catalogue
Catalogue
Ecat 211 August 2024
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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.
LIMITED EDITION - LONG ISLAND BY COLM TOIBIN
Tuskar Rock announced a limited edition of Long Island published in May. The edition consists of 26 lettered copies each signed and pre-publication dated. The books will be bound on special paper and bound in full green leather and housed in a bespoke slipcase. One copy remains at £425.00 plus premium postage. Please note, the book is not listed on databases, so please contact me by email.
***Alison, Jane: Roger Mayne - Youth. The Courtauld/Paul Holberton Publishing 2024. A hardback study cum exhibition catalogue of the significant British photographer. £30.00
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Allen, Rachael: God Complex. Faber 2024. The poet's second full collection. £12.99
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***Barry, Kevin. The Heart in Winter. Canongate 2024. A novel set in a mining community in Butte in the 1890's. Signed and dated by the author. £30.00
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***Buckley, Jonathan. Tell. Fitzcarraldo 2024. What happened to Curtis Doyle? £12.99
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***Cusk, Rachel: Parade. Faber 2024. A new novel. £16.99
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***Davies, Peter: Ray Atkins - A Painter's Odyssey. Sansom & Company. 2024. A new monograph of the artist. £35.00
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de Freston - I Saw This. Anomie 2023. Still sealed paperback. A collaborative arts project. £30.00
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***Del Amo, Jean-Baptiste: The Son of Man. Fitzcarraldo 2024. A new novel set in France. £12.99
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Jahn, Wolf: Gilbert & George - The Meaning of the Earth. Hurtwood Press 2023. A biography. Signed by the author and artists on the front free endpaper and also by Gilbert & George on the bottom, fore and top edges. £65.00
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***Kunzru, Hari. Blue Ruin. Scribner 2024. Signed and dated by the author. Why is Jay living in his car in New York? £30.00
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Lanyon, Andrew: Some Minor Characters at Rowley Hall. Andrew Lanyon 2023. One of 75 copies. Oblong format paperback original. £20.00
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Lanyon, Andrew: The Analyst's Couch at Rowley Hall Andrew Lanyon 2024. One of 75 copies. Oblong format paperback original. £20.00
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Lanyon, Andrew: Ambrose Fortescue's Notes for a Memoir Discovered at Rowley Hall. Andrew Lanyon 2023. One of 150 copies. Oblong format paperback original. £20.00
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McConkey, Kenneth et al: Harold Harvey - Painter of Cornwall. Sansom 2024 An updated monograph. £25.00
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McKeever, Ian: Against Architecture. Anomie 2024. £20.00
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***McKenzie, Moses: Fast by the Horns. Wildfire 2024. Signed and dated to the title page by the author. A novel set in contemporary St. Pauls, Bristol. £30.00
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***Mukherjee, Neel: Choice. Atlantic 2024. A novel of three theme-linked stories. Signed and dated by the author. £28.00
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***Riviere, Sam: Conflicted Copy. Faber 2024. A new poetry collection. £12.99
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Toibin, Colm: Long Island. Picador 2024. The sequel to Brooklyn. £20.00 (Signed and dated copies £30.00)
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Vlautin, Willy: The Horse. Faber 2024. A horse turns up and refuses to leave. £16.99
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***Welsh, Irvine: Resolution. Jonathan Cape 2024. Signed by the author to the title page. Ray wants to start a new life in Brighton. But...£20.00
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Williams, Fiona: The House of Broken Bricks. Faber 2024. A debut novel from the winner of the Bridport Prize. £14.99
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Williams, Hugo: Fast Music. Faber 2024. The poet's latest collection. £12.99
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Williams, Phillip B: Ours. Granta 2024. The story of a 19th Century community of freed slaves. £18.99
