Books - "literature"
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The Grey Machine
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: Rhumblion Publishing 2008
KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors literature fiction novels C F Underwood
Feeding Frenzy
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: Viking / Penguin 2001
KEYWORDS: literature anthologies anthology Will Self social commentary writings
The Tale of Beatrix Potter
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: Penguin 1986
KEYWORDS: children's literature literary biography biographies memoir Beatrix Potter
Just This
SIGNED, 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: Victoria University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: signed Brian Turner New Zealand literature writers poets poetry poems verse
River Calls Me Home
SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, 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: Steele Roberts 2010
KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers poets signed literature Shirley Deuchrass poetry poems verse collection
A Lady in the Wilderness
Super 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: Not Stated
KEYWORDS: Frederick Niven literature
High Water at Catfish Bend and Seven Stars for Catfish Bend
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: Kestral Books / Penguin 1975
KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction novels catfish Ben Lucien Burman
The Golden Ass
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: Liveright Publishing 2021
KEYWORDS: classical literature fiction novels English translations Apuleius
The Expatriates
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: Little, Brown 2016
KEYWORDS: fiction novels literature Janice Y K Lee
The Royal Daughter
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: Sphere 2023
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Soraya Lane
Made in Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country
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: BBC Books 2018
KEYWORDS: Billy Connolly travel literature writings Scotland humour humor
Zeustian Logic
Octavo softcover (Near FINE); 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: Gecko Press 2017
KEYWORDS: literature Sabrina Malcolm
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
FIRST EDITION, octavo, pale yellow illus heavy boards, black & blue lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & title page, 82pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl discolouration to rear board, sl soiling & foxing to page edges, school presentation plate to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1961
KEYWORDS: modern first editions children's literature fiction illustrated novels Rumer Godden
Tramps in the Far North
Sm octavo, cream patterned light card covers, ribbon bound, navy blue lettering to covers, 30pp, illus/photos, VG (ribbon v delicate- heavily frayed, light to moderate tanning & foxing to covers, sl foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history H Hector Bolitho north island tramps walks hiking northland travel guides literature
A Visit from the Goon Squad
FIRST US EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, deckled page edges, 274pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, sl fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear, minor foxing)
PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 2010
KEYWORDS: modern first US editions literature fiction novels Jennifer Egan
Pygmies & Bushmen of the Kalahari
LACKS D/W, super octavo, orange buckram boards, black lettering to spine, black man illus to front board, frontispiece, 318pp, illus/photos, folding map to rear, VG (light scuffing to board extrems, moderate chipping to spine extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to index pgs, occasional minor cracking to gutters, light foxing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Seeley, Service & Co 1925
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature culture anthropology customs pygmies bushmen Kalahari
Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India: Their Haunts and Habits from Personal Observation; with an Account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants
Super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt & black lettering & illus to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xviii + 387pp, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, light chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, minor cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: W H Allen & Co 1896
KEYWORDS: India travel literature writing hunting animals wild safari zoology historical behaviour behavior
A Prize for Art
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 236pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, sl staining to front board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page egdes & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate tanning to spine, moderate chafing & foxing/soiing)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1961
KEYWORDS: Edward Wakeford autobiography autobiographies memoir art literature literary
With the Bible in North Africa
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained blue, illus eps, frontispiece, x + 118pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges & extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, G+ (heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, v heavy tearing to front cover, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: John Ritchie 1944
KEYWORDS: Africa travel writing literature religion Christianity history Dugald Campbell
Stronger Than You Know
Ex-library, 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: Albert Whitman & Company 2014
KEYWORDS: ya young adult youth literature novels fiction Jolene Perry