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They Went Thataway

James Horwitz · 1977

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

W.H. Allen 1977 Hardback 281 DJ. Ex library, top corner of rear end paper cut out; tape markings to end papers. Fair

The Strange Case Of Pot

Schofield, Michael and Michael Schofield · 1971

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Penguin 1971 Paperback 205 Ignorance, prejudice and even envy have led to the explosive animus against a [at the time] new and widespread activity – the smoking of the drug cannabis. The Wootton Commission was set up to discover it implications, only to be condemned by politic...

Supernatural Stories Vol 1, No 26

John S. Manning

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Badger Books Paperback 158 Undated. Cover very worn and creased; cover becoming detached at front; pages soiled and foxed. Fair

Music For Chameleons: New Writing

Truman Capote · 1982

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Sphere 1982 Paperback 240 In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; a...

Shakespeare

William Shakespeare · 1994

$8.50 (€7.71 | £6.43 | ¥1,357)

The Book Company 1994 Hardback 77 DJ. Mini Format. Good

On The Road

Jack Kerouac · 1998

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Penguin Books 1998 Paperback 290 A futuristic story of a boy and his grandfather, who slip under a fence to a life the grandfather has not experienced for many years, and that the grandson has never known. A gripping race ensues to escape the forces that would carry them back....

In Too Deep

Andrew Child and Lee Child · 2024

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Transworld Publishers Limited 2024 Paperback Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had got there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up, alone, i...

A Clergyman's Daughter

George Orwell · 1964

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Penguin Books 1964 Paperback 263 Cover worn and creased; small tear bottom of spine; stains to edges of some pages. Fair

Travesties

Tom Stoppard · 1982

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Faber and Faber 1982 Paperback 99 Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this ti...

The Story Of A Non-Marrying Man And Other Stories

Doris Lessing · 1975

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Penguin Books 1975 Paperback 288 Cover creased; some tanning. Fair

Reader's Digest Complete Book of New Zealand Birds

Reader's Digest · 1985

$16.50 (€14.97 | £12.49 | ¥2,635)

Reader's Digest Services 1985 Hardback 319 Up-to-date, authoritative descriptions of every species of bird that lives in or visits the New Zealand region. Over 330 stunning full-colour photographs of birds in their natural habitat, taken by some of New Zealand's leading nature...

Treasures from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Museum Of New Zealand · 2005

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Te Papa Press 2005 Paperback 220 A colourful selection of more than 200 items from Te Papas collections - an ideal gift for people here and overseas. This gorgeous book features a range of fascinating items from Te Papa's collections. It includes Maori taonga (treasures), priz...

The Amber Spyglass

Philip Pullman · 2000

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Scholastic 2000 Hardback 560 <br><i>His Dark Materials • Book III<br></i><br>“IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN, SO FIRMLY AND RELENTLESSLY DOES PULLMAN DRAW YOU INTO HIS TALE . . . [A] gripping saga pitting the magnetic young Lyra Belacqua and her friend Will Parry against the forces of...

Spirit of An Age - New Zealand in the Seventies : Essays in Honour of W. B. Sutch

John L. Robson and Jack Shallcrass · 1975

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

A. H. & A. W. Reed 1975 Hardback 259 Shallcrass, J - W. B. Sutch Briggs, A. - A tribute from England Oestreicher, P. - The New Zealand dream Skinner, T. E. - The economy Powles, G. - The future of dissent Scott, W. J. - Civil liberties in a changing world Shallcrass, J. - Scho...

Gordon Walters

Francis Pound · 2024

$79.00 (€71.68 | £59.80 | ¥12,615)

Auckland University Press 2024 Hardback 464 In this remarkable study by the late Francis Pound, author of the landmark The Invention of New Zealand: Art and National Identity, 1930–1970 (2009), we are introduced to the making of a New Zealand modernist – tracing the work of Go...

The Planets

Andrew Cohen and Brian Cox · 2020

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

William Collins 2020 Paperback 304 The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System as it has never been seen before. Mercury, a lifeless victim of the Sun's expanding power. Venus, once thou...

An Actor Prepares

Constantin Stanislavski · 1946

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,429)

Theatre Arts, Inc 1946 Hardback 295 Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well. DJ. DJ worn and very sunned at the top & spine; top of first page cut off, probably whe...

The Drowning Woman

Robyn Harding · 2024

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Simon & Schuster 2024 Paperback 323 Lee Gulliver never thought she'd find herself living on the streets, but when her restaurant fails and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her car. Parked in a secluded spot by the beac...

The Pearl

John Steinbeck · 1948

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

William Heinemann Ltd 1948 Hardback 97 When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is bl...

Tender

Nigel Slater · 2009

$19.50 (€17.69 | £14.76 | ¥3,114)

Fourth Estate 2009 Hardback 1226 Heavy; No DJ. Includes slip wrap over half front cover; very heavy so extra postage may be needed. Very Good