Books - "literature"
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Envoy
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#43/200) octavo, cream stiff card covers, black lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus, VG (light tanning & creasing to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Puriri Press 1996
KEYWORDS: New Zealand signed literature poems poetry verse Alan Loney poets collection anthology limited numbered editions
Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road
Quarto, black heavy boards, red lettering to spine, frontispiece, 207pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: New York Public Library 2007
KEYWORDS: English American literature Jack Kerouac appreciation criticism art exhibitions
Wanderings in the Middle East
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled lower page edges, frontispiece, 318pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & discolouration to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to spine &edges with loss & tidy archival tape repairs, moderate staining & discolouration to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1924
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Middle East A Sloan Palestine Syria Iraq culture customs first editions history
Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white & yellow lettering to spine, xxiii + 383pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light chafing & curling/creasing to covers & edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2010
KEYWORDS: Indonesia travel writing literature music Islam religion faith culture influence
In the Character of Shakespeare: Canon, Authorship and Attribution in Eighteenth-Century England
Quarto, maroon buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, vi + 256pp, VG+ (sl bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & staining to spine & boards, sl soiling & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Auckland 2008
KEYWORDS: thesis theses English literature criticism academic papers William Shakespeare Edmund G C King
Popular Indonesian Literature of the Qur'an
Imperial octavo, yellow soft card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, v + 166pp, VG (light creasing/curling & moderate fading to spine & cover edges, moderate chafing & soiling to covers, light soiling & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to title page)
PUBLISHER: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project 1994
KEYWORDS: Indonesia Indonesian literature religion Qur'an Islam Islamic ideology
Eloise in Hollywood
Ex-library, quarto 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: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2007
KEYWORDS: children's literature Eloise books
My Granny Was a Frightful Bore (But She Isn't Anymore)
Square 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: Pavilion Children's Books 2003
KEYWORDS: children's literature picture books Nanette Newman
Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica
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: Andre Deutsch 1965
KEYWORDS: Ian Fleming literary autobiography memoir Jamaica travel writing literature culture
Choosers of the Slain
PROOF COPY, 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: Headline 1996
KEYWORDS: proof copies literature fiction novels James Cobb
Literature and the Crime Against Nature
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: Chaucer Press 2005
KEYWORDS: essays prose literature literary criticism
A Roderick Finlayson Reader
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: Cold Hub Press 2020
KEYWORDS: Roderick Finlayson literature literary criticism appreciation interpretation essays poems letters
The Siege
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: Viking / Penguin 2001
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Helen Dunmore
Breaking Open the Head: A Visionary Journey from Cynicism to Shamanism
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: Flamingo / HarperCollins 2003
KEYWORDS: philosophy shamanism travel writing literature substance abuse Daniel Pinchbeck
Voice of the Beloved
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: Sonic-Visum Alchemy 2001
KEYWORDS: wisdom philosophy verse literature Charlottemarie
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
Ex-library, octavo hardcover (VG+) minimal library markings; 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: Heron Books N/D (c.1980s?)
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Brazil South America Theodore Roosevelt history culture
The Importance of Living
FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket torn; 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: William Heinemann 1946
KEYWORDS: first Australian editions literature China Chinese wisdom philosophy humour humor
The Hotel Albatross
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: Vintage / Random House 1995
KEYWORDS: literature Debra Adelaide
The Shooting of Dan McGrew,The Cremation of Sam McGee
ILLUSTRATED, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) jacket affixed to boards; 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: Young Scott Books 1969
KEYWORDS: literature Robert W Service verse poems poetry ballads illustrated
The Long and Winding Aotearoa
Imperial 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: David Bateman 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel writing literature adventure motorcycling George Lockyer