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Sex & the Paranormal
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
Cocaine: An Unauthorised Biography
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
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A Historical and Critical Essay
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
A Time of Gods: A Photographer in the Wake of Odysseus
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
Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams
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
Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen's Critique And Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics
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
The Day they Stole the Mona Lisa
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
The Great Crash 1929
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
Letters of Saint Augustine
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
Still Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas
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
Thunder in the Heavens
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
The First World War
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
The Confessions of St Augustine
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
Letters to my Grandson on the Glory of English Poetry
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
Desiree
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
The Fourth Arm: Psychological Warfare 1938-1945
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
The Aran Islands
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
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself
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
Anglicans in the Bush: The Development of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Auckland
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
British Pamphleteers: From the Sixteenth Century to the French Revolution ; From the French Revolution to the Nineteen-Thirties (2 Vol Set)
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