Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth, HC DJ

A copy of the first printing of the full 1969 edition with five other short stories as well as the title story.

Nineteenth Hole Romances by Cecil Finn Tucker, 19th

Nineteenth Hole Romances: The Devious Methods of Joseph Blotchford. A book of humorous golfing short stories with the extremely scarce dust jacket.

Les Temps Modernes Issue #266-267, 1968, Jean-Paul Sartre

French political, philosophical and literary book/magazine (576 pages). Published at a time in France's history (Aug-Sept 1968) when tempers were rather flared. Jean-Paul Sartre was the director of the publication. Scarce text.

The Wind From the Plain by Yashar Kemal, HC DJ, 1st Ed

Each year the wind brings the news to old Halil's keen senses that the cotton is ripe for picking in the plain.

They Marched Into Sunlight by David Maraniss, Vietnam, HC DJ, 1st Ed

Here is the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967.

Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett, HC DJ, 1st UK Ed

Dante Cubit and the Entropy Kid attempt a bank raid in Beerlight - the city where killing a man is less a murder than a mannerism, where false arrest is a moral duty.

Burning Angel by James Lee Burke, HC DJ, 1st UK Ed

Sonny Boy Marsallas, a New Orleans street hustler, entrusts Detective Dave Robicheaux with a mysterious notebook, kicking off a series of violent incidents and raising questions that need answers, and fast...

Publisher by Tom Maschler, HC DJ, 1st UK Ed

Tom Maschler launched the careers of Thomas Pynchon, Joseph Heller, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Bruce Chatwin - among others.

Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an, All 3 Vols, HC DJ, Slipcases

Outlaws of the Marsh, better known to some as 'the Water Margin', after the popular Japanese series shown on BBC in the 1970s, is one of the four great classical Chinese novels, and a masterpiece of folk-tale in novel form.

The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger, HC DJ

In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley.

All in the Day's March by Major-General David Belchem, HC DJ, 1st Ed

Major-General David Belchem was head of Field Marshal Montgomery's Operations staff 1943-5.

A Necessary End by Peter Robinson, Inspector Banks, HC DJ, 1st Ed

Violence erupts at an anti-nuclear demonstration in Eastvale, leaving one policeman stabbed to death.

A Chain of Voices by Andre Brink, HC DJ, 1st UK Ed

For a group of slaves owned by an early-19th-century Afrikaner farmer, when hopes of freedom are dashed and promises of equal treatment are broken, an escalating spiral of bitterness, resentment and finally explosive violence becomes inevitable.

Black Jack McEwen: Political Gladiator by Peter Golding, HC DJ, 1st Ed

John McEwen, Leader of the Federal Country Party from 1958 to 1971, was thirty-seven years a politician, twenty-three days a Prime Minister and always a farmer. He was an extraordinary mix of a man.

The Virgin Birth of Christ by James Orr, HC, 1908

Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Bible Teacher's Training School, New York, in April 1907, by a professor of the United Free Church College, Glasgow.