Books - "literature"
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Jade Mountains & Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xviii + 258pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2018
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature China imperial Chinese
Rewriting Early Chinese Texts
Octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, black & white lettering to spine, v + [3] + 287pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine, sl chafing to boards)
PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2006
KEYWORDS: early China Chinese literature texts antiquity Qin dynasty Han paleography
Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & orange lettering to spine, illus prelims, viii + 387pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine lightly warped/faded & creased, light rubbing & curling to wrapper edges, sl soiling to wrappers & page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to half title page, occasional sl cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Copper Canyon Press 2015
KEYWORDS: China Chinese literature literary history poetry poets
Wang Kuo-wei: An Intellectual Biography
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + [3] + 314pp + catalogue to rear, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, minor soiling/staining to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1986
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Wang Kuo-wei literature literary China Chinese
The Poetry of Meng Chiao and Han Yu
Super octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine, x + 294pp, Near FINE (sl rubbing/bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing to edges, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1975
KEYWORDS: China Chinese literature poetry poems verse Meng Chiao Han Yu
Bitter Gourd: Fang I-chih and the Impetus for Inellectual Change
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + [2] + 228pp, VG+ (light fading to spine & board edges, minor staining to edges of rear board, sl bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history literature 17th seventeenth century I-chih Fang literary
Sumner Locke Elliott: Writing Life, a Biography
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, xix + 292pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing to spine & wrapper edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear, minor tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1996
KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary biography memoir Sumner Locke Elliott
Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, ilus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, xix + 371pp, VG (spine cocked & lightly creased, light creasing to wrapper edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep, minor cracking to gutters at prelims)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2015
KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history literature literary Chandar Bhan Brahman
Lytton Strachey: The New Biography
FIRST EDITION THUS, super octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxxv + 780pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, minor creasing to spine, light soiling to rear board, light tanning & soiling to page edges, heavy crack to gutter of pgs 778-779) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, sm adhesive label to spine, sl tanning)
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1995
KEYWORDS: first editions THUS literature literary biography memoir Lytton Strachey
The Four Chinese Classics: Tao te Ching ; Chuang Tzu ; Analects ; Mencius
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, red & grey lettering to spine, 575pp, illus, VG+ (1cm scuff to head of spine, light fading to spine, sl creasing to wrapper edges, light soiling to rear wrapper, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Counterpoint 2013
KEYWORDS: China Chinese classic literature poetry poems verse English translation
A Voice Through a Cloud
FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 229pp, Near FINE (sl tanning to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, sl fading to spine area)
PUBLISHER: Enitharmon Press 2004
KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS literature novels fiction Denton Welch
Christos Tsiolkas: The Untold Story: His Life & Work
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, green & grey lettering to spine, x + 302pp, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Connor Court 2013
KEYWORDS: literature literary biography memoir Christos Tsiolkas
We Must Love One Another or Die: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xv + 400pp, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, sl soiling to full title page, occasional folding to top page corners) in d/w, VG (minor creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling, light tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: St Martin's Press 1997
KEYWORDS: first editions gay literature Larry Kramer literary
Gay Life Stories
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp publisher's motif to front board, frontispiece, 304pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing to edges, sl tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2012
KEYWORDS: first editions literature gay homosexual men
The Transport of Reading: Text and Understanding in the World of Tao Qian (365-427)
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, brown glossy boards, beige lettering to spine, xii + 345pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges & rear ep, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Asia Center 2010
KEYWORDS: Tao Qian history literature literary classics
Dearly Beloved Friends: Henry James's Letters to Younger Men
Tidy ex-library, super octavo, green cloth boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, printed half title page, xxiii + 249pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising/rubbing to extrems, sl tape staining to board edges, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (tidy library labels/markings, in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light fading to spine, light tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: The University of Michigan Press 2002
KEYWORDS: letters correspondence Henry James literature literary autobiographical
The Ming Admiral: A Chinese Odyssey
INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR Super octavo, light card wrappers, red lettering to cover and spine, VI + 282pp, VG+ (light soiling to page edges, sl chipping to upper page edges, light bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Seriously Red Books 2013
KEYWORDS: Signed by Author China naval navy military Mee-mee Phipps Meemee Phipps historical literature fiction
The Pothunters
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson Heinemann 2022
KEYWORDS: literature P G Wodehouse fiction classic fiction
The Festival of Insignificance
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Harper 2015
KEYWORDS: first edition literature novel fiction Milan Kundera
Strange Country: A Study of Randolph Stow
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 Queensland Press 1990
KEYWORDS: Australian literature criticism Randolph Stow