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Rudiments of English Composition & Key to Rudiments of English Composition

REID Alexander · 1870

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Oliver and Boyd two works bound into one volume. first works title continues "designed as a practical introduction to correctness and perspicuity in writing and to the study of criticism; with copious exercises, for the use of schools" seventeenth edition, the second work is ...

Joe and the Gladiator

COOKSON Catherine · 1968

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

MacDonald ex library with stamps to endpapers front and rear, mild tape stains to paste downs and onto edge of boards, stamp to title, stamp and acquisition marks to imprint, DW unclipped and under a plastic sleeve. A young boys relationship with the rag and bone mans horse ...

The Permit

JONES Bob · 1984

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Collins very nice, signed to half title by author, an allegory on life through the trials of an angler. 151pp H Signed by Author First Edition Very Good Auckland Very Good Con Dimopoulos 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall

Model Oddlies + Oodles of Oddlies

JENNINGS Paul · 1956

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Reinhardt Two books; Model Oddlies 1956 small chip head of dust jacket spine, small scuff at tail, unclipped, book clean, 155pp, line illustrations and Oodles of Oddlies, 1963 first edition, price clipped dust jacket, book spine leans, book clean, 169pp H First Edition Very ...

Children of the Game

COCTEAU Jean translated by Rosamond Lehmann · 1955

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Harvill Press Originally published as Les Enfants Terribles out of Paris in 1929. Original price on the dust jacket has been covered with a "Cheap Edition" price, otherwise seems to be the original first thus English translation. DW has the aforementioned "Cheap Edition 6/-" ...

Bright Morrow

NEVILLE Derek · 1947

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

John Crowther Hardback in original cloth binding and dustwrapper. 157pp. Novel set in 1980, with the author anticipating the world divided into two camps - the democratic peoples and the dispossessed or "Desserpoans", as he calls them. The dustwrapper is printed on very thin p...

The Candle

SAINT PHALLE Theresa de translated Antonia White · 1968

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Harrap DW surface soiling from handling, water mark to the fore edge along the fold., rubbed to edges, small splits at fold ends, unclipped. Book VG. 192pp. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

South from the Red Sea

TAZIEFF Haroun translated Naomi Lewis

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Travel Book Club first thus book club edition. 213pp + plates. Book tidy, DW unclipped, edgewear, small chips from head of spine and corners, small area of tape reside. Author was with Captain Cousteau and his Red Sea diving expedition, also travelled into central Africa, T...

Sheer Silk

ELLIOTT William J · 1946

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Gerald G Swan The fourth book in a crime series featuring the man christened "Silk" because he left a small sqaure of silk at the scene of every crime. Nice dustwrapper. VG+ in VG- dustwrapper with wear and rubbing to edges, short edge tears, the price on the flap has been mar...

Doom's Caravan

HOUSEHOLD Geoffrey · 1971

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Michael Joseph VG, no inscriptions or marks, laminated DW similar and unclipped, minor surface dust soiling. Very minimal insect damamge to the front fold of the DW with a few letters from the flap blurb nibbled away. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? ...

They fought alone, a true story of a modern Hero

KEATS John · 1964

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Secker & Warburg VG book, small bumps to top and bottom edge, DW is price clipped and VG except faint cup ring to cover showing as white on the green colour. 400pp , map end papers, Wendell Fertig spent three years with the Philippinnes resistance during WWII H First Edition V...

The Ka of Gifford Hillary

WHEATLEY Dennis · 1956

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Hutchinson book VG, small bookseller stamp to base of fep, some light soiling to closed edges. DW complete but with tear along the fold at the top of the spine, and some creases to the edges as well as rubbing etc, all complete and present but somewhat marked, and with chi...

In Peril on the Sea

HAINSSELIN Montague T · 1919

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

Hodder seems to have been in a fire, or boiler room! Blue cloth with titling to spine and cover, the two boards cloth is bubbled and lifting, all edges are smoke blackened, very minor intrusion of smoke to the edges of the end papers, the book text seems untouched, one insta...

False Scent

MARSH Ngaio · 1960

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Collins two pen names ( one crossed out) to top corner of fep otherwise clean copy in VG DW, 254pp H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

The world of Christopher Robin the complete When We Were Young and Now We Are Six

MILNE A A · 1974

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Methuen very tidy reprint edition, brown cloth, DW price clipped otherwise VG+, 243pp + colour plates and illustrations in line in the text. closed edges slightly dusty otherwise VG+ H reprint Very Good London Very Good E H Shepard 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Spiritual Crisis of Man

BRUNTON Paul · 1952

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Rider first edition, blue cloth minor mottling to the top edge, some light spots of tape stain to fep, scattered foxing to closed edges, DW price clipped and a little dust soiled or with slight scattered foxing. 224pp. Brunton considers the spiritual and social crisis in the...

Best Black Magic Stories

CROSS John Keir · 1960

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Faber tidy copy, dust jacket unclipped with short edge tears at head and tail of spine and top corner of the rear folding flap, corners rubbed. endpapers toned otherwise tidy book. Short stories by Margaret Irwin, John Collier, Richard Barham, John Keir Cross, Dennis Wheatley,...

The Long Chase

BRAND Max · 1961

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Hodder dust jacket unclipped, light wear to edges and corners, light surface soiling from handling, offset browning to free end papers, actually very tidy copy, first UK edition. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

You're a brick, Angela!: A new look at girls' fiction from 1839 to 1975

CADOGAN Mary & CRAIG Patricia · 1976

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Victor Gollancz third impression, ex-library but very tidy just with acquisition stamps and the plastic cover over the DW taped to endpapers and edges of boards, shelf mark to the spine of the clear plastic wrapper, DW spine slight sun faded, 397pp with illustrations. History...

Sharra's exile

BRADLEY Marion Zimmer · 1995

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Severn House First trade edition. Darkover novel. Originally published as a DAW paperback in 1981, followed by a Nelson Doubleday omnibus book club edition, but this is the first separate hardcover edition. VG copy in unclipped DW. Minimal wear to extreme tips of DW corners, t...