fear, Gina has hidden from the world for two decades. But before Alex can help, she disappears. Now Alex is locked in a search leading him into a grotesque labyrinth of hidden histories and desires...

833. Kellerman, Jonathan: The Web

Published by Little Brown, 1995

Fine 1st edition. Hardback edition, the dust wrapper is also fine. Alex Delaware arrives in Knife Island to investigate the physical and mental ills of the islanders. He finds a community about to be destroyed by developers and the murder of a young woman. But most horrifying of all, he learns of a human experiment perpetrated by the highest in government.

834. Kellerman, Jonathan: Silent Partner

Published by Macdonald, 1989

1st edition hardback in very good+ condition. The dust wrapper is also very good. Dr Sharon Ransom is the most beautiful woman in the room; she's also the most troubled. So when former lover, psychologist Alex Delaware, bumps into her at a lavish LA cocktail party, though still attracted to her, fear of reviving unhappy memories prevents him from offering the help she seems so desperate for. Hours later, Sharon's body is discovered with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Tortured by guilt, Alex wants answers. As his investigation begins, dark memories of his past with Sharon emerge, and a present full of madness, murder and sexual violence unfolds.

2427. Kelman, James: A Disaffection

Published by Secker & Warburg, London. 1989

Hardback edition, reprint in very good condition. There is browning of the pages otherwise very good. The dust wrapper is not clipped. There are no previous owner names or other marks. A Booker Prize nominated novel. Patrick Doyle is a 29 year old teacher in an ordinary school. Disaffected, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, Patrick begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher.

835. Kenan, Randall: Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

Published by Abacus, 1994

1st UK edition. Nr fine. An abacus paperback original. 12 loosely connected stories converge as a novel of devastating impact. It brings to life the people of Times Creek, North Carolina. Black or white, gay or straight, redneck bigot or exiled yuppie - none of them can escape the past, the ties of family, the memories of long-lost love, or the legacy of slavery. Kenan, a new Afro-American author has been compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

836. Keneally, Thomas: The Fear

Published by Cassell (Australia), 1965

Rare 1st edition hardback. Both book and jacket are in near fine condition. Against a background of civilian life in wartime, Keneally has painted a macabre and frighteningly real picture of childhood fear and adult folly with a rare sensitivity and a tough Australian humour.

1185. Keneally, Thomas.: A Victim of the Aurora

Published by Collins, 1977

Hardback 1st edition. The book leans very slightly otherwise near fine in like Edward Wilson illustrated d/w. In the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentlemen wait out a raging blizzard in the perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter, poised for a strike at the South Pole. As the storm lifts, a new challenge faces Captain Sir Eugene Stewart - to discover which of his twenty-five carefully chosen men has become a murderer. The quest for adventure has become a quest for justice.

837. Kennedy, William: Quinn's Book

Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1988

1st edition hardback in very good condition and a very good dust wrapper. Filled with Dickensian characters, a vivid sense of history and inventive humor, this novel of 19th century Albany is strikingly original. The fourth book in the Albany Cycle.

838. Kent, Alexander: Captain Richard Bolitho, Rn

Published by Hutchinson, 1978

Hardback, 1st omnibus edition. Very good in like unclipped d/w. Contains three complete and unabridged novels. 1778: Sloop of War. 1782: To Glory We Steer. 1784: Command A King's Ship.

839. Kent, Alexander: The Only Victor

Published by Heinemann, London. 1990

1st edition hardback in very good condition. The dust wrapper is also very good and unclipped. There are no previous owner names. Pages slightly browned.

141. Kent, Alexander: Stand into Danger

Published by Hutchinson, London. 1980.

1st edition hardback. The book leans a little but otherwise very good in condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. Map illustrated endpapers. A Richard Bolitho novel.

172. Kent, Alexander: Second to None

Published by Heinemann, London. 1999.

1st edition hardback in fine/as new condition. No previous owner names or marks and the dust wrapper is not clipped.

268. Kent, Alexander: Success to the Brave

Published by Hutchinson, London, England. 1983

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dustwrapper is fine and unclipped. 15th Richard Bolitho story set in 1802.

266. Kent, Alexander: A Tradition of Victory

Published by Hutchinson, London, England. 1981

1st edition hardback. Fine in an unclipped near fine dustwrapper. 14th in the Bolitho series.

267. Kent, Alexander: Band of Brothers

Published by Heinemann, London, England. 2005

1st edition hardback. Sightly browned page edges otherwise fine in a fine unclipped dustwrapper.

2284. Kent, Alexander: Command a King's Ship

Published by Hutchinson, London. 1973

1st edition hardback. The unclipped dust wrapper is a little faded at the spine otherwise both book and jacket are fine. It is 1784, and His Majesty's frigate "Undine" sets sail from Spithead for India. Europe may be at peace, but in colonial waters the promises of statesmen count for little and the bloody struggle for supremacy goes on. Richard Bolitho undertakes a task that would be better handled by a squadron.

