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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Or Pearls Before Swine

Kurt Vonnegut · 1965

$204.00 (€185.09 | £154.41 | ¥32,576)

Jonathan Cape 1965 Hardback 217 DJ; Price clipped. DJ worn with small tears top and bottom, scratch to top of front cover; spine cocked; slight edge foxing. Binding firm. previous owner's name on front end paper. Good

The Professor

Charlotte Brontë · 1994

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1994 Paperback 208 The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Bronte completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years...

Strategy: Create And Implement The Best Strategy For Your Business

Richard Luecke · 2005

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Harvard Business School Press 2005 Paperback 162 Owner's Name inside. Introduction is annotated with two paragraphs highlighted and one note in pencil. Good

Blowing The Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons In Life

Michael Caine · 2018

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Hodder & Stoughton 2018 Paperback 294 Hollywood legend and British national treasure Michael Caine shares the wisdom, stories, insight and skills that life has taught him in his remarkable career - and now his 85th year. One of our best-loved actors Michael Caine has starred i...

Multiculturalism & Reconciliation In An Indulgent Republic: Fiji After The Coups, 1987-1998

Robert T. Robertson · 1998

$38.00 (€34.48 | £28.76 | ¥6,068)

Fiji Institute of Applied Studies 1998 Softcover 260 Good

Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers

Mary Chamberlain · 1988

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Virago Press 1988 Paperback 275 This collection brings together the older generation of Virago's writers with their younger successors, who interview them, creating a wide-ranging picture of twentieth-century women's writing. The writers involved include: Maya Angelou, Rosa Gu...

Poems By Alan Seeger

Alan Seeger · 2017

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

Pinnacle Press 2017 Softcover 189 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Un...

Your Life Is In Your Hands: The Path To Lasting Health And Happiness

Krishan Chopra · 1999

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Element 1999 Hardback 318 Drawing upon his vast experience as an internationally acclaimed cardiologist, Dr. Krishan Chopra offers practical advice on how to restore the mind, body, and spirit to harmony. DJ; Heavy. Very Good

The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihad And Modernity

Tariq Ali · 2007

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Verso 2007 Paperback 428 In this timely and important book, new in paperback, Tariq Ali is lucid, eloquent, literary and painfully honest as he dissects both Islamic and Western fundamentalism. Heavy. Some foxing to text block edge; pen mark on inside cover back. Good

Famous Last Words

Laura Ward · 2004

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Robson 2004 Softcover 256 Well, it's been a great game of golf, fellas. So said Bing Crosby on the final green of a Spanish golf course in 1977, just after he'd sunk his final putt. Minutes later the Hollywood legend was taken ill and died. Birthday inscription inside. Very Good

Next: Poems 2016-2021

Alan Roddick · 2022

$19.50 (€17.69 | £14.76 | ¥3,114)

Otago University Press, Te Whare Tā o Te Wānanga o Ōtākou 2022 Paperback 82 "Always anchored in the action of daily life - whether it be a ride in a mirrored elevator or a roadside conversation with a friend - these poems speak of migration, family, friendship, aging and morta...

Pity The Nation: The Abduction Of Lebanon

Robert Fisk · 2002

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books 2002 Paperback 727 Robert Fisk describes Lebanon's ferocious civil war and subsequent Israeli invasions, the Lebanese militias whose appalling brutality spared no one; the US Marines who found themselves trapped in the horror of Lebanon where...

The Frog Went Travelling

Vsevolod Garshin · 1987

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Raduga Publishers 1987 Stapled 12 Drawings by Nikita Charushin. Translated from the Russian by Olga Shartste. Cover a little worn top front and back. Good

House Of Sand And Fog

Andre Dubus · 1999

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Vintage Books 1999 Paperback 365 On a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force under the Shah yearns to restore his family's dignity. When an attractive bungalow comes available on county auction for a fraction of its value, he sees a great opportunit...

Polonaise

Doris Leslie · 1943

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Hutchinson & Co 1943 Hardback 272 Doris Leslie wrote Polonaise during the war when in Civil Defence during the worst of the London blitz. No DJ. Owner's name in pencil inside and date 2-9-43; some foxing to text block edges; dark boards with title in gold on cover and spine. Good

Walk Away! A Guide To Walking Places In Canterbury

Mark Pickering · 1995

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Self-published 1995 Stapled 92 This book is a guide to all the public walking tracks in Canterbury, encompassing an area from Lewis Pass and Hanmer springs in the north, to Mount Somers and Peel Forest in the south. In between there are walks around Christchurch city and the C...

The Coolest Hair-Raising Horrors

Pip Harry · 2019

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Hinkler Books 2019 Softcover 96 Very Good

Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writings On Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill, And My Mother

Simon Schama · 2010

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

The Bodley Head 2010 Hardback 427 Cookery is not necessarily a subject one immediately associates with Simon Schama - one of Britain's most distinguished historians and commentators. But this selection of his occasional writings is a treasure trove of surprises. Wednesday brou...

Infernal Devices

Philip Reeve · 2006

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Scholastic 2006 Paperback 352 Nearly twenty years after the events of Mortal Engines and Predator's Gold, Tom and Hester have finally settled down. The wild adventures of their past are now little more than stories to tell their daughter, Wren, who relishes their adventures ju...

The American Future: a History: a History From the Founding Fathers To Barack Obama

Simon Schama · 2009

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Vintage 2009 Paperback 384 In November 2008 the United States elected a new President. But the collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it came to find its...