Books - "literature"
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Plutarch's Moralia, in Sixteen Volumes: Volume XI
THIS VOL ONLY, sm 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: Harvard University Press 1970
KEYWORDS: Loeb classical library literature Plutarch moralia ancient Greece Greek philosophy philosophers English translations
Rhodesian Rhymes
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: Books of Rhodesia Publishing Co 1969
KEYWORDS: poetry poems verse literature Cullen Gouldsbury Rhodesia
Tales of the Alhambra
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: Chatto and Windus 1875
KEYWORDS: literature Washington Irving
Yesterday, To-Day, and Fore Ever: A Poem, in Twelve Books
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: Rivingtons 1872
KEYWORDS: poetry poems verse literature Edward Henry Bickersteth
Emily's Quest
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: Angus & Robertson 1937
KEYWORDS: classic literature L M Montgomery novels fiction
White Boy Running
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: Farrar Straus Giroux 1988
KEYWORDS: travel literature writing Christopher Hope South Africa African literary
God Knows
FIRST EDITION, 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: Jonathan Cape 1984
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction novels Joseph Heller
The Garden of Experience
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: Herbert Jenkins N/D (Fourth Printing)
KEYWORDS: literature Marion Cran
A Fistful of Summer
FIRST EDITION, 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: Whitcoulls Publishers 1981
KEYWORDS: literature New Zealand writers authors Peggy Dunstan modern first editions
The Poet and the Landscape
FIRST EDITION, 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: Rupert Hart-Davis 1962
KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary Andrew Young poetry
Our Towns: A 100,000 Mile Journey into the Heart of America
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: Pantheon Books 2018
KEYWORDS: travel literature writing US America American culture sociology social commentary
Fiji : Handbook of the Colony
Super octavo, teal stiff card boards, black lettering & illus plate to front board, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims with folding map, 165pp + index to rear, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, minor chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift plate to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate closed tearing & tape repairs to folding map- yellowing tape staining)
PUBLISHER: H R Craigie, Acting Gov't Printer 1936
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Pacific islands Fiji Fijian people culture British colonial history colinies
The Dreaming & Other Essays
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 291pp, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, light tanning & sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Black Inc Agenda 2009
KEYWORDS: essays literature prose collections W E H Stanner Australian race relations ethnicity
A Damsel in Distress
TWENTY-FIRST PRINTING, octavo, orange buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 319pp, VG (moderate bruising to spine & board corners, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor cracking to front gutter) in d/w, VG- (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, heavy loss to spine, light to moderate creasing & light chipping to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Herbert Jenkins N/D (21st Printing)
KEYWORDS: English literature P G Wodehouse novels fiction Herbert Jenkins green labels series Piccadilly
The Inimitable Jeeves
ARCHIVAL REPAIRS TO JACKET, octavo, orange buckram boards, black lettering & illus to spine & front board, 255pp, VG (light rubbing & bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's details in ink to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, G+ (heavy loss to bottom half of spine- tidy archival tape repairs, light creasing to edges, occasional closed tearing to edges, moderate creasing & foxing)
PUBLISHER: Herbert Jenkins N/D (12th Printing)
KEYWORDS: English literature novels fiction P G Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster series
The Last Forbidden Kingdom: Mustang: Land of Tibetan Buddhism
Square quarto, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt publisher's motif to front board, patterned eps, illus prelims, unpaginated prelims + 134pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1995
KEYWORDS: photojournalism travel literature writing photography Tibet buddhist communities anthropology Tibetan Mustang
Pegs Fairy Book
FIRST EDITION (no date, printed for Murfett Pty, no apostrophe in Pegs), lg quarto, illus heavy boards, maroon buckram unlettered spine, maroon lettering to front board, frontispiece, unpaginated, illus, VG- (heavy water damage- boards warped & stained, moderate tanning & light foxing to boards, paper covering of front board partially loosened, moderate tanning to page edges, moderate damp wrinkling to eps, moderate cracking to front gutter, moderate water staining to rear eps & gutter, despite outer condition the main page block inside is very tidy with beautiful illustrations that are full of whimsy and character)
PUBLISHER: Not Stated (Printed for Murfett Pty 1944)
KEYWORDS: children's literature illustrated modern first editions fantasy fairy books fairies Peg Maltby
Petrushka: The Russian Carnival Puppet Theatre
8vo, pp. xv + 292 + [1 (advt)]; blue heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; sl tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing, rubbing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; sl tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: Russian Soviet Union Russian puppets puuet theatre Cambrudge Studies in Russian Literature series
The Silences Between (Moeraki Conversations)
First edition. Signed & inscribed by author. Booker Prize winner's first book. 8vo, pp. 55; illus. light card covers; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; sl tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals; prev bookseller's stamp in purple ink to ht).
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: Keri Hulme 20th century New Zealand poet poetry poems literature modern first edition
Letters: selected poems by Riemke Ensing
First edition. Holograph letter signed & inscribed by author to Helen Shaw loosely enclosed. Super 8vo, unpaginated, [14] ll.; illus. light card covers; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; moderate to heavy bruising, creasing & curling to edges & extrems with moderate chipping; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals; light annotation to contents pg., light tanning, foxing & soiling throughout).
PUBLISHER: The Lowry Press 1982
KEYWORDS: 20th century New Zealand poet poetry literature poems modern first edition