Books - "literature"
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Grave Mistake
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: Book Club Association 1978
KEYWORDS: literature crime mystery ngaio marsh
Doubled Up: Or My Life As The Back End of a Pantomime Horse
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: Fourth Estate 1990
KEYWORDS: literature
The Half Brother
Super octavo, soft cover (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: Arcadia Books Ltd 2003
KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction
A Man and His Wife
FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, yellow cloth boards, red lettering to spine & front board, 113pp, VG- (light bruising to board extrems, moderate to heavy fading to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, 2x 1cmx9cm sections removed from fep edges, light tanning & foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 1940
KEYWORDS: New Zealand modern first edition literature Frank Sargeson
Since Then
FIRST EDITION, octavo, teal light card covers, 46pp, VG (light tanning & scuffing/creasing to cover edges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (moderate discolouration to spine & edges, light scuffing to edges)
PUBLISHER: The Mermaid Press 1957
KEYWORDS: poems poetry literature Denis Glover collection anthology New Zealand
Verse Alive
Small octavo, yellow light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 38pp, VG- (moderate scuffing to spine & extrems, moderate soiling & chafing to covers, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & pages throughout- text still clean)
PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1936
KEYWORDS: New Zealand poems poetry literature collection anthology Beaglehole Fairburn Curnow Glover Milner Julian
Poems: 1929-1941
FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey light card covers/boards, 45pp, VG (light tanning to spine & cover edges, poems lettering to rear cover in pencil, moderate foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w & protective mylar cover, VG- (moderate to heavy tanning to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing to edges, 4cm closed tear to top spine edge)
PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1943
KEYWORDS: first edition poems poetry literature New Zealand Fairburn colelction anthology
A History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness
Small octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & tooling with black decorative rule to spine & boards, vii + 413pp, VG- (heavy chipping to spine extrems with some loss, moderate discolouration to spine, light to moderate staining to boards, moderate to heavy tanning & light foxing to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- boards shaky but attached, light foxing to pages sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1879
KEYWORDS: literature Victor Hugo essay France history
The Inkberg Enigma
Imperial octavo, soft cover (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: Gecko Press 2020
KEYWORDS: literature nz lit comic strip adventure
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
FIRST EDITION, TWO VOL SET, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front boards, gilt portrait to front boards, deckled page edges, frontispieces with tissue guards, vol 1- xii + 372pp, vol 2- vi + 388pp, illus/plates- not counted but presumed all present, VG-/scruffy (heavy bruising to spines with vol 1 spine loose but attached, heavy cracking to hinges, moderate to heavy scuffing/chafing to boards, moderate to heavy tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, some tissue guards missing & plates loose but attached, light to moderate foxing to pages throughout, light cracking to gutters, faint library ink stamps to rear pastedowns of both vols)
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1906
KEYWORDS: Henry Irving biography memoir actor English illustrated literature Bram Stoker first edition
Wilfred Owen Collected: Letters
EX-LIBRARY, super octavo, olive green boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained green, frontispiece, 629pp, illus/photo, VG (usual library stamps, light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, light underlining & notations to text in pencil & ink - unobtrusive & subtle) in d/w & plastic mylar cover, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to extrems, light fading to spine, price clipped, d/w attached to boards)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1967
KEYWORDS: Wilfred Owen letters correspondence collection literature
The Mercy Seat
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: Faber & Faber 2003
KEYWORDS: literature play theatre drama neil labute
All That Man Is
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: Jonathan Cape / Vintage 2016
KEYWORDS: literature short stories canada
Murder in the Stars
Paperback (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 1960
KEYWORDS: literature murder crime
Parcels for Inspector West
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: Pan Books 1962
KEYWORDS: literature murder crime
Burial Rites
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 / Pan MacMillan 2017
KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction
A Good Man is Hard to Find
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: Harcourt Brace & Company 1983
KEYWORDS: literature short stories southern gothic horror
Lightning Song
Small 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1997
KEYWORDS: literature coming of age humour
The Small Pleasures of Life
Small 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Phoenix House / Orion 1998
KEYWORDS: literature short stories fench lit poetry
Biggles Takes Charge
A 'Biggles of the Air Police' Adventure
FIRST EDITION, small octavo, red heavy card boards, black lettering & decoration to spine, frontispiece, 192pp, VG (light chafing & discolouration to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sm. inscription in ink to fep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy chipping to edges, moderate chafing & scuffing to covers, moderate foxing to internal sides)
PUBLISHER: Brockhampton Press 1956
KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction Biggles Johns adventure modern first edition