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CATALOGUE 26
Recent Acquisitions including signed Booker Prize winners All books are First Editions (first printings) published in London unless otherwise stated. Authors' signatures are found on the title page unless otherwise indicated. 'Fine' means without any faults, as new; 'near Fine' means without significant faults. Scans of all items are available upon request. For full terms and conditions see foot of catalogue. Last updated: September 2025
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
1. ACHEBE, Chinua. Anthills of the Savannah. Heinemann 1987. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed and dated (24/3/99) by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £1250.00
2. ADIGA, Aravind. The White Tiger. Atlantic 2008. Booker Prize winner. Hint of a bruise to tail of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
3. ADIGA, Aravind. The White Tiger. Noida: HarperCollins 2008. First Indian edition. Booker Prize winner. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
4. ALAMEDDINE, Rabih. The Hakawati. Picador 2008. Signed by the author in English and Arabic. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
5. ALI, Monica. In the Kitchen. Doubleday 2009. Inscribed by the author: “It was all very well. / Monica Ali / 7 May 2009”. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
6. ASLAM, Nadeem. Maps for Lost Lovers. Faber 2004. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
7. ASLAM, Nadeem. The Blind Man’s Garden. Faber 2013. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
8. ATWOOD, Margaret. The Blind Assassin. Bloomsbury 2000. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper, with very slight fading to spine. £125.00
9. ATWOOD, Margaret. The Blind Assassin. Bloomsbury 2000. Booker Prize winner. Uncorrected proof copy. Near Fine in pictorial wrappers. £35.00
10. ATWOOD, Margaret. The Testaments. Chatto & Windus 2019. Booker Prize winner. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
11. BAINBRIDGE, Beryl. The Bottle Factory Outing. Duckworth 1974. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
12. BAINBRIDGE, Beryl. Master Georgie. Duckworth 1998. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
13. BANVILLE, John. The Book of Evidence. Secker & Warburg 1989. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Edges tanned, otherwise near Fine in first issue dustwrapper (priced at £10.95). £90.00
14. BARKER, Pat. The Ghost Road. Viking 1995. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £225.00
15. BARKER, Pat. The Ghost Road. Viking 1995. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper, with a hint of fading to spine. £175.00
16. BARNES, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Cape 2011. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £75.00
17. BARRY, Sebastian. A Long Long Way. Faber 2005. Paperback original. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed and dated (10th October 2005 1.54 pm…) by the author on the day the prize was awarded. Paper browning slightly, otherwise Fine in pictorial wrappers and dustwrapper. £75.00
18. BASU, Kunal. Racists. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
19. BAWDEN, Nina. Circles of Deceit. Macmillan 1987. Booker Prize Shortlist. Signed by the author. Paper browning as usual, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
20. BERGER, John. G. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1972. Booker Prize winner. Inscribed by the author: “To Joe Chandler / with my good / wishes / John Berger / Dec. 72 Nottingham”. Near Fine in dustwrapper, with just a hint of fading to spine (much less than usual). £2250.00
21. BERGER, John. G. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1972. Booker Prize winner. Top edge dusty, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper, little rubbed at extremities and with a few nicks, somewhat faded and little marked on spine. £110.00
22. BOOTH, Martin. The Industry of Souls. Stockport: Dewi Lewis 1998. Paperback original. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Fine in pictorial wrappers. £125.00
23. BROWN, George Mackay. The Sun’s Net. Hogarth Press 1976. Inscribed by the author: “George Mackay Brown / Stromness / 23 July 1976”. Spotting to top edge, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper, with some browning to lower panel. £225.00
24. BURGESS, Anthony. Earthly Powers. Hutchinson 1980. Inscribed by the author: “To Marigold / - with kind regards / from / Anthony Burgess / London / Oct. 27 / 1980”. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £375.00
25. BURNS, Anna. Milkman. Faber 2018. Booker Prize winner. Inscribed by the author with a quote from the book: ‘ “Somebody McSomebody was wrong then.” / Anna Burns / 17th May 2018’. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £375.00
