Books - "literature"
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The Time Traveler's Wife
first edition signed by author 518pp MINT in MINT d/w [author's sign.to title page]
PUBLISHER: jonathan cape london 2004
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature audrey niffenegger signed
Wasteland
first edition 321pp VG- (blue cloth,rubbed and soiled,browned spine,mod.bumps and wear to extrems.,owner's sign.to ffep,prelims.and content edges mod.foxed,spine cracked and sl.cocked) lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: harper new york [1946]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature jo sinclair
The Victorian Romantics 1850-70
ex-lib.first edition 161pp [sepia frontis.] VG (tan cloth,sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,spine sunned w.libr.mark,mod.bumps to extrems.,usual stamps and labels,prelims.and untrimmed content edges sl.soiled,teg,spine cracked)
PUBLISHER: gerald howe london 1929
KEYWORDS: arts literature victorian romantics welby biography rossetti
Selected Poems
first edition thus unpaginated VG (in paper wrappers,mod.foxed covers,owner's inscr.to blank prelim.,content edges v.sl.soiled) in G+ d/w (rubbed and foxed,uneven sunning,chipping and wear to extrems.w.some closed tears)
PUBLISHER: trigram press london 1975
KEYWORDS: poetry modern first edition literature tristan tzara dada
Escape from the Amazon!
first edition 105pp ills.[b/w by searle] NF (black cloth w.gilt matador cyclist stamp to top board,eps and content edges v.sl.soiled) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,price-clipped)
PUBLISHER: perpetua books london 1964
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature arts alex atkinson ronald searle
The Spectator
3 vols.
new edition 3 vols.687/732/732pp VG (red cloth,mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,prelims.and content edges sl.soiled)
PUBLISHER: george routledge london 1891
KEYWORDS: literature spectator henry morley
Mantissa
first us edition 196pp VG+ (green cloth,minor sunning to upper/lower edges,owner's inscr.to ffep,stamp to upper edge) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,minor foxing to covers,sl.wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: little, brown boston 1982
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature john fowles
Mix Yourself a Redhead
ex-lib.first uk edition 204pp VG- (black cloth,minor gum stains and bumps to extrems.,usual stamps and labels,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed w.some sl.soiling to contents,spine cracked) in VG- d/w (lower edge trimmed 5mm,sl.rubbed and soiled w.gum stains to upper/lower edges,flaps trimmed but not affecting text)
PUBLISHER: cassell london 1965
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature charles williams cassell crime connoisseur
Painful Pleasures
first edition thus 283pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (black cloth,v.sl.soiled,content edges v.sl.soiled,sl.cocked) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps and creasing to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: delectus books london 1995
KEYWORDS: literature arts erotica meusal
The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci
2 vols.
third edition 2 vols.393pp+plates/458pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (tan cloth,minor bumps to extrems.,content edges v.sl.soiled,spines cracked but tight) in VG d/ws (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,internal tape reinforcing to hinges)
PUBLISHER: phaidon london 1970
KEYWORDS: arts biography literature leonardo da vinci jean paul richter
Ten Little Nigger Boys
Imperial octavo illus heavy card covers [first edition] unpaginated VG- (colour illus card boards w.cream cloth spine,rubbed and soiled,wear and chipping to extrems.w.some surface losses,heavy card leaves,some sl.soiling to contents,sl.surface loss to lower corner of rear pastedown, last page possibly missing)
PUBLISHER: nelson london [nd]
KEYWORDS: historical children's literature illus systemic racism race social history academic reference arts first edition
Mystery in the Windflower Wood
first edition 118pp ills.[b/w w.col.frontis.] VG (green cloth,mod.rubbed and soiled,spine and hinge area sunned,sl.wear to extrems.,map to eps,prelims.and content edges mod.foxed,owner's inscr.to half-title,spine cracked) lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: putnam's london 1932
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature flora klickmann
Boule De Suif and other stories
254pp+ads. VG- (orange cloth w.black stamp to top board and spine,rubbed and stained,sunned spine,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.,lacks ffep,boards sl.shaky,owner's sign.to half-title,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed/soiled,spine cracked)
PUBLISHER: werner laurie london [nd]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature guy de maupassant
Livingstone's Companions
first us edition 248pp NF (burgundy/cream cloth,minor foxing to prelims.) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,two labels to front cover stating that this copy has been supplied to a new zealand book rep in lieu of a jonathan cape proof copy,sunned spine,sl.wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: viking press new york 1971
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature nadine gordimer
Learning to Swim
first edition 368pp octavo hardcover VG+ in VG+ d/w (v.sl.rubbed w.minor internal stain)
PUBLISHER: century london 1998
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature clare chambers
William Morris
a study in personality
first edition 325pp ills.[b/w] VG (green cloth w.blind borders and gilt dec.stamp to top board,mod.rubbed and sl.soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,owner's bookplate to front pastedown w.owner's inscr.to ffep,prelims.and contents sl.foxed,spine cracked but tight)
PUBLISHER: herbert jenkins london 1913
KEYWORDS: literature biography william morris arthur compton-rickett arts crafts
Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
2 vols.
first edition 2 vols.921pp VG+ (blue cloth,sl.bumps to extrems.,eps and content edges sl.foxed) in Vg d/ws (mod.rubbed and soiled,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.,1cm loss to foot of spine of vol.1,some internal tape repairs)
PUBLISHER: oxford university press london 1965
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature dante gabriel rossetti biography letters doughty wahl
A Brief Memoir of Christina G.Rossetti
ex-lib.facsimile reprint in libr.rebind 85pp [b/w frontis.] NF (burgundy cloth,usual libr.stamps)
PUBLISHER: [np,facsimile reprint of 1895 s.p.c.k.edition]
KEYWORDS: biography literature poetry christina rossetti ellen proctor
The Pilgrims of Hope and Chants for Socialists
first public edition 81pp+ads. VG+ (green cloth w.blind stamp to top board and gilt.dec.to spine,v.sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps to extrems.,paste action to eps w.owner's inscr.to ffep,content edges v.sl.soiled)
PUBLISHER: longmans,green london 1915
KEYWORDS: arts literature politics socialism william morris
Incense to Idols
first edition inscribed by author 312pp VG (cream paper boards w.burgundy cloth spine/hinge area,sl.rubbed w.rear boards stained,sl.wear to extrems.,owner's ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown,author's inscr.to bill moore [g.w.moore on the bookplate] dated dec.15.60 on ffep,prelims.and content edges sl.foxedte red,spine cracked but tight) in G d/w (in 2 pieces separated at lower hinge,rubbed and soiled/foxed,spine sunned,chipping and wear to extrems.w.some losses and closed tears)
PUBLISHER: simon and schuster new york 1960
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature new zealand signed sylvia ashton-warner