Books - "literature"
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An Angler's Anthology
FIRST EDITION, ATTRACTIVE REBIND, quarto, half leather bound blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration with rasied bands to spine, base of page block deckled, merbled eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xix + 168pp, illus + tissue guards, VG+ (sl staining to rear board, light to moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Country Life Limited 1931
KEYWORDS: fly fishing flyfishiing angling anthologies first editions literature writings
Monkey
LACKS D/W, octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus to front board, top page edges stained yellow, illus title page, unpaginated prelims + 305pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to half title page1cm chip to base of pg71)
PUBLISHER: The John Day Company 1943
KEYWORDS: Chinese literature English translations novels fiction Wu Ch'eng-en
Jock of the Bushveld
Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & tooling/decoration to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 475pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, moderate chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep & reverse of frontispiece, occasional cracking to gutters, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co 1934
KEYWORDS: literature Sir Percy Fitzpatrick illustrated E Caldwell
Persecution and the Art of Writing
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, top page edges stained blue, page fore-edges deckled, 204pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, G- (rear & rear flap missing- only spine, front & flap remain, moderate fading & cracking/creasing to spine, moderate scuffing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Free Press 1952
KEYWORDS: literature literary persecution philosophy Leo Strauss
Life and Works of Robert Burns: Critical and Analytical Edition
Heavy quarto, half leather bound green buckram boards, gilt lettering/tooling & raised bands to spine, gilt lettering & illus to front board, aeg, marbled eps, frontispiece, mixed pagination, illus, VG (moderate rubbing & bruising to leatherwork with some surface loss, light chafing & soiling to boards, heavy cracking at front gutter, light to moderate soiling throughout, frontis tissue guard & rear ep missing, heavy cracking to rear gutter, annotation in ink to terminal page)
PUBLISHER: David Wilson 1881
KEYWORDS: Robert Burns literature poets poetry verse poems Scotland Scottish literary biography criticism history historical
Cheap Detective Stories, Vol 1 No 1
Quarto 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: Columbia Pictures N/D (c.1970s?)
KEYWORDS: literature Columbia Pictures cheap detective stories mysteries
Breaking the Tongue
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: W W Norton & Company 2004
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Vyvyane Loh
Onions in the Stew
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy- torn in two at spine; 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: Hammond, Hammond & Company 1955
KEYWORDS: literature Betty MacDonald
Please Look After Mom
FIRST EDITION, 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: Alfred A Knopf 2011
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels fiction Kyung-sook Shin
China Dolls
FIRST EDITION, 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: Random House 2014
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels fiction Lisa See
The Password to Larkspur Lane
LACKS D/W, silhouette with magnifying glass to front board, 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: Grosset & Dunlap 1933
KEYWORDS: Nancy Drew mysteries series children's literature novels fiction Carolyn Keene
Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
Sm 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: Macmillan & Co 1919
KEYWORDS: Thomas Hardy literature poetry poems verse
The Silent One
LACKS D/W, super 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: Whitcoulls 1982
KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction New Zealand writers authors Joy Cowley
The Mango's Kiss
SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, 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: Vintage / Random House 2003
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand literature writers authors Albert Wendt novels fiction
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature
Tidy ex-library, 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: Cambridge University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: literature Australia Australian history criticism literary
The Razor
FIRST EDITION, 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: TOR / Tom Doherty 2018
KEYWORDS: modern first editions scifi science fiction novels literature J Barton Mitchell
The Flounder
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: Picador / Pan Books 1989
KEYWORDS: literature Gunter Grass English translations
Eccentric Spaces
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: Andre Deutsch 1977
KEYWORDS: locations literature literary history fiction historical
Women in Public 1850-1900: Documents of the Victorian Women's Movement
Super 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: George Allen & Unwin 1979
KEYWORDS: feminism feminist literature history Victorian values movements 19th nineteenth century
A Different Face: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
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: Harpe & Row 1975
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Mary Wollstonecraft literature history