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The Traveller-Gypsies

Judith Okely · 1998

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,155)

Cambridge University Press 1998 Paperback 254 In this book Judith Okely challenges popular accounts of Gypsies which suggest that they were once isolated communities, enjoying an autonomous culture and economy now largely eroded by the processes of industrialisation and wester...

Grandzilla

Lisa Williams · 2018

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2018 Paperback 360 Tillie and Tessa: the real estate mogul and the burgeoning activist; the embittered widow and the girl grieving her grandpa; one apparently friendless, the other falling in love. The one thing they do agree on? They really, really don't like each other. But ...

The Rehearsal

Eleanor Catton · 2009

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,794)

Victoria University Press 2009 Paperback 316 In the aftermath of a high-school sex scandal, a group of teenage girls is jolted into an intoxicating new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden public scrutiny turns their every act into a performance, and every plat...

A Piece Of The World

Christina Baker Kline · 2017

$14.50 (€13.16 | £10.98 | ¥2,315)

The Borough Press 2017 Paperback 309 For decades, Christina Olson's whole world has been a rocky, windswept point on the coast of Maine, the farmhouse her ancestors fled to from the Salem witch trials. A world she fears she will never leave. As a girl, farm life asked more of ...

First Plays

A. A. Milne · 1929

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Chatto & Windus 1929 Hardback 222 Wurzel-Plummery; the Lucky One; the Boy Comes Home; Belinda; the Red Feathers. Though today he's best remembered as the creator of the Winnie the Pooh series of children's books, British writer A. A. Milne was actually a much more prolific pla...

The Freedom Of Birds

Stephanie Parkyn · 2021

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Allen & Unwin 2021 Paperback 424 Two French storytellers and a runaway girl travel through fairytale lands, Italian theatres, and the battlefields of France in search of a place to belong as Napoleon's Empire falls, from the author of Josephine's Garden. ... From picturesque v...

The Conquerors Of Palestine - Through Forty Centuries

H. O. Lock · 1920

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Robert Scott 1920 Hardback 114 No DJ. Spine partially detached; front hinge cracked; ex library. Includes fold-out map. Poor

The Ecology Of An Island Population Of The House Mouse

R. J. Berry · 1968

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Blackwell Scientific Publications 1968 Other 25 J. Anim. Ecol. 37, 445-470, June 1968. The House mouse (Mus musculus L.) population on the small Welsh island of Skokholm was founded in the 1890s when a few animals were inadvertently introduced. Appears to be stitched binding w...

Elizabeth Of The Garret Theatre

Gwendoline Courtney · 1961

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Collins 1961 Hardback 192 DJ. DJ creased with small tears near spine; owner's name on end paper. Good

Swan Song

John Galsworthy · 1928

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Heinemann 1928 Hardback 347 No DJ. Spine sunned, corners bumped; foxing to page edges. Owner's name on inside cover. Good

Licit And Illicit Drugs

Edward M. Brecher · 1972

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Little, Brown & Company 1972 Paperback 623 Heavy. Cover creased and sunned. Good

Boat Data Book

Ian Nicolson · 1985

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Nautical Books 1985 Hardback 176 Second Edition. No DJ. Good

Love In A Cold Climate

Nancy Mitford · 2000

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Penguin 2000 Paperback 493 Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles and fancies of the English upper class, and includes an introduction by Philip Hensher in Penguin Modern Classics. Nancy Mitford's bril...

Ring Down The Curtain

Phyllis Brusey · 1973

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1973 Hardback 192 Signed; No DJ. Boards rubbed; soiling to page edges. Owner's sticker on inside cover; inbscription by "Harry & Phyllis Brusey" on end paper. Good

Autumn

Ali Smith · 2016

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Penguin Books 2016 Paperback 272 Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll...

Survive the Savage Sea

Dougal Robertson · 1974

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Book Club Associates 1974 Hardback 223 After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the six members of the Robertson family spent 37 days adrift in the Pacific. With no maps, compass, or navigational instruments, and rations for only three days, they us...

Out of the Bag

Selwyn Toogood · 1979

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Methuen 1979 Hardback 214 Selwn Toogood tells of his association with the media from the 1930s, and also reveals the personal side of his life. No DJ. Blue boards with title in gold on spine. Good

The Selected Novels - Volume Two: the Moon And Sixpence; the Narrow Corner; the Painted Veil

W. Somerset Maugham · 1953

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William Heinemann 1953 Hardback No DJ. Boards rubbed, spine spotted; tape residue on inside cover; owner's name on end paper. Good

The Selected Novels - Volume One: Liza of Lambeth; Cakes And Ale; Theatre

W. Somerset Maugham · 1953

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

William Heinemann 1953 Hardback No DJ. Boards rubbed and spotted; tape residue on inside cover; owner's name on end paper. Minimal edge foxing. Good

Cook With Me

Aaron Brunet · 2014

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Random House NZ 2014 Paperback Heavy. Cover sunned and a little rubbed. Author's inscription on end paper. Shop sticker on front cover. Good