Ha?ek, Jaroslav: (Lada, Josef, illus.:) The Good Soldier Svejk and his Fortunes in the World War. London: William Heinemann in association with Penguin Books, 1974. First UK edition, third printing. 8vo., pp.xxii, [x], 752. Maps and illustrations in the text. Bright yellow cloth, red title to spine and small illustration to upper board. Endpapers very slightly toned, top edge a little dusty, near fine. Dust jacket a little yellowed with a few tiny marks, price-clipped, very good. Illegible ownership inscription to ffep. Unabridged translation by Cecil Parrott. Ha?ek had originally envisioned a total of six volumes of ?vejk. By the time of his death in 1923 he had completed the first three and was partway through the fourth, which was later finished at the request of the publisher by the journalist Karel Vanek. The volumes are as follows: Behind the Lines (V z?zem?, 1921); At the Front (Na fronte, 1922); The Glorious Licking (Slavn? v?prask, Ref: 54675
Haskell, Yasmin & Ruys, Juanita Feros (eds.): Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (with Brepols), 2010. 8vo., pp. 318. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 360 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series, and Volume 30 in the Brepols Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance series. Ref: 53640
Heaney, Seamus: Death of a Naturalist. London: Faber and Faber, 1966. First edition. 8vo., pp.57, [i]. MS annotations and underlining in both pen and pencil, including notes to pp.9-10, 14-16, 28, 31-33, 40, 56; a small tick or asterisk to the top corner of most pages. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, lightly faded strip across bottom edge of upper board, very good. Dust jacket lightly sunned at spine and narrow strip along bottom edge, inner corners trimmed with the loss of a few letters, a little underlining to author biography on flyleaf, still very good overall.. An array of newspaper clippings including both reviews of Heaney's work and appearances of the poems themselves, loosely inserted and pasted to the front endpapers. Poems include 'Twice Shy', 'Rookery', 'Orange drums, Tyrone 1966', 'Undine' and 'Night Drive' (with MS note, The Listener 11/4/68), 'Victorian Guitar', 'Corncrake' and 'Bogland' (The Listener, 2/11/67), 'Frogman', 'Strange Fruits'. Various annotations, plus a not-very-legible ownership inscription, possibly T. or D. Adams, to ffep. (Actually Tom Adams, a secondary school teacher in Southfields, London in the later part of the last century, devoted book collector and prolific annotator and attacher of related printed material to the books he collected.) Heaney's first commercial collection for a major publisher (following his Eleven Poems published in November 1965 for the Queen's University Festival). Ref: 54849show full image..
Heaney, Seamus: Door into the Dark. London: Faber and Faber, 1969. First Edition. 8vo., pp.56. Internally bright and clean. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. A couple of tiny dust marks to upper board, some pencilled bookseller's notes to ffep, near fine. Dust-jacket spine a little toned with faint damp stain at rear joint, some faint marks to rear, very good indeed. The author's second major poetry collection. Ref: 54848show full image..
Houellebecq, Michel: (Stein, Lorin, trans.:) Submission. London: William Heinemann, 2015. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.[iv], 251, [i]. White cloth, black title to spine, publisher's device blindstamped to upper board, fine. Dustjacket a little dusty, price intact, fine. Translated by Lorin Stein. Ref: 54680
Hughes, Ted: Lupercal. London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First edition, first impression. 8vo., pp.63, [i]. Purple cloth, gilt title to spine. Free endpapers toned and a little foxed, edges of textblock foxed, very good. Dust-jacket slightly toned to spine and fore-edges, a few tiny marks, very good. Pencilled ownership inscription of Alan Scrivener to ffep. First edition of the author's second poetry collection. Ref: 54862show full image..
Hughes, Ted: Wodwo. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. First edition, first impression. 8vo., pp.184. Clean and bright within. Red cloth spine, pale green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Tail of spine very slightly rubbed, faint stripe of toning to each free endpaper, very good. Dust-jacket with a few spots of foxing and some faint smudgy marks to rear, very good indeed. Pencilled ownership inscription of Alan Scrivener to ffep. First edition of the author's third poetry collection. Ref: 54863show full image..
Kerr, Philip: Field Grey London: Quercus, 2010. First edition, first printing. Black cloth, silver title to spine. Top edge a little dusty, fine. Dust jacket a little rubbed, price intact, very good. Book seven in the Bernie Gunther series of thrillers. Ref: 54681
Kerr, Philip: Prague Fatale. London: Quercus, 2011. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.[vi], 439, [i]. Black cloth, silver title to spine. A few tiny dents to upper board, near fine. Dust jacket with scratch to upper, price intact, very good. Book eight in the Bernie Gunther series of thrillers. Ref: 54682
M?rquez, Gabriel Garc?a: (Grossman, Edith, trans:) Love in the Time of Cholera. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. First UK edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.352. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine. Endcaps a little creased, a few tiny marks to front endpapers, very good. Dust jacket spine very slightly sunned, edges softened with a couple of small closed tears, small mark to upper perhaps from a label, price intact, still very good. First appearance in English, translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman. The novel was first published in 1985 as El amor en los tiempos del c?lera. This copy is the first of three printings from 1988, with another two following in 1989. Ref: 54664
