Books - "literature"
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Makahiki: A Murder Mystery During the Annual Tribute to the God Lono in Ancient Hawai'i
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: First People's Productions 2016
KEYWORDS: literature Malcolm Naea Chun Hawaii Hawai'i
Whare Raupo: The Reed Books Story
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in dw/ (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: Reed Publishing 2007
KEYWORDS: signed Gavin McLean New Zealand literature literary history Reed Books
Elizabeth Finch
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: Jonathan Cape 2022
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction Julian Barnes
Goethe's Faust: Notes for a Jungian Commentary
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: Inner City Books 1990
KEYWORDS: jungian psychology Jung Goethe literature literary symbolism psychoanalysis
Pounamu Pounamu (Maori Edition)
TEXT IN TE REO MAORI, 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: Heinemann Publishers 1986
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN TE REO MAORI New Zealand writers authors literature Witi Ihimaera
The Nickel Boys
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: Fleet 2020
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Colson Whitehead
Eugenie de Franvel, and Other Stories
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: Neville Spearman 1965
KEYWORDS: classic literature Marquis de Sade stories
Ancillary Justice
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: Orbit Books 2023
KEYWORDS: novels science fiction literature Ann Leckie scifi
The Mana Keepers
Quarto softcover (VG+) gift inscription in ink to prelims; 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: Harrane Publishing 1991
KEYWORDS: children's literature Hawaii Hawai'i Kristin Zambucka
South from the Limpopo: Travels Through South Africa
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: John Murray 1998
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature South Africa Dervla Murphy
The View From the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-Fiction
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: Headline 2016
KEYWORDS: literature Neil Gaiman collections
Les Aventures de Tintin: L'Oreille Cassee
TEXT IN FRENCH, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Casterman 2006
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH children's literature Herge Tintin cartoons
The Pleasures of a Nonconformist
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, sm gilt illus to front board, 315pp, VG (moderate foxing & rubbing to spine & board edges, light soiling & foxing to boards, light tanning & light to moderate foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor loss, moderate crackin to front hinge, minor general rubbing)
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann Ltd 1962
KEYWORDS: first editions philosophy literature Lin Yutang
The Wardrobe Mistress
FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, octavo, illus black light card wrappers, white & silver gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 314pp, VG+ (sl creasing to spine & cover edges, spine sl cocked, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 2017
KEYWORDS: modern first editions uncorrected proof copies fiction novels literature Patrick McGrath
Baudelaire ; Fleurs du Mal in Pattern and Prose
SIGNED NUMBERED (#335/500) FIRST EDITION THUS, quarto, green patterned heavy boards, black lettering to title plate to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus title page, 142pp, illus, G+ (heavy scuffing & surface loss to spine, heavy bruising & minor scuffing to board corners, moderate fading & soiling to spine & board edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light occasional foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: The Sophistocles Press / T Werner Laurie Ltd 1929
KEYWORDS: signed numbered special editions first edition THUS art literature Beresford Egan C Bower Alcock
Treasures of the Turnbull Library: Unpublished Manuscript
ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT BY NZ HISTORIAN JOHANNES ANDERSEN, quarto, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 192pp, photos tipped in, VG (light fading & rubbing to spine & board edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, minor foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name (G C Petersen) in ink to ffep with inscription in ink by Petersen on title page, minor wrinkling & foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Johannes C Andersen N/D
KEYWORDS: unpublished manuscripts Alexander Turnbull Library New Zealand history Johannes C Andersen National Library literature literary academic
De Sade; Being a Series of Wounds, Inflicted with Brush and Pen, Upon Sadistic Wolves Garbed in Masochists' Wool
LIMITED FIRST EDITION (ONE OF 1600), MORALIST PLATE IS PRESENT, quarto, plum buckram boards (possibly early issue), gilt lettering to spine, deckled page edges to base, unpaginated, illus, VG (light to moderate fading & discolouration to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light to moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, occasional creasing & chipping to some page edges/corners) in d/w, G+ (heavy chipping/loss & moderate soiling to spine, moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Fortune Press N/D
KEYWORDS: first editions literature essays sadism Marquis de Sade
A Thousand Notable Things, of Sundry Sorts, Enlarged.
Sm octavo, brown leather boards, spine missing, 371pp + unpaginated prelims & terminals, G- (boards completely detached but present, many signatures of text block detached, pages 189-200 missing (misbound?), spine completely missing- binding tanned, soiled & exposed, heavy scuffing to boards with some surface loss, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, page edges very brittle & chipped, numerous pencil & ink annotations throughout- historic)
PUBLISHER: London Printed for M Wright at the Kings-head, in the Old Bailey 1660
KEYWORDS: antiquarian books 17th seventeenth century Thomas Lupton literature
Crime and Punishment
FIRST FOLIO EDITION (NO SLIPCASE), super octavo, red & black illus cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained red (faded), frontispiece, vi + 454pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light tanning to spine)
PUBLISHER: Folio Society 1957
KEYWORDS: modern first (FOLIO) editions folio society literature Russian novels fiction Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leonard Cohen Selected Poems 1956-1968
Octavo, teal heavy boards, gilt lettering to white spine, top page edges stained red (faded), x + 245pp, VG+ (sl tanning to spine extrems, sl staining & bruising to board edges, light tanning & foxing/staining to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (all corners lightly clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning/foxing/chafing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1969
KEYWORDS: poems poetry verse literature Leonard Cohen