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73874 LEIGH HUNT’S LONDON JOURNAL by Leigh Hunt


Published by Henry Hooper of Pall Mall in 1838, we have a USA first edition facsimile reprint 1967 by AMS Press of New York. James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) was a critic, essayist, poet and writer and both Keats and Shelley belonged to the circle gathered around him at Hampstead. One of Hunt’s most popular poems is ‘Jenny Kissed Me’. After leaving the War Office in 1808 he became editor of the Examiner, a newspaper founded by his brother John. In 1810- 1811 he edited a quarterly magazine the Reflector for his brother and wrote for this a satire ‘The Feast of the Poets’ which offended many of his contemporaries, particularly William Gifford of the Quarterly. In 1816 he made a mark in English literature with the publication of Story of Rimini but his flippancy and familiarity subsequently made him a target for ridicule and parody. The poet Shelley generously saved him from ruin but ill health obliged him to discontinue the Indicator. Shelley suggested that Hunt go to Italy with him and Byron to establish a quarterly magazine. He left for Italy in November 1821 but storm, sickness and misadventure retarded his arrival until 1822. The death of Shelley a few weeks later destroyed every prospect for success of the Liberal. For many years afterwards the history of Hunt’s life is a painful struggle with poverty and sickness. Two journalistic ventures, the Tatler (1830-1832), a daily devoted to literary and dramatic criticism, and Leigh Hunt’s London Journal (1834-35) were discontinued for want of discerning high-brow subscribers, although the latter contained some of his best writing. It is this very journal that we have in its entirety beginning with Volume One from Wednesday April 2nd to Tuesday December 30th, 1934. The masses of fantastic articles have such titles as A Masonic Extortion, Female Convicts, A Haunted House, Personal Anecdotes of Burns, Memoir of Goethe, Anecdote of a Highwayman, Anthony’s Speech Over Caesar, A Good Hint for Dancers, The Village Ale House, Castle- Building, Hints for Table Talk, The Song of the Cat, Lancashire Witches and more. The strap line of the London Journal was ‘To assist the enquiring, animate the struggling, and sympathise with all.’ Reproduced here in facsimile over three columns in fairly small print with all original headlines and advertising. 460pp, 9" x 13", no dust jacket. $95 NOW £9


74506 NO WAY BACK by Theodor Fontane


Set in Copenhagen and Schleswig- Holstein on the eve of the Prussian takeover of the territory in 1864, affable but unsophisticated Count Holk of an ancient family is inspired by a romantic ballad to leave the modest but comfortable ancestral Schloss where he and his wife Christine have spent an idyllic early married life. He plans to build a


new, architecturally ambitious castle by the sea, yet is unaware how the ballad ends. As a gentleman-in- waiting to a Danish royal princess, he is summoned to a six month spell of duty in Copenhagen. At the princess’s lively, fun-loving court, the rural Count falls into beguiling company, and his life begins to spiral out of control. 256pp. Paperback. £11.95 NOW £2.50


74293 ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, Jnr, JOURNALS 1952-2000


edited by Andrew and Stephen Schlesinger ‘Nixon doesn’t lie. He invents his own truths,’ remarked Henry Kissinger to Arthur Schlesinger, just one among hundreds of witticisms recorded by this great political diarist. A Harvard academic who dined with celebrities from Bogart and Bacall to Igor Stravinsky, Arthur M. Schlesinger became a special adviser and speechwriter to J. F. Kennedy and was a minority voice urging caution during the Cuban crisis. Although a political disaster, Cuba unexpectedly improved Kennedy’s popularity. Harold Wilson is ‘a socialist Nixon’ with no sense of principle but ‘immensely clever’. There is media criticism of Jackie Kennedy for holidaying with her sister on Onassis’s yacht, and a month later, at a cocktail party, Schlesinger hears the terrible news of Kennedy’s assassination. He works all night on the funeral arrangements. Schlesinger remained at the centre of Democratic politics and in 1968 writes, ‘It is beyond belief, but it has happened - it has happened again’. Schlesinger’s acerbity does not diminish with age. 894pp, paperback. £15.99 NOW £5


53189 THE HAUNTED HOTEL AND OTHER STORIES by Wilkie Collins


The star attraction is the novella ‘The Haunted Hotel’, a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and death. The supernatural horror, relentless pace, tight narrative, and a doomed countess characterise and distinguish this powerful tale. The other stories present equally disturbing scenarios, which include ghosts, corpses that move, family curses and perhaps the most unusual of all, the Devil’s spectacles, which bring a clarity of vision that can lead to madness. 317 page paperback. ONLY £3


62725 A TO Z OF ENGLISH LITERATURE by David Rothwell


headings like ‘Life is a perpetual margarita.’ 343pp, paperback.


