Books - "literature"
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The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith
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
The Sky is a Limpet (A Pollytickle Parrotty) Also Four (4) Stories, or Moral Feebles
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
Nova Express
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
Pleasure and the Arts: Enjoying Literature, Painting and Music
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
Puppies, Dogs and Blue Northers: Reflections on Being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs
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
Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
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
Savage Lands
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
All My Own Work
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
Wilfred Owen: A New Biography
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
La Tristesse: Musings, Poems, and Songs of a Tortured Soul
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
Fifty Years Angling in England, Scotland, The Hebrides, Ireland, Holland, Switzerland and Canada
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
Pop Kelp and Poha Bags
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
Round the World in '83
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
Emily and Dorothea: Two Southland Artists
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
The Sad Pianist; A Grimm Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups
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
Folk-Tales of the Maori
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
The Illuminated
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
Poems
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
Mouse Hotel
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
Hit & Ms
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