MAHY, MARGARET

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH A DRAWING OF A LION BY HER AS WELL, octavo, illus glossy light card covers with french flaps, black lettering to spine, 493pp, VG (moderate to heavy creasing to spine & covers, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims, minor damp wrinkling & staining to lower page edges, sl cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2005

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STEPHENS, JOHN & McCALLUM, ROBYN

Octavo, illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to grey buckram spine, xi + 316pp, VG (light bruising to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name & other sm ink markings to eps, occasional & unobtrusive pencil markings & underlining, sl occasioanl cracking to gutters, sl soiling to some pages occasionally throughout)

PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1998

KEYWORDS: children's literature literary criticism history classical

HOLT, MOLLY JILL

UNPUBLISHED THESIS, lg quarto, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, v + 368pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems & board edges, spine cocked, sl chafing & soiling to boards, light foxing & soiling to page edges, bindery adhesive label to front pastedown, sl foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: University of Auckland (Thesis) 2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa children's literature literary criticism thesis theses newspapers

CUSHING, HARVEY

LIMITED TO 800 COPIES, tidy ex-library, imperial octavo, quarter leather bound green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, teg, frontispiece, xxxviii + 229pp, illus, VG (heavy scuffing to spine with some surface loss, light scuffing & bruising to board extrems, moderate soiling to boards & page edges, minimal library markings)

PUBLISHER: Schuman's 1943

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies Andreas Vesalius literature literary biographical

HENSTRA, SARAH

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

WHARTON, EDITH & FRENCH, MARILYN (afterw.)

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

DI MICHELE, MARY

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

WHARTON, EDITH & FRENCH, MARILYN (afterw.)

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

WHARTON, EDITH

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

MANKELL, HENNING & THOMPSON, LAURIE (trans.)

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

WINTON, TIM

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

SHERMAN, ANITA GILMAN

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

HUDSON, NICHOLAS

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

HAMPTON, TIMOTHY

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

NEUVEL, SYLVAIN

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

KING, JOHN N.

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

HUNT, MAURICE

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

ECO, UMBERTO & BREDIN, HUGH (Trans)

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

BAKER, DAVID (Ed)

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

GIDE, ANDRE & O'BRIEN, JUSTIN (Ed, Trans, Abridged & Intro)

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