Books - "literature"
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Guide to Napier
Octavo, stapled brown illus light card wrappers, 18pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minot tanning to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to front cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The hawke's Bay Motor Co 1912
KEYWORDS: New Zealand old travel brochures Napier literature guides historical
Day and Night: Poems 1924-1934
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & DATED BY AUTHOR TO G A HORSMAN, octavo, blue heavy boards, black lettering to front board, unpaginated prelims + 57pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light tanning/soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, minro staining to front & rear eps, moderate to heavy foxing throughout) in d/w, G+ (top section of spine missing, minor loss to base of spine, moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate soiling, heavy ink annotation to flaps- by G A Horsman)
PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1939
KEYWORDS: New Zealand signed poetry poems verse literature poets writers Mary Ursual Bethell
Translations
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, octavo, red textured cloth boards, gilt lettering to brown leather spine, teg, iv + 151pp, G+ (large portion of spine missing & cracked/flapping with heavy rubbing to remainder, minor bruising to board corners, moderate fading & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edgesminro ink markings & label residue to front eps, minor foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Bernard Quaritch 1861
KEYWORDS: first editions Greek Latin Engish translations literature poetry poems verse
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 14: Theological Education at Finkenwalde 1935-1937
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xxviii + 1230pp, VG+ (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Fortress Press 2013
KEYWORDS: religion theology Dietrich Bonhoeffer literature Christianity
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 15: Theological Education Underground 1937-1940
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xxiv + 726pp, VG+ (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling to page edges, boards sl warped) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Fortress Press 2012
KEYWORDS: religion theology Dietrich Bonhoeffer literature Christianity
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 1: Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xv + 373pp, VG+ (sl creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges, minor creasing to bottom corner of pgs 147-152, minor pencil annotations)
PUBLISHER: Fortress Press 2009
KEYWORDS: religion theology Dietrich Bonhoeffer literature Christianity sociology church social science
Powers
Octavo, yellow heavy boards, gilt lettering to teal spine, deckled page fore-edges, unpaginated prelims + 502pp, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, prev. bookseller's price in sm ink numerals to rear pastedown, moderate cracking to gutter of title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Inc 2007
KEYWORDS: fantasy literature fiction novels Ursula K le Guin
Voices
Octavo, yellow heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to blue spine, deckled page fore-edges, unpaginated prelims + 341pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, prev. bookseller's numerals to rear pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Inc 2006
KEYWORDS: fantasy literature fiction novels Ursula K le Guin
The Birthday of the World, and Other Stories
Super octavo, beige heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to brown spine, deckled page fore-edges, xiii + 362pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, minor soiling to boards & page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, prev. bookseller's numerals in ink to rear pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2002
KEYWORDS: fantasy literature short stories fiction Ursula K le Guin
French Visitors to Newfoundland: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Travel Writings
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, beige lettering to spine, x + 300pp, illus, VG+ (sl curling & tanning to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: ISER Books 2013
KEYWORDS: travel literature writings anthologies collections Newfoundland history historical
Gifts
Octavo, beige heavy boards, gilt lettering to green spine, deckled page fore-edges, printed eps, unpaginated prelims + 274pp, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, sl soiling to rear board & page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, prev. bookseller's numerals in ink to rear pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Inc 2004
KEYWORDS: fantasy literature novels fiction Ursula K le Guin
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Super octavo, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, black & silver gilt illus to front board, illus front eps, frontispiece, xxv + 243pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Folio Society 2005
KEYWORDS: folio society literature John Steinbeck
Kierkegaard's Instant: On Beginnings
Super octavo, beige cloth boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, x + (6) + 235pp, Near FINE (sl foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: Soren Kierkegaard literature philosophy
The Animals Noah Forgot
FIRST EDITION, octavo, briwn heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, illus title page, 62pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: The Endeavour Press 1933
KEYWORDS: first editions poems poetry verse literature Banjo A B Paterson illustrated Norman Lindsay
The Parihaka Story
FIRST EDITION, ex-library, octavo, grey buckram boards, grey lettering to spine, grey leaf illus to front board, top page edges stained blue, illus title page, 160pp, illus, VG- (usual library markings, moderate bruising & scuffing/rubbing to spine & board extrems, moderate tanning to page edges, light tanning & soiling to eps, moderate foxing & soiling to prelims, moderate cracking to gutters, occasional moderate soiling throughout, jacket affixed to rear board by flap) in d/w, VG- (remnants of protective cover to edges, rear flap glued to rear board, moderate fading & tanning to spine, moderate soiling)
PUBLISHER: Southern Cross Books 1954
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand literature Parihaka history Maori
Arthur Ransome's Long-Lost Study of Robert Louis Stevenson
Super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 214pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 2011
KEYWORDS: Arthur Ransome Robert Louis Stevenson literature literary studies criticism
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and Other Verses from The Red Book
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus title page, 64pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, sl scuffing to extrems, light tanning to page edges, minor foxing to front & rear eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, light fading to spine, moderate foxing to flaps, minor scuffing to front)
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1974
KEYWORDS: J R R Tolkien literature verse poetry poems illustrated Pauline Baynes
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Milton Collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand: Describing Works Printed Before 1801 Held in the Library at December 1975
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 536pp + facsimile prints to rear, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl fading to board edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning to pastedowns) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1980
KEYWORDS: literature collections literary John Milton Alexander Turnbull Library bibliography catalogue New Zealand
The Song Celestial, or, Bhagavad-Gita (From the Mahabharata)
Octavo, yellow buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, deckled page edges, xiv + 173pp + catalogue to rear, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate to heavy soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl soiling to eps, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, prev. owner's inscriptions/annotations in ink & pencil to prelims, minor pencil markings to pages throughout, minor cracking to gutters & foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Trubner & Co 1889
KEYWORDS: Sanskrit literature English translations verse bhagavad gita
Wanderings in Arabia ; Being an Abridgement of Travels in Arabia Deserta
Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xviii + 607pp, VG+ (sl discolouration to spine, sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, sl creasing & soiling/foxing to prelims, sl cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (3cm hole to spine, moderate creasing & chipipng to edges, moderate tanning & soiling to spine & edges, moderate foxing & light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Duckworth 1926
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature exploration Arabia Charles M Doughty