Books - "literature"
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The Mess of Our Lives
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: One Tree House 2024
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature Mary Anne Scott Anne-Scott fiction
Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to [cloth] spine & front board, 280pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, v sl tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, label residue to rear)
PUBLISHER: Cleis Press 1999
KEYWORDS: first editions literature essays Gore Vidal sex prose history homosexuality
Chaos: A Novella and Stories
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, deckled page fore-edges, unpaginated prelims + 184pp, VG+ (light bruisng to extrems, light fading to head & base of spine, sl chafing to boards, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature ficiton novellas short stories Edmund White
Song of the Circle ; Song of the SIlence ; Song of the Whale ; Song of the Sacred Wind ; Song of the Eagle (5 Vol Set)
5 VOL SET, VOLS 1-3 WARMLY SIGNED & INSCRIBED, FIRST EDITION, octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spines, mixed pagination, mostly VG+ (minor scuffing & creasing to spine of vol 1, spines to all vols are lightly faded, sl chafing to wrappers, light tanning to page edges, sl creasing/rubbing to wrapper edges, light cracking to front gutter of vol 1)
PUBLISHER: Stoneprint Press N/D (c.1996-98)
KEYWORDS: NZ New Zealand Aotearoa literature novels signed Barry Brailsford chronicles of the stone series
A Boy's Own Story ; The Beautiful Room is Empty (2 Novels in 1 Vol))
2 NOVELS IN 1 VOL, octavo, white heavy boards, green gilt lettering to black buckram spine, frontispiece, mixed pagination, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning to board edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl tanning to spine, sl creasing to edges, in plastic protective wrapper- easily removed if desired)
PUBLISHER: Book of the Month Club 1993
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Edmund White
Cavafy: A Critical Biography
FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 222pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising/rubbing to extrems, minor tanning & foxing to page edges, minor foxing to prelims, sm pencil scribbles to top corner of half title page, occasional light cracking to gutters throuhgout, moderate foxing/discolouration to photographic pages & verso of) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light fading to spine, minor creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to flaps, light chafing, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front flap)
PUBLISHER: Gerlad Duckworth & Co 1974
KEYWORDS: first editions literature biography memoir Constantine Cavafy literary
Arabic Andalusian Casidas
Octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to spine, 58pp, VG (moderate foxing/discolouration to spine & boards/edges, light bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional light foxing throughout, frequent light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG (in plastic rpotective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing & chipping to edges, minor tanning to spine, moderate foxing)
PUBLISHER: The Pound Press 1953
KEYWORDS: poems poetry verse literature middle ages anthology
Float (Boxed Set)
ALL CHAPBOOKS PRESENT, octavo, multiple stapled light card pamphlets/chapbooks, VG+ (minor creasing to corners, sl rubbing to spine/stapled areas) in stiff plastic case, VG+ (light chafing & scratching- v minor)
PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 2016
KEYWORDS: poetry poems verse literature boxed sets Anne Carson chapbooks
My Man Jeeves
FIRST PENGUIN EDITION, sm octavo, orange & cream light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & wrappers, 256pp, VG- (spine sl cocked & moderately creased/scuffed & tanned, moderate foxing to wrappers, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & inside wrappers, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page, a little cracking to gutters but has had some tidy discreet glue repairs- binding a little tight, occasional soiling throughout- v minor)
PUBLISHER: Penguin 1936
KEYWORDS: modern first penguin editions literature novels fiction P G Wodehouse Jeeves & Wooster series
Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion, in Two Volumes (2 Vol Set) [The Library of Christian Classics: Volume XX]
2 VOL SET, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spines, top page edges stained dark grey, vol 1- lxxi + pgs1-849, vol 2- unpaginated prelims + pgs850-1734, VG (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, light to moderate soiling to spines & boards, minor tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep of both vols, sm pencil annotation to rear ep) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing/scuffing & chipping to edges- some minor loss, light fading & scuffing/surface loss to spines, moderate chafing & soiling, light to moderate foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: The Westminster Press 1960
KEYWORDS: religion theology calvin Christianity library of Christian classics series literature
I Ching (Yijing) The Book of Change
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, ARCHIVAL REPAIR TO JACKET, super octavo, beige heavy boards, gilt lettering to white spine, gilt Chinese lettering to front board, frontispiece, decorated full title page, lxv + 855pp + tables to rear, VG+ (minor wrinkling & warping to spine, light bruising to spine extrems, sl soiling to page edges, sl crease to upper edge of ffep, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (2x closed tears to upper edges with tidy archival repair, light to moderate creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin 2014
KEYWORDS: i ching yijing spirituality literature Chinese history
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Super 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: Twelve 2012
KEYWORDS: literature gay queer lgbt Tuman Capote Allen Ginsberg Gore Vidal America USA history civil rights social history
Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris
FIRST US 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: Bloomsbury 2014
KEYWORDS: first edition memoir gay queer literature lgbtq
Me All Over: Memoirs of a Misfit
FIRST 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: Peter Owen 1993
KEYWORDS: first edition memoir James Kirkup literature queer gay lgbtq travel
The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief
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: Beacon Press 2009
KEYWORDS: memoir relationship gay queer lgbtq grief literature
Glenway Wescott: Personally
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: University of Wisconsin 2002
KEYWORDS: biography Glenway Wescott literature gay queer lgbtq America Wisconsin New York history
Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round my Father
FIRST EDITION. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Particular Books 2015
KEYWORDS: first edition memoir queer gay lgbtq family aged care Wales Britain father son literature
Becoming a Londoner: A Diary
FIRST EDITION. Super 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: Bloomsbury 2013
KEYWORDS: first edition 1960's 60's sixties London Britain UK gay queer ltbtq history memoir art culture literature relationship
Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig and Me
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: University of Wisconsin Press 1999
KEYWORDS: latin Hispanic gay lgbtq queer culture history literature love memoir
American Ghosts
FIRST EDITION. Super 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: Beacon Press 2005
KEYWORDS: first edition memoir literature religion spirituality queer lgbtq gay