For our next thematic list, we'll dive into literature and all things literary. This catalogue kicks off with writing from the earliest times through to the Renaissance; then Classic literature (from the Enlightenment to 1900); Vintage Literature (1900 to 1970, the year that ISBNs were introduced); then Modern Literature, along with a focus on the writings of the Antipodes. As usual there are some ephemeral delights to divert you. If anything catches your eye, contact us at moroccobooks1000@gmail.com.
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Ancient and Medieval Literature:
(69046) Pliny the Elder (Una Woodruff, illus.), Inventorum Natura - The Expedition Journal of Pliny the Elder, Paper Tiger/Dragon's World Ltd./Harper & Row Publishers, New York NY, 1979.
Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board titles; 126pp., text in Latin and English, with many colour illustrations. Mild wear. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; sunned along the spine panel. Very good.
$35
(68416)
Reprint: seven volumes, octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles and upper board decorations; 3,380pp. [583pp. + 488pp. + 452pp. + 490pp. + 441pp. + 384pp. + 542pp.] (+56pp. of adverts), with many maps (some folding). Moderate wear; shaken; spine extremities softened; boards all mottled and marked; some inked marginalia, mainly to the adverts; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf of each volume. Dustwrappers are all rubbed and edgeworn; retailer's ink stamp to the front flap of some of the volumes; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good.
$200
(77030)
Octavo; hardcover, with upper board title; 94pp. Mild wear; spine faded; text block edges lightly toned; mild offset to the preliminaries. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; spine sunned; a few small tears to the panel top edges. Very good.
$35
(76091)
Octavo; gatefold trade paperback; 1,182pp., untrimmed, with many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; text block and covers a little bowed; some spotting and toning to the text block edges. Very good.
$60
Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards and endpapers; 140pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; boards a little edgeworn; spine sunned; previous owner's ink inscription to the verso of the flyleaf. No dustwrapper. Very good.
$50
(73379)
Royal octavo; gatefold paperback; 476pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Near fine.
An enigmatic work: read and enjoyed by intellectuals ever since it was published during the Renaissance, the work is a paean to art and architecture, fashion and landscape, overlain with the erotic adventures of the lovelorn Poliphilo, endlessly searching for his beloved Polia. Many have felt that the text contains a secret, possibly magical, subtext, hidden steganographically within its pages, and this has seen it referenced by many other authors seeking to burden their audience with a frisson of occult fear. However, it's probably unlikely to be the case.
$25
(68661)
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles and illustrated endpapers; 597pp., with a monochrome frontispiece and many illustrations likewise. Mild wear; a little shaken; spine extremities a bit softened; text block edges toned; light offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel a little sunned; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$50
(68663)
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with silver-gilt spine titles and upper board decoration; 292pp., with a monochrome frontispiece and many illustrations likewise. Mild wear; slightly rolled; board edges lightly sunned; text block edges lightly toned; sunning to the endpapers; school prize bookplate to the flyleaf; mild offset to the preliminaries. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$40
(68660)
Reprint: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles and upper board decoration and illustrated endpapers; 348pp., with a colour frontispiece, 15 plates likewise and many other monochrome illustrations and decorations. Mild wear; a little shaken; boards lightly rubbed; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; mild offset to the preliminaries. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; chipping to the spine panel extremities; some small tears to the top edges of the upper and lower panels with associated creasing; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$50
(70521)
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations and blind stamped upper board rules and decorations; 320pp., top edges gilt, with a monochrome frontispiece, a decorated title page and 30 plates likewise. Moderate wear; shaken; hinges cracked; boards a little rubbed and edgeworn; spine extremities softened; text block edges a little spotted; light scattered foxing throughout; one plate torn out and crudely repaired. No dustwrapper. Very good withal.
$35
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Classic Literature:
(70586) George Barrow, The Romany Rye - Everyman's Library series 120, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1945.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles, a blind-stamped upper board decoration, and decorative endpapers; 392pp. (+8pp. of adverts), top edges dyed brown. Mild wear; a little shaken; spine sunned; text block edges lightly toned; previous owner's ink initials to the flyleaf; retailer's ink stamp to the verso of the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is well rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel sunned; top half of the spine panel chipped away; edges and flap-turns lightly chipped; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
This odd little book is the sequel to an earlier work entitled Lavengro. George Borrow was quite au fait with the customs and lifestyle of the romani, or gypsies, and penned these two books with a view of placing his knowledge before the reading public. The result is that this is considered almost an authoritative anthropological text concerning European travellers. Given this, it stands alongside Arthur Upfield's potboiler The Bone is Pointed in the sense that it is a work of entertainment which inadvertently conveys ethnographic information contained nowhere else.
