Books - "literature"
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Athens: Its Grandeur and Decay
Sm octavo hardcover (G+) scruffy copy; 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 Religious Tract Society N/D (c.1840s?)
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Greece ancient Greek Athens history
In the Penny Arcade
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: Alfred A Knopf 1986
KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature Steven Millhauser short stories
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1991
KEYWORDS: philosophy literature Giordano Bruno
The Big Six
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 1940
KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction novels adventure Arthur Ransome modern first editions
The Picts and the Martyrs: or, Not Welcome at All
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 1943
KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction novels adventure Arthur Ransome modern first editions
The Serpents of Paradise
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: Henry Holt and Company 1995
KEYWORDS: literature Edward Abbey nature anthology anthologies literary collections
Good News
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: Plume / Penguin 1991
KEYWORDS: fiction novels literature Edward Abbey
The Brave Cowboy
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: Avon Books 1992
KEYWORDS: fiction novels literature Edward Abbey
The Conscience of Words and Earwitness
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: Picador / Pan Books 1987
KEYWORDS: literature prose essays Elias Canetti philosophy
Bart: The Story of a Dog
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: H H Tombs N/D
KEYWORDS: literature Ormond Burton
The Grass Widow's Tale
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: Futura 1991
KEYWORDS: Ellis Peters literature novels fiction Sergeant Felse series crime
Fallen Into the Pit
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PUBLISHER: Futura 1991
KEYWORDS: Ellis Peters literature novels fiction Sergeant Felse series crime
Electric City, and Other Stories
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1989
KEYWORDS: short stories literature fiction Patricia Grace
Poems from Bengali
Super octavo, cream light card covers, green lettering to spine, green & red lettering to front cover, unpaginated prelims + 91pp, VG- (light chipping & soiling to spine/extrems, 4cm closed tear to top of spine/front cover hinge, moderate water staining to base of spine & front cover, moderate to heavy foxing to covers, heavy insect damage to bottom corner of page block- some loss, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate insect damage to prelims, minor water staining to base of front gutter)
PUBLISHER: Sri Aurobindo Ashram 1956
KEYWORDS: poems poetry verse literature Bengal Bengali
The English Mining Engineer
Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, printed eps, 236pp, VG (light to moderate creasing & soiling to spine & covers, sm patch of label residue to front cover, sl soiling to page edges, tidy tape reinforcement to front & rear gutters)
PUBLISHER: Tall Stories Publishing 2008
KEYWORDS: New Zealand mining English miners oil exploration gas literature Brian Andrew Jackson
Logic: The Theory of Inquiry
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, black decoration to spine, ix + 546pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, minor staining to boards, light to moderate tanning to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, patch of white-out to ffep, moderate pencil annotation to rear eps)
PUBLISHER: Henry Holt and Company 1938
KEYWORDS: logic philosophy literature John Dewey
Hareios Poter he tou Philosophou Lithos (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Ancient Greek)
TEXT IN ANCIENT GREEK! Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt train illus to front board, unpaginated prelims, 250pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl fading & soiling to spine)
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2004
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN ANCIENT GREEK children's literature youth ya Harry Potter series J K Rowling novels fiction fantasy
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis
TEXT IN LATIN, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt train illus to front board, unpaginated prelims + 249pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2003
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN children's literature fantasy fiction novels J K Rowling Harry Potter series
Little Black Sambo
Octavo, blule heavy boards, black lettering & illus to front board, illus eps & title page, frontispiece, VG (moderate scuffing to spine & board corners, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prevl owner's name in ink & prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep, light to moderate cracking to front & rear gutters)
PUBLISHER: The Platt & Munk Co 1955
KEYWORDS: classic children's literature picture books Helen Bannerman little black sambo
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in Seven Parts
Quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, coloured illus to front board, teg, deckled page edges, illus eps, illus/illuminated prelims, unpaginated, illus/plates- all but one present, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing to extrems, moderate staining to front board, light to moderate staining to rear board, moderate tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional light cracking to gutters, occasional light foxing, single plate missing- page still present)
PUBLISHER: George G Harrap 1910
KEYWORDS: illuminated illuminations illustrated literature Samuel Taylor Coleridge verse poetry poems