Search Results: Fiction from Mike Park Ltd

London: Michael Joseph, 1971. Small octavo, pp 208, very clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper (by Broom Lynne) is price-clipped, slightly rubbed around the edges, the lower cover slightly age-toned. Overall a very pleasing copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly rubbed. Illus. by Broom Lynne.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1967. Small octavo, pp 191, a tiny bump to the fore-edge, otherwise very clean internally, red cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is slightly worn and age-toned and with one tiny nick at the fore-edge.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good.

London & New York: Macmillan & Company Ltd, 1966. Illustrated, small octavo, pp (4), 135, extremely clean internally, red decorated cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is just very slightly worn and rubbed. [A Latin translation of 'Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There'.]. First Edition thus. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn. Illus. by Sir John Tenniel.

London: Faber & Faber, 1969. Octavo, pp 256, very clean internally, red cloth with very slight fading to the head of the spine, otherwise a very good copy in the dustwrapper designed by Felix Kelly, not price-clipped and only very slight wear to the corners, the rear cover a little soiled.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

Tokyo, New York, London: Kodansha International Ltd, 1991. First edition. Octavo, pp 247, very clean internally, grey cloth in very good condition, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and which has just the very slightest signs of use. Almosr as new. [A collection of short stories including "An irrelevant death," "The dream soldier," "Dendrocalia," "The special envoy," and "The crime of S. Karma".]. First Edition. Cloth. As New/Very Good.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992. Octavo, pp (6), 306, very clean internally, black cloth-backed boards very good, the dustwrapper is a little rubbed at the margins and the corners.. Cloth-backed boards. Very Good/Slightly worn.

New York: Hurst and Company Not dated (perhaps 1900 ?). 12mo, pp xii, 288, illustrated with line drawings by Randolph Caldecott, a little used internally, front hinge cracking, probably lacking the free front endpaper, a corner torn from the rear free endpaper, publisher's original blind-stamper cream cloth, rather rubbed and browned, pictorial inlay of a rose (with a small piece missing).. Cloth. Fair. Illus. by Randolph Caldecott.

Harmondsworth: Viking, 1982. Octavo, pp 283, very clean internally, green cloth very slightly worn, binding leaning, the dustwrapper is slightly worn but not price-clipped.. First British edition. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn.

London: The Bodley Head, 1970. Illustrated by Victor Ambrus, large octavo, pp (2), 330, very clean internally, green cloth, a very slight tear to the spine head otherwise a good sound copy without dustwrapper. [This is a complete edition of the 46 stories in Jabob's two Celtic collections together with both his prefaces and all his notes and references. It has been newly illustrated Victor Ambrus with an attractive headpiece for each story. This is a beautiful anthology which highlights Celtic children's literature. "Celtic Fairy Tales" includes popular stories such as "Conall Yellowclaw," "The Sea-Maiden," and "The Battle of the Birds," all of which were gathered straight from oral tradition by Jacobs to be preserved forever in text. Like the famous German fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, not every story in "Celtic Fairy Tales" ends happily for all the characters. For example, in "Fair, Brown, and Trembling," the oldest… Read More

London: Robert Hale & Company, 1983. pp 316, slightly age-toned, endpapers slightly foxed, otherwise a good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper which is slightly torn at the spine head and slightly wrinkled on its lower cover. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with a presentation inscription from the author, and a brief note on a loosely inserted card.].

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974. Octavo, pp 188, very clean internally, red cloth showing the faintests signs of uses (and leaning very slightly - almost imperceptable), in a very good dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and which is showing only very slight wear - mainly a little creasing along the top margin. VERY SCARCE. [Hugh Fleetwood was born in England in 1944. At the age of 18 he went to live in France; at 21, he moved to Italy, where he remained for the next fourteen years. He had his first exhibition in 1970 at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto; in 1971 he published his first novel, A Painter of Flowers, for which he also designed the jacket. As he did for his second novel, The Girl Who Passed for Normal, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. His fifth novel, The Order of Death, was made into a film (a.k.a. Corrupt in the U.S.) starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon. (Johnny Rotten). After his return to England, Hugh Fleetwood had two further one-man shows, at the St. Raphael… Read More

