Books - "literature"
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Torchwood: Another Life
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: BBC Books 2007
KEYWORDS: literature Wales
Little Brother Fate
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1958
KEYWORDS: literature
A Slib of Lorey: A Bit of Folklore
Octavo stapled light card covers (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: Edna Sanders 1979
KEYWORDS: literature folk tales folklore America
The Sands of Kalahari
UK FIRST EDITION, octavo orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, VG+ (v. slight soiling to boards, light foxing to edges) in d/w VG+ (price clipped, light scuffing, soiling & slight foxing - a smart, atractive copy overall)
PUBLISHER: Longmans 1961
KEYWORDS: literature africa african
The Tin Drum
Octavo grey cloth boards, silver lettering & design to spine, 592pp, VG (moderate wear & scuffing to boards esp. spine, tanning to edges, soiling to edges, prev. owner's name to fep.), lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: Secker & Warburg 1962
KEYWORDS: literature modern first german edition surrealist surrealism postmodern postmodernism
Gallantin Canyon
UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, FIRST EDITION 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Harvil Secker 2006
KEYWORDS: literature proof modern first copy USA united states america american
Literature, History and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2006
Octavo red, olive and tan light card covers, 594pp, nr. FINE
PUBLISHER: Peter Lang, 2007
KEYWORDS: Russian Russia history soviet post post-soviet literature literary writers writting modern
The Luminaries
TRUE FIRST EDITION, SCARCE octavo cream cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus. endpapers, 832pp VG (moderate foxing & tanning to edges, light foxing inside, v. sl. soiling to spine) in d/w VG+ (v. sl. scuffing & soiling, light foxing to reverse, light tanning)
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: New Zealand historical literature Booker Prize modern first edition scarce
The Letters That Passed Between Theodosius and Constantia; After She Had Taken the Veil
Duodecimo, frontispiece engraving+ xxvi+182pp., G- (front board detached, heavy scuffing & wear, moderate tanning & foxing)
PUBLISHER: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, London 1766 (Fourth Edition)
KEYWORDS: epistolary literature european 18th eighteenth century
Solitude: A Poem
FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION octavo brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 56pp+advertisments, VG (light scuffing and fading, soiling to boards; light tanning; light to moderate foxing within (heaviest to endpapers), prev. owner's bookplate)
PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1939 (second impression)
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature womens virginia woolf poetry british english
John Clare by Himself
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Mid Northumberland Arts Group Carcanet Press 1996
KEYWORDS: literature English poetry romanticism romantic writing essays
The Queen's Husband
FIRST EDITION, INSCIRBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1973
KEYWORDS: historical fiction queen victoria albert prince literature modern first edition signed
Not Here, Not Now
FIRST EDITION octavo dark green cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, 350pp VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards, light foxing and tanning to edges and contents, fep. clipped) in d/w VG- (moderate scuffing, soiling and rubbing, 4cm closed tear to cover, light foxing and tanning)
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale & Company 1970
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature modern first edition
Games of Choice
FIRST EDITION, navy blue cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, 171pp., VG+ (light scuffing to boards, light foxing and tanning to edges & contents) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing, contemporary price sticker to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1976
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature modern first edition
Good Morning, Midnight
FIRST EDITION octavo purple/blue boards, silver lettering to spine, 256pp VG+ (would be nr. FINE save for light scuffing to boards) in d/w VG+ (ditto)
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016
KEYWORDS: literature modern first edition united states america american US USA science fiction SF sci fi sci-fi
The Luminaries
FIRST EDITION IN SECOND STATE D/W (only 1000 printed in hardcover, but the LAST FEW of the run seem to have a VARIANT d/w mentioning the Booker Prize win), octavo pale cream cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus. endpapers, 828pp nr FINE in d/w nr FINE (variant, see above)
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature historical astrological Man Booker Prize
For All The Tea In China
Paperback (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: Tudor Publishing Company 1988
KEYWORDS: Stephen Sheppard literature crime adventure 20th Century race
Roughtail: The Dreaming of the Roughtail Lizard and other stories told by the Kukatja
Imperial 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: Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation 1999
KEYWORDS: Joe Tramacchi Gracie Greene Lucille Gill aboriginal mythology legends literature history australian australia illustrated indigenous short stories
Remembering Babylon
FIRST EDITION, 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: Random House Australia Pty Ltd 1993
KEYWORDS: David Malouf literature novel australia aboriginal settlement aborigines indigenous
The War Hound and the World's Pain
FIRST EDITION, 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: New English Library 1982
KEYWORDS: Michael Moorcock literature europe religious