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$40.00
1i26a/19

The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith


SMITH, Rev SYDNEY

2 VOLS BOUND AS ONE, sm octavo, full eather heavy boards, gilt lettering to title plate with gilt tooling & raised bands to spine, gilt rule to board edges, marbled page edges & eps, 367pp + 356pp, VG (moderate scuffing to spine & board edges, moderate tanning to page edges, light foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts 1859

KEYWORDS: Sydney Smith literature collection writings Edinburgh Review

$75.00
1i26a/22

The Sky is a Limpet (A Pollytickle Parrotty) Also Four (4) Stories, or Moral Feebles


FAIRBURN, A R D

FIRST EDITION, octavo, stapled illus light card covers, unpaginated, VG (moderate tanning & scuffing to cover edges, moderate foxing to page edges & throughout)

PUBLISHER: R W Lowry Phillips Press (Printer) 1939

KEYWORDS: first editions literature A R D Fairburn

$90.00
1i26a/28

Nova Express


BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.

FIRST UK EDITION; Octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, upper page edges stained red, 187pp, VG (light rubbing & soiling to boards, light-moderate foxing to page edges/eps/prelims/terminals, moderate fading to red staining of upper page edges, previous owner's name in blue ink to fep) in d/w, VG (light rubbing/creasing, moderately heavy sun-fading to spine, moderate browning/discolouration to flaps/reverse, all four corners of flaps price-clipped)

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1966

KEYWORDS: modern first editions william s burroughs nova express trilogy novels fiction american united states literature dystopian science fiction sci-fi fold-in cut-up method

$15.00
xxzbi172134

Pleasure and the Arts: Enjoying Literature, Painting and Music


BUTLER, CHRISTOPHER

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: Oxford University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: art appreciation literature literary criticism philosophy psychology

$17.50
xxzbj172141

Puppies, Dogs and Blue Northers: Reflections on Being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs


PAULSEN, GARY & PAULSEN, RUTH WRIGHT (Paintings by)

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: Harcourt Brace & Company 1996

KEYWORDS: dogs youth ya young adult bond humans canine literature

$20.00
xxzbj172142

Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe


WIESNER, MERRY E

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: Cambridge University Press 1993

KEYWORDS: women gender literature literary criticism interpretation Europe European history historical

$30.00
xxzbj172143

Savage Lands


CLARK, CLARE

FIRST EDITIONS, UNCORRECTED 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: Harvill Secker 2010

KEYWORDS: modern first editions historical literature fiction novels Clare Clark uncorrected proof copies

$30.00
xxzbl172149

All My Own Work


PRENDERGAST, PATRICIA V

Quarto 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: Patricia V Prendergast 2001

KEYWORDS: Patricia V Prendergast short stories literature alpine plants illustrated mountains paintings collection anthology

$25.00
xxzcd172165

Wilfred Owen: A New Biography


HIBBERD, DOMINIC

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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2002

KEYWORDS: Wilfred Owen biographies memoir poetry poets literature literary

$30.00
xxzcd172168

La Tristesse: Musings, Poems, and Songs of a Tortured Soul


HUGHES, CAERWYN C

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: Caerwyn C Hughes 2018

KEYWORDS: New Zealand authors writers literature poets poetry verse Caerwyn C Hughes

$30.00
xxzdd172219

Fifty Years Angling in England, Scotland, The Hebrides, Ireland, Holland, Switzerland and Canada


ADAMS, Rev JOSEPH & SCOTT, Sir SAMUEL E (Preface)

LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG) boards soiled; 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 & Co 1938

KEYWORDS: flyfishing fly fishing angling hobbies travel writing literature

$15.00
xxzdL172263

Pop Kelp and Poha Bags


NATUSCH, SHEILA

Octavo stapled light card covers (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: Nestegg N/D

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature writers authors Sheila Natusch

$19.50
xxzdL172265

Round the World in '83


NATUSCH, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Nestegg N/D

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature writers authors Sheila Natusch

$15.00
xxzdL172267

Emily and Dorothea: Two Southland Artists


NATUSCH, SHEILA

Octavo spiral bound light card covers, uncommon (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: Nestegg N/D

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature writers authors Sheila Natusch biographies Emily Dorothy Moffett

$45.00
1i36a/26

The Sad Pianist; A Grimm Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups


WONG, DIANA & HOLMWOOD, JOHN (Illus)

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, oblong quarto, illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & prelims, unpaginated, illus, VG (sl scuffing/bruising to extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Abco Press (Printer) 1973

KEYWORDS: modern first editions signed Diana Wong Grimm fairy tales adult fiction literature

$65.00
1i36a/31

Folk-Tales of the Maori


GRACE, A A

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule/illus to spine, blind rule & lettering to front board, 257pp, VG- (heavy scuffing & cracking to spine & board edges/extrems, moderate tanning to spine, light soiling to boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, ffep missing, moderate tanning to eps, light foxing & cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: Gordon & Gotch 1907

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori folk tales folklore lore literature collection first editions

$65.00
1i36a/32

The Illuminated


GHOSE, ANINDITA

FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, octavo, coloured light card covers, white lettering to spine, 305pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Apollo / Head of Zeus 2023

KEYWORDS: modern first editions uncorrected proof copies literature fiction novels Anindita Ghose

$37.50
1i36a/37

Poems


DUGGAN, EILEEN & DE LA MARE, WALTER (Intro)

SCARCE, FIRST EDITION THUS, includes glassine wrapper, sm octavo, blue heavy boards, blue lettering to cream buckram spine & front board, deckled page edges, 58pp, VG (moderate wrinkling & chipping to glassine wrapper- unattached to boards, light bruising & soiling to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1937

KEYWORDS: first editions THUS poems poetry verse literature collection Eileen Duggan

$40.00
1i36a/45

Mouse Hotel


WOLFE, PAMELA and RICHARD

INSCRIBED TO DON BINNEY & FAMILY & SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, FIRST EDITION, quarto, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked & faded, prev. bookseller's label to rear board, sl tanning to page edges, sl soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: Random House 2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand modern first editions children's literature fiction signed Pamela Richard Wolfe

$9.00
xx98pol184198

Hit & Ms


LETTE, KATBY

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 1984

KEYWORDS: literature fiction

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