Books - "literature"
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Lady Gregory: Selected Writings
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: Penguin Books 1995
KEYWORDS: Lady Gregory literature collection prose Irish writers
Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement
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: Oxford University Press 2012
KEYWORDS: philosophy literature ethics morality
The Wapshot Scandal
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PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1964
KEYWORDS: fiction novels literature John Cheever
Silex Scintillans 1650
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
The World's Toughest Golf Holes
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
Blue Birds
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PUBLISHER: Puffin 2015
KEYWORDS: caroline starr rose fiction ya young adult literature fiction historical
Pure Colour
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PUBLISHER: Harvill Secker 2022
KEYWORDS: sheila heti america american literature fiction
Born Into This
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PUBLISHER: University of Queensland Press 2021
KEYWORDS: adam thompson australia australian aboriginal literature fiction colonialism racism
The Book of Strange New Things
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PUBLISHER: Canongate 2014
KEYWORDS: michel faber fiction literature
The Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong
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PUBLISHER: Mysterious Press 2013
KEYWORDS: joyce carol oates america american literature fiction
Rutherford Waddell, M.A., D.D., Minister of St. Andrew's Church, Dunedin 1879-1919: Memoir and Addresses
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PUBLISHER: Reed 1933
KEYWORDS: rutherford waddell memoir addresses new zealand literature history literary
Metaphor and Meaning in D.H. Lawrence's Later Novels
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PUBLISHER: University of Missouri Press 1990
KEYWORDS: d.h. lawrence john b. humma literature literary criticism analysis metaphor
A Free House! or, The Artist as Craftsman, Being the Writings of Walter Richard Sickert
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
The Dead Lake and Other Tales
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
Behind the Counter (Handel und Wandel)
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
The New House at Springdale
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
The Bartle Bequest
FIRST EDITION, ARCHIVAL REPAIR TO D/W, octavo, yellow cloth boards, green lettering to spine, frontispiece, vii + 253pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light fading to spine & extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with loss & archival tape repairs to edges, moderate chafing & soiling/surface loss)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1955
KEYWORDS: modern first editions children's literature fiction ovels Dorita Fairlie Bruce
Intimacies
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
The Commonplace Philosopher in Town and Country
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & DATED BY HIM, ALSO LOOSELY ENCLOSED HOLOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER FROM HIM & OTHER EPHEMERA IN HIS HAND, octavo, maroon textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule to boards, iv + 391pp + 8pp catalogue to rear, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, v heavy cracking to central gutters with pgs 193-224 loose but still attached)
PUBLISHER: Parker Son and Bourn 1862
KEYWORDS: philosophy Andrew Boyd literature prose social commentary
The Sisters (2 Vol Set)
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