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The Literature category is still being written, please review after a period! Meanwhile, here are the first drafts ... Some best-selling writers and modern works may be found on the Fiction page.
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| Used, out of print and rare Literature |
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Memoirs
Amis, Kingsley (Hutchinson) London, 1991
First edition UK, out-of-print hardback in dustjacket [clean bright & glossy, tiny snag at spine top/tail, not price-clipped], Medium octavo over 9x6inches, 346pp with index, b/w photo illustrations, dark blue cloth/gilt, no inscriptions, covers & contents unblemished, fine book. Fine/VG++. {with pen portraits of people like Larkin, Yevtushenko, Driberg, Thatcher, Burgess, Powell, Braine, Betjeman et al} [NB non-standard item for delivery non-standard item for delivery] [DD* 25611] £6.00 ($10.00) |
Greek Society
Andrewes, Antony (Penguin) London, 1981
Out-of-print paperback, 324pp with index, bibliography, chronology & maps, bright wraps, minor shelf-wear, very faint edge-tan o/w: VG. [LG 15873] £4.50 ($7.00) |
Greek Society
Andrewes, Antony (Penguin) London, 1981
Out-of-print paperback, 324pp with index, bibliography, chronology & maps, bright wraps, minor shelf-wear, very faint edge-tan o/w VG. [DD* 25612] £4.50 ($7.00) |
Nook Farm. Mark Twain's Hartford Circle
Andrews, Kenneth R (Harvard University Press) Cambridge , 1950
1st US edition, out-of-print hardback in dustjacket [small loss across spine head likewise triangular loss at bottom front panel, spine base snagged/repaired, corners rubbed, price-clipped], 288pp with index, green boards with very light edge-extremities fade, bookplate of Paul Gurley Merrow on pastedown, sepia tints illustrations [LL 16486] £15.50 ($25.00) |
Nook Farm. Mark Twain's Hartford Circle
Andrews, Kenneth R (Harvard University Press) Cambridge, 1950
1st US edition, out-of-print hardback in dustjacket [small loss across spine head likewise triangular loss at bottom front panel, spine base snagged/repaired, corners rubbed, price-clipped], 288pp with index, green boards with very light edge-extremities fade, bookplate of Paul Gurley Merrow on pastedown, sepia tints illustrations, no Fine [DD* 25613] £12.50 ($20.00) |
Mountbatten. Eighty years in pictures
Anon (Macmillan) London, 1979
First edition UK, out-of-print hardback in dustjacket [not price-clipped], Crown quarto over 10x7.5inches 10x7.5, 224pp with index, unblemished blue boards/gilt, no inscriptions, family tree endpapers, colour portrait frontis plate with family crest on reverse, profuse illustrations in colour + b/w, foreword by Lord Mountbatten, fine copy. Fine [NFT 16361] £7.95 ($13.00) |
Anonymous 1871-1935
Anon (John Murray) London, 1936
First edition UK, out-of-print hardback in blue cloth/gilt, Medium octavo over 9x6inches, 336pp with index, portrait frontis & b/w plates, boards show little wear & only faint blemishes, no inscriptions, clean unmarked textblock. VG. [LL 17830] £19.95 ($32.00) |
Book of Common Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the Use of The Church of England: together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches; and
Anon (for William Clowes & Sons at the University Press) Oxford, c1920
Out-of-print miniature hardback in black faux-leather/gilt, Ruby 32mo 4.5x3, 208pp with index & reference table of hymns in old & new editions, covers quite bright but edge-rubbed with gilt rubbed off, pseudo-raised spine bands, British crest blindstamped to both boards with legen [LL 18990] £19.95 ($32.00) |
Methodist Hymn-Book
Anon (Methodist Conference Office) London, 1933
First edition UK thus, out-of-print hardback in black morocco/gilt, sq Foolscap octavo over 6.5x4.5inches, xv + 446pp with indexes of first lines, verses & authors, translators and sources, quite clean bright covers, corners bumped with bottom rt chafed, owner's inscription to ffep, all-edges-gilt, textblock clean bright & unmarked except for [LL 18991] £9.50 ($15.00) |
Methodist School Hymnal
Anon (Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Department) London, c1900
Out-of-print hardback in black morocco/gilt, sq Foolscap octavo over 6.5x4.5inches, xii + 244pp with index of first lines, quite clean boards rubbed & chafed with gilt titling on upper, bottom rear corner broken but taped internally, backstrip has disintegrated, front inner hinge reinforced with sellotape [LL 18992] £4.50 ($7.00) |
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[ Last updated 02 February 2012 ]
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