Books - "literature"
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The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
proof copy first edition 562pp VG- super octavo softcover
PUBLISHER: doubleday london 1999
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature proof copies wayne johnston
Mission Flats
proof copy first edition 369pp F in glossy wrappers
PUBLISHER: bantam london 2003
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature proof copies bill landay
Angel Baby
first edition 313pp F in F d/w
PUBLISHER: hodder & stoughton london 1995
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature lindsey dawson
The Homing Bullet
first edition 159pp NF (red cloth,prelims.sl.foxed) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.chipping to extrems.,sl.internal foxing)
PUBLISHER: herbert jenkins london 1967
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature westerns giles a.lutz
Occasion for Loving
first edition 288pp VG+ (red cloth,sl.bumps and soiling to extrems.,whited-out inscr.to ffep,owner's stamp throughout,some pp top corners creased,edges sl.browned,spine cracked) in VG d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.browned spine w.ink mark,chipping to extrems.incl.hinges,price-clipped)
PUBLISHER: gollancz london 1963
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature nadine gordimer
Up the Garden Path
first edition 231pp NF (purple cloth,minor soiling to content edges) in NF d/w (v.sl.rubbed w.spine sl.sunned)
PUBLISHER: bodley head london 1984
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature sue limb
The Forests of Lithuania
a poem
first edition 62pp NF (in paper wrappers,minor foxing to edges) in VG+ d/w (v.sl.foxed w.spine sunned,minor bumps to extrems,advertising band present)
PUBLISHER: marvell press hessle 1959
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry donald davie
Cold Blood
proof copy first edition 453pp VG+ (in glossy wrappers,spine sunned w.front cover sunned unevenly,title and name on spine in felt pen,minor bumps to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: macmillan london 1996
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature proof copies lynda la plante
The Heart of Africa
three years' travels and adventures in the unexplo
second edition 2 vols.559/521pp ills.[b/w w.fold-out maps;2 plates missing - dinka village/poncet's seriba in mvolo] VG (green cloth w.gilt dec.stamp and black border to top boards,mod.rubbed and soiled,mod.wear to extrems.,upper hinges starting w.almost full-length splits to lower hinges showing signs of attempted glue repairs,chipped corners,dealer's label to front pastedowns,tape repairs to rep gutters and frontis.gutters,prelims.and edges sl.foxed w.some minor foxing to contents,spines cracked and sl.shaky)
PUBLISHER: sampson low london 1874
KEYWORDS: travel geography biography literature africa georg schweinfurth
Collected Short Stories
first edition 397pp VG+ (blue cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled w.sl.bumps to extrems., prev. owner's details in ink to fep.) in VG d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.browned w.spine sl.sunned,chipping and wear to extrems.w.some closed tears)
PUBLISHER: chatto and windus london 1957
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature aldous huxley
The Island of the Dead
first edition 342pp F in F d/w
PUBLISHER: hodder & stoughton london 1995
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature philip hook
Sorcery Rising
proof copy first edition [review copy] 502pp NF (in glossy wrappers,v.sl.rubbed,review slip mounted on half-title)
PUBLISHER: earthlight london 2002
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature proof copies jude fisher
Poems
first edition 48pp VG+ (orange cloth,sl.sunned spine and hinge area,paste action to eps) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear and chipping to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: eyre & spottiswoode london 1960
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry dom moraes
The Sands of Sakkara
proof copy first edition 636pp VG+ (in glossy wrappers,sl.soiled,small rubbed hole through pp417-421 barely affecting text,cocked)
PUBLISHER: hodder & stoughton london 1999
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature proof copies glenn meade
A Gnome There Was
and other tales of science fiction and fantasy
first edition 276pp VG+ (red cloth,v.sl.soiled w.sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,eps and edges v.sl.foxed,v.sl.cocked) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,spine mod.sunned,sl.chipping to extrems.,unnecessary internal tape reinforcements to all edges)
PUBLISHER: simon and schuster new york 1950
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature science fiction lewis padgett
Angela's Ashes
extract
first edition signed by the author #37/L/250 produced for the occasion of an appearance by the author (200 are numbered and 50 with roman numerals) FINE(30cmx45cm cream card,col.illus.,extract starts my father and mother should have stayed in new york and ends above all - we were wet)
PUBLISHER: broadside twenty-third avenue and first choice boo
KEYWORDS: frank mccourt angela's ashes modern first edition literature
Palmyra; Julian: or Scenes in Judea; General Histo
three books by two authors bound as one, G+ (quarter leather with marbelled boards, bumps and fraying to extrems, scuffing, minor losses, spine beginning at upper and lower rear hinge, marbelled eps, owners inscription to tp, contents sl browned and foxed.)
PUBLISHER: william & robert chambers, edinburgh, 1839
KEYWORDS: m lucius piso m guizot history letters literature
Rupert
115pp, ills (col) VG- (illustrated boards, small tape repairs to head and foot of spine, bumps and sl fraying to extrems, owners inscription to ffep verso, magic paintings completed, minor soil to some contents.)
PUBLISHER: beaverbrook, london, 1965
KEYWORDS: rupert childrens annuals literature
A QUESTION OF HISTORY
Illustrated by Stanley Smith
ex lib, minimal markings, 96pp, illus, VG+ (sl gumstains to boards and eps, v sl soiled) d/w in plastic VG+ (rear flap trimmed)
PUBLISHER: Ernest Benn Limited, London, 1959
KEYWORDS: history question book lawrence stenhouse rulers lawgivers everyday life arts military literature adventurers religion academics inhumanity myth legend
The Hanging Bridge
first edition 98pp.illus.VG+(green cloth,v.sl.soiled,edges v.sl.foxed,paste-action to half-title and rear ep.) in VG+ d/w(v.sl.foxed, sl.shelf-wear to extrems.,small closed tear to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: hokuseido press japan 1971
KEYWORDS: tsutomu fukuda poetry japanese literature modern first edition