26. BYATT, A.S. Possession. Chatto and Windus 1990. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Paper tanned, slight bruising to head and tail of spine, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £175.00
27. CARR, J.L. A Month in the Country. Brighton: Harvester Press 1980. Booker Prize shortlist. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper: “I do hope you enjoy / the story: it’s really / a love story (without / even a kiss) / JL Carr / 1980”. Near Fine in dustwrapper, with a little creasing to lower panel and some fading to spine, though with the lettering still clear. £2250.00
28. CARTWRIGHT, Justin. In Every Face I Meet. Sceptre 1995. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Slight bruise to tail of spine, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £45.00
29. CATTON, Eleanor. The Rehearsal. Granta 2008. Signed and dated (2 July 2009) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper and custom slipcase. £75.00
30. CATTON, Eleanor. The Luminaries. Granta 2013. Booker Prize winner. Inscribed by the author: “Eleanor Catton / “Every man / has his / currency…” / 9 Sept 2013”. Fine in dustwrapper and custom slipcase. £225.00
31. CATTON, Eleanor. The Luminaries. Granta 2013. Booker Prize winner. Inscribed by the author to the astrologer Shelley von Strunckel: “To Shelley / with very best wishes, / Eleanor Catton”. Edges browned, small tear and crease (no loss) to top of page 51, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
32. CATTON, Eleanor. Birnam Wood. Granta 2008. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
33. COETZEE, J.M. Diary of a Bad Year. Harvill Secker 2007. No.41 of 100 numbered copies in full leather signed by the author. Fine in slipcase. £275.00
34. COETZEE, J.M. Diary of a Bad Year. Harvill Secker 2007. Uncorrected proof copy. Fine in pictorial wrappers. £25.00
35. COETZEE, J.M. Diary of a Bad Year. Melbourne: Text 2007. First Australian edition. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
36. COETZEE, J.M. The Childhood of Jesus. Harvill Secker 2013. Signed and dated (25/3/2013) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £350.00
37. COETZEE, J.M. The Childhood of Jesus. Harvill Secker 2013. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £250.00
38. COETZEE, J.M. The Childhood of Jesus. Harvill Secker 2013. No.34 of 100 numbered copies in full leather signed by the author. Fine in slipcase. £275.00
39. CONRAD, Joseph. Youth. Blackwood 1902. Includes the first printing of ‘Heart of Darkness’. First state with advertisements dated 10/02. Bookplate of Stanley William Sykes on front pastedown. Edges tanned with a few marks, some (fairly minor) discolouration to boards, spine browned, a little worn and frayed at head but a tight intact copy. Very Good. £375.00
40. DESAI, Kiran. The Inheritance of Loss. Hamish Hamilton 2006. Booker Prize winner. Signed and dated (31 August 2006) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £75.00
41. DOYLE, Roddy. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. Secker & Warburg 1993. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Edges tanned as usual, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £90.00
42. EVARISTO, Bernadine. Girl, Woman, Other. Hamish Hamilton 2019. Booker Prize winner. Signed and dated (14/8/19) by the author. ‘Booker Prize’ bookmark loosely inserted. Fine in dustwrapper. £225.00
43. FISCHER, Tibor. Under the Frog. Edinburgh: Polygon 1992. Paperback original. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed and dated (15.xi.92) by the author. Slight tanning to edges, otherwise near Fine in pictorial wrappers. £350.00
44. FLANAGAN, Richard. The Sound of One Hand Clapping. Picador 1997. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £45.00
45. FLANAGAN, Richard. Gould’s Book of Fish. Atlantic 2001 Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £45.00
46. FLANAGAN, Richard. The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Chatto & Windus 2014. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £150.00
47. FLANAGAN, Richard. First Person. Charro & Windus 2017. Signed by the author. Tiny bruise to tail of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
48. FLANAGAN, Richard. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams. Chatto & Windus 2021. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
49. FLANAGAN, Richard. Question 7. Chatto & Windus 2023. Signed and dated (2.6.2024) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £75.00
50. FOWLES, John. Behind The Magus. Bridport: Mike King 1995 [Colophon Press 1994]. Photographic off-print of the first edition published for the author, with some differences: one of 200 thus. Inscribed by the author to Jo Draper, his collaborator on ‘Thomas Hardy’s England’: “Jo and Chris / Affectionately / John / Lyme 8.9.95”. Fine in printed green wrappers. £125.00
51. GALGUT, Damon. The Promise. Cape Town: Umuzi 2021. First South African edition. Paperback original. Booker Prize winner. Signed and dated (Cape Town / 21 August 2021) by the author. Fine in pictorial wrappers. £125.00
