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December 2014 1. ACKERLEY, J.R. My Father and Myself. New York: NYROB, 1999. Reprint, first published 1968. Introduction by W. H. Auden who notes, “... Mr. Ackerley strictly limits himself to two areas of his life, his relations with his family and his sex life.” Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
2. ACKERLEY, J.R. My Dog Tulip. New York: NYROB, 1999. Reprint, first published 1956. The companion volume to the previous item which limits itself to the author’s relationship with an alsatian. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
3. AKUNIN, BORIS. Sister Pelagia. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Phoenix, 2006-2009. 3vols. First English paperback editions. Pelagia and the White Bulldog, Pelagia and the Black Monk, Pelagia and the Red Rooster – the first three mysteries featuring the Russian nun with uncanny deductive powers. Pictorial wrappers. All fine. The three vols. $45.00 4. ARNOTT, JAKE. The Long Firm. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. First English edition. Harry Starks #1: London in the 1960s, the Kray twins, Tom Driberg and Judy Garland all look in; the author’s first novel. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $35.00
5. BEDFORD, SYBILLE. A Visit to Don Otavio – a Traveller’s Tale from Mexico. London: Eland Books, 1984. Reprint. First published as The Sudden View in 1953. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
6. THE BIBLE. The Oxford Companion to the Bible, edited by Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Reprint. Aaron to Zion, index, bibliography, colour maps, 910pp; a book with plenty of friends already but none like this. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00 7. BLACK, BENJAMIN. Elegy for April. London: Picador, 2011. Reprint. The fourth Benjamin Black and third featuring Garrett (?) Quirke. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
8. BLACK, BENJAMIN. Holy Orders. London: Pan Macmillan, 2013. First English edition. Quirke #6. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
9. BOYD, WILLIAM. Restless. London: Bloomsbury, 2007. First English paperback edition. Spying during World War Two reaches across two generations of a family. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. $12.00
10. BRAND, MILLEN. The Outward Room. New York: NYROB, 2010. Reprint, first published 1937. The author’s first novel; a stream of consciousness working of inside and outside spaces, the latter represented by New York during the 1930s. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 11. CALVINO, ITALO. The Path to the Nest of Spiders. London: Harborough Books, 1958. First English paperback edition. The author’s first novel, a World War Two childhood. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $50.00
12. CARY, JOYCE. Triptych. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1985. First one volume paperback edition. All of Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse’s Mouth or Sara Monday’s, Tom Wilcher’s and Gulley Jimson’s overlapping lives. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
13. CHATTERJEE, UPAMANYU. English, August – An Indian Story. New York: NYROB, 2006. Reprint. First published in 1988, Chatterjee’s first novel. The slacker’s view of contemporary India. Irresistible. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00 14. CHRISTIANITY. A History of Christianity by Paul Johnson. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1978. First English paperback edition. From 50BC to 1975, the enduring empire. Pictorial wrappers. Extremities foxed, very good. $15.00
15. COLE, TEJU. Open City. London: Faber and Faber, 2011. First English edition. The Nigerian writer’s first novel, a New York flâneur’s diary. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
16. CRUMB ROBERT. Head Comix. New York: Viking, 1968. Reprint. Introduction by Paul Krassner. Twenty-four pieces: encounters with Fritz the Cat, Schuman the Human, Mr. Natural, Fred the Teen-Age Girl Pigeon and “Life Among the Constipated”. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. $35.00
17. DIBDIN, MICHAEL. Zen Omnibus. London: Faber and Faber, 2008. First omnibus edition. All: Ratking (Aurelio Zen #1), Vendetta (#2) and Cabal (#3). Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 18. DICK, PHILIP K. The Valis Trilogy. New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1990. First omnibus edition. All of Valis (1978), The Divine Invasion (1980) and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982), this edition posthumously published and inching towards becoming the dominant version of the trilogy. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. $15.00
19. DOUGHTY, CHARLES M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. New York: Dover, 1979. Reprint. Two volumes, reprint of the third edition, first published by Jonathan Cape in 1936. Introduction by T.E. Lawrence. Pictorial wrappers. Both fine. Foldout map tipped at rear of vol.1. The two volumes $35.00
20. DUFFY, BRUCE. The World As I Found It. New York: NYROB, 2010. Reprint, first published 1987. A historical novel on the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the beginnings of the 20th century. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00 21. FAY, ELIZA. Original Letters from India. New York: NYROB, 2010. Reprint. Introduction by Simon Winchester, annotated by E.M. Forster. First published 1925, letters written from beginning of 1779, when the author was 23, and on her first voyage to India. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
