Books - "literature"
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The Red Word
Octavo softcover with French flaps (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: Black Cat 2018
KEYWORDS: literature canada canadian
The Gods Arrive
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: Virago 1995
KEYWORDS: american literature
Tenor of Love
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: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster 2005
KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction opera puccini caruso
Hudson River Bracketed
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: Virago 1986
KEYWORDS: literature american
Twilight Sleep
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: Virago 1996
KEYWORDS: literature american
The Troubled Man
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: Harvill Secker 2011
KEYWORDS: henning mankell sweden swedish literature fiction mystery kurt wallander
Cloudstreet
FIRST US EDITION (STATES FIRST EDITION & LOWEST NUMBER IN STRING IS 2), super octavo, blue patterned heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to black cloth spine, author's initials in silver gilt lettering to front board, blue patterned eps, 426pp, VG+ (sl scuffing to extrems, light foxing to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Graywolf Press 1992
KEYWORDS: modern first US edition literature fiction novels Tim Winton
Skepticism and Memory in Shakespeare and Donne
Octavo, beige heavy boards, red lettering to spine, xvi + 240pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling to boards, v occasional marking in ink to margins)
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
KEYWORDS: literature Shakespeare literary criticism Donne history
Writing and European Thought 1600-1830
Super octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 222pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Europe European history historical
Writing From History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature
Super octavo, mauve glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 309pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers & edges, light chafing, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history renaissance writing intellectual culture
Sleeping Giants: Book One of the Themis Files
AUSTRALIAN FIRST EDITION, super octavo, illus light card covers, white & blue lettering to spine, 304pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, sl tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph/Penguin Books 2016
KEYWORDS: modern first edition Australian literature fiction novels Themis files book one 1 i Sylvain Neuvel scifi science fiction
English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xvi + 539pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism reformation history
Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance
Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 148pp, Near FINE (light bruising to boards) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history drama religion religious Christianity Shakespeare
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 287pp, Near FINE (sl curling to cover edges, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: Thomas Aquinas literature literary criticism religion religious medieval philosophy
Meter in English: A Critical Engagement
Super octavo, pink glossy light card covers, green lettering to spine & covers, xxiii + 368pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light fading to spine & covers, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Arkansas Press 1996
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism meter English versification language linguistics poetics
The Journals of Andre Gide 1889-1949 (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spines, vol 1- xii + 354pp + xiv index to rear, vol 2- 368pp + xii index to rear, VG+ (light curling to covers, light fading to spine of vol 1, light soiling to page edges of both vols, sl cracking to front gutter of vol 1)
PUBLISHER: Northwestern University Press 1987
KEYWORDS: journals diary Andre Gide literary biographies autobiographies literature
Middleton's Vulgar Pasquin: Essays on 'A Game at Chess'
Super octavo, black buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 341pp, illus, VG+ (sl scuffing & bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Associated University Presses 1995
KEYWORDS: literature historiography politics government chess allegory political plays criticism literary
Interpretation and Theology in Spenser
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 273pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature literary doctrine Christianity Edmund Spenser poetry history criticism
Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, white & red lettering to spine, xxiv + 257pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light fading to front board, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Brill 2006
KEYWORDS: late middle ages renaissance history drama literature theatre theater England English criticism
Horsemanship: A Bibliography of Printed Materials From the Sixteenth Century Through 1974
VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xvii + 282pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1985
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies literature literary horsemanship horses history historical