52. GALGUT, Damon. The Promise. Chatto & Windus 2021. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Very slight bruise to tail of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £175.00
53. GARDAM, Jane. God on the Rocks. Hamish Hamilton 1978. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Slight bruise to head of spine, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
54. (GENESIS) (BEATLES) Kirchherr, Astrid and Klaus Voorman. Hamburg Days. Guildford: Genesis Publications 1999. Illustrated throughout. Two volumes. No. 1773 of 2000 numbered copies in leather-backed pictorial boards signed by Kirchherr and Voorman. Fine in pictorial box. As new. £750.00
55. (GENESIS) (BEATLES) Williams, Kay and Pauline Sutcliffe. Stuart: the art and life of Stuart Sutcliffe. Guildford: Genesis Publications 1996. Illustrated throughout. No. 1773 of 2000 numbered copies in leather-backed pictorial boards signed by Williams, Pauline Sutcliffe and Astrid Kirchherr. Includes a facsimile reproduction of one of Sutcliffe’s sketchbooks. Fine in pictorial slipcase. As new. £350.00
56. (GENESIS) (BEATLES) Sheridan, Tony and others. The Beatles in Germany. Guildford: Genesis Publications 1997. Illustrated throughout. No. 773 of 1750 numbered copies in leather-backed pictorial boards signed by Sheridan, Gunter Zint and Ulf Kruger. Includes two sheets of commemorative stamps etc. Fine in clear acrylic pictorial slipcase. As new. £250.00
57. (GENESIS) SHANKAR, Ravi and George Harrison (editor). Raga Mala: the autobiography of Ravi Shankar. Guildford: Genesis Publications 2002. Illustrated throughout. No. 1773 of 2000 numbered copies signed by Ravi Shankar. Fine in pictorial solander box including CD and incense sticks. As new. £225.00
58. GHOSH, Amitav. Sea of Poppies. Murray 2008. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Slight bruise to tail of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £35.00
59. GHOSH, Amitav. River of Smoke. Murray 2008. Signed and dated (6/6/11) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
60. GOLDING, William. Rites of Passage. Faber 1980. Booker Prize winner. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper: “For / [?]Marian Macarthur / from / William Golding”. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £1250.00
61. GRAY, Alasdair. Alasdair Gray. Saltire Self-Portraits 4. Edinburgh: The Saltire Society 1988. Signed by the author. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. £35.00
62. GREENE, Graham. The Great Jowett. Bodley Head 1983. One of 525 specially bound numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in acetate, with just a touch of fading to spine. £175.00
63. GURNAH, Abdulrazak. Paradise. Hamish Hamilton 1994. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Very slight bruising to head and tail of spine, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £750.00
64. GURNAH, Abdulrazak. Paradise. Hamish Hamilton 1994. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Spotting to edges, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper, with occasional spotting to inside. £375.00
65. GURNAH, Abdulrazak. Paradise. Hamish Hamilton 1994. Second impression, otherwise identical to the first. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £75.00
66. GURNAH, Abdulrazak. Theft. Bloomsbury 2025. Signed and dated(26.5.25) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £75.00
67. GURNAH, Abdulrazak. Theft. Bloomsbury 2025. Signed by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £35.00
68. HAMID, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Hamish Hamilton 2007. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed and dated (29/9/07) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
69. HANIF, Mohammed. A Case of Exploding Mangoes. Cape 2008. Signed and dated (12-08-08) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
70. HANIF, Mohammed. Our Lady of Alice Bhatti. Cape 2011. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
71. HARVEY, Samantha. Orbital. Cape 2023. Booker Prize winner. Correct first printing with blue boards, blue-grey endpapers and ISBN ending 342. Signed by the author who has added the first sentence of the second chapter, “Roman wakes early”. Slight tanning to page edges, barely perceptible bruise to tail of spine, otherwise Fine in first state dustwrapper. £2250.00
72. HARVEY, Samantha. Orbital. Cape 2023. Booker Prize winner. Later edition in orange boards and with different ISBN ending 714 (but correct number code starting 1). Signed by the author who has added the first sentence of the second chapter, “Roman wakes early”. Fine in second state (Booker Prize shortlist) dustwrapper. £125.00
73. HAWKINS, Paula. The Girl on the Train. Doubleday 2015. ‘Free ticket holder’ loosely inserted. Inscribed by the author: “Paula Hawkins / There’s something comforting / about the sight of strangers safe / at home / 15/01/15”. Hint of a bruise to tail of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £45.00