$25
(73633) Silas K. Hocking (P. Althelm(?), illus.), Cricket - A Tale of Humble Life, Frederick Warne & Co., London, nd. (c.1892).
Octavo; hardcover, full decorated cloth with bevelled boards and gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations, with decorative endpapers; 238pp. (+10pp. of adverts), all edges gilt, with an engraved monochrome frontispiece (with tissue guard), a decorated title page, four engraved plates and other decorations likewise. Moderate wear; rolled; spine extremities softened; hinges a little scraped; some light corner-bumping; old tape stains to the endpapers; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; a school prize bookplate (elided) to the front pastedown. No dustwrapper. Very good.
$35
(70471) Thomas Love Peacock (Introduction by David Garnett, ed.), The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd., London, 1948.
First edition, thus: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and decorations and marbled endpapers; 982pp., top edges dyed red. Moderate wear; slightly cocked; spine extremities softened; text block edges lightly toned with some spots and top edge mildly dusted. Price-clipped dustwrapper covered in adhesive plastic; mildly rubbed and edgeworn with some chipping to the spine panel extremities and flap-turns; spine panel sunned. Very good.
$70
(69554) Laurence Sterne (Howard Anderson, ed.), Tristram Shandy - A Norton Critical Edition: An Authoritative text; The Author on the Novel; Criticism, W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., New York NY, 1980.
Octavo; paperback; 650pp., with monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Near fine.
Many have read Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and have been amazed by what the typographic possibilities of the book's form are capable of achieving. Such trickery is seen everywhere - even in Stephenie Meyers' Twilight series - but few stop to consider that Laurence Sterne was there before these 'johnny-come-latelies' and that Tristram Shandy is full to bursting with all the gob-stopping visual delights you could ask for. There is really nothing new under the sun...
$25
(70459) Philip Meadows Taylor (Introduction by Brian Rawson, ed.; Clarke Hutton, illus.), Confessions of a Thug, The Folio Society, London, 1974.
Octavo; hardcover, with decorated cloth boards, gilt spine titles on a green label and endpaper maps; 373pp., top edges dyed green, with a monochrome frontispiece and 14 plates likewise. Minor wear; spine extremities lightly softened. No dustwrapper as issued. Near fine in a mildly rubbed and split slipcase.
First published in 1839, this book was a favourite of Queen Victoria and introduced the word "thug" to the English language. Sleeman's eradication of the Kali cult of thuggee from the sub-continent caused a flurry of publishing to occur, hard on the heels of his own published accounts of the phenomenon, and Meadows-Taylor was foremost among them. Although based largely on Sleeman's journals, this is a fictitious and pulpy recounting of the downfall of the Thugs and was the bestselling crime novel of its day.
$35
(76101) William Makepeace Thackeray, Denis Duval, Smith Elder & Co., London, 1867.
Octavo; hardcover, half bound in green calf with marbled boards and gilt titles on a morocco label between five raised bands; 275pp. Moderate wear; boards quite rubbed; lower board creased, with tears to the rear pastedown; hinges and board edges scraped; text block edges toned; light offset to the endpapers; previous owner's contemporary inscription to the front pastedown; hinges cracked (but strong); light scattered foxing throughout; retailer's blind stamp to the last blank page. No dustwrapper. Good.
$25
(68451) Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda & Rupert of Hentzau - Two Volumes, J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., Bristol UK, 1946.
Two volumes, wartime issue: octavo; hardcover; 414pp. [190pp. + 224pp.]. Mild wear; covers rubbed and corners bumped; spine extremities softened; text block edges toned; offset to the endpapers; retailers bookplate to the front pastedown of Volume 2; some dog-eared pages; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries. No dustwrappers. Very good.
First published in 1894 and 1898 respectively, these two adventure novels introduced the word "Ruritania" into the language: here, they are the name of a fictional European country, but nowadays the word is used to refer to anywhere quaintly European and often as a placeholder for any unspecified European region in an academic discussion. These two volumes are nice, pared-back wartime issue volumes, reflecting the restraint that publishers undertook to save resources during the Forties.
