Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club

Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952

Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted...

Eric Linklater - The Faithful Ally - HB Reprint Society 1956

A 1956 reprint of the 1954 original, small format hardcover in one of teh standard dustjacket variants used by the Reprint Society, in yellow and black with zodiac motifs.  Tanning and edgewear...

Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler - Fail Safe - HB -1962

Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow.In a bomb...

Frances Parkinson Keyes - 2 Vintage HB Book Club Editions

Two hardcover vintage Foyles Editions of Frances Parkinson Keyes novels - bot now in clear plastic removable Herma jacket protectors Joy Street - ( originally 1950 in the USA - it was in the top 5...

Iris Murdoch - Under the Net - Debut Novel

Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a...

Mazo de la Roche - Renny's Daughter - HB - Book Club

A hardcover Foyle's Book Club Edition, undated but circa 1953.  Heavy age spotting and foxing to the page block, offset marks on blank front endpages. Now in a removable Herma dustjacket cover...

Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB

The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to...

Peter Wildeblood - Against the Law - HB Book Club Edition

A hardcover Book Club edition of journalist Peter Wildeblood's accoungt of being gay in the UK, and being imprisoned in 1954 for homosexual 'offences' with other men, as part of the Montagu case...

Philip Gibbs - The Cloud Above the Green - Vintage UK HB

A hardcover Foyles Book Club Edition, undated. In the original dustjacket, which is now in a clear plastic Herma dustjacket cover.  The novel explores the impact of the looming threat of war...

Richard Carrington - The Tears of Isis - HB

A hardcover Travel Book Club Edition of Richard Carrington's account of his travels on the Nile and surrounds.  1959, published in association with Chatto & Windus. Carrington was also known...

V.S Naipaul - An Area of Darkness : His Discovery of India - HB -1966 (Originally 1964)

An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account – at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered – of his first visit to India, the land of his...