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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary On Historical Principles - 2 volumes

William Little and C. T. Onions · 1950

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,429)

Oxford - at the Clarendon Press 1950 Hardback 2494 No DJ; Heavy. Boards rubbed and sunned, corners bumped. Foxing to end papers. Very heavy (6.5kg) - extra postage will be required. Good

Burning Questions: Essays And Occasional Pieces, 2004 To 2021

Margaret Atwood · 2022

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Random House 2022 Paperback 750 In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid’s T...

A Forger's Tale: The Memoir Of One Of Britain's Most Successful And Infamous Art Forgers

Shaun Greenhalgh and Waldemar Januszczak · 2017

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Allen & Unwin 2017 Paperback 369 In 2007, Bolton Crown Court in the United Kingdom sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' garden, Greenhalgh had successfully foole...

A World Of Curiosities A Novel

Louise Penny · 2022

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,954)

Minotaur Books 2022 Hardback 400 . It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand G...

The Volga: A History Of Russia's Greatest River

M. Janet Hartley · 2021

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Yale University Press 2021 Hardback 379 The longest river in Europe, the Volga stretches more than three and a half thousand km from the heart of Russia to the Caspian Sea, separating west from east. The river has played a crucial role in the history of the peoples who are now...

New Foundations For A Science Of Text And Discourse: Cognition, Communication, And The Freedom Of Access To Knowledge And Society

Robert de Beaugrande · 1997

$54.00 (€48.99 | £40.87 | ¥8,623)

Ablex Publishing Corporation,U.S. 1997 Paperback 670 A magnum opus in the now vast domain of discourse studies, whose history, methods, and subdomains mobody knows as well as Robert de Beugrande. No other book in the humanities and social sciences today integrates such encylop...

Decorating Style (House Beautiful)

Carol Cooper Garey · 1992

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Hearst Books 1992 Hardback 223 Great style -- timeless, graceful, livable -- is within everyone's grasp. All that is required is ingenuity, not extravagance. In this handsome new book, the editors of "House Beautiful" present hundreds of ideas for bringing style to every room ...

The New Outdoor Kitchen Cooking Up A Kitchen For The Way You Live And Play

Deborah Krasner and Michael Krasner · 2007

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Taunton Press 2007 Hardback 232 As indoor kitchen design books do, The New Outdoor Kitchen covers initial design and planning and, in subsequent chapters, covers "stove" options (grills, smokers, wood-fired ovens); the rest of the kitchen (outdoor refrigerators, sinks, cabinet...

Runner's World Yoga Book

Jean Couch and Nell Weaver · 1979

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Anderson World Publications 1979 Spiral Bound 228 Yoga exercises for runners. Good

New Zealand's Romantic Landscape: Paintings By John Gully

John Gully · 1984

$39.00 (€35.38 | £29.52 | ¥6,228)

Millwood Press 1984 Hardback 182 An illlustrated biography compiled by the artist's grandson. Heavy; Large; DJ. DJ sunned. Very large and heavy, additional postage will be needed. Very Good

Glum Heroes Hardship, Fear And Death - Resilience And Coping In The British Army On The Western Front 1914-1919

Peter Hodgkinson · 2018

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

Helion, Limited 2018 Paperback 296 Our vision of the soldier of the Great War is often clouded by sentimentality. 'Glum Heroes' is a portrayal of how the soldiers of 1914-1918 coped with their experiences. Using their own words, the book considers coping from both the standpoi...

Changing Dublin: A Portfolio Of Drawings

Michael O'Brien · 1973

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

E & T O Brien 1973 Stapled 16 Booklet only. Cover foxing. Good

Action and Word in Shakespeare : Post-Primary Bulletin Vol. 10 No. 4

Sydney Musgrove · 1956

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Department of Education 1956 Stapled 32 Study guide to the staging of plays by William Shakespeare. The author, S. Musgrove was the Professor of English at Auckland University College at the time of publication. School Publications Branch, Dept. of Education, New Zealand. Cove...

A Rendezvous With Death Alan Seeger In Poetry, At War

Chris Dickon · 2017

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

New Street Communications, LLC 2017 Paperback 312 In this first modern biography of famed "Great War" poet Alan Seeger, Chris Dickon uses previously untapped papers and archives to reveal Seeger as a complex, enigmatic, and fatalistic genius confronting with robust, romantic i...

The Magic Furnace: The Search For The Origins Of Atoms

Marcus Chown · 1999

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Jonathan Cape 1999 Hardback 232 Marcus Chown's extraordinary account of how scientists unravelled the mystery of atoms and helped to explain the dawn of life is one of the greatest detective stories in the history of science. In fact, it is two puzzles intertwined: The origin ...

Timmy Failure: Now Look What You've Done

Stephan Pastis · 2015

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Walker Books 2015 Paperback 288 "Timmy Failure is the founder, president and CEO of the greatest detective agency in town, probably the country, perhaps the world: Total Failure, Inc. And he's about to crack the biggest case of his generation: a school competition to find a st...

The Last Devil To Die

Richard Osman · 2023

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Viking 2023 Paperback 432 Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug ...

Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer · 2002

$8.50 (€7.71 | £6.43 | ¥1,357)

Puffin Books 2002 Paperback 277 Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he's taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEP...

Amnesia

Peter Carey · 2014

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Hamish Hamilton 2014 Paperback 378 How does a young woman from suburban Melbourne become America's public enemy number one? When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, freeing hundreds of asylum seekers, she sets off a chain rea...

Historic Buildings of New Zealand - North Island

New Zealand Historic Places Trust · 1979

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

Cassell New Zealand 1979 Hardback 271 Heavy; Large; DJ. DJ a little foxed; Heavy & large so extra postage may be required. Good