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Girl's Own Paper 1944 October 1945 February March April May August September October

anon · 1944

$120.00 (€108.87 | £90.83 | ¥19,156)

Girls Own Paper 8 issues these magazines may be missing a coupon clipped at time of publication, stapled sheets rubbed heavily along the spines, sold as a lot S First Edition No Jacket Surrey Good Mays 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

Girl's Own Paper 8 Issues with Worrals Serial

JOHNS W E · 1943

$145.00 (€131.56 | £109.75 | ¥23,147)

Girls Own Paper 8 issues each with a part of a Worrals serial by WE Johns, the magazine may be missing a coupon clipped at time of publication but the pages bearing the Worrals tales are complete. stapled sheets rubbed heavily along the spines, Issues for May, Jun, Aug, Sep...

More of Milly-Molly-mandy

BRISLEY Joyce Lankester · 1951

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Harrap faint foxing to prelims, red titled and dec boards, 95pp + colour frontis, DW price clipped, minor edge wear or tears, light chipping near spine head etc, and top corners. still a tidy copy H reprint Very Good London Very Good Joyce Lankester Brisley 8vo - over 7? - 9...

Die By the Book

MEYNELL Laurence · 1966

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Collins ex libray, lacks fep, rubberstamps to paste down , half title, rear fep and paste down, tape rust to paste downs and onto edges of boards where DW was taped down in a plastic sleeve. DW trimmed top and bottom edges to fit into the sleeve losing a total of about 5mm fro...

Elephants Can Remember

CHRISTIE Agatha · 1972

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Collins price clipped DW, light fade to spine, uniform surface soiling to the laminated (publishers) jacket, light watermark along the bottom edge of the wrapper maximum about 5mm high. minor foxing to prelims and closed edges H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - o...

The Clocks

CHRISTIE Agatha · 1963

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Collins light foxing endpapers and closed edges, DW unclipped but large chips from bottom left corner of front panel and the spine corners, rear flap fold tear to top half along the fold, front cover corners also tears along the folds, Head of book spine bumped. H First Editio...

The Alexandria Quartet

DURRELL Lawrence · 1962

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

Faber lacks DW cloth slightly rubbed to edges, original bookseller stamp foot of fep as well as former owners details [Lt / Cdr J Burton R N Z N | H M N Z S OTAGO | 8th July 1964 ], light foxing to endpapers and feps, 884pp, small old dried out patch of damp to the bottom ...

The Best of Rosemary Sutcliff (Warrior Scarlet, The mark of the horse lord, knights fee)

SUTCLIFF Rosemary · 1500

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Chancellor Press 3 in 1 omnibus edition, pictorial covers, 725pp, illustrated in line by Charles Keeping. closed edges foxed, some pages slightly wavy (1500 gram rate) H reprint No Jacket London Very Good Charles Keeping 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand volume Two

REEVES W P · 1923

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

George Allen Unwin volume two only (of two ) of the 1923 reprint edition. Blue cloth , gilt spine, spine edges rubbed, corners worn, lower board surface soiled, corner of top edges of pages soiled. Ex-library bookplate to paste down, stamp to fep, reverse of half title and a...

Pagan and christian in an age of anxiety, some aspects of religious experience form Marcus Aurelius to Constantine.

DODDS E R · 1968

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Cambridge University Press DW price clipped, spine slight fade otherwise VG. Book VG+. The Wiles Lectures 1962-63. 144pp. i- man and the material world ii- man and the daemonic world iii- man and the divine world iv- dialogue of paganism with chrisitianity. The Wiles Lectur...

Maud Gonne a biography of Yeats' beloved

LEVENSON Samuel · 1977

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Casselll Turn-of-the-century society with its romantic, genteel scandals, the Celtic reivival, Yeats and the Abbey Theatre and, the stormy world of Irish patriots and the new born Irish republic all meet in the life story of the irrepressible, legendary Maud Gonne., Biography ...

Alexander of Tunis as military Commander

JACKSON W G F · 1971

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Batsford contains bibliography, index, and 31 illustrations. Includes chapters on "Test Of Command"; "Approach To High Command"; "Defeat In Flanders"; "Triumph Of Generalship"; and "Alexander As A Commander". dust jacket is edge worn, unclipped, book VG with ink inscription t...

On Moral Courage

MACKENZIE Compton · 1962

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Collins stunning deep blue cloth, book is near fine, no faults. DW price clipped and spine faded a little. examples of moral courage, mostly from the twentieth century, collected and commented upon. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes

LAU Theodora · 1979

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Souvenir 'Proof copy, not for resale' printed at head of cover. Sewn sections as per hardback ediion but in printed wrappers. 314pp VG with diagrams etc in the text. Chinese horoscopes and birth signs etc. S First Edition No Jacket London Very Good Kenneth Lau 8vo - over 7? - ...

Nawok! the New Zealand expedition to New Guinea's highest Mountains

TEMPLE Philip · 1962

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Dent black cloth, some rubbing to bottom edge of upper board, single name in felt to fep, 189pp + plates colour frontis. DW price clipped, rubbed heavily to edges chipped spine ends and corners, lower panel surface rubbed. Inroduction by Edmund Hillary. The first English...

A Long Vacation

VERNE Jules translated Olga Marx · 1967

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Oxford University Press first thus, DW small split at tail of spine, minimal edgewear to spine ends and corners, under an old plastic cover, price clipped, 4pp top corners creased, minimal foxing to fep and closed edges. 208pp B&W illustrations and colour DW by Ambrus. Fourte...

Winged Pharaoh

GRANT Joan · 1940

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Methuen eighth (cheap) edition, pale blue cloth with Egyptian motif to the spine, spine ends faded where chips to DW leve it uncovered. Offset browned fep, ink name dated 1940 to fep. Blue design of seated Pharaoh to title page (as published). xi + 382pp. DW unclipped, chipp...

The Business of Murder

LUSTGARTEN Edgar · 1968

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Harrap 201pp VG, DW has been reinforced on rear with paper, large chip from spine tail, large closed tear lower front cover, edge and corner wear but generally complete and presentable., price clipped. Six chapters; John George Haigh, Neville George Clevely Heath, Henri Desire...

Sexual Behaviour in the human female

KINSEY Alfred C & others · 1953

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

W B Saunders cloth hardcover, corners bruised, some sunfading, 842pp. first edition, (1500 gram rate) H First Edition No Jacket London Good 4to - over 9? - 12" tall

Only Gentlemen Can Play

McLEAVE Hugh · 1975

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Arthur Barker tidy copy some edge wear to DW. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall