LEYDA, JAY

2 VOL BOXED SET, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & illus to spines, blind stamp vol numbers to front boards, top page edges stained blue, illus eps, xxxiv + 899pp total, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, sl soiling & foxing to page edges) in slipcase, VG- (very battered but well repaired with archival tape)

PUBLISHER: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1951

KEYWORDS: Herman Melville literature literary biography biographies memoir

BROPHY, SARAH

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, red lettering to spine, x + 271pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Toronto Press 2004

KEYWORDS: hiv AIDS terminal illness gay men homosexuality literature death dying grief

BERGMAN, DAVID

Super octavo, purple light card wrappers, green & purple lettering to spine, xviii + 304pp, VG (prev. bookseller's label to spine, fully adhesive covering to wrappers, light to moderate creasing to covers, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press 2004

KEYWORDS: gay lesbian homosexual lgbtq American literature literary

WOUBSHET, DAGMAWI

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, xvi + 169pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: John Hopkins University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: AIDS hiv diseases bereavement grief death dying race ethnicity sexuality literature elegiac poetry culture

BORDOWITZ, GREGG & MEYER, JAMES (Ed) & CRIMP, DOUGLAS (Fore)

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xxx + 307pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges & spine, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The MIT Press 2004

KEYWORDS: AIDS hiv prose literature writings diseases

CRIMP, DOUGLAS

Super octavo, brown cloth boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 320pp, illus, VG (sl soiling to boards, sl foxing & soiling to page edges, moderate crack to rear gutter, page block re-set lower) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges)

PUBLISHER: The MIT Press 2002

KEYWORDS: essays literature prose queer gay lesbian lgbtq AIDS hiv

FLAWS, FANE & BAYSTING, ARTHUR & DASENT, PETER

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR WITH EXTRA ILLUS HAND-DRAWN ON COPYRIGHT PAGE, CD LOOSLEY ENCLOSED, quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, coloured lettering to spine, illus eps, unpaginated, illus, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Monkey Biz 1998

KEYWORDS: signed first editions Fane Flaws Arthur Baysting Peter Dasent verse literature rhymes

WELLS, H G

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, light blue lettering & rule to spine & front board, xvii + 206pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light fading & soiling to spine, light to moderate chafing/surface loss & fading to boards & edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, sl tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's details in ink to ffep, light foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Cassell and Company 1917

KEYWORDS: first editions literature H G Wells religion theology

N/A

Super octavo, burgundy textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus prelims, mixed pagination, VG- (moderate fading to spine, light bruising & rubbing to spine & boards/extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, lg presentation inscription in ink to ffep, moderate cracking to front gutters- som eprelims partially detached, moderate foxing sporadically throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: H Brett, General Printer 1888

KEYWORDS: New Zealand catalogues literature Grey Collection Auckland public library bibliographies bibliography

MANDELSHTAM, O

TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN, sm octavo, red faux leather heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 79pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Ardis 1983

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN Dante Alighieri literature literary criticism poetry verse Osip Mandelshtam

MARIYENGOF, ANATOLIY

TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN, octavo, brown heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 480pp, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps)

PUBLISHER: Fiction, Leningrad Branch 1988

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN novels fiction literature Anantoly Anatoliy Marienhof Mariyengof

WELLS, MARTHA

FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey heavy boards, green gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 168pp, VG+ (light fading to board edges, light tanning to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Tordotcom / Tom Doherty Associates 2021

KEYWORDS: modern first editions scifi science fiction novels literature Martha Wells

GOGOL, NIKOLAY & PANKO, RUDY & GARNETT, CONSTANCE (Trans)

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, blue buckram boards, blue lettering to spine, vii + 328pp, VG (light to moderate tanning & foxing to spine, moderate fading to rear board edges & whole front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front eps, moderate to heavy foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1926

KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS literature fiction short stories Nikolai Nikolay Gogol Russian

GOGOL, NIKOLAY & GARNETT, CONSTANCE (Trans)

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, blue buckram boards, blue lettering to spine, vii + 279pp, VG (light to moderate fading & tanning to spine, light rubbing & bruising to extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & soiling to eps, prev. owner's names in ink to front eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1923

KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS literature fiction short stories Nikolai Nikolay Gogol Russian

ROONEY, SALLY

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, blue heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus eps, unpaginated prelims + 367pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, minor soiling)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 2021

KEYWORDS: modern first editions signed Sally Rooney fiction novels literature

CRISPIN, EDMUND & ALLEN, A RICHARD (Illus)

FIRST EDITION THUS, super octavo, illus heavy boards, deep pink lettering to yellow spine, illus eps, frontispiece, ix + 204pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (sl bruising & chafing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2016

KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS folio society literature novels Edmund Crispin

JOHNSON, SAMUEL & CUNNINGHAM, PETER (Notes, Corrective and Explanatory)

3 VOL SET, octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering/rule & raised bands to spines, gilt rule & illus to boards, aeg, gilt decoration to pastedown borders, marbled page edges, mixed pagination, G+ (front board of vol 1 partially deatched, front board of vol 3 completely detached but present, moderate chafing & surface loss to boards & spines, minro scuffing & soiling to gilt on page edges, presentation plates to all front pastedowns, moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, light dusting of foxing throughout all vols)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1854

KEYWORDS: English literature literary biographies Samuel Johnson full leather bindings antiquarian books poets

LAVER, JAMES & ROX, HENRY (Pictured by)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, beige & green patterned cloth boards, brown lettering to spine & front board, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, 95pp, illus- not counted presumed all present, G+ (moderate bruising to extrems, moderate tanning to spine & board edges, light tanning & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep, moderate soiling & foxing to pages throughout, moderate to heavy cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, pgs 45-48 partially detached & torn at gutter, minor closed tearing to rear gutters)

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1935

KEYWORDS: modern first editions children's literature fiction James Laver Henry Rox illustrated

RAFFEL, BURTON (Trans, Intro & Afterword) & BASKIN, LEONARD (Drawings)

FIRST EDITION THUS, quarto, cream cloth boards, black lettering to spine & front board, xxii + 103pp, VG+ (light bruising & soiling to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sm patch of clear tape to front & rear pastedowns, light foxing to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (taped in to tidy plastic protective cover, light creasing to edges, minor tape damage & remnants to fore-edges of flaps)

PUBLISHER: University of Massachusetts Press 1971

KEYWORDS: first editions THUS English literature epic poems poetry verse Germanic Scandinavian Beowulf

CHAMBERS, ROSS

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xxxiv + 415pp, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, light chafing to covers, light fading to rear cover, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The University of Michigan Press 2004

KEYWORDS: AIDS hiv diseases literature writings