Books - "literature"
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Born Into This
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PUBLISHER: University of Queensland Press 2021
KEYWORDS: adam thompson australia australian aboriginal literature fiction colonialism racism
The Book of Strange New Things
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PUBLISHER: Canongate 2014
KEYWORDS: michel faber fiction literature
The Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong
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: Mysterious Press 2013
KEYWORDS: joyce carol oates america american literature fiction
Report to Greco
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: Faber & Faber 1973
KEYWORDS: nikos kazantzakis greece greek literature fiction
Rutherford Waddell, M.A., D.D., Minister of St. Andrew's Church, Dunedin 1879-1919: Memoir and Addresses
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: Reed 1933
KEYWORDS: rutherford waddell memoir addresses new zealand literature history literary
Metaphor and Meaning in D.H. Lawrence's Later Novels
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: University of Missouri Press 1990
KEYWORDS: d.h. lawrence john b. humma literature literary criticism analysis metaphor
A Free House! or, The Artist as Craftsman, Being the Writings of Walter Richard Sickert
FIRST EDITION, octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, liv + 362pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to boards, ligh ttanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light foxing to pages sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1947
KEYWORDS: first editions literature prose Walter Richard Sickert art criticism collection
Behind the Counter (Handel und Wandel)
FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, red speckled page edges, 367pp, VG (light to moderate scuffing & surface loss to spine & board edges, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, sl soiling & foxing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Leipzig / Bernhard Tauchnitz 1868
KEYWORDS: modern first editions short stories literature German F W Hacklander fiction
The New House at Springdale
Octavo, yellow buckram boards, black lettering & illus to spine, black & green illus/decoration to front board, frontispiece, illus, 288pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, spine sl cocked & faded, light foxing & soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, moderate cracking to some gutters, light foxing & creasing to some pages sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Humphrey Milford // Oxford University Press 1934
KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction novels Dorita Fairlie-Bruce
Intimacies
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 225pp, VG+ (light scuffing & surface loss to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, in removable plastic cover)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 2021
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction novels Katie Kitamura
The Sisters (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, sm octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to leather title plate & gilt rule to spines, red speckled page edges, vol 1- 311pp, vol 2- 295pp, VG (light to moderate scuffing & surface loss to spine & extrems, light chafing & surface loss to boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, light tanning & soiling to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Leipzig Bernhard Tauchnitz 1880
KEYWORDS: German literature fiction novels romance
Klytia: A Story of Heidelberg Castle (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, sm octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to leather title plate & gilt rule to spines, red speckled page edges, vol 1- 266pp, vol 2- 262pp, VG (light to moderate scuffing & surface loss to spine & extrems, light chafing & surface loss to boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, light tanning & soiling to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Leipzig Bernhard Tauchnitz 1883
KEYWORDS: German literature fiction novels George Taylor
Dimsie Intervenes
FIRST EDITION, octavo, cream cloth boards, blue lettering & illus to spine & front board, top page edges stained blue- v faded, frontispiece, 286pp, illus, VG (spine cocked, moderate bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate soiling & tanning/foxing to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, gift inscription in ink to ffep, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1937
KEYWORDS: modern first editions children's literature fiction novels Dorita Fairlie Bruce
Rejsen til New Zealand
TEXT IN DANISH, sm octavo, illus light card covers, green lettering to spine, 101pp, VG (light creasing & chipping to spine & cover edges, light tanning & light to moderate foxing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Gyldendalske Boghandel 1950
KEYWORDS: text in Danish travel literature exploration New Zealand
Boy: Tales of Childhood
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 160pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine sl cocked, sl bruising to extrems, ligh ttanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & water staining to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1984
KEYWORDS: first editions literary biographies memoir Roald Dahl children's authors literature
Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Tale of Life Among the Lowly
Super octavo, turquoise buckram boards, gilt lettering & illus to spine & front board, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiv + 680pp, illus, VG- (moderate cracking & scuffing to spine extrems with some surface loss, 3cm & 2cm cracks to upper spine hinges, moderate to heavy staining to boards & spine, moderate tanning to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front eps, pgs 131-142 loose but still attached, moderate tanning to catalogue to rear, moderate cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1896
KEYWORDS: children's literature classical novels fiction Harriet Beecher-Stowe
The Trackers
UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY Octavo softcover (Nr FINE); 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: 4th Estate 2023
KEYWORDS: charles fraziers trackers fiction novel literature great depression
The Wooden Shepherdess; With the unfinished fragment of the final volume of the trilogy The Human Predicament
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Harvill Press 1995
KEYWORDS: richard hughes wooden shepherdess human predicament fiction historical novels literature weimar germany england america nazis hitler world war fascism
The Second Day; A Novel
Sm. 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Raduga Publishers 1984
KEYWORDS: ilya ehrenburg second day russian soviet literature fiction novels translations translated
The Season of the Witch
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: W. H. Allen & Co., Ltd. 1971
KEYWORDS: james leo herlihy season witch fiction literature novels first uk edition