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London: William Heinemann, 1952. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, missing d/j, red clothboards a little grubby with couple of water stains; gilt spine titling faded; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked; donor's neat inscription on ffep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism
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The Vagrant Mood, Six Essays
by Maugham, W. Somerset
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The Valley of Bones
by Powell, Anthony
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London: Fontana Books, 1975. 2nd imp.. paperback. Very good, 2nd impression of p/b (1st 1973), small scuff marks on spine, pages browned, otherwise pristine.. A (178 x 110). The 7th volume in Dance to the Music of Time in which Nicholas Jenkins is a 2nd Lieut in an infantry regiment, seeing at close quarters the reality and absurdities of army life.
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Venice
by Morris, James (Jan)
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London: Faber & Faber, 1960. 1st (2nd reprint). hardback. Very good, 1st edition (2nd printing same year), unclipped d/j (good, with bumping and small chips); red boards good but spine base marked; gilt impressed cover design and spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp. Scarce in this version.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its architecture, its bridges, its tourists, its curiosities, its smells, sounds, lights and colours, there is scarcely a corner of Venice that Jan Morris has not investigated and brought vividly to life.Jan Morris first visited the city of Venice as young James Morris, during World War II. As she writes in the introduction, 'it is Venice seen through a particular…
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Venice: the most triumphant city
by Bull, George
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London: Folio Society, 1981. Folio. hardback. Fine, 1st reprint of 1980 Folio edition; gilt decoration and spine titling bright, on green cloth boards; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Bull was a multi-talented and accomplished journalist, translator and art historian. This account of Venice was widely-regarded.
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Venus in Libra (SIGNED)
by Bayliss, John
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Walton-on-Thames: Outposts Publications, 1977. 1st. paperback. Fine, signed and numbered 1st edition, dedicated to Christopher Fry on 2nd front endpaper verso (#42). Provenance: Christopher Fry, the English poet and playwright who died in 2005). C (216 x 135). John Bayliss was a British poet sometimes associated with the New Apocalyptics, a reaction against 1930s realism through surrealism and mysticism. He contributed in the war years to Poetry London and Poetry Quarterly; later to Poetry Review. He was also published in Air Force Poetry (1944). In 1977 he published ""Venus in Libra"" in full, some sections of which had been published in ""Poetry Quarterly"" and ""New Road 1944""
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Venusberg
by Powell, Anthony
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Torino: Einaudi, 1969. 1st Italian. hardback. Very good, 1st Italian edition, light green cloth boards clean and white titling on spine. Pages clean and tight. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Powell's early novel translated by Bruno Fonzi
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Venusberg
by Powell, Anthony
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London: Heinemann, 1955. 1st thus. h/b. Very good, 1955 edition of the 1932 novel, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve), red clothbound boards, gilt spine titling, text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time. Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would define his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange drivers of human behavior. Scathingly funny and insightful character studies, PowellÕs early works reveal the stirrings of the unequaled style, ear for dialogue, and eye for irony that would reach their caustic peak in his epic, A Dance to the Music of Time.PowellÕs sophomore novel, Venusberg, follows an English journalist named Lushington as he travels by boat to an unnamed Baltic state. Navigating an elegant and politically…
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Venusberg + Agents & Patients
by Powell, Anthony
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New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1952. USA. hardback. Good, with d/j and clean, tightly bound uncut pages; slight bumping on d/j and tape markings on both boards.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Two early novels in one volume
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Vermeer's Family Secrets
by Binstock, Benjamin
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Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. 1st thus. p/b. Very good, 1st p/b edition (6 years after h/b). Text block firm and crisp.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art: despite the common claim that little is known of his biography, there is actually an abundance of fascinating information about VermeerÕs life that Binstock brings to bear on VermeerÕs art for the first time; he also offers new interpretations of several key documents pertaining to Vermeer that have been misunderstood. Lavishly illustrated with more than 180 black and white images and more than sixty color plates, the book also includes a remarkable color two-page spread that presents the entirety of Vermeer's oeuvre arranged in…
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Vernon God Little
by Pierre, DBC
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New York: Canongate Books, 2003. 1st USA. hardback. Near fine 1st edition with very good unclipped d/j (some staining at inside base), paees tightly bound and unmarked.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). uthor's first novel - a 'post-modern picaresque tale' which has been compared to 'The Confederacy of Dunces' as a fresh new voice. Winner of the 2003 Booker Prize.
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Verse and worse: a private collection
by Silcock, Arnold (illus.V. H. Drummond)
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London: Faber & Faber, 1952. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, no d/j. Red clothbound boards and gilt-titled spine good but with a little fading, pages tightly bound and crisp but tanning on both free endpapers.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Silcock's very funny, selection of verse, ideas and stories, an immediate success on publication, now exceedingly rare in this first edition.
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Versus
by Nash, Ogden
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London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1949. 1st UK. hardback. Very good, missing d/j, blue clothbound boards clean, gilt spine titling bright (a little bumping on spine edge); text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Some foxing on endpapers and edges.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Another witty collection of verse by the celebrated poet of funny rhymes. Simultaneous publication in US & UK in 1949.
