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$15.00
xxcje187451

Silex Scintillans 1650


VAUGHAN, HENRY

FACSIMILE EDITION, paperback (VG) minor pencil annotations; 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 Scolar Press 1968

KEYWORDS: Henry Vaughan classical literature poetry poems verse collection

$15.00
xxcjf187462

The World's Toughest Golf Holes


HEPBURN, TOM & JACOBSON, SELWYN

Square Imperial 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: Saint Publishing 1996

KEYWORDS: humour humor sport golf travel literature

$12.50
xxcjg187470

Blue Birds


ROSE, CAROLINE STARR

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: Puffin 2015

KEYWORDS: caroline starr rose fiction ya young adult literature fiction historical

$15.00
xxcjg187471

Pure Colour


HETI, SHEILA

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: Harvill Secker 2022

KEYWORDS: sheila heti america american literature fiction

$15.00
xxcjh187485

Born Into This


THOMPSON, ADAM

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: University of Queensland Press 2021

KEYWORDS: adam thompson australia australian aboriginal literature fiction colonialism racism

$14.50
xxcjh187487

The Book of Strange New Things


FABER, MICHEL

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: Canongate 2014

KEYWORDS: michel faber fiction literature

$10.00
xxcjh187489

The Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong


OATES, JOYCE CAROL

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

$20.00
xxckb187509

Rutherford Waddell, M.A., D.D., Minister of St. Andrew's Church, Dunedin 1879-1919: Memoir and Addresses


WADDELL, RUTHERFORD & COLLIE, J. (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: Reed 1933

KEYWORDS: rutherford waddell memoir addresses new zealand literature history literary

$35.00
xxckb187513

Metaphor and Meaning in D.H. Lawrence's Later Novels


HUMMA, JOHN B. & [LAWRENCE, D.H.]

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

$40.00
1a5b/12

A Free House! or, The Artist as Craftsman, Being the Writings of Walter Richard Sickert


SICKERT, WALTER RICHARD & SITWELL, OSBERT (Ed)

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

$80.00
1a5b/15

The Dead Lake and Other Tales


HEYSE, PAUL & WILSON, MARY (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, red speckled page edges, 312pp, 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 1870

KEYWORDS: modern first editions short stories literature German Paul Heyse fiction

$95.00
1a5b/16

Behind the Counter (Handel und Wandel)


HACKLANDER, F. W. & HOWITT, MARY (Trans)

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

$70.00
1a5b/17

The New House at Springdale


BRUCE, DORITA FAIRLIE & JOHNSTON, M. D. (Illus)

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

$50.00
1a5b/30

Intimacies


KITAMURA, KATIE

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

$75.00
1a6a/1

The Sisters (2 Vol Set)


EBERS, GEORG & BELL, CLARA (Trans)

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

$75.00
1a6a/2

Klytia: A Story of Heidelberg Castle (2 Vol Set)


TAYLOR, GEORGE & CORKRAN, SUTTON FRASER (Trans)

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

$175.00
1a6a/4

Dimsie Intervenes


BRUCE, DORITA FAIRLIE & JOHNSTON, M. D. (Illus)

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

$50.00
1a6a/7

Rejsen til New Zealand


HANSEN, OLE CONRAD & VINDING, OLE (Trans)

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

$150.00
1a6a/16

Boy: Tales of Childhood


DAHL, ROALD

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

$245.00
1a6a/18

Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Tale of Life Among the Lowly


BEECHER-STOWE, HARRIET & NYSTROM-STOOPENDAAL, JENNY (Illus)

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

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