GRANTA. Ed Bill BURFORD. C.U.L. Cambridge.
Granta Publications by Penquin. Nos 2,3,5-43 . 1980-1993.
A paperback magazine of New Writing.
“The most read literary magazine in the English language…”
Containing fiction, articles & essays frequently on single themes such as Literature for Politics, Travel, New Europe, The Murderee, Krauts, The Body, New Writing from America, Death, Home, Autobiography, Best of Young British Novelists; etc.
The huge list of contributors includes most notable contemporary writers from the UK, USA & Europe amongst whom are Highsmith, Bellow,
Graham Greene, Barth, Sillitoe, Gordimer, Updike, Bryson, Le Carre, Martin Amis, Rushdie, McEwan, Erdrich, DeLillo, Boyd, Allende,
S Naipaul, Roth, Primo Levi, Grass, Fuentes, Jonathan Miller, Doctorow,
A N Wilson, Chatwin, Norman Lewis, Carver, Boll, Steiner, P Theroux, Bainbridge, William Cooper, Gellhorn, Lessing, Milosz, Vidal, Caute,
Mary McCarthy, Fenton, Greer, Llosa, J Barnes, Banville, Brink, Schama, Durren Matt, Thubron, Iain Banks, L De Bernieres. K Ishiguro,
H Kureishi, Ben Okri, J Winterson, etc. etc. etc.
41 issues in original wraps, all in very good condition. £250.00

Indiviual issues in original wraps.

No. 75 . Feb 15 1964 . Special issue no.1233 , commemorating the 75 th anniversary of Granta repeating past issues contributions by R Searle, N Bentley, Sylvia Plath, T Hughes, T Gunn, N Tomalin, Alistair Cooke, E M Forster, A A Milne, M Frayn, Stevie Smith, Jonathan Miller, R Firbank. etc. Very well illustrated copy. £18.00

1983. No 7. The Best of Young British Novelists. Special issue featuring some twenty authors including:- Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Ursula Bentley, Buchi Emecheta, Maggie Gee, Kasuo Ishiguro, Alan Judd, Adam Mars-Jones, Ian McEwan, Shiva Naipaul, Philip Norman , Christopher Priest, Lisa St Aubin De Teran, Clive Sinclair, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, A N Wilson, Pat Barker, etc. Original wraps. £10.00

1984, No 10. Travel Writing , featuring Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Russell Hoban, Jonathan Raban, James Fenton, Redmond O'Hanlon, Colin Thurbon, Martha Gellhorn, Bruce Chatwin, Norman Lewis, Saul Bellow, Paul Theroux, etc. Original wraps. £10.00

1984, No 11. Greetings From Prague . Featuring 3 pieces by Milan Kundera (A Kidnapped West or Culture Bows Out, Somewhere Behind, Soul and Body), and an interview of Milan Kundera by Ian McEwan. Other contributions by Salman Rushdie, Martha Gellhorn, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Don DeLillo, etc. Original wraps. £10.00

1984, No 12. The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth. Other contributions by Raymond Carver (The Cabin), David Caute (The Guardian and Sarah Tidsall), Günter Grass (Resistance), Gabriel García Márquez (Julio Cortázar, 1914-84), and others including Bernard Crick, David Lodge, Mario Vargas Llosa, etc. Original wraps. £10.00

1984 Autum, No 13. After the Revolution, plus: Fiction in Britain . Milan Kundera (Paris or Prague?), James Fenton (Cambodia and Someth May), Doris Lessing (Writing Under Another Name), Anita Brookner (A Wedding), Martin Amis (The Time Sickness), Russell Hoban (A Conversation with the Head of Orpheus), plus Someth May, Orville Schell, and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1984 Winter, No 14. Autobiography . Contributions from Norman Lewis, Raymond Carver, Beryl Bainbridge, Michael Ignatieff, Doris Lessing, William Boyd, Bernard Crick, Josef Škvorecký, and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1985 Spring, No 15. James Fenton (The Fall of Saigon). Other contributions from Richard Ford, Noam Chomsky, Nadine Gordimer, George Steiner, Salman Rushdie, Günter Grass, John Berger, etc. Original wrapes. £10.00

1985 Summer, No 16 . Science. Contrinutions from Oliver Sacks, Thomas McMahon, Italo Calvine, William Broad, Primo Levi, Stephen Jay Gould, Tim O'Brien, David Mamet, Germaine Greer, David Hare, and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1985 Autumn, No 17. Graham Greene (While Waiting for a War). Kazuo Ishiguro (October, 1948), Doris Lessing (Autobiography (Part Two): My Mother's Life), John Updike (Italo Calvina), and others including Milan Kundera, Nadine Gordimer, Hanif Kureishi, Heinrich Böll, Amos Oz. Original wraps. £10.00

