Badger Books | PAPERBACKS

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Badger Books | PAPERBACKS
Front Cover: item 19 Travels in Arabia Deserta.
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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
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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
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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
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