$30
Octavo; hardcover, full academic cloth with gilt spine titles; 439pp., with a monochrome engraved frontispiece and many illustrations likewise. Ex-library: moderate wear; the usual cancelled library stamps and accoutrements; boards a little rubbed and marked; text block and page edges toned; some repairs to the page edges; some internal marks. No dustwrapper. Good.
This issue of the book is a facsimile reprint of the classic 1884 edition.
$60
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Vintage Literature:
(70507) Michael Arlen, The Green Hat - A Romance for a Few People, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London, 1924.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board titles; 330pp. (+4pp. of adverts), untrimmed. Moderate wear; rolled; spine extremities softened; boards a little rubbed and edgeworn; previous owner's bookplate to the flyleaf. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.
A breakout publication, this was the year's bestseller, printed in June of 1924 and reprinted ten times before October of that same year (this is a tenth impression). It excited and scandalised Britain in equal measure with its drama and suggestions of lust and impropriety. It was definitely the Fifty Shades of Grey of its time - a little better written perhaps and certainly less bloodless!
$95
(73113) Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Little, Brown and Company, Boston MA, 1964.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, full purple cloth with gilt spine titles; 183pp., top edges dyed black. Minor wear; text block edges lightly toned; mild offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$350
(72016) Karen Blixen, Out of Africa - Illustrated edition, Century Publishing Co. Ltd., London, 1985.
Quarto; hardcover, full decorated cloth with a tipped-on upper board decoration; 288pp., with many full-colour and monochrome illustrations and decorations. Minor wear; a few small marks to the boards. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good.
$25
(67959) John Buchan, The House of the Four Winds, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., London, 1935.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth, with gilt spine titles and upper board decoration; 318pp. Moderate wear; shaken and rolled; spine extremities softened;; boards a little rubbed with some corner-bumping; text block edges toned with some stains. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.
$40
(68177) Anthony Burgess, The Long Day Wanes - A Malayan Trilogy: "Time for a Tiger"; "The Enemy in the Blanket"; & "Beds in the East", W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., New York NY, 1964.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth; 512pp., untrimmed. Mild wear; a little shaken; spine extremities softened; a bump to the lower board; mild offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink and retailer's ink stamp to the flyleaf. Price-clipped dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel sunned; chipping to the spine panel extremities and flap-turns. Very good.
$50
(71992) Marcia Davenport, My Brother’s Keeper, Collins, Sydney NSW, 1955.
First Australian edition; reprinted: octavo; hardcover, full cloth; 413pp. Moderate wear; slightly rolled; spine heel softened; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; previous owner's ink inscription to the half-title page. No dustwrapper. Very good.
$70
(74413) Paul Gallico (Peter Scott, illus.), The Snow Goose, Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1951.
Royal octavo, eighth impression; hardcover, full cloth with an upper board decoration and decorative endpapers; 55pp., top edges dyed dark blue, with a colour frontispiece, three plates likewise and many monochrome illustrations and decorations. Moderate wear; slightly rolled; text block edges lightly spotted; some old tape stains to the endpapers. Price-clipped dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; chipping to the spine panel extremities; a small tear to the spine panel head; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$30
(75535) Nathan Gallizier (The Kinneys & P. Verburg, illus.), The Sorceress of Rome, L.C. Page & Company, Boston MA, 1907.
Octavo; hardcover, full decorated cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorative endpapers; 463pp. (+4pp. of adverts) all opened, with a colour tipped-in frontispiece (with tissue guard), three plates likewise (without guards) and many monochrome decorations. Moderate wear; upper hinge cracked (but strong); boards a little rubbed with some marks; text block edges lightly spotted and top edge lightly dusted; light offset to the endpapers; very light scattered foxing throughout, mainly to the preliminaries; previous owner's name in ink to the front pastedown; some roughly opened pages towards the end of the text block. No dustwrapper. Very good.
$50
(68448) Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza, Chatto & Windus Ltd., London, 1936.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with upper board titles; 620pp. Moderate wear; covers lightly rubbed with sunning to the spine; corners lightly bumped; text block edges toned with some spotting; offset to the endpapers; light scattered foxing throughout; some internal marks; now covered by non-adhesive plastic wrap. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.
$200
(73868) James Jones, The Thin Red Line, Collins, London, 1963.
