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Travels in New Zealand volume two

DIEFFENBACH Ernst · 1974

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

Capper Press VOLUME TWO ONLY of 2 vol facsimile reprint. Dustjacket VG under plastic cover. Book has light spine lean. iv, 396 + 4 advts. Frontispiece. Includes a Maori grammar and dictionary from the earliest times of European contact.Also writings on geography , geology, bot...

Desperate Measures

WHEATLEY Dennis · 1974

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Hutchinson papered boards VG, lower front corner bruised, bottom edge a little insect damage but unobtrusive, top and fore edge slightly dusty. DW complete unclipped and VG with lamination intact and not bubbled. edge wear top and bottom with minor tiny nicks at corners. Rea...

War of the Classes

LONDON Jack · 1905

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

Heinemann Red cloth gilt titled to spine and upper board with some insect damage, some wear to spine mainly at corners and ends, A small nick to top edge upper board, Ink inscription to fep dated 1905 xx+278+ one blank leaf followed by fep , LACKS half-title, pages untrimme...

The Mansion

FAULKNER William · 1961

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Chatto & Windus first UK edition. brick coloured papered boards, corners bumped lightly. top edge red and fading. dust jacket complete unclipped but has tiny edge tears, mainly to spine. a little browning, and some surface soiling to white of rear panel. A very nice tight copy...

Last Ditch

MARSH Ngaio · 1977

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Collins classic Ngaio Marsh. hardback with the slightest spine lean. DW not price clipped and retains the New Zealand price label above the publishers price on the fold in. DW lightly soiled through normal careful use and the red title to the spine has faded to blue H First E...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper

COWPER William R A Willmott

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Routledge edited Rev Robert Aris Willmott. red cloth with gilt and coloured decoration to spine and boards. All Edges Gilt. spine cloth sunned . xvi+632+17 (advts) rice paper, each page printed with red border. scattering of light foxing. line engravings, tissue frontis. origi...

Abandon Ship!

CAMPBELL Gordon · 1938

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Hodder disasters at sea and shipwrecks. Covers the East Indiaman 'Antelope', HMS 'Alceste', 'Proserpine','St George', 'Defence' and 'Litchfield'. By Vice -Admiral Gordon Campbell. blue cloth with blue DW rubbed and with chipped spine ends and corners with some loss, Faint c...

The Defeat of John Hawkins a biography of his third slaving Voyage

UNWIN Rayner · 1960

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Unwin VG book in VG dustwrapper but with well sunned spine chipped at spine ends and soiled to the white rear panel. book shows minor age wear but no faults. 319 pp + plates.Top edge dusted red and dusty as well. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Arthur Ruppin Memoirs Diaries Letters

BEIN Alex · 1971

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Weidenfeld VG hardback in a good DW with edge wear including some tears and chipping as well as the front fold in being 'curled' and creased. DW is price clipped but generally complete. 332pp + plates. Arthur Ruppin opened the Palestine Office of the Zionist Organization in J...

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth

WELLS H G · 1904

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

MacMillan true first as colonial preceeds Uk edition. Blue cloth with embossed vignette about gilt title on upper board. Gilt titled spine.. Boards soiled and rubbed to edges with splitting to spine joints and chipping to cloth at head and tail, corners rubbed through to board...

The Comedy world of Stan Laurel

MCCABE John · 1975

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Robson DW spine sunned other wise book and DW are VG+ with only minor signs of age. 221pp+plates. top edge dusty. Foreword by Morecambe and Wise. Biography of half of Laurel and Hardy, from Stan Laurel's Variety days in Britain through to his film success in the USA. Includes ...

Struggle for the Snowy, the background of the Snowy Mountain Scheme

WIGMORE Lionel · 1968

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Oxford University Press near fine in VG+ DW with minor edge wear and short edge tears 215pp, map end papers. The massive Snowy Mountains hydro-electric and irrigation scheme from conception to completion. includes illustrations, glossary and sources. H First Edition Very Good...

Spring Fever

WODEHOUSE P G

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Herbert Jenkins brick cloth with some rubbing, spine slight lean , minor soiling and very lighlty faded spine, lacks free end paper, negligible insect nibbling to paste downs (minor). 256 pp apart from noted faults is VG H First Edition No Jacket London Good 8vo - over 7? - 9?...

The Deadly Sex

WEBB Jack · 1960

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Boardman spine very slightly faded light lean bottom edge a little soiled, pencil line across top edge a VG book without dust jacket, shows some ageing but no faults, American Bloodhound No 303 H First Edition No Jacket London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Man in the Brown Suit

CHRISTIE Agatha · 1962

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,780)

Bodley Head uncommon hardback title. DW has edge wear with some minor chipping to the very edges. Price clipped. some minor foxing to prelims. Spine sunned at head and tail where DW lacking. second impression of 1958 new (cheap) edition, being the 3rd Bodley printing (1924 / 1...

The Bentincks the history of a European Family

SCHAZMANN Paul-Emile · 1976

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Weidenfeld boards rubbed to edges, book label to paste down, map end papers, a bit of tape residue from dw protector to end papers at bottom and top edges. DW is in a plastic cover and VG excepting a bit of sunning to spine. 262pp + plates, at blank tail of final page (index)...

Bernard Shaw The Last Laugh (vol 4, 1950-1991)

HOLROYD Michael · 1992

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Chatto & Windus VG in VG protected DW, not price clipped. Fourth volume biography covering years 1950-1991. 132pp includes Shaw's will and bequests. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

Sublime and Instructive; Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Ellen Heaton

RUSKIN John. edited Virginia Surtees · 1972

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Michael Joseph Red cloth with price clipped jacket under plastic cover. name blacked out on paste down, name on free end paper,light rubbing to bottom edge of cloth. DW a little soiled. 272 pp + plates. Short biography of each lady followed by Ruskins correspondence to her....

The Last Days of Sevastopol

VOYETEKHOV Boris · 1944

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Cassell blue cloth, small format, age toning to endpapers, DW has minor surface rubbing to rear panel and short tear at foot of spine along fold.DW has been trimmed (?) at head or tail and is about 5mm too short for the boards. DW front cover very bright and tidy, price cli...

The Secret of the Australian Desert

FAVENC Ernest

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Blackie papered boards, split along front joint and starting to rear joint, chipping head and tail. corners rubbed through to card beneath, free end paper has assorted inscriptions and stamps ( not too untidy though) Colour frontis. The title is detached at lower half 223pp +...