Books - "literature"
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Les Fleurs du Mal
TEXT IN FRENCH. PROVENANCE ATTRIBUTED TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1947
KEYWORDS: Charles Baudelaire poet poetry poems literature
Saltwater Game Fish of the World: An Illustrated History
LIMITED EDITION. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 4to, pp. xii + 292; black leather bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt, illus. to front board; aeg, illus. prelims, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; bookplate to ffep); in slipcase, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Australian Fishing Network 2000
KEYWORDS: big game fishing history saltwater marine fish angling angler literature pictorial
Saltwater Game Fish of the World: An Illustrated History
LIMITED EDITION. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 4to, pp. xii + 292; black leather bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt, illus. to front board; aeg, illus. prelims, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; bookplate to ffep); in slipcase, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Australian Fishing Network 2000
KEYWORDS: big game fishing history saltwater marine fish angling angler literature pictorial
The Idiot
LIMITED NUMBERED DESIGNER EDITION. NO. 238/1000. DESIGNED BY RON ARAD. Sixtieth anniversary edition. Super 8vo, no bds, text block; patterned stitching along back; top, bottom & fore edges illus. VG+ (approx. 2cm bruising to foot of spine/text block); in hard clear plastic slipcase, VG (6mm crack to right edge of front panel, 1cm chip to lower right corner of front panel with loss, 3cm crack to lower left corner of front panel, 5cm closed crack to left side of case; case unopened/in remains original plastic, but book loose from original plastic mounting w/ one plastic tab loose inside). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Penguin 2006
KEYWORDS: Fyodor Dostoyevsky 19th century Russian literature Russia fiction novel crime murder thriller psychological
Offices, Essays, and Letters
Sm 8vo hardcover (VG) lacking d/w; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: J. M. Dent & Sons 1937
KEYWORDS: ancient classical roman literature Cicero
See Under: Love
FIRST EDITION. Super 8vo, pp. [6] + 458; green heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG- ( moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping; moderate to heavy tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1990
KEYWORDS: David Grossman Jewish Hebrew literature fiction novel 20th century modern first edition
By Sea Mouths Speaking: Collected Poems 1973-2018 and related prose
SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. x + 784; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; plates; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; minor soiling to pg edges; spine lightly cocked); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; heay creasing & curling to front flap
PUBLISHER: Brick Row Publishing Company 2019
KEYWORDS: Denys Trussell 20th 21st century poetry poems verse New Zealand literature
The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism
FIRST EDITION. Super 8vo, pp. 256; grey heavy card bds, spine lettered in black, publisher's device in blind to front board; illus. tp, photos, plates, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light chipping;
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2017
KEYWORDS: Whitney Chadwick first edition female women 20th century habits custom social history education philosophy literature
The Problem of Verse Language
Super 8vo, pp. 170; brown buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG (heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate soiling to pg edges; minor tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping; light tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Ardis 1981
KEYWORDS: poetry poems poet verse language literary criticism Russia Russian literature
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Super 8vo, pp. x + 410; black buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus. tp; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate annotation in pencil throughout (by Prof. Anne Mackay)); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: ancient classical history Greece Greek tragedy play drama literature criticism female women representation
James K. Baxter: Complete Prose: 1943-1972 (4 vols)
FOUR VOL SET. Super 8vo, pp. xviii + 753, xiv + 692, xii + 567, xxviii + 562; illus. heavy card bds, cream spine lettered in black & purple gilt; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges); in slipcase, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: James K Baxter New Zealand poet prose literature 20th century complete works Dunedin Wellington
The Cynic's Cyclopedia
Sm octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, deckled page edges, (10pp) + 167pp, VG (light to moderate rubbing to spine & boards/extrems, light to moderate soiling to board edges, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co N/D (c.1922)
KEYWORDS: humour humor sayings wisdom cynicism literature Celt
Three New Chum Girls
FIRST EDITION, octavo, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration with blind decoration to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, 256pp, illus, VG (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, sl bruising to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, presentation plate to front pastedown, light to moderate foxing throughout, minor cracking to gutters occasionally throughout)
PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Co 1910
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels fiction Lilian Turner illustrated J Macfarlane
The World of Mathematics (4 Vol Set)
4 VOL SET, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, top page edges stained red, 2535pp total, VG (light bruising & scuffing/rubbing to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & light to moderate foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to text block of each vol)
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1960-61
KEYWORDS: literature mathematics Albert Einstein A'h-mose theory
The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain
Quarto, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind lettering to front board, xiv + 180pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Pennsylvania State University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: Spain Sapnish art literature history theatre theater
The Dead Command (Los Muertas Mandan)
UK FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN D/W, octavo black buckram boards, red lettering to spine & front board, 315pp, VG (light scuffing to spine extrems, moderate discolouration & staining to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light foxing sporadically throughout, light to moderate cracking to gutters throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges- some minor loss also, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1923
KEYWORDS: modern first UK editions English translations literature novels fiction Vicente Blasco Ibanez
The Politics of Truth: Essays in Critical Anthropology
Octavo, maroon buckram boards, black lettering to spine, xii + 298pp, VG+ (light bruising & fading to spine & board extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & moderate peeling to spine & edges, sl discolouration to spine, light to moderate chafing & discolouration)
PUBLISHER: South Asian Publishers 1981
KEYWORDS: essays literature anthropology social sciences
Gender Transformations (Michigan Discussions in Anthropology, Spring 1990, Volume 9)
Quarto, patterned light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, x + 142pp, VG (light creasing/curling & tanning to spine & cover edges, light foxing & tanning to covers & page edges)
PUBLISHER: Dept of Anthropology, University of Michigan 1990
KEYWORDS: academic texts gender sexuality sociobiology essays discussions literature
The Biological Foundations of Bioethics
Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 222pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: science biology bioethics ethics medical social policy essays literature acaddemic texts philosophy
Godwin
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, black lettering to spine, 277pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: 4th Estate 2024
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction novels Joseph O'Neill