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Newsletter - Spring 2012


We*'re back!


Actually, we never went away. We've been trading as usual, but Martin has also been involved in his acting career (details), so there has been less time to keep regular customers informed through newsletters and Facebook (and we've just started tweeting @ArberyBooks). Our apologies if you've missed us.


Top of our list are the very rare The Girls of Radcliff Hall and three titles in the increasingly difficult to find Diary of a Boy series. More information below.


Among additions to our fiction shelves are Charles Jackson's The Fall of Valor (1st edition, 1946, signed by Francis King), Anthony McDonald's Orange Bitter, Orange Sweet, (1st edition, 2001), James Purdy's Narrow Rooms (1st edition, 1978), Forrest Reid's The Retreat (2nd edition, 1946), Mike Seabrook's Unnatural Relations (1st edition, 1989) and Samuel M Steward's Parisian Lives (1st edition, 1984).


Non-fiction includes Deborah Bright's The Passionate Camera, B R Burg's Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition, Aldo Busi's Sodomies in Elevenpoint, and an early edition of Vyvyan Holland's Son of Oscar Wilde.


For our lesbian customers we can offer a first edition of Michael Field's Canute the Great / The Cup of Water.


As we move towards the higher end of the rare and secondhand market, we are reducing our stock of more popular books. We are in the process of transferring scores of titles to our bargain section; all bargain books are now £4 each, £6 for two, £8 for four, £10 for six and £15 for ten titles - all including UK postage and packing.


As for our regular books - remember that in addition to the sale price, UK subscribers get free postage and packing (foreign subscribers pay reduced p&p). Details here.





The Girls of Radcliff Hall
by "Adela Quebec"
(Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners
early 1930s (only edition), privately printed
dedicated by author to Emerald (Maud) Cunard
£2,750

Gerald Berners' spoof depicted himself and his friends, including Cecil Beaton and Oliver Messel, as lesbian schoolgirls. The novel created an uproar in high society in the 1930s.

more details and photos
Fourteen / Fifteen / Sixteen: A Diary of the Teens
by A Boy ("Aubrey Fowkes")
1937 / 1938 / 1939 1st editions, Fortune Press, London, UK
£120 / £200 / £120

Three in a series of fictional diaries by a public schoolboy in the early years of the twentieth century.

Fourteen: more details and photographs
Fifteen: more details and photographs
Sixteen: more details and photographs





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