catalogue
Catalogue
Ecat 208 November 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. Longlisted for the Booker Prize. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. £25.00
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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 in a while. Signed by the author to the title page. £18.99
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***Auster, Paul: Baumgartner. Faber 2023. A fictional biography of a widowed professor. £18.99
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***Barry, Sebastian: Old God's Time. Faber 2023. Longlisted for the Booker. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. £25.00
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***Burt, Stepanie & Schwabsky, Barry (contribute): Andrew Cranston - Waiting for the Bell. Ingleby Karma 2021. Effectively a substantial monograph of a talented Scottish artist. Out of stock, but copies can be ordered. £60.00
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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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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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***Cole, Teju: Tremor. Faber 2023. An African teacher reflects on his life in New England. £18.99
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Cooper, Jeremy: Brian. Fitzcarraldo 2023. Brian develops a passion for art films. £12.99
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***Cranston, Andrew: Never a Joiner. Anomie 2023. Signed by the author to the title page. Fine hardback exhibition catalogue including the artist's notes on each page. £25.00 (see also Burt, Stephanie above).
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***de Freston - I Saw This. Anomie 2023. Still sealed paperback. A collaborative arts project. £30.00
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***de Waal, Anna: Bindweed. Hazel Press 2023. One of a limited edition of 50 copies. Small format paperback. £16.00
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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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***Enard, Mathias: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Club. Fitzcarraldo 2023. A researcher gets more than he bargains for in Rural France. £16.99
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***Eng, Tan Twan: The House of Doors. Canongate. A new Malaysia set novel. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. £40.00
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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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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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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. £25.00
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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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***Golombok, Susan: Stories of Change. Paul Holberton Publishing 2023. Large format paperback exhibition catalogue. £30.00
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***Gombrowicz, Witold: The Possessed. Fitzcarraldo Editions Classics 2023. First English translation of the late author's novel. £12.99
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***Grudova, Camilla: The Coiled Serpent. Canongate 2023. A collection of short stories. £14.99
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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
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***Hicks, Alistair (introduces): British Drawings 1890-1990. Liss Llewellyn 2023. Paperback exhibition catalogue. £10.00
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***Hughes, Sian: Pearl. Indigo 2023. Paperback original. Longlisted for the Booker Prize. £32.00
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***Hutchinson, Ishion. School of Instructions. Faber 2023. A third collection of poetry. £12.99
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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. Signed by the author on a tipped in page. £30.00
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***Lanyon, Andrew: In the Heart of the Head at Rowley Hall. Andrew Lanyon 2023. One of 75 copies. Oblong format paperback original. £20.00
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***Lanyon, Andrew: The Truth About the Rowleys. Andrew Lanyon 2023. One of 75 copies. Oblong format paperback original. £20.00
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***Lanyon, Andrew: Juggling Treacle. Andrew Lanyon 2023. One of 100 copies. Oblong format paperback original. £20.00
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LeGrove, Judith: Egon Altdorf - Poems + Images - Lyrik/Grafik/Skulptur. Sansom & Company. Paperback. £20.00
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***Letford, William: From Our Own Fire. Carcanet 2023. A third collection of poetry. Signed by the author. £20.00
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***Lloyd-Barlow, Viktoria: All the Little Bird-Hearts. Tinder 2023. Longlisted for the Booker Prize. £32.00
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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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***Macmillan, Duncan: The Art of Elizabeth Blackadder. Lund Humphries 2023. Still sealed monograph. £30.00
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***McCormack, Mike: This Plague of Souls. Canongate 2023. Nealon returns to an empty house. £16.99
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***Matar, Hisham & Austen, David: The Boys: An Adventure. Ingleby Gallery 2023. 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 with each book signed by the artist or author. £36.00
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***McCormack, Mike. This Plague of Souls. Canongate 2023. A new novel from a respected Irish author. £16.99 - awaiting new stock.