74. HELLER, Zoë. Notes on a Scandal. Viking 2003. Booker Prize shortlist. Edges tanned, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
75. HILL, Susan. The Bird of Night. Hamish Hamilton 1972. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
76. HUGHES, Richard. The Wooden Shepherdess. Chatto & Windus 1973. Volume 2 of ‘The Human Predicament’. Uncorrected proof copy. Hint of spotting to top edge, otherwise near Fine in printed wrappers and proof dustwrapper, little frayed at head of spine. £35.00
77. ISHIGURO, Kazuo. An Artist of the Floating World. Faber 1986. First printing by Butler & Tanner. Booker Prize shortlist. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £175.00
78. ISHIGURO, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go. Faber 2005. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £325.00
79. ISHIGURO, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go. Faber 2005. Booker Prize shortlist. Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
80. ISHIGURO, Kazuo. Klara and the Sun. Faber 2021. Correct first edition with ISBN ending 879 and black endpapers. Signed by the author on half title. Fine in dustwrapper. With limited edition ‘Klara’ print. £125.00
81. JACOBSON, Howard. The Finkler Question. Bloomsbury 2010. Booker Prize winner. Signed and dated (14-8-10) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
82. JAMES, Marlon. A Brief History of Seven Killings. Oneworld 2014. Booker Prize winner. Signed and dated (10.14) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper and custom slipcase. £225.00
83. JAMES, Marlon. A Brief History of Seven Killings. New York: Riverhead Books 2014. First American edition. Booker Prize winner. Signed and dated (12.14) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £75.00
84. JHABVALA, R. Prawer. Heat and Dust. John Murray 1975. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Boards a little marked, slight crease to spine, front edge browned, otherwise near Fine in little marked dustwrapper, with a nick. £775.00
85. JOYCE, Rachel. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Doubleday 2012. Inscribed by the author: “15 March 2012 / ‘Angels whisper to a man when he / goes for a walk’ / Rachel Joyce”. Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
86. JOYCE, Rachel. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Doubleday 2012. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £55.00
87. JOYCE, Rachel. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Doubleday 2012. Uncorrected proof copy. Fine in pictorial wrappers. £35.00
88. JOYCE, Rachel. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Doubleday in association with Goldsboro Books 2012. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in slipcase. £125.00
89. JOYCE, Rachel. Perfect. Doubleday 2013. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
90. JOYCE, Rachel. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Doubleday 2014. Signed by the author. Tiny bruise to head of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper and custom slipcase. £25.00
91. JOYCE, Rachel. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Doubleday in association with Goldsboro Books 2014. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in slipcase. £45.00
92. KARUNATILAKA, Shehan. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Sort Of Books 2022. Booker Prize winner. Inscribed by the author: ‘ “You all have seven moons.” / Shehan Karunatilaka / 20 Oct 2022 / London’. Bruise to tail of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £275.00
93. KELMAN, James. A Disaffection. Secker & Warburg 1989. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Paper browned, very slight bruising to head and tail of spine, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £55.00
94. KELMAN, James. A Disaffection. Secker & Warburg 1989. Booker Prize shortlist. Paper browned, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
95. KELMAN, James. How Late It Was, How Late. Secker & Warburg 1994. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Paper browning, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £275.00
96. KELMAN, James. How Late It Was, How Late. Secker & Warburg 1994. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Paper browning, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper, with a touch of fading to spine. £225.00
97. KENEALLY, Thomas. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.. Angus and Robertson 1972. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author, with his sketched self-portrait. Near Fine in dustwrapper (with ‘Jimmie’ mis-spelt as ‘Jimmy’), with just a hint of rubbing to extremities. Scarce thus. £450.00
98. KENEALLY, Thomas. Gossip from the Forest. Collins 1975. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed and dated (2007) by the author, with his sketched self-portrait. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
