Books - "literature"
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The Big Season
first edition proof copy signed by author 199pp VERY GOOD (in red paper wrappers,mod.rubbed and soiled,annotation to front cover - The NZ Peyton Place?? - spine sunned,sl.wear to extrems.,owner's stamp to half-title,author's sign.to title page,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed) scarce signed proof copy
PUBLISHER: hutchinson london 1962
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature new zealand maurice gee signed proof copies
The New Zealanders: A Sequence of Stories
second impression signed by author [from the Dennis McEldowney collection] 256pp VERY GOOD+ (burgundy cloth,sl.bumps and soiling to extrems.,owner's sign.to ffep,prelims.and content edge ssl.foxed,author's dated sign.to title page - April 1960) in VERY GOOD dustwrapper (mod.rubbed and soiled/foxed,spine browned,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: whitcombe and tombs [np] 1960
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature new zealand maurice shadbolt signed
Faces in the Water
first US edition inscribed and signed by author 254pp VERY GOOD+ (patterned grey paper boards w.teal cloth spine,v.sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,author's inscr.to ffep - Best wishes from Janet Frame - eps and content edges sl.foxed,pale small stain to foot edge but not affecting text) in VERY GOOD dustwrapper (mod.rubbed and soiled,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.w.some sl.creasing) scans available on request
PUBLISHER: george braziller new york 1961
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature janet frame new zealand signed
A State of Siege
first US edition inscribed and signed by author 246pp VERY GOOD+ (teal cloth w.gilt stamp of author's sign.to top board,v.sl.soiled,author's inscr.to ffep - John B. best wishes from Janet - content edges v.sl.foxed,top edge teal) in VERY GOOD dustwrapper (sl.rubbed and soiled,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.w.sl.losses to head/foot of spine,price-clipped)
PUBLISHER: george braziller new york [1966]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature new zealand signed janet frame
Daughter Buffalo
first US edition inscribed and signed by author 212pp VERY GOOD+ (blue cloth,sl.bumps to extrems.,owner's name to front pastedown,author's inscr.to ffep - for Rose Marie & John from Janet - eps and content edges v.sl.foxed) in VERY GOOD+ dustwrapper (sl.rubbed and soiled,spine mod.sunned,sl.wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: george braziller new york [1972]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature new zealand janet frame signed
The Adaptable Man
first NZ edition inscribed and signed by author 270pp NEAR FINE (black cloth,minor bumps to extrems.,author's inscr.to ffep - to Rose Marie & John from Janet - content edges v.sl.foxed) in VERY GOOD+ dustwrapper (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,sl.chipping to upper edge)
PUBLISHER: pegasus press christchurch 1965
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature new zealand janet frame signed
The Carpathians
first edition inscribed and signed by the author 196pp VERY GOOD+ (blue cloth,v.sl.soiled w.sl.bumps to extrems.,author's inscr.to title page - for Robin & Rosemary Gordon with best regards & many thanks for answering ill-timed phone calls on the nature & behaviour of fowl, wild & tame, from Janet, the goose woman, Shannon, January 1989 - content edges v.sl.foxed) in VERY GOOD+ dustwrapper (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.) Janet Frame kep geese and her last book [published posthumously] was named by her 'The Goose Bath Poems'
PUBLISHER: bloomsbury london 1988
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature janet frame new zealand signed
The Pocket Mirror
first edition inscribed and signed by author 121pp NEAR FINE (green cloth,sl.soiling to board edges,author's inscr.to ffep - John with best wishes from Janet Frame ) in VERY GOOD+ dustwrapper (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: w.h.allen london 1967
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature janet frame new zealand signed poetry
Owls Do Cry
first US edition inscribed and signed by author 211pp VERY GOOD+ (red cloth,sl.soiling to board edges,author's inscr.to ffep - John B. with best wishes from Janet Frame - eps and content edges sl.foxed) in VERY GOOD+ dustwrapper (sl.rubbed and soiled,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.,few small closed tears to upper edge,price-clipped with price stamp to front flap)
PUBLISHER: george braziller new york 1960
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature new zealand janet frame signed
The Reservoir / Snowman Snowman [2 books]
first edition 2 vols.inscribed and signed by author 182/182pp NEAR FINE (cream cloth,spines v.sl.soiled,author's inscr.to ffep both vols. - John, best wishes from Janet Frame ) in VERY GOOD+ dustwrapper (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.) in VERY GOOD+ slipcase (ill.paper boards,mod.rubbed and soiled,uneven sunning,sl.wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: george braziller new york [1963]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature new zealand janet frame signed
The Passionate Puritan
first colonial edition inscribed and signed by author 308pp VERY GOOD- (brown cloth w.ochre dec.borders,mod.rubbed and soiled,mod.bumps and sl.wear to extrems.,spine sl.sunned,lacks ffep,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed,author's inscr.to title page - inscribed for Warwick Lawrence Jane Mander - colonial edition stamp to copyright page,spine cracked but solid)
PUBLISHER: john lane bodley head london new york 1922
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature jane mander new zealand signed
Poems (1921-1927)
first edition [fromt the collection of Ian Donnelly] 78pp VERY GOOD+ (blue cloth,minor bumps to extrems.,owner's sign.to front pastedown [Donnelly],eps and untrimmed content edges v.sl.foxed) in VERY GOOD dustwrapper (sl.rubbed and soiled,spine darkened,mod.wear to extrems.) extremely rare dustwrapper particularly in this condition
PUBLISHER: wells gardner darton london 1928
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature new zealand poetry walter d'arcy cresswell donnelly
The Pages
first edition proof copy 214pp FINE in wrappers
PUBLISHER: harvill secker london 2008
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature proof copies murray bail
The Monsters of Templeton
first edition proof copy 364pp NEAR FINE (in wrappers,publisher's label to title page)
PUBLISHER: heinemann london 2008
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature proof copies lauren groff
Stone's Fall
first edition proof copy 597pp FINE in wrappers
PUBLISHER: jonathan cape london 2009
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature proof copies iain pears
L'Odyssee
305pp [text in French] ills.[b/w] VERY GOOD+ (blue cloth w.gilt dec.stamped borders,v.sl.soiled,content edges sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: chez jean de bonnot paris 1973
KEYWORDS: literature classics homer homere odyssey
The Pickup
first edition 270pp NEAR FINE (black cloth,v.sl.soiled) in VERY GOOD+ dustwrapper (v.sl.soiled,spine sl.sunned)
PUBLISHER: david philip cape town 2001
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature nadine gordimer
Italian Novelists Since World War II, 1965-1995 [Dictionary of Literary Biography - Volume One Hundred Ninety-Six]
first edition [this vol.only] 367pp ills.[b/w] FINE (blue cloth)
PUBLISHER: gale research detroit 1998
KEYWORDS: literature biography history arts pallotta
Lelia's Kiss Imagining Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Italian Renaissance Comedy
first edition 333pp FINE in FINE dustwrapper
PUBLISHER: university of toronto press toronto 2009
KEYWORDS: arts literature gender giannetti renaissance comedy
The Ways of Many Waters
first edition 155pp VERY GOOD (blue cloth w.gilt stamp to top board and spine,mod.rubbed and stained,sl.wear to extrems.,prelims.and untrimmed content edges sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: bulletin newspaper sydney 1899
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry brady