First edition, second impression: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 447pp., with two pages of sheet music. Minor wear; boards and spine sunned; spine extremities softened; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; mild offset to the endpapers; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.
$30
(77076) D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover - Being an essay extended from "My Skirmish with Jolly Roger", Private Press, np., 1928/Mandrake Press Ltd., London, 1930.
Two volumes: royal octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles, blind-stamped upper board rules and decoration and decorative endpapers; 365pp., untrimmed, with two decorated title pages. Moderate wear; shaken and rolled; hinges cracked (but strong); text block edges toned; an old price pencilled on the limitations page; a few minor marks to the preliminaries. Together with: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with upper board titles and rules; 64pp. Minor wear; text block edges toned; some offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the front pastedown; a few instances of pencilled underlining. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; sunned along the spine panel; previous owner's name in pencil to the upper panel. Very good.
$500
(73114) Rosamond Lehman, A Note in Music, John Lehman Ltd., London, 1948.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles and decorations on a red label; 223pp. Moderate wear; spine heel a little softened; gilt a little tarnished; text block edges spotted; light offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; heavy chipping to the spine panel extremities; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$25
(74375) Richard Mason, The World of Suzie Wong, Collins, London, 1957.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 383pp. Moderate wear; boards a little rubbed and edgeworn; spine extremities softened; light corner-bumping; text block edges toned; offset and old tape stains to the endpapers; previous owner's ink stamp to the flyleaf. Price-clipped dustwrapper is a little edgeworn; some slight chipping to the spine panel extremities; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$75
(71984) Ayn Rand, Anthem, Cassell Cheap Editions/Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1953.
Reprint: octavo; full cloth, with gilt spine titles; 147pp. Mild wear; text block edges spotted; some minor offset to the endpapers; light scattered foxing throughout. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; some light chipping to the spine panel extremities; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom. The story takes place at an unspecified future date when mankind has entered another Dark Age. Technological advancement is now carefully planned and the concept of individuality has been eliminated. A young man known as Equality 7-2521 rebels by doing secret scientific research. When his activity is discovered, he flees into the wilderness with the girl he loves. Together they plan to establish a new society based on rediscovered individualism. Rand originally conceived of the story as a play, then decided to write for magazine publication. At her agent's suggestion, she submitted it to book publishers. The novella was first published by Cassell in England. It was published in the United States only after Rand's next novel, The Fountainhead, became a best seller. Rand revised the text for the US edition published in 1946.
$300
(74415) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, Cassell Cheap Editions/Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1953.
Second edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 644pp. Mild wear; text block top edge lightly dusted; gilt tarnished; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; old tape stains to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf (elided). price-clipped dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel extremities lightly chipped; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
The epithet "cheap edition" should not be read literally, here. In the post-World War Two era many publishers were hit hard by paper shortages and many chose to embrace the idea of pitching in and working with the restrictions, rather than railing against them. Such things as thinner paper and uniform artwork on the dustwrappers are a hallmark and can clearly be seen here. These books may not have all the bells and whistles of other lavish publications but they are still highly sought-after and collectible.
$50
(76260) Robert Neilson Stephen (Wallace Goldsmith, illus.), Tales from Bohemia, L.C. Page & Company, Boston MA, 1908.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, decorated cloth with upper board titles and decorative endpapers; 341pp. (+10pp. of adverts). with a monochrome frontispiece (with tissue guard) and seven plates likewise (no guards). Moderate wear; spine cracked (but strong, with a professional repair); board edges lightly worn; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; rear free endpaper removed. No dustwrapper. Very good.
$60
(68188) Dylan Thomas, Rebecca's Daughters, Triton Publishing Co. Ltd., London, 1965.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 144pp. Mild wear, Dustwrapper, Very good.
$45
(75672) Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies, Penguin Classics/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Camberwell Vic., 2011.
Octavo; hardcover, with black endpapers; 271pp. Minor wear. Dustwrapper a little rubbed; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$25
(76764) P.G. Wodehouse, The Clicking of Cuthbert, Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London, 1922.
Ninth printing: octavo; hardcover, full cloth, with upper board titles and decoration; 256pp. Mild wear; rolled; spine lightly sunned and extremities softened; some light corner-bumping; text block edges toned with some spotting and top edge dusted; light offset to the endpapers; flyleaf removed; mild scattered foxing mainly to the preliminaries. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.
