Books - "literature"
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Magic Seeds
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: Picador 2004
KEYWORDS: literature fiction novels V S Naipaul
After the Fall
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: W W Norton & Company 2012
KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction novels Victoria Roberts
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: A Reader's Guide
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: Continuum 2011
KEYWORDS: literary criticism guide Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children literature
Red Dust: A Path Through China
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: Vintage 2006
KEYWORDS: travel literature writing China Ma Jian
Something to Hide
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 2021
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Elizabeth George Detective Lynley mysteries thrillers crime
Omens of the Millenium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection
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: Fourth Estate 1997
KEYWORDS: Harold Bloom philosophy religion literature
The Eye the Sky
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: Penguin Books 1996
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Tim Winton
Shallows
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: Penguin Books 2009
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Tim Winton
Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides
Super octavo, cream cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 304pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling, sm adhesive label to base of spine)
PUBLISHER: Scribner 1998
KEYWORDS: literature literary autobiographies memoir Trynolds Price
The Clue of the Dancing Puppet
Octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, black 'Nancy Drew' illus to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, 159pp, illus, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sm numerals in ink to ffep, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims & terminals, occasional light foxing to pages) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping to edges, moderate scuffing & surface loss, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low 1963
KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction novels Nancy Drew mysteries
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes
Oblong imperial octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, minor chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Key Porter Kids 2003
KEYWORDS: children's literature illustrated Margaret Atwood Dusan Petricic
Useless Magic
Super octavo, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & rear board, illus plate & gilt & black lettering to front board, illus eps & prelims, 287pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: Fig Tree / Penguin 2018
KEYWORDS: art literature poetry poems verse Florence Welch Florence and the Machine music
I See / You Mean
Octavo, mauve cloth boards, white lettering to spine, 221pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: New Documents 2021
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Lucy R Lippard contemporary
Legislation: The Politics of Deconstruction
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, viii + 300pp, VG (light scuffing to cover edges, minor chafing & soiling to covers, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Verso 1994
KEYWORDS: literature philosophy Geoffrey Bennington criticism
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Octavo, beige buckram boards, green lettering & illus/decoration to spine & front board, gilt high school stamp to front board, unpaginated, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light foxing to eps & prelims & terminals, prev. bookseller's ink stamp & remnants of gift plate to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges with some minor loss also, moderate tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: George G Harrap & Co N/D
KEYWORDS: Omar Khayyam verse literature translation Persian illustrated
Hang on a Minute Mate
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 192pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & fading to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling/tanning)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1962
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature authors writers Barry Crump signed Dennis Turner modern first editions novels
Biggles Breaks the Silence
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, silver gilt illus to front board, 191pp, illus, VG- (light bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy soiling to spine & boards, boards sl warped, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing to pages throughout, moderate creasing to rear ep) in d/w, G+ (v heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate loss to edges, moderate chafing/scuffing & surface loss, moderate chafing & soiling, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1949
KEYWORDS: modern first editions children's literature novels fiction Biggles Captain W E Johns adventure
The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right
Tidy ex-library, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule & decoration to boards, xxxvi + 265pp, VG (minimal library markings, light scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's ink stamps to half & full title pages, sl foxing to prelims & terminals, light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: T & T Clark 1887
KEYWORDS: philosophy literature Immanual Kant jurisprudence principles
Tales of Ancient Greece
LACKS D/W, sm octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 127pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light fading to spine, light chafing & staining to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, light foxing to pages throughout, light cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: George Newnes N/D (c.1930)
KEYWORDS: John o' London's children's library literature Enid Blyton ancient Greece Greek history mythology
Sacred Hunger
FIRST US EDITION, 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: Nan A Talese / Doubleday 1992
KEYWORDS: modern first US editions fiction novels literature Barry Unsworth