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We shall return: a novel of Dunkirk and the French campaign
Andrew Dakers Limited
1942
Set in the French campaign of 1939-1940 with the evacuation at Dunkirk as its culmination.
The four winds of love
Chatto & Windus
1944-1945
All signed and/or inscribed by Mackenzie and with two loosely inserted letters from Mackenzie, one of which discusses the delay to finishing 'The North wind'.
Ah King ; six stories
William Heinemann Ltd
1933
A collection of short stories set in the Federated Malay States and elsewhere in Southeast Asia during the 1920s.
Docherty
George Allen & Unwin Ltd
1975
Follows the struggles of a miner called Tam Docherty and his family.
Bitter herbs: a little chronicle
Oxford University Press
1960
Based on a true story of a Jewish girl in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Peake's progress: selected writings and drawings of Mervyn Peake
Overlook Press
1981
A selection of Peake's writings and drawings, made by his widow.
Count d'Orgel opens the ball
Harvill Press
1952
A haunting novel of chaste and sacrificial love set in the Paris of the early nineteen-twenties.
Flight to Arras
Penguin Books
1961
A Penguin Modern Classic with cover art by Cecil Keeling.
The roads to freedom
Hamish Hamilton
1947-1950
Sartre's trilogy of novels which revolve around Mathieu, a socialist teacher of philosophy, and a group of his friends.
The reprieve
Hamish Hamilton
1947
Sartre's second novel, concerned with life in France during the eight days before the signing of the Munich Agreement.
The Saturday Evening Post stories 1952
Random House
1952
A selection of short stories from the Saturday Evening Post. From the library of Neil Gunn, one of whose stories is included.
The world is a wedding, and other stories
John Lehmann
1949
A collection of short stories by the American poet.
The widower
Hamish Hamilton
1961
The wife of Bernard Jeantet, a former prostitute, suddenly disappears after 8 years of marriage.
The girl in his past
Hamish Hamilton
1976
A murderer flees Paris and then gives himself up to the police in a village bar.
Carotid cornucopius ...
M. Macdonald
1964
A revised and extended edition of Smith's earlier satirical novel.
This sporting life
Penguin Books
1963
Cover features Richard Harris from the film of the same name.
Seed on the wind
Morley & Mitchell Kennerley Jr
1931
A pre-Nero Wolfe psychological thriller. From the library of Neil Gunn.
Bayamus
Editions Poetry London
1949
A humorous novel about a three-legged man on a roller skate and the book that introduced the concept of semantic poetry.
Portrait de l'artiste en jeune chien
Editions de Minuit
1947
A collection of autobiographical pieces. Number 76 in a limited edition of 100.
Portrait de l'artiste en jeune chien
Editions de Minuit
1947
A collection of autobiographical stories. Number 76 in a limited edition of 100.
Botteghe Oscure
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
1952
Literary journal with numerous contributors including the first appearance of Llareggub by Dylan Thomas, the first part of Under Milk Wood.