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Wright, Barnaby: Frank Auerbach - The Charcoal Heads. The Courtauld/Paul Holberton Publishing 2024. A hardback exhibition catalogue. £30.00
Part Two - Acquisitions of older titles in the last few weeks
Anglin Burgard, Timothy (edits). Stephen de Staebler - Matter + Spirit. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; 2012. First edition, first printing. Near fine large format paperback exhibition catalogue with an ownership inscription. £20.00
Austen, David (Drawings) & Matar, Hisham (Words): The Boys: An Adventure. Ingleby; 2023. First editions, first printings. A project started in lockdown whereby Hisham Matar responded in words to the drawings of David Austen. Two separate paperback books contained in a card slipcase. Fine with each book signed by the artist or author. £50.00
Betjeman, John (edits): Cornwall Illustrated in a Series of Views of Castles, Seats of the Nobility, Mines, Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Public Buildings, Churches, Antiquities etc. The Architectural Press; 1934. £160.00
Bishop, Elizabeth: Poems: Chatto & Windus; 1956. First edition, first printing. Near fine with some foxing to boards in near fine dustjacket with some limited foxing. £200.00
Borlase, William: Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of Several Essays on the First Inhabitants, Druid-Superstition, Customs, and Remains of the most Remote Antiquiity in Britain and the British Isles exemplified and.... Second edition (and preferred), first printing. Very good. Boards bound ound in what is assumed to be the original leather with just a bit of wear, but re-backed. All plates present. Marbled endpapers. £1250.00
Cummings, Alfred Hayman. The Churches and Antiquities of Cury & Gunwallow, in the Lizard District, including Local Traditions. E Marlborough & Co.; 1875. First edition, first printing. Ex Royal Institution of Cornwall. Very good, but with a broken front joint, leaving the spine loose. Original brown boards with gilt titles to the front board and spine. Tooling to the front board and spine. £32.00
du Maurier, Daphne. The Apple Tree - A Short Novel and Several Long Stories. Victor Gollancz; 1952. First edition, first printing. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. Includes the first appearance of The Birds - the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film. £160.00 x
Escoffery, Jonathan: If I Survive You. Fourth Estate; 2023. First edition, first printing. Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize. Signed and dated by the author. Fine in fine dustjacket. £60.00
Forfar, William Bentinck. The Wizard of West Penwith, a Tale of the Land's-End. W Cornish; 1871. First edition, first printing. Very good in brown boards, with joints partially split. £50.00
Harding, Paul: This Other Eden. Hutchinson Heinemann 2023. First edition, first printing. Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize. Signed and dated by the author. Fine in fine dustjacket. £100.00
Janssen, Hans & White, Michael: The Story of De Stijl. Lund Humphries; 2011. First edition, first printing. Fine in boards as issued. £60.00
Macmillan, Duncan: The Art of Elizabeth Blackadder. Lund Humphries; 2023. First edition, first printing. Still sealed. Fine in boards as published. £30.00
Maroo, Chetna: Western Lane. Picador; 2023.First edition, first printing. Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize. Fine in fine dustjacket. £20.00
Molony, Eileen: The Mermaid of Zennor and Other Cornish Tales. Edmund Ward; 1946. First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Maisie Meiklejohn. Very good in faded boards. Lacks dustjacket. £50.00
Noall, Cyril: The St. Ives Mining District Volumes One and Two. Dyllansow Truran; 1982 & 1993. First editions, first printings. Very good paperbacks. £50.00
Redding, Cyrus: An Illustrated Itinerary of the County of Cornwall. How & Parsons; 1842. First edition, first printing. Very good with some foxing, bound in quarter red leather cloth. Gilt titles to the spine. £32.00
Saunders, George: The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. Bloomsbury; 2000. First edition, first printing. Fine in pictorial boards as published. £32.00
Sewell Stokes, H: The Vale of Lanherne and Other Poems. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans; 1853. Later edition, later printing thus. Good with wear to the boards. Prospectus for the book laid in. Limited foxing. £24.00
Tregellas, I T: Peeps into the Homes of the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall. Netherton 1879. £24.00
Part Three - Soon to appear books
* Entries with asterisks indicate that these titles are being shown for the first time or have been modified.