99. KENEALLY, Thomas. Schindler’s Ark. Hodder & Stoughton 1982. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author with his sketched self-portrait. Near Fine in dustwrapper, with very slight fading to spine. £550.00
100. KILROY, Thomas. The Big Chapel. Faber 1971. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Top edge a little dusty, very slight bruise to tail of spine, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £150.00
101. KNEALE, Matthew. English Passengers. Hamish Hamilton 2000. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Edges tanned, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £45.00
102. LAHIRI, Jhumpa. The Lowland. Bloomsbury 2013. Booker Prize shortlist. Fine in decorated boards. £25.00
103. LESSING, Doris. The Sirian Experiments. Cape 1981. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £175.00
104. LIVELY, Penelope. The Road to Lichfield. Heinemann 1977. Her first adult novel. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Near Fine in priceclipped dustwrapper. £350.00
105. LYNCH, Paul. Prophet Song. Oneworld 2023. Booker Prize winner. Signed and inscribed by the author with a quote from the book: ‘ “Out of terror comes pity / and out of pity comes love” / Paul Lynch / 6/10/23’. Fine in dustwrapper. £275.00
106. McCABE, Patrick. The Butcher Boy. Picador 1992. Signed by the author. Booker Prize shortlist. Light spotting to top edge, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £275.00
107. McCABE, Patrick. Breakfast on Pluto. Picador 1998. Signed by the author. Booker Prize shortlist. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
108. McEWAN, Ian. Comfort of Strangers. Cape 1981. Signed by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
109. McEWAN, Ian. Black Dogs. Cape 1990. Booker Prize shortlist. First state binding (black cloth with red endpapers). Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
110. McEWAN, Ian. Amsterdam. Cape 1998. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £60.00
111. McEWAN, Ian. Atonement. Cape 2001. Booker Prize shortlist. Hint of a bruise to head of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £35.00
112. McGAHERN, John. Amongst Women. Faber 1990. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Tanning to edges, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £225.00
113. McGAHERN, John. That They May Face the Rising Sun. Faber 2001. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £150.00
114. MARTEL, Yann. Life of Pi. Edinburgh: Canongate 2002. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Very slight bruise to head of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £135.00
115. MATAR, Hisham. In the Country of Men. Viking 2006. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed and dated (26.8.06) by the author. Slight bruise to head of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
116. MATAR, Hisham. In the Country of Men. Viking 2006. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed and dated (“26.8.06 / Edinburgh”) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £35.00
117. MATAR, Hisham. Anatomy of a Disappearance. Viking 2011. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
118. MILLS, Magnus. The Restraint of Beasts. Flamingo 1998. Paperback original. His first novel. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Edges tanned, otherwise near Fine in pictorial wrappers. £35.00
119. MISTRY, Rohinton. A Fine Balance. Faber 1996. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £225.00
120. MOORE, Brian. The Doctor’s Wife. Cape 1976. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Name and date on front endpaper. Tiny bruise to one corner, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £250.00
121. MOORE, Brian. Lies of Silence. Bloomsbury 1990. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £75.00
122. MORRIS, Jan. Last Letters from Hav. Viking 1985. Booker Prize shortlist. Inscribed by the author: “Jan Morris / Sydney / 1988”. Couple of spots to top edge, otherwise near Fine in priceclipped dustwrapper. £225.00
123. MORRIS, Jan. Last Letters from Hav. Viking 1985. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
125. MURDOCH, Iris. A Year of Birds. Tisbury: Compton Press 1978. Poems by Murdoch with engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.15 of 350 copies in quarter cloth signed by the author and the illustrator. Fine. £225.00
126. MURRAY, Paul. The Bee Sting. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023. First American edition. Booker Prize shortlist. Slight bruising to head and tail of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £65.00
127. NAIPAUL, V.S. Finding the Centre. New York: Knopf 1984. First American edition. Uncorrected proof copy. Photocopied typed sheet of blurb and provisional publication info attached. Near Fine in printed wrappers. £35.00
128. NAIPAUL, V.S. India: a million mutinies now. Heinemann 1990. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
