Books - "literature"
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Songs of New Zealand and Various Verses (Third Edition)
THIRD EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG-) spine cracked & bruised; 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: Dawson Printing 1931
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature poems poetry verse Francis Cloke
Venus, Vagabonds & Miscellanea: Short Stories
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: Kara Press 1984
KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors literature short stories fiction collection Daphne de Jong Ann Macrae Anna Granger Sharp
The Pyrates
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: HarperCollins 2008
KEYWORDS: fiction novels literature George MacDonald Fraser
Fairyland
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 / Pan Macmillan 1997
KEYWORDS: fiction novels literature Sumner Locke Elliott
C S Lewis: A Life
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 2013
KEYWORDS: literary biographies memoir literature C S Lewis
Sea Warfare
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: Macmillan & Co 1916
KEYWORDS: literature Rudyard Kipling
The Corner-Stone
FIRST EDITION, 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: Victor Gollancz 1954
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction Zoe Oldenbourg
A Charming Place: Bath in the Life and Novels of Jane Austen
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: Millstream Books 2000
KEYWORDS: literary travel writing literature Bath Jane Austen
Volume the Third (Manuscript Notes - Juvenilia Novella)
THIS VOL ONLY, LACKS D/W, ex-library, 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: Oxford University Press 1951
KEYWORDS: English literature Jane Austen
The Wild Hunt
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: Signet / Penguin 1993
KEYWORDS: fantasy literature fiction novels Elizabeth Chadwick historical
The Writings of William Blake, Edited in Three Volumes: Volume I
THIS VOL ONLY, LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#1157/1500) imperial octavo, marbled boards, gilt lettering to cream spine, deckled/roughcut page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xviii + 364pp, 28 black & white plates- all present, VG (light bruising & moderate scuffing/surface loss to spine & boards/extrems, minor to moderate tanning/soiling & fading to spine & boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, light tanning & foxing to frontispiece, tissue guard heavily tanned & partially detached)
PUBLISHER: The Nonesuch Press 1925
KEYWORDS: literature William Blake illustrated collection writings verse numbered limited editions
The Writings of William Blake, Edited in Three Volumes: Volume III
THIS VOL ONLY, LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (one of1500) imperial octavo, marbled boards, gilt lettering to cream spine, deckled/roughcut page edges, vii + 430pp, plates xxxix-lviii- all present, VG (light bruising & moderate scuffing/surface loss to spine & boards/extrems, minor to moderate tanning/soiling & fading to spine & boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, page edges v roughly cut in places- text block unaffected)
PUBLISHER: The Nonesuch Press 1925
KEYWORDS: literature William Blake illustrated collection writings verse limited editions
Monsters
WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, quarto, illus heavy boards, red & black lettering to spine, 365pp, illus, VG+ (minor bruising/scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl staining to top page edges)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 2021
KEYWORDS: CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE graphic novels cartoons literature Barry Windsor-Smith
White Fang
FIRST EDITION, octavo, teal textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, cream lettering & illus to front board, illus eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, vii + 327pp, illus/plates- some detached but all present, G+ (light to moderate bruisng & chafing/scuffing to spine & board extrems, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges, prev owner's name in ink & prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, v heavy cracking to gutters- boards shaky, varying degrees of tanning & staining to pages but mostly quite light, numerous pages detached & moderately creased & chipped/torn at edges but present, lower portion of page 315-316 torn out- some text missing)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1906
KEYWORDS: modern first editions classic literature Jack London novels fiction
Stories from Carleton
Sm octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt rule & decoration to front board, teg, xvii + 302pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing/surface loss to spine & board edges/extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional moderate cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: Walter Scott N/D (c.1910s?)
KEYWORDS: William Carleton literature
The New Rose Garden of Mystery and The Book of Slaves: Versified English Translation of Iqbal's Gulshan-I-Raz-I-Jadid and Bandagi Namah
Octavo, light card covers, blue lettering to spine & covers, xvi + 66pp, VG- (moderate creasing/wrinkling & soiling to spine & covers, moderate tanning & soiling to spine & rear cover, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink & prev. bookseller's ink stamp to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf Kashmiri Bazar 1969
KEYWORDS: Iqbal english translations literature poems poetry verse
Earth
INC. ORIGINAL GLASSINE DUST WRAPPER, sm octavo, blue buckram boards, brown lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 180pp, VG (moderate fading & foxing to spine & board edges, moderate to heavy soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps) in glassine d/w, VG (minor chipping/clsed tearing & loss to spine & edges, light discolouration & wrinkling)
PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 1929
KEYWORDS: verse literature Frank Townshend philosophy
Coucou la Goutte Plays Her Part in the War
DUAL FRENCH/ENGLISH TEXT, sm octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to covers, 54pp, illus, VG (moderate creasing & tanning/soiling to covers, light creasing to edges, price clipped, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep, light foxing to eps)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1942
KEYWORDS: dual English French text literature Helene Terre
Airship
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: University of Queensland Press 1975
KEYWORDS: poetry poets poems verse Roger McDonald literature
Haerimai
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: Wright & Carman (Printer) 1958
KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets poetry verse poems literature C Moreland