COWLEY, JOY

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Catholic Supplies Ltd 2002

KEYWORDS: specials Joy Cowley Psalms religion literature poems poetry New Zealand

ARBERRY, A. J.

Ex library, small octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1960

KEYWORDS: specials AJ Arberry Malta Maltese literature fiction prose short stories folk tales songs verse poetry riddles proverbs anthology

WATSON, JEAN

Frist edition, octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Voice Press 1980

KEYWORDS: specials Jean Watson first edition poetry lyrics

GLOVER, DENIS

ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed by author to Jocelyn Fairburn, ARD Fairburn's wife, octavo, light card covers, 80pp, illus, VG (slight tanning to covers & page edges) in d/w, VG+ (v slight creasing)

PUBLISHER: The Catspaw Press 1974

KEYWORDS: Denis Glover New Zealand literature poetry poems short stories fiction association copy signed

SMITHER, ELIZABETH

First edition, super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: specials Elizabeth Smither New Zealand literature poetry poems

WILDE, OSCAR

First edition, octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, viii + 163pp, VG- (heavy fading to spine & board edges, some staining to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, inscription in ink to fep, heavy browning to eps)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1911

KEYWORDS: Oscar Wilde literature poetry poems

SITWELL, EDITH

First edition, octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1920

KEYWORDS: specials Edith Sitwell literature poetry poems first edition

KHAYYAM, OMAR & FITZGERALD, EDWARD (Trans) & HANSCOM, ADELAIDE (Illus)

Small quarto, pressed suede (leather) covers, black embossed panel to front board around gilt title lettering, t.e.g, frontispiece, decorated title page, illus prelims, unpaginated, heavily illus, VG- (moderate staining & fading to covers, light bruising to spine extrems, 4cm closed tear to lower spine side, tear & crease to front cover lower corner, name & date in ink to fep, moderate browning to page edges, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: George G Harrap & Co 1908

KEYWORDS: Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat Persian literature poetry

O'BRIEN, GREGORY & O'BRIEN, BRENDAN (Ilus)

First edition, super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: Gregory O'Brien New Zealand literature poetry poems

BRYANT, JEN

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Yearling Books Random House 2005

KEYWORDS: Jen Bryant children's literature poetry Charles Lindbergh

MCGOUGH, ROGER

First edition, octavo hardcover - lacks fep (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Viking 1992

KEYWORDS: first edition Roger McGough literature poetry poems

ROSS, JACK (Ed)

Large quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Writers' Group July 2002

KEYWORDS: Jack Ross New Zealand literarature literary quarterly magazine journal poetry Alan Brunton

ROSS, JACK (Ed)

Large quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Writers' Group January 2003

KEYWORDS: Jack Ross New Zealand literarature literary quarterly magazine journal poetry Kendrick Smithyman

LEAR, EDWARD

Imperial octavo, illus brown buckram boards, brown lettering to spine, brown lettering in gilt title panel to front board, 142pp, illus, VG (some fraying to spine extrems, slight staining to rear board, some browning to page edges, inscription in ink to fep, some staining to eps, moderate foxing, last section of pages attached by archival tape)

PUBLISHER: Frederick Warne & Co 1889 (5th edition)

KEYWORDS: Edward Lear humour literature poetry nonsense rhymes

PATON, J. NOEL (Illus)

First edition, folio, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, blind decorative rule to front board, unpaginated but 5pp text + 6 full-page b&w illus with page guard & page of verse to each, G+ (moderately heavy staining & soiling to boards, two small tears to rear board fore-edge, some puckering cloth of rear board, damage to spine extrems, front hinge cracked, 17cm closed tear to fep, staining to prelims, moderately heavy staining to pages, creasing to upper corners of several pages, wear)

PUBLISHER: Royal Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Scotland 1860

KEYWORDS: first edition J Noel Paton Scotland Scottish art poetry ballad

CAMPS, W. A.

Softcover octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1969

KEYWORDS: Literature classics mythology poetry roman W A Camps

BOWRA, C. M.

Softcover super octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Weidenfield & Nicolson 1970

KEYWORDS: Greek literature literary criticism C M Bowra history poetry classics mythology

FRIEGARD, MARION

Limited and numbered edition 135/500. Signed & dated by author. Hardcover quarto (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Bellingham Daniells Publishing/Steele Roberts 2002

KEYWORDS: Literature art poetry paintings marin friegard signed by author limited edition

MONDRAGON, SERGIO & RANDALL, MARGARET (Eds)

Text in Spanish & English, octavo, illus light card covers with black & yellow lettering, 112pp, illlus, VG- (heavy soiling & browning to covers, wear to spine repaired with sellotape, creasing to rear cover, tape reinforcement to hinges, heavy browning to page edges, some tanning to page peripherals)

PUBLISHER: Instituto de Bellas Artes 1965

KEYWORDS: quarterly literary magazine Mexico literature poems poetry prose art

MITCHELL, DAVID & HANLY, PAT (Illus)

Signed limited numbered first edition, affectionately inscribed, signed & dated to his friend Johnny Macnamara, quarto, black boards with silver lettering to spine & board, orange light card eps, unpaginated, illus, VG- (heavy tanning to page edges, some staining to boards, sporadic light foxing & tanning to page peripherals) in d/w, VG- (plastic-covered and attached to boards, heavy creasing & scuffing)

PUBLISHER: Association of Orientally FLavoured Syndics / Stephen Chan 1972

KEYWORDS: signed first edition David Mitchell New Zealand literature poetry verse poems