Books - "literature"
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Songs of a Campaign (Third and Enlarged Edition)
THIRD ENLARGED EDITION, NORMAN LINDSAY ILLUSTRATIONS, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1917
KEYWORDS: poems poetry verse literature illustrated Norman Lindsay Leon Gellert
The Rim of Eternity
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: Collins Bros & Co 1964
KEYWORDS: modern first editions New Zealand writers authors literature novels fiction Adrienne Geddes
Chosen Country (Second Impression)
FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, 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: John Lehmann 1952
KEYWORDS: modern first editions (2nd impression) novels fiction literature John Dos Passos
Forests of the Night
FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) jacket affixed to boards; 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: Collins Clear-Type Press 1963
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels fiction Jon Cleary
The Green Helmet
FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) jacket affixed to boards; 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: Collins Clear-Type Press 1957
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels fiction Jon Cleary
The Half-Hearted
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: Hodder & Stoughton 1923
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature John Buchan
The Memory Coat
Oblong quarto 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: Scholastic Press 1999
KEYWORDS: children's literature books illustrated Elvira Woodruff
The Watcher on the Quay
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: New Holland 1998
KEYWORDS: adventure maritime exploration Olma Mignacca circumnavigation travel writing literature
This Close to Okay
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: Grand Central Publishing 2021
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction novels Leesa Cross-Smith
The Mirror & the Light
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: Fourth Estate 2020
KEYWORDS: modern first editions fiction novels literature Hilary Mantel
A Watertight Conspiracy
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: D P Holgate 2012
KEYWORDS: fiction novels literature D P Holgate New Zealand writers authors
The Namesake
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company 2003
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels fiction Jhumpa Lahiri
Freaks of the Heartland
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Dark Horse Books 2005
KEYWORDS: graphic novels fiction literature Steve Niles Greg Ruth
Sugar Kane Woman
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: Witchcraft Press 2016
KEYWORDS: poetry verse literature poems Manisha Anjali
The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, FIRST EDITIONS, half leather bound green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to red leather title plates to spine, gilt rule/decoration & raised bands to spine, marbled page edges & eps, vignettes with tissue guards to prelims, vol 1- viii + 380pp, vol 2- viii + 375pp, illus, VG (moderate tanning to spines, minor chipping to red leather title plates on spines, light to moderate scuffing/surface loss to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, minor cracking to gutters, light to moderate tanning sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Bradbury & Evans 1855
KEYWORDS: literature modern first editions novels William Makepeace Thackerary
Travels in Arabia Deserta, New and Definitive Edition (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION THUS, imperial octavo, brown buckram heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, top page edges stained brown, deckled page edges, frontispieces, vol 1- 674pp, vol 2- 696pp, folding maps to rear, illus, VG (light fading to spines, moderate staining to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, folding map to rear of vol 1 has end quarter missing & minor closed tearing, folding map (identical to vol 1) of vol 2 is complete)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1936
KEYWORDS: first editions THUS travel history writing literature Arabian desert C M Doughty adventure
The Horkey
FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, red leather spine- heavily scuffed, patterned eps, illus prelims, 48pp, illus, G+ (heavy scuffing to spine- surface loss, top & base of spine has minor loss, heavy scuffing & surface loss to board corners, heavy soiling & chafing to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, moderate foxing throughout, cloth reinforcement to some gutters, closed tearing to bottom half of pgs 11-14)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co 1882
KEYWORDS: modern first editions children's literature fiction illustrated Robert Bloomfield
Selected Writings of Sir Charles Sherrington: A Testimonial Presented by the Neurologists Forming the Guarantors of the Journal Brain
Super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 532pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sl tanning to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine & cover edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: writings prose literature Sir Charles Sherrington medical neurology
Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations
Super octavo, black heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xiii + 318pp, VG+ (light fading to spine & rear board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light tanning to spine, sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
KEYWORDS: poetry poems literature verse Peter Cole
Tuna
Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 186pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping/surface loss to edges, light tanning & foxing/chafing, moderate crease to top edge of front cover)
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1972
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Kenneth Cook