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Landfall, a New Zealand Journal: Number 194 Spring 1997 (50th Anniversary Issue)


BORNHOLDT, JENNY et al (Contributors) & PRICE, CHRIS (Ed)

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 Otago Press 1997

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature anthologies Landfall publications past issues years 1997 50th anniversary edition literary

$65.00
2w3/40

Troilus & Criseyde


CHAUCER, GEOFFREY & SKEAT, WALTER W (Ed) & BOSTON, STEWART (Trans & Intro) & BROOKES, PETER (Illus)

IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo, quarter leatherbound illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained green, frontispiece, xi + (5) + 195pp, illus, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in slipcase, VG+ (light bruising, chafing & fading)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1990

KEYWORDS: classic literature folio society Geoffrey Chaucer verse illustrated

$50.00
2w3/42

The Question of Things Happening: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volumme II 1912-1922


WOOLF, VIRGINIA & NICOLSON, NIGEL (Ed) & TRAUTMANN, JOANNE (Assist Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + (4) + 627pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing to board edges/extrems, light tape residue to boards & pastedowns, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to rear ep, 1cm gouge/scuff to full title page) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine, minor tanning to rear cover, light foxing to flaps, sporadic moderate tape staining to covers & flaps)

PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1976

KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary autobiography Virginia Woolf letters correspondence 20th twentieth century

$60.00
2w2/1

Collected Essays: Volume One


WOOLF, VIRGINIA

THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 361pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl soiling to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1966

KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary essays collections Virginia Woolf

$60.00
2w2/2

Collected Essays: Volume Three


WOOLF, VIRGINIA

THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 231pp, VG+ (light bruising to edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1967

KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary essays collections Virginia Woolf

$60.00
2w2/3

Collected Essays: Volume Four


WOOLF, VIRGINIA

THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 235pp, VG+ (light bruising to edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1967

KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary essays collections Virginia Woolf

$45.00
2w2/5

Three Worlds / Drei Welten: Selected Poems


WOLFSKEHL, KARL & WOOD, ANDREW PAUL (Trans & Ed) & VOIT, FRIEDRICH (Trans & Ed)

DUAL ENGLISH GERMAN TEXT, octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & black/brown lettering to spine, xxxix + 267pp, Near FINE (sl creasing to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: Cold Hub Press 2016

KEYWORDS: DUAL ENGLISH GERMAN TEXT poetry poems verse literature Karl Wolfskehl

$40.00
2w2/11

The Boy and the Magic


COLETTE & FRY, CHRISTOPHER (Trans) & HOFFNUNG, GERARD (Trans)

Oblong quarto, pink/red heavy boards, green gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus, VG (light bruising/rubbing & moderate to heavy fading to board edges, boards sl warped, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, parts of page block sl loosened at gutter, light foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate to heavy staining & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Dennis Dobson / Dobson Books 1964

KEYWORDS: classic children's literature picture books Colette illustrated

$60.00
2w2/16

The Arcades Project


BENJAMIN, WALTER & EILAND, HOWARD (Trans) & McLAUGHLIN, KEVIN (Trans) & TIEDEMANN, ROLF (Prepared on the Basis of the German Volume Ed by)

Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xiv + 1073pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, sl chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light to moderate soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Belknap Press / Harvard University Press 2003

KEYWORDS: 19th nineteenth century history Walter Benjamin cultural literature

$65.00
2w2/25

In Search of Sheba: Across the Sahara to Ethiopia


TOY, BARBARA

Octavo, green heavy boards, black lettering to spine, viii + 242pp, VG (light tanning/fading & bruising to board & spine edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. ownership ink stamp to fore-edge of page block & pg 7, moderate vertical creasing to ffep, moderate tape staining to front & rear eps, minor soiling to verso of full title page) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, minor tape staining to fore-edge of front flap)

PUBLISHER: The Travel Book Club 1961

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Sahara desert Africa Ethiopia adventure Barbara Toy

