Books - "literature"
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The Erasers
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PUBLISHER: Calder & Boyars 1966
KEYWORDS: alain robbe-grillet literature
The Voyeur
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PUBLISHER: John Calder 1959
KEYWORDS: alain robbe-grillet literature
Memory Gardens
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PUBLISHER: New Directions 1982
KEYWORDS: robert creeley literature
Poems and Antipoems
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PUBLISHER: New Directions 1966
KEYWORDS: poet nicanor parra literature
Wings
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PUBLISHER: Walker Books 2011
KEYWORDS: Raymond Huber children's book juvenile fiction literature
The Palace
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PUBLISHER: John Calder 1987
KEYWORDS: Claude Simon 20th century fiction Nobel Prize for literature
Adventures in Immediate Irreality
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PUBLISHER: New Directions Books 2015
KEYWORDS: Max Blecher 20th century fiction Romanian literature
Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006
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PUBLISHER: Random House 2007
KEYWORDS: E L Doctorow 20th 21st century essays imagination imaginative thought thinking literary creation literature
White Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War
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PUBLISHER: Grove Press 1956
KEYWORDS: Herman Meville 19th century literature voyage travel ships seafaring man of war man-of-war navy naval
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
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PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 1975
KEYWORDS: Vladimir Mayakovsky Russian poetry poems 20th century literature poet poems
Groom Falconer
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PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company 1989
KEYWORDS: Norman Dubie poetry poems 20th century literature
Later the Same Day
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PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1985
KEYWORDS: Grace Paley 20th century novel fiction literature
Testaments Betrayed
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PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1996
KEYWORDS: Milan Kundera essays literature 20th century history
Just So Stories, for Little Children
LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#63/1000) WITH PRINT SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, lg quarto, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to sl marbled cream spine, coloured gilt illus to front board, teg, illus eps, illus (signed & numbered) plate to prelim pgs, frontispiece, illus title page, 195pp, illus with beautiful colour plates throughout- counted & all present, Near FINE, in Near FINE brown coth presentation case with gilt lettering on title plate to spine
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2012
KEYWORDS: folio society special limited signed numbered editions illustrated children's literature fiction stories Rudyard Kipling Niroot Puttapipat
Deep River Talk: Collected Poems
LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#232/500), super octavo, deep teal heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 200pp, VG+ (sl scuffing and bruising to spine & board extrems, v slight soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light scuffing and soiling to covers, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Godwit Press 1993
KEYWORDS: special numbered limited editions New Zealand writers poets poetry poems verse literature Hone Tuwhare
Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers
Super octavo, illus light card covers, blue & white lettering to spine, xxii + 329pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl curling to cover edges, light tanning & soiling to rear cover & page edges, top corners of pgs109-116 sl creased)
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 2002
KEYWORDS: freedom ride Ann Curthoys indigenous Aboriginal rights Australia Australian social history autobiography autobiographies memoir travel writing literature
The Plays of Shakespeare (Set of 12)
SET OF 12, octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spines, mixed pagination, G+ (heavy scuffing & surface loss to spines & boards, front and/or rear boards either detached or partially detached with front board to vol 8 missing, heavy tanning to page edges, some prelims pages detached, top half of spine to vol 5 missing, moderate to heavy foxing to pages throughout, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedowns of each vol)
PUBLISHER: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme 1807
KEYWORDS: English literature plays William Shakespeare stage antiquarian books sets
Salome
FIRST EDITION THUS, super octavo, black buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, silver gilt illus to boards, frontispiece, illus title page & prelims, 109pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, light tape residue to boards, light tanning & foxing with tape staining to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminalsminor cracking to gutter of pgs 80-81, occasional light foxing throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling, light to moderate tape staining)
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1957
KEYWORDS: first editions THUS stage plays literature Oscar Wilde illustrated Aubrey Beardsley scripts
An Amazing Journey: Isadora Duncan in South America
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 288pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate fading & chipping to spine & spine extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light scuffing to board corners, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate to heavy cracking to gutters sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Jarrolds 1933
KEYWORDS: history travel literature writing Isadora Duncan biography biographies memoir South America Maurice Dumesnil
Ayako
FIRST EDITION, octavo, peach illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, 699pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to board extrems, light fading/tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl foxing & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Vertical Inc. 2010
KEYWORDS: modern first editions graphic novels literature Osamu Tezuka