catalogue
Catalogue
Ecat 204 April 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.
***Armitage, Simon: Never Good with Horses - Assembled Lyrics. Faber 2023. £14.99 (signed copies should be available at a price to be confirmed).
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Auster, Paul: Bloodbath Nation. Faber 2023. Photographs by Spencer Ostrander. The author's musings on the 120,000 Americans killed or wounded annually by guns. £25.00
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***Banville, John: The Lock-Up. Faber 2023. St John Strafford returns. £16.99 (signed copies should be available at a price to be confirmed).
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***Barry, Sebastian: Old God's Time. Faber 2023. A new novel. £18.99 99 (signed copies should be available at a price to be confirmed).
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***Barry, Sebastian: Old God's Time. Faber 2023. A new novel. Signed to a tipped in page. £18.99
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***Bennett, Claire-Louise: Pond. Fitzcarraldo 2023. First UK edition. £9.99
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***Berry, Liz: The Home Child: Chatto & Windus 2023. A novel in verse. £14.99
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***Bhattacharya, Santanu: One Small Voice. Fig Tree 2023. A first novel, set in India. £14.99
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Bracewell, Michael: Unfinished Business. White Rabbit 2023. Signed by the author. A novel looking at modern office life. £24.00
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***Briggs, Kate: The Long Form. Fitzcarraldo 2023. An ordinary day in an ordinary life. £14.99
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***Catton, Eleanor: Birnam Wood. Granta 2023. Can a billionaire and a guerilla gardener trust each other? Signed by the author. £20.00
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***Conde, Maryse: The Gospel According to the New World. World Editions 2023. Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize. £30.00
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Crewe, Tom: The New Life. Chatto & Windus 2023. Signed and dated by the author at the launch party. A very well received first novel. £24.00
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***Evans, Diana: A House for Alice. Chatto & Windus 2023. A mother wants to return to her ancestral homeland. £18.99
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***Feaver, William: Frank Auerbach. Rizzoli 2022. An updated edition of the monograph. £55.00
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***Fosse, Jon: Melancholy I-II. Fitzcarraldo 2023. Two volumes published together. £14.99
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***Fuller, Claire: The Memory of Animals. Fig Tree 2023. A new story collection. £16.99 (signed copies should be available at a price to be confirmed).
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***Garton Ash, Timothy: Homelands - A Personal History of Europe. A report on the author's history in Eastern Europe. Bodley Head 2023. £22.00 (signed copies should be available at a price to be confirmed).
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***Gauz: Standing Heavy. Maclehose Press 2022. Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize. £30.00
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***Gospodinov, Georgi: Time Shelter. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2023. Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize. £30.00
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Gayford, Martin; Kemp, Martin & Munro, Jane (edit): Hockney's Eye - The Art and Technology of Depiction. Fitzwilliam Museum 2022. Published to complement the artist's current exhibition. £39.00
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***Guo, Xiaolu: Radical - A Life of my Own. Chatto & Windus 2023. A chronicle of a Chinese woman spending a year as a professor in New York. £18.99 (signed copies should be available at a price to be confirmed).
