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Mountains Gold and Cannibals

BOOTH Doris R. · 1929

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Cornstalk blue decorative cloth with titling, some rubbing wear and edge fraying, top half of fep removed, faint foxing to prelims, second edition completes 4,000 copies total, xix 203pp + plates, early days gold prospecting in New Guinea H Second Edition No Jacket Sydney Very...

The Angels Weep

SMITH Wilbur · 1982

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Heinemann dust jacket is not price clipped , this has no printed price to the flap, 506pp + 6pp adverts at rear, very occasional small spot of foxing to the closed edges H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Sword of Willow ( Signed By Author )

REID John · 1962

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Reed unclipped dust jacket is intact and tidy but has handling rubbing showing some white crease lines etc, small name 'J B Hine' plus author's presentation inscription 'To Blair with every good wish' and signature to fep, 265pp + plates H Signed by Author First Edition Very G...

Sailing all Seas in the Idle Hour

LONG Dwight · 1938

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Hodder tan cloth slightly sun-faded or handling soiled, minor surface flecking, pictorial map endpapers, pencil name to half title, 352pp + frontis and plates, half of front panel of the dust jacket slipped in at front H First Edition No Jacket London Very Good 8vo - over 7? -...

Fernie Brae ( Signed by Author )

SUMMERS John · 1984

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Pisces Print dust jacket lightly aged or soiled, 114 of 150 copies numbered, signed to half title by author, 140pp hand set on laid paper, nice Private Press edition printed by Nag's Head Press for Pisces Print, near fine condition, cloth with paper title labels to spine and ...

Venus Like Fire on Water ( Signed by Author )

SUMMERS John · 1985

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Pisces Print dust jacket lightly aged or soiled, 57 of 150 copies numbered, signed to half title by author, 32pp hand set on laid paper, nice Private Press edition printed by Nag's Head Press for Pisces Print, near fine condition excepting some flecking to cloth spine H Signe...

Billingsgate Shoal

BOYER Rick · 1985

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Victor Gollancz unclipped dust jacket, book has rounding to spine otherwise tidy used copy, unmarked H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

John Reid's Kiwis, New Zealand cricketers in South Africa, 1961-62 ( foreword and signed by Reid )

WHITTINGTON R. S. & GORDON LEGGAT · 1962

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Whitcombe & Tombs unclipped dust jacket is intact and tidy but has minor handling wear, small name 'J Blair Hine' plus author's presentation inscription 'To Blair with every good wish' and signature to fep, 216pp + plates H Signed by Author First Edition Very Good Christchurch...

Poems of Love and Earth ( Signed Copy )

DRINKWATER John · 1913

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

David Nutt SIGNED BY AUTHOR 'Nancy Staples, Repertory Theatre, Birmingham' to free end paper and signed by Drinkwater to title, Drinkwater was the manager of Barry Jackson’s Birmingham Repertory Theatre, some foxing to prelims and closed edges, 63+2pp adverts, second impressi...

The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan with a Memoir of His Life

SHERIDAN Richard Brinsley · 1861

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Henry G Bohn embossed cloth ( uniform for this 'library' edition) surface rubbed, hinges cracked and opened, original chocolate endpapers intact, frontis foxed, tissue guard dust soiled, 563+1pp advert, some foxing or soiling to rear pages, still a tight unmarked copy but with...

The Adventures of a Lion Family and other Studies of Wild Life in East Africa

PIENAAR A A trsl Lewis · 1923

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Longmans Green and co Brown cloth with black decorated cover, gilt spine, surface and edges rubbed, spine lean, corners bruised. lacks free end paper, booksellers label to paste down, inscription to verso of frontis. tissue guard present xv+256 pp. illustrated in line, and wa...

In the Days when the World was Wide and other Verses

LAWSON Henry · 1900

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Angus & Robertson red cloth rubbed to extremities, gilt titled spine, top corner creased, lacks free endpaper, frontis with tissue guard present, frontis has a faint water stain to lower margin. 234pp + 16 pp adverts at rear. some soiling to the occasional page (finger marks...

The Lion's Legacy

DYMOKE Juliet · 1974

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Dobson DW price clipped with tiny split bottom corner otherwise very tidy, top of free end paper clipped corner, book otherwise VG, 281pp H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Madrigal

GARDNER John · 1967

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Muller ex library, stamps to endpapers and closed edges, stamp at foot of final page below the text, tape residue to endpapers and darkened patches onto the boards, DW VG under plastic sleeve, minor tape foxing to the extreme edge of the fold ins. . A Boysie Oakes espionage th...

Food Governs Your Destiny, the Teachings of Namboku Mizuno

KUSHI Michio MIZUNO · 1991

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Japan Publications Trading Company cancelled ex library copy with library laminated wrappers with tape and label to spine, tape reinfocing hinge at fep and title and rear fep and previous page, 140pp translation by Michio and Aveline Kushi with Alex Jack. Teachings of a Tokuga...

The Man with the Carpet Bag , Poems

BLAND Peter · 1972

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Caxton near fine, faint label adhesive ghost top corner DW, one tiny 5mm closed split top edge, scarce book of poetry 46pp H First Edition Very Good Christchurch Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry Siegfried Sassoon (TWO PRINTINGS)

SASSOON Siegfried · 1926

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Ernest Benn stapled sheets, exterior sheet being front and rear covers detached into two peices and chipped along the spine edge, light foxing to these sheets and first and last few pages, (32)pp incl covers, undated probably 1926 and assumed first edition, the bibliography o...

Five Poems

GOHORRY John · 1977

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Kit-Cat Press spine minimally sunned, saddle sewn into paper wrapper, 12pp, hand printed private press, email to reduce postage charge S First Edition No Jacket King's Langley Very Good Colin Reeve 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall Private Press

Slave of My Thirst

HOLLAND Tom · 1996

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Pocket Books apart from minimal edge rubbing to spine ends of DW and a neat black remainder stripe to bottom edge is near fine copy of author's second work, vampirism in Victorian London as Dr John Eliot and Bram Stoker plunge into its underworld in search of a lost husband H...

The Hobbit and Other Stories

TOLKIEN J R R · 1975

$225.00 (€204.14 | £170.31 | ¥35,930)

Unwin Paperbacks First issue / edition of this 3 volume paperback set in a card slipcase. First editions in this format. THE HOBBIT; Reset (New Edition), 2nd Impression 1976, ISBN 0048231266 this copy is the (earlier) First State of the Second Impression, with the earlier (Fir...