Books - "literature"
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The First Biggles Omnibus
Small octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy); 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 Ltd. 1960
KEYWORDS: Johns biggles series childrens literature
Ordinary Heroes
FIRST EDITION. Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Farrer, Straus and Giroux 2005
KEYWORDS: Scott Turow war literature
Monsters of Men: Chaos Walking: Book Three
FIRST EDITION. Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Walker Books Ltd. 2010
KEYWORDS: Patrick Ness literature series
Portrait in Sepia
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: Flamingo 2001
KEYWORDS: Isabel Allende historical literature
A Guest of Honour
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: Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1971
KEYWORDS: Nadine Gordimer romance literature
Perfidia
FIRST EDITION, super octavo quarter bound heavy card boards, silver lettering to spine, 701pp, nr. VG+ in d/w (VG)
PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature american america us usa james ellroy crime fiction
Pipe Dreams in Ponsonby
FIRST EDITON (SIGNED, NUMBERED EDITION); tall imperial octavo silver lettering to front & spine, unpaginated, illus., VG (boards ever so slightly warped, light creasing and scuffing; occasional light tanning soiling & foxing within) in d/w VG (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Stephen Chan 1971
KEYWORDS: new zealand literature modern first edition poetry signed limited numbered stephen chan pat hanly art pipe dreams ponsonby david mitchell
A Mexican Ulysses: An Autobiography
FIRST EDITION THUS, tidy ex-library; octavo brown cloth boards, 288pp, VG- (usual stamps and markings, tape stains to eps., moderate scuffing and rubbing to boards, light tanning and soiling within) NB this is an abridgement
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 1963
KEYWORDS: mexican literature translation modern first editon mexico central america american latin autobiography jose vasconcelos literary
Nights at the Circus
FIRST EDITION, super octavo maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 294pp, VG+ (light tanning within, otherwise nr. FINE) in d/w VG+ (a touch of sl. creasing & soiling, sl. fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & WIndus / Hogarth Press 1984
KEYWORDS: angela carter modern first edition literature english british fantasy
Making a Fist of It
FIRST EDITION, super octavo illus. light card covers, 52pp, illus., VG+ (light creasing and soiling)
PUBLISHER: Jackstraw Press 1978
KEYWORDS: new zealand literature poetry maori modern first edition short stories hone tuwhare
The Bone People
FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE; octavo maroon illus. light card covers, 469pp, VG (moderate creasing and scuffing to covers, light tanning, soiling and foxing to page edges and prelims)
PUBLISHER: Spiral 1983
KEYWORDS: keri hulme new zealand maori literature modern first edition man book prize
Dead Souls or Tchitchikoff's Journeys [2x vol. set]
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN ENGLISH, tidy ex-library binding (from the General Assembly of New Zealand ie. Parliament), half bound octavo maroon boards with gilt emblem of NZ General Assembly Library, leather spines with raised bands and gilt lettering & decoration, marbelled eps. & edges, illus. frontis to vol. 2 only, vol. 1: 364pp / vol. 2: 285pp (with table of Russian civil service/military ranks at end), VG (moderate to heavy scuffing and rubbing to leather, light tanning and occasional light foxing within, usual stamps and markings - a tidy set of a key work)
PUBLISHER: John and Robert Maxwell 1887
KEYWORDS: russian literature first edition in translation nikolai gogol russia dead souls serfdom satire satirical
Lenny's Book Of Everything
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: Allen & Unwin 2018
KEYWORDS: literature family ya young adult
Twenty Tales For Telling
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: Univeristy Of London Press 1938
KEYWORDS: literature short story stories collection
The Girl In A Swing
'SUPRESSED' FIRST EDITION (MAIN CHARACTER NAMED 'KATHE' NOT 'KARIN'), 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: Allen Lane 1980
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature
Amazing Science Fiction Storie- Combined With Fantastic Magazine, May 1983 Volume 57
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: Dragon Publishing 1983
KEYWORDS: literature scifi fantasy short stories story collection
Medicine Walk
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: Milkweed 2015
KEYWORDS: literature literary fiction coming of age
Kate Vaiden
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: Scribner 1988
KEYWORDS: literature literary womens
Arch Angel
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: Piccador 1995
KEYWORDS: literature literary fiction
In Hazard
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: Penguin Books 1950
KEYWORDS: literature adventure