Books - "literature"
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Tolstoy Remembered; by His Son
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1961
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Leo Tolstoy literary literature Russian authors Russia
The Questionnaire; or Prayer For a Town & a Friend
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Blond & Briggs 1982
KEYWORDS: modern first edition czech literature novels fiction Jiri Grusa
The Professor of Truth
FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 2013
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature fiction novels James Robertson
Leo Tolstoy
Octavo hardcover (scruffy) in d/w (scruffy); 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: John Lehmann 1949
KEYWORDS: literary biographies literature Russia Russian authors Leo Tolstoy
The Big Game and Other Stories
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1947
KEYWORDS: first edition short stories collection New Zealand Aotearoa literature fiction A P Gaskell
Real Illusions: A Selection of Family Lies and Biographical Fictions in Which the Ancestral Dead Also Play Their Part
FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN HARDCOVER, 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: Victoria University Press 1984
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa literature fiction short stories collection first edition
City of Saints & Thieves
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2017
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature fiction novels Natalie C Anderson
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities and Other Stuff
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Virago 2018
KEYWORDS: first edition travel literature Abbi Jacobson US America
The Practice of Theory: Poststructuralism, Cultural Politics, and Art History
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: philosophy culture cultural politics art history poststructuralism literature
Hunslett's Yard
FIRST EDITION, EX-LIBRARY (CLEAN UNLABELLED D/W), 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: Ward Lock & Company 1962
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature fiction novels E Laurie-Long
How to Read a Book
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: Awa Press 2005
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa the Ginger series literature literary
A Voyage Around the World: New Zealand
Sm octavo, terracotta textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to spine & boards, aeg, illus title page, vii + 264pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl chafing & surface loss to boards, presentation plate to front pastedown, moderate foxing eps & prelims/terminals, light foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: George Routledge and Sons N/D (c.1880s)
KEYWORDS: exploration travel literature Jules Verne New Zealand Aotearoa culture history
Magnum Opus or the Great Work of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (Facsimile Reprint)
Imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, frontispiece, mixed pagination, VG+ (light chafing & curling to covers, sm label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing N/D (Facsimile Reprint)
KEYWORDS: freemasonry freemasons history Scottish Albert Pike literature
Scribes, Script and Books: The Book Arts From Antiquity to the Renaissance
VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY- MINIMAL MARKINGS, quarto, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, red blind stamp illus & gilt rule to front board, frontispiece, xxxii + 356pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl label residue to front board & spine, any library markings erased with black marker pen- minimal)
PUBLISHER: American Library Association / The British Library 1991
KEYWORDS: language linguistics books literature etymology books history evolution bookmaking
Ovid and the Renaissance Body
Super octavo, charcoal heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vi + 281pp, VG+ (boards sl warped, sl foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing & creasing, sl water staining to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: University of Toronto Press 2001
KEYWORDS: literary literature art criticism Ovid sex renaissance
Shakespeare on Masculinity
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xi + 249pp, VG (moderate bruising to spine & boards, light soiling to boards, light foxing & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling, light fading to spine & front cover)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: first edition literary criticism literature Shakespeare essays collection prose gender masculinity kings rulers heroes
Shakespeare's Books: Contemporary Cultural Politics and the Persistence of Empire
Octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, vii + 221pp, VG (light creasing & curling to covers with some soiling, light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate & plentiful creasing/folding to top page corners)
PUBLISHER: University of Melbourne 1993
KEYWORDS: literary criticism literature Shakespeare contemporary cultural politics Australia
Poets' Grammar: Person, Time and Mood in Poetry
FIRST EDITION, octavo, pink buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 190pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev, bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning to spine, price clipped, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1958
KEYWORDS: first edition poetry literature criticism language linguistics verse literary
Games and Theatre in Shakespeare's England
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, 332pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Amsterdam University Press 2021
KEYWORDS: performance Shakespeare theatre play games literary criticism literature
Heresy, Literature, and Politics in Early Modern English Culture
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 318pp, VG+ (sl bruising & soiling to board extrems, sl soiling & light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & soiling to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: English literature literary criticism history historical heresy politics