$18 NOW £4


73823 COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED POEMS, SONGS & BALLADS OF ROBERT BURNS by Robert Burns


Burns is not only Scotland’s national poet but is regarded by many as one of the greatest poets in the English language. This massive collection of almost 600 poems tells us why. Burns most famous lyric was “Auld Lang Syne”. Love poems include not only well-known serenades such as “My love is like a red, red rose” but also lyrics expressing the sufferings of love. A favourite among his animal poems is “To a mouse” in which the poet muses that “the best-laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft agley”. 651pp, facsimile illus, glossary.


£12.99 NOW £5


73922 1001 BOOKS FOR EVERY MOOD by Hallie Ephron


For 1001 moods, here is a literary feast to satisfy your emotional appetite based on literary merit, provocative, influential, inspirational, humorous, brainy, easy reading, page turning, challenging, bathroom book, family friendly or movie ratings. There are also memorable lines from time to time in this eclectic mix of fiction with non-fiction, organised thematically by mood. US biased it urges us to try something new. This is why Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Scoop’ is on the same page as ‘Naked’, David Sedaris’s autobiographical essays, where the hapless narrator will have you in stitches. 392 page large paperback. £9.99 NOW £3


73276 THE CRANFORD CHRONICLES by Elizabeth Gaskell


Cranford is a sleepy northern town, but modern life, in the shape of the new railway, is pushing its way relentlessly towards it from Manchester, bringing with it new opportunities and excitement. The arrival of handsome young Doctor Harrison causes further agitation, not just because of his revolutionary methods, but also because of his effect on the hearts of the ladies. Includes ‘Mr Harrison’s Confessions’, ‘Cranford’ and ‘My Lady Lovelow’. 484pp in paperback, revised editions of the 1851 and 1853 originals.


£6.99 NOW £2.50 73286 LOVE SEX DEATH AND WORDS


by John Sutherland and Stephen Fender In a sumptuous voyage through literature’s rich past here is a leap year of anecdotes from January 1st and the vexed history of the copyright of Peter Pan to December 31st publication of Richard Yates’s 1961 novel Revolutionary Road. Stop along the way to visit A. S. Byatt fighting for her local, Madame Bovary in the dock, The Pickwick Papers launching and almost sinking, why the British bestseller list belatedly arrived only in 1974, Roy Campbell punching Stephen Spender on the nose, Titanic poetry and more good clean harmless fun. 512pp, paperback.


£10.99 NOW £3


David Rothwell’s book is an idiosyncratic and light- hearted review of all that is great (and not so great) about the major figures of English Literature, and provides lucid and entertaining explanations of every literary form and technique. Free of pointless biographical detail, it concentrates on providing examples of prose and poetry that help to understand the essence of the work. With their total lack of any pretence of neutrality, you may not always agree with David Rothwell’s views, but you can hardly fail to be informed and entertained by them. 384pp, paperback. ONLY £4


68846 THE COMPLETE FOUR JUST MEN by Edgar Wallace


The complete adventures of Edgar Wallace’s daring and ingenious vigilantes. This fascinating bumper collection contains all six volumes of the Just Men saga: The Four Just Men, The Council of Justice, The Just Men of Cordova, The Law of The Four Just Men, The Three Just Men and Again the Three. In these thrilling yarns of daring do, mystery and international intrigue, the Just Men tackle wrongdoers of all kinds from criminal masterminds and desperate anarchists to cunning murderers and obsessive madmen. Where Scotland Yard fails - they succeed. Blends suspense, humour and action. 936 page paperback. ONLY £3


72317 HERO OF A HUNDRED


FIGHTS by Ned Buntline Edward Zane Carroll Judson, better known to millions of late 19th century readers as Ned Buntline, was a sailor, soldier, duellist, showman, gambler, bigamist and all-round rabble-rouser. This unabridged, handsome rough-cut collection contains his four signature Old West novels: Buffalo Bill: The


King of Border Men, the book which made Buntline’s name and made the book’s hero, one William F. Cody, a household name with Wild Bill Hickok. The second book, Hazel-Eye, the Girl Trapper introduces us to Buntline’s alter-ego, the fanciful mountain-man Cale Durg, and the third, The Miner Detective, set in the goldfields of Northern California. Finally, in Wild Bill’s Last Trail, Hickok was haunted by a premonition of his death. 438pp.