2312. Kerouac, Jack: Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

Published by Viking/Penguin, New York. 1999

1st edition US hardback. Both, the book and dust wrapper are in fine/as new condition. The jacket is not price clipped and there are no previous owner names or other marks. Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic, On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together more than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two, ranging from stories and poems to plays and parts of novels, including an excerpt from his 1943 merchant marine novel, The Sea Is My Brother. These writings reveal what Kerouac was thinking, doing, and dreaming during his formative years, and reflect his primary literary influences. Readers will also find in these works the source of Kerouac's spontaneous prose style. Uncovering a fascinating missing link in Kerouac's development as a writer, Atop an Underwood is essential reading for Kerouac fans, scholars, and critics.

805. Kerr, Philip: The Shot

Published by Orion, London, 1999

1st edition hardback in very good condition. Quite badly splashed at the page edges otherwise a tidy copy in an unclipped jacket. As President Jack Kennedy takes power, the mob decide to succeed where the CIA has failed and take out Fidel Castro. They despatch a hit man, but it soon turns out that he has his own agenda and target - the President. But is the hitman operating alone, or does someone else want Kennedy dead?

2075. Kersh, Cyril: The Diabolical Liberties of Uncle Max

Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1973

Hardback, 1st edition. Both the book and the unclipped dust wrapper are in fine condition. Max Flegel, a one-eyed former barber and dealer in curiously rare books is forced out of business by the permissive society (of all things). He is persuaded to go and help his brother-in-law run the Prince of Wales Kosher Guest house…. And the scene is set for a summer season of hilarious misadventures.

840. King, Louise W.: The Day we were mostly Butterflies

Published by Michael Joseph, London. 1963

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is generally very good although it is rubbed and chipped at the edges with a couple of closed tears and slight soiling but it is not price clipped. A series of linked short stories about gay New York in the early 70's. Interior decorators, Madison Avenue ladies and their ditzy girlfriends, pure and entertaining froth! Features a turtle called Emma Hamlet Woodhouse.

841. King, Peter: Seven Foot with a Wooden Leg

Published by Gollancz, London. 1968

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. The dust wrapper is a little sunned at the spine but is otherwise fine. It is not clipped, retaining the original 30/- net price to the front flap. The book has caught the sun also but only on the very top edge at the spine otherwise fine. Appears to be unread. Author's first novel having previously concentrated on acting. A "working class-novel" in the Morgan (a suitable case for treatment) tradition. Set in a bookbinder's in Cardiff. A very scarce title.

842. Kirst, Hans Hellmut: The Night of the Generals

Published by Collins, 1963

1st edition UK hardback in very good+ condition. The dust wrapper is also very good. A Polish prostitute is murdered in Warsaw in 1942. The possible suspects are narrowed down to three German generals, but the investigation eventually comes to nothing. A similar crime happens in Paris in 1944 when all three generals are assembled once more - but again the investigations are halted by the famous 'night of the generals' - the coup against Hitler. Then, in 1956, a third murder occurs in Dresden. This time the killer must be caught...

262. Kirst, Hans Hellmut: What became of Gunner Asch

Published by Collins, London. 1964.

Paperback in dust wrapper. Scarce proof copy of the 1st UK edition. The book leans very slightly and there are a couple of small closed tears with slight wear to the jacket edges but generally very good and unclipped and is now protected. First published in Germany under the title "08/15 Heute".

843. Kosinski, Jerzy: The Devil Tree

Published by Hart Davis, MacGibbon, 1973

1st edition hardback in very good+ condition. The dust wrapper is also very good. A searing novel from a writer of international stature, The Devil Tree is a tale that combines the existential emptiness of Camus's The Stranger with the universe of international playboys, violence, and murder of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. Jonathan Whalen's life has been determined from the start by the immense fortune of his father, a steel tycoon. Whalen's childlike delight in power and status mask a greater need, a desire to feel life intensely, through drugs, violence, sex, and attempts at meaningful connection with other people -- whether lovers or the memory of his dead parents. But the physical is all that feels real to him, and as he embarks on a journey to Africa with his godparents, Whalen's embrace of amoral thrill accelerates toward ultimate fulfillment.

844. Kotzwinkle, William: Doctor Rat

Published by Aidan Ellis, 1976

1st edition hardback in very good condition. The dust wrapper is also very good. As the grant-supported, knowledgeable survivor of the most refined scientific experiments, Doctor Rat, Ph.D., dedicates himself to defending mankind against the worldwide rebellions, uprisings, and insurgencies of his fellow animals.

