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AISSA SAVED. 1952. Michael Joseph. Carfax Edition wth special 6pp prefactory essay by author. Dw twith closed tears at head of spine. First thus. £20.00

AISSA SAVED. (1962) Harper. Dw. Excellent copy of the first American edition. £25.00

AN AMERICAN VISITOR. 1933. E Benn. Dw chipped at head of spine well clear of title. Ist issue black cloth gilt. A little very light foxing of the prelims otherwise very good copy of Author's second novel. £65.00

AN AMERICAN VISITOR. 1933. E Benn. Original cloth gilt slightly marked owvg. £35.00

AN AMERICAN VISITOR. 1933. E Benn. Orange cloth with black lettering - 2nd issue binding. £12.00

AN AMERICAN VISITOR. 1952. Michael Joseph. Dw. Carfax Edition wth special 5pp prefactory essay by author. First thus. £12.00

AN AMERICAN VISITOR. 1961. Harper. 1st US edition. Name stamped on end paper. £8.00

THE AFRICAN WITCH. 1936. Gollancz. Dw. Signed by Author on title page. The inner flap of the dw provides details of Cary's involvement in Nigeria, the bachground of this novel. £60.00

THE AFRICAN WITCH. 1936. Gollancz. Dw chipped on ends of spine not affecting the print. £40.00

THE AFRICAN WITCH. 1936. Gollancz. £12.00

THE AFRICAN WITCH. 1951. Michael Joseph. Dw. Carfax Edition with special prefactory essay by author. First thus. £12.00

CASTLE CORNER. 1938. Gollancz. Uncommon title. £20.00

CASTLE CORNER. 1950. Michael Joseph. Uniform Edn. Inscription on front end paper. £6.00

CASTLE CORNER. 1952. Michael Joseph. Proof copy in original frayed & loose wraps. Carfax Edition wth special prefactory essay by author. £15.00

CASTLE CORNER. 1952. Michael Joseph. Dw. Carfax Edition wth special prefactory essay by author. First thus. £15.00

POWER IN MEN. 1939.Nicolson & Watson. Light foxing due to wartime paper. £16.00

POWER IN MEN. 1939. Liberal Book Club. No dw issued. £12.00

MISTER JOHNSON. 1939. Dw badly chipped & torn but retaining most of the text. Boards a little marked. Lacks front blank free end paper otherwise very good copy of a very difficult title, this being signed by the Author on the title page. £110.00

MISTER JOHNSON. (1951) USA. Dw a little frayed. £30.00

MISTER JOHNSON. 1952. Michael Joseph. Carfax Edition wth special prefactory essay by author. Proof copy in original wraps with dw. First thus. £15.00

MISTER JOHNSON. 1962. Original wraps. Penguin Modern Classics Edition. £4.00

CHARLEY IS MY DARLING. 1940. Michael Joseph. Covers a little used otherwise very good copy of a very difficult title, the scarcest of Cary's novels. £125.00

CHARLEY IS MY DARLING. 1951. Michael Joseph. Dw a little chipped. Carfax Edition wth special 6pp prefactory essay by author. First thus. £25.00

CHARLEY IS MY DARLING. 1959. New English Library, Four Square Edition. Original wraps. 1st thus. £4.00

CHARLEY IS MY DARLING. (1959) Harper. USA. Dw. Inscription on front end paper. £10.00

THE CASE FOR AFRICAN FREEDOM. 1941. Searchlight Books. Original wraps with foreword by G Orwell. £40.00

THE CASE FOR AFRICAN FREEDOM. 1944. Secker & Warburg. Dw frayed. Name on front end paper. New & greatly enlarged edition with two maps. £20.00

HERSELF SURPRISED. 1941.M Joseph. Signed by author on title page with presentation inscription on front end paper, "Flo Venables with the author's love and best wishes. " Corner bumped. A difficult title. £160.00

HERSELF SURPRISED. 1951. Michael Joseph. Dw. Carfax Edition wth special prefactory essay by author. First thus. £12.00

SARA. (HERSELF SURPRISED). 1954. Librairie Plon, Paris. Original wraps. Traduit de l'anglais par Yvonne Davet. Unopened copy. £8.00

A HOUSE OF CHILDREN. 1941. Michael Joseph. Dw. £80.00

TO BE A PILGRIM. 1942. Michael Joseph. Inscribed Presentation copy from the author to Flo Venables. £125.00

TO BE A PILGRIM. 1942. Harper. 1st US edition. Black cloth covers marked but the book is in a very good, clean condition. Illustrated. £12.00

TO BE A PILGRIM. 1951. Michael Joseph. Carfax Edition wth special prefactory essay by author. First thus. £6.00

