Harold Pinter: The Poetics of Silence
Carbondale (Ill.): Southern Illinois University Press, 1970. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp xii, 143. Previous owner's signature. Occasional highlighting. Good condition. Literary critiicism.
Carbondale (Ill.): Southern Illinois University Press, 1970. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp xii, 143. Previous owner's signature. Occasional highlighting. Good condition. Literary critiicism.
London: Hurst & Blackett. 8vo, original green cloth boards with gilt decoration to boards, b&w frontis plate, pp 319. N.d., early 1900s. Boards rubbed, previous owner's signature ffep, front endpapers foxed, front hinge cracked.
New York: Otto Penzler, 1994. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 330. Near-fine in like d.j.
Philadelphia: George Barrie, c. 1893. Trans. Edouard Jolivet; trans. Jules Gray. Four volumes, original cloth boards with original paper title labels, b&w frontis plate and b&w plates (engraved etchings) each volume, pp 369, 343, 303, 291. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. N.d., c. 1893. 'Les Miserables' is handwritten at.....
Melbourne: Currey O'Neil, (1886) 1985. Repr., octavo, pp.(v), (6)-322, b&w fronts., ribbon marker, gilt dec leatherette, near fine condn. Published in Melbourne in 1886 and set in the streets of Melbourne, the first edition of 5,000 copies Hume's murder thriller sold within a week of release. This copy bound in.....
London: Constable & Co., 1955. 8vo, original cloth boards, pp 320. Stamps to title page, toning to pages, o/w good condn. Teachers at an inner-city school in New York, the basis for the 1955 film. (Evan Hunter was a pen name; the author is now better known by another pen.....
Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc, 1982. Walter Murdoch. 54 volumes, Royal 8vo., tan faux leather bindings, gilt dec spine with gilt title labels, light markings to few volumes, some spotting to top edges, otherwise a very good complete (heavy) set. Please contact us direct for quotes on postage of this large.....
London: Brentano's, 1924. Trans. Mrs Frances E. Archer. Octavo, original paper-covered cloth boards with decoarative border, split to lower spine, pp 91. Clean and in very good condition. Ibsen's play, published by the London office of the US bookstore Brentano's.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1969. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp xiv, 325. Previous owner's signature. Dustjacket worn and chipped to edges, Very good condition in good d,j. The diamond in history and in modern Australian use. First published as "Stone of Destiny" in 1948, this edition with additional.....
New York: Everyman's Library, 2012. Introd. Salman Rushdie. Octavo, red cloth boards with black and gilt spine title, dustjacket, pp xxix, 213. No date later than 2012 is indicated, but must be 2017 or later because the duthacket refers to Ishiguro winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fine condition in.....
London: The Book Club, 1959. Octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 372. Dustjacket foxed, small chip top of spine and top rear corner. Foxing outside edge of text block and early and last pages: text fairly clean, original green boards clean. Very good condition in good d.j., protected. An uncommon.....
London: Bison Books, 1992. (Mary Shelley). 1st ed., quarto, pp. 96, incl Indes, col and b&w plates, very good in d.j. Published in 1818, Mary Shelley's gothic novel "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus" has inspired scores of film and TV adaptations.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1983. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 233. Very good condition. Australian classics, combined and condensed for this edition. First published 1905 and 1908.
Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall, 1914. Octavo, cloth boards, b&w frontis plate, pp 186. Number inscribed front free endpaper, no other marks. Very good condition. Scarce. Adventure romance, written by John Sandes uder the pseudonym Don Delaney.
London: Bodley Head, 1976. Original cloth boards, dustjacket, publisher's green tint top edge slightly faded, pp 939 (including appendix with corresponding page numbers in old and new Bodley Head editions). Very clean, near-fine condition in like d.j. This new edition entirely re-set 1960, revised in 1969, eleventh impression 1976...
London: Folio Society, 1998. Etchings by Mimmo Paladino. Large octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt illustration, colour plates by Mimmo Paladino, pp xix, 735. Previous owner's bookplate front free endpaper, without slip-case otherwise near fine condition. Ulysses, based on the 1926 second edition, with preface by Joyce's grandson and full-page.....
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing/MGM, 1966. Illus. Tom Gill. Original pictorial boards, sepia-toned illus, dec endpapers, pp 210. Some scuffing to boards. Good condition. Based on the television series.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1972. Octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 178, The dustjacket (from a painting by Arthur Boyd) lightly worn to edges, small closed tear, ink marks to the reverse side not affecting the outer side. Near-fine condition in good d.j. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is set.....
London: Panther, 1974. Octavo, wraps, pp 175. Previous owner's signature. Spine worn. Very good condition Novel of two young men in pursuit of life's truths via the Way of Zen. Their search takes them from San Francisco to the high Sierras.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1962. 1st UK ed., octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp vi, 183. Previous owner's signature front free endpaper. Unclipped dustjacket lightly worn to edges, small rubbed area spine, remains of tape to eps, contents clean. Very good condition in very good protected d.j. Autobiographical, describing Jack Kerouac's.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp xi, 622. Near fine in like d.j. Explores the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contacts and pledges. An investigation of some of the most systems of early modern England through readings of Shakespeare's language.
London: Picador, 1975. Octavo, wraps, pp 255. Binding splitting. Good condition. Contemporary classic set in a mental institution.
London: Folio Society, 2015. Introd, John Sutherland; illus. David Hughes. First printing thus. Original cloth boards decoprated with stamped lettering, colour and b&w plates, pp xv, 310. Near fine condition in like slipcase. Ken Kesey's contemporary classic set in a mental institution. It became an award-winning film in 1975. "Kesey's.....
London: Folio Society, 2016. Illus. Edward Kinsella; introd. Stephen King. First impression. Large octavo, original black cloth boards decorated in red and silver, b&w frontis, colour plates, dec endpapers, pp.521. Near fine condition in like original slipcase. Stephen King's classic horror novel, his first hardcover bestseller. Famously filmed by Stanley.....
London: Macmillan, 1898. Illus. I.W. Taber. Octavo, original cloth boards with pictorial gilt, all edges gilt, b&w frontis plate with tissue guard, b&w plates, pp viii, 245, ii. 'A. Yuille' stamped in gilt lower left hand corner front board with 'A. Yuille' pencilled ownership signature half-title page, Some light foxing.....