Books - "literature"
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The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic
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: Cambridge University Press 1995
KEYWORDS: religious literature religion literary reformation Spenser Milton history iconoclasm poetry epic
A French Wedding
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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: Doubleday 2017
KEYWORDS: literature fiction novels signed Hannah Tunnicliffe
Critics on Marlowe: Readings in Literary Criticism
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: University of Miami Press 1988
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Marlowe collection prose
Smut: Two Unseemly 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: Faber and Faber & Profile Books 2011
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature novellas Alan Bennett fiction humour humor novels
Shakespeare Left and Right
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: Routledge 1991
KEYWORDS: literary criticism history literature political plays Shakespeare interpretation social
The Mabinogion
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: Oxford University Press 2018
KEYWORDS: Welsh literature medieval texts history historical literary criticism appreciation
Girls Made of Snow and Glass
Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) 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: Flatiron Books 2017
KEYWORDS: fiction novels literature fantasy Melissa Bashardoust
A Dangerous Inheritance
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: Hutchinson 2012
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature historical fiction novels Alison Weir
USSR Humor
Sm 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: Peter Pauper Press 1964
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian humour humor collection anthology literature
Impressions of Lenin
EXTENSIVE ANNOTATION, HIGHLIGHTING & UNDERSCORING, 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: University of Michigan Press / Arbor Paperbacks 1968
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian Soviet philosophy V I Lenin literature history criticism communism
Khumbu: Gateway to Mount Everest: Pathways to Kinship
Oblong quarto, illus glossy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 219pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (v sl bruising to lower board edges, 5mm closed tear to rear ep) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2021
KEYWORDS: travel literature exploration climbing mountaineering Mount Everest Kathmandu Nepal Khumbu
In the Land of the Lion and Sun, or Modern Persia; Being Experiences of Life in Persia From 1866 to 1881 (Second Edition)
Sm octavo, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & black rule to spine, black lettering & rule to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xviii + 446pp, illus, VG (light scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, moderate staining to rear board, sl chafing & soiling to front board,moderate fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, light cracking to gutters throughout)
PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Bowden 1893
KEYWORDS: travel literature exploration modern Persia history culture customs history
The Future of Man
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 200pp, illus, VG (sl scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light to moderate highlighting to text throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some minor loss to base of spine, light to moderate staining & discolouration to spine & coevrs)
PUBLISHER: The Christopher Publishing House 1970
KEYWORDS: philosophy literature Robert Klark Graham anthropology antiquity
Glimpses of the Australian Colonies and New Zealand: A Thrilling Narrative of the Early Days: Embodying the Life-History of Captain William Jackson Barry Who Arrived in New South Wales in 1829
Imperial octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & tooling/decoration to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, 210pp, illus/photos, tatty (heavy scuffing & chipping with some loss to spine extrems, heavy scuffing to board edges with some surface loss, moderate soiling to boards, heavy tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, v heavy cracking to gutters- terminals & prelims up to pg 6 completely detached but present, light tanning to eps, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout, boards shaky)
PUBLISHER: The Brett Printing and Publishing Company 1903
KEYWORDS: Australia New Zealand exploration travel literature colonies adventure Captain William Jackson Barry history
Blue Mars
FIRST UK EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps to prelims, 616pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning and foxing to page edges, sl cracking to front gutter) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Voyager / HarperCollins 1996
KEYWORDS: modern first UK editions scifi science fiction novels literature Kim Stanly Robinson
The Drunken Boat
Octavo, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 87pp, VG- (heavy soiling to spine & boards, moderate bruising to extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owners' names in ink to ffep, light foxing to pgs throughout)
PUBLISHER: Rupert Hart-Davis 1953
KEYWORDS: poems poetry collection Arthur Rimbaud verse literature
Lady Wu: A True Story
FIRST EDITION, octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 245pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate soiling to boards, spine sl cocked, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep & intials to rear eps, occasional light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate soiling & staining to spine & covers)
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1957
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction novels Lin Yutang
Dishonored: The Wyrmwood Deceit
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus, Near FINE (sl creasing to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Titan Comics 2016
KEYWORDS: graphic novels fiction literature Gordon Rennie
Ender's Game
FIRST EDITION THUS, SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 357pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light to moderate tanning to pages, light foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Century Publishing 1985
KEYWORDS: modern first editions thus scifi science fiction literature novels Orson Scott Card
H. P. Blavatsky and the Masters of the Wisdom
Octavo, grey light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 58pp, VG- (heavy creasing, scuffing & tanning to spine & cover edges- sl loss to spine extrems, light foxing to covers, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep with rough attempts to erase, light foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Theosophical Publishing House 1922
KEYWORDS: theosophy religion H P Blavatsky philosophy literature