PROCESS OF REAL FREEDOM. 1943. Spine very lightly sunned & crease mark on upper wrap. 16pp. £20.00

THE HORSE'S MOUTH. 1944. Michael Joseph. Dw very slightly frayed. £60.00

THE HORSE'S MOUTH. 1944. Harper. NY. Dw frayed on ends of spine. £12.00

THE HORSE'S MOUTH. 1948. Penguin. Original wraps. Frontis specially drawn by author for this edition. £6.00

THE HORSE'S MOUTH. 1957. G Rainbird. Ed by Andrew Wright with preface, notes & bibliography. Edition limited to 1500 copies in original matching slip case. This contains the tipped in limitation sheet & is one of 200 reserved for the friends of George Rainbird Ltd & Rainbird, McLean Limited Chritsmas 1957. Self-portrait & 8 illustrations by Cary together with The Old Strife at Plant's (a discarded chapter of The Horse's Mouth). Title page & spine lettering engraved by John Woodcock. . £55.00

THE HORSE'S MOUTH. 1957. G Rainbird. Ed by Andrew Wright with preface, notes & bibliography. Self-portrait & 8 illus by author & The Old Strife at Plant's-a discarded chapter of The Horse's Mouth. £20.00

THE HORSE'S MOUTH. 1969. Folio Society. Introduced by Kingsley Hart. Original pictorial cloth. Slip case. Illustrated by J Bratby. £16.00
THE HORSE'S MOUTH. 1965. Time Life Books. Original wraps. New introduction by Elizabeth Lawrence & the Editors. £5.00

THE OLD STRIFE AT PLANT'S. 1956. Privately Printed. Edn Lim to 100 copies. Privately Printed at the New Bodleian Library. Signed by author & printer /publisher. Fine copy with the author's full plate illustrations, two being hand coloured. £180.00

ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE OLD STRIFE AT PLANTS. 1956. New Bodleian. Original wraps. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies printed for & signed by the author/artist Near fine unopened copy with 4 full plate illustrations & the title page decoration. £85.00

MARCHING SOLDIER. 1945. Dw. Name on front end paper. £15.00

BRITAIN AND WEST AFRICA. 1946. Original wraps. Near fine. Illustrated. £20.00

THE MOONLIGHT. 1946. Michael Joseph. Signed by author on title page. Front blank end paper excised. Dw chipped on ends of spine. £85.00

THE MOONLIGHT. 1946. Michael Joseph. Dw slightly frayed. £20.00

THE MOONLIGHT. 1946. USA. Harper. £5.00

THE DRUNKEN SAILOR. 1947. Michael Joseph. Dw a little frayed. Long "Flying Dutchman Poem. " Illustrated by Cary. £15.00

A FEARFUL JOY. 1949. Michael Joseph. Dw frayed. £16.00

A FEARFUL JOY. 1949. Harper. 1st US edition. £6.00

A FEARFUL JOY. 1950. Orig wraps. Star Editions for sale on the Continent only. £5.00

A FEARFUL JOY. 1952. Michael Joseph. Dw. Carfax Edition wth special prefactory essay by author. First thus. £12.00

PRISONER OF GRACE. 1952. Michael Joseph. Signed by the author on title page with his presentation inscription on the front end paper, "Flo Venables with the author's love Oct 1952. " Dw very slightly chipped. £120.00

PRISONER OF GRACE. 1952. Michael Joseph. Dw price clipped & chipped at head and foot of spine. £10.00

PRISONER OF GRACE. 1952. Harper. 1st USA. Dw frayed. Inscription on front end paper. £8.00

EXCEPT THE LORD. 1953. Dw. Presentation copy signed by the author on front end paper & inscribed "Flo & Malcolm Venables with the author's love Christmas 1953". £75.00

EXCEPT THE LORD. 1953. Uncorrected proof copy in original wraps somewhat dusty with the initials "DG" on the cover. £25.00

EXCEPT THE LORD. 1953. Michael Joseph. Dw. Excellent condition. £25.00

EXCEPT THE LORD. 1953. Harper. 1st USA edition. £6.00

NOT HONOUR MORE. 1955. Michael Joseph. Uncorrected proof copy. Orig wraps. £25.00

NOT HONOUR MORE. 1955. Michael Jospeh. Dw. Carfax Edition wth special prefactory essay by author. First thus. £12.00

NOT HONOUR MORE. 1955. Michael Joseph. Dw. Near fine. £20.00

NOT HONOUR MORE. 1955. Harper. Dw very slightly frayed otherwise a very good copy of the 1st American edition. £12.00

