Books - "literature"
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One Piece, Vol 3: Don't Get Fooled Again
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: Gollancz Manga 2006
KEYWORDS: manga graphic novels one piece Eiichiro Oda literature
In the Egg, and Other Poems
UK FIRST EDITION, octavo, orange heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 143pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Martin Secker & Warburg 1978
KEYWORDS: UK first editions literature poetry poems verse Gunter Grass English translations
BlipSoak 01
Octavo, grey light card wrappers, orange lettering to spine & front cover, 335pp, VG (moderate creasing & curling to covers, light fading & creasing to spine, sl chafing & soiling to covers, light foxing & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Atelos 2003
KEYWORDS: literature verse Tan Lin
Witnessing AIDS: Writing, Testimony and the Work of Mourning
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, red lettering to spine, x + 271pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Toronto Press 2004
KEYWORDS: hiv AIDS terminal illness gay men homosexuality literature death dying grief
The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture
Super octavo, purple light card wrappers, green & purple lettering to spine, xviii + 304pp, VG (prev. bookseller's label to spine, fully adhesive covering to wrappers, light to moderate creasing to covers, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press 2004
KEYWORDS: gay lesbian homosexual lgbtq American literature literary
The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, xvi + 169pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: John Hopkins University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: AIDS hiv diseases bereavement grief death dying race ethnicity sexuality literature elegiac poetry culture
The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous, and Other Writings 1986-2003
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xxx + 307pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges & spine, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The MIT Press 2004
KEYWORDS: AIDS hiv prose literature writings diseases
Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics
Super octavo, brown cloth boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 320pp, illus, VG (sl soiling to boards, sl foxing & soiling to page edges, moderate crack to rear gutter, page block re-set lower) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: The MIT Press 2002
KEYWORDS: essays literature prose queer gay lesbian lgbtq AIDS hiv
The Underwater Melon Man, and Other Unreasonable Rhymes
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR WITH EXTRA ILLUS HAND-DRAWN ON COPYRIGHT PAGE, CD LOOSLEY ENCLOSED, quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, coloured lettering to spine, illus eps, unpaginated, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Monkey Biz 1998
KEYWORDS: signed first editions Fane Flaws Arthur Baysting Peter Dasent verse literature rhymes
God, the Invisible King
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, light blue lettering & rule to spine & front board, xvii + 206pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light fading & soiling to spine, light to moderate chafing/surface loss & fading to boards & edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, sl tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's details in ink to ffep, light foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Cassell and Company 1917
KEYWORDS: first editions literature H G Wells religion theology
General Catalogue of Grey Collection Free Public Library. Auckland 1888, Reference Department
Super octavo, burgundy textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus prelims, mixed pagination, VG- (moderate fading to spine, light bruising & rubbing to spine & boards/extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, lg presentation inscription in ink to ffep, moderate cracking to front gutters- som eprelims partially detached, moderate foxing sporadically throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters throughout)
PUBLISHER: H Brett, General Printer 1888
KEYWORDS: New Zealand catalogues literature Grey Collection Auckland public library bibliographies bibliography
Razgovor o Dante - Talking About Dante
TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN, sm octavo, red faux leather heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 79pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Ardis 1983
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN Dante Alighieri literature literary criticism poetry verse Osip Mandelshtam
A Novel Without Lies, Cynics: My Century, My Youth
TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN, octavo, brown heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 480pp, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps)
PUBLISHER: Fiction, Leningrad Branch 1988
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN novels fiction literature Anantoly Anatoliy Marienhof Mariyengof
Fugitive Telemetry: The Murderbot Diaries
FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey heavy boards, green gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 168pp, VG+ (light fading to board edges, light tanning to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Tordotcom / Tom Doherty Associates 2021
KEYWORDS: modern first editions scifi science fiction novels literature Martha Wells
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, blue buckram boards, blue lettering to spine, vii + 328pp, VG (light to moderate tanning & foxing to spine, moderate fading to rear board edges & whole front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front eps, moderate to heavy foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1926
KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS literature fiction short stories Nikolai Nikolay Gogol Russian
The Overcoat & Other Stories
FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, blue buckram boards, blue lettering to spine, vii + 279pp, VG (light to moderate fading & tanning to spine, light rubbing & bruising to extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & soiling to eps, prev. owner's names in ink to front eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1923
KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS literature fiction short stories Nikolai Nikolay Gogol Russian
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works (3 Vol Set)
3 VOL SET, octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering/rule & raised bands to spines, gilt rule & illus to boards, aeg, gilt decoration to pastedown borders, marbled page edges, mixed pagination, G+ (front board of vol 1 partially deatched, front board of vol 3 completely detached but present, moderate chafing & surface loss to boards & spines, minro scuffing & soiling to gilt on page edges, presentation plates to all front pastedowns, moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, light dusting of foxing throughout all vols)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1854
KEYWORDS: English literature literary biographies Samuel Johnson full leather bindings antiquarian books poets
Beowulf
FIRST EDITION THUS, quarto, cream cloth boards, black lettering to spine & front board, xxii + 103pp, VG+ (light bruising & soiling to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sm patch of clear tape to front & rear pastedowns, light foxing to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (taped in to tidy plastic protective cover, light creasing to edges, minor tape damage & remnants to fore-edges of flaps)
PUBLISHER: University of Massachusetts Press 1971
KEYWORDS: first editions THUS English literature epic poems poetry verse Germanic Scandinavian Beowulf
Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xxxiv + 415pp, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, light chafing to covers, light fading to rear cover, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The University of Michigan Press 2004
KEYWORDS: AIDS hiv diseases literature writings
Sacred Dostoyevsky / Sakralnyy Dostoyevsky
TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN, octavo, white light card wrappers, black lettering & portraits to front & rear covers (spine blank), 518pp, VG+ (light creasing & soiling to spine & covers, sl foxing & soiling to page edgesprev. ownership inscription in ink to full title page)
PUBLISHER: Petrozavodsk Petrgu 2008
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN CYRILLIC RUSSIAN literature Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dostoevsky literary criticism appreciation V V Ivanov