$40.00
2w2/27

The Sign of Jonas: The Journals of Thomas Merton


MERTON, THOMAS

Octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt religious motif to front board, top page edges stained blue/grey- faded, illus eps, unpaginated prelims + 354pp, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, minor foxing throughout) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing with loss to edges, moderate tanning & soiling to flaps & rear cover, minor foxing)

PUBLISHER: Hollis & Carter 1953

KEYWORDS: religion religious literature Thomas Merton journals diaries history

$275.00
2w2/32

The Silver Chair


LEWIS, C S & BAYNES, PAULINE (Illus)

FIRST EDITION, FIRST REPRINT, octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus/map of Narnia & the Wild Lands of the North to front eps, frontispiece, 217pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to board & spine extrems, moderate fading/tanning to spine, light soiling & discolouration to boards, light t anning & foxing to page edges, light to moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's sm ink stamp to base of half title page)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1956

KEYWORDS: children's classic literature modern first editions first reprints C S Lewis fantasy Narnia novels fiction illustrated Pauline Baynes

$50.00
2w2/33

The Old South Illustrated


CRAYON, PORTE (STROTHER, DAVID HUNTER) & EBY Jr, CECIL D (Ed & Intro)

Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title pages, xxi + 296pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising/rubbing to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, minor creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & light soiling to spine, minor general tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press 1959

KEYWORDS: Porte Crayon David Hunter Strother US America American history old deep south essays literature writings

$70.00
2w2/35

Christian Reflections


LEWIS, C S & HOOPER, WALTER (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 176pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light fading to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate soiling to top page edges) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate tanning to spine, moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges & spine, minor general chafing & tanning)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1967

KEYWORDS: theology religion Christianity C S Lewis literature first editions writings prose

$100.00
2w2/37

Refelctions on the Psalms


LEWIS, C S

FIRST EDITION, octavo, maroon heavy boards, yellow lettering to spine, top page edges stained blue- faded, vii + 151pp, VG+ (sl bruisng & fading to board edges, light tape staining to rear board & eps, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & moderate discolouration to edges, light to moderate general tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1958

KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature writings C S Lewis Christianity psalms first editions

$42.50
2w2/38

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer


LEWIS, C S

FIRST EDITION, octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained black, 159pp, VG+ (sl bruising & discolouration to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, 2x 2cm closed tears to top edge of rear cover, light tanning to spine, light general tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1964

KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature writings C S Lewis Christianity prayer first editions

$40.00
2w2/39

The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity Reason and Romanticism


LEWIS, C S

Sm octavo, green cloth boards, black lettering to cream title plate on spine, map to front eps, 199pp, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor loss & archival tape repair, moderate tanning & soiling to spine, minor general tanning & soiling, single vertical crease to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1946

KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature writing C S Lewis Christianity

$385.00
2w2/40

Mere Christianity: A Revised and Amplified Edition, With a New Introduction of the Three Books 'Broadcast Talks', 'Christian Behaviour' and 'Beyond Personality'


LEWIS, C S

FIRST EDITION, FIRST REPRINT, octavo, green heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 177pp, VG+ (sl bruising & discolouration to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink & ink stamp to ffep, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, G+ (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning & foxing to spine, moderate foxing & heavy loss to base of rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1953

KEYWORDS: first editions first reprints C S Lewis theology religion religious writings literature Christianity

$120.00
2w2/42

Miracles: A Preliminary Study


LEWIS, C S

FIRST EDITION, octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 220pp, sl fading & scuffing/bruising to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl sporadic foxing throughout) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor tape repairs, moderate tanning & scuffing to spine, other general tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1947

KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature writings C S Lewis Christianity miracles first editions

$40.00
2w1/4

Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories


LEWIS, C S & HOOPER, WALTER (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained red, xi + 148pp, VG+ (light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning to spine, general minor tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1966

KEYWORDS: first editions literature writings essays prose C S Lewis

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