$70
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Modern Literature:
(73979) Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride, Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., London, 1993.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and a burgundy ribbon; 470pp. Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$40
(68991) Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London, 2009.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with metallic-green spine titles; 436pp. Minor wear; text block edges toned. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$30
(73116) Donald Barthelme, The Dead Father - A Novel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York NY, 1975.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with silver-gilt spine titles; 177pp., top edges dyed grey. Mild wear; spine heel softened. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$75
(73752) A.S. Byatt, The Biographer’s Tale, Chatto & Windus/Random House (Aust.) Ltd., Milsons Point NSW, 2000.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 265pp. Minor wear; text block edges toned; pages tanned. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$25
(73569) A.S. Byatt, Babel Tower, Chatto & Windus Ltd./Random House (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Milsons Point NSW, 1996.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 618pp. Mild wear; slightly cocked; text block edges toned; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$25
(73758) Alex Haley, Roots - The Saga of an American Family, Hutchinson Group (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Richmond South Vic., 1977.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 688pp. Minor wear; slightly rolled; spine heel slightly softened. Dustwrapper spine panel a little sunned; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$30
(72880) William Kennedy, Legs - A novel of the twenties based in the life of the legendary gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., New York NY, 1975.
First edition, second impression: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with gilt spine titles and upper board decoration and decorative endpapers; 317pp. Mild wear; boards a little rubbed; text block edges a little spotted; some light offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the title page. Dustwrapper is a bit rubbed and sunned; mild edgewear; a few small tears with some light associated creasing, now repaired using archival-quality materials; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
Often confused with the "Book-Of-The-Month Club" edition, this issue has no Book Club markings to identify it as such.
$50
(69466) John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure - A Novel (signed), Macmillan/Macmillan General Books, London, 1996.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 232pp. Mild wear; an impression to the front cover; signed by the author to the title page. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$25
(71422) Don de Lillo, Libra - A Novel, Viking/Penguin Inc., New York NY, 1988.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with bronze spine titles; 458pp., untrimmed. Minor wear; light spotting to the text block edges and top edge lightly dusted. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$30
(77172) Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Inc., New York NY, 2005.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 311pp., untrimmed. Mild wear; slightly rolled; text block top edge dusted. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine.
$200
(69584) Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1985.
First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 182pp. Mild wear; board edges sunned; text block edges spotted and top edge dusted; offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; light chipping to the spine panel head; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
Unusual for being written entirely in the second person, this award-winning novel set the stage for such writers as Brett Easton Ellis to savage the yuppy milieu of 1980s New York City. A drug fueled nightmare of downward spiralling self-loathing and debasement, this is a harrowing novel, not soon forgotten.
$200
(73976) McEwan, Saturday, Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 2005.
First edition: Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 280pp. Minor wear; text block and page edges toned. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$25
(69521) Ben Okri, Dangerous Love (signed), Phoenix House, London, 1996.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 325pp. Minor wear; text block edges lightly spotted. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$50
Octavo; paperback; 864pp. Minor wear; mild edgewear to the covers; text block and page edges toned. Very good.
$20
(71216) Will Self, Liver - A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes, Viking/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Camberwell Vic., 2008.
Octavo; hardcover, faux quarter-binding with illustrated boards and endpapers; 277pp. Minor wear; slightly rolled; light spotting to the text block edges; top edge dusted. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good.
$25
(72441) Terry Southern, Red Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes, Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1971.
First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 246pp., top edges dyed black. Mild wear; rolled; some minor staining to the spine heel; minor offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; a few small tears to the edges (repaired using archival-quality materials); now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$35
(74539) Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat, Macmillan and Co. Ltd., London, 1970.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with silver-gilt spine titles; 160pp. Mild wear; slightly rolled; spine extremities softened; text block edges spotted and top edge dusted; offset to the endpapers. Price-clipped dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$45
(72940) Robert James Waller, Border Music - A Novel, Warner Books Inc./Time Warner, New York NY, 1995.
Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in papered boards with silver-gilt spine titles; 248pp. Minor wear; slightly rolled; spine heel softened. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$25
(75721) Edward Whittemore, Quin’s Shanghai Circus, Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1975.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 291pp. Mild wear; text block edges lightly spotted and top edge dusted; offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper is mildly sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
Whittemore's first novel and the precursor to his "Jerusalem Quartet".
