Secondhand Vintage Hardback Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4101

Secondhand Vintage Hardback Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4101

Twenty mid-century hardbacks, all in dust jackets: John Fowles’s The Collector, Irwin Shaw’s Lucy Crown, Harold Robbins’s 79 Park Avenue, two Kathleen Winsors, Alistair MacLean’s Force 10 from Navarone, Amanda Cross’s James Joyce Murder, Osmar White’s Silent Reach, Richard Llewellyn, A.E. Hotchner, Naomi Jacob, Martha Rofheart and more. A shelf of 1950s to 70s jackets for a collector who buys for the covers.

1. Lucy Crown — Irwin Shaw — A wife’s affair with a young tutor in 1937, and what it does to her son. Shaw’s 1956 bestseller, in the Jonathan Cape jacket with the lettered design.
2. Angels in the Snow — Derek Lambert — A British embassy official in Moscow, a Russian girl, and the KGB. Lambert’s first Cold War thriller, 1969. BCA edition.
3. Ask the Name of the Lion — Ralph Allen — A modern novel of the Congo: refugees and mercenaries in the chaos of independence, 1962. The Canadian journalist’s only novel, with the striking jacket.
4. The Wine of Youth — Robert Wilder — A family saga from the author of Flamingo Road, in the red-and-black jacket.
5. The James Joyce Murder — Amanda Cross — Kate Fansler, English professor, edits Joyce’s letters in the Berkshires and finds a body. Carolyn Heilbrun’s pseudonymous academic mystery, 1967, with the Ulysses-themed jacket.
6. The Collector — John Fowles — Frederick Clegg, a butterfly collector, wins the pools and kidnaps Miranda Grey. Her diary and his account. Fowles’s first novel, 1963, and still the most frightening. Jacket with the key and the butterfly.
7. Talon — Antony Melville-Ross — A submarine thriller from the author of Trigger, with the periscope jacket.
8. The Dangerous American — A.E. Hotchner — A thriller set in the Middle East, from Hemingway’s friend and biographer. 1958, with the yellow jacket.
9. Second Harvest — Naomi Jacob — A family saga from the author of the Gollantz novels. Hutchinson, with the portrait jacket.
10. America, with Love — Kathleen Winsor — A novel of New York from the author of Forever Amber. Jacket with the collage lettering.
11. Larks in the Popcorn — H. Allen Smith — Climbing New Totem Poles, Lost in New Latitudes: the humorist’s account of becoming a squire in Westchester. 1948.
12. Silent Reach — Osmar White — A thriller of the Australian outback from the war correspondent who wrote Green Armour. Jacket with the body in the desert.
13. Cry ‘God for Harry’ — Martha Rofheart — Henry V from boyhood to Agincourt, told by five people who knew him. Rofheart’s 1972 historical novel, with the knights jacket.
14. The Lovers — Kathleen Winsor — A novel from the Forever Amber author, in the black jacket with the red script.
15. 79 Park Avenue — Harold Robbins — Marja Flood, from the slums to a Park Avenue penthouse as New York’s most notorious madam. Robbins’s 1955 bestseller, with the blonde on the jacket.
16. Beware, Beware the Bight of Benin — Philip McCutchan — A novel of the British Navy in 1891: a gunboat on the slave coast. The first of the Halfhyde series.
17. Force 10 from Navarone — Alistair MacLean — Mallory, Miller and Andrea parachute into Yugoslavia to blow a dam. The sequel to The Guns of Navarone, 1968, with the hand-grenade jacket.
18. The Adventures of David Simple — Sarah Fielding — Henry Fielding’s sister’s 1744 novel of a good man searching for a true friend in London. Oxford English Novels, edited by Malcolm Kelsall.
19. Tell Me Now, and Again — Richard Llewellyn — A novel from the How Green Was My Valley author, with the hand-in-water jacket.
20. The Affair in Arcady — James Wellard — A novel of the American South, with the plantation jacket.
21. The Nearing Storm — Desmond Donnelly — A political thriller from the former Labour MP, with the bullets-and-pistol jacket.