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Secrets Of Poise, Personality and Model Beauty

John Robert Powers · 1961

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Prentice Hall 1961 Hardback 304 Heavy; Large; No DJ; Owner's Name inside. Boards rubbed; small crack to front hinge. Good

100 Years Of Motoring In New Zealand

John McCrystal · 2003

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Hodder Moa Beckett 2003 Hardback 272 Recording New Zealand's experience of motoring, from the magnificent to the mundane, the grim to the glorious, this account ranges from the bumpy beginnings and early epic journeys to mass ownership and contemporary congestion. DJ; Large; H...

Fanny Hill - Memoirs of a Women of Pleasure

John Cleland · 1973

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

Heron Books 1973 Hardback 218 Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure' is probably one of the best-known erotic novel of all time. It was written by John Cleland (1709-1789) and first published in 1748. No DJ As Issued. Very Good

Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica, 1941-44

Issac Matarasso · 2020

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Bloomsbury Continuum 2020 Hardback 269 When Nazi occupiers arrived in Greece in 1941, it was the beginning of a horror that would reverberate through generations. In the city of Salonica (Thessaloniki), almost 50,000 Jews were sent to Nazi concentration camps during the war, a...

The House Of Islam: A Global History

Ed Husain · 2018

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Bloomsbury Publishing 2018 Paperback 320 A fascinating and revelatory exploration of the intricacies of Islam and the inner psyche of the Muslim world from the bestselling author of The Islamist `Islam began as a stranger,' said the Prophet Mohammed, `and one day, it will agai...

Dreamers: When The Writers Took Power, Germany, 1918

Weidermann, Volker and Volker Weidermann · 2019

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Pushkin Press 2019 Hardback 253 At the end of the First World War in Germany, the journalist and theatre critic Kurt Eisner organised a revolution which overthrew the monarchy, and declared a Free State of Bavaria. In February 1919, he was assassinated, and the revolution fail...

The Ley Lines Of The Soul: Poems Of Ecstasy And Ascension

Dorothy Walters · 2012

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Xlibris 2012 Paperback 104 But with poetry as luminous and embracing as Dorothy Walters' works, we can be forgiven for lingering and appreciating its delicacy and power. In this, her latest volume of poetry, she unfolds the mysteries of the divine feminine, the great Goddess w...

Room For Squares

John Mayer · 2003

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Cherry Lane Music Company 2003 Paperback 103 (Play It Like It Is). We proudly present the guitar matching folio to acclaimed singer/songwriter John Mayer's major label debut. Includes a biography, photos and note-for-note transcriptions with tab supervised by Mayer himself ! 1...

No Place To Lay One's Head

Francoise Frenkel · 2017

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Pushkin Press 2017 Hardback 299 In 1921, Françoise Frenkel - a Jewish woman from Poland - opens Berlin's very first French bookshop. It is a dream come true. The bookshop attracts artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets - even the French ambassador himself. It brings Fran...

Appreciating Whisky

Phillip Hills · 2000

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

HarperCollins 2000 Hardback 191 As with fine wines, there is a social cachet in being able to 'appreciate' a good Scotch. But how exactly do you learn this skill? Where can you acquire the knowledge to join this whisky-appreciating elite? The answer is 'Appreciating Whisky'. T...

Blue Duck Station: The Land, The Rivers And The People

Nicola McCloy · 2023

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

David Bateman 2023 Hardback 255 Journey into the heart of wild New Zealand with Blue Duck Station, a captivating portrait of one of the country's most environmentally significant stations. Nestled alongside the idyllic Whanganui National Park, where the Whanganui and Retaruke ...

Mata Toki - Contemporay Māori Carving

Karl Chitham · 2014

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Rotorua Museum 2014 Paperback Very Good

Auschwitz In England - A Record Of Libel Action

Mavis M. Hill and L. Norman Williams · 1965

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,954)

MacGibbon & Kee 1965 Hardback 293 Account of a trial for libel in 1962. The plaintiff was Dr Dering, a London Doctor of Polish origin who brought the case against the author and publisher of 'Exodus'. In that novel a page made reference to a Dr Dehring connecting him to 'human...

The Reivers

William Faulkner · 1962

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Chatto & Windus 1962 Hardback 284 One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family’s retainers, to steal his grand...

Catriona

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1922

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Cassell 1922 Hardback 242 A sequel to 'Kidnapped'. No DJ. Small rip and two stains to front cover; small tear bottom of spine; remains of paper pasted to inside covers; foxing to last few pages. Fair

Caravan - Vol III: The First And The Last

John Galsworthy · 1928

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

William Heinemann 1928 Hardback 330 Owner's Name inside. "Grove Edition". Boards rubbed, spine bruised. Good

Nobby

Edgar Wallace

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

George Newnes Hardback 172 Undated. No DJ. Boards rubbed, chips to spine; small crack to front hinge. Fair

The Pocket Guide To British Birds

R. S. R. Fitter · 1952

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Collins 1952 Hardback 242 No DJ; Owner's Name inside. Green cloth on boards; gilt lettering to spine. Good

The Poetical Works Of Lord Byron With Memoir Explanatory Notes, etc

Lord Byron

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,429)

Frederick Warne And Co. Hardback 720 Undated. "The 'Albion' Edition". No DJ; Heavy; Owner's Name inside. Boards with floral pattern cloth cover, very worn at spine, pieces missing. Front hinge cracked; end papers tanned; title page and frontis foxed. Gilt edges. Fair

Four Quartets

T. S. Eliot · 1950

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Faber and Faber 1950 Hardback 44 The culminating achievement of Eliot's poetic career. The four parts: "Burnt Norton","East Coker", "The Dry Salvages" and "Little Gidding" present a rigorous meditation upon those spiritual, philosophical and personal themes that preoccupied th...