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Francis Asbury Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

LEWIS James · 1927

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Epworth press red cloth, titling faded, worn at head and tail and corners and joints, some mottling to cloth. top of end paper trimmed off, 227pp + plates, some foxing and age toning and a few instances of annotation, very serviceable reference copy H First Edition No Jacket L...

Salome; the wandering jewess

VIERECK George Sylvester & ELDRIDGE Paul · 1938

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Duckworth cloth worn at edges, lightly soiled, ink inscription end paper, page edges soiled, some age toning to pages,, pp33 torn along spine margin down 45mm from head, a good reading copy. no dw. H Fourth Impression No Jacket London Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

No Laughing Matter, rationale of the dirty joke SERIES TWO

LEGMAN Gershom · 1978

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Granada (2kg rate) leatherette 1132pp even bigger than the first series, book is VG with just a hint of foxing to page edges, dust jacket is VG with some wear starting on the corners, not price clipped, spine lightly sunned and a short lifting of the laminate at tail, This is ...

Rationale of the dirty joke, an analysis of sexual humour FIRST SERIES

LEGMAN Gershom · 1969

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Cape (2kg rate) blue cloth 811pp heavy thick book, dust jacket has edge rubbing and small nicks mainly to corners, one short tear at head of rear panel.not price clipped, First series being the less 'dirty' or offensive ones, arranged into the following chapters; children / fo...

Nine Months residence in New Zealand in 1827

EARLE Augustus · 1909

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

Whitcombe and Tombs green cloth titled gilt, light rubbing to extremities, short inscription on end paper minor foxing mainly to page edges, b&w frontis + 7 other illustrations on plates, Earle was draughtsman on the Beagle, his observations of Maori and Europeans in early N...

Ages in Chaos

VELIKOVSKY Immanuel · 1952

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Doubleday Actually Sidgwick and Jackson first UK edition but this is because they used Doubleday sheets and bound them in their own cloth and dw, pasting a label over the Doubleday colophon. 350pp + 9pp of reviews for Worlds in collision. map endpapers. book VG, small booksell...

Stories and Dramas

TOLSTOY Leo N · 1926

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

Dent trsl by L Turin, H M Lucas and C J Hogarth. assumed first thus 1926 as per copyright page. Burgundy cloth with Dent blind stamp to upper board, spine titling dulled, top edge dusted black, a little surface rubbing to the cloth, very small ink name to endpaper. portrait ...

Records of Early Riverton and District

THOMSON J C · 1971

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Times Printing Service facsimile reprint of 1937 edition, black paper wrappers stapled along spine, 144pp b&w photos. wrappers worn at edges, some black offsetting to the first and last pages facing the wrappers otherwise VG S Second Edition No Jacket Invercargill Very Good ...

The History of a Family, the Wilsons and Richardsons in England Australia and New Zealand

WILSON C L · 1965

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Express Printing Works Titled on upper board "Our family History" Blue leatherette hardbound 72pp SIGNED INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR on end paper , as well as some ink annotations/corrections by author in the text.. Genealogical information on the Wilsons and Richardsons, descendant...

More Poems

HOUSEMAN A E · 1936

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Cape first edition, blue cloth gilt titled on upper board and spine, light sunning to tiny strips at head and tail where DW is chipped, short ink inscription to end paper, light foxing, mainly to prelims, pages uncut except fore-edge, nice tight copy, DW has browned slightly...

The Trout are Rising

FERRIS George · 1964

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Heinemann first edn SIGNED AUTOR TITLE PAGE [Tight Lines |Geo Ferris] 184pp + b+w photos, the DW has been badly sunned everywhere except the back panel, but it has faded to uniformgreen instead of the original brown. The book edges where the DW has ridden up a bit have also s...

The Dominican Star a New Zealand Year Book

anon · 1899

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Caxton Press olive imitation crocodile (!) with black and gilt decoration, (vii, adverts) 152 (xvi adverts) pictorial pastedowns (adverts) shows little wear if any. "Papers Literary, Artistic, Scientific, Entertaining" published by Catholic editor, includes "My first came...

The Coast of Incense, autobiography 1933-1939

STARK Freya · 1953

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

John Murray 287pp untrimmed edges, green cloth buckram has slight discolouration via rubbing , front hinge cracked, front endpaper lightly creased.b+w photos, tipped in map on green paper, fore edges slightly foxed. Freya's journeys in Iraq, Greece and Syria and the Hadhramaut...

The Mousetrap Man

SAUNDERS Peter · 1972

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Collins dust jacket chipped at top corner, reinforced on back with small piece of paper, at head and tail, price clipped and front fold in is creased otherwise VG, Book has a discrete name on the front paste down 256pp plus photgraphic plates. The longest running play ever, A...

The Flying horse, the story of the Locomotive and the Railway

FRITH Henry · 1893

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Griffith Farran Browne & Co 290 pp with vignettes, diagrams and photographic reproductions. Prelims are lightly foxed, copperplate ink name on half-title, slightest edgewear to the pictorial original cloth, mainly on the joints. 58 listed illustrations plus chapter headings e...

Canterbury Old and New 1850-1900

REECE William · 1900

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Whitcombe & Tombs A Souvenir of the Jubilee of Canterbury New Zealand. Original olive cloth with black titling. Just the slightest edge and corner wear. Free endpaper age toned and bearing presentation inscription from the jubilee committee president and editor [ Miss E Stev...

The Life-History of the Salmon

HUTTON J. Arthur · 1924

$145.00 (€131.56 | £109.75 | ¥23,155)

Aberdeen Natural History and Antiquarian Society with an introduction by Professor J Arthur Thomson 4to, xvi,56,+xvii plates with captioned tissue guards, quarter-cloth over papered boards in original dustwrapper with photograph of a salmon on upper panel DUSTWRAPPER; worn ...

The Sunbird

SMITH Wilbur · 1972

$395.00 (€358.38 | £298.98 | ¥63,076)

Heinemann Near Fine to Fine first edition in similar dustwrapper with just a hint of rubbing to dustwrapper spine corners and NO SPINE FADING, dust wrapper is price clipped but otherwise a very nice copy with no wear to boards or page browning H First Edition Fine London Fine ...

Bishop Harper and the Canterbury Settlement

PURCHAS H T · 1909

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Whitcombe and Tombs Life of Bishop Harper from his early life and work at Eton to his travels and missions in the Canterbury settlement in New Zealand. Red cloth gilt titled upper cover and spine. Some wear lower spine. Ink inscribed free end-paper, edges untrimmed. (xiii...

To Alaska to Hunt

JOLL Gary · 1978

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

John McIndoe New Zealand hunter and friend bag big game in Alaska, including bull moose, caribou and black and grizzly bears, Also getting antelope and deer in Wyoming, Entertaining and dramatic, Quality printing perfect bound in illustrated soft cover which is just startin...