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HEINLEIN Robert A · 1982

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

New English Library unclipped DW with lightly sunned spine, wrap-around art by Gerald Grace, a name date and price in pen at top of fep. minimal foxing to closed edges. 380pp first UK edition. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Dayworld

FARMER Philip Jose · 1985

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Granada papered boards some discolouration, spine slight lean, edges rubbed, paper browning a little, 322pp. First UK edition. DW unclipped, light crease to rear panel, wrap-around art by Tim White H First Edition Very Good London Very Good Tim White 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Heart of Scotland a Memoir

CAMMELL charles Richard · 1956

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Robert Hale sequel to Castles in the Air . Autobiography and memoir of famous Scottish creative personalities of the first half of the Twentieth Century. Cammell knew Aleister Crowley well and there is a short reference to him here. Cammell knew many of the foremost Scots poe...

Rasputin, A New Judgement

LIEPMAN Heinz · 1959

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Muller lacks DW, sunned spine and with water mark along upper joint. endpapers browned, text block is clean and tight. first English translation / edition. The top edge margin of the plates shows faint water mark but the pages dont seem to show any discolouration. 264pp + pl...

The English Circumnavigators the most remarkable voyages around the World

PURVES David Laing & R Cochrane · 1876

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Nimmo with a preliminary sketch of their lives and discoveries. Decorative geen cloth in gilt and black with bevelled edge boards. some rubbing to corners and edges, Tips frayed, front paste down marred by removal of a bookplate?, front hinge cracked and opened but cover hol...

Sinner Saint and Jester (comprising The Snare, The Strolling Saint & The Shame of Motley)

SABATINI Rafael · 1954

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Hutchinson omnibus edition on rice paper, faint patches of tape residue showing as darkened cloth to the top and bottom edges of the boards from tape holding a plastic cover to the DW. Some small spots of tape oxide to the paste down and fep edges (minor). name to fep [K J ...

Scrapbook for The Twenties

BAILY Leslie · 1959

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Muller 257pp + plates and illustrations in text, spine cloth mottled a little, DW unclipped VG intact complete small area dust soiling top right, minor edge wear or rubbing, minor foxing to feps only, chronological and general indices. A survey of the nineteen twenties social...

Bows against the Barons

TREASE Geoffrey · 1979

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Hodder book has inscription to fep, some light foxing to feps, fifth impression of the revised 1966 edition. DW complete and unclipped but with a tear at the top corner and spine end these have benn scotch taped on the outside to stop lamination from peeling, bottom front cor...

The Smugglers

MANNING-SANDERS Ruth · 1962

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Oxford University Press book would be VG but the top edges of the boards have been nibbled back to the card boards by silverfish, otherwise book is VG with minimal hints of foxing to feps, a school presentation plate to fep glued at the top edge only, DW unclipped, short split...

Beggars' Horses

WREN P C · 1934

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Murray Murray's Imperial Library issue of first edition, stated so 1934. upper joint split to lower half, spine a little browned, very minor soiling to cover, lower corner upper board just starting to fray at tip, some minor tape residue to paste downs ( quite innocuous), pen...

Darkie and Co.

SPRING Howard · 1932

$195.00 (€176.92 | £147.60 | ¥31,129)

Oxford University Press light fading top and bottom edges of the backstrip, two tone decorative blue cloth, prize plate to fep attach with gum along the top edge only. 288pp + colour frontis, illustrated in text. excellent copy. DW VG with light chipping tail of spine, and a s...

Beyond the Burning Lands

CHRISTOPHER John · 1973

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Hamilton top corner fep clipped, DW not price clipped. VG/VG second part of trilogy started with The Prince in Waiting. Complete on its own. Set in post apocalyptic England. [NOT an ex-library book] H reprint Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

A Dream of Islands, voyages of self-discovery in the South Seas

DAWS Gavan · 1980

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Jacaranda quarter cloth, map end papers, 289pp illustrations, chapters on John Williams, Herman Melville, Walter Murray Gibson, Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin and their quest for fulfillment in the south seas islands. Includes introductory chapter and index. DW s...

P G Wodehouse the authorized biography

DONALDSON Frances · 1982

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Weidenfeld excellent copy near fine excepting the faint ghost where a label has had sun action transferring its colour to a blank part of the DW,there is just faint fading of the wrapper proper, unclipped, a really VG+ VG+ copy. Includes exhaustive bibliographical index as we...

My Guru and His Disciple

ISHERWOOD Christopher · 1980

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Farrar Straus Giroux some minor edge wear or short edge splits to DW otherwise tidy copy with R stamped to bottom closed page edges (on the outside) 338pp Isherwoods memoir of his 'guru' Swami Prabhavananda of Bengal. H First Edition Very Good New York Very Good 8vo - over 7? ...

The Mustard Seed: Discourses on the Sayings of Jesus Taken from the Gospel According to Thomas

RAJNEESH Bhagwan Shree · 1975

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Rajneesh Foundation plain wraps with large black titling, wraps rubbed and uniformly soiled, joints worn, gift inscription to fep, colour portrait frontis detached and with a name written to its reverse, 508 +1 pp. good reading / study copy S First Edition No Jacket Poona Go...

The Musgraves

STEVENSON D E · 1960

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Collins spine titling a little tired, inscription to fep, minor spots foxing, closed edges browned. spine slight lean. Dust jacket has some wear and short edge tears, chipped to heel of spine, corner, generally complete but worn and rubbed to the edges. 256pp H First Edition G...

Repulsion the life and times of Roman Polanski

KIERNAN Thomas · 1981

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

New English Library DW unclipped, 288pp + plates H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Forbidden Mountain

NAVARRA Fernand trsl Michael Legat · 1956

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

MacDonald An expedition to Mt Ararat in Turkey by six Frenchmen in 1952 to summit the mountain and hopefully find Noah's Ark!, excellent copy, jacket is price clipped but otherwise VG with minimal edge chipping to spine ends and corners, spine slightly sunned, rear white pane...

Sand In My Spinach

MARSH Garry · 1958

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Arthur Barker cream buckram a little foxed, name to fep, minor age toning, DW complete and unclipped but with short chips or tears to spine ends, as well as short tear at top of front panel. An actor signs up in the air force at the start of the war and in these memoirs can ...