Fiction

Cocktail Time – P.G. Wodehouse – First Edition 1958

First Edition 1958 of a terrific P.G. Wodehouse yarn. Comedy that cannot be beaten.

Published by Herbert Jenkins, London. Octavo, 222 pages. In the preferred dust jacket all in pretty good condition, minor spots to page edges.

Frederick, Fifth Earl of Ickenham has a lot of things on his plate but he gets them (everybody) sorted with much hilarity.

Sought after Wodehouse – First Edition

$60.00

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Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood – First Edition 2003

A very nice copy of the first edition published by Bloomsbury in 2003.

Another complex and sometimes challenging narrative by Margaret Atwood. The story begins with the central character “Snowman” sleeping in a tree with only an old bedsheet. He has lost his beloved Oryx and his friend Crake and is slowly starving. He tries to piece together his haunting memories … the narrative moves decades earlier and takes a double journey back to Crake’s high-tech bubble dome where the Paradice Project unfolded.

Large thick octavo, 378 pages, a very good copy.

Atwood’s stunning narrative and the Paradice Project.

$35.00

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The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood – First Edition 1993

A very good copy of this substantial novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Bloomsbury, London in 1993. Described as her best work to date and this comes after The Handmaid’s Tale.

Large thick octavo, 470 pages, silk ribbon marker, dust jacket in good condition, internally very clean.

As would be expected a complex novel of the supernatural sort. Zenia has caused her three friends all sorts of problems including stealing their menfolk. Now she is dead and they have attended her funeral maybe things will go better. Not so.

Margaret Atwood First and a complex rewarding narrative .

$35.00

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The Bandit “El Caballero” – Leslie Charteris

A 1952 edition of an early Leslie Charteris thriller published by Ward Lock, London.

Octavo, 255 pages, super dust jacket albeit, roughed at top and edge, forgive it for its rarity.

Charteris had not really got into his “Saint” stride before this book which is centres on a South American modern-day bandit – Ramon Francisco De Castilla Y Espronceda also known as “El Caballero” … “The Knight”. To complicate things further Scotland Yard knew him as “The Cat” …. After his prowling habit.

Flashy crime, besotted entanglements ensue.

Charteris in the same world but with different characters.

$50.00

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Single & Single – John Le Carre – Pre-Publication – Uncorrected Proof Copy – Limited Numbered Run – 1999

Produced by Hodder, London pre-publication numbered run of 1500.

Octavo, original purple card wrappers, 336 pages in very good condition.

Le Carre disclosed much later that the two main characters in this complex novel … a fraudulent money laundering London businessman and his son were based on himself and his father. Cornwell [Le Carre’s real name] senior had spent time in jail for insurance fraud and mixed with the Kray Brothers.

A story which draws on the collapse of the Soviet Union and the development of Russian monied thuggery in the aftermath.

Le Carre baring his soul – a special format for a special story

$50.00

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The Tailor of Panama – John Le Carre – First edition

A very good copy of the first Australian edition published by Hodder in 1996.

Octavo, 336 pages in very good condition very good dust jacket.

Le Carre’s amusing entertainment set in Panama and a homage to Graham Greene and his equally brilliant Our Man in Havana. The tailor experiences all sorts of difficulties … personal, financial and professional … he is a fine hand with the scissors.

Panama when it was edgy first time round … a long way from Savile Row.

$40.00

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Cocktail Time – P.G. Wodehouse – First Edition 1958

Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood – First Edition 2003

The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood – First Edition 1993

The Bandit “El Caballero” – Leslie Charteris

Single & Single – John Le Carre – Pre-Publication – Uncorrected Proof Copy – Limited Numbered Run – 1999

The Tailor of Panama – John Le Carre – First edition

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