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Nones

By: Auden, W. H.

Price: NZ$47.25

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: (1930)

Seller ID: 22123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Previous owner's name and address on front endpaper. Foxing and fading to dust-jacket. Dust stains. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. ; First UK edition of a title originally published in the US in 1951. 72 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 218 x 138mm. Poetry.
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East Wind: West Wind

By: Buck, Pearl S.

Price: NZ$74.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: (1932)

Seller ID: 22211

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Second UK edition, 1932 (the first UK edition was September 1931). [8 (first leaf blank)], 244, [2], [2 (blank)] pages + 8 pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, blind-stamped lettering and decoration on front board. Page dimensions: 188 x 123mm. A novel. The author's first novel.
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Shakespeare in Harlem

By: Hughes, Langston

Price: NZ$182.25

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1947

Seller ID: 22131

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

No signatures. Some foxing to book and dust-jacket. Dust stains to top page edges. 7mm missing at top of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1947 third printing of a title originally published in 1942. [14], 124, [1], [5 (blank)] pages. Black cloth boards with yellow cloth spine. Violet lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 208 x 1432mm. Top page edges dyed orange. Poetry. With illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer. "This collection of poems on Negro subjects is marked by the engaging qualities - the pervasive feeling for men and women as men and wo...
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The Dark Tower - Wizard and Glass

By: King, Stephen

Price: NZ$100.00

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: (1997)

Seller ID: 22319

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

No signatures. A few small spots and specks of staining to page edges. No tears to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xiv, [2], 672 pages. Red boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 233 x 150mm. With number line 10 to 1.
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Little Anna and her Atom Bomb

By: Leigh, Lezel

Price: NZ$87.00

Publisher: London, Home and Van Thal: (1951)

Seller ID: 22293

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Previous owner's inscription. Minor dampstains to rear panel of dust-jacket. 20mm and shorter tears to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 168 pages. Teal boards with brown lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 183 x 119mm. A novel. Dust-jacket art by the author, Lezel Leigh. "This satirical comedy by an American woman doctor is set in a small university town of the Middle West. Little Anna, the disregarded niece of a professor, obtains possession of specimen component parts of a miniature atom bomb, carelessly left unguarded by the research expert who has u...
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The Feast of All Saints

By: Rice, Anne

Price: NZ$100.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (1979)

Seller ID: 22213

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

No signatures. A little creasing at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. 571, [3 (blank) pages. Beige papered boards with red cloth spine. Gilt lettering on spine, gilt decorations on front board. An historical novel. "The new novel by Anne Rice [. . .] explores a unique but little-known society, the gens de couleur libre, the free people of color, who flourished in New Orleans in the years prior to the Civil War." - from dust-jacket blurb. The author's second novel. Her first novel was "Interview with the Vampire" in 1976.
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The Black House

By: Theroux, Paul

Price: NZ$60.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: (1974)

Seller ID: 22343

ISBN: 0241891094

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

No signatures. A few spots of foxing to endpapers and top page edges. Some foxing to dust-jacket. No tears to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 10, 245, [1 (blank)] pages. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 126mm. The author's seventh novel. "[Paul Theroux] now lives in London with his wife and two children, and is completing a travel book based on a three-month train journey he recently took through Asia and Europe." - from author blurb on rear flap of dust-jacket. "Somewhere in the Black House if a presence so intrusive and unexpect...
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The Gale of the World

By: Williamson, Henry

Price: NZ$80.00

Publisher: London, Macdonald: (1969)

Seller ID: 22300

ISBN: 0356024563

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

No signatures. Some flecking to upper margins of boards. Sprinkle of foxing to page edges. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 368 pages. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 198 x 128mm. "The Gale of the World" is the fifteenth and final novel in the sequence "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight".
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It Was The Nightingale

By: Williamson, Henry

Price: NZ$47.00

Publisher: London, Macdonald: (1962)

Seller ID: 22303

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

No signatures. Dust-jacket has moderate creasing and rubbing and some dust stians and foxing. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 360 pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 125mm. "It Was The Nightingale" is the tenth novel in the 15 novel sequence "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight". No price printed on dust-jacket flap.
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Orlando - A Biography

By: Woolf, Virginia

Price: NZ$105.00

Publisher: London, Hogarth Press: 1928

Seller ID: 22236

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Fading to spine and margins of boards, with some dampstains and loss of colour at lower corners of boards. A couple of light vertical creases to spine. Some bruising to corners of front board. Chip to corner of front free endpaper. Moderate foxing to page edges and scattered spots of foxing to leaves throughout. Lacking the dust-jacket. ; Second printing, in same month as the first edition. 299, [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 7 plates. Orange cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 218 x 138mm. "He - for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time...
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The Wind Among the Reeds

By: Yeats, W. B.

Price: NZ$101.25

Publisher: London, Elkin Mathews: 1911

Seller ID: 22140

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library, Timaru Public Library. Library stamps and markings. Binding worn. Front hinge broken, with gauze repair at gutter. Library blind-stamp and rubber stamp on title page. Library rubber stamp on several pages. Boards rubbed. Some fraying to spine cloth. Chips to paper title label on spine. 9mm chips to paper at lower corners of boards. A 40mm tear to the first blank leaf [pp. i-ii]. A good reading or working copy. ; Sixth edition. vii, [1], 108, [4 (blank)] pages. Pale blue papered boards with cloth spine. Black lettering on front board. Paper title label on spine. Page dimensions: 19...
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Category: English Literature