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$18.00
xxstf172174

Love Lessons: A Wartime Diary


WYNDHAM, JOAN

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: William Heinemann 1985

KEYWORDS: diary journals relationships ww2 second world war 2 two 2nd literature history

$18.50
xxstf172175

Visitor's Book


EDWARDS, JOAN

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-/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: The Epworth Press 1960

KEYWORDS: travel exploration poems poetry verse literature collection Joan Edwards

$20.00
xxstf172180

Wit & Wisdom of Africa: Proverbs From Africa & the Caribbean


IBEKWE, PATRICK

Imperial octavo softcover (VG) ffep missing; 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: New Internationalist Publications Ltd 1998

KEYWORDS: Africa literature humour wit wisdom proverbs sayings Caribbean history

$12.50
xxstf172184

The Jeweller's Window: Some Notes and Reflections on the Ways of Words and Men


WALL, ARNOLD

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: Whitcombe and Tombs 1964

KEYWORDS: humour anecdotes literature linguistics language words

$18.50
xxstf172187

Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts


FLYNN, ELIZABETH A. & SCHWEICKART, PATROCINIO P. (Eds)

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 John Hopkins University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: essays prose collection gender literature women women's lectures literary criticism feminism sex

$20.00
xxstf172189

Ceremony and Civility in English Renaissance Prose


HALL, ANNE DRURY

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: Pennsylvania State University Press 1991

KEYWORDS: literature prose renaissance English literary criticism rhetoric civilization civilisation history

$24.50
xxstf172191

Edmund Wilson, the Man in Letters


WILSON, EDMUND & CASTRONOVO, DAVID (Ed & Intro) & GROTH, JANET (Ed & Intro)

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: Ohio University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: Edmund Wilson correspondence letters autobiography literature

$17.50
xxstf172197

Clutha: River Poems


GLOVER, DENIS

Octavo stapled wrappers (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: John McIndoe 1977

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poetry poems literature collection Denis Glover

$9.50
xxstf172198

Doctor on the Job


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

$42.50
2i42a/3

Told Round a Brushwood Fire: The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki


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

$85.00
2i42a/24

Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics


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

$60.00
2i42a/25

Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China


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

$78.50
2i42a/36

A World Connecting 1870-1945


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

$26.50
xxstg172206

The Spell of Morpheus: A Tale of Mothers and Drugs in One New Zealand City


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

$24.50
xxstg172227

Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980


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

$25.00
xxstg172228

The Traveller


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

$16.50
xxstg172240

Farthest West: Afoot and Afloat


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

$15.00
xxsth172254

All God's Chillun Got Wings Desire Under the Elms and Welded


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

$14.00
xxsth172265

Burning Bright: A Play in Story Form


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

$10.00
xxsth172268

Racists


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

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