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Click to view full description | 1. | (Burgess, Anthony). Lewis, Roger ANTHONY BURGESS: A Biography
New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, (2004). First U.S. edition, first printing: Review copy, with materials laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 434 pages, including index. Illustrated with photographs reproduced on coated stock inserts in a center gallery.
''There are passages of such brilliance--especially when he rails against his subject, whom he has come to hate...that I found it exhilarating... Lewis is a mad obsessive, more of a stalker than a biographer.''--New Statesman.
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| 2. | Burgess, Anthony 1985
Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown & Company, (1978). First edition. Small spot of stain to the top page edges, otherwise fine in dust jacket.
''...divided into a competent essay on Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (1949) and a blustering sf tale set in 1985 dominated by Arabs and left wing unions...'' --Clute and Nicholls, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION.
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| 3. | Burgess, Anthony A CLOCKWORK ORANGE/HONEY FOR THE BEARS
New York: The Modern Library, (1968). First edition thus. Very nearly fine, with virtually invisible foxing to page edges, mild erasure fade to front free endsheet; in a price-clipped, faintly age-toned, lightly edgeworn, near fine dust jacket.
Pairing of two of the British novelist's best-known short novels: BEARS, a fast-paced farcical satire set in Cold War Soviet Russia; and ORANGE, source of the Kubrick film, and ''Burgess's most brilliant and blackest achievement.''--John Gardner.
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| 4. | Burgess, Anthony ENDERBY'S DARK LADY
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1984). First U.S. edition. Pages very mildly tanned, else a fine copy in a lightly age-toned dust jacket.
Burgess's poet Enderby is resurrected for yet another farcical exploit--by popular acclaim, according to Burgess, who notes that readers objected to ''my casually killing my hero'' in THE CLOCKWORK TESTAMENT, or Enderby's End.
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| 5. | Burgess, Anthony FLAME INTO BEING : THE LIFE AND WORK OF D.H. LAWRENCE
New York: Arbor House, (1985). First U.S. edition. Near fine in dust jacket.
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| 6. | Burgess, Anthony MF
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First U.S. edition. Hint of darkening at the extremities, thus a very nearly fine copy in beige cloth with gilt lettering and rules, jade green top edge coloring; in a slightly age-darkened illustrated dust jacket.
Burgess's novel of young Miles Faber is ''a puzzle, or a riddle consisting of a great many lesser riddles...Its fertility is fantastic, and so too is its ingenuity...a work of astonishing narrative and intellectual energy.''--Frank Kermode.
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| 7. | Burgess, Anthony THE PIANOPLAYERS
New York: Arbor House, (1986). First U.S. edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Lively, lusty novel of a modern-day Moll Flanders from the prolific and versatile author of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and TREMOR OF INTENT.
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