129. OBIOMA, Chigozie. An Orchestra of Minorities. Little, Brown 2019. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed and dated (13-10-2019) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £45.00
130. OKRI, Ben. The Famished Road. New York: Doubleday 1992. First American edition. Booker Prize winner. Inscribed by the author with the first sentence of the book: “In the beginning / there was a river; / Ben Okri”. Fine in dustwrapper. £75.00
131. OKRI, Ben. The Famished Road. New York: Doubleday 1992. First American edition. Booker Prize winner. Inscribed by the author: “to Sammy / With best / wishes for the / miracles of time & / the road - / Be lucky - / Ben Okri / 20-5-92 / S. F.”. Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
132. POWERS, Richard. Playground. Hutchinson Heinemann 2024. Inscribed by the author: “For [?]Hajria / Richard Powers”. Fine in dustwrapper. Inscribed copies are scarce. £125.00
133. ROY, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Flamingo 1997. ‘Thin’ state. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Faint spotting to top edge, very slight bruising to upper corners, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
134. RUBENS, Bernice. The Elected Member. Eyre & Spottiswoode 1969. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. One of the three scarcest signed Booker winners (with ‘The Siege of Krishnapur’ and ‘Staying On’) and possibly the scarcest. Near Fine in dustwrapper, with just the slightest wear to extremities. Rare thus. £4500.00
135. RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight’s Children. New York: Knopf 1981. First American edition (precedes the English edition). Booker Prize winner. Near Fine in unfaded dustwrapper, with a couple of small chips to lower panel. £125.00
136. RUSHDIE, Salman. The Satanic Verses. Viking 1988. Signed by the author with his contemporary signature. Bruise to front corner, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper, slightly faded on spine. £575.00
137. RUSHDIE, Salman. Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Granta 1990. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
138. RUSHDIE, Salman. The Moor’s Last Sigh. Cape 1995. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £35.00
139. RUSHDIE, Salman. The Enchantress of Florence. Cape 2008. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £45.00
140. RUSHDIE, Salman. Quichotte. Cape 2019. Booker Prize shortlist. Inscribed by the author: “Salman Rushdie / for Chris & Mandy”. Fine in dustwrapper. £45.00
141. SCHLEE, Ann. Rhine Journey. Macmillan 1981. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Very slight bruise to one corner, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £175.00
142. SETH, Vikram. A Suitable Boy. Phoenix House 1993. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
143. SHARMA, Akhil. An Obedient Father. Faber 2001. First English edition. Paperback original. Signed by the author. Edges tanned, otherwise Fine in pictorial wrappers and dustwrapper. £125.00
144. SNOW, C.P. In Their Wisdom. Macmillan 1974. Booker Prize shortlist. Inscribed by the author: “To Kenneth [?]Harlow / with affectionate wishes / from / C P Snow / London / with KH / present / Dec 22/74”. Near Fine in dustwrapper. Scarce signed. £750.00
145. SPARK, Muriel. Loitering With Intent. Bodley Head 1981. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Neat name on front endpaper. Near Fine in dustwrapper, with usual slight fading of title (from orange to yellow) on spine. £325.00
146. SWIFT, Graham. Last Orders. Picador 1996. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. Together with 20-page promotional excerpt in pictorial card wrappers signed by the author. The two: £125.00
147. SZALAY, David. All That Man Is. Cape 2016. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Slight bruise to tail of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £75.00
148. SZALAY, David. All That Man Is. Cape 2016. Booker Prize shortlist. Uncorrected proof copy. Signed by the author. Near Fine in pictorial wrappers. £75.00
149. SZALAY, David. Flesh. Cape 2025. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed and dated (18 August 2025) by the author. Tiny bruise to tail of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £175.00
150. SZALAY, David. Flesh. Cape 2025. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed by the author. Tiny bruise to tail of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
151. TARTT, Donna. The Little Friend. Bloomsbury 2002. Signed by the author. Slight tanning to edges, tiny bump to one corner, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
152. TARTT, Donna. The Goldfinch. Little, Brown 2013. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £225.00
153. TÓIBÍN, Colm. The Master. Picador 2004. Booker Prize shortlist. Inscribed by the author with the first line of the book: “Colm Toibin / 19 March 2004 / ‘Sometimes in the / night he dreamed / about the dead…’ ”. Edges tanned, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £125.00
