catalogue
Catalogue
Ecat 207 September 2023
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Part One - New acquisitions and imminent arrivals of new publications.
Unless stated otherwise, all books are hardbacks or paperback originals, in fine condition and are first impressions of first UK editions. A fuller description will gladly be supplied on request. Most titles in this section are on view at timkcbooks.com
Entries with asterisks indicate that these titles are being shown for the first time, shown as signed for the first time or shown for the first time in Part One.
***Adebayo, Ayobami: A Spell of Good Things. Canongate 2023. Signed by the author to a tipped in page (effectively a second half title page). Longlisted for the Booker prize. £25.00
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***Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame: Chain-Gang All-Stars. Jonathan Cape 2023. An award winning American novelist's second book. £18.99
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***Alison, Jane: Jean Cooke - Seascapes and Chalk Caves. Piano Nobile 2023. Paperback exhibition catalogue cum monograph - still sealed. £35.00
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Armitage, Simon: LX. Faber 2023. A signed pamphlet of poems written on the occasion of the poet's 60th birthday. £8.00
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***Atkinson, Kate: Normal Rules Don't Apply: Doubleday. The author's first short story collection since in a while. Signed by the author to the title page. £18.99
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***Barry, Sebastian: Old God's Time. Faber 2023. A new novel. Longlisted for the Booker Signed to a tipped in page. £25.00
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***Bernstein, Sarah: Study for Obedience. Faber 2023. A young woman heads north and is blamed for various agricultural issues. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. Longlisted for the Booker Prize. £40.00
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Berry, Liz: The Home Child: Chatto & Windus 2023. A novel in verse. £14.99
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***Blakemore, A.K: The Glutton. Granta 2023. A second novel from a prize-winning author. Copies due in. £14.99
***Chan, Mary Jane: Bright Fear. Faber. The poet's second full collection of poems. £10.99
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***Chew-Bose, Durga (edits): Honor Titus. Anomie 2023. A combined exhibition catalogue and monograph. Still sealed. £26.00
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***Clark, Eliza: Penance. Faber 2023. How much is Alec's account of a murder is fiction? £14.99
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***Clark, Timothy (edits): Late Hokusai: Society, Thought, Technique, Legacy. British Museum 2023. New research. £40.00
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***Clarke, Gill & Marshall, Steve: Parallel Lives - Eight Women Artists. Sansom & Company 2023. Featured artists are Gertrude Hemes, Enid Marx, Evelyn Dunbar, Ithell Colquhoun, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Barbara Jones, Prunella Clough and Monica Poole. £20.00
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***Connolly, Rachel: Lazy City. Canongate. The narrator returns to Belfast to pick up the pieces of her life. £16.99
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Cooper, Jeremy: Brian. Fitzcarraldo 2023. Brian develops a passion for art films. £12.99
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***Elkin, Lauren: Art Monsters - Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art. Chatto & Windus 2023. A new study of female artists. Signed by the author to the title page. £32.00
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***Elsner, Maria: Dante Elsner. Guillemot Press 2023. A biography of the artist and potter who fled Germany shortly before WW2. Signed by the author. £18.00
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***Eng, Tan Twan: The House of Doors. Canongate. A new Malaysia set novel. Signed by the author to a tipped in page (effectively an extra half title page). £25.00
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***Enright, Anne: The Wren, The Wren: Jonathan Cape. A novel featuring the female members of a family. Signed and pre-publication dated by the author. £32.00
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Epalanga, Kalaf: Whites can Dance Too. Faber 2023. A story of an international singer's detention at an immigration centre. £16.99
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***Ernaux, Annie: Shame. Fitzcarraldo Editions 2023. A new instalment of the author's memoir. £9.99
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***Ernaux, Annie: The Young Man. Fitzcarraldo Editions 2023. Another new instalment of the author's memoir. £6.99
