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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection Of Zen & Pre-Zen Writings

Paul Reps

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Anchor Paperback 198 Good

The Importance Of Being Earnest & Other Plays

Oscar Wilde · 2017

$16.50 (€14.97 | £12.49 | ¥2,635)

Macmillan Collector's Library 2017 Hardback 473 DJ. Gilt edges; mini format. Very Good

The Great Gatsby

Francis Scott Fitzgerald · 2013

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Arcturus publishing Limited 2013 Hardback 208 No DJ. Gilt edges; mini format. Dedication on back of title page, full page of text from friend to owner. Very Good

Gender

Ivan Illich · 1983

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

M. Boyars 1983 Paperback 192 The break with the past, which has been described by others as the transition to a capitalist mode of production, I describe here as the transition from the aegis of gender to the regime of sex. ' Ivan Illich insists that we survey attitudes to mal...

Tools For Conviviality

Ivan Illich · 1974

$54.00 (€48.99 | £40.87 | ¥8,623)

Calder & Boyars 1974 Paperback 110 This book presents Ivan Illich's penetrating analysis of the industrial mode of production which characterises our contemporary world. Foxed, tanned, but tight in binding; creased on spine. Good

The Coastal Garden: Design Inspiration From Wild New Zealand

Isobel Gabites · 2015

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,429)

Potton & Burton 2015 Softcover 300 Designed for gardeners and garden designers interested in native plants and wanting to reconnect with their location, using both plant and site knowledge to stimulate design and planting ideas. Heavy; Large. Very Good

The Case Of The Late Pig

Margery Allingham · 1984

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Penguin 1984 Paperback 138 Kepesake was the perfect village - for murder. Albert Campion is summoned there to the funeral of Pig Peters, the sadistic school bully of his childhood. But five months after the funeral Peters' body turns up freshly killed, along with other corpses...

No Love Lost: Two Stories Of Suspense

Margery Allingham · 1978

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Penguin 1978 Paperback 208 What happens when your handsome lover has jilted you and some time later you are confronted by his desperately il (but beautiful) wife? Perhaps you would think of murder? Slightly creased , tanned, cover sunned. Fair

Farmer Giles Of Ham, The Adventures Of Tom Bombadil

J. R. R. Tolkien · 1979

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

Unwin Paperbacks 1979 Paperback 144 Fabulous stories of the days when giants and dragons walked the kingdom. Creative poetry. Some foxing, cover showing signs of wear, and a small crease on the back cover. Good

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: The Original Screenplay

J. K. Rowling · 2018

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Sphere 2018 Paperback 293 J. K. Rowling invites you to explore a new era of the Wizarding World... When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic b...

This Boy: A Memoir Of A Childhood

Alan Johnson · 2014

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Corgi 2014 Paperback 296 The extraordinary 1950s London childhood of one of Britain's best-loved politicians. Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. Not in respect of the poverty, which w...

A Most Wanted Man

John le Carré · 2009

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Hodder 2009 Paperback 418 A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealis...

Before Your Teenagers Drive You Crazy, Read This! Battlefield Wisdom for Stressed-Out Parents

Nigel Latta · 2008

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Harper Collins 2008 Paperback Nigel Latta has drawn on his extensive experience in family therapy and working with the country's most difficult teenagers to write the book that will save the sanity of parents everywhere. Once you've negotiated the terrors of toddlerdom and the...

Let's Talk of Graves, of Worms, And Epitaphs

Robert Player · 1977

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Penguin 1977 Paperback 204 The novel opens with the line, 'It is not every man whose father was both a pope and a murderer.' The pope in question is Barnabas Barbellion, a distinguished Anglican clergyman who converted to Catholicism and later became Pope Paschal the Fourth. B...

The Redhead Gets the Gig: A Musical Memoir

Linn Lorkin · 2022

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Steele Roberts 2022 Paperback 286 Over the years, musician Linn Lorkin has embedded herself in this country’s consciousness with her vivid, witty and recognisably Kiwi songs. Now in this rich memoir, those musical vignettes have grown into full-blown and sometimes hair-raising...

Asia in the Making of New Zealand

Henry Johnson and Brian Moloughney · 2007

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Auckland University Press 2007 Paperback 264 In this collection of 10 essays, authors from a range of Asian studies and New Zealand-related disciplines explore how the burgeoning Asian population in New Zealand affects New Zealanders’ understanding of Asia and how it alters th...

How To Win Friends And Influence People

Dale Carnegie · 1994

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Vermilion 1994 Paperback 256 Available for the first time ever in trade paperback, Dale Carnegie's enduring classic, the inspirational personal development guide that shows how to achieve lifelong success. One of the top-selling books of all time, 'How to Win Friends Influence...

The Other Side of the Sky

Arthur C. Clarke · 2003

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Victor Gollancz 2003 Paperback 256 A collection of 24 stories by One of the truly prophetic figures of the space age (New Yorker). Good

The Etymologicon

Mark Forsyth · 2011

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Icon Books, Limited 2011 Paperback 252 A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language. Good

Resurrection Men (Inspector Rebus)

Ian Rankin · 2002

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Orion mass market paperback 2002 Paperback 496 Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he is sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as 'resurrection men,' he joins a covert mission to gain evidence ...