Beardmore, George Belle of the Ballet's Country Holiday
Hulton Press London 1957 HB. Hardcover. Very Good. A Girl Novel. The Arenska Ballet School running a farm in Sussex - barn-dances and a missing Duke. VG, no inscriptions, pages yellowed, in illustrative DJ that is worn, marked, sound, not price-clipped, good. 176pp (Book ref. BYB9140) £9.70
Barreto, Lima The Patriot
Rex Collings London 1978 HB. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated by Robert Scott Buccleuch. A Brazilian novel. VG, no inscriptions, in lightly worn, generally VG DJ. 216pp (Book ref. BYB9137) £9.70
Sales, Herberto The Werewolf and other tales
Rex Collings London 1978 HB. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated by Richard Goddard. Short stories based on the myths of Brazilian Indians. VG, no inscriptions, in lightly worn, good DJ. 112pp (Book ref. BYB9136) £5.29
Montello, Jose Coronation Quay
Rex Collings London 1975 HB. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated by Myriam Henderson. A Brazilian novel. VG, no inscriptions, in lightly worn, good DJ. 266pp (Book ref. BYB9135) £5.29
Sarney, Jose Tales of Rain and Sunlight
Wyvern-Sel London 1986 HB. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated by Vera Hallam, introduction by Antonio Olinto. Short stories from Brazil. VG, no inscriptions, in VG but price-clipped DJ. 143pp (Book ref. BYB9133) £6.17
Lavelle, Sheila; illus. Frances Thatcher The Apple Tree
Ginn and Company Aylesbury 1992 PB. Soft cover. Good. Reprint. Upstarts reading level 3 extension book. Signed by the author to front cover verso. Stapled booklet, some creases to cover, address sticker to front cover verso, good. 20pp (Book ref. BYB9076) £5.29
Lavelle, Sheila; illus. Robert Geary Sunil's Bad Dream
Ginn and Company Aylesbury 1992 PB. Soft cover. Good. Reprint. Upstarts reading level 3 extension book. Signed by the author to front cover verso. Stapled booklet, some creases to cover, address sticker to front cover verso, good. 20pp (Book ref. BYB9075) £5.29
Stein, Syvester 2nd-class taxi
Faber London 1958 HB. Hardcover. Good. Second impression. A novel set in South Africa. Covers a little marked and worn, some age-motting to prelims, no inscriptions, good in good DJ, a little marked and edge-worn. 209pp (Book ref. BYB9049) £6.17
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin - a picture of slave life in America
Walter Scott London HB. Hardcover. Good. Undated, but inscription is dated 1896. Dark blue cloth decorated in gold, yellow and blue, worn to the edges and spine, gilt all round, decorative eps, inscription to frontis verso, some age-mottling and grubby marks to pages, good. 524pp (Book ref. BYB8969) £7.94
Dickens, Charles Christmas Books
Chapman & Hall London HB. Hardcover. Good. Undated. Part of the series The Fireside Dickens. Contains A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man. With b/w illustrations by Landseer, Leech, Tenniel etc. Green cloth, decorated covers, no inscriptions, pages yellowed, tight and sound, good, no DJ. 483pp (Book ref. BYB8964) £5.29
Williams, Mary Where No Birds Sing - stories of the macabre
William Kimber London 1978 HB. Hardcover. Very Good. Unusual ghost stories. VG, no inscriptions, in DJ that is slightly edge-worn but generally VG. 191pp (Book ref. BYB8919) £7.94
Birmingham, George A Spillikins
Methuen London 1927 HB. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. A book of essays by the Irish novelist. Light wear to the geen cloth covers, no inscriptions, tight, clean, tight and sound, good, no DJ. 181pp (Book ref. BYB8898) £7.06
Birmingham, George A. Two Fools
Methuen London 1934 HB. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good. Cutting from a literary review on paste down. Some light blemishes. Wear to spine head and tail. No dustjacket. 283pp (Book ref. BYB8897) £9.70
Birmingham, George A. The Grand Duchess
Hodder & Stoughton London HB. Hardcover. Good. No publish date. From a prolific Irish author. Probable reprint of a novel first published in 1924 and set in Central Europe. Good, some wear to spine, wear to corners of boards. Mottled page block. No dustjacket. 319pp (Book ref. BYB8896) £8.82
Birmingham, George A. Good Conduct
John Murray London 1920 HB. Hardcover. Good. Novel from prolific Irish author. Good, boards are showing signs of wear and are edgeworn. No dustjacket. 250pp (Book ref. BYB8895) £7.06
Lessing, Doris A Proper Marriage
Granada London 1985 PB. Soft cover. Good. Reprint. Second in the series Children of Violence. Signed by the author to the title page. Cover a little sunned, name to ffep (of Scottish author Margaret Elphinstone), clean, tight and sound, good. 380pp (Book ref. BYB8821) £19.41
Binding, T J Firebird 2 - writing today
Penguin Harmondsworth 1983 PB. Soft cover. Good. A collection of contemporary short stories, from James Campbell, Meira Chand, AE Ellis, M J Fitzgerald, Roy A K Heath, Alan Hollinghurst, Paul R Hyde, Kazuro Ishiguro, James Kelman, R M Lamming, Victor Power, Dyan Sheldon, Francis Stuart, Alan temperley, Dai Vaughan, Fay Weldon, and Angus Wilson. Covers a little worn, marked and creased, but good internally. 284pp (Book ref. BYB8694) £5.29
Allan, Dot John Mathew Papermaker
Hodder & Stoughton London 1st HB. Hardcover. Good. Undated, but 1948. A novel of the Scottish countryside and Victorian Glasgow, set against an authentic background in the paper-making industry. Covers much worn, marked and sunned, no inscriptions, internally good, clean, tight and sound in chipped and mended pictorial DJ, good only. 285pp (Book ref. BYB8678) £29.11
Weekes, A R and R K Alda Abducted
Ward Lock & Co London 1942 HB. Hardcover. Good. A kidnapping to Majorca/Mallorca. Romance set around the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Good in good only repaired dustjacket. 287pp (Book ref. BYB8674) £24.70
Greig, Maysie Table for Two
Collins London 1946 HB. Hardcover. Good. Class, snobbery and redemption are the themes of this romantic novel. Blue cloth covers worn and sunned, no inscriptions, tight and sound, good, no DJ. 192pp (Book ref. BYB8673) £5.29