154. TÓIBÍN, Colm. The Master. Picador 2004. Booker Prize shortlist. Signed and dated (26.1.05) by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £75.00
155. TÓIBÍN, Colm. Mothers and Sons. Picador 2006. Signed by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £35.00
156. TÓIBÍN, Colm. Brooklyn. Viking 2009. Signed and dated (5 May 2009) by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £175.00
157. TÓIBÍN, Colm. Brooklyn. Viking 2009. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £150.00
158. TÓIBÍN, Colm. The Empty Family. Viking 2010. Signed by the author. Slight bruise to head of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
159. TÓIBÍN, Colm. The Empty Family. Viking 2010. Uncorrected proof copy. Fine in pictorial wrappers. £25.00
160. TÓIBÍN, Colm. New Ways to Kill Your Mother. Viking 2012. Signed and dated (12.3.12) by the author. Fine in decorated boards. Uncommon. £45.00
161. TÓIBÍN, Colm. The Testament of Mary. Viking 2012. ‘Exclusive signed edition’ signed by the author on a page preceding the half title. Fine in dustwrapper. £35.00
162. TÓIBÍN, Colm. Nora Webster. Viking 2014. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
163. TÓIBÍN, Colm. Nora Webster. Viking 2014. ‘Exclusive signed edition’ signed by the author on a page preceding the half title. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
164. TÓIBÍN, Colm. On Elizabeth Bishop. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2015. Signed by the author. Fine in dustwrapper. £35.00
165. TÓIBÍN, Colm. Long Island. New York: Scribner 2024. First American edition. Signed and dated (28.5.24) by the author. Slight bruise to one corner, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £45.00
166. TREVOR, William. The Last Lunch of the Season. Covent Garden Press 1973. Paperback original. One of 100 copies numbered and signed by the author, from an edition of 600. Near Fine in pictorial wrappers. £75.00
167. UNSWORTH, Barry. Sacred Hunger. Hamish Hamilton 1992. Booker Prize winner. Signed and dated (4th March ’92) by the author. 6pp press release (giving publication date as 27 February), photograph of the author and Booker Prize shortlist bookmark loosely inserted. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £650.00
168. UNSWORTH, Barry. Sacred Hunger. Hamish Hamilton 1992. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Near Fine in dustwrapper, with some fading to spine. £350.00
169. VAN DER WOUDEN, Yael. The Safekeep. New York: Avid Reader Press 2014. Precedes the first English edition. Paperback original. Booker Prize shortlist. Near Fine in pictorial wrappers, with very slight rubbing to extremities. £75.00
170. VISWANATHAN, Kaavya. How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life. Time Warner 2006. Uncorrected proof copy which ‘only contains half the novel’. 172 pp. The book was withdrawn owing to allegations of plagiarism. Near Fine in printed wrappers. £25.00
171. WAUGH, Evelyn. Wine in Peace and War. Saccone & Speed [1947]. With decorations by Rex Whistler. Offsetting to pastedowns, otherwise near Fine in little marked unprinted dustwrapper. £125.00
172. WAUGH, Evelyn. The Loved One. Chapman & Hall 1948. Illustrations by Stuart Boyle. One of 250 numbered large paper copies signed by the author and the illustrator: this copy, to which Waugh has added ‘(with love)’ after his signature, is from the library of Daphne Fielding, author of ‘The Duchess of Jermyn Street’, mother of Alexander Thynne and dedicatee of ‘The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold’. A few minor marks to boards, otherwise near Fine. £750.00
173. WAUGH, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins. Chapman & Hall 1953. Near Fine in dustwrapper. £45.00
174. WAUGH, Evelyn. Basil Seal Rides Again. Chapman & Hall 1963. Frontispiece by Kathleen Hale. One of 750 specially bound numbered copies signed by the author. Top edge gilt. Near Fine. £250.00
175. WHITEHEAD, Colson. The Noble Hustle. New York: Doubleday 2014. Signed by the author on blank preceding half title. Fine in dustwrapper. £75.00
176. WHITEHEAD, Colson. The Nickle Boys. Fleet 2019. Signed by the author on tipped-in page preceding title. Very slight bruise to tail of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
177. WHITEHEAD, Colson. The Nickle Boys. Fleet 2019. Signed by the author on title page. ‘Waterstones Exclusive’ edition with 5-page Afterword by the author and different ISBN. Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
178. WHITEHEAD, Colson. Harlem Shuffle. Fleet 2021. Signed by the author. Hint of a bruise to tail of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
179. WOOD, Benjamin. Seascraper. Viking 2025. Booker Prize longlist. Very slight bruising to head and tail of spine, otherwise Fine in dustwrapper. £25.00
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