London: Collins, 1980. First edition. Octavo, pp 347, two very faint marks to the front endpaper otherwise extremely clean internally, grey cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped with just very slight signs of use.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

South Africa.: Nationwide Book Service Ltd, 1980. Large thick 8vo, pp (10), 863, (8), very clean internally, green cloth showig only the slightest signs of wear, the dustwrapper is a little creased and worn. [The scarce first edition from Zimbabwe, published by agreement with Martin Secker & Warburg.]. {James A. Michener s masterly chronicle of South Africa is an epic tale of adventurers, scoundrels, and ministers, the best and worst of two continents who carve an empire out of a vast wilderness. From the Java-born Van Doorn family tree springs two great branches: one nurtures lush vineyards, the other settles the interior to become the first Trekboers and Afrikaners. The Nxumalos, inhabitants of a peaceful village unchanged for centuries, unite warrior tribes into the powerful Zulu nation. And the wealthy Saltwoods are missionaries and settlers who join the masses to influence the wars and politics that ravage a nation. Rivalries and passions spill across the land of "The Covenant, " a… Read More

Hunton bridge, King's langley: The Kit-Cat Press, 1978. [A very short story]. Small slender tall octavo, pp 8, very clean internally, paperback, a very good copy. [Number 83 of 180 numbered copies]. . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Heinemann, 1957. Small 8vo, pp (2), 260. An ex-library copy from the R.A.F. Halton Recreational Library, contents a bit thumbed and worn, small stamp on front and rear endpapers, withdrawal label on front endpaper, shelf number in white on spine, spine a little wrinkled, black cloth a little worn, binding leaning, no dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. Ex-Library.

New York & London: The Mysterious Press, 1987. First American edition. Octavo, pp (2), 281, very slight wear to the top edge, a very slight paper fault to the edge of page 235/236, otherwise very clean and sound internally, black and cream cloth-backed boards, a very slight suggestion of a lean to the binding, the dustwrapper shows only very slight signs of use, and is not price-clipped. [Reginald Hill, writing as Patrick Ruell. Stated first edition, with sequence below 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ]. {Trudi Adamson has lived her life in fear - of strangers, of asking questions, of angering her husband, of leaving the house. When her husband dies in a car accident, she retreats even further into her cocoon of ignorance and incuriosity. But staying there isn't an option; her husband apparently died broke, and Trudi's best hope lies in suing the company responsible for his death. And that means asking what her husband was doing on a remote stretch of Yorkshire road. Even the painful knowledge… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988. Octavo, pp 216, a slight suggestion of foxing to the fore-edge, a bit age-toned but otherwise extremely clean and sound internally, half-cloth and marbled boards in very good condition. [Limited edition of 150 numbered copies, signed by the author.].{Catherine Hillery, recently widowed and a biographer of modest attainments is pleased to be asked to write the authorised life of Neil Campion, a politician of the 1930s, now dead. With the apparent approval of the Campion family she begins to investigate the life and early death of this once promising public man. It soon appears that someone else is working on the same subject, and that there is a curious shortage of material about Campion's activities during the early years of the war.}. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Very Good.

London: Pan Books, 1990. Illustrated with drawings by Bert Kitchen, octavo, pp xxx, 146, very clean internally, black cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but is just very slightly worn, with a small closed tear on its lower cover... Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn. Illus. by Bert Kitchen.

Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1994. Second edition. Illustrated, small quarto, pp x, 341, a good copy in a a dustwrapper which is a little creased and wrinkled along the top edge. [The standard work]. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

London: Macmillan, 1971. First edition, published by Macmillan, 1971. pp 223, very clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition. The dustwrapper is a little age-toned, and very very slightly worn. There are two tiny chips at the top margin of the upper cover. RARE TITLE, ESPECIALLY WITH DUSTWRAPPER.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good.