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The Vicar Of Wakefield: A tale (in 2 vols)
by Goldsmith, Oliver
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London: F. Newbery, 1776. 2nd. h/b. Good, 2nd edition in 2 volumes, original full brown calf-bound (some markings and scratches), 5-banded spine (both very worn, multiple creasemarks, chips on vol 1), vol 2 has gilt-spine titling just visible; text block binding reasonable and intact, but stitching visible in multiple places. Occasional creases but pages crisp and very clear for age of books.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). The Vicar of Wakefield is a Victorian novel that is narrated by Dr. Charles Primrose, the fictional Vicar of Wakefield. Specifically, it follows the Primrose family, humble and moral in spite of its material wealth and indicative of Goldsmith's idealization of pastoral life, after they fall into poverty and subsequent dilemmas as a result, not of their own misdeeds, but of the corrupt and depraved individuals around them. One of the most highly regarded and widely read books of the eighteenth century, The Vicar of Wakefield is mentioned in several notable subsequent publications,…
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The Vicar of Wakefield - A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself
by Goldsmith, Oliver (intro. Sir W. Scott; illus. C. E. Brock)
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London: Thomas Nelson, n.d. (?1950). hardback. Fine, blue calfbound limp boards in grey slipcase, no d/j, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked; top edge blue. (Nelson's Classics). 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Sir Walter Scott introduces the novel by the famed Irish writer Oliver Goldsmiths, one of the most widely-read books in the Victorian era. Often described as a sentimental novel, it displays the belief in the innate goodness of human beings. But it can also be read as a satire on the sentimental novel and its values, as the vicar's values are apparently not compatible with the real ""sinful"" world. It is only with Sir William Thornhill's help that he can get out of his calamities. Moreover, an analogy can be drawn between Mr. Primrose's suffering and the Book of Job. This is particularly relevant to the question of why evil exists.
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The Vicar of Bullhampton
by Trollope, Anthony (illus. H. Woods)
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London: Bradbury, Evans and Co., 1870. 1st. hardback. 1st edition, very good, but rebound in green boards with gilt spine titling (in perhaps 1970s); text block firm, pages crisp and tight, unmarked. A little tanning occasionally, otherwise v.g.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). The Vicar of Bullhampton is an 1870, novel by Anthony Trollope. It is made up of three intertwining subplots: the courtship of a young woman by two suitors; a feud between the titular Broad church vicar and a Low church nobleman, abetted by a Methodist minister; and the vicar's attempt to rehabilitate a young woman who has gone astray.Trollope expected his depiction of a fallen woman to be controversial, and unusually for him wrote a preface defending it. But the anticipated controversy never materialised, and contemporary reviewers tended to ignore that subplot, focussing instead on the courtship in the novel. Reviews were generally less than positive; many reviewers and readers who had acquired a taste for Trollope…
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Vicomte de Bragelonne (D'Artagnan Romances, vol IV)
by Dumas, Alexandre
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London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Co, 1929. 1st thus. h/b. Very good, 1st thus edition, olive green clothbound boards, blind-pressed cover crest and ruling, spine gilt pressed titling; text block firm, pages tight and unmarked; top edge olive. Provenance: from library of Sir Christopher Ondaatje, FRSL. And previously from that of Woodrow Wyatt (Tory MP and writer).. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon he learns that his old comrades already have great projects in hand. Athos seeks the restoration of Charles II, while Aramis, with Porthos in tow, has a secret plan involving a masked prisoner and the fortification of the island of Belle-Ile. D'Artagnan finds a thread leading him to the French court, the banks of the Tyne, the beaches…
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A Victim of the Aurora
by Keneally, Thomas
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London, Sydney: Collins, 1977. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentlemen wait out a raging blizzard in the perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter, poised for a strike at the South Pole. As the storm lifts, a new challenge faces Captain Sir Eugene Stewart - to discover which of his twenty-five carefully chosen men has become a murderer. The quest for adventure has become a quest for justice.
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Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators
by Harvey, John
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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970. 1st. hardback. Very good, with front portion of d/j; blue boards clean, gilt cover decoration and spine titling bright (spine a little creased); text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). With over 80 illustrations, this book explores the influences and culture of Victorian fiction, tracing the roots of illustrators to Cruikshank, Hogarth and Gillray.
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Victoria: A Life
by Wilson, A. N.
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London: Atlantic, 2014. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (some scuffing), blue boards, gilt spine titling bright, text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as the figurehead to an all-male imperial enterprise. But in truth, Britain's longest reigning monarch was one of the most passionate, expressive, humorous and unconventional women who ever lived, and the story of her life continues to fascinate. A. N. Wilson's exhaustively researched and definitive biography includes a wealth of new material from previously unseen sources, to show us Queen Victoria as she's never been seen before. It explores the curious set of circumstances that…
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Victory: An island tale
by Conrad, Joseph
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London: Book Society, 1952. Special. hardback. Very good, no d/j, half bound red/beige cloth and bright gilt titling on spine. Illustrations on pastedown; pages tight with a little tanning. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). A psychological novel first published in 1915, through which Conrad first achieved popular success. The novel's ""most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective"" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior perspective from Heyst, and the final section has an omniscient narrator. It has been adapted into film a number of times. intro by V. S. Pritchet
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