FLEMING, PETER

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

KESAVAN, B S & KULKARNI, V Y & MULAY, Y M (General Eds)

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

VAN LEUR, J C

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

SIMON, TED

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

GUTERMAN, NORBERT (Trans) & JAKOBSON, ROMAN (Folklorist Commentary) & ALEXEIEFF, A (Illus)

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

McLEAN, DENIS

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

WOLFE, RICHARD and PAMELA

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

ROURKE, LOUISE

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

HALL, H.W. (ed)

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

NACHALO, SOPHIA & VOCHEK, YAROSTAN

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

ARLAUD, ANTONIN & SONTAG, SUSAN (Ed & Intro) & WEAVER, HELEN (Trans) & SONTAG, SUSAN (Notes) & LEVINE, DON ERIC (Notes)

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

ACKER, KATHY

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

CASTORIADIS, CORNELIUS & CURTIS, DAVID AMES (tRANS)

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

PERLMAN, FREDY

Octavo, illus light card covers, black & white lettering to spine, 127pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers, light chafing/scuffing to spine & extrems, sl foxing & soiling to page edges, light crack to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: Phoenix Press 1992

KEYWORDS: essays prose literature Fredy Perlman social science

HOME, STEWART

Octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 144pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: AK Press 1993

KEYWORDS: anarchy anarchism literature Stewart Home

LEBOWITZ, MICHAEL A

Octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xv + 231pp, VG (light to moderate creasing & curling/peeling to spine & cover edges, light foxing & tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2003

KEYWORDS: Karl Marx marxism literature philosophy economics politics capitalism socialism labour labor working class

BECKETT, SAMUEL

FIRST EDITION 2ND IMP., LACKS D/W, octavo, yellow buckram boards, brown lettering to spine, 94pp, VG (sl bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, moderate fading & soiling to spine & board edges, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. ownership markings in ink to ffep, light foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1956

KEYWORDS: first editions 2nd second impression literature plays scripts drama tragedy comedy tragicomedy Samuel Beckett stage theatre theater

MORRISON, JIM

Octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus prelims, 30pp, VG (moderate scuffing & creasing/curling to spine & covers/edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Omnibus Press 1985

KEYWORDS: Jim Morrison poetry poems verse literature collections anthology

CLIFTON, VIOLET & DUNSANY, LORD (Intro)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xv + 288pp + folding map to rear, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light cracking to hinges, light fading & tanning/foxing to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page egdes & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, light to moderate foxing sporadically throughout, heavy cracking to gutter at title page, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Constable & Company 1927

KEYWORDS: first editions history exploration Violet Clifton autobiography memoir literature

MORELAND, A MAUD

Octavo, teal buckram boards, blue lettering to spine, blue rule to spine & front board, frontispiece, xviii + 219pp, illus/photos, folding maps- 1x detached but loosely enclosed at rear, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & scuffing to spine- 1cm crack to front hinge, minor chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims, occasional ownership signature in ink throughout)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs N/D

KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel writing literature history south island Haast Mount Aspiring westland A Maud Moreland