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Post-Colonial Literatures in English: Southeast Asia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, 1970-1992

By: Williams, Mark

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, G. K. Hall & Company: 1996

Seller ID: 33816

ISBN: 0816173532

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 370 pages; HC in original burgundy cloth with titles in gilt to spine. Snugly bound with clean unmarked text, but with ex-library indications including a superficial catalog label scar at spine and light attachments to endpages. Snug with clean text; condition graded down to reflect prior institutional ownership indications but generally about VG. G+ thus
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Adrift in Soho

By: Wilson, Colin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Brainiac Books: 1993

Seller ID: 32986

ISBN: 1874057028

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 224 pages; Trade sized paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Reprint of Wilson's classic 1961 work. Snugly bound and clean; no marks. Light reader creasing to spine and mild shelf evidence to cover edges. Prior owner name penned to front endpage; text unmarked. VG-
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Galahad [And] I Thought of Daisy

By: Wilson, Edmund

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1967

Seller ID: 37616

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 316 pages; Gathers the earlier printed short novellas in one binding with a new introduction by the author. Snugly bound and clean in original title lettered dust jacket. Superficial dustiness to cloth board; tiny nick to cloth top edge of the lower board. Jacket just slightly shelf rubbed with mild shelf soiling to whites of the panels. VG/VG or better
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Anthill; A Novel

By: Wilson, Edward O.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 2010

Seller ID: 41866

ISBN: 0393071197

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages
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The Miscellaneous Plays of Edwin Booth [Volume 3] Richelieu, the Fool's Revenge, Brutus, Ruy Blas, and Don Caesar De Bazan

By: Winter, William (Ed. ) and Edwin Booth

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Company: 1908

Seller ID: 23343

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

B&W Photograph; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 417 pages; Hardcover in original red cloth with title lettering in gilt to cover and spine. Corners and edges rubbed and a little worn with crimping and stress to the cloth at spine ends. Lettering to spine dulled and fading. Mild foxing throughout. Prior owner bookplate to front pastedown. Illustrated with a tissue guarded frontis portrait. Title page printed in balck and red. This 3rd volume of 3-volume set is complete in itself as the collection of Booth's non Shakespearean plays: Richelieu, the Fool's Revenge, Brutus, Ruy Blas, and Don Caesar De ...
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Christmas Days; 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days [Uncorrected Proof]

By: Winterson, Jeanette

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press: 2016

Seller ID: 41889

ISBN: 0802125832

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 292 pages; [Uncorrected Proof]. Pre-publication 1st printing. Trade sized paperback in pictorial wraps featuring the final art work for the book. Bright, tight and fresh; feels and appears unread. Just trace shelf evidence to covers. NF
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Why be Happy when You Could be Normal? [Uncorrected Proof]

By: Winterson, Jeanette

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press: 2012

Seller ID: 41893

ISBN: 0802120105

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; [Uncorrected Proof] Pre-publication 1st printing of the American edition. Trade sized paperback in glossy color pictorial covers. Bright, tight and fresh; unread copy with just a whisper of shelf evidence to edges. About as new. NF
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Madame Tahiti

By: Wissant, André De and Yvonne Saint-Cyr (Illustrations)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, William Farquhar Payson: 1933

Seller ID: 17482

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pages; Solid, clean copy in original pictorial dust jacket. No marks. General uniform toning to the dust jacket, which is lightly furred along the top edge and somewhat faded at spine. Usual expected binder glue bleed through stains to the endpage joints - almost ubiquotous in 1930's era books. Just a little shaken in the spine. With vignettes in line by Yvonne Saint-Cyr. VG/VG-
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Les Guerilleres;

By: Wittig, Monique and David Le Vay (Trans. )

Price: $29.50

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1971

Seller ID: 22981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 144 pages; Hardcover in glossy pictorial dust jacket. Snug, solid and neat. A few tiny pencil check marks scattered in the text could easily be erased. Dust jacket crisp edged and bright with a tiny closed tear to the bottom edge rear panel. A bright and attractive copy of this important feminist text. VG++/VG+
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If I Were You

By: Wodehouse, P. G

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company: 1931

Seller ID: 37622

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 305 pages; HC 1st US edition. Soundly bound in original orange cloth with titles in maroon to cover and spine. Cloth color faded and a little toned at spine. Cloth crimped and a little rubbed at spine ends. Trace rub through to cloth at corner tips. A small insect predation bore to the front edge of the page block. Sound but a bit worn and distressed 1st American edition. Good only
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Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

By: Wodehouse, P. G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Overlook Press: 2002

Seller ID: 25277

ISBN: 1585672297

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 231 pages; Reissue of the 1954 novel originally published as Bertie Wooster Sees it Through. 1st printing of this new edition. Solid clean copy in pictorial dust jacket with mild handling/shelf soil and light rubbing at edges. VG+/VG
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Those We Love Most

