Books - "literature"
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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
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PUBLISHER: Peregrine / Penguin 1978
KEYWORDS: Bruno Bettelheim literary theory fairy tales folklore psychology sociology literature
Aphorisms
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1990
KEYWORDS: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg aphorisms German literature social observation humour
Imagined Selves: Imagined Corners; Mrs Ritchie; Mrs Grundy in Scotland; Women: An Inquiry; 'Women in Scotland'
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PUBLISHER: Canongate Classics 1996
KEYWORDS: Willa Muir omnibus Scottish fiction essays novels political literature women's rights movement Scotland
Commonplace
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PUBLISHER: Hesperus Classics / Hesperus Press 2005
KEYWORDS: Christina Rossetti novellas short stories fiction novels literature Andrew Motion
Three Comedies: Mine Hostess / La Locandiera; The Boors / I Rusteghi; The Fan / Il Ventaglio
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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1961
KEYWORDS: Goldoni Italian plays theatre commedia dell'arte scripts omnibus Italy literature
Blue Eyes, Black Hair
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PUBLISHER: Pantheon 1987
KEYWORDS: French fiction novels literature
Nightwood
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PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1996
KEYWORDS: Djuna Barnes fiction novels literature 20th century Faber library 13
The Android's Dream
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PUBLISHER: Tor / Tom Doherty Associates 2006
KEYWORDS: John Scalzi science fiction fiction literature
Jacob's Ladder
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PUBLISHER: Writer's Choice / P D R Lindsay 2013
KEYWORDS: historical fiction New Zealand literature
The Orange Girl
FIRST UK 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicholson / Poheonix House 2004
KEYWORDS: fiction literature modern first edition
The Stream: A Reverie of Boyhood
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PUBLISHER: The Nag's Head Press 1979
KEYWORDS: Poetry New Zealand poems literature
Big Breasts and Wide Hips
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PUBLISHER: Arcade / Skyhorse 2012
KEYWORDS: Chinese fiction literature
Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1987
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Kenya Elspeth Huxley Africa
Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters (Fourth Edition 1990)
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PUBLISHER: Cardinal / Sphere Books 1990
KEYWORDS: Gustav Mahler literature letters correspondence music biography memoir autobiography
Gustav Mahler
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PUBLISHER: Quartet Books 1990
KEYWORDS: Gustav Mahler literature music biography memoir
Landfall, a New Zealand Journal: Number 194 Spring 1997 (50th Anniversary Issue)
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PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 1997
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature anthologies Landfall publications past issues years 1997 50th anniversary edition literary
Troilus & Criseyde
IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo, quarter leatherbound illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained green, frontispiece, xi + (5) + 195pp, illus, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in slipcase, VG+ (light bruising, chafing & fading)
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1990
KEYWORDS: classic literature folio society Geoffrey Chaucer verse illustrated
The Question of Things Happening: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volumme II 1912-1922
THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + (4) + 627pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing to board edges/extrems, light tape residue to boards & pastedowns, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to rear ep, 1cm gouge/scuff to full title page) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine, minor tanning to rear cover, light foxing to flaps, sporadic moderate tape staining to covers & flaps)
PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1976
KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary autobiography Virginia Woolf letters correspondence 20th twentieth century
Collected Essays: Volume One
THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 361pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl soiling to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1966
KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary essays collections Virginia Woolf
Collected Essays: Volume Three
THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 231pp, VG+ (light bruising to edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1967
KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary essays collections Virginia Woolf