£17.99 NOW £2.50


73558 A KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS by Wolf Mankowitz


In the embattled working-class community of the 1950s East End London, there are plenty of people in need of good fortune. So when six year old Joe finds a unicorn, which most adults seem to think is a goat, at the market, he brings him home to grant some wishes. Mr Kandinsky, Joe’s downstairs neighbour, wants a steam press for his shop. His assistant Shmule, a wrestler, just needs to buy ring for his girl, and what Joe and his mother wish for more than anything is to join Joe’s father in Africa. 128 page paperback reprint of the 1953 original.


$14 NOW £4.50


72356 SAINTS AND SINNERS by Edna O’Brien With her inimitable gift for grasping people’s contradictions and desires, here she introduces us to a new cast of restless, searching people, who whether in the Irish countryside, London or New York, remind us of our own humanity. The 11 short stories include those titled Shovel Kings, Inner Cowboy, My Two Mothers and Old Wounds. With characters like an Irishman in North London recalling digging the streets for the apocryphal gold, now an outsider in England and Ireland. 16 page reading group guide, 242pp in paperback.


$13.99 NOW £2.50


73333 AGATHA RAISIN COMPANION


introduced by M. C. Beaton A celebration of all things Agatha, here is a magnificently non-pc insight into village life. It includes an introduction by and an exclusive interview with the author M. C. Beaton, as well as Agatha’s previously unseen biography and her retirement to the Cotswolds and


her ‘somewhat complicated’ love life. We take a look at the plot summaries of the last 20 titles in the series and Agatha’s Appetites, a collection of all the recipes featured in the series. Plus a quiz to test your knowledge. 138pp, line art.


£12.99 NOW £4


72798 ABINGER HARVEST: And England’s Pleasant Land


by E. M. Forster edited by Elizabeth Heine The aim of the Abinger Edition is to provide a new, properly edited compilation of the literary works of E. M. Forster. It comprises an immensely engaging selection of articles, essays, reviews and poems, demonstrating the enormous range of Forster’s interests. He was able to write divertingly and with equal ease about chess, Mickey Mouse, Liberty in England, Life in India, Marco Polo, the Emperor Babur, Egypt and the Orient. Also contains his frank and sometimes caustic reflections on other writers such as Proust, T. E. Lawrence, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad and T. S. Eliot. Plus The Abinger Pageant and England’s Pleasant Land. 464 pages.


£25 NOW £4


73020 A RAGE TO LIVE by John O’Hara When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something, she goes after it. Her extramarital affair scandalises Pennsylvania’s élite, and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves. A bestseller on publication in 1949, it is a candid tale of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness. 713pp, paperback. £9.99 NOW £2.50


73226 FOUR GREAT HISTORIES by Shakespeare


Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two, Henry V and Richard III are among the most studied, read and admired works in literature by William Shakespeare. This convenient and affordable volume features all four. The first chronicles the rebellion within Henry’s kingdom and the life of the profligate young prince Hal. Richard III follows the scheming Duke of Gloucester as he systematically exterminates all those who thwart his plans to succeed to the English throne. Unabridged, footnotes, 432pp in softback.


£5 NOW £1.50 73303 FAREWELL MISS JULIE LOGAN: J. M.


Barrie Omnibus by J. M. Barrie The pioneer of modern fantasy is here edited and introduced by Andrew Nash in this selection of work covering J. M. Barrie’s different genres - Scotland, childhood, fantasy and sentimentality, sexual anxiety, theatrical invention, social comedy and proto-feminism. The disturbing prose fable of ‘The Little White Bird’ contains the first and most original exploration of the Peter Pan theme. In a one-act play, the satire ‘The 12- Pound Look’ exposes the pomposities of male pride. ‘Farewell Miss Julie Logan’ is a novella of longing and death. 330pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £2


73311 MAGNUS MERRIMAN by Eric Linklater Magnus Merriman is the would-be lover, writer, politician, idealist and crofter, moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for farcical defeat. Linklater’s memories of Orkney and student days informed his first novel in 1929 White Maa’s Sage and his hilarious satirical novel Juan in America (1931) was followed up in 1934 by this equally irreverent novel, based on his experiences as Nationalist candidate for a by-election in East Fife in 1933. Full of remarkable passages. 308pp in paperback.


