Books - "literature"
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The Little Humpbacked Horse
Quarto 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Foreign Languages Publishing N/D
KEYWORDS: Russian children's literature English translations fairy tales P Yershov illustrated
The Foundation Pit
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: The Harvill Press 1996
KEYWORDS: Russian literature novels fiction Andrey Platonov English translations
Vanessa Bell
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: Phoenix 1994
KEYWORDS: Vanessa Bell history biography biographies memoir literature literary arts Bloomsbury Group
Beryl Bainbridge: Artist, Writer, Friend
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Thams & Hudson 2012
KEYWORDS: Beryl Bainbridge biography biographies memoir literature literary
Take the Long Path
SIGNED, paperback (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: Puffin / Penguin 1980
KEYWORDS: signed Joan de Hamel New Zealand writers authors children's literature fiction
Castle in the Air (Sequel to Howl's Moving Castle)
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: Collins 2000
KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction novels Diana Wynne Jones sequel Howl's Moving Castle
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
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: Thames & Hudson 2015
KEYWORDS: literature literary history art artists English
Hotere: Out the Black Window: Ralph Hotere's Work With New Zealand Poets
Ex-library, imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, red & black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 134pp, illus, VG- (usual library markings, in fully adhesive plastic covering- french flaps affixed down, minor scuffing & wrinkling to spine & cover edges, minor discolouration to covers, light to moderate soiling & tanning to page edges, occasional moderate cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Godwit 1997
KEYWORDS: New Zealand art artists Ralph Hotere literary literature poetry poets
The Mysteries of Paris (6 Vol Set)
6 VOL SET, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spines, teg, deckled page edges, marbled eps, frontispieces with tissue guards, mixed pagination, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing/rubbing & bruising to spines & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & & moderate foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm labels to front pastedowns of each vol, moderate scuffing/surface loss to ffeps, 4cm loss to base of ffep to vol 4, occasional but moderate cracking to some gutters, occasional minor foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: John C Nimmo 1903
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Eugene Sue
Leviathan (Book One)
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to red spine, illus/maps at eps, unpaginated prelims + 440pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl chafing to boards, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin 2009
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels fiction Scott Westerfeld illustrated Keith Thompson
Museums Without Borders: Selected Writings of Robert R Janes
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & grey lettering to spine, xvii + 411pp, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, minro peeling & label residue to base of rear cover, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2016
KEYWORDS: literature writings prose collections Robert R Janes museums museum studies history
Journey to the End of the Night
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, (4) + 509pp, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing/rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light soiling to page edges, 1cm crack to head of spine/front hinge, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedown, gift inscription in ink to ffep, moderate tanning to eps, patches of light to moderate soiling to pages sporadically throughout, light to moderate water staining to base of page block & rear eps)
PUBLISHER: Vision Press 1950
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction French novels English translations Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Kara Kush: The Gold of Ahmad Shah
FIRST EDITION, LACKS FEP, ex-library- minimal markings, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: William Collins Sons & Co 1986
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction novels Idries Shah
Sefer Otiyot / The Book of Letters: A Mystical Alef-bait
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Lewish Lights Publishing 2014
KEYWORDS: Jewish literature Lawrence Kushner kabbal history philosophy
Bones of the Moon
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: Century Hutchinson 1987
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fantasy scifi science fiction novels Jonathan Carroll
Blood Curry: A Collection of Recipes, Poems and Short Stories in the Speculative Genre
FIRST EDITION, quarto 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 Continents Publishing 2011
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction speculative horror short stories poetry verse
Jack Maggs
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: Vintage / Random House 2001
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Peter Carey
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
FIRST EDITION, quarto hardcover (VG-) spine extrems damaged; 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: Collins Clear-Type Press 1966
KEYWORDS: modern first editions Dr Seuss children's literature verse
Spells from Chagall
LIMITED TO 50 NUMBERED COPIES- THIS COPY UN-NUMBERED, octavo softcover, stapled (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: The Griffin Press 1987
KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors poets literature poetry poems verse Riemke Ensing
O Enlli i Gwenlli
TEXT IN WELSH, 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: Argraffwyd gan Wasg Panycelyn 1992
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN WELSH literature Bessie Williams