ART AND REALITY. 1958. Cambridge. Dw. Name plate on front end paper. Review by David Cecil laid in. £20.00

THE CAPTIVE AND THE FREE. 1959. Harper. USA. Dw. Editor's note by W Davin. David Cecil's introduction tells of his regular visits to Cary during the days of his last illness. This precedes English 1st edition. £25.00

THE CAPTIVE AND THE FREE. 1959. Michael Joseph. 1st English Edition. Dw very slightly frayed. Introduced by David Cecil. Cary's last book. £15.00

THE CAPTIVE AND THE FREE.1963. Penguin Books. Orig wraps. Intro by D Cecil. £3.00

SPRING SONG AND OTHER STORIES. 1960. Michael Joseph. dw. £25.00

SPRING SONG AND OTHER STORIES.1960. USA. Harper. Dw. Intro by W Davin.£16.00

MEMOIR OF THE BOBOTES in TEXAS QUARTERLY. 1960 Spring. USA. Introduced by J B Meriwether. Precedes the English Edition. First publication of this work, taken from a typescript account of his experiences in Montenegro, found among his papers after his death-120pp. Illustrated by by the Author. Original wraps. A Supplement to the Texas Quarterly. £16.00

MEMOIR OF THE BOBOTES. 1964. Michael Jospeh. Dw. Introduced by Walter Allen. Illustrated by by the Author. £12.00

MEMOIR OF THE BOBOTES. 1964. Michael Joseph. A different dw from the normal issue. No publisher on spine, blank inner flap & publisher's blurb on lower panel. Dw price clipped. Illustrated by by the author. £12.00

MEMOIR OF THE BOBOTES. 1964. Michael Joseph. Review copy with review slip laid in. Dw differs from that of the other book of the same title & date. £12.00

COCK JARVIS. 1974. Michael Joseph. Dw. Foreword by Walter Allen. An Unfinished Novel. Ed A G Bishop. £10.00

COCK JARVIS. 1974. Michael Joseph. Proof copy in original wraps. £12.00

JOYCE CARY. SELECTED ESSAYS. 1976. Ed A G Bishop. Foreword by Helen Gardner. Uncorrected Proof Copy in original wraps. Near fine. Includes previously unpublished essay & an interview. £10.00

JOYCE CARY. SELECTED ESSAYS. 1976. Michael Joseph. Dw. £10.00

2 ALS & 2 TLS one with a holograph addition. 1952-1955.
These are addressed to the critic Evans Owen about his books and reviews---
-"your suggestion of a trilogy startled me."
"the new book is the second of a trilogy about Nimmo, and you were certainly one of the people who encouraged me to return to my original plan of a trilogy when I was very doubtfull .."
"…reviewers are suspicious of my intentions, and others have simply lost any sense of the religious atsmosphere…"
He also refers to criticism of his books, "Except The Lord" and "Not Honour More".
In other letters he agrees that it couldn't "be understood except with the other two books of the trilogy."
An interesting and revealing collection.£100.00

3 TYPED LETTERS. 1952-1955. All signed by Cary thanking the writer for his letters and agreeing to sign his books. In 2 of them he apologises for any delay as (1) he had been in hospital & (2) had just returned from America. £35.00

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BOOKS/PERIODICALS with Contributions by Joyce CARY

LITERATURE AND LIFE. 2nd Volume. 1951. Dw. Addresses to The English Association. (J Cary-What Does Art Create? P Dickinson, A Thirkell, etc.) Name on front end paper. £8.00

WRITERS AT WORK. 1958. The Pais Review Interviews introduced by M Cowley. (J Cary, Thornton Wilder, W Faulkner, E M Forster, F Mauriac, R Penn Warren, D Parker, J Thurber, W Faulkner, R Penn Warren, G Simenon, A Moravia, M Algren, W Stryon, T Capote, A Wilson, F O'Connor, etc.) Poof copy in original wraps. £10.00

ENCORE. Ed. L Russell. 1963. The Sunday Times Book. 2nd Year. Dw v slightly frayed. (J Cary-Surtees; E Waugh, H Williamson, I Murdoch, I Fleming, J Steinbeck, W S Maugham, R Mortimer, R Chandler, J B Priestley, etc.) All first book-form. £16.00

ADAM. 1950. 212-213. Issue devoted to the Work of Joyce Cary. 3 new prefaces to 3 of his books; Conversation between Cary & David Cecil; A Novel is a Novel is a Novel & The Way a Novel Gets Written both by Cary; B E Owen on Cary's Novel-signed by Owen; Other articles on Cary by D Barr & M Schorer. Original wraps. £15.00

