Books - "literature"
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Journal 1936-37: Death of an Explorer, Leon Chestov
THIS VOL ONLY. 8vo, brown cl boards, gilt lettering to spine, 144 pp., NF (light soiling & scuffing to boards, light wear to edges & sl bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & soiling to pg edges), in d/w, VG (heavy fading to spine with light loss of lettering, light fading to covers, light scuffing, sl bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: The Enitharmon Press 1980
KEYWORDS: David Gascoyne journal 20th century authors diary literature Europe
Paris Journal 1937-1939
THIS VOL ONLY. 8vo, blue cl covers, gilt lettering to spine, 141 pp., NF (light rubbing to boards with minor pilling to cl, light bruising to spine extrems, light soiling & tanning to pg edges), in d/w, VG (light tanning & scuffing with some loss of colour, sl fading, light bruising to edges & extrems with light chipping to spine extrems).
PUBLISHER: The Enitharmon Press 1978
KEYWORDS: David Gascoyne Paris journal 20th century authors diary literature Europe
Second Words: Selected Critical Prose
8vo, heavy black card boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, VG+ (sl scuffing to boards, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light tanning & soiling to pg edges & eps, minor creasing to pastedowns--esp at gutters), in d/w, VG (light tanning/fading & scuffing with light loss of colour, light bruising & chipping to edges & extrems, light soiling, sm closed tear to rear cover).
PUBLISHER: Anansi 1982
KEYWORDS: Margaret Atwood prose citical edit selected collected essay 20th century literature
The Twelve Chairs
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Northwestern University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: Russian literature English translations novels fiction Ilya Ilf Evgeny Petrov
The Garden of Eden
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Virago 2000
KEYWORDS: fiction literature novels Sharon Butala
Carrie's War
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Puffin Modern Classics 2005
KEYWORDS: children's fiction literature youth readers ya novels war Nina Bawden young adult
The Fishing in Print: A Guided Tour Through Five Centuries of Angling Literature
Imperial octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Winchester Press 1974
KEYWORDS: angling hobbies fly fishing flyfishing trout literature
Collected Stories I
Octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1975
KEYWORDS: short stories collections anthologies literature fiction Muriel Spark
Walton and Some Earlier Writers on Fish and Fishing
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Ellioy Stock 1894
KEYWORDS: first editions history writing prose literature hobbies fishing fish maritime nautical
Rhymes a la Mode (Fourth Edition)
FOURTH EDITION, sm 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co 1890
KEYWORDS: rhymes verse poetry poems A Andrew Lang literature fantasy fantastical
Folklore in American Literature
LACKS D/W, tidy ex-library, imperial 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Row, Peterson & Company 1958
KEYWORDS: literary criticism American literature folklore lore mythology history
Psycho-Analysis and Meditation: Certain Related Essays
Super octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Third Eye Foundation 1992
KEYWORDS: meditation essays prose literature psychology psychoanalysis spirituality philosophy
Letters of Henry Adams 1858-1918 (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, frontispieces, vol 1- vi + 552pp, vol 2- x + 672pp, VG+ (light chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Kraus Reprint Co 1969
KEYWORDS: letters correspondence Henry Adams autobiography autobiographies memoir American literature literary
The Open Society and its Enemies: Vol 1- The Spell of Plato, Vol 2- The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath
2 VOL SET, SCARCE FIRST EDITION, octavo, black buckram soft boards, gilt lettering to spines, vol 1- vii + 268pp, vol 2- v + 352pp, VG (moderate bruising to extrems, light to moderate rubbing/chafing & soiling to spines & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing & moderate soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev. owners' names in ink to ffeps & half title pages of both vols, sm ex-libris labels to full title pages, pgs97-98 slightly detached at base of gutter, occasional sl foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: George Routledge & Sons 1945
KEYWORDS: Karl Popper literature sociology philosophy first editions social commentary science
Historiarum Libri, qui Supersunt Omnes et Deperditorum Fragmenta. Ex Recensione Arn. Drakenborchii ad Codicum Bambergensis et Vindobonensis Fidum Passim Reficta a Ioanne Theophilo Kreyssig
TEXT IN LATIN, octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands with tooling/decoration to spines, gilt rule to borders of boards, red speckling to page edges, mixed pagination, G- (boards of vols 1 & 4 detached- rear board of vol 1 missing, v heavy cracking to front hinge of spine to vol 4, heavy rubbing & surface loss to spines & board edges, moderate staining & chafing to boards, v heavy tanning/soiling to page edges, ex-libris plates to front pastedowns of all vols, occasional pencil annotations, moderate foxing to eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Oxonii, Impensis D A Talboys 1840-41
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN T Livii Livius Patavin history historical books literature Drakenborchii Bambergen code classical
The Easter Party
Sm octavo stiff card covers (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1955
KEYWORDS: literature novels V Vita Sackville-West
The Glass Key
Paperback (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Pan Books 1977
KEYWORDS: crime fiction novels literature Dashiell Hammett
Five Legs / Communion
Paperback (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: McClelland and Stewart 1982
KEYWORDS: novels Canadian fiction literature Graeme Gibson
Unreceived Opinions
Paperback (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1976
KEYWORDS: literature literary essays prose biographies memoirs Mchael Holroyd
Bliss, and Other Stories
TAUCHNITZ EDITION, sm 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Leipzig Bernhard Tauchnitz 1930
KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors literature short stories fiction tauchnitz edition Katherine Mansfield