Books - "literature"
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An Amateur Peasant Girl
Small octavo, hardcover (VG-): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, com plete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Miniature Books / Rodale Press 1955
KEYWORDS: literature alexander pushkin historical fiction russian lit romance
Sonnets from the Portugese
Octavo, hardcover (VG+) in slip case: all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, com plete 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 Folio Society
KEYWORDS: literature elizabeth browning sonnets poetry prose
A Fall to Grace
Super octavo, softcover (nr FINE): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, com plete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Moon Tree Rising 1997
KEYWORDS: literature sandra ingerman spirituality
The Fenian Movement in the United States: 1858-1886 (A Dissertation)
SCARCE, ex-library, super octavo, light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, xii + 453pp, VG- (usual library markings.stamps, moderate to heavy creasing & discolouration to spine & covers, spine cocked, moderate damp staining to page edges - but no wrinkling, text is clean with no markings/underlining)
PUBLISHER: The Catholic University of America Press 1947
KEYWORDS: philosophy dissertation literature academic academia catholic fenian Ireland US America fenians politics British rule
Nights at the Circus
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, fuschia pink boards, gilt lettering to spine, 295pp, VG+ (sl. scuffing to extrems, light tanning & moderate foxing to page egdes) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine, light foxing to front flap & internal sides)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press 1984
KEYWORDS: fiction literature modern first edition
A Christmas Railway Mystery
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: Allison & Busby Ltd 2018
KEYWORDS: literature mystery
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