Books - "literature"
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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
Katherine Mansfield: Manuscripts in the Alexander Turnbull Library
Imperial octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, frontispiece, illus prelims, xii + 136pp, VG+ (moderate tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light sunfading to spine, light foxing to internal sides)
PUBLISHER: Alexander Turnbull Library 1988
KEYWORDS: literature Katherine Mansfield New Zealand manuscripts letters prose poetry collection anthology catalogue
Counseling Youth: Foucault, Power and the Ethics of Subjectivity
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, silver coloured lettering to spine & front board, xx + 265pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine extrems, boards sl warped, light indentations to front board, light creasing to edge of pg xvii)
PUBLISHER: Praegar 2002
KEYWORDS: signed philosophy literature Foucault counseling counselling psychology youth young adults therapy
Legends of Ngatoro-i-rangi
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, lg quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 72pp, illus, VG (light chafing & moderate indentations to covers, light creasing to cover corners, moderate water staining to base of pages)
PUBLISHER: Reed Publishing 2006
KEYWORDS: signed children's literature legends New Zealand Maori illustrated
On Self Culture: Intellectual, Physical and Moral
Small octavo, red buckram boards, title plate to spine, 91pp + 24pp catalogue, VG- (moderate scuffing to spine extrems, light discolouration to spine, moderate loss to title plate, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, heavy tanning to page egdes, light foxing to eps, owner's name in ink to front pastedown, inscription in ink to fep, moderate cracks to gutters, 3cm loss to base of catalogue pg to rear)
PUBLISHER: Edmonston and Douglas 1874
KEYWORDS: literature prose culture
Mr. Punch on the Links
Including 32 Illustrations
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: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1929
KEYWORDS: punch literature
Upon Dark Waters
Paperback (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Abacus 2011
KEYWORDS: literature war