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$70.00
1y58a/4

How Maui Defied the Goddess of Death / Te Taki a Maaui i a Hine-nui-te-poo


GOSSAGE, PETER & PENFOLD, MERIMERI (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, DUAL LANGAUGE - ENGLISH & TE REO MAORI, quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus title page, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Lansdowne Press 1985

KEYWORDS: modern first edition children's literature te reo Maori language mythology legends Maui gods goddesses folklore lore New Zealand

$70.00
1y58a/5

How Maui Found His Father and the Magic Jawbone


GOSSAGE, PETER

FIRST EDITION, lg quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, yellow lettering to spine, illus title page, unpaginated, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate tanning/foxing to pages sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Lansdowne Press 1980

KEYWORDS: modern first edition children's literature Maui Maori mythology myths legends folklore lore New Zealand

$58.50
1y58a/6

Legends of Maui: Volume 1: Maui Slows the Sun and Maui Attacks Tuna Roa


TE PUIA, JASON

Quarto, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Reed Children's Books 2005

KEYWORDS: New Zealand children's literature folklore lore mythology Maori Maui gods goddesses

$26.50
xxyaa176335

The Horse's Mouth


CARY, JOYCE & BRATBY, JOHN (illus.)

FIRST EDITION THUS, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcover (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 Folio Society 1969

KEYWORDS: literature england english ireland irish joyce cary john bratby

$16.50
xxyaa176346

Foundation's Edge


ASIMOV, ISAAC

LACKS D/W, super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Granada 1983

KEYWORDS: isaac asimov science fiction literature

$25.00
xxyaa176355

Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century


MANN, SUSAN

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: china history women women's high qing era literature society sociology gender chinese

$15.00
xxyab176376

Griffith Review 59: Commonwealth Now


SCHULTZ, JULIANNE & CAMENS, JANE (eds.)

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: Griffith University 2017

KEYWORDS: griffith review commonwealth fiction essay reportage memoir poetry literature postcolonial postcolonialism british empire

$15.00
xxyab176402

The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places


ATKINS, WILLIAM

LACKS FEP, 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: Faber & Faber 2018

KEYWORDS: desert travel memoir literature geography empty quarter australia aral sea arabian peninsula burning man sand seas egypt topography symbolism travelogue nonfiction

$18.50
xxyab176414

Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium


INGLIS, LUCY

LACKS FEP, 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: Macmillan 2018

KEYWORDS: opium opiate opiated drugs narcotics history fentanyl america afghanistan economics economic trade war literature medicine medical

$39.50
xxyab176415

Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice Since 1917


YEH, MICHELLE

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: Yale University Press 1991

KEYWORDS: china chinese poetry literature modern modernity verse lyric

$35.00
xxyac176429

The Pilgrim's Progress; From This World to That Which is to Come Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream


BUNYAN, JOHN & ARDIZZONE, EDWARD (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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1953

KEYWORDS: John Bunyan pilgrim's progress literature

$15.00
xxyac176432

Benjamin Franklin on the Art of Eating; Together With the Rules of Health and Long Life and the Rules to Find Out a Fit Measure of Meat and Drink


FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN

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: American Philosophical Society/Princeton University Press 1958

KEYWORDS: Benjamin Franklin food drink recipes history American philosophy essay prose literature

$9.00
xxyac176442

The Scandal of Father Brown


CHESTERTON, G. K.

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1978

KEYWORDS: crime thriller penguin books literature G K Chesterton

$9.50
xxyac176455

Dirt Music


WINTON, TIM

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: Picador 2002

KEYWORDS: literature fiction Tim Winton

$12.50
xxyac176456

'Horse Sense' in Verses Tense


MASON, WALT

Sm octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) fep missing; 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: Duckworth & Co 1919

KEYWORDS: literature Walt Mason

$9.50
xxyac176457

Lady Gregory's Toothbrush


TOIBIN, COLM

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: Picador 2003

KEYWORDS: literature essay Colm Toibin social commentary

$15.00
xxyac176458

From the Author Nick Ascroft


ASCROFT, NICK

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets writers authors poems poetry collection literature Nick Ascroft

$19.50
xxyac176459

Kinds of Hunger


HUTCHISON, JAN

SIGNED, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets writers authors poems poetry collection literature signed Jan Hutchison

$20.00
xxyac176460

Gordon Challis: Selected Poems


CHALLIS, GORDON

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2016

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets writers authors poems poetry collection literature Gordon Challis

$16.50
xxyac176461

Poems & Stories - Including Sad Titus (Andronicus)


BROWN, GRAEME

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: Otago University Print (Printer) 2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets writers authors poems poetry collection literature Graeme Brown

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