$100
(69270) Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full - A Novel, Jonathan Cape Ltd./Random House, London, 1998.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 742pp. Mild wear; a little cocked; text block edges toned with some spotting. Die-cut dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn with some spotting to the verso. Very good.
$25
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Antipodean Literature:
(73721) Peter Carey, Illywhacker, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia Qld., 1985.
First edition: octavo; hardcover; 600p. Mild wear; spine heel softened; text block and page edges toned' pages tanned; top edge dusted. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.
$60
(73722) Peter Carey, The Tax Inspector,
First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth, with upper board titles; 279pp. Minor wear; signed with an inscription by the author to the title page. Dustwrapper is a little sunned; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$70
(71420) J.M. Coetzee, The Schooldays of Jesus, The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne Vic., 2016.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 274pp. Minor wear. Dustwrapper. Near fine.
$25
(68161) Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe, The Borough Press/HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2019.
Octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 482pp. Minor wear. Dustwrapper. Near fine.
$30
(76811) Richard Flanagan, First Person, Knopf Books/Penguin Random House (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., North Sydney NSW, 2017.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with decorative endpapers; 392pp. Mild wear. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.
$30
(72289) Richard Flanagan, Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish, Picador/Pan Macmillan (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Sydney NSW, 2001.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with marbled endpapers; 404pp., printed in vari-coloured ink, with 12 colour illustrations. Minor wear; some marks to the text block edges. Dustwrapper now protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine.
This was always going to be a book to look out for. The odd shape, the coloured stock and different coloured type - not to mention the colour illustrations - meant that the initial print-run would be small and reprints vastly different in design.
$120
(71301) Janet Frame, Intensive Care - A Novel, George Braziller Inc., New York NY, 1970.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth; 342pp. Mild wear; a little shaken; text block edges lightly toned and top edge dusted; mild offset to the endpapers; flyleaf clipped. Price-clipped dustwrapper is well sunned along the spine panel; rubbing and edgewear; mild chipping to the spine panel extremities; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$40
(72444) Janet Frame, The Reservoir & Snowman, Snowman: stories and sketches; fables and fantasies - two volumes, George Braziller Inc, New York NY, 1962 & 1963.
Two volumes, octavo; hardcover, full cloth; 364pp. [182pp. + 182pp.]. Minor wear; text block edges lightly toned; retailer's ink stamps to the flyleaves. Dustwrappers a little rubbed and edgeworn; some mild chipping to the spine panel heads; a couple of minor tears to the edges (now repaired using archival-quality materials). Very good in a somewhat rubbed and edgeworn slipcase.
$65
(75416) Kate Grenville, The Secret River, The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne Vic., 2005.
Octavo; hardcover, with endpaper maps; 334pp. Minor wear; text block and page edges toned; previous owner's ink inscription to the first blank page. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$25
(71421) Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, Angus and Robertson Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1945.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth; 261pp. Moderate wear; shaken and rolled; some moisture damage to the cloth; spine extremities softened; corners a little bumped; text block edges toned and spotted; offset to the endpapers; previous owner's ink inscription to the front pastedown; some internal marks. Lacks dustwrapper. Good.
$45
(72768) David Malouf, The Great World - A Novel, Chatto & Windus Ltd., London, 1990.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and decorative endpapers; 332pp. Mild wear; slightly rolled; some insect damage to the board top edges; text block and page edges toned; scattered foxing throughout. Dustwrapper is a little sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$18
(73766) Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds - signed, Harper & Row, New York NY, 1977.
Reprint: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and a blind-stamped upper board decoration; 533pp., untrimmed. Mild wear; slightly rolled; spine extremities softened; text block edges a little spotted; old tape stains to the endpapers; signed by the author to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; old tape stains to the flaps; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$120
(77054) Barbara Petrie, The Eel of Te Raki, IndieMosh/MoshPit Publishing/Mosher's Business Support Pty. Ltd., Penrith NSW, 2022.
Octavo; trade paperback; 337pp. Minor wear. New.
Local author.
$35
(72968) Christina Stead (Preface by R.G. Geering, ed.), I’m Dying Laughing: the Humourist, Virago Press Ltd., London, 1986.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 447pp. Minor wear; boards a little rubbed; text block and page edges toned. Dustwrapper is a little sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$30
(72492) Christina Stead, Dark Places of the Heart, Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York NY, 1966.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth; 352pp., top edges dyed red. Mild wear; some spotting to the boards; text block edges lightly toned. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$75
(69440) Christina Stead, House of all Nations – A Novel (signed), Simon and Schuster Inc., New York NY, 1938.
