Books - "literature"
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Owls Do Cry
SECOND EDITION, octavo, orange cloth boards, black lettering to spine, 211pp, VG+ (light bruising & fading to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy chipping and several small tears to cover edges, light scuffing and soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Pegasus Press 1958
KEYWORDS: second edition Janet Frame New Zealand literature
Brecht and Company
Sex, Politics and the Making of the Modern Drama
Super octavo, beige heavy boards with brown cloth spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xx + 732pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges, blue ink marker to lower page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading & soiling to spine)
PUBLISHER: Grove Press 1994
KEYWORDS: Bertolt Brecht theatre drama stage biography memoir literature art
Coastin' Along
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white & black lettering to spine, 284pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to cover corners, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Black Cat Productions 1996
KEYWORDS: New Zealand anecdotes literature Westland history illustrated signed
Orange's Skins Are Free
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, red & green lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus, VG (light to moderate curling/bending to lower half of whole book, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Hawk Press/Brick Row 1981
KEYWORDS: art photography photos poems poetry literature collection anthology New Zealand Warwick Smith Pascall Burton
The Guardian Newspaper: January to June 1900
Volume LV Part 1
EX-LIBRARY, folio, grey heavy card boards with blue buckram spine, 940pp, boards are VG-/scruffy but contents VG+ (heavy scuffing to spine & boards with some surface loss, moderate discolouration to boards, moderate water damage to rear board- not transferred to contents, boards sl shaky, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: The Guardian 1900
KEYWORDS: literature Guardian newspaper January June 1900 journalism collection
Gone West : A Daisy Dalrymple 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: Constable & Robinson Ltd 2012
KEYWORDS: literature murder mystery crime
Brolga's Dance
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Joint Board of Christian Education 1993
KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction aboriginal first nations vietnam war aus australian lit
Speaking
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Greenhouse 1988
KEYWORDS: literature aus lit
Gullibles Travels
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Links Books 1974
KEYWORDS: literature collection short stories
Reflections on The Name of the Rose
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: Secker & Warburg 1985
KEYWORDS: literature
Black Maria or The Criminals Omnibus
Lacks fep. Octavo, hardcover (VG-) in d/w (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: Victor Gollancz Ltd / William Hodge & Co
KEYWORDS: literature crime
Murder in the Collective
FIRST EDITION. 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: The Women's Press Ltd 1984
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature murder crime mystery
Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies
Lg quarto, heavy glossy boards, black lettering to spine, xxviii + 720pp, VG+ (sl bruising to board edges, sl soiling to top page edges)
PUBLISHER: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers 2000
KEYWORDS: gay lesbian literature authors lgbtq gender sexual orientation bibliography queer
Novels of Paul de Kock: The Wife, the Husband & the Lover / The Pucelle of Belleville / Friquette, or L'Enfant Prodigue / The Vampire / A Fast Young Man / The Man With The Three Pair of Breeches / The Cuckold / The Courtesan
BOUND IN 2x VOLUMES INCORPORATING THE LIGHT CARD COVERSOF THE ORIGINAL PARTS ISSUES, octavo, black heavy card boards with black leather spines, gilt lettering & blind rule to spines, red speckled colouring to page edges, vol1- 163pp, vol 2- 245pp, VG- (moderate scuffing to extrems with some surface loss, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing prelims, light cracking to gutters of vol 1)
PUBLISHER: Mathieson & Co c.1890s
KEYWORDS: literature Paul de Kock collection anthology French Charles-Paul de Kock
The Benefactor: A Tale of a Small Circle
HALF TITLE, LAST PAGE & REAR EPS LOOSE BUT PRESENT, octavo, blue (cream) buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 349pp, scruffy (heavy chipping & scuffing to extrems, heavy discolouration to boards & spine, moderate scuffing & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page egdes, prev. owner's name in ink to fep, heavy cracking to gutters, prev. bookseller's label to rear pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Brown, Langham & Co 1905
KEYWORDS: literature Ford Madox Hueffer
Nexus (The Rosy Crucifixion)
FIRST UK EDITION, octavo, brown heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, 359pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light foxing to page egdes, sm brown stain to rear pastedown) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning to covers)
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1964
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature Henry Miller
A Canoe in Midstream: Poems New & Old
INSCRIBED, SIGNED & DATED BY AUTHOR, octavo, illus glossy card covers, white lettering to spine, 167pp, VG+ (sl curling to extrems, light chafing to covers, light soiling to rear ep)
PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori poems poetry signed Apirana Taylor collection anthology literature
Collected Poems: James K. Baxter
First edition, Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxvii + 656pp, VG+ (light scuffing and bruising to spine and board extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & creasing to edges, light rubbing and soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: New Zealand poetry poems literature James K Baxter collection anthology
The Scam
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: Front Line Fiction 1986
KEYWORDS: literature new zealand crime fiction
The Incomparable Atuk
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: Granada 1980
KEYWORDS: Literature comedy canada satire