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NOONDAY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in London in the autumn of 1940 during the Blitz. "As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul Tarrant works as an air-raid warden." The final book in the Life Class trilogy, this can also be read as a stand-alone novel. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-0385537728.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 82331More details Price: $18.50 -
THE POSTMISTRESS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam (Penguin), (2010). First edition - The author's first novel, set in 1940 as London is enduring the blitz and the US is still on the verge of war. "In the thick of the chaos is a young American radio reporter Frankie Bard. Listening to Frankie are Iris James, a Cape Cod postmistress, and Emma Fitch, a doctor's wife. But one night in London the fates of all three woman entwine when Frankie finds a letter - a letter she vows to deliver." Historical note. 340 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.
Book ID: 89315More details Price: $19.50 -
THE SUGAR MILE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's 8th book of poetry, a long narrative poem which "juxtaposes two cities on the brink of irrevocable change. It begins when the poet steps into an uptown Manhattan bar a few days before September 11, 2001. He is confronted by Joseph Stone, a barstool regular and a fellow expatriate.. . It has been almost exactly sixty-one years since London's 'Black Saturday,' the start of the worst of the Blitz during World War II." 140 pp. ISBN: 0-618562435.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80423More details Price: $18.50 -
MOTHER LONDON.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harmony (Crown), (1989.). SIGNED first edition - Described on the back cover as Moorcock's 'centennial novel', this is one of his best - the story of 3 Londoners, patients at the same mental clinic and survivors of the German V2 bombings during World War II. Angela Carter described this as a 'vast, uncorseted, sentimental, comic, elegiac salmagundi of a novel' while Richard Burns called it 'wise and wistful, authentic and authoritative, intelligent and informed. It is a masterpiece.' SIGNED on the title page. 496 pp.
Condition: Near fine in light gray printed wrappers.
Book ID: 72332More details Price: $50.00 -
DANCE WITH DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
London: Headline (Hodder), (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second in this series of historical mysteries featuring Francis Hancock, "As an undertaker he is no stranger to death and, during the London Blitz of 1940, he has seen the worst that humanity can do to itself. Why then does the murder of a young gypsy girl in Epping Forest move him so much?" SIGNED on the title page. Glossary. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-755321375.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (toning to pages)
Book ID: 92041More details Price: $27.50 -
THE CONSEQUENCES OF FEAR: A Maisie Dobbs Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in London in 1941, during the Blitz, and where Maisie Dobbs is secretly working with British intelligence, assessing candidates to work with the French Resistance. 341 pp. ISBN: 978-0062868022.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89298More details Price: $18.50 -
THE CONSEQUENCES OF FEAR: A Maisie Dobbs Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in London in 1941, during the Blitz, and where Maisie Dobbs is secretly working with British intelligence, assessing candidates to work with the French Resistance. 341 pp. ISBN: 978-0062868022.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 89942More details Price: $16.50

