Books - "literature"
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I'll Tell You This Much
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo stapled wrappers (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: Pemmican Press 2000
KEYWORDS: new zealand poetry poems poets literature
Solomon Grundy and Other Poems
holograph letter from author loosley enclosed, octavo stapled wrappers (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: The Pegasus Press n.d
KEYWORDS: poems poetry literature mark richards
Earth Into Moon: Poems by Judith Lonie
Octavo stapled wrappers (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: University of Otago1971
KEYWORDS: poems poetry literature moon
Hawke's Bay
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR AT REAR, octavo stapled wrappers (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: Andrew Gurr, Leeds University 1964
KEYWORDS: new zealand poetry poems poets literature hawke's bay
Corfu: A Novel
INSCRIBED, SIGNED & DATED BY AUTHOR, octavo hardcover (nr. FINE) 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: Picador 2001 reprint
KEYWORDS: novel fiction literature australian writer
Words for the Rock Antipodes
SIGNED BY AUTHOR w/ holograph letter from author loosely enclosed, 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: Hudson/Cresset 1986
KEYWORDS: new zealand poet writers poems poetry literature
Professor Mmaa's Lecture
FIRST EDITION, octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, charmingly illus. endpapers, 251pp+adverts. at rear, VG (light scuffing to boards, light tanning to pages, v. sl. foxing to edges) in d/w VG (light scuffing and rubbing, light soiling, small chip to rear corner of spine, otherwise quite tidy)
PUBLISHER: Gaberbocchus 1953
KEYWORDS: Professor Mmaa Gaberbocchus literature philisophical modern first edition
Selected Philosophical Essays
Octavo hardcover with medallion portrait & gilt lettering to front, 610pp, VG (prev. owner's details in pen to fep., prev. bookseller's stamps and markings to fep., light tanning and foxing within, moderate soiling to boards with light scuffing) in d/w VG- (moderate to heavy rubbing, moderate scuffing and small chips, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Foreign Languages Publishing House Moscow 1953
KEYWORDS: Chernyshevsky Russian literature philosophy translation
Revenants
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED, SIGNED & DATED BY AUTHOR, his 2nd book; octavo stapled light card covers with French flaps, 74pp, VG (light to moderate soiling to covers, light tanning within, rust stains from staples to rear - a tidy copy)
PUBLISHER: Prometheus Books 1969
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature poetry modern first edition signed inscribed Vincent O'Sullivan
Player Piano
FIRST EDITION, octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 352pp, VG- (ex-library with minimal external markings (unobtrusive markings to spine, usual stamps and markings within), boards lightly scuffed and moderately soiled, binding cocked, front pastdown shows signs of removal of library card pocket or similar, with prev. bookseller's stamp also, cut-out (possibly copy from jacket) pasted down to half-title, moderate to heavy foxing and tanning to edges & within, lacks d/w)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co, 1953
KEYWORDS: American US literature modern first edition Kurt Vonnegut
The Holy Barbarians
FIRST UK EDITION, octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus., 318pp, VG- (light scuffing and moderate to heavy soiling to boards, heavy tanning and foxing to edges and contents, prev. owner's name in pen to fep.) in d/w, G+ (substantially complete, with large segments missing from rear and spine, smaller segments missing from the front, price-clipped, soiling and foxing to reverse - a scruffy specimen)
PUBLISHER: W. H. Allen 1960
KEYWORDS: American literature beat beats Jack Kerouac biography literary criticism US sociology Kenneth Rexroth Patchen Robert Duncan Henry Miller
The Letters of Ezra Pound: 1907-1941
FIRST EDITION, octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 464pp, VG (moderate scuffing to boards, light tanning within, light foxing to edges and sporadic foxing within) in d/w G+ (scuffed and chipped, soiled, main fault is long segment missing to spine)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1951
KEYWORDS: Ezra Pound literary biography letters epistolary American US literature modern first edition
Prince of the Plague Country
FIRST EDITION, octavo red/brown cloth covers, black lettering to spine, 57pp, VG+ (light tanning and foxing to edges and within, v. sl. rubbing to boards) in d/w VG (light scuffing and chipping, light to moderate foxing)
PUBLISHER: Pegasus Press 1964
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature poetry modern first edition Pegasus Press
Ursule Mirouet
Small 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: Macmillan and Co. 1896
KEYWORDS: De Balzac Clara Bell literature family
How Obelix Fell Into The Magic Potion When He Was A Little Boy
FIRST EDITION, Quarto 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: Hodder & Stoughton 1989
KEYWORDS: Albert Uderzo Rene Goscinny asterix obelix comics childrens literature first edition
Next Season
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: Applause 1995
KEYWORDS: Literature
Tightrope
FIRST EDITION uncorrected proof copy, 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: Little Brown 2015
KEYWORDS: Literature spy
Manhattan Beach
FIRST EDITION super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (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: Scribner 2017
KEYWORDS: Literature modern first edition
MacQuarie Pen Anthology of Aboriginal Literature
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Allen and Unwin 2008
KEYWORDS: Anthology literature aboriginal indigenous Australia
Plain Murder
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: Bodley Head 1964
KEYWORDS: Literature