Books - "literature"
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The Secret of the Missing Boat
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 1971
KEYWORDS: puffin books children's literature Paul Berna fiction adventure
Mountaineer: 30 Years of Climbing on the World's Great Peaks
Lg quarto 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: Diadem Books 1993
KEYWORDS: Chris Bonington mountaineering mountain climbing adventure great peaks travel writing literature
My Century
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 2000
KEYWORDS: literature fiction stories collection Gunter Grass
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
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: Flamingo / Fontana 1983
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Anthony Powell
The Library of Unfinished Business
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: Cloud Ink Press 2022
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Patricia Bell
Best of Friends
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: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Kamila Shamsie
Kindred by Choice / Die Wahlverwandtschaften
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: John Calder 1976
KEYWORDS: literature fiction novels J W von Goethe
Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature From the Sea
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: Huia Publishers 2020
KEYWORDS: New Zealand children's literature fiction novels writers T K Roxborough
The Gun Seller
UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 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: William Heinemann 1996
KEYWORDS: uncorrected proof copies literature fiction novels Hugh Laurie humour humor
Because of Winn-Dixie
Sm 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: Candlewick Press 2001
KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction novels ya young adult Kate DiCamillo
The Finisher
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: Macmillan Children's Books 2014
KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction novels fantasy ya young adult youth David Baldacci
Red Doll
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 1988
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Juan Luis Cebrian
Going to the Dogs
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: Orion Books 2015
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Dan Kavanagh
Caves of Northern Thailand
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, printed/illus eps & prelims, 392pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to verso of half title page)
PUBLISHER: River Books 2006
KEYWORDS: Thailand travel writing literature guide caves caving exploration adventure archaeology ancient history conservation geology
Pounamu Pounamu
FIRST EDITION OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, SIGNED & WARMLY INSCRIBED WITH DOODLE, octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 132pp, VG+ (sl bruising fading to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps) in d/w, VG (in protective plastic wrapper- easily removed, moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges with some tidy repairs to top edge, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & surface loss)
PUBLISHER: Heinemann Educational Books 1972
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori literature writers authors Witi Ihimaera signed first edtions short stories collection
James K Baxter: Letters of a Poet 1939-1972 (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, super octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spines, vol 1- 783pp, vol 2- 833pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & soiling to spines, light chafing & discolouration to rear boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2019
KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors poets literature letters correspondence James K Baxter collection
Koorie Poems of the Heart
Octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 96pp, VG (light creasing & chafing to spine & covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, gift inscription in ink to title page)
PUBLISHER: Koorie Research Centre, Monash University 1991
KEYWORDS: literature poems poetry verse anthology Australia Australian collection
In the Enemy Camp: Selected Poems 1964-74
Super octavo, red light card covers, black lettering to spine, 103pp, VG+ (light soiling to spine, sl chafing to covers, sl tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Tangerine Press 2015
KEYWORDS: poems poetry verse literature collection anthology William Wantling
Owls Do Cry
FIRST EDITION, octavo, orange buckram boards, black lettering to spine, 211pp, VG- (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate to heavy water staining to boards, light tanning & moderate water staining to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, clear plastic protective cover taped to rear pastedown) in partial d/w, tatty (a lot of jacket missing- half of front cover & full front flap only present, heavy scuffing & chipping to edges of remainder of jacket)
PUBLISHER: Pegasus Press 1957
KEYWORDS: modern first editions New Zealand literature writers authors Janet Frame fiction novels
Envoy
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#43/200) octavo, cream stiff card covers, black lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus, VG (light tanning & creasing to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Puriri Press 1996
KEYWORDS: New Zealand signed literature poems poetry verse Alan Loney poets collection anthology limited numbered editions