WELLS, H G

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, light blue lettering & rule to spine & front board, xvii + 206pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light fading & soiling to spine, light to moderate chafing/surface loss & fading to boards & edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, sl tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's details in ink to ffep, light foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Cassell and Company 1917

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N/A

Super octavo, burgundy textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus prelims, mixed pagination, VG- (moderate fading to spine, light bruising & rubbing to spine & boards/extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, lg presentation inscription in ink to ffep, moderate cracking to front gutters- som eprelims partially detached, moderate foxing sporadically throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: H Brett, General Printer 1888

KEYWORDS: New Zealand catalogues literature Grey Collection Auckland public library bibliographies bibliography

MANDELSHTAM, O

TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN, sm octavo, red faux leather heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 79pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Ardis 1983

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MARIYENGOF, ANATOLIY

TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN, octavo, brown heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 480pp, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps)

PUBLISHER: Fiction, Leningrad Branch 1988

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WELLS, MARTHA

FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey heavy boards, green gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 168pp, VG+ (light fading to board edges, light tanning to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Tordotcom / Tom Doherty Associates 2021

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GOGOL, NIKOLAY & PANKO, RUDY & GARNETT, CONSTANCE (Trans)

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, blue buckram boards, blue lettering to spine, vii + 328pp, VG (light to moderate tanning & foxing to spine, moderate fading to rear board edges & whole front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front eps, moderate to heavy foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1926

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GOGOL, NIKOLAY & GARNETT, CONSTANCE (Trans)

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, blue buckram boards, blue lettering to spine, vii + 279pp, VG (light to moderate fading & tanning to spine, light rubbing & bruising to extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & soiling to eps, prev. owner's names in ink to front eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1923

KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS literature fiction short stories Nikolai Nikolay Gogol Russian

ROONEY, SALLY

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, blue heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus eps, unpaginated prelims + 367pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, minor soiling)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 2021

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CRISPIN, EDMUND & ALLEN, A RICHARD (Illus)

FIRST EDITION THUS, super octavo, illus heavy boards, deep pink lettering to yellow spine, illus eps, frontispiece, ix + 204pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (sl bruising & chafing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2016

KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS folio society literature novels Edmund Crispin

JOHNSON, SAMUEL & CUNNINGHAM, PETER (Notes, Corrective and Explanatory)

3 VOL SET, octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering/rule & raised bands to spines, gilt rule & illus to boards, aeg, gilt decoration to pastedown borders, marbled page edges, mixed pagination, G+ (front board of vol 1 partially deatched, front board of vol 3 completely detached but present, moderate chafing & surface loss to boards & spines, minro scuffing & soiling to gilt on page edges, presentation plates to all front pastedowns, moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, light dusting of foxing throughout all vols)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1854

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RAFFEL, BURTON (Trans, Intro & Afterword) & BASKIN, LEONARD (Drawings)

FIRST EDITION THUS, quarto, cream cloth boards, black lettering to spine & front board, xxii + 103pp, VG+ (light bruising & soiling to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sm patch of clear tape to front & rear pastedowns, light foxing to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (taped in to tidy plastic protective cover, light creasing to edges, minor tape damage & remnants to fore-edges of flaps)

PUBLISHER: University of Massachusetts Press 1971

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CHAMBERS, ROSS

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xxxiv + 415pp, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, light chafing to covers, light fading to rear cover, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The University of Michigan Press 2004

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IVANOV, V V

TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN, octavo, white light card wrappers, black lettering & portraits to front & rear covers (spine blank), 518pp, VG+ (light creasing & soiling to spine & covers, sl foxing & soiling to page edgesprev. ownership inscription in ink to full title page)

PUBLISHER: Petrozavodsk Petrgu 2008

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN literature Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dostoevsky literary criticism appreciation V V Ivanov

FET, AFANASIY AFANASYEVICH

TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN, octavo, cream heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, marbled eps, 559pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (all corners clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light soiling0

PUBLISHER: Fiction 1970

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EFIMOV, A I

TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN, FIRST EDITION, octavo, patterned heavy boards, gilt lettering to brown cloth spine, 431pp, VG- (heavy scuffing to board extrems/edges, moderate soiling & rubbing to spine, light tanning & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. ownership inscription in ink to ffep, prev. owner's ink markings ot rear pastedown, v heavy crack to rear gutter, binding sloppy with rear board shaky)

PUBLISHER: Moscow University 1954

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LEIBNITZ, GOTTFRIED WILHELM & LANGLEY, ALFRED GIDEON (Trans & Notes)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled/rough-cut page edges, xix + 861pp, VG (light fading & staining to spine, light bruising & rubbing to board extrems & edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, ffep missing, minor water staining to edges of rear pages, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light foxing sporadically throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: The Macmillan Company 1896

KEYWORDS: first editions essays prose literature Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz psychology

CROCE, BENEDETTO & AINSLIE, DOUGLAS (Trans)

ENGLISH FIRST EDITION, ex-library, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xviii + 217pp, deckled page edges, VG- (usual library markings, heavy scuffing/bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, moderate tanning to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, heavy scuff to rear pastedown, occasional light cracking to gutters, occasional light pencil underlining & annotation)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1915

KEYWORDS: philosophy literature Hegel criticism

DUFFY, BELLA

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt & black lettering & coloured illus to spine & front board, frontispiece, map of Tuscany to prelims, xix + 456pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning to spine, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals, minor cracking to gutters at prelims)

PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1892

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing Italy Italian Bella Duffy

GREY, ZANE & MATHIEWS, FRANKLIN K (Fore) & TOWNSEND, LEE (Illus)

FIRST EDITION IN FACSIMILE JACKET, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, ix + 211pp, illus/photos, VG (light soiling & moderate rubbing to spine, light bruising to extrems, minor chafing to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges, moderate tanning to prelims & terminals, some pages remain uncut) in facsimile d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, minor creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Harper & Brothers 1931

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GREY, ZANE

FIRST EDITION, IN FACSIMILE JACKET, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus/photographic plate to front board, deckled page fore-edges, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 394pp, illus, VG- (light bruising & heavy scuffing to spine & board edges, heavy rubbing to gilt on spine, moderate soiling to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light sporadic soiling throughout, moderate cracking to gutters) in facsimile d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sm gouge to rear flap, in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired)

PUBLISHER: Harper & Brothers 1922

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