1986 Summer, No 19. MORE DIRT: New Writing from America . Richard Ford (Empire), Jayne Anne Phillips (Fast Lanes), Louise Erdrich (Knives), John Updike (Getting the Words Out), Primo Levi and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1986 Winter, No 20. In Trouble Again – A Special Issue of Travel Writing . Contributions from Redmond O'Hanlon, Salman Rushdie, Colin Thubron, Martha Gellhorn, Amitav Ghosh, HanifKureishi, Norman Lewis, etc. Original wraps. £10.00

1987 Spring, No 21. The Story-Teller . Authors include John Berger, Michael Ignatieff, Bruce Chatwin, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Patrick Süskind, Isabel Allende, Václav Havel, Primo Levi, and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1987 Autumn, No 22 . Hanif Kureishi (With Your Tongue Down My Throat) – first novel . James Fenton (The Truce), Doris Lessing, Wycliffe Kato, Nadine Gordimer, Carlos Fuentes and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1988 Spring, No 23 . Home. Contributions from Václav Havel, Jonathan Raban, Bill Bryson, Martha Gellhorn, Norman Lewis, Seamus Deane, Jeanette Winterson, Johnathan Miller, Nicholas Shakespeare, Iam Hamilton and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1988 Summer, No 24. Inside Intelligence – The Incomplete Life of Anthony Cavendish . Other contributions from Bruce Chatwin, Philip Roth, Tobias Wolff, Peter Carey, James Fenton, E.L. Doctorow, Jay McInerney, and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1988 Autumn, No 25. The Murderee – Martin Amis . Graham Smith, Raymond Carver, Angela Carter, Don DeLillo, John Berger, Amitav Ghosh, and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1989 Spring, No 26. Travel. Bruce Chatwin (The Bey, Mrs Mandelstram, Konstantin Melnikov: Architect), and other contributions from Colin Thubron, Norman Lewis, Bill Bryson, Amitav Ghosh, Rian Malan, and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1989 Summer, No 27. Death. Work from fourteen writers and photographers, including Mary McCarthy, Adam Mars-Jones, Roger Garfitt, Michael Ignatieff, John Treherne, William Cooper, Louise Erdrich, and others. Otiringal wraps. £10.00

1989 Autumn, No 28. Birthday Special! Salman Rushdie (6 March 1989), Nadine Gordimer (The Ultimate Safari), John Updike (The Lens Factory), Colin Thubron (Mistakes), and others including John Simpson, George Steiner, Jeanette Winterson, Russell Hoban, Maria Vargas Llosa, etc. Original wraps. £10.00

1989 Winter, No 29 . NEW WORLD – Jonathan Raban . Paul Theroux (First Train Journey), atricia Highsmith (Scene of the Crime), and others including Patrick McGrath, Josef Škvorecký, Robert Fisk, etc. Original wraps. £10.00

1990 Winter, No 30. NEW EUROPE ! Contributions from Graham Swift, Michael Ignatieff, Josef Škvorecký, George Steiner, Isaiah Berlin, Noel Annan, Tony Benn, Czeslaw Milosz, Stephen Spender, Joseph Brodsky, Jonathan Raban, and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1990 Summer, No 32. History . Authors include Simon Schama, Julian Barnes, Gore Vidal, Martha Gellhorn, Jonathan Raban, and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1990 Summer, No 33 . What Went Wrong? William McPherson (In Romania), Martin Amis (Time's Arrow), Victoria Tokareva, Christa Wolf, Isabel Allende, and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1991 Spring, No 35 . The Unbearable Peace – John le Carré . Nadine Gordimer (Some are Born to Sweet Delight). Other contributions from Max Frisch, Freidrich Dürrenmatt, John Berger and Jean Mohr, etc. Original wraps. £10.00

1991 Summer, No 36 . Vargas Llosa for President – Mario Vargas Llosa . Martin Amis (Time's Arrow (Part Three): The Conclusion), George Steiner (Proofs). Alvara Vargas Llosa, Graham Scift and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1991 Autumn, No 37 . The Family . Sappho Durrell (Journals and Letters), Harold Pinter (The New World Order), Mikal Gilmore, William Wharton, Seamus Deane, and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1991 Winter, No 38 . We're So Happy! Contributions from Jeremy Rifkin, Tracy Kidder, Louise Erdrich, Adam Mars-Jones, Sue Halpern and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1992 Spring, No 39 . THE BODY . SalmanRushdie (At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers), Hanif Kureisha (Wild Women, Wild Men), other authors include Redmond O'Hanlon (The Congo Dinosaur), Jeanette Winterson, Todd McEwan, and others. Original wraps. £10.00

1992 Autumn, No 41. BIOGRAHPY . Saul Bellow (Memoirs of a Bootlegger's Son), Gabriel García Márquez (Dreams for Hire (Frau Frida) ), Andrew Motion (Breaking In (Philip Larkin) ). Other contributions by Todd McEwan, Louise Erdrich, Ian Hamilton, John Banville, and others. Original wraps. £10.00