22. FEARING, KENNETH. The Big Clock. New York: NYROB, 2006. Reprint, first published 1946. Postwar American noir sitting inside a large New York corporation. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
23. FÉNÉON, FÉLIX. Novels in Three Lines. New York: NYROB, 2007. Reprint. Originally published in Le Matin during 1906. Translation and introduction by Luc Sante. 1,066 examples of the most compressed of forms which, even when collected in this volume, is far from the dead end one might expect. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
24. FISHER, M.F.K. The Art of Eating. London: Picador, 1983. First English paperback edition. Introduction by W.H.Auden. All of Consider the Oyster (1941), The Gastronomical Me (1943), Serve It Forth (1937), How to Cook a Wolf (1942) and An Alphabet for Gourmets (1949); 749pp. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 25. (FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE.) Flaubert and Madame Bovary – a Double Portrait by Francis Steegmuller. New York: NYROB, 2004. Reprint, first published 1958. The life of the great French writer and his famous creation. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
26. FUCHS, DANIEL. The Brooklyn Novels. Boston, MA: Black Sparrow, David Godine, 2006. First one volume edition, introduction by Jonathan Lethem, and containing all of Summer in Williamsburg (1934), Homage to Blenholt (1936) and Low Company (1937); Brooklyn during the 1920s before Fuchs left for Hollywood and another career. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
27. GIFFORD, BARRY. The Devil Thumbs a Ride and Other Unforgettable Films. New York: Grove Press, 1988. First American paperback edition. Ninety-movies, including the title piece, most French and American, many from the bottom half of double bills, a couple of pages on each by the novelist and scripwriter. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. $12.00
28. GRESHAM, WILLIAM LINDSAY. Nightmare Alley. New York: NYROB, 2010. Reprint, first published in 1946. The first of the troubled author’s two novels, this one beginning with the geek in a travelling carnival hard at work. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 29. GROSSMAN, VASILY. The Road. New York: NYROB, 2010. Nine stories, five monumental non-fiction pieces including “The Hell of Treblinka” (published November 1944), a small no. of letters, 292pp; notes, appendixes, afterword, further reading, 76pp. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
30. HAMILTON, PATRICK. The Slaves of Solitude. New York: NYROB, 2007. Reprint, first published 1947. The inhabitants of the Rosamund Tea Rooms, a guest house, in England during World War Two. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
31. HAYES, ALFRED. In Love. New York: NYROB, 2013. Reprint, first published 1953. Introduction by Frederic Raphael. The longest paragraphs, in the shortest novel, about a love affair. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
32. HAYES, ALFRED. My Face for the World to See. New York: NYROB, 2013. Reprint, first published 1958. Introduction by David Thomson. In a tight field, the bleakest Hollywood novel. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 33. HOLT, VINCENT M. Why Not Eat Insects? London: British Museum (Natural History), 1988. Reprint, first published 1885. Introduction by Laurence Mound. Nineteenth century polemic whose moment is approaching. Printed wrappers. Fine. $15.00
34. HOUSEHOLD, GEOFFREY. Rogue Male. New York: NYROB, 2007. Reprint. First published 1939. Beginning with Hitler in the crosshairs ... Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
35. HUGHES, DOROTHY. The Expendable Man. New York: NYROB, 2012. Reprint, first published 1963. Mid century American noir, a reworking of the wrong man sub-genre. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
36. INDRIDASON, ARNALDUR. Hypothermia. London: Harvill Secker, 2009. First Australian edition. Murder in Reykjavík #8. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. $12.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 37. JAMES, P.D. Talking About Detective Fiction. London: Faber and Faber, 2009. First English paperback edition. Eight essays by Dame Phyllis: history, pantheon, soft-centered, hardboiled, structure and point of view; bibliography and suggested reading list. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
38. KABIR. Songs of Kabir. New York: NYROB, 2011. First American edition. Translated by Arvind Krishan Mehrotra and preface by Wendy Dowiger. Topical and influential poetry from 15th century India. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
39. KELMAN, JAMES. Mo Said She Was Quirky. London: Penguin, 2013. First English paperback edition. Twenty four hours of a young woman’s consciousness. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
40. KENNEDY, RAYMOND. Ride a Cockhorse. New York: NYROB, 2012. Reprint, first published 1991. Predatory capitalism enforced by a paranoid personality and very funny. Pictorial wrappers. Fine $12.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 41. KNAUSGAARD, KARL OVE. A Death in the Family – My Struggle: Book 1. London: Vintage, 2013. Reprint. Vol.1 of 6, now complete in Norwegian, and 1-3 to date in English. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
