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The Bedside Milligan or Read Your Way to Insomnia


MILLIGAN, SPIKE

Paperback (VG) illus; 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: Tandem 1971

KEYWORDS: specials Spike Milligan humour fiction literature novel

$9.50
xxfoe92781

Prater Violet


ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1969

KEYWORDS: specials Christopher Isherwood filmmaking fiction literature

$9.00
xxfoe92782

Washington D.C.


VIDAL, GORE

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Ballantine 1976

KEYWORDS: specials Gore Vidal fiction literature novel

$10.00
xxfoe92783

Pomes Penyeach and other verse


JOYCE, JAMES

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: Faber & Faber

KEYWORDS: specials James Joyce Irish literature poems poetry verse

$9.00
xxfoe92784

Selected Poems


LEWIS, C. DAY

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1951

KEYWORDS: specials C Day Lewis literature poetry poems verse

$10.00
xxfoe92788

Prose & Poetry: A Selection


HEINE, HEINRICH

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: J. M. Dent & Sons 1948

KEYWORDS: specials Heinrich Heine prose poetry literature

$55.00
2g18a/7

Difficulties of a Bridegroom


HUGHES, TED

First edition uncorrected proof copy, octavo, cream light card covers with black lettering to spine & front cover, ix + 159pp, VG (v. slight staining to covers)

PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 1995

KEYWORDS: first edition uncorrected proof Ted Hughes literature short stories

$125.00
2g18a/22

The Land of the Lost: A Tale of the New Zealand Gum Country


SATCHELL, WILLIAM

True first edition (adverts at rear are dated 1901), octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering & gilt decorative rule to spine & front board, 310pp + 48pp book adverts, VG- (moderately heavy staining to boards & spine, moderately heavy browning to page edges & to eps, owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1902 (adverts at rear are dated 1901)

KEYWORDS: first edition William Satchel New Zealand literature

$50.00
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Gallipoli and Other Poems


CAMPBELL, ALISTAIR TE ARIKI

First edition, duodecimo, illus light card covers with white lettering to spine, printed eps, 51pp, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Wai te Ata Press 1999

KEYWORDS: first edition Alistair Te Arii Campbell New Zealand literature poetry poems verse

$120.00
1p19a/9

A Song of Auckland and Other Verses


TORRENS, J. M. (AKA) MUNDO, H. V.

First edition, loosely enclosed articles about publications under author's other name HV Mundo, octavo, light card stapled wrappers with blue lettering to front cover, gilt decorative rule to front & illus to rear cover, double-page frontispiece, 39pp, VG- (staining to covers, some tanning to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: JM Torrens 1900

KEYWORDS: JM Torrens HV Mundo New Zealand literature poetry poems verse

$245.00
1p19a/10

Outcry Number One


BUKOWSKI, CHARLES & ZAHN, CURTIS ET AL

Super octavo, illus white light card wrappers with black lettering, unpaginated, VG (some staining to covers, tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Poets' Press 1962

KEYWORDS: Charles Bukowski Julian Huxley Curtis Zahn Michael Horovitz literature poems poetry anthology

$55.00
1p19a/11

Stewart Island Verses and Others


SOUTHERNER (aka) AUGUST, SAMUEL

Inscribed & signed by author (as Southerner, real name Samuel August), small octavo, beige paper stapled wrappers with black lettering to front, 55pp, VG- (owner's name & address to front cover, some staining to covers, rust-staining around staples, creasing & bruising to cover edges, some foxing to page edges, lighter foxing elsewhere)

PUBLISHER: Craft Agency 1923

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Southerner Samual August literature poetry poems

$75.00
1p19a/19

The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language


PALGRAVE, FRANCIS TURNER & FORESTCUE-BRICKDALE, ELEANOR (Illus)

Scarce in d/w, small quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind rulle to front board, upper page edges stained blue, frontispiece with captioned tissueguard, xiv + 459pp, illus with tipped-in colour pates and captioned tissueguards to each, VG (some browning & foxing to page edges, inscription in ink to fep, bookseller's label to fep, moderate browning to prelims & terminals, light creasing to a few page edges, some tanning & 2cm closed tear to frontispiece tissue guard) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, browning to spine, staining to rear, bruising, nicks & creasing to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton (n/d)

KEYWORDS: Francis Turner Palgrave English literature poetry poems verse anthology songs

$40.00
1p19a/23

Number and Geometry in Shakespeare's Macbeth: The Flower and the Serpent


ECKERSLEY, SYLVIA

Imperial octavo, maroon boards with gilt lettering to spine, 346pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Floris Books 2007

KEYWORDS: Sylvia Eckersley William Shakespeare Macbeth literature numerology patterns literary criticism

$65.00
1p19a/26

Amores Poems


LAWRENCE, D. H.

First edition thus, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 138pp, VG (light staining to boards, some fading to board edges, inscription in ink to fep, some browning & foxing to page edges, occasional light foxing throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy browning, some creasing & nicks to edges, d/w torn in two at spine/rear fold repaired with archival tape)

PUBLISHER: Martin Secker 1934

KEYWORDS: DH Lawrence literature poetry poems verse

$40.00
1p19a/27

Selection Day


ADIGA, ARAVIND

First edition, super octavo, beige boards with black lettering to spine, 330pp, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Picador Pan Macmillan 2016

KEYWORDS: first edition Aravind Adiga literature

$100.00
1p19a/35

The Sacred Fount


JAMES, HENRY

First edition second issue (with later issue catalogue at rear), octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind-stamped decorative rule to spine & front board, 316pp + 31pp book adverts to rear, VG (ding to front board fore-edge & front board lower corner, light bruising to spine extrems, some tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1911

KEYWORDS: Henry James American literature novel

$245.00
1p19a/36

Nineteen Nineteen


DOS PASSOS, JOHN

First edition, octavo, red cloth boards with red lettering in yellow decorative panels to sine & front board, vii + 462pp, VG- (fading to spine & board edges, browning to page edges & to eps, some foxing) in d/w, (good only that it still exists - rear flap loosely enclosed, completely torn at spine, etc)

PUBLISHER: Constable & Co / Oxford Univesity Press 1932

KEYWORDS: John Dos Passos American literature

$100.00
1p19a/37

Prelude to Space


CLARKE, ARTHUR C.

First edition, octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, 176pp, VG (some rubbing to boards, some tanning to eps, ight foxing to page edges, v light foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG ( light tanning & foxing, light soiling, moderate creasing to edges, some rubbing esp to folds)

PUBLISHER: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited 1953

KEYWORDS: Arthur C Clarke science fiction literature modern first edition

$245.00
1p19a/39

The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the Siege of London


LE QUEUX, WILLIAM & WILSON, H. W.

Canadian first edition, octavo, red cloht boards with white lettering to sipne & front board, b&w siege of St Paul's illus to front board, xiv +550pp, illus, VG (light bruising & fraying to spine extrems, some chaffing to spine sides & board corners, bookseller's label to front pastedown, owner's name & date in ink to fep, some tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan Co of Canada 1906

KEYWORDS: Canadian first edition William Le Queux HW Wilson invasion literature

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