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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales


BETTELHEIM, BRUNO

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: Peregrine / Penguin 1978

KEYWORDS: Bruno Bettelheim literary theory fairy tales folklore psychology sociology literature

$14.00
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Aphorisms


LICHTENBERG, GEORG CHRISTOPH & HOLLINGDALE, R J (trans)

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: Penguin 1990

KEYWORDS: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg aphorisms German literature social observation humour

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Imagined Selves: Imagined Corners; Mrs Ritchie; Mrs Grundy in Scotland; Women: An Inquiry; 'Women in Scotland'


MUIR, WILLA & ALLEN, KIRSTY (ed, intro)

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PUBLISHER: Canongate Classics 1996

KEYWORDS: Willa Muir omnibus Scottish fiction essays novels political literature women's rights movement Scotland

$9.50
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Commonplace


ROSESETTI, CHRISTINA & MOTION, ANDREW (fore)

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PUBLISHER: Hesperus Classics / Hesperus Press 2005

KEYWORDS: Christina Rossetti novellas short stories fiction novels literature Andrew Motion

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Three Comedies: Mine Hostess / La Locandiera; The Boors / I Rusteghi; The Fan / Il Ventaglio


GOLDONI, CARLO

Small octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) d/w cracked at front hinge and fore-edge; 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: Oxford University Press 1961

KEYWORDS: Goldoni Italian plays theatre commedia dell'arte scripts omnibus Italy literature

$22.50
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Blue Eyes, Black Hair


DURAS, MARGUERITE & BRAY, BARBARA (trans)

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: Pantheon 1987

KEYWORDS: French fiction novels literature

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Nightwood


BARNES, DJUNA & ELIOT, T S ( intro)

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: Faber and Faber 1996

KEYWORDS: Djuna Barnes fiction novels literature 20th century Faber library 13

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The Android's Dream


SCALZI, JOHN

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PUBLISHER: Tor / Tom Doherty Associates 2006

KEYWORDS: John Scalzi science fiction fiction literature

$12.50
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Jacob's Ladder


LINDSAY, P D R

SIGNED super 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Writer's Choice / P D R Lindsay 2013

KEYWORDS: historical fiction New Zealand literature

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The Orange Girl


GAARDER, JOSTEIN & ANDERSON, JAMES (trans)

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

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The Stream: A Reverie of Boyhood


DOWLING, BASIL & OATES, GRAHAM

Small ocavo 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 Nag's Head Press 1979

KEYWORDS: Poetry New Zealand poems literature

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Big Breasts and Wide Hips


YAN, MO

Super ocavo 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: Arcade / Skyhorse 2012

KEYWORDS: Chinese fiction literature

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Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya


HUXLEY, ELSPETH

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: Penguin 1987

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Kenya Elspeth Huxley Africa

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Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters (Fourth Edition 1990)


MAHLER, GUSTAV & MAHLER, ALMA & MITCHELL, DONALD (Ed) & MARTNER, KNUD (Ed)

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: Cardinal / Sphere Books 1990

KEYWORDS: Gustav Mahler literature letters correspondence music biography memoir autobiography

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Gustav Mahler


WALTER, BRUNO & LINDT, LOTTE WALTER (Trans) & TANNER, MICHAEL (Intro)

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: Quartet Books 1990

KEYWORDS: Gustav Mahler literature music biography memoir

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Landfall, a New Zealand Journal: Number 194 Spring 1997 (50th Anniversary Issue)


BORNHOLDT, JENNY et al (Contributors) & PRICE, CHRIS (Ed)

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: University of Otago Press 1997

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature anthologies Landfall publications past issues years 1997 50th anniversary edition literary

$65.00
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Troilus & Criseyde


CHAUCER, GEOFFREY & SKEAT, WALTER W (Ed) & BOSTON, STEWART (Trans & Intro) & BROOKES, PETER (Illus)

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

$50.00
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The Question of Things Happening: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volumme II 1912-1922


WOOLF, VIRGINIA & NICOLSON, NIGEL (Ed) & TRAUTMANN, JOANNE (Assist Ed)

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

$60.00
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Collected Essays: Volume One


WOOLF, VIRGINIA

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

$60.00
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Collected Essays: Volume Three


WOOLF, VIRGINIA

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

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