Books - "literature"
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Letters to Camondo
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: Chatto & Windus 2021
KEYWORDS: letters correspondence Edmund de Waal literature history autobiographical first editions
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume I: Pauline - Paracelsus - Strafford
THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Smith, Elder & Co 1868
KEYWORDS: poetry poems verse literature collection anthologies Robert Browning
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume II: Sordello - Pippa Passes
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PUBLISHER: Smith, Elder & Co 1868
KEYWORDS: poetry poems verse literature collection anthologies Robert Browning
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume IV: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon - Colombe's Birthday - Dramatic Romances
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PUBLISHER: Smith, Elder & Co 1868
KEYWORDS: poetry poems verse literature collection anthologies Robert Browning
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume V: A Soul's Tragedy - Luria - Christmas Eve and Easter Day - Men adn Women
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PUBLISHER: Smith, Elder & Co 1868
KEYWORDS: poetry poems verse literature collection anthologies Robert Browning
Bacon's Essays, with Annotations
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PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1892
KEYWORDS: literature Francis Bacon essays prose collection writings anthologies
Angling Literature in England; and Descriptions of Fishing by the Ancients with a Notice of some Books on Other Piscatorial Subjects
Sm 8vo, light card covers, red & black lettering to front cover, teg, fore & bottom pg edges deckled, [8] + 87 pp., G+ (heavy soiling & light to moderate water damage to covers, light tanning & soiling to pg edges, moderate cracking to front & back hinges at gutters, bookplate to ffep, creasing to eps).
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington 1881
KEYWORDS: anecdotes angling fishing angler fisherman fishermen trout salmon history 19th century river stream sport game history literature
The British Angler's Manual, or, The Art of Angling in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. With some Account of The Principal Rivers, Lakes, and Trout Streams, in The United Kingdom; with Instructions in Fly-Fishing, Trolling, and Angling at the B
Sm 8vo, green blind paneled cl bds, gilt lettering & ornamentation to spine & front board, frontis., 8 pp. advts., + xxxii + 448 pp. + [5] pp. advts. (both sets of advts. acting as eps), illus., plates, VG (sl scuffing & soiling to bds, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with sl fraying, light tanning tp pg edges, heavy cracking to front hinge at gutter--bdg sl sloppy, light to moderate soiling to eps & prelims/terminals, prev owner's bookplate & sticker to front pastedown, prev bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown, light creasing to paper & light cracking at central gutters).
PUBLISHER: H. G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden 1848
KEYWORDS: anecdotes angling fishing angler fisherman fishermen trout salmon history 19th century river stream sport game history literature
Eating India: Exploring the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices
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PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2008
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature food cuisine India Indian culinary culture
Buddwing
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PUBLISHER: Constable 1964
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature ficiton novels Evan Hunter
Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors
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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature history culture India Indian curry curries food cuisine recipes
Old Polish Traditions, in the Kitchen and at the Table
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PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books 1998
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Poland Polish food cuisine customs culture family
E M Forster: A Life
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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: literary biographies biography memoir E M Forster writers authors literature
Gorky
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PUBLISHER: Allison & Busby 1994
KEYWORDS: Maxim Gorky literary literature Russia Russian writers authors biography biographies memoir
Story of a Life: Childhood and Schooldays
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PUBLISHER: Harvill Press 1964
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian writers authors literature literary autobiography autobiographies memoir Konstantin Paustovsky
Les 4 as et la Vache Sacree
TEXT IN FRENCH, quarto 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: Casterman 1964 ?
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH cartoons comic strips Francois-Georges children's literature
The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook
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PUBLISHER: Treasure Press 1986
KEYWORDS: Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle English literature famous detectives detective stories
C S Lewis: Images of His World
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PUBLISHER: William B Eerdmans Publishing 1979
KEYWORDS: C S Lewis literary biographies literature
The Arte of Warre, London 1560-62
FACSIMILE EDITION OF EARLY ENGLISH TRANSALTION, 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: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd / Da Capo Press 1969
KEYWORDS: early English language texts text Niccolo Machiavelli literature translations
Wonderful Me!
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PUBLISHER: Dolphin Paperbacks 2002
KEYWORDS: children's literature New Zealand writers authors poems poetry verse short stories collections Margaret Mahy