Books - "literature"
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Catch the Saint
ex-lib.first edition 191pp VG (black cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,usual stamps and labels,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed,spine cracked and sl.cocked) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,sl.surface loss to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: hodder and stoughton london 1975
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature saint leslie charteris norman worker fleming lee
The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places/Wee Willie Winkie/The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales
3 vols.bound as 1
3 vols.bound as 1 VG+ (blue cloth w.gilt titling to spine,mod.rubbed and stained,sl.wear to extrems.,blue eps,publisher's slip tipped-in to title gutter,prelims.and edges sl.soiled)
PUBLISHER: wheeler allahabad [nd]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature rudyard kipling
A Song for Mary
an irish-american memory
first edition galley proof 369pp [2pp per sheet] NF (in col.pictorial wrappers,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: harpercollins pymble [1999]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature proof copies dennis smith
All The Year Round
volume XII april 18,1874 to october 10,1874
vol.xii only 620pp VG+ (burgundy cloth boards w.burgundy half leather,raised bands w.gilt-on-red title label to spine,sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,spine mod sunned w.surface scratches,sl.wear to extrems.,orange eps,prelims.and speckled edges sl.foxed o/w contents clean and tight)
PUBLISHER: chapman & hall london 1874
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature charles dickens
All The Year Round
vol.X from may 3,1873 to october 25,1873
vol.x only 620pp VG+ (burgundy cloth w.burgundy half leather,raised bands w.gilt-on-red title label to spine,mod.rubbed and stained,boards unevenly sunned w.spine sunned,surface scratches to spine w.sl.wear to extrems.,orange eps,prelims.and speckled edges v.sl.foxed o/w contents clean and tight)
PUBLISHER: chapman & hall london 1873
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature charles dickens
All The Year Round
vol.XI from november 1,1873 to april 11,1874
vol.xi only 572pp+48pp VG+ (burgundy cloth w.burgundy half leather,raised bands and gilt-on-red title label to spine,sl.uneven sunning to boards w.spine sunned,surface scratches to spine w.sl.wear to extrems.,orange eps,prelims.and speckled edges v.sl.foxed o/w contents clean and tight)
PUBLISHER: chapman & hall london 1874
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature charles dickens
Satan In the Suburbs
and other stories
first edition 138pp+ads. VG+ (black cloth,paste action to eps,owner's sign.to ffep,prelims.and content edges v.sl.foxed) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled/foxed,mod.bumps and wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: bodley head london 1953
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature bertrand russell
READING A NOVEL
ex lib, minimal markings, 64pp, VG(sl scuffed corners & spine head & foot, sl rubbed & soiled)
PUBLISHER: Phoenix House London 1956
KEYWORDS: history literature
A Book of Verse
first edition inscribed by author unpaginated ills.[col.] VG+ (in wrappers w.ribbon tie to spine,sl.soiled w.sl.wear to extrems.,sl.browning to ep gutters,author's inscr.but not sign.to prelim.)
PUBLISHER: whitcombe auckland [nd]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature b.lawlor poetry new zealand signed
The House-Master's Home-Coming!
first edition thus [reprint from original] 151pp NF (in wrappers,sl.sunned spine,v.sl.cocked)
PUBLISHER: museum press maidstone 1970
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature martin clifford
Fantasio
a comedy in two acts
first edition limited/numbered [369/550] 57pp ills.[b/w w.2 hand-coloured plates] VG+ (burgundy cloth,mod.soiled w.spine sunned,minor foxing to fore-edge of contents w.some upper edges unopened,plates clean and bright)
PUBLISHER: the pleiad [np] 1927
KEYWORDS: arts drama alfred de musset literature
The Spectator
volume the second
vol.2 only 336pp+index VG- (in full leather w.gilt borders and raised bands,rubbed and soiled w.surface losses,chipping and wear to extrems.,owner's inscr.to front pastedown and prelims.,top board sl.shaky w.hinges starting,some minor foxing to contents w.edges soiled)
PUBLISHER: printed for tonson london 1744
KEYWORDS: literature spectator history
The Bastard Boy
first edition proof copy 389pp NF (in wrappers,price in ink to half-title)
PUBLISHER: faber and faber london 2004
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature proof copies james wilson
Several Orations of Demosthenes
342pp G+ (full leatherw.raised bands,half of top board leather missing and half of spine, rubbed and soiled, chipping and wear to extrems., top board detatched, contents sl.foxed, spine cracked)
PUBLISHER: printed for tonson london 1744
KEYWORDS: literature demosthenes history
Uncle Abner
master of mysteries
first edition thus 252pp VG+ (black cloth,minor wear to extrems.,spine cracked) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.sunned spine,sl.bumps to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: tom stacey london 1972
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature melville davisson post
Vathek
an arabian tale
first edition thus limited numbered [25/75] 253pp ills.[b/w etchings by herbert nye] VG+ (full vellum w.gilt stamped border to top board and titling to spine,sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,sl.chipping to head/foot of spine w.some pinholes to spine,paste action to eps,prelims.and untrimmed content edges v.sl.soiled,last section unopened,spine sl.cracked but tight,plates clean w.tissue guards present)
PUBLISHER: lawrence & bullen london 1893
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature mythology history arabian william beckford herbert nye
Glenfinlas and Other Ballads with the Vision of Don Roderick
2 vols.bound as 1
fourth edition/second edition in full leather 182/164pp [2 vols.bound as 1] VG (full diced calf w.gilt borders and raised bands to spine,mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.browned spine,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.incl.hinges,top board attached only by binder's thread,marbled eps w.dealer's label to front pastedown,some v.minor foxing to contents,marbled edges,tight)
PUBLISHER: john sharpe london 1812
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry walter scott
NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE
A Survey
ex lib, minimal markings, 170pp, VG+(v sl gum stains to ep's & boards, v sl soiled spine foot, v sl edgewear) d/w VG+(in plastic, rear flap trimmed, v sl sunned rubbed & soiled)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press London 1959
KEYWORDS: history new zealand literature
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Vol 1 - Chaucer to Shakespeare Vol 2 - Ben Jonson to Samuel Johnson
vols 1&2 only, ex lib, minimal markings, vol 1 244pp illus, vol 2 261pp illus, VG(v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine head & foot & board edges, vsl rubbed & soiledsl internal seperation at front hinge vol 1 & v sl to rear hinge vol 2, vol 2 has front d/w flap to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Longamans Green & Co London 1953
KEYWORDS: history english literature
TWENTIETH - CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
1901-1960
ex lib, minimal markings, 239pp, VG+(library rebacked with stiffened boards & new ep's, v sl rubbed & soield0
PUBLISHER: University paperbacks Methuen London 1964
KEYWORDS: history english literature