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Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1980. 3 VOLUME SET COMPLETE. ix, 559; v, pp561-1133; iv, pp1135-1605; black on cream illustrations, place marker ribbon in each volume. Orange cloth in jackets. Ex-university department with small stamps on front and rear endpapers of each volume, some fading to spine and edges, light/minor edge/folds wear to jackets. One of the best known and best loved ancient Chinese novels set mainly in the final years of Hui Zong, a Song Dynasty emperor who reigned from 1101-1125.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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3 Volumes-Complete. Outlaws of the Marsh. Volume 1, 2, 3.
by Shi Nai'an & Luo Guanzhong; Shapiro, Sidney (translator)
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Captain James Cook. Image and Impact. South Seas Discoveries and the World of Letters.
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Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press, 1972. 136pp, notes. Or blue cloth in jacket. Price excised from front flap, very light edge wear to jacket, small bookseller label on front pastedown. Papers read in the Section of General and Comparative Literature during the XIII Congress of the Australian Language and Literature Association at Monash University, Melbourne.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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Charles Dickens and New Zealand. A Colonial Image.
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Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1965. 184pp + vii, 64pp catalogue of Dickens in the Dunedin Library, index, appendices, bibliography, few bw ills. Or red cloth lacking jacket. #253 of an edition limited to 750 copies.. First Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.
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The Chian Wine and other stories.
by O'Brian, Patrick.
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London: Collins, 1975. 8vo, 221 pp, bibliography. Original green cloth, gilt spine titles, in chipped, price-clipped dustwrapper, now protected, with two closed tears by upper edge rear panel. Six of the 17 tales included were published here for the first time; the others were extensively rewritten.. First edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/very good.
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Comstockery in America. Patterns of Censorship and Control.
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Boston: Beacon Press, 1960. xii, 199pp, index, bibliography, few bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Small scrape to rear jacket panel, large stamp of previous owner and in memorium gift stamp on several pages including all endpapers. Analysis of censorship in America introducing the reader to the problem of restraints-public and private- imposed on books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and television broadcasts.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees.
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy., 1956. 8pp, illustrations. Or decorative papered boards. Some rubbing to spine. Stated first edition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.
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The Curious Case of Sidd Finch.
by Plimpton, George.
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Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1987. 275pp, frontispiece, index, marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Or burgundy leather with gilt decoration. With silk ribbon page marker. SIGNED by the author. Near new. . Signed by Author. Signed Limited First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Ziering, Bob (frontis). 8vo.
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Daniel Defoe's Moral and Rhetorical Ideas.
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Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria, 1980. 112pp, notes. Or buff card. Tiny crease to top front corner. English Literary Studies Monograph Series No. 19.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.
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Desolate Angel. A Biography. Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation and America.
by McNally, Dennis.
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New York: Delta, 1990. vii, 400pp, index, source notes, bw ills. Or card covers. Inside covers, page edges and margins toned; a little writing on rear blank. Biography of the leading figure of the Beat Generation.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.
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Discourses of Empire. Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain.
by Simerka, Barbara.
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University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. viii, 224pp, index, works cited. Or cloth backed boards in jacket. Near new. Examines the representation of militant Christian imperialism in early modern Spanish literature (1500-1700). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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Dream and Disillusion. A Search for Australian Cultural Identity.
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Canberra: Australian National University, 1976. xi, 279pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix. Or purple cloth in jacket. Near new. Explores, through the works of four writers and their friends in Melbourne in the first 40 years of the 20th century (Vance Palmer, Frank Wilmot, Louis Esson and Frederick Sinclair), the struggle to identify what was unique and valuable in Australian life.Palmer and his associates sought to realise an Australian literary nationalism.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.
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Ernest Hemingway. By-Line.selectes Articles and Despatches of Four Decades.
by Hemingway, Ernest; White, William (editor); Young, Philip (commentaries)
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London: Collins, 1968. 479pp. Or red boards in jacket. Jacket price clipped. Jacket wrinkled from overly tight application of protective plastic sleeve.Selected articles and despatches recording the adventure that was Hemingway's life, and the events from which he fashioned his stories.. First Edition in Book Form. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. 8vo.
