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$100.00
2s19a/22

The Book of Government or Rules for Kings: The Siyasat-nama or Siyar al-Muluk


AL-MULK, NIZAM & DARKE, HUBERT (Trans) & LEVY, REUBEN (Intro)

Octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering with red & gilt decoration to spine, xi + 259pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light fading to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges with some minor loss, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1960

KEYWORDS: ancient Persian literature English translations history historical philosophy antiquity Nizam al-Mulk

$45.00
2s19a/32

The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy


ORWIN, DONNA TUSSING (Ed)

LACKS D/W, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering & red colouring to spine & front board, xv + 271pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2002

KEYWORDS: literature Russian Russia Leo Tolstoy companion literary appreciation

$50.00
2s19a/44

Report on the Death of Rosenkavalier


DRABEK, JAN

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 224pp, VG+ (light bruising & fading to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate chafing & scuffing/surface loss to spine, moderate rubbing)

PUBLISHER: McClelland and Stewart 1977

KEYWORDS: modern first editions signed literature fiction novels Jan Drabek

$120.00
2s19a/47

Running Dog


DELILLO, DON

SCARCE UK FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims, 246pp, VG+ (light bruising to base of spine & board edges, sl soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to top corner of ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light fading ot spine, light chafing, light tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1978

KEYWORDS: modern first UK editions literature novels fiction Don DeLillo

$22.50
37pol202430

The Imagination Chamber: Cosmic Rays from Lyra's Universe


PULLMAN, PHILIP

8vo 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: David Fickling Books 2022

KEYWORDS: short story stories poem poetry poet literature 21st century

$22.50
37pol202437

Balzac's Lives


BROOKS, PETER

8vo 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: New York Review Books 2020

KEYWORDS: 19th century Balzac novel novelist criticism literature biography social history comedy manners

$22.50
37pol202447

Benzedrine Highway


PLYMElL, CHARLES; GINSBERG, ALLEN (forew)

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: Kicks Books 2013

KEYWORDS: 20th century beat generation poetry poem literature

$12.50
37pol202448

Jules


DIREEN, WILLIAM

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: Alpha Books 2003

KEYWORDS: fiction novel 21st century novelist authors literature

$15.00
84pol202469

The Ordinary and the Fabulous: An Introduction to Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales for Teachers and Storytellers


COOK, ELIZABETH

Ex-library. 8vo 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: Cambridge University Press 1969

KEYWORDS: myth legend fairy tales stories storyteller oral tradition Children's Literature Greek Norse

$35.00
84pol202470

Swiss-Alpine Folk-Tales


MULLER-GUGGENBUHL, FRITZ; POTTS, KATHARINE (transl) & KIDDELL-MONROE, JOAN (illus)

FIRST EDITION. 8vo 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: Oxford University Press 1958

KEYWORDS: myth legend fairy tales stories storyteller oral tradition Children's Literature Swiss Alpine first edition

$32.50
84pol202472

Indian Tales and Legends


GRAY, J E B & KIDDELL-MONROE, JOAN (illus)

8vo 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: Oxford University Press 1965

KEYWORDS: myth legend fairy tales stories storyteller oral tradition Children's Literature Indian

$35.00
84pol202473

Japanese Tales and Legends


MCALPINE, WILLIAM & HELEN & KIDDELL-MONROE, JOAN (illus)

FIRST EDITION. 8vo 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: Oxford University Press 1958

KEYWORDS: myth legend fairy tales stories storyteller oral tradition Children's Literature Japan Japanese first edition

$32.50
84pol202474

German Hero-Sagas and Folk-Tales


PICARD, BARBARA LEONIE & KIDDELL-MONROE, JOAN (illus)

8vo 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: Oxford University Press 1965

KEYWORDS: myth legend fairy tales stories storyteller oral tradition Children's Literature German

$32.50
84pol202475

Russian Tales and Legends


DOWNING, CHARLES & KIDDELL-MONROE, JOAN (illus)

8vo 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: Oxford University Press 1960

KEYWORDS: myth legend fairy tales stories storyteller oral tradition Children's Literature Russian

$20.00
84pol202476

Scandinavian Legends and Folk-Tales


JONES, GWYN & KIDDELL-MONROE, JOAN (illus)

8vo hardcover (VG) lacking d/w; 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 1957

KEYWORDS: myth legend fairy tales stories storyteller oral tradition Children's Literature Scandinavian

$15.00
84pol202501

The Land of the Lost


SATCHELL, WILLIAM; SMITHYMAN, KENDRICK (ed)

8vo 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: Auckland University Press 1971

KEYWORDS: New Zealand authors fiction literature

$22.50
84pol202502

Short Stories


PIRANDELLO, LUIG; MAY, FREDERICK (ed & transl)

8vo 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: Oxford University Press 1965

KEYWORDS: Nobel Prize recipient 20th century literature short stories novella

$17.50
84pol202506

Taupo Fishing Diary


GILLETT, ALEX & PERRY, JANE; MARSHALL, Sir JOHN (forew)

Super 8vo 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: Hodder and Stoughton 1981

KEYWORDS: New Zealand fishing fish angling angler lake river sport game literature

$25.00
84pol202507

Nymphs and the Trout


SAWYER, FRANK

8vo 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: Adam & Charles Black 1970

KEYWORDS: fishing fish angling angler lake river sport game nymph technique literature

$19.50
84pol202508

Arthur Ransome on Fishing


SWIFT, JEREMY

8vo 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 1994

KEYWORDS: Arthur Ransome fishing fish angling angler lake river sport game nymph technique literature

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