Books - "literature"
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Mortal Remains
Super Octavo Paperback (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: arrow books 2011
KEYWORDS: literature fiction crime
Bones of the Lost
Super Octavo Paperback (NF); 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: arrow books 2014
KEYWORDS: literature fiction crime
A Knock at the Door
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Constable 1982
KEYWORDS: first edition eva hanagan britain british england english literature fiction
Oryx and Crake
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Nan A. Talese 2003
KEYWORDS: first edition margaret atwood canada canadian fiction literature
Washington Black
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Knopf 2018
KEYWORDS: first edition esi edugyan fiction literature canada canadian
The Memoirs of Lord Byron: A Novel
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1989
KEYWORDS: first edition robert nye britain british england english historical fiction lord byron literature
First Impressions: Dancing About Literature Since 1986
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xxii + 509pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Blue Agama Books 2021
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies literature
Brazilian Adventure
FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, octavo, brown cloth boards, yellow lettering & illus to spine & front board, top page edges stained brown, frontispiece, 414pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading/rubbing to spine, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing with moderate soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to eps, heavy cracking to some gutters, light to moderate foxing sporadically throughout, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, plate to pgs 278/279 detached but present)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1933
KEYWORDS: travel literature writing exploration Brazil South America American first editions history culture
The National Bibliography of Indian Literature 1901-1953 (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, tidy ex-library, super octavo, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, patterned eps, vol 1- viii + 797pp, vol 2- x + 632pp, VG (minimal library markings, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling & tape staining to board edges, light tanning to page edges, tape staining to eps) in d/w, VG (in adhesive covers- probable staining to edges, moderate chafing & soiling, front flaps clipped)
PUBLISHER: Sahitya Akademi 1962-66
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies Indian literature early 20th twentieth century history
Indonesian Trade and Society: Essays in Asian Social and Economic History (Second Edition)
Super octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering to long title plate on spine, xvii + 388pp, VG- (light bruising to extrems, light fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light foxing & heavy tanning to page edges & eps, heavy tanning throughout)
PUBLISHER: Sumur Bandung 1960
KEYWORDS: essays literature prose collection anthology Indonesia trade economics history
Jupiter's Travels
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps to eps, 363pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate foxing to page edges & eps, ex-libris plate to verso of half title page, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate fading to spine & edges, light to moderate creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1979
KEYWORDS: first editions Ted Simon autobiography memoir travel literature writing adventure motorcycling
Russian Fairy Tales
Super octavo, orange cloth boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt avian motif to front board, top page edges stained purple, illus title page, 662pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep, lengthy neat inscription (German) in ink to rear pastedown, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping & loss to edges with tidy archival tape repairs, moderate tanning & staining to spine, light tanning & foxing to covers & flaps)
PUBLISHER: George Routledge & Sons N/D (c.1920s?)
KEYWORDS: Russian fairy tales fantasy literature short stories collection
The Long Pathway: Te Ara Roa
FIRST EDITION, DATED, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO SIR DOUGLAS MYERS, super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 263pp, VG+ (light curling to cover edges, light chafing to covers, light soiling & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: William Collins 1986
KEYWORDS: first editions signed Denis McLean New Zealand travel writing literature
Midnight at the Museum
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHORS TO DON BINNEY & FAMILY, square imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus title page, 31pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light fading to spine, light chafing to rear eps)
PUBLISHER: Scholastic 1997
KEYWORDS: children's literature signed Pamela Richard Wolfe modern first editions Don Binney picture books
The Land of the Frozen Tide
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 352pp, illus/photos, VG (spine sl cocked, moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, light to moderate soiling to spine & boards, light foxing & soiling to page edges, light tanning & soiling to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co N/D
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Louise Rourke expeditions
Science Fiction Book Review Index, 1923-1973
VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY (unused?); Sm. quarto, red & black cloth boards, red & black lettering to spine, xvi+438pp, VG+ (light soiling to boards & page edges, light brusing to board corners, usual library markings, labels, stamps & pockets to spine, eps & prelims)
PUBLISHER: Gale Research Company 1975
KEYWORDS: ex library hw hall science fiction fantasy literature book review index 1923 1973 bibliography fantasy reference catalogues guides media writing writers authors 20th twentieth century
Letters of Insurgents
Super octavo, illus light crad covers, red & black lettering to spine, 831pp, VG (light scuffing & fading to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, 1cm closed tear at base of front gutter, light foxing to prelims, ffep possibly removed)
PUBLISHER: Black & Red 1976
KEYWORDS: anarchism anarchy literature letters correspondence Sophia Nachala Yarostan Vochek
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings
Octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, lix + 661pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1988
KEYWORDS: Antonin Artaud collection anthology writings literature prose essays poems verse
In Memoriam to Identity
FIRST UK EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 265pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light fading & chafing/soiling, light foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Pandora Press 1990
KEYWORDS: modern first UK editions literature novels ficiton Kathy Acker
Political and Social Writings: Volume 1: 1946-1955: From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Positive Content of Socialism
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, red & green lettering to spine, xxx + 347pp, VG+ (light creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, 1cm closed tear to base of spine with tidy tape repair, sl tanning & chafing/soiling to covers, light foxing & soiling to page edges, light cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: University of Minnesota Press 1988
KEYWORDS: literature prose writings politics economics social political theory socialism communism bureaucracy labour labor Cornelius Castoriadis