THOM, ELEANOR

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PUBLISHER: Duckworth Overlook

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MALIFA, FATA SANO

FIRST EDITION, WARMLY INSCRIBED, SIGNED & DATED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 258pp, VG+ (light bruising/scuffing to extrems, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Vantage Press 1993

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LENNON, JOHN

FIRST EDITION, duodecimo, illus glossy boards, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 93pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1965

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RICHARDS, FRANK & CHAPMAN, C. H. (Illus)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 224pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light staining to base of rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light soiling/smudge to terminals) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges, light archival tape repair attempts to spine extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1957

KEYWORDS: modern first edition children's literature fiction Billy Bunter

SICKERT, WALTER RICHARD & SITWELL, OSBERT (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, liv + 362pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ex-libris ink stamp & prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1947

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MAWER, SIMON

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PUBLISHER: Abacus 2018

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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

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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

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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

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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.)

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PUBLISHER: The Brockhampton Press 1950

KEYWORDS: literature children youth childrens

ROBINSON, HUBERT & LUMLEY, SAVILE (illus.)

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

KEYWORDS: children children's youth literature cricket

AVERY, HAROLD

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

KEYWORDS: children children's youth literature britain british

TRING, A. STEPHEN

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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

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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