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Ten Great Mountains

R. L. G. Irving · 1947

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

J. M. Dent 1947 Hardback 213 Snowdon, Ben Nevis, Mount Cook, The Matterhorn, Ushba, Mont Blanc, Mount Logan, Nanga Parbat, Kangchenjunga And Mount Everest. Owner's Name inside. Blue boards, rubbed; spine heavily sunned and stained. Text very good. Good

The Sonnets Of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Avenel Hardback 88 No DJ As Issued. Reprint. Abrasion to top corner of front cover. Some tanning. Good

An Alpine Journey

F. S. Smythe · 1941

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Hodder & Stoughton 1941 Hardback 317 No DJ; Owner's Name inside. Minor foxing. Good

Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (Book 2)

Eoin Colfer · 2015

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Puffin Books 2015 Paperback 336 Someone has been supplying Class A illegal human power sources to the goblins. Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit is sure that her arch-enemy, thirteen-year-old Artemis Fowl, is responsible. But is he? Artemis has his own problems to deal ...

Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer · 2011

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Puffin 2011 Paperback 320 Rumour has it ARTEMIS FOWL is responsible for every major crime of the new century. Just twelve years old and already he's a criminal genius, plotting to restore his family's fortune with a spot of corruption and kidnapping. Kidnapping a fairy for ran...

Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (Book 3)

Eoin Colfer · 2011

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Puffin Books 2011 Paperback 368 Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has constructed a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. In the wrong hands it could be fatal for humans and fairies alike. But no need to worry, Artemis has a brilliant plan. He's not goin...

Puberty Girl

Shushann Movsessian · 2005

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Allen & Unwin 2005 Paperback 128 Offering a fun, sassy, and girl-power–inspired approach to understanding puberty, this beautifully packaged guide offers tweens an appealing and fresh take on entering adolescence. This celebration of maturing bodies and spirits is invariably p...

Inca Gold

Clive Cussler · 1994

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

HarperCollins (UK) 1994 Paperback 624 A CLASSIC DIRK PITT ADVENTURE. A desperate call for help from a stricken archaeological expedition brings Dirk Pitt to a sacred well high in the Andes. What he discovers as he attempts to rescue two divers lost in the perilous depths, lead...

Life of Pi

Yann Martel · 2002

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Canongate Books 2002 Paperback 319 After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger ...

The Incredible Journey

Sheila Burnford · 1961

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Hodder & Stoughton 1961 Hardback 152 Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would soon have died. But, tog...

Pulling Faces

Marilyn Duckworth · 1987

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1987 Paperback 204 Stuart Price, reformed male chauvinist, lives in one half of a modular home. his ex-wife, Lilian, drove away with the other half on the back oif a trailer. Poet, post office clerk and father of teenage children, he is determined to get...

Paradise Postponed

John Mortimer · 1986

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Penguin Books 1986 Paperback 448 Spine creased and faded; some tanning to page edges. Fair

Sir William Martin The Life Of The First Chief Justice Of New Zealand

Guy Lennard · 1961

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Whitcombe & Tombs 1961 Hardback DJ. Ex Library; DJ in mylar cover, sunned. Pencil annotations throughout. Good

Sir George Grey K.C.B. 1812-1898 a Study in Colonial Government

J. Rutherford · 1961

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Cassell 1961 Hardback Heavy; Owner's Name inside. DJ in two pieces with spine missing; boards worn and soiled; hinges cracked; text annotated in pencil throughout. Poor

Discovery: the Quest for the Great South Land

Miriam Estensen · 1999

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Allen & Unwin 1999 Paperback 286 Discovery is the story of a quest which, across two millennia, compelled men in small ships to traverse unknown seas, to endure extraordinary hardships, to slowly unveil the last discovered continent. Discovery begins among ancient Greek philos...

New Zealanders at War

Michael King · 1981

$19.50 (€17.69 | £14.76 | ¥3,114)

Heinemann 1981 Hardback 308 This Book [compresses] Into Words And Pictures The Extent To Which War Has Affected New Zealand Life Over 200 Years. ... It Is [an] Evocation Of The Taste And Textures Of War, How It Disrupted New Zealanders' Lives And The Efforts They Made To Survi...

Mischief And Mayhem. 30 New Zealand Stories

Barbara Else · 2005

$8.50 (€7.71 | £6.43 | ¥1,357)

Random House NZ 2005 Hardback 160 No DJ As Issued. 2008 edition; child's scribble on inside front cover page; some small marks to text block edge. Good

Shadow Wave

Robert Muchamore · 2010

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Hodder Children's Books 2010 Hardback 343 After a tsunami causes massive devastation to a tropical island, its governor sends in the bulldozers to knock down villages, replacing them with luxury hotels.Guarding the corrupt governor's family isn't James Adams' idea of the perfe...

Being Dead

Jim Crace · 1999

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Viking 1999 Paperback 209 Baritone Bay, mid - afternoon. Celine and Joseph, married, middle - aged, are lying naked on the coast. They had met and first had sex there as students almost 30 years before. Now they hope to rediscover and rekindle passion in the dunes. But this wi...

Uncanny!

Paul Jennings · 1989

$8.50 (€7.71 | £6.43 | ¥1,357)

Puffin Books 1989 Paperback 140 More bizarre tales, such as a tattoo that leaves its owner for a better bit of skin, from the author of 'Unreal', 'Unbelievable!' and 'Quirky Tails'. Owner's Name inside. Cover crease; spine faded; tanned. Fair