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FRAYN, MICHAEL · 2016 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£11.95 (€14.32 | $15.79 | ¥2,521)

United Kingdom: Faber & Faber, 2016. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 057132889X. Near Fine 1st Thus paperback with some very light shelf-wear, else Fine. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall...

The Wise Bamboo.

MORRIS, J. MALCOLM. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Tokyo: Charles E.Tuttle Company, 1967. 14th printing, 1967. "This is a special edition for sale in Japan, Okinawa and Korea only, being a complete and unabridged photo-offset reproduction of the first American edition". Memoirs of the author's experiences when assigned as mana...

George Crabbe.

Bareham, Terence · 1977 · Hessay Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Vision, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 245pp. The complete dustjacket with a portrait of Crabbe is a little faded to the spine and rubbed to the edges. Internally very clean. A biography and study of Crabbe in the religious and political context of his age, an...

The Boy David

JACKSON, MARJORIE · 2000 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£3.95 (€4.73 | $5.22 | ¥833)

United Kingdom: BBC Books, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0563203501. Very Good 1st Edition hardcover in Very Good dustjacket. Clean gray cloth boards lightly bumped and rubbed to spine ends and corners. Some light foxing to text block head. Internally, no writing or st...

The Little Missus

Nesdale, Ira · 1977 · Rainy Day Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Book Good No Jacket Lynton Pub. Pty. Ltd. Australia Some writing inside by former owner, otherwise interior is clean. Boards have slight soiling and corners are bumped.

Wish and Wonder - A Manitoba Village Child

Redekopp, Elsa · 1982 · Rainy Day Books

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Book Good. Reddell Publishing Covers have light wear, interior is clean and solid.

Pardon My Convicts: Memoirs of a Prison Warden

SYLVIA, J. JERRY · 1983 · Clausen Books

$50.00 (€45.37 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Smithtown, NY, Exposition Press. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0682499625). Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, Signed and inscribed by author on 2nd ffep and author's ink signature on title page; Four dog-earred pages, else textblock is clean and tight, dark orange end...

The Mortdecai ABC: a Bonfiglioli reader.

Bonfiglioli, Margaret · 2001 · Aucott & Thomas

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.48 | ¥8,860)

Viking, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book, pages age tanned, no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which has a minor crease at top of spine/back cover otherwise appears little used. xii + 400 pages, photos in the text, chronol...

Daniel Defoe Citizen of the Modern World.

Moore, John Robert · 1966 · Hessay Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

University of Chicago Press, 1966. Hard Cover, Ill.:. A heavy book of 409pp. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title, now in a protective plastic cover. B + w illustrations. Bookplate of the previous owner to the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. A biography of the ...

Iris a Memoir of Iris Murdoch

BAYLEY, JOHN · 2002 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£2.95 (€3.54 | $3.90 | ¥622)

United Kingdom: Abacus, 2002. Hardcover. ISBN: 0349114293. Very Good reprint paperback with lightly creased spine and lightly bumped spine tail and corners. Internally, no writing or stamps. Clean, bright pages. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bo...

Every Goodbye Ain't Gone

Evelyn C. White; Photos By Joanne Bealy · 2009 · Rainy Day Books

$66.50 (€60.34 | £50.34 | ¥10,619)

Book Very Good. Dancing Crow Press Canada Very slight wear. Signed by both author and photographer.

Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Area 1910-1917

Link, Arthur S. · 1982 · Mare Booksellers

$19.00 (€17.24 | £14.38 | ¥3,034)

Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, 1982. Full Leather. Full gray leather with gilt decorations. Easton Press note laid in at the front. 331 pp. A reprint of this biography on President Woodrow Wilson. VERY GOOD condition. A hint of soiling and edgewear to the covers. Very Good .

Young Jim: The Jim Parks Story SIGNED/Inscribed

Derek Watts · 2005 · Denton Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Tempus, 2005. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9780752435503 Inscribed by Author. SIGNED by the author, with a message to the previous owner. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; slight wear to jacket. Cricket biography of Jim Parks (1931-2022), who was one of the...

Frank Loesser

Thomas L. Riis · 2008 · Denton Island Books

£21.00 (€25.17 | $27.74 | ¥4,430)

Yale University Press, 2008. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9780300110517 Considerable pencil underlining to Chapter 3, "Guys and Dolls", pages otherwise clean and unmarked; light wear to jacket. Here Thomas L. Riis, in a deeply informed and lively discussion of Loesser's lif...

Memoirs of Mary Robinson. "Perdita".

ROBINSON, MARY. / MOLLOY, J. FITZGERALD.(INTRODUCTION AND NOTES). · 1894 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Gibbings and Company Ltd, 1894. One of alimited edition of 500 copies (350 for England and 150 for America). From the edition edited by her daughter. Pp.xvi/251, portrait frontispiece + 8 further portait plates from engravings. Grey decorated cloth, gilt title to front...

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

Jamison, Leslie · 2018 · The Glass Key

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London, Granta, 2018. First UK edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp 534. Orange cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in an unclipped dust jacket. Very good +/very good +.

Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine

Hagan, Joe · 2017 · The Glass Key

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Edinburgh, Canongate, 2017. First UK edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp x + 547 + 32pp b&w plates. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in an unclipped dust jacket. Very good +/very good +.

Schoolboy, Servant, GWR Apprentice : The Memoirs of Alfred Plumley 1880-1892

WILKINS, DAVID (EDITOR) · 2017 · Godley Books

£6.75 (€8.09 | $8.92 | ¥1,424)

Stroud, Gloucestershire, The History Press. 2017. (ISBN: 0750969938) Soft Cover, 9.25 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 160pp. Discovered after he died...

Tales from the Back Green

PATERSON, BILL · 2009 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£7.95 (€9.53 | $10.50 | ¥1,677)

United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009. First Paperback Edition; First Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0340936827. Fine 1st Paperback Edition (numberline consists of '1'). Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo ...

A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane

Samanth Subramanian · 2020 · Denton Island Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.49 | ¥2,953)

Atlantic Books, 2020. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781786492814 First Edition, first printing. Clean unmarked pages, firm binding; slight creasing to jacket at top of spine. A well-kept copy. A rich biography of a central figure in the 20th-century genetics ...