42. KRAUS, KARL. Half-Truths and One and a Half Truths – Selected Aphorisms. Manchester: Carcanet, 1986. First English edition. Edited by Harry Zohn. From the centre of Viennese society during the first thirty years of the 20th century. Printed wrappers. Extremities foxed. Very good. $12.00
43. KRZHIZHANOVSKY, SIGIZMUND. Memories of the Future. New York: NYROB, 2009. Reprint. Six stories and the long title piece, all written and set in Moscow during the 1920s. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
44. KRZHIZHANOVSKY, SIGIZMUND. The Letter Killers Club. New York: NYROB, 2011. First American edition. An unusual club meet on Saturdays in Moscow during the 1920s. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 45. LE CARRÉ, JOHN. Smiley Versus Karla. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. Reprint. All: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) and Smiley’s People (1979). Pictorial wrappers, Gary Oldman as George Smiley. Fine. $15.00
46. MCGAHERN, JOHN. The Dark. New York: Penguin, 2002. Reprint. Originally published in 1965. The author’s second novel, banned for obscenity soon after publication for its portrayal of parental and clerical child abuse in rural Ireland. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
47. MALLEY, ERN. Ern Malley’s Poems. Melbourne: Landsdowne Press, 1961. Reprint. Introduction by Max Harris, short note by John Reed for this edition. Plain wrappers, stapled. Owner’s small signature else fine in very good dustwrapper. $25.00
48. MANCHETTE, JEAN-PATRICK. Fatale. New York, NYROB, 2011. First American edition. Contemporary French noir, first published 1977. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 49. MARCUS, GREIL. The Manchurian Candidate. London: British Film Insitute, 2002. First English edition. Marcus moves from the cd to the dvd player and continues his analysis of the cultural produce of postwar America. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
50. MARINETTI, F.T. The Futurist Cookbook. London: Trefoil, 1989. First English paperback edition. Edited with and introduction by Suzanne Brill. Background, illustrations, manifesto and recipes including “Summer Luncheons for Painters and Sculptors”, “Tourist Dinner”, “The Futurist Aerobanquet in Bologna” etc. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $25.00
51. MARLANTES, KARL. Matterhorn: a Novel of the Vietnam War. London: Corvus, 2010. First English paperback edition. Waino, Mellas and others in Vietnam during March 1969. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
52. MILLER, DEREK B. Norwegian by Night. London: Faber and Faber, 2013. First English paperback edition. Miller’s first novel. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 53. MITCHELL, JOSEPH. Up in the Old Hotel. New York: Vintage, 1993. Reprint. All of McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbour, 36 pieces originally published in The New Yorker, and all of Joe Gould’s Secret. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
54. MITFORD, JESSICA. Poison Penmanship – the Gentle Art of Muckraking. New York: NYROB, 2010. Reprint. Preface by Jane Smiley. Seventeen pieces by an Englishwoman on aspects of American life, 1957-1979, and practising the late, lamented art of journalism. Printed wrappers. Fine. $12.00
55. MOVIES. Seeing in the Dark – a Compendium of Cinemagoing, edited by Ian Breakwell and Paul Hammond. London: Serpent’s Tail, 1990. First English edition. Collects experiences at the movies from around the world; illustrated. Pictorial wrappers. Review copy with publisher’s slip laid in. Spots of foxing to prelims and extremities, else fine. $15.00
56. MUSIL, ROBERT. Posthumous Papers of a Living Author. Hygiene, CO: Eridanos Press, 1987. First American paperback edition. Eridanos Library #1. Twenty-nine pieces written between 1920-1929. Plain wrappers with integral dustwrapper. Fine. $18.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 57. NELSON, MICHAEL. Knock or Ring. Richmond, VA: Valancourt Books, 2013. Reprint, first published by Jonathan Cape in 1957. The author’s first novel delves into the dark arts of the English rare booktrade. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
58. NURSERY RHYMES. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, edited by Iona and Peter Opie. [Oxford]: the Softback Preview, 1992. Reprint, first published by Oxford University Press, 1951. Characters, titles, background, versions of rhymes, illustrations, all plaited together, indexed by notable figures and first lines, 467pp. And, like much of the Opie’s work, beyond Google. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
59. O’CONNOR, FLANNERY. The Complete Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. Reprint. Introduction by Robert Giroux. Thirty-one stories. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
60. ORTON, JOE. Up Against It. London: Methuen, 1979. First English edition. Introduction by John Lahr. The revised version of the playwright’s screenplay for The Beatles, written in early 1967, and which to date has been an off-Broadway musical and a BBC radio play. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $25.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 61. ORWELL, GEORGE. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich [1968]. First American paperback edition. Four volumes, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. Contains: “An Age Like This 1920-1940”, “My Country Right or Left 1940-1943”, “As I Please 1943- 1945” and “In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950”; 500+ pieces, 2,000+pp., each volume indexed; the first half of the twentieth century covered. Printed wrappers. Owner’s small stamp in each volume, else all fine. The four volumes $45.00
