Books - "literature"
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Along Life's Pathway
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: Florence Clark 2000
KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors poets literature Florence Clark poems poetry collection
Tracks From the High Country
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: Central Otago News Ltd 1987
KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors poets literature Blue Jeans Ross McMillan poems poetry verse collection
Swagger Country
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); 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: Hodder and Stoughton 1976
KEYWORDS: Jim Henderson New Zealand writers swaggers prose literature anecdotes collection
Song of a Drifter and Other Ballads
Small 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: Hazard Press 1996
KEYWORDS: Barry Crump verse literature poems poetry collection
Research at Caberfeidh and Amusing Incidents
Octavo stapled light card 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: South Otago Newspapers (Printer) N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Everard Baker anecdotes literature
The Impossible Ride: The First Bicycle Ride Across the Amazon Jungle
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: The Southern Cross Press 1982
KEYWORDS: Louise Sutherland travel signed literature Amazon jungle cycling
The Right to be Lazy; and Other Studies
Duodecimo, grey stapled light card wrappers, 62pp, tatty (covers completely detached but present, moderate creasing/chipping & soiling to covers, moderate tanning to pages, prev. ownership ink stamp to title page, pgs 8-9 missing)
PUBLISHER: Charles H. Kerr & Company N/D (c.1900)
KEYWORDS: literature philosophy Paul Lafargue
How Maui Slowed the Sun (Te Hopu A Maaui I A Te Raa)
FIRST EDITION, lg quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, black lettering to spine, printed/illus eps, unpaginated, illus, VG (moderate bruising to board extrems, light chafin g& soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page egdes & eps)
PUBLISHER: Lansdowne Press 1982
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori te reo legends Maui children's literature modern first edition
The Boy and the Taniwha
Oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, white cloth spine, illus eps & title page, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (light fading to board edges, sl chafing to boards, light tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & curling/chipping to edges & corners, price clipped, light fading to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Collins Bros. & Co. Ltd 1967
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori children's literature R L Bacon
The Maorilander: A Study of William Satchell
OWNERSHIP OF NORTHLAND HISTORIAN KAY BOESE, octavo, orange cloth boards, black lettering to spine, 163pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges & flaps, light to moderate chafing & soiling to covers & spine)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1961
KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors history literature literary biography memoir criticism William Satchell history
Black Marks on the White Page
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, white lettering to front board, 336pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to board edges & extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Vintage/Penguin Random House 2017
KEYWORDS: modern first edition New Zealand writers authors literature collection anthology short stories novel excerpts
Sailing or Drowning
FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey heavy boards, blue lettering to spine & front board, 28pp, VG- (moderate bruising to spine extrems, moderate tanning & light foxing to spine & boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light to moderate foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: The Progressive Publishing Society 1944
KEYWORDS: New Zealand authors poets writers poetry poems Allen Curnow collection literature first edition
Bibliographie Zur Symbolkunde: Unter Mitarbeit von Ferdinand Herrmann, Eckhard Unger, Ernst Burgstaller und Weiteren Fachgelehrten
TIDY EX-LIBRARY, SINGLE VOLUME EDITION, imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 695pp, VG (usual library markings, light to moderate chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light soiling to page edges, sl creasing to top page edges of prelims)
PUBLISHER: Verlag Heitz GmbH 1968
KEYWORDS: bibliography literature
Hippocrate
TEXT IN FRENCH, REBOUND, octavo, marbled red half leather bound boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, marbled eps, 273pp, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to board edges & corners, heavy cracking to hinges/gutters, moderate chafing to leather, light to moderate tanning to page edges, lengthy inscription in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Editions Bernard Grasset 1931
KEYWORDS: text in French Hippocrate literature
Ces Grappes de ma Vigne
TEXT IN FRENCH, REBOUND IN FULL LEATHER, LENGTHY INSCRIPTION & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, red leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, 398pp, VG (light to moderate tanning to pages, moderate cracking to gutters- some pgs loose but still attached)
PUBLISHER: Les Editeurs Francais Reunis 1956
KEYWORDS: text in French literature Gaston Baissette full leather bindings
The Hummel: Her Life and Work
Imperial octavo, pink cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus plate & gilt rule to front board, illus eps, 141pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to rear board)
PUBLISHER: arsEdition 1994
KEYWORDS: Berta Hummel illustrated children's literature artist biography memoir
Isabelle de la Garrigue
TEXT IN FRENCH, LENGTHILY INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, white heavy boards, nlack lettering & green rule to spine, 314pp, VG (light tanning & bruising to board edges, light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Julliard 1968
KEYWORDS: text in French signed literature Gaston Baissette
L'Etang de L'Or
LENGTHY INSCRIPTION & SIGNE DBY AUTHOR, LOOSELY ENCLOSED TWO INVITATION CARDS, ONE WITH HANDWRITING OF THE AUTHOR, octavo, white heavy boards, black lettering & green rule to spine, 207pp, VG+ (sl tanning to board edges, sl scuffing/bruising to spine extrems, light tanning to top page edges) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some minor loss & tape repairs to any closed tearing, light tanning to spine & cover edges)
PUBLISHER: Julliard 1966
KEYWORDS: text in French signed literature Gaston Baissette
Poesie
TEXT IN FRENCH, LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#185), INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, red leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, 113pp, VG+ (sl bruising/scuffing to lower spine extrem, top corners of occasional page removed)
PUBLISHER: Les Arcades 1974
KEYWORDS: text in French literature poems poetry verse collection Gaston Baissette numbered limited editions signed
Oku Mahara (My Thoughts)
INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY ARTIST, ALONG WITH TWO POSTCARDS OF HIS ART ALSO DATED & SIGNED, duodecimo, cream stapled light card wrappers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated, VG+ (light chafing & soiling to covers, some light foxing to rear of postcards)
PUBLISHER: Thames Star N/D (c.1973)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand artists writers Rei Hamon Maori poems verse literature signed