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Fingers at Air: experimental poems 1969. SIGNED
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Ipswich: The Author, 1969. 205 x 165 mm, unpaginated [48 pp]. Privately printed limited edition number 180 of 200 signed copies. Stapled stiff card in dustwrapper. The poems range through meditative introspection in 'Dance Dance' and sensuous delight in 'A Form of Dance' to urbane wit in 'Cages/Bars' and the increasing awareness, poised between anguish and celebration of the final sequences, 'Paint Out The Bars' and 'Free Flight'.' . Signed by Author(s). First edition.. Stiff Card. Very Good/Very Good.
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The Fortune of War.
by O'Brian, Patrick.
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London: Collins, 1979. 8vo, 280 pages. Blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, in dustwrapper (not price-clipped although blue biro has been marked through the price of £5.50). Faint trace of pink tinge at a small section of the fore-edge. Erasure mark by upper corner of the front free end-paper which is partially lightly toned. Very Good/Near Fine. The sixth book in the Aubrey and Maturin series.. First edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/near fine.
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Inspirational Teaching. A Record of Experimental Work in the Teaching of English.
by Mackaness, George.
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London: J.M. Dent, 1928. xi, 225pp, 1 folding chart. Or grey cloth lacking jacket. Prev owner name crossed out on front free endpaper, moderate foxing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.
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The Lyre of Orpheus.
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Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1988. 472pp, col ills, marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Or green leather with gilt decoration. With silk ribbon page marker. SIGNED by the author. Third in a series of novels exploring the life of Francis Cornish. . Signed by Author. Signed Limited First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by VanValkenburgh, Sherilyn.. 8vo.
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Micomicana.
by Lindsay, Norman; Lindsay, Jane (introduction)
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Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1977. HEAVY. x, 292pp; about 200 bw ills. Or full leather with purple silk page marker ribbon in velvet lined cloth Solander case as issued. Some foxing to page edges, case/box a little worn/rubbed/marked. Somewhat musty. Limited to 527 copies of which this #491 signed by the artist/author's daughter Jane Lindsay. Written between the 1950s and 1970s this collection of somewhat bawdy tales and around 200 accompanying drawings they had not previously been published. Norman gave the manuscript to his daughter, Jane.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Lindsay, Norman.. Folio.
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Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties.
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Garden City: Blue Ribbon Books, 1941. xviii, 381pp, index, bibliography, frontis portrait. Or brown cloth lacking jacket. Endpapers toned, fading to spine.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo.
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Patrick And The Cat Who Saw Beyond Time
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Dernancourt, SA: Bliss Publishing, 1995. This copy is #103 of 108 handmade books individually signed and numbered by the author. 205 x 150 mm, iv + 60 pp, with nine tipped-in colour plates. With a note from the author 'To Beryl, with much love from Zoe (Sitadevi) by the upper edge of the page describing this first edition with the number (103) and Sitadevi's signature. Cloth-backed white card covers in pictorial dust-wrapper which is lightly edge-worn with some foxing. From the rear cover 'This is a magical story. It is about a cat and a boy and a family in the Australian bush. But it is a magical cat and a magical boy and a magical country. The cat comes from beyond time and teaches the boy to discover the hidden mystery of his own soul and of the land on which he lives. We all live in two worlds. There is the world of everyday life and there is also the world of dreams and fantasy and poetry and also of religion. It is a strange world which can lead to madness but also lead to the…
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Research on Western European Languages and Literatures in Australia Since 1958.
by Kirsop, Wallace.
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Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1975. 32pp. Or yellow stapled card. Some foxing to covers. SIGNED and inscribed (For Ion Jack etc-note Ion/Jack is Ion Idriess).. Signed & Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.
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