2101. Langfield, Martin: The Malice Box

UK hardback, second printing. Both the book and the unclipped dust wrapper are in fine/as new condition. When Robert Reckliss is sent what seems to be a copper puzzle box, he has no idea his life is about to undergo violent transformation. That night, an acquaintance kills himself in curious circumstances; the following day, an old friend reveals the existence of an arcane weapon that could wipe the western world from the face of the planet. And the responsibility for hunting down this weapon, this Malice Box, lies with Robert. The weapon is primed to explode in seven days and Robert must undergo a quest a series of trials around Manhattan in order to track down the keys vital to prevent detonation. In a desperate race against the clock, Robert trails the streets of Manhattan guided by Terri, a mysterious psychic, and under the constant gaze of the Watchman. Higher forces are battling to prevent him completing the quest for the Minotaur and Unicorn are circling their prey.

845. Lansdale, Joe R.: Sunset and Sawdust

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London. 2004

1st UK hardback edition in fine condition. The dust wrapper is also fine and not price clipped. There are no previous owner names or other marks. When Pete Jones, the local constable, is shot dead, his widow, Sunset, finds herself in his job, investigating a series of brutal murders. Most of the townsfolk object to her wearing Pete's gun and badge, some because this is the 1930s and they think a woman's place is in the home, others because it was Sunset who blew off Pete's head in the first place. As much a modern western as a murder mystery, SUNSET & SAWDUST features a cast of outlandish characters -- gun-men, hobos, sheriffs, hookers, migrants and coloured families struggling to make living under the malevolent eyes of the Ku Klux Klan. Sunset's investigation leads her and her friends into a labyrinth of greed, corruption, and unspeakable malice. Nothing and no-one are quite what they seem in Texas.

846. Laurie, Hugh: The Gun Seller

Published by Heinemann, London. 1996

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. Laurie is probably best known as a comic actor and star of Blackadder, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster and his recent American hit TV series House. When Thomas Lang, a hired gun with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim - a good deed that doesn't go unpunished. Within hours Land is butting heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales, whilst trying to save a beautiful lady ... and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.

847. Lawrence, D.H.: The Plumed Serpent

Published by Grafton, London. 1989

Hardback 1st thus. Fine book in a very good dust wrapper. The definitive text with an introduction by Melvyn Bragg. The Cambridge Edition. In this notorious late novel, Lawrence's pagan imaginings burgeon. Kate Leslie, an Irish widow touring Mexico, becomes gradually involved with a charismatic leader, and she enters a sexual relationship with his dark henchman. As the two men conspire to revive the old Aztec religion and seize power, Kate is increasingly implicated in their 'blood consciousness', phallic propaganda and right-wing violence. The Plumed Serpent abounds in the 'politically incorrect': Lawrence retains his power to shock. As a publisher once said, 'Anything to do with D. H. L. is rather dangerous.'

856. Le Carre, John: A Murder of Quality

Published by Penguin Books, 1964

1st edition paperback, in pretty good condition. Covers a little browned at the spine, the pages too are probably more yellow than white. But a nice clean, tight copy without creases. Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. Smiley knows that Stella feared her husband would murder her, but as he probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his second George Smiley novel, le Carré moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English institution. The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery, with Smiley as master detective.

848. Le Carre, John: The Honourable Schoolboy

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1977

1st edition hardback in very good condition, no previous owner names or inscriptions. Dust wrapper has rubbing to extremities especially top spine ends and corners, it has not been price clipped. It is a beleaguered and betrayed Secret Service that has been put in the care of George Smiley. A mole has been uncovered at the organisation's highest levels - and its agents across the world put in grave danger. But untangling the traitor's web gives Smiley a chance to attack his Russian counterpart, Karla. And part-time spy Jerry Westerby is the weapon at Smiley's disposal.

852. Le Carre, John: Call for the Dead

Published by Penguin Books, 1964

1st edition paperback in pretty good condition. The pages are browned around the edges and the covers are a little grubby withe some wear but not much. Le Carré's first book, introduces the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.

849. Le Carre, John: The Tailor of Panama

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1996

1st edition with dust wrapper in fine/as new condition. Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes; Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is a spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: to keep a watchful eye on the political manoeuvrings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal on 31st December 1999; and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has until now churlishly eluded him.

850. Le Carre, John: A Perfect Spy

Published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1986

1st edition hardback with dust wrapper in fine condition. Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a secret agent. Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets. Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of seventeen been controlled by two mentors. It is these two, racing each other and time itself, who are orchestrating the search to find the perfect spy...

851. Le Carre, John: The Secret Pilgrim

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1990

Hardback US edition, very good+ book and jacket, 2nd impression. The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. Now, approaching the end of his career, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years. He illuminates the brave past and even braver present of George Smiley, his hero and mentor, who gives back to him the dangerous edge of memory that empowers him finally to frame the questions that have haunted him - and the world - for thirty years ...

853. Le Carre, John: Call for the Dead

Published by Gollancz, 1983

New edition. 1st thus, hardback in very good condition in a very good dust wrapper. After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined? Le Carré's first book, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.