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On this page you will find books by: Orhan Pamuk, Amon Saba Saakana, H Rider Haggard, Mark Haddon,  PD James, Martin Amis, John Grisham, Ian Rankin, Morton Rhue, Sebastian Faulks, Manuel Puig, Hanif Kureishi, Terry Pratchett, Irwin Shaw, Alvin Toffler, Gore Vidal, Sue Townsend, Andre Brink, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Drabble
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haggard king solomons mines pamuk snow haddon curious incident of dog in the night james the children of men vidal empire blues dance
                                              
 I do have other First Editions which I will add to this list from time to time.  There are titles to suit every taste, and they would make good affordable presents.  I think my favourite would be King Solomon's Mines which I read when I was a teenager, and Snow, which I read this year - Orhan Pamuk writes with such poetry and feeling that it even shines through in translation, and of course that is why he is considered one of this century's greatest writers, world-wide, and was given the Nobel Prize for Literature.  Not all my First Editions are listed on these two pages, and you may find some when looking in the  Business books and Non-Fiction sections, and scattered through other pages.

Please add £2.69 for post and packing for UK, £3.50 to Europe. £5.75 worldwide  or contact me to ask about a discount and the postage cost if buying more than one item.
                                                                                           
Author Title Publisher Pub'd Hardback/
softback		 Comments £
Martin Amis Yellow Dog

Martin Amis

Yellow Dog

 Jonathan Cape Lond

2003

 HB

Fine DJ and hard boards, no price clip

ISBN 0224050613

15.00 + Postage 
imaginings of sand

Andre Brink   

Imaginings of Sand

 Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd London

1996

 HB  Dustjacket not price clipped, protected with plastic cover. Mint condition. Name and No 341 on inside page (maybe a limited edition?)
ISBN 0436 20259 X

£10.00 

+ Postage
grisham bleachersgrisham bleachers John Grisham Bleachers

 Century
London		 2003
1st British Edition		 HB Fine condition, unclipped dustjacket with very slight bumping at top edge. £8.50 + Postage
on Green Dolphin St

Sebastian Faulks

On Green Dolphin Street

Hutchinson

Lond.

2001

 SB

Good. Tear on front cover and front 2 pp

ISBN 009179350-5

£4.00 

+ Postage
king solomons mines

H Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines

 Cassell

1887 37th

thou		 HB Good.Red cloth cover no DJ spine faded & stained. Title in gold,drawing of spear & shields on front, hills on spine,flowers on back. Spine binding torn at edges,corners bumped, small amount of foxing.

£200.00

+ Postage
the wave

Morton Rhue

The Wave

 Puffin

1982 1st

English ed.		 SB Very good, ex libris, pages very yellowed with age

£3.50 

+ Postage
rankin a question of blood

Ian Rankin

A Question of Blood

 Orion
London
 2003 HB Rebus series. Mint condition, unclipped dustjacket
ISBN  0752851101 		£13.00
+ Postage
curious incident of dog in night

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

 Jonathan Cape Lond.

2003

 HB Fine DJ -  not price clipped, brown adult version, 1cm tear on back . Otherwise mint cond.

£30.00

+ Postage
curious incident of dog in night

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

 Jonathan Cape Lond.

2003

 HB Fine DJ -  not price clipped, brown adult version, 1/2 cm tear on back . Otherwise very good cond.

£29.00 

+ Postage
kiss of Spiderwoman

Manuel Puig

Kiss of the Spider Woman

 Arena Lond.

1984 1st Br. Ed

 SB

Fine. Clean, probably unread. Some indentations on glossy cover, pages yellowed.

ISBN 0099342006

£5.00

+ Postage
intimacy

Hanif Kureishi

Intimacy

Faber

Lond.

1998

 SB

Good.DJ not price clipped grubby. Red card cover good. Slight bending at 1 corner

ISBN 0571194370

£9.00

+ Postage
children of men

PD James

The Children of Men

Faber

Lond.

