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The House on the Cliff

STEVENSON D E · 1966

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Collins price clipped dust jacket, library stamp to front free end paper, 4 digit number to imprint, issue slip to rear free end paper, otherwise tidy, 288pp, spotting to closed edges H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall Ex-Library

The Scottish Psalter and Church Hymnary Revised Edition with Music

STEWART G Wauchope & PRITCHARD T C L · 1929

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Oxford University Press The Scottish Psalter 1929 Metrical Version and Scripture Paraphrases with Tunes + Church Hymnary Revised Edition with Music, navy cloth with gilt and blind embossing, closed edge dusted red, viii 288pp with split pages with music at top and psalms below...

Final Curtain (Presentation Copy Signed By Ngaio)

MARSH Ngaio · 1947

$350.00 (€317.55 | £264.92 | ¥55,890)

Collins dust jacket well rubbed with sunned spine and bottom quarter of spine missing, fold in flaps and lower panel are complete, top edge of front panel a little chipped as well as head of spine, orange cloth, black titled, spine slightly faded, boards slightly soiled or sun...

Sabres of the Reich

KESSLER Leo · 1976

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Severn House first UK issue, spine leans, ball pen 5 digit number to fep, rear paste down has a series of pen numbers, otherwise tidy hard cover with unclipped dust jacket with some soiling at edges from adhesive of a removed plastic sleeve, H First Edition Very Good London Ve...

Pick Up

O'SULLIVAN J. B. · 1964

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Ward Lock ex library with stamps throughout, tape residue to hinges, DW under removable plastic sleeve, 188pp + advert H First Edition Good London Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

The Man Whose Dreams Came True

SYMONS Julian · 1968

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Collins ex-lending library with stamps , issuing plate to fep,rules plate to rear fep, prelims half detached, tape stains to endpapers and edges of boards, price clipped DW trimmed at edge so is a few millimetres shorter than book, 255pp H First Edition Good London Good 12mo -...

Dead Man's Bluff

JEFFRIES Roderick · 1970

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Collins ex-library with stamps, issuing plate to fep, DW price clipped and trimmed at lower edge so is a few millimetres shorter than book, tape stains to endpapers and edges of boards. 192pp H First Edition Good London Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall Ex-Library

Woodswoman III: Book Three of the Woodswoman's Adventures

LaBASTILLE Anne · 1997

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

West of the Wind Publications clean tidy used copy, mild handling wear, signed by author to half title, stated first 'Limited Adirondack Edition', full number line, 255pp S Signed by Author First Thus No Jacket Westport Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Gallovidian (An Illustrated Southern Counties Magazine) 1909 No. 43 Volume XI

anon · 1909

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

J Maxwell spine rubbed, faint fading to covers, some egdwear to prelims, include an article on Mary H. Cassady "VERA", a poetess, pp 115-170+ frontis plate and a few pages of adverts S First Edition No Jacket Dumfries Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Never Need an Enemy

STEIN Aaron Marc · 1960

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Boardman American Bloodhound Mystery No 314. excellent copy, offset toned fep. DW price clipped, small split at tail of upper joint, some minor crease lines to extreme edges, some very minimal foxing. DW art by D McLoughlin. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good D McLou...

Prospecting for Gold from the dish to the hydraulic plant...

IDRIESS Ion L · 1946

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

Angus & Robertson ...and from the dolly to the stamper battery, with chapters on tin, osmiridium, platinum, opals and oil, with a chapter on prospecting for oil by W G Woolnough. Stapled sheets in plain card covers with printed paper wrappers, very mild wear, French flaps unc...

The Lost World of Agharti, the Mystery of Vril Power

MACLELLAN Alec · 1982

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

Souvenir clean copy in unclipped DW with small split at head of lower spine fold, MILD cigarette smoke aroma, map end papers, 231pp + plates, covers the mystical tradition of a subterranean world linking the continents and housing the occult Master of the World, head of the gr...

At Bertram's Hotel

CHRISTIE Agatha · 1965

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Collins book a little dusty to top edge and inside covers, foxing to the closed edges, soiled boards, handling soiled price clipped dust jacket with some short tears to spine folds,, small stamp to inside jacket flaps, faint red amrk to closed fore edges, 256pp H First Editio...

At Bertram's Hotel

CHRISTIE Agatha · 1965

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Collins very tidy except booka little dusty to top edge and inside covers, slight foxing to the closed edges, handling soiled unclipped dust jacket, lacks fep 256pp H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

Dark Interlude

CHEYNEY Peter · 1947

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Collins The New Zealand issue with sewn binding and linen cloth boards. rubber stamped '6' at base of free end paper, a 4 digit ink code, paper scar from removed label (?), spine lean with some rubbing or mottling to the cloth, dust jacket is unclipped with some short tears t...

The Hangman's Hands

WOGAN Charles · 1947

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

John Long First edition hardcover, 224pp. Sebastian Stole must solve a murder case at his club, ex-lending library with stamps and issuing plates, some tape staining to endpapers and dust jacket flaps, unclipped jacket has edge wear and chipping to corners and spine ends, shor...

Into Battle, Speeches By Winston S Churchill

CHURCHILL Winston S · 1941

$225.00 (€204.14 | £170.31 | ¥35,930)

Cassell faintly faded spine, slightly rubbed edges , lacks DW, light foxing closed edges, viii 313pp +frontis portrait by Cecil Beaton, speeches by Churchill before the Phoney War was over, This copy is of an early state of the FIRST EDITION, lacking the September 3, 1939 spe...

The Weaker Vessel, Woman's lot in Seventeenth-Century England

FRASER Antonia · 1984

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Weidenfeld gift inscription to title, dust jacket has a short closed tear bottom of upper spine fold and minor edge creasing,, xvi 544pp + plates H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Random Recollections, Notes on a Lifetime at the Bar

HANLON A C · 1939

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Otago Daily Times ink gift inscription dated 1939 to free end paper, light wear to spine joints, pebbled blue cloth lightly rubbed with flaking to the gilt titled to cover and spine, closed edges speckled blue, xii 332 + frontis port. Memoirs of one of New Zealand's foremost...

Rumpole and the Angel of Death

MORTIMER John · 1995

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Viking near fine in same unclipped dust jacket H First Edition Fine London Fine 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall