Books - "literature"
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Adventures in Peru
LACKS D/W, octavo, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, green rule to spine & front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xv + 250pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & moderate fading to spine & board edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep, light foxing & cracking to gutters sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: John Lane / The Bodley Head 1924
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature C H Prodgers Peru customs culture history adventure
Humbugs and Homilies
Octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, deckled page edges, 303pp, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy chafing & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, light cracking to gutters, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1908
KEYWORDS: lectures philosophy J G Findlay literature
The Clothes They Stood Up In
SIGNED, duodecimo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 112pp, VG+ (sl soiling to page egdes, sm compliment slip tipped in to ffep, prev. owner's name in ink & scribbling to prelims) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Profile Books 1998
KEYWORDS: signed Alan Bennett literature novellas fiction
Diamonds are Forever
Sm octavo/paperback, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 192pp, VG- (heavy scuffing & creasing/curling to spine & covers, 3cm crack to base of spine & central gutter, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Pan Books 1958
KEYWORDS: spies spy thrillers espionage Ian Fleming 007 James Bond fiction novels literature
Babar's Travels
Folio, illus heavy boards, blank red cloth spine, illus eps & title page, 48pp, illus, G+ (heavy scuffing to board edges, heavy chafing to boards, v heavy scuffing & surface loss to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters throughout, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1935
KEYWORDS: children's literature Jean de Brunhoff picture books
Scarlet Letters
SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR & SAM HUNT (TO REAR), super octavo, illus light card covers, unpaginated, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/scuffing to covers, moderate staining to base of page block)
PUBLISHER: Piano Publishing 1980
KEYWORDS: New Zealand poetry poems verse literature Gary McCormick signed Sam Hunt
The Lost Chinaman
Sm octavo, stapled light card pamphlet, black lettering to front cover, 8pp, VG (moderate tanning & minor staining to covers, moderate closed tearing to top & base of spine, moderate tanning throughout)
PUBLISHER: The Alexandra Herald N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature John Magnus
Bulleh Shah: The Love-intoxicated Iconoclast
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: Radha Soami Satsang Beas 1995
KEYWORDS: spirituality Bulleh Shah literature verse
The Pathwork of Self-Transformation
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: Bantam Books 1990
KEYWORDS: spirituality spiritual writings literature prose Eva Pierrakos
Treadmill of Time, and Other Poems
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: William E Morris 1977
KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets writers literature poems poetry verse William E Morris
Folk Tales of the British Isles
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: Macmillan 1977
KEYWORDS: British folk tales history literature fantasy myths
Poems of the Heart
Octavo hardcover (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: James Horsburgh 1897
KEYWORDS: poems poetry verse literature Dugald Ferguson
The Photograph
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: Viking / Penguin 2003
KEYWORDS: novels literature fiction Penelope Lively
Buried Alive
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: Penguin Books 1976
KEYWORDS: fiction novels literature Arnold Bennett
Too Late For Mourning
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: Frederick Muller 1961
KEYWORDS: suspense novels fiction literature Richard Foster
Citizen in Space
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: Ballantine Books 1955
KEYWORDS: short stories fiction literature Robert Sheckley
The Year of the Cloud
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: Playboy Press 1970
KEYWORDS: scifi science fiction novels literature Ted Thomas Kate Wilhelm
The Peace Machine
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: Grafton 1987
KEYWORDS: scifi science fiction novels literature Bob Shaw
The Diamond Smugglers
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: Pan Books 1963
KEYWORDS: literature Ian Fleming history true stories the million carat network smugglers diamonds
The Penguin Book of South African Verse
Paperback (G+) scruffy; 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 Books 1968
KEYWORDS: South Africa African poetry poems verse literature anthology anthologies collection