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***Fagan, Jenni: Ootlin: A Memoir. Hutchinson Heinemann 2023. A book about the stories we are told about ourselves. £25 (publication delayed - 1 copy in stock)
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***Faulks, Sebastian: The Seventh Son. Hutchinson Heinemann. The author's 20th book. Signed by the author to the title page. 25.00
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***Feeney, Elaine: How to Build a Boat. Harvill Secker 2023. Longlisted for the Booker Prize. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. £40.00
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***Funder, Anna: Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life. Viking 2023. The story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen. Signed by the author to the title page. £24.00
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Gauz: Standing Heavy. Maclehose Press 2022. Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize. £30.00
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Ge, Yan: Elsewhere. Faber 2023. A first English language novel from a rising star. £12.99
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***Hadley, Tessa: After the Funeral. Jonathan Cape 2023. A new collection of short stories. Signed by the author to the title page. £18.99
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***Harsent, David. Nine. Guillemot Press 2023. A collection of poems based on a found manuscript. £10.00
***Kadare, Ismail: A Dictator Calls. Harvill Secker. A novel inspired by a meeting between Boris Pasternak and Joseph Stalin. £14.99
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***Kanai, Mieki: Mild Vertigo. Fitzcarraldo 2023. First UK edition of a Japanese novel written in 1997. £12.99
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***Keegan, Claire: So Late in the Day. Faber 2023. A new novella from one of the finest writers around. £8.99 (a limited number of signed copies available - please ask)
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***Kelly, Richard T: The Black Eden. Faber 2023. A look at how the discovery of oil effects different Scottish communities. £20.00
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***Khalifa, Khaled: No One Prayed over their Graves. Faber 2023. A novel set in a devastated Syrian village over 100 years ago. £14.99
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Laird, Nick: Up Late. Faber 2023. A new collection of poems. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. £25.00
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Lampert, Catherine: Hurvin Anderson. Rizzoli 2022. A new monograph of the midlands artist. £55.00
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LeGrove, Judith: Kenneth Draper - On the Edge of Sculpture. Sansom & Company. A first monograph on the British sculptor. £40.00
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***LeGrove, Judith: Into the Light: The Art of Egon Altdorf - Sculpture Woodcuts Glass Design Poetry. Sansom & Company 2023. A monograph of the multi-faceted artist; self-taught as a prisoner of war. £35.00
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Levy, Deborah: August Blue. Hamish Hamilton 2023. Doppelgangers chase each other. Signed by the author to the title page. £25.00
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***MacDonald, Helen & Blache, Sin. Prophet. Jonathan Cape 2023. A first novel from the renowned British writer, co-written with Sin Blanche. Signed and dated by both authors. £60.00 (signed only copies £32.00)
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Mauvignier, Laurent; The Birthday Party. Fitzcarraldo 2023. Strange things happen in a isolated French hamlet with only four inhabitants. £16.99
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***Meyer, Clemens: While we Were Dreaming. Fitzcarraldo 2023. The fall of the Berlin Wall causes excitement and more for a group of young East Germans. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. £25.00
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***Morris, Thomas. Open Up. Faber 2023. A new collection of short stories. £14.99
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***Nagra, Dalgit: Indiom. Faber 2023. A cross-genre look at contemporary Britishness. £14.99
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***Naomi, Katrina & Hudston, Sarah: An Alfoxden Journal. Hazel Press 2023. One of just 50 copies. Poetry and prose inspired by a three day residency. £20.00
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Neri, Louise (edits): Adriana Varejao. Rizzoli Gargosian 2022. A monograph of a prominent Brazilian artist. £55.00
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***O'Regan, Noel: Though the Bodies Fall. Granta 2023. Michael doesn't want to leave the local suicide spot. £12.99
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***Osborrne, Bob: Zennor - Spirit of Place. Rebel Not Taken 2023. One of 666 signed and numbered copies. The author's look at his new farmhouse. Former occupiers of the house or close to it include D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Katharine Mansfield, Aleister Crowley, Patrick Heron and Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. £20.00
