Books - "literature"
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Utopia
Duodecimo 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: Cassell & Co 1891
KEYWORDS: literature more
Robin der Bar/Robin the Bear: Marie's Baren/Bears by Marie
TEXT IN GERMAN & ENGLISH, quarto, illus heavy card boards, black lettering to spine, printed eps, illus title page & prelims, 88pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to board edges, light scuffing to board corners, inscriptions in ink to verso of full title page)
PUBLISHER: Verlag Marianne Cieslik 1999
KEYWORDS: Robin the bear illustrated hobbies collectables literature
By-Ways of Freemasonry: A Series of Essays Descriptive of Various Features of Masonic Practice and Polity
Sm octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind rule & masonic motif to front board, xii + 312pp + 4pp adverts, VG (heavy discolouration to top spine extrem, light discolouration to top of front board, light scuffing to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges & eps, owner's name stamp in ink to first pp)
PUBLISHER: A Lewis 1911
KEYWORDS: freemasonry freemasons masonic history essays literature collection anthology culture
The Favourite Game
FIRST UK EDITION, octavo, black heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained red, 248pp, VG (light bruising to board corners, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing to edges with ugly sellotape repairs, light scuffing to spine, all corners clipped, moderate wrinkling to front flap, light soiling & foxing to internal sides)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1970
KEYWORDS: modern first UK edition semi autobiographical memoir literature fiction Leonard Cohen
The Beat Boys
Paperback, white lettering to spine, 204pp, VG- (heavy creasing to spine & cover corners, light tanning & scuffing to covers, light small scribbles in ink to covers, heavy tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to pages throughout, light random pencil scribbles throughout- text unaffected)
PUBLISHER: The Harborough Publishing 1959
KEYWORDS: literature fiction
Only a Nigger
Octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, black decoration to front board, 354pp + 32pp publishing info, scruffy (heavy damp/mould staining to boards & spine, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate water staining to rear eps, light insect damage to some page edges, crack to full length of rear gutter, sl subtle mould smell)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1912
KEYWORDS: literature fiction
The Deer Park
FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy card board, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained red, 192pp, VG (light soiling to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate soiling to covers, light foxing to internal sides)
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1970
KEYWORDS: first edition literature Norman Mailer play drama theatre script
Solomon Gursky Was Here
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, gilt lettering to spine, 419pp, VG- (light creasing to spine extrems & front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps/prelims, 8cmx8cm corner of pgs 215/216 missing- including text) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing to edges, bookseller's label to front flap, light foxing to internal sides)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1990
KEYWORDS: modern first edition signed literature fiction
The Water-Babies
Imperial octavo, illus heavy card boards with green buckram spine, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 176pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to spine extrems, light discolouration to spine, light discolouration to boards, moderate bruising & scuffing to board corners, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prize label to fep, moderate foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Co circa 1930
KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction illustrated
The Plague
FIRST EDITION THUS, terracotta cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus label to front board, top edges stained red, illus eps, xv + 248pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG (light to moderate foxing & soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: Folio Society 1987
KEYWORDS: folio society literature first edition thus
Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact, Selected and Arranged for the Pulpit and the Platform
Imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, vi + 690pp, scruffy (heavy chipping to spine extrems, moderate scuffing to boards & edges, moderate discolouration to spine, heavy archival tape repair to loosened hinges of boards, heavy tanning & moderate water stain to page edges, newspaper clipping glued to fep, very heavy cracking to gutters- boards shaky, owner's name in ink to preface pg, annotations in ink to terminals)
PUBLISHER: R. D. Dickinson 1893
KEYWORDS: religion theology scripture bible Christianity anecdotes literature
The Key to Theosophy: Being a Clear Exposition in the Form of Question and Answers of the Ethics, Science and Philosophy for the Study of Which the Theosophical Society Has Been Founded
EARLY EDITION, ex-library, imperial octavo, leather half bound boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine, printed eps, xv + 265pp, tatty (heavy scuffing to spine & boards with some surface loss, heavy tanning to page edges, usual library markings/stamps, moderate tanning & foxing to pgs throughout, heavy cracking to gutters throughout, pgs 79-82 detached but present, heavy stain to pgs 176-177)
PUBLISHER: The H. P. B. Press 1893
KEYWORDS: Blavatsky philosophy ethics morality theosophy literature
The Ungreen Park
FIRST EDITION, Uncorrected Proof Copy, 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: The Bodley Head 1978
KEYWORDS: literature modern first edition gill brason
Selected Prose
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: Peregrine Book 1963
KEYWORDS: literature poetry ts eliot
The Lauder Brothers New Zealand
Octavo hardcover (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: A. H & A.W Reed 1936
KEYWORDS: literature new zealand clapperton
The Adventures of Reuben Davidger: Seventeen years and four months captive among the Dyaks of Borneo
Sunday school prize for future historian W J Phillipps, octavo hardcover (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: Ward Lock & Co (c.1910)
KEYWORDS: Literature fiction adventure
Sacred Elephant
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Jonothan Cape 1989
KEYWORDS: elephants photography prose literature
7th Heaven
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: Century 2008
KEYWORDS: literature thriller crime james patterson
Conventions of War: Book Three of Dread Empire's Fall
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: Simon & Schuster 2005
KEYWORDS: science fiction scifi literature interstellar
The Quickie
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: Headline 2007
KEYWORDS: Literature fiction thriller