Books - "literature"
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A Dead Man in Deptford
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
Guide to Chinese Prose
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
An English Library: A Bookman's Guide
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
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
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
Conrad Aiken: A Bibliography (1902-1978)
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
Rawhide Laureate: John G. Neihardt: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography
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
Bram Stoker: A Bibliography of First Editions
Illustrated
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
All Those Vanished Engines
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
Critical Perspectives on Amos Tutuola
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
Bedtime Yarns
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
New Westers: The West in Contemporary American Literature
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
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
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
Dear Baby
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
The Old Beauty and Others
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
River of Smoke
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
The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe; Together With His Essays on the Poetic Principle and the Philosophy of Composition, and a Critical Memoir
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
Joseph Conrad and Charles Darwin: The Influence of Scientific Thought on Conrad's Fiction
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
The Big Season
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
Two Mountains and a River
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
The Cruise of the Nona
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