£6.99 NOW £2.50


73312 THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE and WEIR OF HERMISTON by Robert Louis Stevenson


Two fast-paced classic novels of travel, romance and adventure with an introduction by John Burnside. Taking in piracy, political intrigue and buried treasure, the story begins in Scotland and moves across three continents to a harrowing climax in the American wilderness. The second novel is set in Scotland during the Napoleonic Wars. RLS’s fascination with the divided nature of the self comes to the fore in this fierce conflict between the romantic Archie Weir and his formidable father Lord Hermiston. 338pp, glossary, paperback. £9.99 NOW £2.50


73567 MRS AMES by E. F. Benson


Reigning over a social merry-go-round of dinners and parties, Mrs Ames is the undisputed queen bee of Riseborough. That is until vivacious new villager Mrs Evans catches the eye of both Mrs Ames’s son and her husband. Not content with captivating the men in her life, that ‘wonderful creature’ Mrs Evans becomes not just a rival to Mrs Ames’s marriage, but a rival to her village throne. When the whole of Riseborough is invited to Mrs Evans’s masked costume party, action must be taken. 301pp in paperback facsimile of the 1912 original. $15 NOW £5


Literature 23 Charles Dickens


73342 CHARLES DICKENS: Dickens’ Bicentenary 1812-2012


by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley


The definitive interactive illustrated guide to Charles Dickens and his works, written by his great-great-great


granddaughter and published in association with the Charles Dickens Museum, London. This detailed volume follows him from early childhood, including his time spent as a child labourer, and traces how he became the greatest celebrity of his age. Documented are his longing to be an actor, his travels across North America, his year spent living in Italy and his great love of France. This comprehensive book also introduces readers to his fascinating family and his astonishing circle of friends, and reveals when and how life and real-life personalities were imitated in his art. Not only that, but it also provides details of his novels, and the conditions under which they were written. 123 pages 30cm x 27cm, photos and artworks in b/w, sepia/w and colour, with 21 removable facsimile documents from Dickens’ personal archive.


$39.99 NOW £18


73939 CHARLES DICKENS by Michael Slater


We celebrated the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth in 2012. The main focus of this magisterial biography is on Dickens’s career as writer and editor, involving not only the novels but his enormous output of other writings - letters, journalism, shorter fiction, essays, satirical verses, writings for children, travel books and so on, as well as the celebrated after-dinner speeches and a script prepared for his readings. The book illuminates the context of each of the great novels while locating the life of the author within the imagination and the concerns that created them. It highlights his boundless energy, fascination with disorder, organisational genius, the ruling classes’ indifference towards the plight of the poor, his love of fairy tales and of the theatre as great nourishers of the human imagination, and his hatred of tyranny. Many unfamiliar images and 32 pages of plates. 696pp.


£28 NOW £10


72922 QUOTABLE DICKENS by Max Maurice


‘When I was left in this way, I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash- house copper with the lid on...’ - Sketches by Boz. Thoughts on human nature, filthy lucre, darker musings, philosophical thoughts and wicked wit: ‘Mr Chadband is a large yellow man with a fat smile and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.’ - Bleak House. Here is an old curiosity shop of a book that will delight all readers. Pocket sized 160pp.


£5.99 NOW £1.75


74735 CHARLES DICKENS: A Celebration of His Life and Work


by Charles Mosley


This superb celebration of Charles Dickens’ life and work marks his 200th birthday. It discusses each novel’s story and lists all the characters. It covers his travels and influence abroad, with maps to pinpoint the exact locations


where events took place, sets the great writer in his historical context and touches on his theatrical activities. Here are dark secrets of the great mercantile house of Dombey and Son laid open, new insights into the scandalous model for the lead mischief-maker in Pickwick Papers, the reasons why Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities is so called, and why his background is significant, innovative thoughts on Oliver Twist’s home town and the rationale for his naming, and a revealing of Dickens’ huge influence on one of the greatest modern satirical novelists. 240 pages 30.5cm x 23cm with superb illus in colour, b/w and sepia/ w, maps, including one of Dickens’ Britain, Reader’s Guide and Timeline. £20 NOW £7.50


72720 INSIDE DICKENS’ LONDON by Michael Paterson


Dickens’s descriptions of London are among the most powerful in literature, and this fascinating book draws on the bustle, commerce, cruelty, fog and dirt which permeates every novel Dickens wrote. Dickens was a keen observer of injustice and poverty, and he was writing when philanthropic organisations were beginning to address deprivation, for instance the Salvation Army and Dr Barnardo’s. Henry Mayhew’s research published in 1851 gave an impetus to social reformers and George Augustus Sala is a witty observer who supplies many descriptions in this book, together with the German tourist Max Schlesinger. 351pp. £9.99 NOW £3


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