By: Woodruff, Lee

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 2012

Seller ID: 27810

ISBN: 1401341780

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 305 pages; Tight and bright in clean crisp-edged dust jacket. Just mild shelf/handling wear to covers at edges. Tiny puncture pin hole to dust jacket and board near spine. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. Solid neat copy. VG+/VG+; Signed by Author
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A Writer's Diary

By: Woolf, Virginia & Leonard Woold (Ed. )

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace & Company: 1954

Seller ID: 43269

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 356 pages; HC/DJ. Early printing. Snugly bound and very neat in original pictorial dust jacket from a design by Vanessa Bell, with publisher's $5.00 isse price intact to unclipped front flap. Text bright and fresh; no marks. Superficial pull to cloth at crown; trace shelf eviedence to jacket edges. A very well preserve3d and attractive copy. VG++/VG++ or better
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Pagan Spain

By: Wright, Richard

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, Harper and Brothers: 1957

Seller ID: 24747

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; Snug and neatin black cloth over peach, paper covered boards with title-lettering in orange to spine. Spine just slightly shelf-cocked. Prior owner's name and catalog note penned neatly in tiny script to front endpaper. Text clean and unmarked. Lacking dust jacket; otherwise VG+
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The Three Fountains

By: Young, Stark

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1924

Seller ID: 28701

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 195 pages; Soundly bound in original blue cloth with publisher's printed paper title label to spine. Trace soiling to cream colored title label; superficial shelf rub to board edges. Mild split between front endpage and half-title page - with the front fly starting slightly along the front edged and a little furred where it has protruded. Solid clean copy with mild split at front. G+
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A Biographical Sketch of Pearl S. Buck

By: Zinn, Lucille S. (compiled)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Buckhannon, WV, Ralston Press: 1989

Seller ID: 17405

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 19 pages; Slim paperback in saddle-stapled, pictorial paper wraps. Clean, neat copy. No marks. The 2nd printing issued by Ralston Press after a 1980 initial publication. Includes a complete alphabetical list of Buck's books. Nice copy. Uncommon. NF
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La Curée

By: Zola, Émile & Alexander Teixeire De Mattos (Trans. ) & Henry James (Intro. )

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Boni and Liveright: 1924

Seller ID: 30254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 323 pages; Stout large 8vo in original laid paper dust jacket with decorative title design to spine. Limited to 2050 copies as one in the set of Zola works issued by Boni. Tightly bound in original black cloth with printed paper title label to spine. Flawed only by a few very small areas of mild silverfish evidence to the sizing of the cloth - lower front corner of the cover and in the gutter of the front hinge. Additional publisher provided title label tipped in at rear. Edges untrimmed and in some places unopened. Text printed on laid paper. Uncommon dust ja...
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The Crowning of a King

By: Zweig, Arnold and Eric Sutton (translation)

Price: $195.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1938

Seller ID: 17474

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 458 pages; In a translation by Eric Sutton. Square, snug copy in original dust jacket. Bound in black cloth with title lettering bright to cover board but flaked and indistinct to spine -- as is common in this title. Pictorial dust jacket is uniformly bright with small spots of rub at spine edges and ends, corners and panel edges. Publisher's $2.50 issue price intact on unclipped front flap. Spidered stress creasing to jacket at crown of spine panel is light. A few very short closed tears at jacket edges. Publisher's red top stain is bright and uniform. Illustrated w...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. ; Vols. 1-2 Complete; a New Edition

By: [Irving, Washington]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard: 1840

Seller ID: 38045

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 500 pages; "A New Edition". Two volumes, 12mo, uniformly bound in blue/green cloth with publisher's printed paper labels to spines. Prior ownership of Alice Waddell in manuscript to the top front corner of the title pages of both vlumes. Front endpages lacking from both volumes; in each the first leaf is the title page. Paper labels toned and rubbed with a pair of tiny chips missing from label of Vol I. Expected and usual moderate toning and spotting to page stock. Light shelf rubbing to cloth at extremities. G++
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The Hermit : Or, the Unparalleled Sufferings and Surprising Adventures of Philip Quarll, an Englishman. Who Was Lately Discovered Upon an Uninhabited Island in the South-Sea ; Where He Lived Above Fifty Years, Without Any Human Assistance. ... with an Elegant Frontispiece

By: [Longueville, Peter ]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, Printed for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater ; and for Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, York: 1796

Seller ID: 26010

Binding: Full leather

Condition: Good

Engraved frontis; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 264 pages; 12mo in full period calf. Illustrated with copperplate engraved frontis facing the title page. Simple period bookplate to pastedown has had the name rubbed from the plate. Leather pitted and chipped at spine. Partial splits to leather at external joints have left the boards tenuously attached; inner hinges holding. Contents clean and generally bright with no foxing or darkening of note. Boards rubbed at edges and corners. Decent copy includes the oft-lacking engraved frontis. A later reissue of this popular 18th century Crusoe-esque ad...
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Category: Literature