GORDON, RICHARD

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: William Heinemann 1976

KEYWORDS: humour comedy literature fiction Richard Gordon

HAKUSEKI, ARAI & ACKROYD, JOYCE (Trans)

Super octavo, cream cloth boards with blue buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 347pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's v sm name label to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping ot edges, 1cm loss to lower spine extrem, light to moderate fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press & University of Tokyo Press 1979

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Arai Hakuseki Japanese literature philosophy Confucius

GU, MING DONG

Super octavo, illus glossy card covers, white lettering to spine, xiv + 334pp, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to cover corners & edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2005

KEYWORDS: China Chinese theories literature reading writing theory Asian studies literary criticism philosophy

ELMAN, BENJAMIN A.

Super octavo, grey cloth boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus prelims, xxxiii + 409pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, prev. owner's sm name label to prelims, adhesive errata slip to full title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1990

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history classicism politics philosophy imperial confucianism confucius literature

ROSENBERG, EMILY S. (Ed)

Super octavo, grey heavy boards with black cloth spine, gilt lettering to spine, 1161pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to spine extrems, light soiling to page edges, gift inscription in ink to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press & C. H. Beck Verlag 2012

KEYWORDS: essays collection prose literature global connection communication trade business social culture cultural history commerce travel exploration

SUTHERLAND, JULIA

Signed, inscribed & dated. 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: RSVP Publishing

KEYWORDS: literature morpheus dreams drugs motherhood mothers daughters daughterhood dunedin otago new zealand

DEANE, SEAMUS

Super octavo (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: Faber and Faber 1985

KEYWORDS: irish fiction literature literary analysis theory essays joyce yeats o'casey kinsella montague friel mahon heaney beckett synge

DE LA MARE, WALTER; PIPER, JOHN (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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber [n. d.]

KEYWORDS: verse poetry literature traveller space travel

REED, A. H. & REED, A. W.

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Reed 1950

KEYWORDS: travel writings stories literature nz new zealand reed west coast otago lake manapouri supper cove dusky sound fiordland history

O'NEILL, EUGENE

Octavo hardcover (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 1925

KEYWORDS: play literature script drama theatre Eugene O'Neill

STEINBECK, JOHN

FIRST UK 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1951

KEYWORDS: modern first UK edition literature John Steinbeck

BASU, KUNAL

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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006

KEYWORDS: fiction race ethincity racism conflict Africa history literature

OWEN, STEPHEN

Super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 220pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light staining/residue to front board) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, 4cm closed tear to rear cover, 3cm closed tear to front cover, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1989

KEYWORDS: Chinese literature poetry poems verse China western Mi-Lou pleasure

FRAME, JANET

2 VOLUMES IN SLIPCASE, octavo, cream cloth boards, black lettering to spines, illus title pages, both vols 182pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to extrems/edges, light scuffing & fading to spines)

PUBLISHER: George Braziller 1963

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature collection anthology Janet Frame short stories fables

CARTER, ANGELA

FIRST EDITION, SCARCE- EX-LIBRARY, octavo, purple heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 214pp, VG- (usual library pockets & markings, spine cocked, moderate scuffing & staining to board edges/extrems, moderate tape residue/staining to rear board, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, ex-library adhesive band to base of covers & flaps, moderate tanning to spine, moderate creasing)

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1969

KEYWORDS: modern first edition Angela Carter literature

WANG, Q. EDWARD

Super octavo, illus glossy card covers, white lettering to spine, xi + 304pp, VG (light creasing & scuffing to cover edges, light creasing & wrinkling to spine, light chafing & discolouration to covers, prev. owner's initial in ink to ffep, pg 63/64 detached but present)

PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2001

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history historiography literature Asia

WIDMER, ELLEN & CHANG, KANG-I SUN (Eds)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, xiii + 544pp, illus, VG+ (light fading & creasing to spine)

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: womens's studies literature literary criticism history imperial China Chinese gender

JOHNSTONE, A. H.

SIGNED, Super octavo hardcover (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: Whitcombe and Tombes Ltd 1927

KEYWORDS: new zealand literature bibliography hocken supplement nz reference catalogue

JOHNSTONE, A. H.

1975 reprint, limited mastered edition. Super octavo hardcover (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: Newrick Associates Ltd 1975

KEYWORDS: new zealand literature bibliography hocken supplement nz reference catalogue reprint mastered 1975

STEINBECK, JOHN

First UK 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1951

KEYWORDS: american classic literature play short story drama