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***Harbo Lehmann, Mette: Kroyer and Paris - French Connections and Nordic Colours. Skagens Kunstmuseer 2022. Exhibition catalogue of the Danish artist. English text. £50.00
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***Harris, Will: Brother Poem. Granta 2023. The author's second collection of poems. £10.99
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Hemon. Aleksandar: The World and All that it Holds. Picador 2023. Signed by the author. WW1 kicks off. £24.00
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Hessel, Katy: The Story of Art Without Men. Hutchinson Heinemann 2022. Signed by the author. £45.00
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Hill, Selima: Dancing Lessons for the Very Shy. Guillemot 2023. One of 75 copies for sale from an edition of 100. Signed by the author. £12.00
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Hjorth, Vigdis: Is Mother Dead. Verso 2022. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. £20.00
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Ingarao, Giulia: Leonora Carrington - The Image of Dreams. Mimesis 2022. A biography of the British/Mexican artist. £14.99
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Irving, Kirsten: Hot Cockalorum. Guillemot Press. A collection of poems bound in recycled leather. £14.00
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Jarman, Derek: Through the Billboard Promised Land without ever Stopping. Prototype 2022. First publication. Signed to the title page by Philip Hoare, Martin Ginsborg and Declan Wiffen. £20.00
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***Jarman, Derek: Blue. David Zwirner Books. 2023. First separate edition, small format paperback. £20.00
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Kurkov, Andrey: Diary of an Invasion. Mountain Leopard Press 2022. Signed by the author. An inside story of the war in Ukraine. £28.00
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Lampert, Catherine: Hurvin Anderson. Rizzoli 2022. A new monograph of the midlands artist. £55.00
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***Lanyon, Andrew: Rabelais and Cervantes on the Road to Cornwall. Andrew Lanyon 2023. One of 150 signed copies. Published as a chunky paperback, written in the author's trademark humorous surreal style. £60
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Lee Tsai, Jennifer: La Mysterique. Guillemot 2022. A new collection of poems. £8.00
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MacInnes, Martin: In Ascension. Atlantic 2023. Leigh starts to question her beliefs. £17.99
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***Mackintosh, Sophie: Cursed Bread. Hamish Hamilton 2023. A new fable. Signed by the author. £25.00
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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. £16.99
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***Moss, Stephen: Ten Birds that Changed the World. Guardian Faber 2023. Non fiction. Signed by the author. £16.99
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***Muldoon, Paul: The Castle of Perseverance. Enitharmon 2023. A new collection of poems. Signed by the author. £40.00
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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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***Neve, Christopher: Immortal Thoughts. Thames & Hudson 2023. A look at the later careers of significant artists. Signed by the author to a bookplate. £24.00
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***Padel, Ruth: Watershed. Hazel Press 2023. A new poetry pamphlet. Signed by the author. £28.00
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Pamuk, Orhan: Nights of Plague. Faber. A new novel set in the last days of the Ottoman empire. £20.00.
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Paterson, Don: Toy Fights - A Boyhood. Faber 2023. Signed by the author. A memoir from one of the finest poets of his generation. £24.00
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***Penman, Ian: Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors. Fitzcarraldo 2023. A multi genre biography of the German film maker. Signed and dated by the author on publication day. £20.00
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***Porter, Max: Shy. Faber 2023. A young man escapes from a secure institution. £12.99 (signed copies should be available at a price to be confirmed).
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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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***Reed, Lou & Anderson, Laurie: The Art of the Straight Line - My Tai Chi. Faber 2023. The musician's life in martial arts. £30.00
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Reid, Christopher: Toys/Tricks/Traps. Faber 2023. The author's latest poetry collection. £14.99
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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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Rosen, Michael: Getting Better - Life Lessons on going under, getting over it and getting through it. Ebury Press 2023. Signed by the author. The author's experience of some of life's challenges£16.99
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Rothko, Christopher & Rothko Prizel, Elizabeth: Rothko. Rizzoli 2022. A reissue of the artist's monograph. £115.00
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Rushdie, Salman: Victory City. Jonathan Cape 2023. A supposed translation of an ancient Indian epic. £22.00
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***Salomon, Xavier F: The Eveillard Gift. Paul Holberton Publishing 2022. A catalogue for the retrospective exhibition of gifted drawings. £35.00
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Sonzogni, Marco: The Translations of Seamus Heaney. Faber 2022. A compendium of Seamus Heaney's many translations. £35.00
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Stoppard, Tom: Penelope. Faber 2022. A pamphlet containing a single prose poem. £16.00
