Authors in Literature
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A Small Town in Germany.
LE CARRÉ, John.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /A superior copy of the author's first non-George Smiley novel. A tricky little book to find in nice condition.First edition, first impression; 8vo...
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The Kingdom of the Wicked.
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £35.00 - Original price £35.00Original price £0.00£35.00£35.00 - £35.00Current price £35.00| /Burgess wrote The Kingdom of the Wicked in part as preparation for a screenplay; in this case for the television series A.D.First edition, first i...
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The End of the World News.
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £45.00 - Original price £45.00Original price £0.00£45.00£45.00 - £45.00Current price £45.00| /Presented without chapter breaks, the plot weaves together three storylines. One follows Leon Trotsky on a journey to New York City shortly before...
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Little Wilson and Big God.
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /Presentation copy. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, 'To John & Andrew / Anthony Burgess / May 23 / 1988'.Fi...
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Any Old Iron.
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £75.00 - Original price £75.00Original price £0.00£75.00£75.00 - £75.00Current price £75.00| /Signed by the author. First edition of this modern take on the legend of Excalibur. Signed by the author on the title page.First edition, first imp...
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On Going to Bed.
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /Review copy - signed by the author. Review copy, signed by the author on the title page.First edition of this historical survey of the bed in theor...
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Ninety-Nine Novels:
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £75.00 - Original price £75.00Original price £0.00£75.00£75.00 - £75.00Current price £75.00| /Burgess, the author of A Clockwork Orange, lists his favourite novels in the English language from 1939 to 1983, including works by most of the gr...
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The Novel Now:
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /First edition, intended 'for those, especially the young, who are starting to take the art of the novel seriously and want to organize their readi...
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The Eve of Saint Venus.
BURGESS, Anthony; PAGRAM, Edward (illustrator).Original price £45.00 - Original price £45.00Original price £0.00£45.00£45.00 - £45.00Current price £45.00| /Originally conceived as a play in three acts in 1952, it was rewritten as a novella after the author initially failed to find a theatre willing to...
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MF.
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /First edition of the novel that Burgess considered a personal favourite of all his writings. 'It is a rich feast of word-and-thought play: Greek t...
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The Clockwork Testament
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £65.00 - Original price £65.00Original price £0.00£65.00£65.00 - £65.00Current price £65.00| /First edition of the third book of the Enderby quartet, originally intended as the final book in the series.First edition, first impression; 8vo; ...
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The Novel To-day.
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £35.00 - Original price £35.00Original price £0.00£35.00£35.00 - £35.00Current price £35.00| /Burgess' examination of novelists of the early 1960s, including Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, J.B. Priestly, Malcolm Cowley, Graham Greene...
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Urgent Copy:
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /First edition of Burgess' personal selection of the best of his literary criticism over a period of six years.First edition, first impression; 8vo...
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Devil of a State.
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £50.00 - Original price £50.00Original price £0.00£50.00£50.00 - £50.00Current price £50.00| /First edition, based upon Burgess' experiences working in Brunei.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth,...
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Moses:
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /First UK edition of the first book in Burgess' Biblical trilogy.First UK edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's brown cl...
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The Executioner's Song.
MAILER, Norman.Original price £275.00 - Original price £275.00Original price £0.00£275.00£275.00 - £275.00Current price £275.00| /First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime novel, detailing murder and punishment in the 'moneyless side of the modern West' (jacket)....
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Look Back in Anger.
OSBORNE, John.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00| /Osborne's highly autobiographical play concerns a love triangle involving an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class o...
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A Shorter Finnegans Wake.
JOYCE, James; BURGESS, Anthony (editor).Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /Joyce's masterpiece revised by the satirist and literary critic Anthony Burgess (1917-1993). Published simultaneously in paperback, this hardback ...
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The Day of the Triffids.
WYNDHAM, John.Original price £550.00 - Original price £550.00Original price £0.00£550.00£550.00 - £550.00Current price £550.00| /This book's depiction of terrifying moving plants that threaten the survival of the human race, quickly established Wyndham as a science-fiction w...
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A Clockwork Orange.
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Three issues exist: two in black boards - the first priced 16s, the second priced 18s; thirdly, in the late '60s the last copies were issued in pu...
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