CASANOVA DE SEINGALT, JACQUES & MACHEN, ARTHUR (Trans)

COMPLETE SIX VOLUME SET, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, various pagination, illus, VG (light scuffing/bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading to spines of some vols, light to moderate soiling to some boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink with tippex/white-out to front eps to all vols, heavy crack to front gutter of vol 2- front board sl shaky)

PUBLISHER: G. P. Putnam's Sons / Elek Books N/D

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WEIWEI, AI & BARR, ALLAN H. (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head 2021

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PYM, BARBARA & HOLT, HAZEL (Ed) & PYM, HILARY (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: Papermac / Macmillan 1994

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SCHUMER, AMY

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PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2016

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BARTHES, ROLAND & HOWARD, RICHARD (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1987

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HIGHTON, PAUL

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PUBLISHER: Paul Highton N/D

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MOSS, GEOFFREY

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PUBLISHER: Moss Associates 2000

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RODMAN, DENNIS & SILVER, MICHAEL

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PUBLISHER: Bantam Books 1997

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BARRIE, J. M. & MEYNELL, VIOLA (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: Peter Davies 1942

KEYWORDS: letters correspondence J M Barrie collection literature literary autobiography

NABOKOV, VLADIMIR & NABOKOV, DMITRI (Ed) & BRUCCOLI, MATTHEW J. (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: Vintage 1991

KEYWORDS: literary autobiography autobiographical letters correspondence Vladimir Nabokov collection

GAZALE, MIDHAT

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PUBLISHER: The American University in Cairo Press 2004

KEYWORDS: first editions Midhat Gazale Egypt autobiography memoir

PERRY, PAUL et al

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PUBLISHER: Thunder's Mouth Press 1996

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MILNE, JAMES

LOSS OF BOTTOM THIRD OF SPINE, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, ix + 214pp + 32pp catalogue to rear, VG- (spine partially missing, moderate scuffing & fraying to extrems, light tanning to spine, moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, ffep missing, prev. owner's name in pencil to half title page, red staining to lower page edges at rear, moderate tanning to catalogue, sl foxing to prelims, sl cracking & soiling to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1899

KEYWORDS: Sir George Grey Australia New Zealand history pioneers settlers autobiography memoir

MARJOURAM, SERGEANT WILLIAM (Ed) & WHITE, SERGEANT WILLIAM (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: James Nisbet & Co 1862

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DALI, SALVADOR & DEON, MICHEL (forew.) & HOWARD, RICHARD (trans.) & SNELL, GRAHAM (trans.)

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PUBLISHER: Picador 1976

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RUSSELL, BERTRAND

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PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1967

KEYWORDS: literary autobiography biographies memoir Bertrand Russell literature

DONNET, MIKE

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PUBLISHER: Ian Allan 1974

KEYWORDS: military history aviation raf royal air force autobiography memoir pilots Squadron Leader Mike Donnet

NIWANO, NIKKYO & GAGE, RICHARD L. (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Kosei Publishing 1978

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EASTON-THOMPSON, ISOBEL

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PUBLISHER: Puriri Press 2002

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CHUNN, MIKE

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PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 2019

KEYWORDS: music entertainment biographies autobiography memoir Mike Chunn New Zealand artists musicians Split Enz