Books - "literature"
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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
A Leaf From French Eddy: A Collection of Essays on Fish, Anglers & Fishermen
Sm 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: Harper & Row 1979
KEYWORDS: essays prose writings hobbies fishing angling literature
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
Syria: The Holy Land and Asia Minor, Illustrated (3 Vol Set)
3 VOL SET, imperial octavo, green textured buckram half leather bound boards, gilt lettering to leather title plates to spines, gilt tooling/decoration to spines & boards, marbled page edges & eps, frontispieces with tissue guards to vols 1+2, unguarded frontispiece to vol 3, folding maps to prelims of vol 1, maps to prelims of vol 3, plates, mixed pagination, illus/plates - all counted & present with tissue guards, G+ (v heavy chipping/scuffing/bruising to spines & board extrems/edges with some moderate loss, moderate tanning to spines, moderate to heavy staining/fading/discolouration to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, sm ex-libris plates to front pastedowns of all vols, moderate fading & water staining to eps, minor cracking to front and/or rear gutters to each vol, light to moderate tanning and/or foxing throughout with moderate water staining to top edges of most pages of each vol)
PUBLISHER: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son & Co 1842
KEYWORDS: history culture travel writing literature Syria illustrated Asia Minor religion religious land
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
Hornblower Series (11 Vol Set)
11 VOL SET, FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, blue full leather boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, gilt decoration to spines & boards, aeg, iridescent patterned eps, frontispieces, sm raised/embossed numbering of vols to full title pages, mixed pagination, Near FINE (sl occasional chafing/soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 2001
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings classic English literature C S Forester Hornblower series full sets collectors editions novels fiction maritime nautical
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
Hermann Hesse Gesammelte Werke (12 Vol Set)
WORKS IN 12 VOL SET, TEXT IN GERMAN, sm octavo, blue light card covers, dark blue & white lettering to spines & covers, mixed pagination, VG+ (sl scuffing/curling to spines & cover edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Suhrkamp 1987
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN Hermann Hesse collected works literature
Daisy Miller: A Study
FULL LEATHER BINDING, sm octavo, red full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised boards to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, iridescent patterned eps, frontispiece, xvi + 92pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1998
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings literature literary criticism studies Henry James
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
Two People
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 1971
KEYWORDS: literature fiction novels David Windham
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
In Praise of the Stepmother
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PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1992
KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Mario Vargas Llosa