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$18.50
xxrck147623

Ancient Egyptian Poetry and Prose


ERMAN, ADOLF & BLACKMAN, AYLWARD M. (trans)

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: Dover Publicatiosn 1995

KEYWORDS: egypt history ancient literature

$18.50
xxrck147626

The Book of Wiremu


MORICE, STELLA & PARKER, NANCY (illus)

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: Paul's Book Arcade 1954

KEYWORDS: children's literature maori new zealand

$25.00
xxrck147635

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three


GODEY, JOHN

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 1973

KEYWORDS: literature modern first edition new york

$16.50
xxrck147644

The Mahdi


QUINNELL, A. J.

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: MacMillan 1981

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature islam

$40.00
1y38/8

Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion


CRYSTAL, DAVID & CRYSTAL, BEN & WELLS, STANLEY (Pref)

Super octavo, red heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxviii + 650pp, VG+ (light creasing & soiling to spine extrems, light foxing to top of page edges, light yellow tape residue from previous protective wrapper) in d/w VG+ (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 2002

KEYWORDS: Shakespeare literature linguistics language terminology glossary dictionary

$55.00
1y38/11

The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical and Political


LOCKE, FRANCIS & BACON, FRANCIS

Duodecimo, printed heavy card boards, black lettering to front board, xii + 262pp, scruffy (spine missing, heavy bruising to board edges, failed & messy attempt at tape repairs to spine/board hinges, boards almost completely loose but still present & attached, heavy scuffing to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, bookseller's sm label to bottom of front pastedown, heavy cracking to gutters, light annotation in pencil sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: C and J Rivington et al 1825

KEYWORDS: literature essays Francis Bacon collection anthology biography

$275.00
1y38/23

St. Augustine's Confessions or, Praises of God


St. AUGUSTINE

Duodecimo, leather boards, gilt rule to spine, 411pp + 16pp contents, tatty (heavy scuffing to spine with heavy loss to extrems, heavy bruising to board edges with surface loss to corners, front board and fep completely detached but present, owners' names in ink to front eps, v heavy tanning to page edges, light foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: P Wogan 1807

KEYWORDS: St Augustine religion Christianity literature

$10.00
xxrcl147653

The Passionate Friends


WELL, H. G & BOX, LEONORA

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: Heron 1968

KEYWORDS: literature h g wells

$25.00
xxrcl147680

Meanjin Anthology


MURNANE, GERALD (ed.)

Super octavo softcover (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: Melbourne University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: literature anthology australia short stories poetry

$10.00
xxrcl147695

The Confucius Enigma


JONES, MARGARET

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: McGraw Hill 1979

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature china

$25.00
xxgef147711

The Mystery Men of Mars


Adventures in the Unknown

CLAUDY, CARL H. & VALENTINE, A. C. (illus)

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: Grosset & Dunlap 1933

KEYWORDS: science fiction scifi literature mars space aliens

$9.00
xxgeg147716

Sorry


DRVENKAR, ZORAN & WHITESIDE, SHAUN (trans.)

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: Blue Door 2011

KEYWORDS: literature crime murder

$95.00
1y38/32

The Magus


FOWLES, JOHN

FIRST EDITION, octavo, mottled grey heavy card boards with purple spine, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained purple, 624pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine extrems, light soiling & foxing to page edges, light tanningto eps) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing to covers, all corners clipped)

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1966

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature fiction

$45.00
1y38/39

Popular Moral Tales, Entertaining and Instructive: Selected From the Works of Various Elegant Prose Writers


ADAMS, JOHN

Duodecimo, leather boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, illus prelims, iv + 279pp, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & boards with some surface loss, heavy tanning to pages, moderate inscriptions in ink to front eps, heavy cracking to gutters, moderate tanning to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Albion Press/James Cundee 1808

KEYWORDS: literature prose collection anthology

$325.00
1y38/40

The Letters of Junius in Two Volumes, With Additions and Explanatory Notes


'JUNIUS'

2 VOLUME SET, duodecimo, leather boards, gilt lettering to title plates & decorative gilt numbering to spines, decorative speckling to page edges, illus title pages, vol 1- xxxv + 324pp, vol 2- 264pp, tatty (age appropriate heavy scuffing to spines & boards with some surface loss, spine of vol 1 completely cracked vertically in half with total separation at binding, heavy tanning to page edges, owner's name in ink & bookseller's sm shop label to front pastedowns, heavy cracking to gutters of vol 2, light foxing to pages sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: John Wheble 1775

KEYWORDS: Junius journalism literature letters correspondance collection anthology politics Sir Philip Francis King George 3 iii

$185.00
1y39/12

To Kumassi With Scott: A Description of a Journey From Liverpool to Kumassi With the Ashanti Expedition 1895-6


MUSGRAVE, GEORGE C.

FIRST EDITION, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering & decorative tooling to spine, blind rule to boards, maroon speckling to page edges, frontispiece, ix + 216pp, illus, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine extrems & board corners, light discolouration to spine, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning to eps, crack to partial length of gutter of pgs 48-49, 8cm horizontal loss to top of frontispiece)

PUBLISHER: Wightman & Co 1896

KEYWORDS: exploration travel literature ashanti expedition culture Kumassi Ghana Africa first edition

$895.00
1y39/16

The Ballad of Reading Gaol


WILDE, OSCAR (AS C33)

SECOND EDITION, super octavo, quarter bound ocre & white cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled page edges, vi+31pp, VG (moderate soiling to boards, childrens pencil scribble by hinges, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to eps, moderate tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Leonard Smithers 1898

KEYWORDS: literature poetry oscar wilde

$20.00
xxgig147759

Eager to Please


PARSONS, JULIE

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: Macmillan 2000

KEYWORDS: literature modern first edition thriller

$37.50
xxgig147763

At Vacant Hours


ST NICHOLAS, THOMAS ET AL & DAVIES, H. NEVILLE (Ed)

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 cost

PUBLISHER: University of Birmingham Press 2002

KEYWORDS: poems poetry literature collection anthologyThomas St Nicholas

$12.00
xxgig147764

Utilitarianism on Liberty Considerations on Representative Government Remarks on Bentham's Philosophy


MILL, JOHN STUART & WILLIAMS, GERAINT (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: Everyman/J. M. Dent 1993

KEYWORDS: utilitarianism literature essays philosophy politics collection anthology

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