MORTON, KATE

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PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin2023

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MAY, PETER

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PUBLISHER: Riverrun / Quercus Editions 2018

KEYWORDS: Peter May thriller fiction literature novel

RUARK, ROBERT

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PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton ltd 1959

KEYWORDS: Robert Ruark American fiction novel literature modern first edition

SPIEGELMAN, ART

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PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin 2011

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SWADLING, IRENE

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PUBLISHER: Irene Swadling 2013

KEYWORDS: Irene Swadling New Zealand NZ fiction novel literature historical

CARROLL, LEWIS & TENNIEL, JOHN (illus)

Octavo, green heavy cloth boards, black lettering to spine and front board, illus to boards, frontispiece, 187pp counted, illus, VG (moderate fading & scuffing/soiling to spine, moderate scuffing/soiling to boards, minor bruising/scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning/soiling to page ends, minor foxing & staining/soiling to eps, prev owner name in pencil to fep, minor foxing sporadic throughout, slight gutter cracking pg 48, 1cm closed tear to upper coner of page 75/76, 5mm closed tear to lover 165/166).

PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1910

KEYWORDS: literature fiction childrens Lewis Carroll John Tenniel illustrated Alice

DE SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE

TEXT IN FRENCH. Very nice copy of 1946 reprint (first published in 1945). Octavo light card illus wrappers with french flaps, blue & black lettering to spine and wrappers, illus title page, illus, VG (moderate soiling & creasing to spine, minor soiling/tanning & creasing to wrappers, moderate soiling/tanning to page edges, tape stains to corners of eps, minor tanning to page edges throughout).

PUBLISHER: Gallimard 1946

KEYWORDS: text in French Antoine De Saint-Exupery childrens literature illustrated

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, blue heavy boards, red lettering & decoration to spine, red illus to front board, VG ( heavy tanning & moderate soiling/scuffing to spine, minor scuffing to spine extrems, minor tanning to board extrems, light scuffing to boards, light tanning/soiling to page edges, light soiling to eps).

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1952

KEYWORDS: first edition Ernest Hemingway literature fiction

LEWIS, C S

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii+197pp, VG (sl chaffing to spine, minor tanning & bruising to spine extrems, minor scuffing/bruising to board extrems and corners, moderate scuffing & soiling to boards, slight warping to boards, previous booksellers sticker to lower corner of pastedown, minor foxing & soiling to eps, moderate wrinkling throughout) in d/w VG- (in protective plastic sleeve, moderate tanning to spine with sl creasing, 1cm loss to upper & lower spine, 3.5cm closed tear on outer upper spine, moderate tanning & soiling throughout).

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1939

KEYWORDS: first edition C S Lewis literature essays

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM & THOMSON, HUGH (illus)

FIRST EDITION. Imperial octavo, blue heavy cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt illus to front board, ueg, frontispiece with tissueguard, illus title page, 170pp, 39 illus plates with tissueguards (counted), VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to spine, minor creasing/fraying to spine extrems, slight chafing/bruising to board edges & corners, moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to boards, moderate soiling/tanning to page edges, moderate dampstaining to rear pastedown, sl cracking to rear gutter, moderate scuffing to lower page edges, moderate foxing/tanning throughout, some annotation/underlining in pencil early on

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1910

KEYWORDS: first edition William Shakespeare Hugh Thomson illustrated literature plays theatre stage

SCHNEEWIND, J B

Octavo, blue heavy cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, Near FINE, in d/w VG+. Photos available upon request.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1977

KEYWORDS: philosophy literature Henry Sidgwick J B Schneewind ethics morality

CLARKE, ARTHUR C

FIRST EDITION, delightful note with Clarke association loosely enclosed, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 222pp, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, sl discolouration to spine, minor tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing/soiling to prelims/terminals & sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges- occasional sl closed tearing,minor discolouration to flaps & rear, minor general chafing & soiling, 1cm closed tear to upper edge of front wrapper - photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller 1955

KEYWORDS: modern first edition science fiction scifi literature Arthur C Clarke novels

CALVINO, ITALO & COLQUHOUN, ARCHIBALD (transl)

ENGLISH FIRST EDITION, D/W NOT PRICE CLIPPED, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, VG (moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, minor creasing to base of spine, minor bruising to extrems, moderate foxing to prelims and pages throughout) in d/w, VG (minor tanning and light foxing to flaps, minor fading to spine, moderate foxing and minor tanning to rear wrapper, minor chipping to extrems/edges, minor scuffing to base of spine - photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Collins Clear-Type Press 1956

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature fiction Italo Calvino English translation Archibald Colquhoun novels

CALVINO, ITALO

ENGLISH, FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, VG+ (minor creasing to head and base of spine) in d/w, VG+ (minor soiling and foxing to edges of flaps, minor foxing to rear wrapper, minor soiling and foxing to front wrapper) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1992

KEYWORDS: modern first edition Italo Calvino literature fiction novels

RAVEN, SIMON

FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 232pp, VG+ (minor soiling to front and rear boards, minor soiling to head of spine, minor bruising to head and base of spine) in d/w, VG (minor chipping and scuffing to extrems and head of front hinge, minor soiling, creasing and scuffing to head and base of spine, minor soiling to front and rear wrappers) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Blond & Briggs 1974

KEYWORDS: modern first edition Simon Raven literature fiction

HULL, ELEANOR & REID, STEPHEN (illus)

Octavo, light brown heavy boards, handsomely rebound and half bound in reddish brown leather, gilt decoration to front board, gilt decoration and lettering to spine, teg, illus, VG- (heavy tanning and foxing to page edges, light tanning and foxing to pages throughout, minor scuffing and creasing to hinges, minor chipping to head of rear hinge, light scuffing to extrems) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: George G. Harrap & Company

KEYWORDS: literature fiction novel

WILSON, COLIN

FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, VG+ (moderate tanning to page edges, minor staining to upper page edges, minor creasing to extrem and heads of hinges, minor highlighting to pages 123pp and 127pp) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, light creasing and light 2.5cm open tear to front wrapper, minor 0.8cm open tear to front wrapper, light soiling and chipping to rear wrapper, light chipping to head of spine, minor scuffing to base of spine, minor creasing to spine, minor highlighting and pen annotation to front flap, minor soiling and creasing to flaps) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Arthur Baker 1969

KEYWORDS: First Edition literature fiction novel sci-fi sci fi science lovecraft horror Colin Wilson

MILOSZ, CZESLAW

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PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1983

KEYWORDS: poetry lecture literature Czeslaw Milosz academia

DIEMBERGER, KURT & MERRICK, HUGH (trans)

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PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin LTD 1971

KEYWORDS: mountaineering kurt diemberger photographs autobiography memoir literature

ECO, UMBERTO & WEAVER, WILLIAM (trans)

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PUBLISHER: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1984

KEYWORDS: first edition Umberto Eco William Weaver literature postscript