62. ORWELL, GEORGE. The Penguin Complete Longer Non-Fiction of George Orwell. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1983. First English paperback edition of this omnibus. All of Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia and Looking Back on the Spanish Civil War; 488pp. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
63. ORWELL, GEORGE. The Penguin Complete Novels of George Orwell. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1983. First English paperback edition of this omnibus. All of Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman’s Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Nineteen Eighty-Four; 925pp. Pictorial wrappers. Sunned on spine, else fine. $15.00
64. OULIPO. Oulipo Compendium, compiled by Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie. London: Atlas Press, 1998. First English paperback edition. An A to Z of the French literary group: potted biographies of members and influences, thebibliothèque oulipienne #1-101 and some key terms - “braised rhyme”, “inadvertent translation” and “melting snowball”- explained; illustrated throughout and with many examples of texts. Small square qto. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $25.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 65. OWENS, IRIS. After Claude. New York: NYROB, 2010. Reprint, first published 1973. The first of two ferocious novels written under her own name, or close to her own name, the remainder was pornography as Harriet Daimler for the Olympia Press. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
66. PELEVIN, VICTOR. The Blue Lantern. New York: New Directions, 1997. First American paperback edition. Eight stories; the author’s first collection to be published in Russia. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
67. PELEVIN, VICTOR. Omon Ra. New York: New Directions, 1998. Reprint. Inside the Russian space program and then some. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
68. PEPLOE, MARK, PETER WOLLEN and MICHAELANGELO ANTONIONI. The Passenger. New York: Grove Press, 1975. First American edition. The complete screenplay, 70 b&w reproductions from the movie, plus Vincent Canby and Penelope Gilliat’s New York reviews, an essay by Richard F. Shepard and the famous second last shot. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 69. PLATONOV, ANDREY. Soul. New York: NYROB, 2008. First American edition. Introduction by Robert Chandler, afterword by John Berger. Seven stories and the novella length title piece by the Russian novelist (1899-1951) whose work was censored throughout his lifetime. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
70. PONGE, FRANCIS. Vegetation. New York: Red Dust, 1995. Reprint, first published 1988. Translated by Lee Fahnestock. Poems about asparagus, mimosas, carnations, a winter clearing and the title piece. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
71. PYNCHON, THOMAS. Gravity’s Rainbow. London: Cape, 1974. Reprint. Adding elements to the twentieth century encyclopaedic novel. Pictorial wrappers. Owner signature, else fine. $20.00
72. QUENEAU, RAYMOND. Exercises in Style. New York: New Directions, 1981. Reprint. Barbara Wright’s translation of Queneau’s ninety-nine versions of an incident on a Parisian bus with Franciszka Themerson’s illustrations from the original English edition. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 73. QUENEAU, RAYMOND. Stories and Remarks. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. First American paperback edition. Translation and introduction by Marc Lowenthal and preface by Michel Leiris. Twenty-one pieces ending with 5pp. of “Dream Accounts Aplenty”. Printed wrappers. Fine. $12.00
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74. RAYMOND, DEREK. He Died With His Eyes Open. London: Serpent’s Tail, 2007. Reprint. Factory novel #1, first published 1984. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
75. RAYMOND, DEREK. The Devil’s Home on Leave. London: Serpent’s Tail, 2007. Reprint. Factory novel #2, first published 1984. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
76. RAYMOND, DEREK. How The Dead Live. London: Serpent’s Tail, 2007. Reprint. Factory novel #3, first published 1986. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 77. RAYMOND, DEREK. I Was Dora Suarez. London: Serpent’s Tail, 2008. Reprint. Factory novel #4, first published 1990. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
78. RAYMOND, DEREK. Dead Man Upright. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2012. First American edition. Factory novel #5, and last, first published 1993. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
79. ROKEACH, MILTON. The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. New York: NYROB, 2011. Reprint. First published 1962. Introduction by Rick Moody. The case histories of three patients together at Ypsilanti State Hospital over 25 months and who all believed they were Jesus Christ. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
80. ST. AUBYN, EDWARD. At Last. London: Picador, 2011. First Australian edition. Patrick Melrose #5. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. $15.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 81. ST. AUBYN, EDWARD. The Patrick Melrose Novels. New York: Picador, 2012. Reprint. Patrick Melrose #1- #4: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope and Mother’s Milk. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
