Books - "literature"
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Wolves of Rome
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: Pan Books 2019
KEYWORDS: historical fiction novels literature Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Saint Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans, I: Books I-III
THIS VOL ONLY, TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH, sm 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Loeb / William Heinemann / Harvard University Press 1966
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH Loeb classical library series literature ancient history antiquity Saint Augustine
Seneca: Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Vol II
THIS VOL ONLY, TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH, LACKS D/W, sm octavo hardcover (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: Loeb / William Heinemann / Harvard University Press 1962
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH Loeb classical library series literature ancient history antiquity Seneca
Plautus, II: Casina ; The Casket Comedy ; Curculo ; Epidicus ; The Two Menaechmuses
THIS VOL ONLY, TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH, sm 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Loeb / William Heinemann / Harvard University Press 1965
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH Loeb classical library series literature ancient plays Plautus
As the Saying Goes: The Philosophy of a Kiwi Bushman
Square duodecimo 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa Beckett 1996
KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors literature Barry Crump
The Prisons of Marguerite de Navarre
LACKS D/W, super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus/printed eps, xix + 152pp, VG+ (sl bruising & soiling to spine, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The Whiteknights Press 1989
KEYWORDS: literature verse cantos Marguerite de Navarre poetry poems philosophy English translations
Ramopakhyana - the Story of Rama in the Mahabharata: An Independent-Study Reader in Sanskrit
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xi + 945pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2003
KEYWORDS: sanskrit languages study guides India Indian Rama world literature
Striding Both Worlds: Witi Ihimaera and New Zealand's Literary Traditions
Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xix + 255pp, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: Rodopi N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori culture literary traditions Witi Ihimaera history literature
Mediating Aotearoa: Essays on Maori Culture
Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 164pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges)
PUBLISHER: Tranzlit 2021
KEYWORDS: essays literature prose New Zealand Maori culture
Quarrels with Himself: Essays on James K Baxter as Prose Writer
Octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 319pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing to spine & cover edges, light tanning to page edges, sm coffee stain to top edge of pgs 90/91)
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers literature literary criticism James K Baxter essays prose
The Sun King
IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt & white illus to spine & front board, illus title page, xxi + (5) + 246pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, Near FINE (v sl bruising to corners)
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2011
KEYWORDS: folio society literature Nancy Mitford history France French Louis xiv
The Red and the Black
Super octavo, red full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, iridescent cloth eps, frontispiece, xvii + 450pp, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press c.1980
KEYWORDS: easton press collector's editions full leather bindings literature Stendhal novels fiction illustrated
The Magic Mountain
Super octavo, brown heavy leather-effect boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed/patterned eps, illus prelims, xviii + 724pp, illus, VG+ (light cracking to gutter of half title page, sl scuffing to base of page block)
PUBLISHER: The Franklin Library c.1981
KEYWORDS: franklin library series Thomas Mann literature novels
The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History
Super octavo, black buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, xxv + 386pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & wrinkling)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1988
KEYWORDS: classical classic literature historians history antiquity Herodotus historiography criticism literary
Latin: Story of a World Language
Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to black buckram spine, xiii + 332pp, illus, light bruising to spine, sl soiling & creasing to page edges, prev owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, minor patch of peeling to top edge of rear cover, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: languages Latin history linguistics colloquial philology literature vulgar teaching
The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London
Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + (6) + 388pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: Muslim travel literature writing England Iran Iranian 19th nineteenth century ethnicity
The Tirukkural
Octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxxix + 147pp, Near FINE (prev owner's name in ink to prelims) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Aleph Book Company 2015
KEYWORDS: literature philosophy Tiruvalluvar
Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition
Octavo, blue heavy boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 415pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, prev. owner's name in ink & sm scuff to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Verso 2014
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism India Indian Hinduism caste social systems
Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India ; Mission to the Volga
Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, sm gilt motif to front board, x + 312pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: New York University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature China India Arabic Volga River Russia
Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and its Indian Genesis
Super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps to eps, frontispiece, xx + 278pp, illus, Near FINE (sl rubbing to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing, 1cm closed tear to top edge of front cover)
PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 1988
KEYWORDS: China Chinese culture Buddhist folk literature Indian India performance