Books - "literature"
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May We Borrow Your Husband? and Other Comedies of the Sexual Life
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: The Bodley Head 1967
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction short stories Graham Greene
Passes and Trespasses
FIRST 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: William Hodge & Co 1954
KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir Hakon Mielche travel literature writing first editions
Ritual in the Dark
FIRST EDITION, 2ND IMP., 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 1960
KEYWORDS: modern first editions 2nd impressions novels fiction literature Colin Wilson
Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse
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: Hamish Hamilton 1975
KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction novels Ursula Moray Williams
A Bit off the Map, and Other Stories
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: Secker & Warburg 1957
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature short stories fiction Angus Wilson
Epistle to a Godson, and Other Poems
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: Faber & Faber 1972
KEYWORDS: first editions literature poems poetry verse W H Auden
The Thirty-First of June
FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 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: William Heinemann 1961
KEYWORDS: modern first editions uncorrected proof copies novels fiction literature J B Priestley
The Robots of Dawn
FIRST 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: Granada 1984
KEYWORDS: modern first editions scifi science fiction novels literature Isaac Asimov
Try Anything Once
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: Angus & Robertson 1947
KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir Frank Clune travel writing literature literary
Asimov on Science Fiction
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: Granada 1983
KEYWORDS: first editions scifi science fiction literature literary criticism Isaac Asimov
The Man Who Called Himself Poe
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 1970
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature short stories fiction Edgar Allan Poe collection horror scifi science fiction anthology anthologies
How the Whale Became
FIRST EDITION, ex-library, 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: Faber and Faber 1974
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction Ted Hughes short stories
Desert Islands, and Robinson Crusoe
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: Faber and Faber 1932
KEYWORDS: literature Walter de la Mare
Homer's Daughter
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PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1955
KEYWORDS: modern first editions novels fiction literature Robert Graves
The Eighy-Minute Hour
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: Jonathan Cape 1974
KEYWORDS: modern first editions scifi science fiction literature novels Brian W Aldiss
Poems
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: Faber and Faber 1935
KEYWORDS: first editions literature poems poetry verse George Barker
Bread Rather Than Blossoms: Poems
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: Secker & Warburg 1956
KEYWORDS: first editions literature poetry poems verse D J Enright
They Weren't All Angels
FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) prev. ownership ink stamps to eps; 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: Rupert Hart-Davis 1965
KEYWORDS: first editions literature Joseph Kessel
All Men Are Brothers (Shui Hu Chuan, aka Water Margin)
SECOND REVISED EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, yellow buckram boards, brown lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 1279pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems, heavy staining to spine & boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to some gutters, minor wrinkling to frontispiece, pg15/16 detached & wrinkled but present)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1937
KEYWORDS: novels fiction Chinese literature english translations Shui Hu Chuan Water Margin Pearl S Buck Shi Nai'an
A Fighting Man of Mars
Octavo, blue buckram boards, orange/yellow lettering to spine & front board, vii + 304pp, VG- (minor bruising & scuffing to board extrems, heavy fading & staining to spine, light to moderate fading to board edges, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling/foxing to page edges, light foxing & tanning to eps, v heavy cracking to central gutters- binding loose, light occasional foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: John Lane / The Bodley Head 1933
KEYWORDS: Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy scifi science fiction literature novels