Books - "literature"
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The Bedside Milligan or Read Your Way to Insomnia
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
Prater Violet
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
Washington D.C.
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
Pomes Penyeach and other verse
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
Selected Poems
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1951
KEYWORDS: specials C Day Lewis literature poetry poems verse
Prose & Poetry: A Selection
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
Difficulties of a Bridegroom
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
The Land of the Lost: A Tale of the New Zealand Gum Country
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
Gallipoli and Other Poems
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
A Song of Auckland and Other Verses
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
Outcry Number One
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
Stewart Island Verses and Others
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
The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language
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
Number and Geometry in Shakespeare's Macbeth: The Flower and the Serpent
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
Amores Poems
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
Selection Day
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
The Sacred Fount
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
Nineteen Nineteen
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
Prelude to Space
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
The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the Siege of London
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