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For
your consideration:
The
Bad Sex Collection
— Just
in Time for Valentine's
Day?
(Literary
Review award winners). A collection
of 18 novels, all in first editions or first American editions. Various places:
Various publishers, 1993–2010.
Make your own puns on that last!
this
gathering is being sold only as a collection, we do have duplicate
copies of some titles — the interested should feel free to enquire. (29101)
Bragg, Melvyn.
A time to dance. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990. 8vo. 220 pp.
• First edition, signed by the author on the title-page. This
novel was the 
first
recipient of the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award, in 1993.
• Publisher's boards in printed dust wrapper, corners slightly bumped. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription.
Hook, Philip.
The stonebreakers. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994. 8vo. [6], 314 pp.
• First edition of the author's first novel, with a bookplate signed by the author laid in. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 1994.
• Publisher's boards in printed dust wrapper, clean and fresh. (28947)
Kerr, Philip.
Gridiron. London: Chatto & Windus, 1995. 8vo. 373, [1] pp.
• First edition, signed by the author on the title-page. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 1995.
• Publisher's boards in printed glassine wrapper, lower front board edge slightly bumped. (28924)
Huggins,
David. The big kiss. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1997. 8vo. [6],
245, [1] pp.
• First U.S. edition of Huggins's first novel. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 1996. Huggins is the son of Jeremy Brett and Anna Massey Huggins, and grandson of actor Raymond Massey.
• Publisher's boards in printed dust wrapper, clean and fresh. (28946)
Royle, Nicholas.
The matter of the heart. London: Abacus, 1997. 8vo. xii, 305, [1] pp.
• First edition. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 1997.
• Publisher's printed wrappers, virtually unworn. (28928)
Faulks,
Sebastian. Charlotte Gray. New York: Random House, 1998. 8vo.
[8], 399, [7] pp.
• First U.S. edition, signed by the author on the title-page. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 1998.
• Publisher's boards in printed dust wrapper with tiny bump at head of spine, otherwise clean and fresh. (28943)
Gill, A.A.
Starcrossed. London: Doubleday, 1999. 8vo. 304 pp.
• First edition. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 1999.
• Publisher's wrappers, light wear, spine faintly creased. (28927)
Thomas,
Sean. Kissing England. London: Flamingo, 2000. 8vo. 305, [1] pp.
• First edition. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 2000.
• Publisher's printed wrappers; minimal wear. (28926)
Hart, Christopher.
Rescue me. London: Faber & Faber, 2001. 8vo. 232 pp.
• First edition. This novel by the author of The Harvest
won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 2001.
Ironically,
Hart is the literary editor of the "Erotic Review."
• Publisher's limp wrappers in printed dust wrapper, minimal edge wear. (28938)
Perriam,
Wendy. Tread softly. London: Peter Owen, 2002. 8vo. 324 pp.
• First edition. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award
in 2002. 
Ms.
Perriman was the first of only two women to win the award.
• Publisher's boards in printed dust wrapper, all but unworn. (28923)
Bahal, Aniruddha.
Bunker 13. London: Faber & Faber, 2003. 8vo. x, 293, [1] pp.
• First edition, signed by the author. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 2003. Bahal is the sole India-born winner.
• Publisher's boards in printed dust wrapper, clean and fresh. (28941)
Wolfe, Tom.
I am Charlotte Simmons. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004. 8vo. [12],
676 pp.
• First edition, signed by the author on the title-page. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 2004.
• Publisher's boards in printed dust wrapper, clean and fresh. (28948)
Coren, Giles.
Winkler. London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. 8vo. 312 pp.
• First edition of this food critic's first novel. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 2005.
• Publisher's boards in printed dust wrapper, clean and fresh. (28925)
Hollingshead,
Iain. Twenty something: The quarter-life crisis of Jack Lancaster.
New York & London: Overlook Duckworth, 2006. 8vo. 217, [3] pp.
• First edition of Hollinghead's first novel, with publisher's
press release laid in. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in
2006. Upon
accepting the award he remarked he hoped to win it every year!
• Publisher's printed wrappers, clean and crisp. (28937)
Mailer,
Norman. The castle in the forest. Amsterdam: Random House, 2007.
8vo. [10], 477, [5] pp.
• First edition, signed by the author on the half-title. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 2007.
• Publisher's boards in printed dust wrapper, clean and fresh. (28939)
Johnson,
Rachel. Shire hell. London: Penguin, 2011. 8vo. x, 306, [4] pp.
• First edition. This novel, from the author of Notting Hell, won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 2011. Ms. Johnson is the second of only two women to win this award.
• Publisher's printed wrappers, spine slightly creased. (28929)
Littell,
Jonathan. The kindly ones. New York: HarperCollins, 2009. 8vo.
[8], 983, [1] pp.
• First edition in English, translated by Charlotte Mandell. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 2009.
• Publisher's plain paper-covered boards in printed dust wrapper; wrapper with small crease near head. (28922)
Somerville,
Rowan. The shape of her. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010.
8vo. [8], 275, [1] pp.
• First edition. This novel won the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award in 2010.
• Publisher's printed paper wrappers, clean and fresh. (29079)
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