Books - "literature"
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Bright Lights, Big City
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, HANDSOM FULL LEATHER BINDING, octavo, red full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, unpaginated prelims, 182pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 2000
KEYWORDS: signed full leather bindings special editions literature novels fiction Jay McInerney
On the Line: The New Road to the White House
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, maroon full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, pink iridescent patterned eps, xviii + 200pp, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1993
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings signed Larry King literature US American politics White House government
A Bend in the River
SIGNED, FULL LEATHER BINDINGS, super octavo, red full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, pink iridescent patterned eps, unpaginated prelims, 278pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 2000
KEYWORDS: signed V S Naipaul full leather bindings literature
Kenilworth
LOVELY FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, red full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, pink iridescent patterned eps, xxiv + 542pp, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press N/D
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings literature Sir Walter Scott historical romance novels fiction
A Bus of My Own
FULL LEATHER BINDING, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, green full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, green iridescent patterned eps, 270pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1992
KEYWORDS: signed full leather bindings literature Jim Lehrer autobiography autobiographies memoir
The Absolute Sandman: Volume One
IN SLIPCASE, quarto, black leather boards, silver gilt lettering & decoration with raised bands to spine, silver gilt lettering & illus plate to front board, illus prelims, 612pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (light bruising to edges & corners, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: DC Comics 2006
KEYWORDS: Neil Gaiman literature graphic novels fiction fantasy illustrated comics dc
The Book of Government or Rules for Kings: The Siyasat-nama or Siyar al-Muluk
Octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering with red & gilt decoration to spine, xi + 259pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light fading to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges with some minor loss, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1960
KEYWORDS: ancient Persian literature English translations history historical philosophy antiquity Nizam al-Mulk
Report on the Death of Rosenkavalier
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 224pp, VG+ (light bruising & fading to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate chafing & scuffing/surface loss to spine, moderate rubbing)
PUBLISHER: McClelland and Stewart 1977
KEYWORDS: modern first editions signed literature fiction novels Jan Drabek
Running Dog
SCARCE UK FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims, 246pp, VG+ (light bruising to base of spine & board edges, sl soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to top corner of ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light fading ot spine, light chafing, light tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1978
KEYWORDS: modern first UK editions literature novels fiction Don DeLillo
The Imagination Chamber: Cosmic Rays from Lyra's Universe
8vo 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: David Fickling Books 2022
KEYWORDS: short story stories poem poetry poet literature 21st century
Balzac's Lives
8vo 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: New York Review Books 2020
KEYWORDS: 19th century Balzac novel novelist criticism literature biography social history comedy manners
Jules
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: Alpha Books 2003
KEYWORDS: fiction novel 21st century novelist authors literature
The Ordinary and the Fabulous: An Introduction to Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales for Teachers and Storytellers
Ex-library. 8vo 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: Cambridge University Press 1969
KEYWORDS: myth legend fairy tales stories storyteller oral tradition Children's Literature Greek Norse
Swiss-Alpine Folk-Tales
FIRST EDITION. 8vo 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: Oxford University Press 1958
KEYWORDS: myth legend fairy tales stories storyteller oral tradition Children's Literature Swiss Alpine first edition
Indian Tales and Legends
8vo 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: Oxford University Press 1965
KEYWORDS: myth legend fairy tales stories storyteller oral tradition Children's Literature Indian
The Land of the Lost
8vo 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: Auckland University Press 1971
KEYWORDS: New Zealand authors fiction literature
Short Stories
8vo 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: Oxford University Press 1965
KEYWORDS: Nobel Prize recipient 20th century literature short stories novella
Taupo Fishing Diary
Super 8vo 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: Hodder and Stoughton 1981
KEYWORDS: New Zealand fishing fish angling angler lake river sport game literature
Arthur Ransome on Fishing
8vo 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 1994
KEYWORDS: Arthur Ransome fishing fish angling angler lake river sport game nymph technique literature
TO Be a Fisherman
8vo 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: Geoffrey Bles 1955
KEYWORDS: fishing fish angling angler lake river sport game nymph literature