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$45.00
ak3/16/1758

The Way of the Storyteller


SAWYER, RUTH

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 260pp, VG (moderate misc. soiling throughout) in d/w VG (moderate misc. soiling & foxing, light scuffing)

PUBLISHER: Bodley Head 1962

KEYWORDS: ruth sawyer narrative story childrens literature modern first edition american

$15.00
xxrib162650

The End Of My Life


BOURJAILUY, VANCE

FIRST EDITION. Small Octavo hardcover (VG) with 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: W. H. Allen 1963

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature war

$27.50
xxrhg162675

Biggles In The South Seas


JOHNS, W. E.

top half of fep missing. Small 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: Oxford University Press 1950

KEYWORDS: literature biggles adventure

$12.50
xxrhg162676

Bagthorpes Liberated


CRESSWELL, HELEN

FIRST EDITION. Small 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: Faber And Faber 1989

KEYWORDS: literature childrens modern first edition

$9.00
xxrhi162682

The Help


STOCKETT, KATHRYN

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: Fig Tree 2009

KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction

$8.50
xxrhi162691

Boating For Beginners


WINTERSON, JEANETTE

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: Methuen 1990

KEYWORDS: literature comedy strange

$10.00
xxrhj162697

The List Of Seven


FROST, MARK

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: Hutchinson 1993

KEYWORDS: literature thriller supernatural mystery

$16.50
xxrhj162699

The Second Sunrise


PIKE, GEOFF

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Random House 1993

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature romance

$140.00
ak3/16/1784

A Critical Study of Female Culinary Detective Stories


SOLER, NIEVES PASCUAL & TOMASCIKOVA, SLAVKA (forew.)

INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR; super octavo illus. (knives & clock) grey cloth boards, ii+195pp, VG+ (v. sl. soiling to rear board, sl. tanning within, otherwise nr. FINE)

PUBLISHER: Edwin Mellen Press 2009

KEYWORDS: culinary female detective story stories criticism literary literature mystery critical study crime fiction signed inscribed

$75.00
ak3/16/1785

The Wish Maker


SETHI, ALI

FIRST EDITION, super octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 405pp, VG (light scuffing to boards, moderate foxing to edges and throughout, light tanning also) in d/w VG (light creasing and scuffing)

PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 2009

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature ali sethi lahore pakistan pakistani

$150.00
ak3/12/1798

A Boy at the Hogarth Press


KENNEDY, RICHARD & HILLIER, BEVIS (intro.)

FIRST LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED & NUMBERED at rear; quarto illus. green cloth boards, purple endpapers, complimentary slip loosely enclosed, illus. w/ folding illus. at rear, VG+ (sl. soiling to boards) in d/w VG+ (sl. fading to spine, prev. owner's clear tape repair to closed tear reverse of jacket (unobtrusive))

PUBLISHER: Whittington Press 1972

KEYWORDS: richard kennedy hogarth press literature literary history printing publishing memoir autobiography modern first edition limited signed

$25.00
ak4/8/1813

Egg & Spoon


MAGUIRE, GREGORY

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w nr. 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Candlewick Press 2014

KEYWORDS: gregory maguire modern first edition literature fantasy wicked

$26.50
ak4/8/1823

Julia Kristeva: Readings of Exile and Estrangement


SMITH, ANNA

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: St. Martin's Press 1996

KEYWORDS: julia kristeva literature literary criticism history theory postmodern postmodernity philosophy art

$16.50
xxrgh162750

The Stray


WYETH, BETSY JAMES & WYETH, JAMIE (illus.)

FIRST EDITION. 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: Farrar, Strous, & Giroux 1979

KEYWORDS: literature childrens illus illustrated modern first edition

$10.00
xxrag162806

The Year In San Fernando


ANTHONY, MICHAEL

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Heinneman 1970

KEYWORDS: literature

$15.00
xxrah162813

The Ballad And The Source


LEHMANN, ROSAMOND

FIRST EDITION 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: Reynal & Hitchcock 1945

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature

$25.00
ak3/12/1837

Draft of a Foreword


COUNT POTOCKI OF MONTALK

200 copies printed; duodecimo 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: Melissa Press 1987

KEYWORDS: polish poland literature new zealand count potocki montalk

$260.00
ak3/12/1846

Whited Sepulchres: Being an Account of My Trial and Imprisonment for a Parody of Verlaine and Some Other Verses


COUNT POTOCKI OF MONTALK

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO ARTIST AUGUSTUS JOHN, with annotation by the author to the text; octavo illus. light card covers with French flaps, unpaginated, VG (moderate scuffing and tanning to covers, light tanning and foxing within)

PUBLISHER: Right Review 1986

KEYWORDS: count potocki montalk polish poland literature signed inscribed augustus john verlain

$55.00
ak3/12/1849

The Jinx


COUNT POTOCKI OF MONTALK

Super octavo quarter bound decorated grey heavy card boards, cloth spine, 9pp, tipped in frontispiece, VG (light soiling foxing and scuffing to boards, light foxing within), with loosely enclosed note from bookseller describing ... the Count, resplendent in scarlet cloack and hood, set off for London in his twenties (?), i.a. to assert his distaff claims to the Polish throne...)

PUBLISHER: Melissa Press 1972

KEYWORDS: polish poland literature new zealand count potocki montalk adam mickiewicz translation melissa press

$37.50
ak3/12/1853

Aue


MANAWATU, BECKY

FIRST EDITION SECOND IMPRESSION (no statement of earlier printing inside, but Steve Braunias quote on cover), super octavo white 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Makaro Press 2019

KEYWORDS: new zealand literature maori becky manawatu joan medlicott acorn prize modern first edition makaro press

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