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$40.00
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Sex & the Paranormal


DEANE, PAUL

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, red & white lettering to spine, 224pp, VG+ (light curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & inside covers, sl foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Vega 2003

KEYWORDS: esoteric paranormal sex sexual encounters supernatural succubi incubi demons history

$40.00
3k4/28

Cocaine: An Unauthorised Biography


STREATFIELD, DOMINIC

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, x + 486pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & fading to spine & board edges/extrems, minor chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl soiling & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Virgin Publishing 2001

KEYWORDS: South America cocaine coke illegal drugs recreational history

$40.00
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A Historical and Critical Essay


BURTT, EDWIN ARTHUR

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 343pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light rubbing/scuffing to board & spine edges, sl fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate glue staining & wrinkling to front pastedown, occasional ink markings to margins- unobtrusive, prev. owner's name in ink to full title page) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to spine/edges, moderate tanning to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling, sm adhesive label to spine)

PUBLISHER: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1967

KEYWORDS: metaphysics physical science philosophy history

$50.00
3k2/4

A Time of Gods: A Photographer in the Wake of Odysseus


BENY, ROLOFF & OPIE, JOHN LINDSAY (Notes Ed by) & CHAPMAN'S HOMER (Quotations From)

FIRST EDITION, lg quarto, illus heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 272pp, illus, b&w plates- all counted + present, VG (light to moderate scuffing/insect damage to board edges/extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing/wrinkling & scuffing, heavy general scuffing, prce clipped, moderate foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1962

KEYWORDS: ancient Greece Greek ruins landscape art photography antiquity history mythology first editions

$80.00
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Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams


MAURIES, PATRICK & SOTTSASS, ETTORE (Essay) & WILK, CHRISTOPHER (Fore)

Quarto, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, grey & black lettering to spine, illus prelims, 288pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sm scuff to bottom corner of front cover, minor chafing to covers, sl scuffing to cover edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl soiling to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1998

KEYWORDS: Piero Fornasetti art design biography biographies history

$40.00
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Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen's Critique And Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics


IVES, CHRISTOPHER

Super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 274pp, Near FINE, in d/w VG+ (sl creasing to edges, slight soiling, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: University of Hawai'i Press 2009

KEYWORDS: Buddhism zen spirituality Japan history Buddhist ethics Ichikawa Hakugen

$40.00
3k2/15

The Day they Stole the Mona Lisa


REIT, SEYMOUR V.

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, beige heavy boards, gilt lettering to brown cloth spine, 254pp, illus / photos, little ink stamp man illus to base of page black, VG+ (sl fading & bruising to spine extrems & board corners, sl tanning to board edges, light foxing & soiling to page edges, & eps) in d/w VG (light chipping to spine & cover edges, light tanning with moderate chafing and soiling, light creasing to rear flap, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Summit Books 1981

KEYWORDS: true crime art theft Mona Lisa Leonardo Da Vinci history art heist Louvre

$70.00
3k2/16

The Great Crash 1929


GALBRAITH, JOHN KENNETH

FIRST EDITION SECOND IMPRESSION octavo blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 186pp, VG (light fading to spine extrems & cover edges, light tanning with moderate foxing page edges, moderate to heavy foxing to front eps, moderate pencil annotation to ffep, light tanning & foxing to rear eps, light crack to front gutter, moderate foxing to prelims, light occasional foxing throughout) in d/w VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine & cover edges, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1955

KEYWORDS: history great crash 1929 stock market crasch finance Wall Street capitalism economics

$18.50
xxdib225059

Letters of Saint Augustine


ALLIES, MARY H. (selected & trans)

ex-library octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Burns and Oates Limited 1890

KEYWORDS: religion religious texts Christianity theology Saint Augustine correspondance letters history

$15.00
xxdib225060

Still Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas


HERBERT, ZBIGNIEW & CARPENTER, JOHN and BOGDANA (trans)

lacks d/w super octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Ecco Press 1991

KEYWORDS: art Dutch modern art art criticism art history Zbigniew Herbert

$16.50
xxdib225062

Thunder in the Heavens


HODSON, JAMES LANSDALE

ex-library super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Allan Wingate (Publishers) Ltd c. 1949

KEYWORDS: history war diary entries James Lansdale Hodson personal account

$16.50
xxdib225063

The First World War


KEEGAN, JOHN

super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Pimlico 1999

KEYWORDS: first 1st world war one 1 ww1 wwi history military war account battle

$17.50
xxdoc225068

The Confessions of St Augustine


MATTHEW, SIR TOBIE (intro & trans) & HUDLESTON, DOM ROGER (intro, revised & emended)

ex-library super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Burns & Oates 1954

KEYWORDS: St Augustine confessions Christianity religion religious writings history

$15.00
xxdpd225073

Letters to my Grandson on the Glory of English Poetry


COLERIDGE, STEPHEN

octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Mills & Boon Limited 1923

KEYWORDS: English poetry letter correspondance literary criticism history

$10.00
xxdpd225074

Desiree


SELINKO, ANNEMARIE & BENDER, ARNOLD (trans) & DICKES, E.W. (trans)

lacks d/w & fp octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Reprint Society 1954

KEYWORDS: fiction historical fiction Napoleon Desiree France romantic fiction fictionalised history biographical fiction

$15.00
xxdpe225076

The Fourth Arm: Psychological Warfare 1938-1945


CRUICKSHANK, CHARLES

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1981

KEYWORDS: history war warfare propaganda second 2nd world war 2 two ww2 wwii

$10.00
xxdpe225077

The Aran Islands


SYNGE, J.M. & ROBINSON, TIM (ed & intro)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin books 1992

KEYWORDS: history Aran Islands culture daily life customs Ireland

$15.00
xxdpe225086

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself


EQUIANO, OLAUDAH & SOLLORS, WERNER (ed)

super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 2001

KEYWORDS: slaves Great Britain America biography Africa criticism history

$50.00
3k2/17

Anglicans in the Bush: The Development of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Auckland


WRIGHT, FRANK

Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, no lettering to spine or boards, 204pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing/rubbing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Not Stated

KEYWORDS: New Zealand religion religious history Anglican church Christianity Auckaldn diocese

$200.00
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British Pamphleteers: From the Sixteenth Century to the French Revolution ; From the French Revolution to the Nineteen-Thirties (2 Vol Set)


ORWELL, GEORGE (Ed) & REYNOLDS, REGINALD (Ed) & TAYLOR, J P (Intro)

2 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering & rule to spines, frontispieces, vol 1- 264pp, vol 2- 302pp, illus, VG (light fading & rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, sl soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep of vol 1) in d/w, VG- (vol 2 price clipped, minor fading & soiling to spines, moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor loss, light to moderate tanning & soiling, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Allan Wingate 1948-51

KEYWORDS: first editions history English pamphleteers literature literary historical

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