AVIA, TUSIATA

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: Te Herenga Waka University Press 2023

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets poetry verse poems literature Tusiata Avia

GORMAN, AMANDA

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: Chatto & Windus 2021

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LESSING, DORIS

US 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: Simon & Schuster 1963

KEYWORDS: first US editions literature short stories Doris Lessing

MYERS, BENJAMIN

FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 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: Bloomsbury Circus 2022

KEYWORDS: modern first editions uncorrected proof copies novels fiction literature Benjamin Myers

KINGSOLVER, BARBARA

First edition. 8vo, pp. 112; brown heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 2020

KEYWORDS: Barbara Kingsolver 21st century literature poetry poems poet modern first edition

SILONE, IGNAZIO; MOSBACHER, ERIC (transl); FOOT, MICHAEL (introd)

First edition, thus. Provenance of Margaret Mahy. 8vo, pp. xii + 180; grey heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping; light to moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: J. M. Dent & Sons 1985

KEYWORDS: Ignazio Silone 20th century fiction literature Italy Italian modern first edition

PHILLIPS, TOM

First edition. Foolscap 8vo, pp. [6] + 368 + [8]; purple cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; illus.; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1980

KEYWORDS: Tom Phillips 20th century literature fiction modern first edition

DE BALZAC, HONORE; DORE, GUSTAV (illus.)

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Bell Publishing Company 1977

KEYWORDS: Honore de Balzac Gustav Dore illustrated France French literature

INOUE, YASUSHI; MOY, JEAN ODA (transl)

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: Kodansha International 1985

KEYWORDS: Yaushi Inoue 20th century Japan Japanese literature

WOOLF, VIRGINIA

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1954

KEYWORDS: Virginia Woolf 20th century fiction literature

MANHIRE, BILL (ed)

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 1991

KEYWORDS: Bill Manhire 20th century New Zealand literature fiction short stories

WALKER, TED

Ex-library. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: London Magazine Editions 1999

KEYWORDS: Ted Walker 20th century poets poetry poems literature

BAYLEY, JOHN

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1976

KEYWORDS: John Bayley literary criticism harmony division interpretation literature

TURGENEV, IVAN; SCHAPIRO, LEONARD (transl)

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Eyre Methuen 1972

KEYWORDS: Ivan Turgenev 19th century Russian literature fiction

WITHOUT PRINTER'S NAME (BUT SIGNED 'F W WATKINS)

Octavo sized pamphlet in protective plastic sleeve, 16pp, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate foxing & creasing throughout)

PUBLISHER: W Kelly & Co N/D

KEYWORDS: historical pamphlets literature London post office directories errata Watkins Commercial and General London Directory corrections

WOODRING, JIM

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black & red lettering to spine & covers, illus eps & prelims, 199pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Fantagraphic Books 2008

KEYWORDS: cartoons Frank Jim Woodring literature comics graphic novels

CHESTERTON, G K & COLLINS, DOROTHY E (Ed)

Octavo, green heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 169pp, VG+ (light bruising & adhesive staining to board edges & extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl adhesive staining to eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & adhesive staining to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Elek Books 1975

KEYWORDS: literature literary anthologies collections G K Chesterton essays prose

WALTON, The Rev W H MURRAY

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt Japanese script to front board, frontispiece, 304pp, illus, 2x folding maps to rear, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to board edges & extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, jacket flap with synopsis tipped in to rear pastedown, publishers note tipped in to rear eps, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold & Co 1934

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing historical Japan Formosa Asia oriental W H Murray Walton

DAVIDSON, AUGUSTA M CAMPBELL

Super octavo, yellow buckram boards, gilt lettering & illus/decoration to spine & front board, teg, deckled page fore-edges & base of page block, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus prelims, xiv + 331pp + publisher's catalogue to rear, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, sl discolouration to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, light soiling to eps, light foxing sporadically throughout, light to moderate cracking to gutters, some page edges remain uncut)

PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1904

KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese modern culture travel writing literature Augusta M Campbell Davidson

HEARN, LAFCADIO

Ex-library, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, yellow illus/pattern to front board, unpaginated prelims, 268pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, light bruising & rubbing to spine & board corners, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to prelims, occasional light to moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company 1901

KEYWORDS: short stories literature fiction Lafcadio Hearn