1992

 HB

Very Good. DJ clean, not price clipped, bumped. Pages yellowed

ISBN 0571167411

£20.00

+ Postage
Snow

Orhan Pamuk

Snow

 Faber

2004 1st Ed/ 1st printing

 SB Fine. With DJ. Signed *(See at foot of this page for comments)

£170.00

+ Postage
snow

Orhan Pamuk

Snow

 Fabe r& Faber . 2004  1st
Edn.          		 SB Paper back Mint cond., dustjacket

£50.00

+ Postage
pratchett soul music

Terry Pratchett   

Soul Music

 Victor Gollancz
London		 1994 HB

£20

+ Postage
shaw the young lions

Irwin Shaw

The Young Lions

 Jonathan Cape London 1949 HB Fair condition. No dustjacket. Clean cloth cover. Tanned pages and internal binding has come away from spine. Small brown stain on outside edge going down about 35 pages. £6.50
+ Postage
toffler the third wave

Alvin Toffler

The Third Wave

 Collins 1980 HB Ex Libris, usual labels and stamps,  good condition, unclipped clean plastic-covered dustjacket , slightly yellowed pages

£9.00

+ Postage
Toffler Previews and premises

Alvin Toffler

Previews and Premises

 Black Rose  Books
Canada		 1984
1st Canadian Edition		 SB Very good clean condition
ISBN 0 920057 37 3		 £7.00
+ Postage
Empire

Gore Vidal

Empire

Andre Deutsch

GB

1987

 HB

Very Good. With DJ not price clipped, very slight bumping at spine  and tiny stain on front. Otherwise fine.

ISBN 0233981527

£12.00

+ Postage
The first English edition was published to enormous critical and popular acclaim as a softcover original. A scarce hardcover edition was subsequently issued and there is also an American Edition. Pamuk's books are censored and often banned in his native Turkey, a culture which has to strike a delicate balance between radical Islam and Western secularism.
Adrian mole wmd

Sue Townsend

Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction

 Penguin Michael Joseph

2004

 HB

Mint. With DJ not price clipped

ISBN 0 718146891

£12.00

+ Postage
a mole cappucino years

Sue Townsend

Adrian Mole The Cappucino Years

 Penguin Michael Joseph

1999

 HB

Fine. With DJ price clipped, very slight bumping looks unread

ISBN 0718143671

£4.50

+ Postage
The first English edition was published to enormous critical and popular acclaim as a softcover original. A scarce hardcover edition was subsequently issued and there is also an American Edition. Pamuk's books are censored and often banned in his native Turkey, a culture which has to strike a delicate balance between radical Islam and Western secularism.
the last voyage

Hammond Innes

The Last Voyage

 Collins

1978

 HB

Fine. DJ not price clipped. Tiny 1 cm. tear near spine, otherwise looks new and unread

 ISBN 0002214458

£14.00

SOLD
anils ghost

Michael Ondaatje

Anil's Ghost

 Bloomsbury

2000

 HB Dust jacket unclipped with 1" tear on back outer edge. Fine condition.
ISBN 0 7475 4865 X

£12

+ Postage
red queen

Margaret Drabble

The Red Queen

 Penguin Viking

2004

 HB Dustjacket unclipped, mint condition. Red cloth boards £4
+ Postage
blues dance

Amon Saba Saakana

Blues Dance

 Karmal
London		 1985 SB Rare - no other example found on internet at time of listing. Cover bent at edges and slightly creased. Otherwise good condition
ISBN 0907015158

£40

+ Postage
*Orhan Pamuk - Snow  (Translated by Maureen Freely). First appearance of this title in UK.  The author's fifth book, destined to become a 21st Century classic. Published to enormous critical and popular acclaim as a softcover original.  A scarce hardcover edition was subsequently issued and there is also an American Edition. Pamuk's books are censored and often banned in his native Turkey, a culture which has to strike a delicate balance between radical Islam and Western secularism.  This is a political and yet poetical novel exploring the clash between the two ideologies through the eyes of a fictional poet who was holed-up for a few days in a small town whilst it was snowbound. The thread of a love story runs through the revolutionary events taking place, and for Westerners it gives great insight into what it is like to live in modern Turkey and their stormy relationship with the Kurds .  In 2006 Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature and he is one of the greatest living writers.  
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