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***Pineiro, Claudia: A little Luck. Charco Press. 2023. Mary returns to Buenos Aires after an interval of 20 years. Signed and dated by the author to the title page £25.00
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Porter, Max: Shy. Faber 2023. A young man escapes from a secure institution. Signed by the author to the title page. £12.99
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***Ralphs, Camille: Daydream College for Bards. Guillmot Press 2023. The author signs herself up for W.H. Auden's imaginary college. Four pamphlets in a slipcase. One of 75 sets.£25.00
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Rankine, Claudia & Wilson, Ronaldo V: Sound & Fury and Blunt Object, MoMA 2016. Poetry pamphlet. Signed by Claudia Rankine. £30.00
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Rankine, Claudia: Just Us. Penguin 2021. Poetry collection. Signed by the author. £30.00
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***Richards, George (introduces): Private & Public: Finding the Modern British Garden. Liss Llewellyn 2023. Paperback exhibition catalogue. £15.00
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Robertson, Lorna: Thoughts, Meals, Days. Ingleby Anomie 2022. Still sealed, so assumed fine in boards as published. £28.00
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***Ryan, Declan: Crisis Actor. Faber 2023. A first full collection of poetry. £10.99
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Slimani, Leila: Watch Us Dance. Faber 2023. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. £25.99
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***Strang, Em: Quinn: Oneworld 2023. A first novel about forgiveness from an award winning poet. Signed by the author to the title page. £14.99
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Taylor, Brandon: The Late Americans. Jonathan Cape. A novel exploring the concept of family. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. £24.00
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***Thirlwell, Adam: The Future Future. Jonathan Cape. Parallels between the powers of the press of 1775 and today. 18.99
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Tse, Dorothy: Owlish. Fitzcarraldo 2023. Q falls in love with a music box ballerina. £13.99
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***Chibuike Uzoma - To Kick a Stone: Anomie 2023. Paperback exhibition catalogue cum monograph of a young US based Nigerian artist - still sealed. £20.00
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Vegelin van Claerbergen, Ernst (introduces): Helen Saunders: Modernist Rebel. Courtauld Gallery 2022. A catalogue for the retrospective exhibition. £17.50
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***Waidner, Isabel: Corey Fah Does Social Mobility. Hamish Hamilton 2023. A new novel from a prize winning writer. Signed by the author to the title page. £18.00
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Wallace, Paula (provides foreword): Daniel Lismore; Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken. Skira Rizzoli 2016. Lage format. Signed and lipped by the author to the title page. £90.00
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***Walsh, Colin: Kala. Atlantic Books 2033. Kala disappears in a small Irish town. £16.99
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***Watson, Dawn: We Play Here. Granta. A debut collection of poem-stories set against the backdrop of the Irish troubles. £12.99
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Winn, Alice: In Memoriam. Penguin Viking 2023. Copies signed and dated to the title page £35.00 Copies signed by the author to a bookplate or a tipped in page. £28.00.
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***Yu, Jessica Zhan Mei: But the Girl. Jonathan Cape. A go-ahead young student finds it hard to leave her upbringing behind. £16.99
Part Two - Acquisitions of older titles in the last few weeks
Carew, Richard: Carew's Survey of Cornwall and an Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue. (printed for) Samuel Chapman et al; 1723. First edition, first printing thus. Very good in original calf. Weak hinges and joints. Marbled endpapers, with a book plate removed from the front pastedown. £500.00
Courtney, R.A: The Evolution of the Wheel Cross. Blake and Son; 1914. First edition, first printing. Very good in blue cloth boards. Signed and dated to the front free endpaper. Gilt titles to front board and (dulled) spine. No dustjacket. £50.00
Dugdale, James: The New British traveller; or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales; exhibiting an account, historical, topographical, and statistical, of this portion of the British Empire interspersed etc - Cornwall. J Robins; 1818. First edition, first printing. A very good extract from the full volume pertaining to Cornwall (pages 368 to 522). Bound in half leather with marbled paper covers. £60.00
