Books - "literature"
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Odd Craft
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, blind stamped lettering to front board, gilt lettering to spine, VG- (heavy discolouration & soiling to spine, minor bruising to extrems, light chipping to spine extrems, minor soiling to boards, light foxing to eps, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, minor foxing & soiling to pages throughout, single library stamp- no others detected, ffep possibly missing)
PUBLISHER: George Bell & Sons 1903
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature fiction novel W W Jacobs
The Collarbound
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED, NUMBERED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, yellow and orange staining to all page edges, Near FINE in d/w, Near FINE (loose protective cover)
PUBLISHER: Gollancz & Goldsboro Books 2022
KEYWORDS: modern first edition limited numbered signed science fiction literature fantasy novel Rebecca Zahabi
Matefinder
SPECIAL EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, purple-pink illus heavy boards, rose gold gilt lettering to front board and spine, illus page edges, illus, Near FINE in d/w, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Arcane Society 2014
KEYWORDS: special edition signed illustrated fantasy science fiction novel literature Leia Stone
The Unbroken: Magic of The Lost: Book One
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering and illus to front board and spine, red staining to all page edges, illus/map, VG+ in VG+ d/w (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Orbit 2021
KEYWORDS: modern first edition signed C L Clark fantasy science fiction novel literature
The Gilded Ones
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, black heavy boards, green gilt decoration to front board, green gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, illus/maps, Near FINE in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Delacorte Press 2020
KEYWORDS: modern first editions signed Namina Forna fanasty literature novels fiction children's
Lore
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON BOUND IN PAGE, AUTHOR'S 'POSTCARD' LOOSELY ENCLOSED, octavo, white heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps, Near FINE in d/w, VG+ (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Hyperion 2021
KEYWORDS: modern first edition signed fantasy literature Alexandra Bracken science fiction novel
Fire Heart
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, ILLUSTRATED FOREDGE, super octavo, dark green heavy boards, gilt decoration to front boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps, Near FINE in d/w, VG+ (minor scuffing to extrems)
PUBLISHER: The Bookish Box 2021
KEYWORDS: Signed Emma Hamm fantasy novels fiction literature
Heaven Breaker
FIRST EDITION, ILLUSTRATED FOREDGES, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt decoration to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, illus, Near FINE in d/w, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Red Tower Books / Entangled Publishing 2024
KEYWORDS: modern first edition fantasy literature Sara Wolf novel
Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises 1923-1934
Super octavo, white heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to grey spine, illus/photos, VG+ in VG+ d/w (photos available on request) Ownership of NZ art Curator Ron Brownson
PUBLISHER: Northwestern University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: Gertrude Stein biography critical literature
Pinetrees in the Key of F and a Rose in the Key of G
#12 of 85, SIGNED COPY, folio, pink triple fold boards with red cloth spine, black lettering to title plate on front board, beautiful scripted James Baxter poem inserted to central board, flanked by 2x illustrations with embossed blind stamp text & patterns to head & base inserts, all inserts printed on 230gsm paper, with tissue guard to centre, Near FINE (sl fading to red cloth spine)
PUBLISHER: The Bibliography Room, University of Otago, Dunedin 2005
KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ Aotearoa literature art James Baxter signed special limited numbered editions poetry verse poems
Skew-Whiff
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 SIGNED NUMBERED COPIES, folio, light grey light card wrappers, red artistic lettering & yellow decoration to front wrapper, deckled page edges, Wayzgoose sheet loosely enclosed, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (light staining to rear wrapper, sl colour bleed-through from illus recto to Black poem, occasional sl cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Otakou Press 2011
KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ Aotearoa art literature poems poetry verse Peter Olds Kathryn Madill first editions signed
The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature 600-1900 with Index & Supplement (5 Vol Set)
HEAVY (6.7kgs) 5 VOL SET, ex-library, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, top page edges stained brown/black, VG (usual library markings, moderate rubbing & scuffing to spines, moderate cracking to rear spine hinge of vol 1, minor bruising & scuffing to board extrems of all vols, moderate chafing/scuffing to boards, minor tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate cracking to gutters of each vol, occasional foxing to prelims, occasional sl closed tearing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1940-57
KEYWORDS: English literature bibliography bibliographies history historical
Random Recollections
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind stamp lettering & rule to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, VG (minor fading to spine & board edges, light to moderate scuffing to spine & board edges/extrems, minor chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, moderate tanning to eps, light to moderate foxing throughout, occasional minor cracking to gutters, prev. owner's pencil annotations to front & rear pastedowns)
PUBLISHER: Eveleigh Nash 1914
KEYWORDS: first editions literature prose R Caton Woodville
To-Day Weekly Magazine, Volume I, November 1893-February 1894
INCLUDES FIRST PUBLICATIONS OF STORIES by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling & Robert Louis Stevenson, lg quarto, cream buckram boards, brown lettering to spine & front board, VG- (moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to spine & boardsm moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, minor soiling to eps, occasional light cracking to gutters, minor tanning throughout)
PUBLISHER: W A Dunkerley 1894
KEYWORDS: to-day weekly magazine past issues literature historical
A Glass Half Full
Super octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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: Hutchinson 2002
KEYWORDS: poet poetry poems literature Felix Dennis
Literature as Discourse: Textual Strategies in English and History
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); Photos available on request. 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: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: English literature criticism history theory discourse analysis
The Collected Verse of A. B. Paterson
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); Photos available on request. 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: Angus Robertson 1979
KEYWORDS: A B Paterson poetry poems literature 20th century Australia Australian
The French Short Story in the Nineteenth Century: A Critical Anthology
Text of stories in French. Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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: Oxford Univeristy Press 1969
KEYWORDS: French literature 19th nineteenth century criticism history
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Text, Criticism, and Notes
Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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: The Viking Press 1968
KEYWORDS: James Joyce history criticism 20th century literature
Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems
Paperback (VG-); Photos available on request. 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 1978
KEYWORDS: Sir Thomas Wyatt poems poetry literature