Books - "literature"
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Lord in Waiting
FIRST EDITION, 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: Hodder & Stoughton 1994
KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction nigel tranter modern first edition
The Wisest Fool: A Novel of James the Sixth and First
FIRST EDITION, 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: Hodder & Stoughton 1974
KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction nigel tranter modern first edition
Courting Favour
FIRST EDITION, 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: Hodder & Stoughton 2000
KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction nigel tranter modern first edition
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Paperback (Scruffy); 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 1961
KEYWORDS: Literature fiction
Rhett Butler's People
The Authorized Novel Based on Margaret Mitchells' Gone with the Wind.
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: MacMillan 2007
KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction gone with the wind
Night Trains: The Daring Resistance Stratagem that Paralyzed the Wehrmacht
FIRST EDITION, Ex-Library, Lacks FEP, 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: Eyre Methuen 1979
KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction modern first edition world war two ww2 wwii nazis germany
The Illustrated Denniston Rose & Heart of Coal
FIRST EDITION THUS, quarto 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: Black Swan 2006
KEYWORDS: new zealand denniston west coast colonial history gold rush historical fiction literature
Dix Choses Inconnues: Un Mysterieux Livre De Comptes
TEXT IN FRENCH, square imperial 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: JOnathan Cape 1974
KEYWORDS: children's literature french
The Ploughmen
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Picador 2014
KEYWORDS: literature modern first edition kim zupan crime
Balcony of Fog: A Novel
FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (Near FINE); 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: Too Far Media 2020
KEYWORDS: literature modern first edition
The Seven Sisters
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: Viking/Penguin 2002
KEYWORDS: Literature fiction
A Rhyming History of Britain 55BC - AD1966
Octavo hardcover (Near FINE) 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: Constable 2003
KEYWORDS: Poetry literature history britain royalty rhyme
Booming Buffers: A Book of Bentley Verse
LIMITED NUMBERED SIGNED, FIRST EDITION IN SLIPCASE, super octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt cartoon to front board, frontispiece, 136pp, illus, Near FINE (v sl foxing to spine) in slipcase, VG+ (light chafing to boards)
PUBLISHER: Red Label Books 2003
KEYWORDS: limited numbered signed first edition humour cartoon poetry poems verse literature collection anthology John Boothman Tim Bulmer
Big and Little Scenes
FIRST EDITION, UNCOMMON, octavo, brown cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, 184pp, VG (light creasing to spine extrems, light bruising to board corners, moderate chafing to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, owner's name in ink to fep, small inscription in ink to half title page, light fingerprint soiling to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Farrar Straus Giroux 1979
KEYWORDS: first edition play script drama theatre stage literature
A Beautiful Blue Death
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy card boards, blue lettering to spine, 309pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning to spine)
PUBLISHER: St Martin's Minotaur 2007
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature fiction
Clarissa (Or the History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life and Particularly Shewing the Distresses That May Attend the Misconduct, Both of Parents and Children in Relation to Marriage)
CHARMING 8 VOLUME SET, small octavo, leather boards, gilt lettering on title plates & embossed lines to spines, xii (vol 1) + 328-396pp, VG- (heavy but age appropriate scuffing to spine & boards, moderate cracks to some hinges, heavy tanning to page edges, names of previous owners in ink to feps, bookseller's labels to front pastedowns, frontispieces of vols 4+5 missing, light cracking to some gutters) These volumes have a delicious old book smell and will make you feel like you're sitting in an old stately home when you glance over and see them on your bookshelf!
PUBLISHER: B Law & Son et al 1792
KEYWORDS: literature fiction epistolary novel
Money in the Morgue
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy card boards, copper coloured lettering to spine, 328pp, Near FINE (v sl creasing to spine extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Collins Crime Club 2018
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature crime fiction Inspector Alleyn mystery New Zealand
Cosmic Codes: Hidden Messages From the Edge of Eternity
Super octavo, blue faux leather heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind lettering to front board, illus title page, ix + 505pp, illus, VG (light creasing to spine extrems, light soiling & discolouration to boards, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges & rear flap, light chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Koinonia House 1999
KEYWORDS: religion scripture literature ministry Koinonia Chuck Missler theology codes bible biblical
The Viceroys
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 625pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light staining to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name in ink to fep, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, tatty (moderate discolouration to spine, very heavy creasing & chipping to edges with loss, light foxing to covers)
PUBLISHER: MacGibbon & Kee 1962
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature fiction illustrated
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner
FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decorative tooling with black decoration to spine, gilt decorative tooling & black decoration to front board, blind stamp motif to rear board, frontispiece, illus title page & prelims, xvi + 517pp + unpaginated adverts to rear, VG (light creasing & chippping to spine extrems, light discolouration to spine, light bruising & scuffing to board corners, light soiling to boards & edges, moderately heavy tanning to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, heavy cracking to gutters, frontispiece quite loose but attached, sporadic light foxing to pages throughout, bookseller's label & owner's name in ink to front pastedown, sm numbering in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: John Camden Hotten circa 1869
KEYWORDS: literature first edition thus illustrated Robinson Crusoe fiction