82. ST JOHN, MADELEINE. The Woman in Black. Melbourne: Text, 2009. Reprint. The author’s first novel, originally published in 1993 and, by the time of this reprint, carrying endorsements from Helen Garner, Barry Humphries, Hilary Mantel, Clive James, Deborah Robertson and many others. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. $15.00
83. SALTER, JAMES. All That Is. London: Picador, 2013. Reprint. Forty years of Philip Bowman’s life by the octogenarian author. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
84. SANTE, LUC and MELISSA HOLBROOK PIERSON edit. O.K. You Mugs – Writers on Movie Actors. London: Granta, 2000. First English edition. Twenty-five essays about the inhabitants of all parts of the screen and including: Madhur Jaffrey, Jeanne Moreau, Elmer Fudd, Dan Duryea, J.T. Walsh and Thelma Ritter. Pictorial wrappers featuring Warren Oates. Fine. $15.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 85. SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston. London: Faber and Faber, 1972. Reprint. First one volume edition published 1937. All of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston’s Progress. Printed wrappers. Owner signature, else fine. $15.00
86. SMITH, ALI. There but for the. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2012. First English paperback edition. Contemporary life and shifting anxieties. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. $12.00
87. SOROKIN, VLADIMIR. The Queue. New York: NYROB, 2008. Reprint. The author’s first novel, first published 1983, and set exclusively along the congregation of the title. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
88. SOROKIN, VLADIMIR. Ice Trilogy. New York: NYROB, 2011. First American edition. All of Bro, Ice and 23,000, the three first published in Russian in 2008. The formation, trials and fortunes of an apocalyptic Brotherhood through 20th century Russia. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 89. STACTON, DAVID. The Judges of the Secret Court. New York: NYROB, 2011. Reprint. First published 1961. Events around the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by the idiosyncratic historical novelist. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
90. STAFFORD, JEAN. The Mountain Lion. New York: NYROB, 2012. Reprint, first published 1947. Childhood, adolescence, pain and apprehension. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
91. SZERB, ANTAL. Oliver VII. London: Pushkin Press, 2007. First English edition, originally published 1942. The king of Alturia carries out a successful coup against himself, escapes to Venice, where he must assume the identity of... . Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
92. TEMPLE, PETER. Truth. Melbourne: Text, 2012. Reprint. Steve Villani moves to centre stage; Miles Franklin winner. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 93. TOLSTAYA, TATYANA. White Walls – Collected Stories. New York: NYROB, 2007. Reprint. Twenty-three stories: all of two earlier collections – On the Golden Porch and Sleepwalker in a Fog – as well as others previously uncollected. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
94. (TURING, ALAN.) Alan Turing – the Enigma of Intelligence by Andrew Hodges. London: Unwin, 1985. Reprint. The complexities of Turing’s life and work continue to be unravelled as quickly as new movies and pieces of music, inspired by both, appear. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
95. VON REZZORI, GREGOR. The Snows of Yesteryear. New York: NYROB, 2008. Reprint, first published 1989. Sub-titled “Portraits for an Autobiography”: long sketches of his mother, father, older sister and, more lovingly, his nursemaid and governess. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
96. VON REZZORI, GREGOR. An Ermine in Czernopol. New York: NYROB, 2012. First American edition. An early novel by the Ukrainian writer set in his fictional locale of Czernopol, or Czernowitz when Von Rezzori was born, and now Chernvitsi. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
Orders online to BADGER BOOKS at [email protected] or by telephone to 02 93875421 97. WILLIAMS, JOHN. Stoner. New York: NYROB, 2006. Reprint, first published 1965. Out of sight until its French translation by Anna Gavanda in 2011 and continuing to find readers. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
98. WILLIAMS, JOHN. Butcher’s Crossing. New York: NYROB, 2007. Reprint, first published 1960. “Decades before Meyer or even Cormac McCarthy‘s vision of the West stripped of nostalgia John Williams was already there with his anti-western Butcher‘s Crossing ... Lots of people have been talking about his lost gem, Stoner, but this may just best it.” – Tim Winton. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
99. ZOLA, EMILE. Abbe Mouret’s Transgression. New York: Mondial, 2005. Reprint. Rougon-Macquart #9, church and natural law go toe to toe; a spectacular movie version by Georges Franju in 1970. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $15.00
100. ZWEIG, STEFAN. Beware of Pity. New York: NYROB, 2006. Reprint. The prolific author’s only novel, originally published in 1939. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $12.00
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