Ralph Hotere O E Middleton (5 results)

First edition, Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Brief stories with settings as various as a New Zealand pub at six o'clock and an American jail. When O. E. (Ted) Middleton arrived to take up his Fellowship in 1970, he was already intending to make Dunedin his home and place of work. Two tangible results that year were the short stories 'The Will to Win' and 'The Loners', the latter becoming the title story to the collection published by Charles Brasch and Janet Paul's Square & Circle press in 1972. The cover and illustrations were done by Ralph Hotere; the block present prints the image facing 'The Will to Win'. Owner's Name inside; First Edition. First edition. Pages edges just beginning to fox, very very minor fading on cover, towards spine. Otherwise very good condition. 111 pages.…

Soft Cover. Condition: As New. First Edition. Middletons stories often focus on marginalised men or children, and express working-class empathy while commenting on wider cultural issues. CONDITION 111 pages, unread unworn copy. Hotere illustrations where created at a time when he started introducing literary elements to his work and collaborating with notable writers. It is considered one of his best periods. notable writers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ralph Hotere (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Previous owner's signature. Rebound.; 111, [1] pages. This copy rebound in boards with red cloth spine, with most of the original card wrappers laid down on the boards. Page dimensions: 224 x 125mm. Short stories by a New Zealand author. Cover illustration, frontispiece and several other illustrations by Ralph Hotere.; 8vo. Illustrated by Hotere, Ralph (illustrator). …

DATED & SIGNED, octavo, illus light card covers, illus eps & prelims, 111pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine extrems & cover corners, lightly moderate foxing to page edges & eps).