WORTLEY MONTAGU, LADY MARY & HALSBAND, ROBERT (Ed) & GRUNDY, ISOBEL (Ed.)

Super octavo softcover (VG+) occasional minor underlining in pencil; 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: Clarendon Press 1993

KEYWORDS: essays poetry poems comedy Lady Mary Wortley Montagu literature

PANNAM, CLIFFORD L

Super octavo, white card boards, brown spine lettered in greent; illus. eps; [6] + xii + 190 pp.; VG+ (sl soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing; light bruising to edges & extrems; some tanning).

PUBLISHER: Hybrid Publishers 2000

KEYWORDS: China Chinese poetry literature criticism translation

TOVEY, GORDON

First edition. Octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; illus. tp; 75 pp.; VG+ (moderate soiling & rubbing to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges; some foxing to eps; sl tanning throughout); lacking d/w.

PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 1976

KEYWORDS: Gordon Tovey New Zealand poetry modern first edition

ASIMOV, ISAAC

Octavo, tan card boards, black cl spine lettered in red & white; xiv + 272 pp.; VG (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light & foxing soiling to pg edges, eps & prelims/terminals; prev ownership inscr to ffep; some peeling to fr pastedown); in d/w VG- (moderate soiling & rubbing; moderate to heavy bruising to edges & extrems w moderate to heavy chipping; archival repairs to edges; some tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Doubleday & Company 1977

KEYWORDS: Isaac Asimov poems poetry literature literary criticism

ARIOSTO, LUDOVICO; SLAVITT, DAVID R (transl.); ROSS, CHARLES S (introd.)

Super octavo, blue card boards, black cl spine lettered in silver gilt; xvi + 672 pp.; VG+ (moderate soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); lacking d/w.

PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press 2009

KEYWORDS: 16th sixteenth century poetry poems literature Ludovico Ariosto

CHATTERTON, THOMAS & SKEAT, REV WALTER W (essay) & BELL, EDWARD (memoir by)

2 VOLUME SET. Super octavo, mustard buckram boards, black lettering to spines, occasional decoration to chapter headers, vol 1 cvii+379pp, vol 2 xlvi+346pp, VG (light tanning/soiling & bruising to spines, minor scuffing & soiling to boards of vol 1- moderate to vol 2, light soiling and foxing to page edges, light foxing to eps, very light foxing throughout, occasional pencil annotations).

PUBLISHER: AMS Press 1968

KEYWORDS: Thomas Chatterton poetry biography UK Britain collected works poems literature

GRANET, MARCEL; EDWARDS, E D (transl.)

Super octavo, red card boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; 281 pp.; VG+ (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: Gordon Press 1975

KEYWORDS: Shih ching China Chinese poetry poems history criticism festivals

BRAILSFORD, BARRY

Signed by author. Numbered FIRST EDITION (#59). Prev owner's pre-publication receipt loosely enclosed. Quarto, grey card boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; illus., photos; 320 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, w some sl chiping; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (light to moderate soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: StonePrint Press 2004

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history songs folklore poetry history

BRAILSFORD, BARRY

FIRST EDITION. Typed & signed letter and autographed bookmark loosely enclosed. Super octavo, illus. card boards, spine & front boardlettered in gilt; illus.; 192 pp.; VG+ (moderate soiling & rubbing to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges & eps).

PUBLISHER: StonePrint Press 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori folklore history songs poems poetry

WOOD, MICHAEL

Octavo, illus heavy boards, white & gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 191pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising/creasing to spine, sl chafing & soiling to boards, pgs13-20 partailly detached but present)

PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2023

KEYWORDS: literature literary biography memoir Du Fu poetry poets China Chinese history historical

DONNE, JOHN & GARDNER, HELEN (Ed, Intro & Commentary)

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, base of page block deckled, xcviii + 147pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing to prelims inc. frontis)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1964

KEYWORDS: classic literature poems poetry verse John Donne

AVIADO, VIRGILIO & CABRERA, BEN & YUSON, ALFRED A (eds.)

Imp. octavo, illus. card boards; illus., photos; 138 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges; some soiling to prelims).

PUBLISHER: Anvil 2001

KEYWORDS: erotic erotica Filipino Philippines art literature poetry

SINCLAIR, MARJORIE (Collected & Ed)

FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, super octavo, cream heavy boards, lilac gilt lettering to spine, xxiii + 216pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Hawai'i Press 1982

KEYWORDS: first editions literature Polynesia Polynesian poetry poems verse anthology collection

COPE, JOAN PENELOPE (Trans) & CAMPBELL, ROY (Preface)

Octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to spine, 58pp, VG (moderate foxing/discolouration to spine & boards/edges, light bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional light foxing throughout, frequent light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG (in plastic rpotective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing & chipping to edges, minor tanning to spine, moderate foxing)

PUBLISHER: The Pound Press 1953

KEYWORDS: poems poetry verse literature middle ages anthology

NAIR, KARTHIKA

Ownership Signature of Brian Moloughney. 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 cost

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2015

KEYWORDS: history poetry mythology fiction India literature Mahabharata

DANYI, ZHENG & HUI, LUO (Trans)

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, orange light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, xxxxi + 293pp, VG (moderate fading to spine, minor creasing & fading to wrapper edges, light chafing & soiling to wrappers, moderate tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep, prev. bookseller's sm label tipped in to ffep also)

PUBLISHER: Sixth Finger Press 2003

KEYWORDS: Chinese literature poetry poems verse Zheng Danyi

WILLIAMS, BERNARD

Super octavo, white cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; xii + 254 pp.; VG (light soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges; heavy annotation /underlining in pen throughout); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1993

KEYWORDS: philosophy ancient Greek poetry ethics shame

FINLAYSON, RODERICK

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: Twayne 1972

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poet poetry biography literature D'arcy Darcy Cresswell Roderick Finlayson

CUMMINGS, E E & FRIMAGE, GEORGE JAMES (edited/afterword)

First Edition. Imperial 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: Liverlight 1985

KEYWORDS: first edition E E Cummings manuscripts literature poetry

BROOKE, RUPERT & STRACHEY, JAMES & HALE, KEITH (edited)

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PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1998

KEYWORDS: first edition literature letters poetry queer lgbt history gay Rupert Brooke James Strachey