Books - "literature"
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Mackenzie
First edition. Hardcover super octavo (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1970
KEYWORDS: Specials literature New Zealand James McNeish
Remembering Babylon
First edition. Hardcover imperial octavo (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1993
KEYWORDS: Specials literature historical fiction David Malouf
Wounds
Paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Panther 1971
KEYWORDS: Specials literature adult fiction romance sex
Enemy Mine
From the Screenplay by Edward Khmara, Based on the Story by Barry B. Longyear
First edition, octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, VG (light tanning, v light foxing to eps & page edges, small slight dent to rear board) in d/w, VG (light rubbing, some foxing to flaps & inside)
PUBLISHER: Chivers Press 1986
KEYWORDS: Barry B Longyear David Gerrold science fiction literature novel first edition
The Abolition of Death
First edition, octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 232pp, VG (owner's name and old price in ink to f.e.p., slight bruising to spine extrems, v light tanning to eps, v light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, v light tanning to flaps & inside, slight creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Constable & Company Ltd 1974
KEYWORDS: James Anderson science fiction fantasy literature novel first edition
Dancing to my Tune
ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed by author to Jocelyn Fairburn, ARD Fairburn's wife, octavo, light card covers, 80pp, illus, VG (slight tanning to covers & page edges) in d/w, VG+ (v slight creasing)
PUBLISHER: The Catspaw Press 1974
KEYWORDS: Denis Glover New Zealand literature poetry poems short stories fiction association copy signed
Bellagrand
octavo illus light card covers, 563pp VG
PUBLISHER: harper collins 2013
KEYWORDS: literature fiction paullina simons
The Jigsaw Man
First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head1977
KEYWORDS: specials Dorothea Bennett spy thriller literature fiction novel first edition
The Sea Between Us
First edition, octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Penguin 2003
KEYWORDS: specials Elizabeth Smither New Zealand literature fiction novel first edition
First Blood
First edition, octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton1983
KEYWORDS: specials Elizabeth Smither New Zealand literature fiction novel first edition
The Lark Quartet
First edition, octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Elizabeth Smither New Zealand literature fiction novel first edition
The Year of Adverbs
First edition, super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: specials Elizabeth Smither New Zealand literature poetry poems
Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including The Ballad of Reading Gaol
First edition, octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, viii + 163pp, VG- (heavy fading to spine & board edges, some staining to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, inscription in ink to fep, heavy browning to eps)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1911
KEYWORDS: Oscar Wilde literature poetry poems
Anatole and the Cat
First edition, quarto, illus grey heavy card boards with black lettering, red white & blue eps, 32pp, illus, VG(owner's name in ink to fep, some tanning) in d/w, VG- (browning to inside, light soiling, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head 1958
KEYWORDS: first edition Eve Titus Paul galdone children's literature
A Man and His Wife
First edition, octavo, yellow cloth boards with red lettering to spine & front board, 113pp + 2pp book ads, G+ only (heavy dampstaining & soiling to boards, front & rear hinges cracked, gutters cracked at several points, moderate tanning & foxing to eps, less so to page edges) in d/w, G+ only, (heavy staining & soiling, price clipped, damage with loss to flap folds and spine)
PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1940
KEYWORDS: Frank Sargeson New Zealand literature first edition
The Naval Chronicle Volume 1
Re-bound with new eps, this volume only, small quarto, brown boards with no lettering, frontispiece, iv + iii + 548pp, illus, G only (owner's name in ink to fep, annotations in ink to prelim, heavy browning & some dampstaining, very heavy rotting from paper acid to fore-edges of last 40 or so pages, heavy browning to page edges, section of first four pages loosened)
PUBLISHER: Royal Navy (?) circa 1799
KEYWORDS: naval maritime history shipbuilding marine zoology Royal Navy navigation biography battles literature
The Naval Chronicle Volume 5
Re-bound with new eps, this volume only, small quarto, brown boards with no lettering, vii + 564pp, illus, VG (lacks prelims, annotations in ink to fep, heavy browning & light ink staining to page edges, some tanning & foxing, annotation in pencil to page 13, light creasing to corners of first few pages)
PUBLISHER: Royal Navy (?) 1801
KEYWORDS: naval maritime history shipbuilding marine zoology Royal Navy navigation biography battles literature
The Wedding Officer
Octavo softover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Sphere 2007
KEYWORDS: specials Anthony Capella literature fiction novel
Layover in Dubai
Octavo softover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Vintage Pocket Black Lizard 2011
KEYWORDS: specials Dan Fesperman crime literature fiction novel
Javady Alley
Octavo softover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Women's Press 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Manny Shirazi literature fiction novel