Gilbert, C.S: An Historical Survey of The County of Cornwall: To Which is Added, A Complete Heraldry of The Same; With Numerous Engravings. In Two Volumes (Bound in Three - Volume 2 in Two Parts.) J Congdon & Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; 1817 & 1820. First editions, first printings. Two volume set (three volumes - part two bound as two). Complete with all plates. Somewhat worn half leather binding with general wear, notably to the spines. Marbled edges. Sporadic foxing but generally a good set. £360.00
Gilbert, Davies: The Parochial History of Cornwall Founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr Hals and Mr. Tonkin. Nichols and Son; 1838. First edition, first printing. Four volumes. Very good with some spotting. Rebound in green cloth with gilt titles. £250.00
Graham, Rigby & Tew, David: The Cornish Scene & Deserted Cornish Tin Mines. Brewhouse Press; 1975. First edition, first printing. Set number 95 from a slipcased edition of 200. Fine with gilt decoration to front boards and slipcase and gilt titles to the spines. £160.00
Hamilton Jenkin, A.K: Mines and Miners of Cornwall - xvi - Wadebridge, Camelford and Bude. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies; 1970. First edition, first printing. Near fine paperback original. £60.00 x
Hitchins, Fortescue (compiles) & Drew, Samuel (edits): The History of Cornwall from the Earliest Records and Traditions to the Present Time. William Penaluna; 1824. First editions, first printings. Very good in original calf bindings. Sporadic spotting. Plates present (except View of Penrice - this was never issued), but affected by foxing or staining. £600.00
Lysons, Daniel and Samuel: Magna Britannia - Cornwall. for T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1814. First large paper edition, first printing thus. Complete with additional engravings. Sporadic spotting, but still very good indeed in tooled morocco. £600.00
A Physician: A Guide to the Mount's Bay and Land's End; Comprehending the Topography, Botany, Agriculture, Fisheries, Antiquities, Mining, Mineralogy and Geology of West Cornwall. W Phillips; 1824. Second edition, first printing. Very good in half leather binding. Small ownership inscription. Gilt decorations and titles to the spine. £120.00
Polwhele, R: Traditions and Recollections; Domestic, Clerical and Literary; in which are included Letters of Charles II, Cromwell, Fairfax, Edgecumbe, Macaulay, Wolcot etc. John Nichols & Son; 1826. First editions, first printings. Two volume set. Half title pages (?) removed. Ownership inscriptions Complete with all plates. Very good half leather binding with gilt titles to spines. £120.00
Reynolds, Abigail: Flux - Glass from Sand and Seaweed / Tre - A Window for Cornwall. Abigail Reynolds; 2021. First editions, first printings. Two publications, still sealed. Fine paperbacks. £28.00
Smith, Baker Peter: Trip to the Far West. Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper; 1840. First edition, first printing. Very good in original cloth binding with wear to the head and tail of the spine. Bookplates of William Bolitho and John Blowey. £240.00
Thomas, Joseph: Randigal Rhymes and a Glossary of Cornish Words. F. Rodda; 1895. First edition, first printing. Small format. Very good in blue cloth. Gilt titles to he spine. Book plate of Frank Brewer. £60.00
Part Three - Soon to appear books
The following list is a round up of the main titles to be published in the UK in the next few months. Orders for these titles are now being taken. The books will be first printings, signed (when available) and sold at cover price where possible. However, I often have to buy in books at full price from reputable sources including literary festivals I attend, so please bear in mind that the prices below are for guidance and subject to confirmation. Additionally, the cover price and publication date may be changed by the publisher before publication. There may be a delay in obtaining signed copies of some titles, and in some cases copies may not be forthcoming.
September 2023
***Blakemore, A.K: The Glutton. Granta. A second novel from a prize-winning author. Copies due in. £14.99
October 2023
de Bernieres, Louis: Light Over Liskeard. Harvill Secker. A Cornish novel set in the 2050's. £20.00
Coetzee, J.M. The Pole and Other Stories. Harvill Secker. A new collection of short stories.£20.00
Fiennes, Ranulph: Lawrence of Arabia. Michael Joseph. A biography of a legendary figure by one of the last true adventurers. £25.00
Shakespeare, Nicholas: Ian Fleming: The Complete Man. Harvill Secker. A new biography. £30.00
Winterson, Jeanette: Night Side of the River. Jonathan Cape. A book of gothic ghost stories. £18.99
* Entries with asterisks indicate that these titles are being shown for the first time or have been modified.
