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Children of the game
Harvill Press
1955
Two siblings, Elisabeth and Paul, isolate themselves from the world as they grow up, an isolation which is shattered by the stresses of their adolescence.
Le Potomak 1913-1914 précédé d'un prospectus 1916 et suave des Eugènes de la guerre 1915
Société Littéraire de France
1919
A collection of prose, verse and humorous drawings. Number 932 of the first limited edition.
Le livre blanc
Peter Owen
1969
Cocteau's semi-autobiographical narrative making a plea for homosexuality to be accepted without censure.
The rock pool: a novel
Hamish Hamilton
1947
A snobbish and mediocre literary young man from Oxford spends a summer on the Riviera with an artists' and writers' colony.
Silver circus: tales
Jonathan Cape
1928
A collection of short stories. Number 70 of a limited and signed edition of 125.
The Old Mill: being the candid chronicles of Penelope Potter
Oliver and Boyd
1934
A collection of short, mainly humorous, anecdotes.
Tempolabor: a libertine laboratory?
Schwabe
1998
An eclectic collection of new work by artists and writers.
Mes communions
Connaissance
1925
A collection of short stories. Number 563 in a limited edition of 750.
A season of olives
Falcon Press Ltd
1948
The author's first novel. With loosely inserted postcard from Wrey Gardiner and a letter to his nurse, Frances Ellen Hutchings, mentioning his son Simon.
Cat and mouse: a novel
Secker & Warburg
1963
Two teenagers become young men and are swallowed up by the Nazi war machine.
The white horseman: prose and verse of the new apocalypse
Routledge
1941
An anthology of war-time poetry, with a small selection of prose and essays.
The new apocalypse: an anthology of criticism, poems and stories
Fortune Press
1940
A collection of writings with contributions from Dylan Thomas, Norman McCaig, and Henry Treece.
Pagan's pilgrimage
Akros Publications
1978
Pagan, like Hogg's justified sinner, believes he has a mission to eliminate individuals that offend his personal sense of justice.
The other side
Macmillan & Co. Ltd
1946
Explores the consequences of a young French girl marrying a German soldier.
The modern Scottish Renaissance 1920-1960: a catalogue of the period
K. D. Duval
1960
A catalogue issued by K. D. Duval of works by modern Scottish author (including Hugh MacDiarmid, Neil Gunn and Ediwn Muir) and lithographs by Harley Brothers. Loosely laid in business card of K. D. Duval. With an introduction by Hugh MacDiarmid
The dead look on: a novel
William Heinemann Ltd
1943
A novel based on the Nazi massacre at Lidice.
We shall return: a novel of Dunkirk and the French campaign
Andrew Dakers Limited
1942
Set in the French campaign of 1939-1940 with the evacuation at Dunkirk as its culmination.
The four winds of love
Chatto & Windus
1944-1945
All signed and/or inscribed by Mackenzie and with two loosely inserted letters from Mackenzie, one of which discusses the delay to finishing 'The North wind'.
Ah King ; six stories
William Heinemann Ltd
1933
A collection of short stories set in the Federated Malay States and elsewhere in Southeast Asia during the 1920s.
Docherty
George Allen & Unwin Ltd
1975
Follows the struggles of a miner called Tam Docherty and his family.
Bitter herbs: a little chronicle
Oxford University Press
1960
Based on a true story of a Jewish girl in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Peake's progress: selected writings and drawings of Mervyn Peake
Overlook Press
1981
A selection of Peake's writings and drawings, made by his widow.
Count d'Orgel opens the ball
Harvill Press
1952
A haunting novel of chaste and sacrificial love set in the Paris of the early nineteen-twenties.
The roads to freedom
Hamish Hamilton
1947-1950
Sartre's trilogy of novels which revolve around Mathieu, a socialist teacher of philosophy, and a group of his friends.
