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$22.50
xxrcg147447

Lord in Waiting


TRANTER, NIGEL

FIRST EDITION, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1994

KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction nigel tranter modern first edition

$20.00
xxrcg147449

The Wisest Fool: A Novel of James the Sixth and First


TRANTER, NIGEL

FIRST EDITION, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1974

KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction nigel tranter modern first edition

$24.50
xxrcg147450

Courting Favour


TRANTER, NIGEL

FIRST EDITION, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 2000

KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction nigel tranter modern first edition

$8.50
xxrch147470

Lady Chatterley's Lover


LAWRENCE, D.H.

Paperback (Scruffy); 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1961

KEYWORDS: Literature fiction

$15.00
xxrch147474

Rhett Butler's People


The Authorized Novel Based on Margaret Mitchells' Gone with the Wind.

MCCAIG, DONALD

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: MacMillan 2007

KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction gone with the wind

$18.00
xxrch147478

Night Trains: The Daring Resistance Stratagem that Paralyzed the Wehrmacht


WOOD, BARBARA & WOOTTON, GARETH

FIRST EDITION, Ex-Library, Lacks FEP, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Eyre Methuen 1979

KEYWORDS: literature historical fiction modern first edition world war two ww2 wwii nazis germany

$70.00
xxrch147502

The Illustrated Denniston Rose & Heart of Coal


PATTRICK, JENNY

FIRST EDITION THUS, quarto 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Black Swan 2006

KEYWORDS: new zealand denniston west coast colonial history gold rush historical fiction literature

$20.00
xxrch147504

Dix Choses Inconnues: Un Mysterieux Livre De Comptes


HOBAN, RUSSELL & SELG, SYLVIE

TEXT IN FRENCH, square imperial 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: JOnathan Cape 1974

KEYWORDS: children's literature french

$15.00
xxrch147513

The Ploughmen


ZUPAN, KIM J.

FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Picador 2014

KEYWORDS: literature modern first edition kim zupan crime

$14.00
xxrch147515

Balcony of Fog: A Novel


SHAPERO, RICH

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (Near FINE); 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Too Far Media 2020

KEYWORDS: literature modern first edition

$9.00
xxrci147529

The Seven Sisters


DRABBLE, MARGARET

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Viking/Penguin 2002

KEYWORDS: Literature fiction

$14.00
xxrci147532

A Rhyming History of Britain 55BC - AD1966


MUIRDEN, JAMES & ECCLES, DAVID (illus)

Octavo hardcover (Near FINE) 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Constable 2003

KEYWORDS: Poetry literature history britain royalty rhyme

$40.00
1y35/33

Booming Buffers: A Book of Bentley Verse


BOOTHMAN, JOHN & BULMER, TIM (Illus)

LIMITED NUMBERED SIGNED, FIRST EDITION IN SLIPCASE, super octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt cartoon to front board, frontispiece, 136pp, illus, Near FINE (v sl foxing to spine) in slipcase, VG+ (light chafing to boards)

PUBLISHER: Red Label Books 2003

KEYWORDS: limited numbered signed first edition humour cartoon poetry poems verse literature collection anthology John Boothman Tim Bulmer

$100.00
1y35/36

Big and Little Scenes


STRAUSS, BOTHO & CATTANEO, ANNE (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, UNCOMMON, octavo, brown cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, 184pp, VG (light creasing to spine extrems, light bruising to board corners, moderate chafing to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, owner's name in ink to fep, small inscription in ink to half title page, light fingerprint soiling to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Farrar Straus Giroux 1979

KEYWORDS: first edition play script drama theatre stage literature

$90.00
1y35/43

A Beautiful Blue Death


FINCH, CHARLES

FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy card boards, blue lettering to spine, 309pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning to spine)

PUBLISHER: St Martin's Minotaur 2007

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature fiction

$750.00
1y35/50

Clarissa (Or the History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life and Particularly Shewing the Distresses That May Attend the Misconduct, Both of Parents and Children in Relation to Marriage)


RICHARDSON, SAMUEL

CHARMING 8 VOLUME SET, small octavo, leather boards, gilt lettering on title plates & embossed lines to spines, xii (vol 1) + 328-396pp, VG- (heavy but age appropriate scuffing to spine & boards, moderate cracks to some hinges, heavy tanning to page edges, names of previous owners in ink to feps, bookseller's labels to front pastedowns, frontispieces of vols 4+5 missing, light cracking to some gutters) These volumes have a delicious old book smell and will make you feel like you're sitting in an old stately home when you glance over and see them on your bookshelf!

PUBLISHER: B Law & Son et al 1792

KEYWORDS: literature fiction epistolary novel

$40.00
1y36/9

Money in the Morgue


MARSH, NGAIO & DUFFY, STELLA

FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy card boards, copper coloured lettering to spine, 328pp, Near FINE (v sl creasing to spine extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Collins Crime Club 2018

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature crime fiction Inspector Alleyn mystery New Zealand

$40.00
1y36/10

Cosmic Codes: Hidden Messages From the Edge of Eternity


MISSLER, CHUCK

Super octavo, blue faux leather heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind lettering to front board, illus title page, ix + 505pp, illus, VG (light creasing to spine extrems, light soiling & discolouration to boards, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges & rear flap, light chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Koinonia House 1999

KEYWORDS: religion scripture literature ministry Koinonia Chuck Missler theology codes bible biblical

$165.00
1y36/11

The Viceroys


DE ROBERTO, FEDERICO & COLQUHOUN, ARCHIBALD (Trans & Intro) & BOSWELL, JAMES (Illus)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 625pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light staining to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name in ink to fep, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, tatty (moderate discolouration to spine, very heavy creasing & chipping to edges with loss, light foxing to covers)

PUBLISHER: MacGibbon & Kee 1962

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature fiction illustrated

$225.00
1y36/12

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner


DEFOE, DANIEL & LEE, WILLIAM (Intro) & GRISET, ERNEST (Illus)

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decorative tooling with black decoration to spine, gilt decorative tooling & black decoration to front board, blind stamp motif to rear board, frontispiece, illus title page & prelims, xvi + 517pp + unpaginated adverts to rear, VG (light creasing & chippping to spine extrems, light discolouration to spine, light bruising & scuffing to board corners, light soiling to boards & edges, moderately heavy tanning to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, heavy cracking to gutters, frontispiece quite loose but attached, sporadic light foxing to pages throughout, bookseller's label & owner's name in ink to front pastedown, sm numbering in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: John Camden Hotten circa 1869

KEYWORDS: literature first edition thus illustrated Robinson Crusoe fiction

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