CORNHILL. Original wraps
1951/1952. No 990. (A Special Occasion. A story-2.5pp by J Cary; etc.) Illustrated. £6.00
1952. Summer. No 992. (Mass Mind: A Modern Catchword by J Cary.) Illustrated. £8.00
1954. Summer. No 1000. (The Idea of Progress-7pp article by Joyce Cary. Cover design by J Piper. Unpublished engraving by E Ravillious; etc.) £10.00

HARPER'S MAGAZINE. Original wraps
1949. Sept. (J Cary-Diner at the Beeders-9pp story; etc.) £5.00
1950 Feb (J Cary-The Way A Novel Gets Written; etc.) £6.00
1950 Aug. (J Cary- The Old Strife At Plant's; etc.) £6.00
1951 Sept. (Special Occasion - a story with a drawing by J Cary;etc.). £8.00
1952 June. (Success - a story by J Cary; etc.) £5.00
1952 Nov. (Evangelist-a story by J Cary; K Raine-poem; Cover by E Gorey, etc.) £6.00

ENCOUNTER. No 36 1956 Sept (J Cary-You're only Young Once with a drawing by E Paolozzi; W De La Mare-A Last Interview; G Mikes, Spender, Auden.) £8.00

LONDON MAGAZINE. Original wraps
1954 March (J Cary-Spring Song-short story; G Barker-At The Wake of Dylan Thomas; V Watkins, C Causley, W Sansom on I Bunin.). £7.00

1955 Feb. (J Cary-Carmagnole, 3pp short story. Portrait of Cary by K Wilozynski. MacNeice, Causley, Wilson, O Sitwell, etc.) £9.00

1958 Jan. (J Cary's Unpublished Work by Andrew WRIGHT-8pp. J Wain-A Walk in Sacred Wood; J Holloway, T Blackburne, etc. ) £6.00

1958 Sept. (J Cary-A Hero of Our Time; J Stern on H Miller & L Powys; C Wilson on A Huxley; Poems-H Nicholson & J Fuller (2); R Fuller, A Ross, J Stern, L A G Strong.) £9.00

MODERN READING. 1945. No 13. J Cary-Sonnet; H Treece, F O'Connor, J Atkins, J Brooke, E Taylor, G R Hamilton, L A G Strong, K Patchen, D K Haynes,etc.) £10.00

NIMBUS. 1955. v 3/2. (J Cary on The Paintings Of Gerald Wilde. illus-3 pp; Stevie Smith, G Barker, Wilbur, J Heath-Stubbs, A Thwaite, G Hill, A Cronin, etc.) Orig wraps ?10.00 PARIS REVIEW. Fall 1954-55. An Interview with Cary on The Art of Fiction (16pp) together with a facsimile Mss of a work in progress. Original wraps £15.00

PUNCH. Original wraps
21/10/53. (Red Letter Day-3pp story with drawing by J Cary; etc. Stevie Smith, P G Wodehouse-story: R Graves; etc.) £15.00
2/12/53. (J Cary-Buying a Horse-3pp story; G Gorer, A P Herbert, etc.) £5.00

THE WINDMILL. 1945. v 1/2. (J Cary-Bush River; G Orwell, T H White, L Whistler, R Todd, J Hanley., B Chamberlain, D K Haynes, O Manning, P H Newby, F O'Connor, Stevie Smith, O Stapledon, etc.) Original wraps a little frayed. £12.00

WORLD REVIEW. 1951 Feb. (Old Strife at Plants by J Cary ? with an introductory paragraph by the author; H Miller on Blaise Cendras; etc.) Original wraps. £10.00

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BOOKS or PERIODICALS with articles about Joyce CARY

ALLEN, Walter.
READING A NOVEL. 1949. Phoenix. The Power & The Glory is one of the six novels discussed as is The Horse's Mouth by J Cary; also Between the Acts by V Woolf, Middlemarch by G Eliot, Goodbye to Berlin by C Isherwood & A Woman of the Pharisees by F Mauriac. £8.00
JOYCE CARY. 1953. Original wraps. £5.00
JOYCE CARY. 1963. Revised with amendments & additions. Original wraps. £5.00
AS I WALKED DOWN NEW GRUB STREET. 1981. Dw. Memories of a Writing Life. Reminiscences of Auden, MacNeice, Henry Green. Portraits of Joyce Cary, MacLaren-Ross, E Linklater, etc. £8.00

BISHOP, Alan. GENTLEMAN RIDER. 1988. Dw. A Biography of Joyce Cary. Useful bibio at rear. Illustrated. £10.00