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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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***Moore, Thurston. Sonic Life - A Memoir. Faber 2023. Signed by the author to a tipped in page. £20.00
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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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***Pecknold, Robin: Wading in Waist-High Water - The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes. Faber 2023. Signed by the author on a tipped in page. £32.00
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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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***Price, Matt (introduces): Anomie Collections 1. Anomie 2023. The first of a series of books to promote contemporary British painters. £20.00
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Ralphs, Camille: Daydream College for Bards. Guillimot 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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***Rash, Ron. The Caretaker. Canongate 2023. An outsider finds life difficult in rural America. £16.99
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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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***Sani, Elisa Paola: Italian Maiolica and Other Early Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld Gallery. Paul Holberton Publishing 2023. Large format. £50.00
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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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***Ulrich, David: Oceano - An Elegy for the Earth. George F Thompson Publishing 2023. Still sealed oblong format in boards as published. £32.00
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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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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
Part Two - Acquisitions of older titles in the last few weeks
Bonham, J: Christmas in Cornwall 60 Years Ago. Unicorn Press 1898. First edition, first printing. Small format. Complimentary signature from the author's son. Very good in worn boards. Lacks dustjacket. £50.00
Doble, Gilbert H: Saint Samson in Cornwall. Privately printed 1935. First edition, first printing. Near fine large format paperback , signed by the author to the front cover. Laid in is a typed letter signed by the author plus a hand written list from the author of available titles. £80.00
Hamilton Jenkin, A.K: Cornwall and its People - Three Renowned Books in One Volume. Dent 1946. First edition, second printing. Signed by the author who has added a phrase in Cornish. Very good, slightly bumped with a John Blowey bookplate in very good price clipped dustjacket. £50.00
Hamilton Jenkin, A.K: Mines and Miners of Cornwall - xiv St. Austell to Saltash. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. 1967. Near fine paperback original, with Forge books sticker over the Truro Bookshop name on the title page. £50.00
Hirschman, Jack: YOD. Trigram Press 1966. First edition, first printing. One of 200 copies, this copy unnumbered. Near fine hand-stiched concertina paperback loosely contained in a quarter cloth gold cover with gilt titles to the spine. £60.00
Lucas, Victoria (Plath, Sylvia): The Bell Jar. Heinemann/Contemporary Fiction 1964. First edition, first printing thus. The Contemporary Fiction edition, published the year after the first Heinemann edition and two years before the Faber edition published under the author's real name - Sylvia Plath. A touch of foxing to the foredge, otherwise fine in very good dustjacket with some colour fade. £1600.00
Manning, Hugo: The Secret Sea. Trigram Press 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed to the poet Edgell Rickword (who has also signed). One of 500 copies. Fine in near fine dustjacket. £40.00 x
Noall, Cyril: Cornish Mine Disasters. Dyllansow Truran 1989. First edition, first printing. Fine with a newspaper clipping tipped in in in near fine dustjacket. £40.00
Perkins, Jeff: Bob Dylan - Constant Sorrow. Abstract Sounds Books 2010. First edition, first printing. An unauthorised biography of Bob Dylan complete with 4 DVD's. Near fine in boards as published. £40.00
Rundle, S: Cornish Chairs. Royal Institution of Cornwall c 1908. First edition, first printing thus. Good separate publication as a pamphlet with loose pages. £10.00
Steven, G.A: Seals (Halichoerus grypus) of Cornwall Coasts. Journal of the Marine Biological Association 1936. First edition, first printing thus. Very good separate publication as a pamphlet. £20.00
Stockdale, F.W.L: Excursions in the County of Cornwall - Comprising a Concise Historical and Topographical Delineation of the Principal Towns and Villages, Together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry....Simpkin and Marshall 1824. First edition, first printing. Good in card boards, missing parts of backstrip. Plates and maps present, some loose. £120.00
Trevithick, Francis: Life of Richard Trevithick with an Account of his Inventions. E. & F.N. Spon 1872. First editions, first printings. Two volumes as one. Rebound in blue leather. Frank Brewer bookplate. Some foxing, but generally near fine. £240.00
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.
2024 titles will be listed in the next e-cat
* Entries with asterisks indicate that these titles are being shown for the first time or have been modified.