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***Strang, Em: Quinn: Oneworld 2023. A first novel about forgiveness from an award winning poet. £14.99
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***Tse, Dorothy: Owlish. Fitzcarraldo 2023. Q falls in love with a music box ballerina. £13.99
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***Unigwe, Chika: The Middle Daughter. Canongate2023. Nani's struggle starts at 17. £16.99
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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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Watts, Stephen: Journeys Across Breath - Poems 1975-2005. Prototype 2022. 30 years of poetry. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. £25.00
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Watts, Stephen: Twenty-Four Hours. Monitor & Prototype 2022. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. Small format single prose poem. £16.00
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***Winn, Alice: In Memoriam. Penguin Viking 2023. Signed by the author to a bookplate or a tipped in page. £28.00
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Zambra, Alejandro: The Private Lives of Trees. Fitzcarraldo 2023. The author's second novel. £10.99
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Zink, Nell: Avalon. Faber 2023. Bran wishes she had been born into a different family. £14.99
Part Two - Recent Acquisitions of older titles
Auge, Claude: Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustre Dictionnaire Encyclopedique. Librairie Larousse 1934. French text. Very good in pink cloth boards with illustrated front board and spine. Front endpapers loose. £20.00
Esposito, Donato: Frederick Walker and the Idyllists. Lund Humphries 2017. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. £36.00 x
Fowler, H.W & F.G. (edit): The Concise Oxford Dictionary & Modern English Usage. Oxford University Press 1966. Fifth edition, fourth printing (dictionary), second edition, third printing (modern usage). Near fine in black leather with titles to the spine. Gilt top edges. Contained in a very good bespoke open slipcase. £50.00
Hidenobu , Kose & Hanzan, Matsukawas (artists): Ehon Sugawara Jikki (Record of the Battle of Sugawara Jikki). 1842. Assumed first editions, first printings of 3 woodblock print books. Little is known, but it is thought the books were from a larger collection of maybe 10 books published in 1842. The books are string bound in paper over hand made card. They contain between 13 and 17 pages of text and between 7 and 9 illustrations, mostly double paged. Overall condition - boards very good and text block fine. £200.00
Library of Japanese Art; Kodansha 1950's. Assumed first editions, first printings of a collection of 10 books in Japanese text from the Kodansha Library of Japanese Art plus 1 translated copy published by Charles E Tuttle. The books are small format paperback and are generally in very good to near fine condition (they are prone to splits to the spine). All feature 40 or so colour or black & white images. The artists featured are: Sharaku, Yukihiko, Toyokuni, Shoen, Gyokudo, Harunobu, Taikan, Soatsu, Utamaro, Kazan and Kokei. £120.00
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (reprinted from the revised American edition including recent poems). Frederick Warne, not dated. First edition, assumed first printing. No date on the colophon page, but an inscription is dated 1877. Very good in blue leather with bevelled edges, tooling to boards and gilt titles and illustrations to boards and spine. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Broken front hinge. £40.00
Miles, Jonathan & Shiel, Derek: David Jones - The Maker Unmade. Seren 1995. Large format. Extensively illustrated. Fine in near fine dustjacket. £65.00
Nichols, Beverley: Down the Garden Path. Jonathan Cape 1933. First edition, fourteenth printing. Near fine school prize binding. Bound in green leather with tooling and gilt decoration to the front board, and gilt titles to the front board and spine. Gilt top edge. Prize label on reverse of front free endpaper. Garden endpapers. £80.00
Two Clergymen (edit): The Priest's Prayer Book. Joseph Masters 1864. First edition, first printing. Very good. Bound in brown leather. Marbled endpapers. Wear to the spine. Foxing to preliminaries. £65.00
Seethaler, Robert: The Field. Picador 2021. Signed by the author to a tipped in page. Fine in fine dustjacket. £25.00
Weale, John: Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture, Naval, Building and Construction, Early and Ecclesiastical Art, Engineering, Civil, Engineering, Mechanical, Fine Art, Mining, Surveying etc. 1849-50. Near fine small format hardback, half leather bound with slightly worn marbled boards. Small ownership inscription. Contents clean and unmarked. £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.
May 2023
*** Beagin, Jen: Big Swiss. Faber. A comic novel - soon to be televised. £16.99
***Deller, Jeremy: Art is Magic. Profile. A kind of a biography from the award winning artist. £20.00
Eng, Tan Twan: The House of Doors. Canongate. A new Malaysia set novel. £20.00
Gunaratne, Guy: Mister, Mister. Tinder. Why Yahya Bas no longer want to be British? £20.00
***Kilroy, Claire: Soldier Sailor. Faber. A new novel from a fine young Irish writer. £16.99
Levy, Deborah: August Blue. Hamish Hamilton. Doppelgangers chase each other. £18.99
***Lucas, Madelaine: Thirst for Salt. Oneworld. A young graduate goes travelling with her mother. £9.99
***Martinez de las Rivas, Toby: Floodmeadow. Faber. The poet's third full collection. £12.99
June 2023
Erpenbeck, Jenny: Kairos. Granta. A love affair set against the fall of East Germany. £16.99
Murray, Paul: The Bee Sting. Hamish Hamilton. How to be a good guy when the world is ending. £18.99
Taylor, Brandon: The Late Americans. Jonathan Cape. A novel exploring the concept of family. £18.99
* Entries with asterisks indicate that these titles are being shown for the first time or have been modified.
