Books - "literature"
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Emerald Hours in New Zealand
TORN FEP, OTHER PAGES ROUGHLY DETACHED BUT STILL PRESENT, super 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: Whitcombe and Tombs N/D (c.1912)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel literature exploration history
John Masefield
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: Pimlico 1992
KEYWORDS: literary biographies memoir John Masefield literature history
Swift: The Battle of the Books; Extracted From Selections From Swift
Octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1912
KEYWORDS: Jonathan Swift literary criticism literature
The Blue Voyage; and Other Poems
FIRST EDITION, 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: Auckland University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: literature poems poetry verse Anne French first edition collection
This Place You Return to is Home
FIRST EDITION, 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: Granta Books 1999
KEYWORDS: short stories literature fiction Kirsty Gunn first editions
The Female Form: Women Writers and the Conquest of the Novel
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: Routledge 1990
KEYWORDS: women female writers authors literary criticism history literature
A Reader's Guide to William Butler Yeats
ARCHIVAL REPAIRS TO D/W, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) some underlining; 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: Thames and Hudson 1965
KEYWORDS: literary criticism literature W B Yeats William Butler philosophy
An Anthology
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: Adam and Charles Black 1955
KEYWORDS: philosophy literature Albert Schweitzer anthology
The Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007-2012
FIRST EDITION, 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: Auckland University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers poets poetry poems C K Stead literature collection first editions
Ultima Thule
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: Yale University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: poetry poems collection young writers poets literature
A Faust Book
FIRST EDITION, OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF STEPHEN STRATFORD, 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: Oxford University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: first editions literature Faust poetry poems
My Tao: The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tse
SIGNED, WITH TIPPED IN PLATES, octavo, blue light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece, 81pp + appendix to rear, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (light creasing & tanning to spine & cover edges with some minor soiling, light creasing to edges of frontispiece)
PUBLISHER: Puriri Press 1990
KEYWORDS: signed ancient Chinese wisdom philosophy literature Lao Tse
Letters of Aldous Huxley
FIRST EDITION, TIDY EX-LIBRARY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 992pp, VG (usual library markings, light foxing & discolouration to board edges, light tanning, foxing & soiling to page edges, moderate tape staining to eps) in d/w, VG (moderate tape staining/residue to edges & flaps, flaps heavily clipped, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1969
KEYWORDS: first editions Aldous Huxley letters correspondence collection literary literature
Elizabethan Recusant Prose 1559-1582
TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxxv + 553pp, illus, VG (moderate discolouration & tape residue to board & spine edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, usual library markings, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional underlining in pencil) in d/w & plastic protective wrapper- affixed, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some minor loss, moderate foxing & tanning)
PUBLISHER: Sands & Co N/D (c.1950)
KEYWORDS: religious history catholics Elizabethan catholic refugees literature prose golden age philosophy
Letter From Reachfar
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 152pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl discolouration to board edges, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl tanning, prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1975
KEYWORDS: first editions Jane Duncan autobiography memoir literary literature
A Visit to New Zealand
LIMITED NUMBERED SIGNED FIRST EDITION #50, imperial octavo, blue leather boards, gilt lettering & rule with raised bands to spine, aeg, gilt decoration to board edges, marbled eps, xii + 156pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to boards, minor rubbing to gilt on boards, sm gift inscription in ink to prelims- below author's signature)
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1974
KEYWORDS: New Zealand J B Priestley travel literature illustrated
Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xxviii + 312pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light to moderate tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: first editions Raymond Roussel literary biographies literature
The Calling: The Book of Thomas James
Super octavo hardcover (Near 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: Gatekeeper Press 2021
KEYWORDS: religious novels fiction religion literature Jacob Israel
The Boyfriend
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: Victoria University Press 2019
KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors literature fiction novels Laura Southgate
Carnets 1942-1951
EX-LIBRARY, THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) occasional light annotation in pencil; 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: Hamish Hamilton 1966
KEYWORDS: Albert Camus literature diary notebooks collection philosophy