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$16.50
xxfhk183845

A Dead Man in Deptford


BURGESS, ANTHONY

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: Hutchinson 1993

KEYWORDS: anthony burgess christopher marlow historical fiction britain british england english literature elizabethan era

$15.00
xxfhk183849

Guide to Chinese Prose


PAPER, JORDAN D.

VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, 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: G.K. Hall & Co. 1973

KEYWORDS: chinese prose bibliography history literature literary guide

$15.00
xxfhk183852

An English Library: A Bookman's Guide


SMITH, F. SEYMOUR

VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY; octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG, in transparent plastic sleeve) ; 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: Andre Deutsch 1963

KEYWORDS: bibliography reading list english literature language literary history f. seymour smith

$25.00
xxfhl183853

The Hills of Home by L. Maclean Watt, With the Pentland Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson: An Old Scotch Gardener, The Manse: A Pastoral and The Pentland Rising


MACLEAN WATT, L. & STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS & HOPE, ROBERT (illus.)

FIRST EDITION 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: T.N. Foulis 1913

KEYWORDS: first edition robert louis stevenson l. maclean watt pentland essays literature

$20.00
xxfhl183857

Conrad Aiken: A Bibliography (1902-1978)


BONNELL, F.W. & BONNELL, F.C. (eds.)

VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, 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: The Huntington Library 1982

KEYWORDS: conrad aiken bibliography america american f.w. f.c. bonnell history literature

$20.00
xxfhl183859

Rawhide Laureate: John G. Neihardt: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography


RICHARDS, JOHN THOMAS & [NEIHARDT, JOHN G.]

VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, 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: The Scarecrow Press 1983

KEYWORDS: ex-library john g. neihardt bibliography america american literary criticism history literature

$20.00
xxfhl183862

Bram Stoker: A Bibliography of First Editions


Illustrated

DALBY, RICHARD & [STOKER, BRAM]

VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, small 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: Dracula Press 1983

KEYWORDS: bram stoker bibliography ireland irish history literature literary dracula

$25.00
xxfhf183869

All Those Vanished Engines


PARK, PAUL

FIRST 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: Tor 2014

KEYWORDS: first edition paul park science fiction sci fi sci-fi literature

$22.50
xxfgg183881

Critical Perspectives on Amos Tutuola


LINDFORS, BERNTH (ed.) & [TUTUOLA, AMOS]

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: Three Continents Press 1975

KEYWORDS: amos tutuola nigeria nigerian writer literary criticism literature history africa african

$25.00
xxfgi183883

Bedtime Yarns


CRUMP, BARRY & HERON, MANDY (ed.)

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: Barry Crump Associates n/d

KEYWORDS: new zealand literature barry crump bush yarns

$20.00
xxfgi183886

New Westers: The West in Contemporary American Literature


JOHNSON, MICHAEL J.

Ex-library 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 Press of Kansas 1996

KEYWORDS: american literature west western united states us usa cowboy native american larry mcmurtry cormac mccarthy

$22.50
xxfgj183892

The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers


CARR, VIRGINIA SPENCER

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: Anchor 1976

KEYWORDS: literary biography american literature carson mccullers southern gothic

$8.50
xxfgj183896

Dear Baby


SAROYAN, WILLIAM

EX-LIBRARY, paperback (VG-, in transparent plastic protector) ; 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 and Faber 1966

KEYWORDS: ex-library william saroyan america american literature

$15.00
xxfgj183897

The Old Beauty and Others


CATHER, WILLA

EX-LIBRARY, 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: Cassel & Co. 1956

KEYWORDS: ex-library willa cather america american literature

$45.00
2f51a/14

River of Smoke


GHOSH, AMITAV

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering & decoration to spine, illus eps, 522pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG+ (6cm closed tear to spine with discreet archival tape repair, sl creasing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 2011

KEYWORDS: modern first editions novels fiction literature Amitav Ghosh

$245.00
2f51a/20

The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe; Together With His Essays on the Poetic Principle and the Philosophy of Composition, and a Critical Memoir


POE, EDGAR ALLAN & TENNIEL, JOHN (Illus) & FOSTER, BIRKET (Illus) & SKELTON, PERCIVAL (Illus) et al & ROSSETTI, W. M. (Ed)

Sm octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering & decoration with gilt tooling to spine front board, blind stamp decoration & rule to rear board, aeg, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, cxi + 254pp + unpaginated publisher's list to rear, illus, VG- (moderate scuffing, bruising & chipping to spine extrems, moderate tanning to spine, light scuffing to board corners, light soiling to front board, moderate soiling to rear board, moderate cracking to gutters, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown- historical, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page- historical, light foxing to pages sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Co N/D (c.1880s)

KEYWORDS: Moxon Moxon's popular poets horror literature Edgar Allan Poe collection anthology poetry poems verse

$50.00
2f51a/25

Joseph Conrad and Charles Darwin: The Influence of Scientific Thought on Conrad's Fiction


O'HANLON, REDMOND

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 189pp, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to top edges of boards, light soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine, light tanning & foxing)

PUBLISHER: The Salamander Press 1984

KEYWORDS: first edition literature literary criticism Joseph Conrad Charles Darwin knowledge science evolution philosophy

$45.00
2f51a/29

The Big Season


GEE, MAURICE

FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, white lettering to spine, 199pp, VG (spine cocked, light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with some loss to edges, moderate scuffing to spine & covers, sl tanning & soiling to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1962

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature fiction novels Maurice Gee New Zealand Zealanders writers authors

$55.00
2f51a/31

Two Mountains and a River


TILMAN, H. W.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 233pp, illus/photos, folding map, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light foxing & discolouration to spine, light tanning, foxing & soiling to page edges & prelims, gift plate & prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep, sl cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping with some loss to edges, moderate scuffing & soiling, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1949

KEYWORDS: first editions travel literature exploration Himalayas

$40.00
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The Cruise of the Nona


BELLOC, HILAIRE & LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY (New Intro)

Octavo, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxxviii + 347pp, VG+ (sl scuffing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to spine & edges, moderae fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Constable & Co 1955

KEYWORDS: Hilaire Belloc travel literature exploration coastal England Nona maritime nautical marine history

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