AIKEN, JOAN & PIENKOWSKI, JAN

First edition, super 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: Jonathan Cape 1989

KEYWORDS: modern first edition short stories pictorial literature fiction art collection anthology

PECKHAM, MARGARET

Octavo softcover, light card covers (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: Mercury Press 1982

KEYWORDS: children's literature fairy tales fiction

MALORY, SIR THOMAS & BREWER, D. S. (Ed & Intro)

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: Edward Arnold 1968

KEYWORDS: literature literary critcism history arthurian legend king arthur

SCIESZKA, JON

Quarto 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: Viking 2008

KEYWORDS: chidlren's fiction autobiography Jon Scieszka memoir pictorial literature

N/A

Contents detached from cover, folio softcover, stapled light card covers (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: N/A circa 1930s/40s

KEYWORDS: children's literature pictorial jobs careers

DODD, LYNLEY

Oblong imperial 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: Puffin/Penguin 2002

KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction Lynley Dodd

MATTHEWS, RICHARD J. H. (Ed)

Octavo softcover, light card covers (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: University of Otago 1985

KEYWORDS: poetry poems literature education anthology collection New Zealand

CUDDON, J. A.

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 Books 1999

KEYWORDS: dictionary literature terms theory language reference literary criticism

BAINBRIDGE, BERYL

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: Abacus 2002

KEYWORDS: fiction literature novel

MALOUF, DAVID

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 Books 1985

KEYWORDS: fiction literature novel

KNOX, ELIZABETH

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: Victoria University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: fiction literature novel

WHITE, PATRICK

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 Books

KEYWORDS: literature fiction novel

BAXTER, JAMES K. & MCNAUGHTON, HOWARD (Ed)

First edition, super octavo, mottled blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 336pp, VG (slight tanning & foxing to page edgews & eps) in d/w, VG (small closed tear to rear upper edge, light bruising to spine head, some fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University PRess 1982

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature plays drama

BELLOC, HILAIRE & B. Y. B (Illus)

Oblong quarto, illus white heavy card boards with blue & red lettering to front, red monster illus to front board, beige cloth spine, 48pp, illus, VG- (moderately heavy staining & soiling to boards, some chaffing to board edges & corners, heavy browning to page edges, moderate foxing, occasional crease to page edge)

PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold (n/d)

KEYWORDS: children's literature verse rhyme humour

RUSHDIE, SALMAN

First edition, super octavo, brown heavy card boards with silver lettering to spine, 370pp, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing to spine extrems small stain to front)

PUBLISHER: Penguin Hamish Hamilton 2017

KEYWORDS: literature modern first edition

PHILLIPS, HARRY (Story & Music) & PHILLIPS, FRANK (Narrator) & PAUL, H (Illus)

RECORD CRACKED Vinyl record (78) in original sleeve in pocket at rear, very large quarto, brown boards with darker brown lettering to spine & front board, colour illus of castle scene mounted to front board, spiral bound text block, 16pp of colour illus, 78rpm vinyl record at rear, VG- (light staining to boards, some moderate foxing)

PUBLISHER: Horace Marshall & Son n/d

KEYWORDS: children's literature songs music fairy tales

BLACK, BENJAMIN

First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 331pp, VG+ (light tanning to page edges, slight bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, nr fine (v slight creasing to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin Random House 2017

KEYWORDS: literature modern first edition

O'BRIEN, FLANN

First edition, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 157pp, VG ( light brusing to spine extrems, moderate foxing to page edges, light foxing to pages & eps) in d/w Tatty ( 4cm closed tear to front flap fold, chipping to spine extrems, heavy soiling, surface loss to spine & flap folds, moderate tanning)

PUBLISHER: Macgibbon & Kee 1961

KEYWORDS: literature modern first edition novel comedy comic humour

BANKS, IAIN

Limited numbered (143/150) signed first edition uncorrected proof copy, super octavo, cream light card covers with red & black lettering, 357pp, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Little, Brown 2012

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature

CURNOW, ALLEN

First edition, limited to 75 numbered copies, signed by author, small square duodecimo, patterned light card covers, blue light card eps, unpaginated, nr fine

PUBLISHER: The Holloway Press 1994

KEYWORDS: signed modern first edition New Zealand literature poetry poems