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Renaisance and Baroque Music: A Comprehensive Survey
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: Faber and Faber 1975
KEYWORDS: essays literature prose music renaissance baroque criticism
Blistered Days
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, FIRST EDITION, 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: Picador / Pan Macmillan 2007
KEYWORDS: signed first editions poetry poems verse literature Lily Brett
A Primer for Philosophy and Education
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PUBLISHER: Cascade Books 2014
KEYWORDS: philosophy education literature Samuel D Rocha
Times Like These
FIRST EDITION, 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: Graywolf Press 2005
KEYWORDS: uncorrected proof copies modern first editions literature ficiton short stories Rachel Ingalls
21st Century Boys: The Perfect Edition (VIZ Signature Edition)
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PUBLISHER: VIZ Media 2021
KEYWORDS: manga graphic novels literature Naoki Urasawa
Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais
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: Somatic Resources / North Atlantic Books 2010
KEYWORDS: health literature Moshe Feldenkrais psychophysiology motor activity body image psychology mental health
Explanations: Styles of Explanation in Science
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: Oxford University Press 2004
KEYWORDS: philosophy science literature
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Beautiful 17 Vol Set)
STUNNING 17 VOL SET, FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, gilt lettering & raised bands to spines, gilt & black decoration to spines & boards, aeg, iridescent patterned eps, frontispieces with lettered tissue guards, illus prelims, mixed pagination, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1994
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings special collectors editions literature Richard F Burton thousand arabian nights
Children of the Jade Dragon: The Naxi of Lijiang and Their Mountain Neighbours the Yi
IN SLIPCASE, quarto, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus to frnot board, illus eps, 235pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing) in slipcase, VG+ (minor chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Teak House / Amarin Printing & Pubishing Public Company 1997
KEYWORDS: Asia travel writing literature Yunnan Lijiang County Jade Dragon Mountain culture history customs
Selected Poems
FIRST EDITION, octavo, beige heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 113pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate foxing & chafing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Hollis & Carter 1950
KEYWORDS: first editions literature poems poetry verse collections Thomas Merton
The Tombs of Atuan
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/map to prelims, 160pp, VG (sl bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing to edges, light tanning & foxing to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1972
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels scifi science fiction Ursula le Guin
A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 72pp, VG (light to moderate bruising to spine & board extrems, sl chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate foxing)
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1956
KEYWORDS: first editions poems poetry verse literature Kingsley Amis
The Dreamers
FIRST EDITION, octavo, maroon heavy boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, 206pp, VG (sl bruising to extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning to spine & edges, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1958
KEYWORDS: modern first editions novels fiction literature Roger Manvell
The Mote in God's Eye
FIRST UK EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, white & blue lettering to spine, 537pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light chafing, moderate foxing)
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1975
KEYWORDS: modern first UK editions scifi sciencce fiction novels literature Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle
The Compass Rose: Short Stories
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 273pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to terminals) in d/w, VG (light ceasing to edges, light fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1983
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature science fiction short stories scifi Ursula K le Guin
The Death Ship: The Story of an American Sailor
RE-ISSUE PUBLISHED IN 1959, sm octavo, black heavy boards, red lettering to spine, top page edges stained red, 388pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & epslight foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (all corners lightly clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light soiling & discolouration to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1959
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature B Traven re-issues
Ten Burnt Offerings
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 96pp, VG+ (sl tanning to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to spine & edges)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1952
KEYWORDS: first editions literature poems poetry verse Louis Macneice
The Mad Islands and The Administrator: Two Radio Plays
FIRST EDITION, octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 112pp, VG+ (light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (price clipped, all corners lightly clipped, light creasing to edges, moderate soiling & tanning)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1964
KEYWORDS: first editions literature radio plays scripts Louis Macneice
Autumn Sequel: A Rhetorical Poem in XXVI Cantos
FIRST EDITION, octavo, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 163pp, VG+ (sl fading to board edges, sl soiling/staining to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1954
KEYWORDS: first editions literature poems poetry verse Louis Macneice cantos
Visitations
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 60pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1957
KEYWORDS: first edtions poems poetry verse literature Louis Macneice