COUPLAND, DOUGLAS

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Flamingo 1995

KEYWORDS: microserfs literature satire social commentary contemporary

WILSON, COLIN

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: Abacus 1982

KEYWORDS: literary analysis modern literature theory

LERMONTOV, MIKHAIL

TEXT IN RUSSIAN, 4 VOLUME SET, octavo, brown heavy boards, white lettering & black line to spines & front boards, frontispiece to vol 1, 541-646pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling & chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Mockba 1975-76

KEYWORDS: text in Russian literature collection anthology Mikhail Lermontov

N/A

28 ISSUES, MOSTLY FROM 1938- WITH ISSUES FROM JAN 1938-DEC 1941 NON-CONSECUTIVE RUN, quarto & imperial octavo, illus stapled wrappers, mixed pagination to each, illus/photos, VG-/scruffy (heavy rust staining to staples & spines, heavy tearing at spine to most vols, moderate tanning & foxing)

PUBLISHER: The Wireless World 1938-1941

KEYWORDS: wireless world literature publications magazines history communication radio television

CH'IEN, T'AO & ACKER, WILLIAM (Trans, Intro & Annotated)

Octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt publisher's motif to front board, 157pp, VG (light bruising & moderate fading to spine & extrems/edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG-/scruffy (price clipped, heavy chipping & creasing to spine & edges, moderate staining & foxing to covers & spine)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1952

KEYWORDS: poems poetry literature collection anthology ancient Chinese China T'ao Ch'ien philosophy

BELLAMY, EDWARD

No. 1A THE BELLAMY LIBRARY WITH INDEX & EXTRA CHAPTER, FIRST EDITION THUS, OCCASIONAL LIGHT HIGHLIGHTING TO TEXT, octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 123pp + iv index to rear, VG- (moderate creasing & soiling to covers, light creasing/bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, light highlighting to text throughout- fairly unobtrusive, light creasing to pgs 34-35)

PUBLISHER: William Reeves n/d c.1887

KEYWORDS: Edward Bellamy society culture future futuristic speculation philosophy literature premonition dystopia dystopian first edition thus

STEEDMAN, CAROL

Super octavo, black cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xi + 254pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1995

KEYWORDS: childhood children literature Goethe history psychology social cultural

KNOWLES, GAYE & CANEY (illus.)

octavo hardcover (VG-), lacks d/w ; 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: The Brockhampton Press 1950

KEYWORDS: literature children youth childrens

ROBINSON, HUBERT & LUMLEY, SAVILE (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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson & Sons, undated (ca. 1950s)

KEYWORDS: children children's youth literature cricket

AVERY, HAROLD

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: Thomas Nelson & Sons, undated (ca. 1950s)

KEYWORDS: children children's youth literature britain british

TRING, A. STEPHEN

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: children children's youth literature

MUSIL, ROBERT; WILKINS, EITHNE & KAISER, ERNST (trans.)

THIS VOLUME ONLY. 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: Picador 1979

KEYWORDS: literature austria austrian german modernism

DICKENS, MONICA & JACQUES, FAITH

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: Kaye & Ward Ltd 1970

KEYWORDS: children's children youth literature historical fiction

FARNOL, JEFFERY

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, duodecimo, blue soft leather boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spine, author's signature in gilt to front cover, teg, vii + 120pp, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems with sl surface loss, light chafing to covers, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light to moderate cracking to some gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low Marston & Co n/d c.1936?

KEYWORDS: regency romance literature signed

HOAGLAND, SARAH LUCIA

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers, purple & black lettering to spine, xv + 349pp, VG (light scuffing to spine & covers/edges, light soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Institute of Lesbian Studies 1988

KEYWORDS: signed lesbians gay lgbtq literature ethics culture discussion

LEWIS, SINCLAIR

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, blue/orange lettering to spine & front board, deckled page edges, 275pp, VG (moderate bruising to extrems, light chafing to spine & boards, light discolouration to spine, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name & inscription in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1928

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature Sinclair lewis

MEEKER, BISHOP LLOYD A.

2 VOLUME SET, octavo, blue heavy boards, vol 1- pgs 1-378, vol 2- pgs 379-756, VG- (light scuffing to extrems, moderate to heavy soiling to boards & spines, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffeps, light cracking to gutters of vol 1, moderate staining to eps of vol 2) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges & spines with some closed tearing, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Universal Institute of Applied Ontology n/d c.1952

KEYWORDS: religion esoteric study servers training school divine design of man literature Christianity

BOSANQUET, THEODORA & POWERS, LYALL H. (Ed, Notes & Intro)

Super octavo, grey heavy boards with black buckram spine, yellow lettering to spine, ix + 142pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to board edges, light chafing to boards, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: The University of Michigan Press 2009

KEYWORDS: Henry James literature literary biography Theodora Bosanquet memoir history

FINNEY, JACK

FIRST UK EDITION, octavo, orange heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 224pp, VG+ (light fading & bruising to edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1965

KEYWORDS: modern first UK edition literature collection fantasy short stories Jack Finney

GREENE, GRAHAM

FIRST EDITION, lacks fep. 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 1980

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature mystery thriller