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$16.50
xxksj99774

The Waif Woman


STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS

Second edition, 32mo (very small) with heavy card boards (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 1916

KEYWORDS: literature fiction saga myth legend

$19.50
xxshs99781

John Cheever: The Journals


CHEEVER, JOHN & GOTTLEIB, ROBERT (Ed)

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Vintage

KEYWORDS: John Cheever writer journals literature memoir

$12.00
xxshs99789

Anthology of Islamic Literature: From the rise of Islam to modern times


KRITZECK, JAMES (Ed.)

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: Pelican 1964

KEYWORDS: Islam Islamic literature translation

$12.00
xxshs99794

The Stolen Years


HOOD-STEWART, FIONA

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Mira 2003

KEYWORDS: World War I literature historical

$9.00
xxshs99803

The Rise of Silas Lapham


HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN

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: Collier 1967

KEYWORDS: realism American literature

$8.50
xxshs99808

The Monkey's Paw and Other Stories


JACOBS, WILLIAM WYMARK

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: Penguin 1962

KEYWORDS: children's literature short story

$9.00
xxshs99809

Daughters of Mulberry


LONGRIGG, ROGER

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: Penguin 1963

KEYWORDS: literature humoiur novel fiction

$9.50
xxshs99810

Iron in the Soul


SATRE, JEAN-PAUL & HOPKINS, GERARD (Trans.)

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: Penguin 1965

KEYWORDS: literature philosophy

$8.50
xxshs99811

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz


RICHLER, MORDECAI

Paperback - scruffy (Good+); 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: Penguin 1964

KEYWORDS: Canadian literature

$8.50
xxshs99812

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes


WILSON, ANGUS

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: Penguin 1961

KEYWORDS: literature

$10.00
xxshs99817

The Good Soldier Schweik


HASEK, JAROSLAV & SELVER, PAUL (Trans.)

Paperback, tatty (Good+); 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: Penguin 1952

KEYWORDS: literature satire humour novel

$245.00
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The Dalkey Archive


O'BRIEN, FLANN

First edition, octavo, green heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, 222pp, VG (moderately heavy foxing to page edges, some light tanning) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate browning & soiling, some creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Macgibbon & Kee 1964

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature novel

$60.00
1h95/54

All My Puny Sorrows


TOEWS, MIRIAM

Powell's IndieSpensible edition, signed, first edition, in slipcase, octavo, orange boards with green lettering to spine & front board, orange eps, 317pp, fine, in fine d/w, plus small stapled booklet (the box, the facts, the interview) all in slipcase, black with turquoise lettering, nr fine

PUBLISHER: McSweeney's 2014

KEYWORDS: signed modern first edition literature fiction

$40.00
1o19/21

The Complaisant Lover: A Comedy


GREENE, GRAHAM

First edition, octavo, royal blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, iv + 77pp, VG (moderately heavy browning to page edges, moderate tanning) in d/w, G+ (4cm x 3cm missing portion to lower spine & adjacent sides, moderate browning, some soiling, 2cm tear to rear flap/fold, 2cm tear & creasing to front upper edge)

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann Ltd 1959

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature drama play

$40.00
1q19a/14

Friendship: A Story


OUIDA

Octavo, blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & black decorative rule, viii + 419pp, VG- (rear hinge paper cracked, moderate staining to boards and esp to spine,some fraying to spine extrems, moderate browning to page edges, owner's name written across title page)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1887

KEYWORDS: literature

$245.00
1q19a/15

Mr Papingay's Ship


WEBB, MARION St. JOHN & ROBIN (Illus)

First edition, inscribed & signed by author, imperial octavo, illus blue buckram boards with light blue lettering, frontispiece, 249pp, illus, VG- (slight soiling to boards, tatty tape repair to front hinge, inscriptions & dates & name stamps in ink to fep, moderate foxing & tanning to page edges, prelims & terminals, sporadic light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Stanley Pual & Co 1925

KEYWORDS: modern first edition signed children's literature

$120.00
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Aesop's Fables


AESOP & JONES, V. S. VERNON (Trans) & RACKHAM, ARTHUR (Illus) & CHESTERTON, G. K. (Intro)

Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering & decorationto front board & spine, blind motif to rear board, illus eps, frontispiece, xxix + 224pp, illus, coloured plates have captioned tissue guards, G+ (one plate (The Lion, Jupiter and the Elephant) has come loose and been reattatched in the wrong place with ugly brown packing tape, 'The Quack Frog' plate is loose but present with sellotape residue staining to gutter, 'The Trees and the Axe' plate lacks tissue guard, 5cm closed tear to lower front hinge, moderate fraying to spine extrems & board corners & around tear, faint foxing to spine, moderately heavy foxing to page edges, occasional foxing to some pages, child's scribble in pencil to two pages, owner's inscription to prelim, tape repair to prelims)

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann / Doubleday Page & Co. 1912

KEYWORDS: Aesop fairy tales folk tales short stories children's literature Arthur Rackham

$10.00
xxshs99819

Daughter of the Wind


STAPLES, SUZANNE FISHER

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: Walker 2002

KEYWORDS: literature

$8.50
xxshs99823

Walk Two Moons


CREECH, SHARON

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: Macmillan 2001

KEYWORDS: children's literature

$9.50
xxshs99825

Warm Bodies


MARION, ISAAC

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: Vintage 2010

KEYWORDS: literature fiction fantasy zombie

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