Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Books for sale or trade.

As my moving to Auckland grows ever closer, I'm cleaning out. The amount of stuff I have to do, and stuff I've accrued, is scary. As such here is a preliminary list of books I have to get rid of. Please enquire for better grading of condition, or if you want anything. Make an offer. I've also still got copies of my chapbook.

Without any further ado:

Aeschylus. Oresteia. PB, good.

Baxter, James K. The Labyrinth. HB, 1st, DJ Sunned and chipped, otherwise fine.
__________. Ode To Auckland and other Poems. 3rd printing. Stain to back cover.

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Hights. Small HB, w DJ, good.

Brown, David Lyndon. Skin Hunger. PB, VG+.

Carver, Raymond. Catherdal, Elephant, What we talk about when we talk about love, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?. Vintage PBs. VG+.

______________. All of Us: The Collected Poems. PB, VG+.

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness and other Stories. PB, VG

Danielewski, Mark Z. House of Leaves. PB, VG.

__________, Only Revolutions HB, 1st (upteenth printing) EX.

DeLillo, Don. White Noise. PB, good.

Di Prima, Diane (trans). Seven Love Poems from the Middle Latin. Chapbook by the Poets Press. Stapled binding, spine worn.

Doctorow, EL. The Waterworks. 1st Australian. Ex Libris. HB, w DJ. Good reading copy.

___________. Ragtime. Book Club ed. HB, WJ. Good cond.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. HB, binding loose.

Drumheller, Doc and Fox, Ciaran (eds). Catalyst 6. PB VG+

Eliot, TS. Collected Poems. HB, w DJ, EX.

Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. PB, worn.

Fitzgerald, F Scott. The Great Gatsby. PB, VG+.

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Mass market pb. Good reading copy.

Hall, Bernadette. Heartwood. PB, Good.

Heinlein. Robert A. Starship Troopers. PB. Worn, spine damaged.

Homer, The Iliad and the Odyssey. Trans. Chapman. PB, Good.

Hulme, Keri. The Bone People. PB, good cond. Winner of the Booker Prize.

Ihimaera, Witi (ed). Where’s Waari? Collection of fiction dealing with Maori identity. PB, VG+.

Joyce, James. Dubliners. PB, Good.

_________. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. PB, worn.

Kafka, Franz. The Trial. One of those fake leather fancy binding edition things. HB. Good.

Kramer, Samuel Noah. Sumerian Mythology. PB, Good.

LeBas, Jessica. Incognito. AUP, poetry, VG.

Lee, Corrine. Pyx. PB, Spine damaged.

Levertov, Denise. With Eyes at the Back of our Heads. PB, worn.

Martel, Yann. The Life of Pi. PB, good.

Maupassant, Guy de. Short Stories. PB, good.

McQeen, Cilla. Wild Sweets. PB, G.

___________. Soundings. PB, G.

Morrisey, Michael (ed). The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories. PB, VG.

Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. HB Lib binding. Fair.

Plato. The Republic. One of those fake leather fancy binding edition things. HB. Good.

Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. PB, good.

______________. Gravity’s Rainbow. PB. Good

_____________. V. PB, worn.

Sims, Laura. Stranger. Fence. As New (double up!).

Smith, Zadie. White Teeth. PB. Good reading copy.

Stein, Gurtrude. Selected Writings, ed. Carl van Vechten. PB, Good.

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. One of those fake leather fancy binding edition things. HB. Good.

Swenson, May. Love Poems. PB, Good, a bit rough.

Swift, Jonathan. Gullivers Travels. Small HB, good.

Taylor, Apirana. Soft Leaf Falls of Moon. PB, VG+

Tolkien, JRR. The Lord of the Rings. PB set in box. A bit battered, tear to edge of box.

__________. The Hobbit. HB, ex libris, no jacket. A bit bumped.

__________. The Silmililion. PB. Good.

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. PB, VG+.

Undset, Sigrid. Kristin Lavransatter. PB, worn.

Virgil. The Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid. Trans. C Day Lewis. PB, worn.

Weaver, Donna Karen (ed). Caketrain 2 Fall/winter 2004. Good.

Wedde, Ian. Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos. 1st, v. scarce. VG+.

2 comments:

Richard said...

Hi Ross. I would interested in V by Pynchon; Swenson, May. Love Poems. PB, and maybe Undset, Sigrid. Kristin Lavransatter. PB, worn.

I want them for myself not as a book dealer.

Would you take $12 for the three?

Richard

Ross Brighton said...

Done deal - though I'll have to check postage prices. Email em your address, and I'll check them, then give you my back details if that's good for you.