MAILER, NORMAN

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

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RICHLER, MORDECAI

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

KINGSLEY, CHARLES & THEAKER, HARRY G. (Illus)

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

CAMUS, ALBERT & GILBERT, STUART (Trans) & PARKER, DEREK (Intro) & KITSON, LINDA (Illus)

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

BAXENDALE, Rev. WALTER

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

BLAVATSKY, H. P.

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

BRASON, GILL

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

ELIOT, T.S & HAYWARD, JOHN (ed.)

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

CLAPPERTON, A. A.

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

GREENWOOD, JAMES

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

WILLIAMS, HEATHCOTE

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

PATTERSON, JAMES & PAETRO, MAXINE

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

WILLIAMS, WALTER JOHN

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

PATTERSON, JAMES & LEDWIDGE, MICHAEL

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

MANSFIELD, KATHERINE

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

BESLEY, TINA & MARSHALL, JAMES (Fore)

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

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TAIAROA-SMITHIES, KAREN & TAIAROA, MERVYN

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

BLACKIE, JOHN STUART

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

KNOX, E.V ('EVOE')

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

RADCLIFFE, ROBERT

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