COOK, Cordelia. JOYCE CARY. LIBERAL PRINCIPLES. 1981. Near fine. £6.00

DAVIN, Dan. CLOSING TIMES. 1975. Dw. Recollections of Dylan Thomas, J Cary, J MacLaren-Ross, W R Rodgers,
Enid Starkie, Itzik Manger. Illustrated. £16.00

ECHERUO, M J. JOYCE CARY AND THE DIMENSIONS OF ORDER. 1979. Dw. £6.00

HALL, Dennis. JOYCE CARY. 1983. St Martin's Press. NY. Dw. A Reappraisal. £6.50

FOSTER, Malcolm.
JOYCE CARY. A BIOGRAPHY. 1968. USA. Uncorrected proofs in interlaced wraps, somewhat used, with loosely inserted 2pp advance publishers blurb. The works containing first publication of extracts from Mss, letters and diaries in the Bodleian Library & other sources. £20.00
JOYCE CARY. A BIOGRAPHY. 1968. USA. Dw slightly chipped. Includes much previously unpublished material. Each page is paginated in ink & the burlb carries an ink date & price. Illustrated. £12.00
JOYCE CARY. 1969. Dw. Ist English edition which includes a more comprehensive bibliography than the earlier
American edition. £12.00

KARL, F R. A READER'S GUIDE TO THE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH NOVEL. 1963. Dw very slightly frayed. Chapters on the work of S Beckett, J Cary, L Durrell, I Compton-Burnett, G Greene, G Orwell, E Waugh etc. Ex lib copy. Illustrated. £6.00

LARSEN, Golden L.
THE DARK DESCENT. 1965. Social Change & Moral Responsibility in the Novels of J Cary. Proof Copy in original drab wraps. £8.00
THE DARK DESCENT. 1965. Dw. £8.00

MAHOOD, M M. JOYCE CARY'S AFRICA. 1964. Dw. £10.00

NOBLE, R W. JOYCE CARY. 1973. Original stiff wraps. £5.00

SODERSKOG, Ingvar. JOYCE CARY'S "HARD CONCEPTUAL LABOUR". 1977. Sweden. A Structural Analysis of To Be a Pilgrim. Review copy. Orig wraps. £8.00

VAN O'CONNOR, William. JOYCE CARY. 1966. USA. Original wraps. Includes a short bibliography. £6.00

WRIGHT, Andrew. JOYCE CARY. 1958. Dw. A Preface to his Novels. Contains a very useful biblio of novels, short fiction, treatises, poems & essays in periodicals as well as secondary sources. Index. £12.00

THE ARK OF GOD. Ed. DOUGLAS STEWART. 1961. Dw. Studies in 5 Modern Novelists - J Cary, G Greene, J Joyce, A Huxley, R Macaulay. £12.00

BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. 1957 May. (D Stanford on J Cary; E Moon on J Steinbeck; R Graves-Personality of the Month; J Atkins on N Douglas;G Skelton on J C Powys; R Lancelyn Green on Kipling; D Hughes on W Sansom, etc.) £4.00

ENCOUNTER. No 261 1975 June (D Davin-J Cary Remembered; M J Lasky on The Baader-Meinhof Gang; R Conquest on R E Lee; D Dunn.) £4.00

ENGLISH. 1966. Summer. The Captive And The Free. Artist, Child & Society in The World of J Cary by K WATSON. £5.00

ESSAYS AND STUDIES. 1950. Vol 3.N S. Dw. (P Hansford Johnson-Three Novelists & the Drawing of Character-C P Snow, Joyce Cary & Ivy Compton-Burnett; etc. £6.00

ESSAYS BY DIVERS HANDS. Vol.32. New Series. 1963. Dw. (E Starkie on Joyce Cary-a Portrait-20pp; P Hansford Johnson, C Day Lewis..) £12.00

INTERNATIONAL LITERARY ANNUAL. Ed. J WAIN. 1958-1961. Nos 1-3. (J Cary by A Wright including facs Mss; Reflections on Some Aspects of the Experimental Novel by W Cooper; R Conquest, A Alvarez, E Lucie-Smith, B Aldiss, M Hamburger, R West, W Cooper, G S Fraser, W Burroughs, etc.) £40.00

MODERN FICTION STUDIES. USA. 1963. Autumn. V.9/3. Joyce Cary issue with contributions from include Andrew Wright, G Garrett, L Stevenson, M Foster, J Teeling, etc & with a selected checklist of Cary criticism. £10.00

3 Cuttings relating to Joyce Cary. A Valedictory of a Great Writer - 2pp cutting by A D, nd. B Levin on A Pilgrim's Progress to J Cary - Times, May 1977; Cary's Enchancement of Life by David Cecil-review of Art & Reality. £4.00