Books - "literature"
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Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion
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: Methuen 1981
KEYWORDS: literary criticism history theory fantastic literature psychoanalytical
Shakespeare: Staging the World
Imperial octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 304pp, illus, VG+ (spine sl cocked & faded, sl bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The British Museum Press 2012
KEYWORDS: theatre theater stage history William Shakespeare literature
Advice to a Friend (The Second Edition Corrected)
SECOND EDITION, LACKS FRONT BOARD, duodecimo, black leather boards, raised bands to spine, gilt decoration/tooling to spine & rear board, aeg, marbled eps, (18) + 268pp + (8), G (front board & front & rear eps missing, moderate scuffing to spine & rear board edges, heavy soiling to gilt edges of page block, moderate soiling to eps, ink & pencil scibbles/annotation to rear eps- historic, moderate crack to rear gutter, moderate creasing & chipping to fore-edge of prelims, age appropriate soiling throughout)
PUBLISHER: London, Printed for R Royston, Book-seller to His Most Sacred Majesty, at the Angel in Amen-corner, MDCLXXIV (1674)
KEYWORDS: antiquarian books leather bindings second edition literature Simon Patrick religious theological
Ghost Stories and Other Horrid Tales
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus title page, xv + 319pp, illus, VG+ (sl fading to spine, light foxing to page edges & prelims) in slipcase, VG+ (light soiling & rubbing)
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1997
KEYWORDS: folio society supernatural ghost stories literature anthology anthologies
Jonathan Miller: One Thing and Another: Selected Writings 1954-2016
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & orange lettering to spine, printed inside covers, xxiv + 431pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light creasing/curling to cover edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Oberon Books 2017
KEYWORDS: Jonathan Miller literature writings collections arts critics criticism
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, white line/illus to front board, 288pp, VG ( spine sl cocked, sl bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (all corners lightly clipped, light tanning & fading to spine, moderate foxing & soiling, light to moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1963
KEYWORDS: modern first editions 007 James Bond espionage thrillers spy novels fiction literature Ian Fleming
The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to maroon spine, publisher's blind stamp to front board, deckled page fore-edges, unpaginated prelims + 472pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, minor bruising to rear board) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing & scuffing to edges)
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2021
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction novels Helene Wecker
Tyger
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, black heavy boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, copper gilt illus to boards, illus eps, unpaginated prelims + 291pp, illus, Near FINE (sl soiling to base of page block) in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: David Fickling Books 2022
KEYWORDS: modern first editions signed SF Said youth young adult ya fiction novels literature
Nicked
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 220pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (sl chafing, sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Pantheon Books 2024
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels fiction M T Anderson
Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & brown lettering to spine, xii + 326pp, VG+ (minor creasing/curling to cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers, minor foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Westview Press 1993
KEYWORDS: essays literature history warfare military war logistics conflict
Thomae Hobbes Malmesburiensis Opera Philosophica Quae Latine Scripsit Omnia in Unum Corpus Nunc Primum Collecta: Vol II
TEXT IN LATIN, THIS VOL ONLY, ex-library, super octavo, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration to spine & boards, G+ (usual library markings, heavy cracking to spine- top half flapping loose, minor bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate staining to front board, light to moderate tanning to page edges, light soiling to eps, prev. booksellers' sm labels to front pastedown, some page edges roughly cut, occasional light cracking to gutters, sl water staining to top edge of ffep)
PUBLISHER: Londini: Apud Joannem Bohn, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden 1839
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN Thomas Hobbes literature philosophy
Lyra Graeca: Being the Remains of All the Greek Lyric Poets from Eumelus to Timotheus excepting Pindar: In three Volumes, Volume III
THIS VOLUME ONLY, DUAL ENGLISH / GREEK TEXT, 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: Loeb Classical Library, William Heinemann & Harvard University Press 1967
KEYWORDS: greek classical poetry literature lyric lyra graeca
Aristophanes in Three Volumes: Volume II The Peace, The Frogs, The Birds
THIS VOLUME ONLY, DUAL ENGLISH / GREEK TEXT, 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: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press & William Heinemann 1968
KEYWORDS: greek classical poetry literature aristophanes
Plutarch's Lives in Eleven Volumes: Aratus, Ataxerxes, Galba, Ortho Volume XI
THIS VOLUME ONLY, DUAL ENGLISH / GREEK TEXT, 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: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press & William Heinemann 1954
KEYWORDS: greek classical literature plutarch
Plutarch's Lives in Eleven Volumes: Sertorius and Eumenes and Cato the Younger VIII
THIS VOLUME ONLY, DUAL ENGLISH / GREEK TEXT, 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: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press & William Heinemann 1959
KEYWORDS: greek classical literature plutarch
Thucydidis Historiae
TWO VOLUME SET, TEXT IN ANCIENT GREEK, 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: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1974
KEYWORDS: greek classical literature thucydidis thucydides
Nemarluk: King of the Wilds
Octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; 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: Angus and Robertson 1946
KEYWORDS: ion idriess literature specials
Love, Life, Loss: A roller-coaster of poetry
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, super 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: Kelbane Pty Ltd 2012
KEYWORDS: kate swaffer literature specials poetry
Rangers of the Universe
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: New Century Press 1946
KEYWORDS: winifred law literature specials
Reaching for the Stars
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: Collins 1966
KEYWORDS: literature specials lucy walker first edition