HOPE, ANNA

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Doubleday 2019

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JAMES, CLIVE

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 1983

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FEIST, RAYMOND E

AUSTRALIAN FIRST EDITION, 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: Harper Voyager 2020

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EMANUEL, D M (Ed) & STEWART, I C (Ed)

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: Dept of Accountancy, University of Auckland N/D (c.1980)

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AUDEN, W H

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) foxing; 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: Faber and Faber 1972

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CHUN, MALCOLM NAEA

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: First People's Productions 2016

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McLEAN, GAVIN & CLARK, The Right Honourable HELEN (Fore)

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in dw/ (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: Reed Publishing 2007

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BARNES, JULIAN

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 2022

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DE SADE, MARQUIS & CROSLAND, MARAGRET (Trans & Intro)

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: Neville Spearman 1965

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ZAMBUCKA, KRISTIN

Quarto softcover (VG+) gift inscription in ink to prelims; 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: Harrane Publishing 1991

KEYWORDS: children's literature Hawaii Hawai'i Kristin Zambucka

GAIMAN, NEIL

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: Headline 2016

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HERGE

TEXT IN FRENCH, 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: Casterman 2006

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YUTANG, LIN

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, sm gilt illus to front board, 315pp, VG (moderate foxing & rubbing to spine & board edges, light soiling & foxing to boards, light tanning & light to moderate foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor loss, moderate crackin to front hinge, minor general rubbing)

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann Ltd 1962

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McGRATH, PATRICK

FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, octavo, illus black light card wrappers, white & silver gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 314pp, VG+ (sl creasing to spine & cover edges, spine sl cocked, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 2017

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EGAN, BERESFORD & ALCOCK, C BOWER

SIGNED NUMBERED (#335/500) FIRST EDITION THUS, quarto, green patterned heavy boards, black lettering to title plate to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus title page, 142pp, illus, G+ (heavy scuffing & surface loss to spine, heavy bruising & minor scuffing to board corners, moderate fading & soiling to spine & board edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light occasional foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: The Sophistocles Press / T Werner Laurie Ltd 1929

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ANDERSEN, JOHANNES C

ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT BY NZ HISTORIAN JOHANNES ANDERSEN, quarto, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 192pp, photos tipped in, VG (light fading & rubbing to spine & board edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, minor foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name (G C Petersen) in ink to ffep with inscription in ink by Petersen on title page, minor wrinkling & foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Johannes C Andersen N/D

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EGAN, BERESFORD & DE SHANE, BRIAN

LIMITED FIRST EDITION (ONE OF 1600), MORALIST PLATE IS PRESENT, quarto, plum buckram boards (possibly early issue), gilt lettering to spine, deckled page edges to base, unpaginated, illus, VG (light to moderate fading & discolouration to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light to moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, occasional creasing & chipping to some page edges/corners) in d/w, G+ (heavy chipping/loss & moderate soiling to spine, moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Fortune Press N/D

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LUPTON, THOMAS

Sm octavo, brown leather boards, spine missing, 371pp + unpaginated prelims & terminals, G- (boards completely detached but present, many signatures of text block detached, pages 189-200 missing (misbound?), spine completely missing- binding tanned, soiled & exposed, heavy scuffing to boards with some surface loss, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, page edges very brittle & chipped, numerous pencil & ink annotations throughout- historic)

PUBLISHER: London Printed for M Wright at the Kings-head, in the Old Bailey 1660

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COHEN, LEONARD

Octavo, teal heavy boards, gilt lettering to white spine, top page edges stained red (faded), x + 245pp, VG+ (sl tanning to spine extrems, sl staining & bruising to board edges, light tanning & foxing/staining to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (all corners lightly clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning/foxing/chafing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1969

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POUND, EZRA (Trans & Intro)

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, light brown/orange buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 135pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp & prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine & edges, moderate soiling)

PUBLISHER: Peter Owen 1956

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