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$95.00
ak2/21a/24

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Five: 1847-1849 (The Pilgrim Edition)


DICKENS, CHARLES & STOREY, GRAHAM (Ed) & FIELDING, K J (Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxi + (3) + 753pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (moderate foxing & staining, minor creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, minor annotation to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1981

KEYWORDS: literature literary letters correspondence Charles Dickens pilgrim editions editions

$95.00
ak2/21a/25

The Gift


NABOKOV, VLADIMIR & SCAMMELL, MICHAEL (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 346pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl fading to head of spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (circular price clipping, light creasing & chipping to edges, 1cm closs to top edge of rear cover, moderate tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1963

KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels fiction Vladimir Nabokov

$60.00
ak2/21a/26

The Valley of Bones


POWELL, ANTHONY

FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 243pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink plus 2x sm adhesive labels to ffep, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, sl foxing to frotn flap)

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1964

KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction novels Anthony Powell

$60.00
ak2/21a/29

The Call of the Wild


LONDON, JACK & GOODWIN, PHILIP R (Illus) & BULL, CHARLES LIVINGSTON (Illus)

FRONTIS & AURORA PLATES MISSING, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & coloured illus to spine & front board, teg, illus eps & title page, 231pp, illus/plates- some missing and/or loose, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, 2x plates missing & 2x others loosely enclosed at front, moderate foxing & soiling to page throughout, moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1905

KEYWORDS: classic literature novels fiction Jack London illustrated

$40.00
ak2/21a/32

New Windows on a Woman's World: Essays for Jocelyn Harris (2 Vol Set)


GIBSON, COLIN (Ed) & MARR, LISA (Ed)

2 VOL SET, octavo, illus light card wrappers, cross-stitch pattern to spines, cross-stitch lettering to front covers, vol 1- xiv + 373pp, vol 2- unpaginated prelims + 559pp, VG+ (sl creasing/curling to cover edges, light soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Department of English, University of Otago 2005

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature literary anthologies essays prose Jocelyn Harris

$75.00
ak2/21a/33

Thomae Hobbes Malmesburiensis Opera Philosophica Quae Latine Scripsit Omnia in Unum Corpus Nunc Primum Collecta, Vol III: Leviathan


HOBBES, THOMAE [THOMAS] & MOLESWORTH, GULIELMI (Ed)

TEXT IN LATIN, THIS VOL ONLY, ex-library, super octavo, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration to spine & boards, VG- (usual library markings, moderate to heavy cracking & scuffing to spine, light to moderate cracking to front & rear hinges, moderate bruising to board extrems, light chafing & moderate staining to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light soiling to eps, prev. booksellers' sm labels to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Londini: Apud Joannem Bohn, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden 1841

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN Thomas Hobbes literature philosophy Leviathan

$40.00
ak3/8a/5

The Mathnawi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulana Jalalu-d-Din, Muhammad I Rumi


WHINFIELD, E H (Trans & Abridged) & CELEBI, FARUK HEMDEM (Fore)

Super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 344pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & moderate fading to spine & cover edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover & front flap)

PUBLISHER: Watkins Publishing 2002

KEYWORDS: spirituality Rumi writings literature translations

$50.00
ak3/8a/12

Taliessin Through Logres: The Region of the Summer Stars ; Arthurian Torso


WILLIAMS, CHARLES & LEWIS, C S & McDERMOTT SHIDELER, MARY (Intro)

Octavo, yellow illus light card wrappers, brown lettering to spine & covers, 384pp, VG- (heavy fading to spine, light creasing & fading to cover edges, sl soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl foxing to pages throughout, minor tanning & staining to front & rear gutters)

PUBLISHER: William B Eerdmans Publishing 1980

KEYWORDS: literature poetry poems verse literary Charles Williams C S Lewis

$75.00
ak3/8a/14

A Guide Through C S Lewis' Space Trilogy


SAMMONS, MARTHA C

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, coloured lettering to spine, 189pp, illus, VG (light chafing & soiling to spine & covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals)

PUBLISHER: Cornerstone Books 1980

KEYWORDS: literature C S Lewis literary criticism scifi science fiction space trilogy

$15.00
xxskh219776

Frederic Remington: Selected Writings


REMINGTON, FREDERIC & SAMUELS, PEGGY (intro.) & SAMUELS, HAROLD (INTRO.) & OPPEL, FRANK

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: Castle 1982

KEYWORDS: Western stories articles American west literature

$15.00
xxsmb219789

'They that Walk in Darkness': Ghetto Tragedies


ZANGWILL, I

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: William Heinemann 1899

KEYWORDS: Jewish fiction literature

$15.00
xxsmf219793

O Men of Athens


MALCOLM, A. C.

Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-, homemade?); 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: Sampson Low, Marston & co. n/d

KEYWORDS: historical fantasy fiction Athens ancient Greece literature Sir Charles Trinder

$12.50
xxsmf219794

The Naulahka: A Story of West and East


KIPLING, RUDYARD & BALESTIER, WOLCOTT

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: Macmillan 1950

KEYWORDS: fiction literature

$12.50
xxsmf219798

Wild Honey Time


O'DONOGHUE, M

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: Hodder and Stoughton 1972

KEYWORDS: Scottish fiction literature

$15.00
xxsmj219801

Those Who Save Us


BLUM, JENNA

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Canongate 2005

KEYWORDS: historical fiction world war two literature

$9.50
xxsmj219802

The Trout Opera


CONDON, MATTHEW

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Vintage / Random House

KEYWORDS: Australian fiction literature

$25.00
xxsmi219805

The Wonderful Adventures of Brer Rabbit [Re-Told from Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler-Harris] [no.6]


HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER & STEAD, W T (ED.)

Paperback stapled wrappers (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: Stead's [n/d]

KEYWORDS: Brer Rabbit series book 6 children's fiction literature

$30.00
xxsmi219808

Toby Alone


FOMBELLE, TIMOTHEE DE & ADAMS, SARAH (TRANS.)

FIRST EDITION UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY; 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: Walker Books 2008

KEYWORDS: French children's fiction in translation literature first edition proof

$15.00
xxsmi219811

Pilgrim


WHYTE, DAVID

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: Many Rivers Press 2012

KEYWORDS: poetry literature

$30.00
xxsrm219841

The Revolt of Gunner Asch


KIRST, HANS HELLMUT & KEE, ROBERT (TRANS.)

Octavo hardcover (VG- cracking at gutter) 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 1965

KEYWORDS: German fiction in translation literature

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