Second printing: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles on a red label and an upper board decoration; 796pp., top edges dyed red. Mild wear; covers a little rubbed; spine sunned and gilt tarnished; spine head pulled; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; mild offset to the endpapers; signed in ink by the author to the flyleaf. No dustwrapper. Very good.
Stead rarely signed any of her works; autographed copies are extremely hard to come by.
$1,000
(74357) Kylie Tennant, Lost Haven, The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne Vic., 1968.
Scarce: octavo; hardcover, silver-gilt; 406pp. Mild wear; slightly rolled' text block edges lightly toned with some spots. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; a bit sunned; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$50
(68450) "Ethel Turner" (Mrs. H.R. Curlewis), Funny, Ward Lock & Co. Ltd., London, 1926.
Octavo; hardcover, with illustrated upper board; 253pp. (+2pp. of adverts), with a monochrome frontispiece and 3 plates likewise. Moderate wear; rolled; spine extremities softened; covers rubbed and corners bumped; text block edges toned; foxed endpapers; retailer's ink stamp to the front pastedown; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.
$30
(73756) Susan Varga, Headlong - A Novel, University of Western Australia Press, Crawley WA, 2009.
First edition: octavo; hardcover; 231pp. Minor wear; some spotting to the text block fore-edge. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$40
(77008) Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm, Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1973.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 608pp., top edges dyed light blue. Moderate wear; shaken and rolled; text block edges spotted; offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in pencil to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is very well rubbed and edgeworn; chipping to the spine panel extremities and flap-turns, with crude tape repairs. Good.
$25
(71564) Patrick White, A Fringe of Leaves, Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1976.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 405pp., top edges dyed teal. Minor wear; text block top edges a little faded. Price-clipped dustwrapper is now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
$30
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Ephemera:
(72452) C.J. Dennis, Doreen - Pocket Edition for the Trenches, Angus & Robertson, Sydney NSW, 1917.
First edition: octavo; paperback, stab-sewn booklet with orange thread ties and a tipped-on front cover colour decoration; 28pp., with a colour frontispiece and many monochrome illustrations and decorations. Moderate wear; covers spotted; text block edges toned; scattered foxing throughout. Very good.
$35
(74209) John Buchan, Some Notes on Sir Walter Scott - The English Association, Pamphlet No.58, The English Association/Oxford University Press, London, 1924.
Small folio; paperback, stab-sewn brochure with printed wrappers; 17pp. Mild wear; covers rubbed and edgeworn with some sunning; text block edges toned. Very good.
$30
(70130) Richard Aldington, D.H. Lawrence, 1885 to 1930: An Appreciation - A Commemorative Edition, Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth Middlesex UK, 1950.
Duodecimo; paperback, staple booklet; 32pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; covers a little toned; text block edges toned; mild offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the first page. Very good in a protective plastic sleeve.
$20
(70463) Christopher Landon; Paul Gallico; Ray Bradbury; Robert Standish; Walter Brooks; John Kruse; Edith Pargeter, et.al., Argosy, Vol.XVI, No.2 - February 1955, Gordon & Gotch Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1955.
First printing: octavo; paperback; 144pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; spine rubbed and extremities pulled; very slightly rolled; covers rubbed and edgeworn; text block edges toned; a couple of guillotining errors; some internal marks. Very good.
$25
(69863) Joan Lindsay (Introduction by John Taylor; Yvonne Rousseau, ed.), The Secret of Hanging Rock - The Never-Before-Published Final Chapter of Picnic at Hanging Rock, Angus and Robertson Publishers, North Ryde NSW, 1987.
Octavo paperback, stapled booklet; 58pp. Minor wear; covers a little rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.
$40
(75170) David Malouf, Remembering Babylon - Sample Chapter, Chatto & Windus, London, nd. (1993).
Octavo; paperback, stapled booklet; 24pp. Minor wear; covers a little rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.
A sample chapter of the original work, distributed for advanced promotional purposes.
$10
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Australian Dollars (AUD) and DO NOT include postage, which will need to be
calculated according to individual circumstances at the time of sale.
Morocco Books and Collectibles is located within the Country of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples.
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