STONE, LEIA

SPECIAL EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, purple-pink illus heavy boards, rose gold gilt lettering to front board and spine, illus page edges, illus, Near FINE in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The Arcane Society 2014

KEYWORDS: special edition signed illustrated fantasy science fiction novel literature Leia Stone

CLARK, C L

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering and illus to front board and spine, red staining to all page edges, illus/map, VG+ in VG+ d/w (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Orbit 2021

KEYWORDS: modern first edition signed C L Clark fantasy science fiction novel literature

FORNA, NAMINA

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, black heavy boards, green gilt decoration to front board, green gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, illus/maps, Near FINE in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Delacorte Press 2020

KEYWORDS: modern first editions signed Namina Forna fanasty literature novels fiction children's

BRACKEN, ALEXANDRA

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON BOUND IN PAGE, AUTHOR'S 'POSTCARD' LOOSELY ENCLOSED, octavo, white heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps, Near FINE in d/w, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Hyperion 2021

KEYWORDS: modern first edition signed fantasy literature Alexandra Bracken science fiction novel

HAMM, EMMA

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, ILLUSTRATED FOREDGE, super octavo, dark green heavy boards, gilt decoration to front boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps, Near FINE in d/w, VG+ (minor scuffing to extrems)

PUBLISHER: The Bookish Box 2021

KEYWORDS: Signed Emma Hamm fantasy novels fiction literature

WOLF, SARA

FIRST EDITION, ILLUSTRATED FOREDGES, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt decoration to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, illus, Near FINE in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Red Tower Books / Entangled Publishing 2024

KEYWORDS: modern first edition fantasy literature Sara Wolf novel

STEIN, GERTRUDE & DYDO, ULLA E & RICE, WILLIAM

Super octavo, white heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to grey spine, illus/photos, VG+ in VG+ d/w (photos available on request) Ownership of NZ art Curator Ron Brownson

PUBLISHER: Northwestern University Press 2003

KEYWORDS: Gertrude Stein biography critical literature

BAXTER, JAMES & DOESBURG, INGE (Solar Plate, Etching & Woodblock) & HOLMES, JOHN (Text Print) & GUBBINS, CATHERINE (Binding)

#12 of 85, SIGNED COPY, folio, pink triple fold boards with red cloth spine, black lettering to title plate on front board, beautiful scripted James Baxter poem inserted to central board, flanked by 2x illustrations with embossed blind stamp text & patterns to head & base inserts, all inserts printed on 230gsm paper, with tissue guard to centre, Near FINE (sl fading to red cloth spine)

PUBLISHER: The Bibliography Room, University of Otago, Dunedin 2005

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ Aotearoa literature art James Baxter signed special limited numbered editions poetry verse poems

OLDS, PETER (Poems) & MADILL, KATHRYN (Images)

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 SIGNED NUMBERED COPIES, folio, light grey light card wrappers, red artistic lettering & yellow decoration to front wrapper, deckled page edges, Wayzgoose sheet loosely enclosed, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (light staining to rear wrapper, sl colour bleed-through from illus recto to Black poem, occasional sl cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Otakou Press 2011

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ Aotearoa art literature poems poetry verse Peter Olds Kathryn Madill first editions signed

BATESON, F W (Ed) & WATSON, GEORGE (Ed)

HEAVY (6.7kgs) 5 VOL SET, ex-library, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, top page edges stained brown/black, VG (usual library markings, moderate rubbing & scuffing to spines, moderate cracking to rear spine hinge of vol 1, minor bruising & scuffing to board extrems of all vols, moderate chafing/scuffing to boards, minor tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate cracking to gutters of each vol, occasional foxing to prelims, occasional sl closed tearing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1940-57

KEYWORDS: English literature bibliography bibliographies history historical

WOODVILLE, R CATON

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind stamp lettering & rule to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, VG (minor fading to spine & board edges, light to moderate scuffing to spine & board edges/extrems, minor chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, moderate tanning to eps, light to moderate foxing throughout, occasional minor cracking to gutters, prev. owner's pencil annotations to front & rear pastedowns)

PUBLISHER: Eveleigh Nash 1914

KEYWORDS: first editions literature prose R Caton Woodville

JEROME K. JEROME (Ed) & STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS et al

INCLUDES FIRST PUBLICATIONS OF STORIES by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling & Robert Louis Stevenson, lg quarto, cream buckram boards, brown lettering to spine & front board, VG- (moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to spine & boardsm moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, minor soiling to eps, occasional light cracking to gutters, minor tanning throughout)

PUBLISHER: W A Dunkerley 1894

KEYWORDS: to-day weekly magazine past issues literature historical