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$38.50
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The Gentle Art of Making Enemies


WHISTLER, JAMES McNEILL

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: William Heinemann 1953

KEYWORDS: art history Whistler John Ruskin literature

$9.50
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Torchwood: Into the Silence


PINBOROUGH, SARAH

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: BBC Books 2009

KEYWORDS: tv show tie-ins series Torchwood literature novels scifi science fiction Sarah Pinborough

$15.00
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Warmly Inscribed: The New England Forger and Other Book Tales


GOLDSTONE, LAWRENCE and NANCY

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: Thomas Dunne / St Martin's Griffin 2002

KEYWORDS: anecdotes literature Lawrence Nancy Goldstone

$22.50
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The Fugitive Soldier: A Fifteen Year Old Runs Away to War


JOHNSTON, PHYLLIS

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: Polygraphia 2004

KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors Phyllis Johnston literature fiction novels war

$25.00
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The King of the Fields


SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1989

KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature fiction novels Isaac Bashevis Singer

$10.00
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The Gallipoli Story


CARLYON, PATRICK

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 2003

KEYWORDS: children's literature youth young adult ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war Gallipoli campaigns

$10.00
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The World and the Book: A Study of Modern Fiction


JOSIPOVICI, GABRIEL

Octavo softcover (VG-) cracking to gutters; 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: Paladin 1973

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism fiction

$38.50
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The One Sane Man


BEEDING, FRANCIS

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: Hodder and Stoughton 1935

KEYWORDS: literature fiction novels Francis Beeding

$17.50
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The Diwan of Abu'l-ala


BAERLEIN, HENRY

Sm 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: John Murray 1948

KEYWORDS: ancient wisdom philosophy diwan literature

$15.00
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Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes


STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS & CRANE, WALTER (Frontis)

Sm 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: Chatto & Windus 1914

KEYWORDS: Robert Louis Stevenson literature

$15.00
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Good Morning Everybody: Thoughts from Aunt Daisy's Scrap Book


AUNT DAISY

Duodecimo stapled light card covers (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: Whitcombe & Tombs N/D

KEYWORDS: Aunt Daisy literature

$15.00
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The Angels of Mons


LECKEY, CARL

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: National Pacific Press 2004

KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors literature fiction novels historical Carl Leckey

$300.00
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The History of Don Quixote


CERVANTES, MIGUEL DE & CALRK, J W (Text Ed) & SHORE, T TEIGNMOUTH (Biographical Notice) & DORE, GUSTAVE (Illus)

Quarto, half leather bound blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine with raised bands also, gilt rule to leather on boards, aeg, marbled eps. xxviii + 737pp, illus/plates, VG (moderate rubbing & surface loss to leather work on spine & board corners, moderate fading/tanning/soiling with chafing also to boards, moderate cracking to gutters at front, ffep & some prelims partially detached, light tanning & moderate to heavy foxing to prelims & terminals, light tanning & foxing/soiling to pages throughout, any foxing to plates is to borders only)

PUBLISHER: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, Ludgate Hill, E.C. and 596 Broadway, New York N/D

KEYWORDS: classic literature illustrated Miguel de Cervantes Gustave Dore

$50.00
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In Crocodile Land: Wandering in Northern Australia


IDRIESS, ION L

FIRST EDITION, LACKS FFEP, octavo, grey cloth boards, teal lettering to spine, teal lettering & croc illus to front board, frontispiece, ix + 241pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate bruising to extrems, sl soiling to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, ffep missing, light cracking & staining/soiling to front gutter, light foxing & soiling to prelims & terminalsoccasional foxing & cracking at gutters) in d/w, G+ (moderate creasing & chipping/loss to edges, lengthy heavy tear to front- section missing, light to moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson 1946

KEYWORDS: first editions travel literature writing Australia north northern Idriess L Ion

$450.00
2i2a/16

Salome: A Tragedy in One Act


WILDE, OSCAR & BEARDSLEY, AUBREY (Drawings)

FIRST EDITION THUS, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & illus/decoration to front board, teg, illus prelims, xviii + 66pp, illus/plates, VG (light bruising to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, minor water damage/staining to boase of rear board & rear eps, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional sl foxing & soiling to page block)

PUBLISHER: John Lane 1912

KEYWORDS: first editions THUS Oscar Wilde plays literature stage illustrated Aubrey Beardsley

$47.50
2i2a/17

The Anatomy of Bibliomania


JACKSON, HOLBROOK

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 668pp, VG (light fading & bruising to board & spine extrems, sl chafing to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, minor/sl foxing to pgs throughout) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, light to moderate tanning & foxing, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1950

KEYWORDS: hobbies reading literature books philosophy Holbrook Jackson

$40.00
2i2a/20

Ethel & Ernest


BRIGGS, RAYMOND

FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 103pp, VG+ (sl scuffing to extrems, sl foxing & soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light cahfing & soiling, moderate foxing, light creasing & chipping to edges)

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1998

KEYWORDS: biography literature literary Raymond Briggs Ethel Ernest parents illustrated cartoons autobiography first editions

$40.00
2i2a/27

Tarzan of the Apes, Volume1


BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE & THOMAS, ROY (Script Adaptation) & MARCOS, PABLO (Illus) & GONZALEZ, OSCAR (Colored by)

THIS VOL ONLY, oblong imperial octavo, illus glossy boards, beige lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, frontispiece, 136pp, illus, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Dark Horse Books 2022

KEYWORDS: literature fiction comic books strips Tarzan graphic novels Edgar Rice Burroughs

$100.00
2i2a/30

Come the Terrible Tiger


GAMBLE, KIM (Illus) & PRICE, ROSALIND (Text)

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, oblong quarto, illus heavy boards, black & blue lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Little Ark / Allen & Unwin 1993

KEYWORDS: signed modern first editions children's literature Kim Gamble Rosalind Price fiction picture books youth juvenile

$750.00
2i2a/34

Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production


MARX, KARL & ENGELS, FREDERICK (Ed) & MOORE, SAMUEL (Trans) & AVELING, EDWARD (Trans)

EARLY UK EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, black motif to front board, xxxi + 816pp, VG- (light to moderate bruising & chipping to spine extrems, light bruising & rubbing to board corners, moderate to heavy discolouration to spine & boards, moderate to heavy tanning/soiling & light foxing to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, sm newspaper clipping tipped in to front pastedown- with sm ink numeral also, sm label tipped in to ffep- mostly missing/detached, light cracking to gutters, some minor underlining in blue pencil to early pages)

PUBLISHER: Swan Sonnenschein & Co 1908

KEYWORDS: early editions Karl Marx English translations economics money commodities philosophy literature history historical

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