FICTION/LITERATURE from Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)

Double Play, Parker, Robert B. Published by Putnam, 2004. First Edition, Signed by author. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 288pp. Quarter blue cloth over red boards, blue metallic spine titles. Discreet remainder mark tail of spine and otherwise volume and dustjacket are in fine condition. The Grand Master of mystery offers a richly textured, change-of-pace historical novel set in 1947, the… Read more about this item

Watching the Dark, Robinson, Peter. Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2012. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 407pp. Black boards with silver titles. Volume is in fine condition; unclipped jacket has the lightest of shelf wear.

Careless Love, Robinson, Peter. Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2018. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 340pp. Black boards with white titles. Volume is in fine condition and housed in a fine dustjacket.

Munich, Harris, Robert. Published by Random House 2017. Soft cover with French flaps. 342 pages. In fine condition; likely unread. It is September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there.

Conclave, Harris, Robert. Published by Random House Canada, 2016. Softcover with French flaps. In fine and likely unread condition.

The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry, Spofford, A. R.; Rufus E. Shapley. Published by The Gebbie Publishing Co., Philadelphia, 1894. Five volumes. Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt and black titling and decorations, all edges gilt. Contains fifty black and white full-page etchings, especially commissioned for this publication, with descriptive captions; additional in text engravings on… Read more about this item

The Shadow and Bone Trilogy; The Six of Crows Duology, Bardugo, Leigh. Published by Square Fish, 2015/17. Softcover. The Trilogy comes as a boxed set and contains the novels: Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising. In new condition, still in shrink wrap. The Duology consists of the Six of Crows and the Crooked Kingdom; both novels are… Read more about this item

The Tommyknockers, King, Stephen. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1994. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 588pp. Quarter black over green boards, gilt spine titles, green endpapers. Contents in fine condition; very light edge rubbing to boards; jacket is clipped with moderate shelf wear; without chips or tears.

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories Munro, Alice. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 322pp. Volume in mint, unread condition and housed in a fine unclipped jacket with the lightest of shelf wear.. Alice Munro is a Canadian short story writer whose work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short… Read more about this item

Inspector Morse, The Complete Collection, Colin Dexter. Published by Pan, 1997-2000. Soft cover in slipcase. 13 volumes. In new condition, still wrapped. Titles: Last Bus to Woodstock, Last Seen Wearing, The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn, Service of all the Dead, The Dead of Jericho, The Riddle of the Third Mile, The Secret of Annexe 3, The Wench is Dead,… Read more about this item

Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, Bronte, Charlotte; Bronte, Emily. Published by Random House, New York, 1943. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 343pp.; 212pp. illustrated with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Quarter green cloth over illustrated boards, top edge green. Light toning to contents which are otherwise fine. Front hinges weakened with exposed webbing to Jane Eyre volume; pages remain tightly… Read more about this item

Decline and Fall, Waugh, Eveyln. Published by Guild Publishing, London, Geneva, 1979. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 252pp. Burgundy simulated leather boards with elaborate gilt scrolling to front and spine; burgundy endpapers with gilt scrolling. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Additional titles in Guild Publishing Classic Works available; please inquire.

Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell, George. Published by Guild Publishing, London, Geneva, 1978. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 348pp. Burgundy simulated leather boards with elaborate gilt scrolling to front and spine; burgundy endpapers with gilt scrolling. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Additional titles in Guild Publishing Classic Works available; please inquire.

The Great Gatsby and The Last Tycoon, Fitzgerald, Scott. Published by Guild Publishing, London, GenevFitzgerald, Scotta, 1979. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 348pp. Burgundy simulated leather boards with elaborate gilt scrolling to front and spine; burgundy endpapers with gilt scrolling. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Additional titles in Guild Publishing Classic Works available; please inquire.

Mrs Dalloway, Woolf, Virgina. Published by Guild Publishing, London, Geneva, 1979. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 185pp. Burgundy simulated leather boards with elaborate gilt scrolling to front and spine; burgundy endpapers with gilt scrolling. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Additional titles in Guild Publishing Classic Works available; please inquire.

Women in Love, Lawrence, D.H. Published by Guild Publishing, London, Geneva, 1978. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 460pp. Burgundy simulated leather boards with elaborate gilt scrolling to front and spine; burgundy endpapers with gilt scrolling. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Additional titles in Guild Publishing Classic Works available; please inquire.

I, Claudius, Graves, Robert. Published by Guild Publishing, London, Geneva, 1979. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 395pp. Burgundy simulated leather boards with elaborate gilt scrolling to front and spine; burgundy endpapers with gilt scrolling. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Additional titles in Guild Publishing Classic Works available; please inquire.

The Hobbit, Tolkien, J. R. R. Published by Guild Publishing, London, Geneva, 1978. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 256pp., illustrated in black and white with colour map. Burgundy simulated leather boards with elaborate gilt scrolling to front and spine; burgundy endpapers with gilt scrolling. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Additional titles in Guild Publishing Classic Works available; please inquire.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce, James. Published by Guild Publishing, London, Geneva, 1978. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 208pp. Burgundy simulated leather boards with elaborate gilt scrolling to front and spine; burgundy endpapers with gilt scrolling. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Additional titles in Guild Publishing Classic Works available; please inquire.

Lord Jim, Conrad, Joseph. Published by Guild Publishing, London, Geneva, 1978. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 309pp. Burgundy simulated leather boards with elaborate gilt scrolling to front and spine; burgundy endpapers with gilt scrolling. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Additional titles in Guild Publishing Classic Works available; please inquire. Lord Jim is a classic story of one man's tragic failure… Read more about this item