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CRUMP Barry · 1963

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Reed DW price clipped otherwise just minor corner rubbing, with light chipping to top ends of DW joints, First edition, Classic Kiwi humour H First Edition Very Good Wellington Very Good Dennis Turner 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan ( Gayan Vadan Nirtan )

KHAN Hazrat Inayat · 1960

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,780)

Barrie & Rockliff DW lacks top 20mm of front panel and head of spine, spine sunned, small closed tear to rear panel, some fading to spine ends of book, otherwise clean copy, first edition, 260pp western sufi movement H First Edition Good London Very Good 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall

Lively Retrospect; Timaru Girls High School 1880-1980

LAWRENCE Averille · 1980

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Timaru High School Old Girls Association name to front paste down, light edge rubbing to DW, 215pp + plates H First Edition Very Good Timaru Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Massey, Its Early Years; a History of the Development of Massey Agricultural College to 1943

BROOKING T W H · 1977

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Massey Alumni Association light surface soiling to boards, clear plastic wrapper, some minor foxing to edges, 171pp includes illustrations H First Edition No Jacket Palmerston North Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Questions and Answers... dealt with in the Transactions of the Masters and Past Masters Lodge up to June 1971

CHAMBERS A R & Ross Hepburn · 1972

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Masters and Past Masters Lodge blue papered board sunned to spine, finger marks to boards otherwise VG, no DW, 369pp, Questions and Answers on all aspects of Freemasonry published by the Christchurch, New Zealand Masters and Past Masters Lodge #130 H revised No Jacket Christ...

The Royal Dutch (Shell) Petroleum Company (N.V. Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij), 1890 - 16 June - 1950 (Diamond Jubilee Book)

The Royal Dutch (Shell) Petroleum Company · 1950

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

small discrete stamp to fep, half title and verso of frontis, as well as rear fep and top edge. large folding colour map in pocket at rear in fine condition. Text in Dutch. 212pp b&w photos in text. A company history of the Shell petroleum corporation. spine slightly sunned,...

Simple Furnishing and Arrangement

GLOAG Helen and John · 1921

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Duckworth cloth with minimal soiling or rubbing to the buckram, title in black to covers and gilt to spine, 165pp + 1 pp advert + plates. Drawings in text. How to furnish the 'modern home' of 1920s with antique or contemporary furnishings. Will be of interest to designers, ...

The Spiritual Crisis of Man

BRUNTON Paul · 1952

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Rider first edition, blue cloth . DW unclipped and VG excepting tiny edge splits and a chip from the bottom of the cover, some light browning to spine and fore edge folds, small chip head of lower fold, . Book internally excellent. 224pp. Brunton considers the spiritual and ...

Pollyanna grows Up

PORTER Eleanor H · 1924

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Harrap First UK edition, green cloth with gilt titling, spine ends and corners rubbed, slightly sunned spine, endpapers toned otherwise VG with frontis, fore and bottom edges untrimmed H First Edition No Jacket London Good H Weston Taylor 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Chronicles of Avonlea

MONTGOMERY L M · 1912

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Page tan cloth with pasted on portrait of a young woman by George Gibbs. Gilt title to cover and spine. Corners lightly bumped and rubbed, spine a bit saggy, some surface soiling to covers, the edges of the portrait rubbed to the thick black border. Endpaper missing. Hinge bef...

Cloak without Dagger

SILLITOE Percy · 1955

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Cassell second impression same month as first. DW complete and unclipped with mino edge rubbing and a few small splits and cips from the extreme edges. lower panel is soiled to the white surface. A career that commenced with the British African police, thru' the Colonial servi...

Jack O' Judgement

WALLACE Edgar

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Ward Lock assumed as a late fifties or early sixties reprint. beige cloth boards titled in red to spine only. ink name to fep, offset toned feps, 190pp VG and clean. DW price clipped and with two tears to the top edges about 35mm down, clean and not too noticeable under plas...

The Silent Traveller in New York

YEE Chiang · 1950

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Methuen cream buckram with green chinese characters to cover and titled to spine. map end papers, book VG 281pp + 17 coloured plates and over 120 images in the text also. DW unclipped and tidy but some spots of foxing starting and spine a little discoloured, small edge chips...

Hakluyt's Voyages volumes 1-4

HAKLUYT Richard introduction John Masefield · 1907

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

Dent vol 1 & 2 and then 3 & 4 are uniform with each other but the whole set has uniform DWs, reprints after 1907 vol 1= 1939, 2=1936, 3= 1926, 4=1926. vols 1 &2 approx 460pp vols 3 & 4 approx 380pp only first 4 vols of the 8 vol set present, minor age and handling wear otherwi...

Infinite Way Letters 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958

GOLDSMITH Joel

$300.00 (€272.18 | £227.08 | ¥47,891)

Fowler all are first editions and have the same faults etc as described, Ex-psychic library issues with stamps , tape stains and label remains to the endpapers and paste downs, some tape staining onto the edges of the boards as well, DW are under plastic sleeves but they hav...

Look Homeward Angel

WOLFE Thomas · 1958

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Heinemann UK printing. book slight spine lean, minor fading tail of spine cloth. 613pp. DW unclipped, short edge tears to head of spine and to the upper tail joint . small spot discoloured at the top of the L of the title, very slightly sunned spine. First printed in this...

The Will to be Well

PATTERSON Charles Brodie · 1901

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.46 | ¥27,936)

Alliance Publishing Company scarce, oblong green cloth with extra-gilt cover and gilt spine. rubbed with slight fraying to spine ends and corners, contemporary ink initials [ J. H. ] to fep, a few minor pencil lines in the occasional margin otherwise VG and tidy. 205pp Much o...

Exploration Fawcett

FAWCETT P H · 1953

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Hutchinson 312pp + plates, map end papers, fourth impression, Arranged from Fawcetts manuscripts, letters, logbooks and records by Brian Fawcett, chapter decorations by Brian Fawcett, much South American legend and lore and anthropological observations, map endpapers H reprint...

The Sirius Mystery

TEMPLE Robert K G · 1981

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Sidgwick & Jackson VG in unclipped DW. (xiv) 290pp + plates Much on the mystery teachings behind the star Sirius and how it relates to ancient Egyptian esoteric religion as well as the mystery schools of the mediteranean area. Starts off based on anthropological work amongst t...

The Scapegoat

Du MAURIER Daphne · 1957

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Victor Gollancz price clipped DW has short tear at head of upper joint, minor tears at corners, somewhat browned to the backstrip, name to paste down, light foxing to closed edges and prelims, 368pp H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall