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$22.50
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The Android's Dream


SCALZI, JOHN

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Tor / Tom Doherty Associates 2006

KEYWORDS: John Scalzi science fiction fiction literature

$12.50
xxkgo218677

Jacob's Ladder


LINDSAY, P D R

SIGNED super 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Writer's Choice / P D R Lindsay 2013

KEYWORDS: historical fiction New Zealand literature

$17.50
xxkgp218692

The Orange Girl


GAARDER, JOSTEIN & ANDERSON, JAMES (trans)

FIRST UK 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicholson / Poheonix House 2004

KEYWORDS: fiction literature modern first edition

$20.00
xxkgp218699

The Stream: A Reverie of Boyhood


DOWLING, BASIL & OATES, GRAHAM

Small ocavo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Nag's Head Press 1979

KEYWORDS: Poetry New Zealand poems literature

$12.00
xxkgt218709

Big Breasts and Wide Hips


YAN, MO

Super ocavo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Arcade / Skyhorse 2012

KEYWORDS: Chinese fiction literature

$10.00
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Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya


HUXLEY, ELSPETH

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: Penguin 1987

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Kenya Elspeth Huxley Africa

$17.50
xx69pol218718

Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters (Fourth Edition 1990)


MAHLER, GUSTAV & MAHLER, ALMA & MITCHELL, DONALD (Ed) & MARTNER, KNUD (Ed)

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: Cardinal / Sphere Books 1990

KEYWORDS: Gustav Mahler literature letters correspondence music biography memoir autobiography

$15.00
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Gustav Mahler


WALTER, BRUNO & LINDT, LOTTE WALTER (Trans) & TANNER, MICHAEL (Intro)

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: Quartet Books 1990

KEYWORDS: Gustav Mahler literature music biography memoir

$9.00
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Landfall, a New Zealand Journal: Number 194 Spring 1997 (50th Anniversary Issue)


BORNHOLDT, JENNY et al (Contributors) & PRICE, CHRIS (Ed)

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 Otago Press 1997

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature anthologies Landfall publications past issues years 1997 50th anniversary edition literary

$65.00
2w3/40

Troilus & Criseyde


CHAUCER, GEOFFREY & SKEAT, WALTER W (Ed) & BOSTON, STEWART (Trans & Intro) & BROOKES, PETER (Illus)

IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo, quarter leatherbound illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained green, frontispiece, xi + (5) + 195pp, illus, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in slipcase, VG+ (light bruising, chafing & fading)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1990

KEYWORDS: classic literature folio society Geoffrey Chaucer verse illustrated

$50.00
2w3/42

The Question of Things Happening: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volumme II 1912-1922


WOOLF, VIRGINIA & NICOLSON, NIGEL (Ed) & TRAUTMANN, JOANNE (Assist Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + (4) + 627pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing to board edges/extrems, light tape residue to boards & pastedowns, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to rear ep, 1cm gouge/scuff to full title page) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine, minor tanning to rear cover, light foxing to flaps, sporadic moderate tape staining to covers & flaps)

PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1976

KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary autobiography Virginia Woolf letters correspondence 20th twentieth century

$60.00
2w2/1

Collected Essays: Volume One


WOOLF, VIRGINIA

THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 361pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl soiling to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1966

KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary essays collections Virginia Woolf

$60.00
2w2/2

Collected Essays: Volume Three


WOOLF, VIRGINIA

THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 231pp, VG+ (light bruising to edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1967

KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary essays collections Virginia Woolf

$60.00
2w2/3

Collected Essays: Volume Four


WOOLF, VIRGINIA

THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 235pp, VG+ (light bruising to edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1967

KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary essays collections Virginia Woolf

$40.00
2w2/11

The Boy and the Magic


COLETTE & FRY, CHRISTOPHER (Trans) & HOFFNUNG, GERARD (Trans)

Oblong quarto, pink/red heavy boards, green gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus, VG (light bruising/rubbing & moderate to heavy fading to board edges, boards sl warped, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, parts of page block sl loosened at gutter, light foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate to heavy staining & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Dennis Dobson / Dobson Books 1964

KEYWORDS: classic children's literature picture books Colette illustrated

$40.00
2w2/27

The Sign of Jonas: The Journals of Thomas Merton


MERTON, THOMAS

Octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt religious motif to front board, top page edges stained blue/grey- faded, illus eps, unpaginated prelims + 354pp, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, minor foxing throughout) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing with loss to edges, moderate tanning & soiling to flaps & rear cover, minor foxing)

PUBLISHER: Hollis & Carter 1953

KEYWORDS: religion religious literature Thomas Merton journals diaries history

$275.00
2w2/32

The Silver Chair


LEWIS, C S & BAYNES, PAULINE (Illus)

FIRST EDITION, FIRST REPRINT, octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus/map of Narnia & the Wild Lands of the North to front eps, frontispiece, 217pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to board & spine extrems, moderate fading/tanning to spine, light soiling & discolouration to boards, light t anning & foxing to page edges, light to moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's sm ink stamp to base of half title page)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1956

KEYWORDS: children's classic literature modern first editions first reprints C S Lewis fantasy Narnia novels fiction illustrated Pauline Baynes

$50.00
2w2/33

The Old South Illustrated


CRAYON, PORTE (STROTHER, DAVID HUNTER) & EBY Jr, CECIL D (Ed & Intro)

Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title pages, xxi + 296pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising/rubbing to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, minor creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & light soiling to spine, minor general tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press 1959

KEYWORDS: Porte Crayon David Hunter Strother US America American history old deep south essays literature writings

$70.00
2w2/35

Christian Reflections


LEWIS, C S & HOOPER, WALTER (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 176pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light fading to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate soiling to top page edges) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate tanning to spine, moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges & spine, minor general chafing & tanning)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1967

KEYWORDS: theology religion Christianity C S Lewis literature first editions writings prose

$100.00
2w2/37

Refelctions on the Psalms


LEWIS, C S

FIRST EDITION, octavo, maroon heavy boards, yellow lettering to spine, top page edges stained blue- faded, vii + 151pp, VG+ (sl bruisng & fading to board edges, light tape staining to rear board & eps, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & moderate discolouration to edges, light to moderate general tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1958

KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature writings C S Lewis Christianity psalms first editions

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