Books - "literature"
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The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Eight 1856-1858 (The British Academy / The Pilgrim Edition)
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxvii + 807pp, VG+ (sl soiling & foxing to page edges, sm inscription to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl fading to spine, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1995
KEYWORDS: Pilgrim Editions edition literature literary letters correspondence Charles Dickens autobiographical The British Academy
The Sadist Hunters
Sm octavo, illus light card wrappers, green & black lettering to spine, 158pp, VG+ (sl creasing & rubbing to cover edges/extrems, sl chafing & soiling to covers, sm adhesive label to front cover, moderate tanning & sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: New English Library / NEL 1969
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Courtney Browne
Maigret on Holiday
FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, sm octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering to spine, v + 274pp, VG (light to moderate rubbing & scuffing to spine & board extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedown, light foxing to prelims & terminals- occasionally throughout also, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 1950
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction novels Georges Simenon Maigret series
Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke 1902-1926
Super octavo, beige cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxvi + 420pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, occasional minor tearing to edges, light tanning to spine, moderate foxing & light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1947
KEYWORDS: letters correspondence Rainer Maria Rilke literature literary autobiographical
Remembrance of Things Past (12 Vol Set)
12 VOL SET, sm octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, mixed pagination, VG+ (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, G+ (spines of vols 11 & 12 missing- attempts at tape repair to vol 12 but to no avail, other moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges- some with loss at spines, light tanning to spines of remaining vols, moderate general foxing & soiling, annotation in ink & pencil to rear flaps)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1949-52
KEYWORDS: Marcel Proust literature collections
The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Three 1842-1843 (The Pilgrim Edition)
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxv + 692pp, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, light fading to spine, light soiling & foxing, heavy annotation in ink & pencil to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1974
KEYWORDS: Pilgrim Edition editions Charles Dickens literature literary letters correspondence
The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume One 1820-1839 (The Pilgrim Edition)
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xlvi + 744pp, VG+ (light fading & rubbing to extrems, light fading to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light fading & tanning/soiling/foxing to spine, moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, minor general soiling, moderate annotation in ink to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1965
KEYWORDS: Pilgrim Edition editions Charles Dickens literature literary letters correspondence
The Pickwick Papers (Clarendon Edition)
FIRST EDITION THUS, CLARENDON EDITION, DEFINITIVE TEXT, octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, civ + 898pp + map of London to rear, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, sl foxing to eps, occasional light pencil markings to margins) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate soiling, light fading to spine, minor annotation to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1986
KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS Clarendon edition definitive text classic English literature novels fiction Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son
FIRST EDITION THUS, CLARENDON EDITION, DEFINITIVE TEXT, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, lx + 871pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light soiling & foxing to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, sl fading & 1cm scuff to spine, light general soiling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1974
KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS Clarendon edition definitive text classic English literature novels fiction Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit
FIRST EDITION THUS, CLARENDON EDITION, DEFINITIVE TEXT, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, lxxvi + 864pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbing/bruising to spine extrems, sl soiling to rear board, sl foxing & soiling to page edges, occasional pencil marking to margins) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, light general soiling, minor annotation in ink to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS Clarendon edition definitive text classic English literature novels fiction Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit
FIRST EDITION THUS, CLARENDON EDITION, DEFINITIVE TEXT, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, lxv + 835pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, light soiling, minor scuff/surface loss to fore-edge of front cover)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS Clarendon edition definitive text classic English literature novels fiction Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
FIRST EDITION THUS, CLARENDON EDITION, DEFINITIVE TEXT, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, lxxvi + 781pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, sl chafing to boards, light soiling to page edges, occasional pencil markings to margins) in d/w, G- (front cover & front flap completely missing, spine detached but present- all just loosley enclosed in book, moderate rubbing & tearing to spine, annotation to rear flap, other heavy scuffing & tearing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1981
KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS Clarendon edition definitive text classic English literature novels fiction Charles Dickens
Cybele and Attis: The Myth and the Cult
Imperial ocatvo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt publisher's motif to front board, 224pp, illus/photos, VG (minor scuffing & bruising to extrems, minor fading to top edge of rear board, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's ink markings to ffep) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine & rear cover, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1977
KEYWORDS: ancient mythology Cybele literature art antiquity Greece Greek
A History of Greek Literature
Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, blue lettering on silver gilt backing to spine, top page edges stained red, xviii + 921pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate staining to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (moderate foxing, light to moderate creasing & chipipng to edges, sm pencil annotation to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1966
KEYWORDS: Greek literature history criticism
Night and Day
Sm octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 538pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps & prelims) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading/discolourtion to spine, light to moderate foxing & soiling, minor pencil annotaiton to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1960
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Virginia Woolf
The Invention of Jane Harrison
Octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt face illus to front board, xiii + 229pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board corners, sl soiling to page edges, moderate pencil annotaiton to terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light fading & creasing to spine, light creasing to edges, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: classical philology literature anthropology classicists mythology history historiography
King Lear: 1608 (Pied Bull Quarto)
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to spine extrems, light tanning & 1cm tear to spine, sl soiling & discolouration)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1964
KEYWORDS: William Shakespeare plays quarto facsimile series King Lear literature
Notes From the Margins: The West Coast's Peter Hooper
SIGNED, octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, 202pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Frontiers Press 2017
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand writers authors Pat White literature literary biography biographies memoir Peter Hooper
The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
Super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled edges to base of page block, viii + 378pp, VG (light rubbing to extrems, sl chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to gutter of half title page) in d/w, VG (priceclipped, minor tanning & foxing to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, minor soiling & foxing)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1953
KEYWORDS: C S Lewis literature love romanticism medieval
Chocky
FIRST EDITION, tidy ex military library copy, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering & sm illus to spine, 184pp, VG (spine sl cocked, sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minimal library ink stamps & scuffings, moderate tape staining to front & rear pastedowns, sl soiling to prelims & terminals, occasional sl cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate tape staining to fore-edges of flaps, light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1968
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels fiction John Wyndham