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A Life's Roundabout

ANDERSON E Arnott · 1974

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Whitcombe and Tombs Farm hand on New Zealand high country runs , North and South Island. Work on Makatoke railway viaduct, author put back his age by 15 years to enlist during WWII, Sent to Middle East and Crete, Greece with 19th battalion, purchased Banks Peninsula property, ...

Mr Hundred Per Cent Fred Fletchers Taupo Tales

DRAPER Keith · 1969

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Reed Near fine copy, DW lamination has started flaking, as this is transparent it is not really a noticeable flaw. DW otherwise unclipped, unfaded, untorn etc. Book boards and endpapers unsullied also. tight binding, a beautiful copy. 148pp + plates. Draper finished this book ...

The Orange-Yellow Diamond /The Orange Yellow Diamond

FLETCHER J S · 1930

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Newnes Undated, issued by Newnes in the 1930s? Orange cloth black titled, minor rubbing head and tail of spine and corners. FEP has [ 16/1/67] in pen. minor foxing to endpapers, prelims and closed edges . Undated edition. DW chipped lacks bottom inch of spine, half an inch at...

Quayle's First Case

TRENT Paul · 1936

$245.00 (€222.28 | £185.45 | ¥39,111)

Ward Lock First edition in First issue unclipped Dust jacket, red cloth very crisp and fresh with black titling and border to cover and spine, slight fading at head of spine where DW didnt cover completely, otherwise VG with tight firm corners. pencil booksellers notes to fep...

Edmund Hillary The Life of a Legend

BOOTH Pat · 1993

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,780)

Moa Beckett VG condition, minimal wear to lamination on the DW. 208pp colour and b&w illustrations. H First Edition Very Good Auckland Very Good 4to - over 9? - 12" tall

Neighbours in a Thicket, Poems

MALOUF David · 1974

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

University Queensland Press (500 gram rate) first edition simultaneously published in hardcover or wraps, This is in stiff paper wraps. VG copy, very slight sunning to the spine, 65pp very tidy S First Edition No Jacket Queensland Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Haecceitas Poems

CROZIER Shirley · 1969

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Septentrio decorative stiff paper wrappers with title label laid on . saddle sewn , 24pp . An edition of 200c, #1-100 for distirbution to the Publishing Group of the British Printing Society, #101-200 for distribution by the author. This is # 175 signed and dated March '71 by ...

Occult Reich

BRENNAN J H · 1974

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Futura very good mass market paperback, a little soiling to top and bottom edges, pen price on cover, bookseller stamp to first page otherwise VG 188pp one of the earliest accounts of "Occult-Nazism" The influence of Theosophy and Ariosophy on Hitler and the Nazis First Edi...

The Fortunes of Philippa a school Story

BRAZIL Angela · 1917

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Blackie red cloth with illustrated decoration, slightly faded, rubbed to edges and corners, head and tail of spine fraying, original endpapers, contemporary ink name to endpaper, full page inscription on reverse of frontis book awarded to Doris Pound of Cobden (New Zealand) d...

Unto Caesar

ORCZY Baroness · 1914

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Hodder red cloth faded with gilt dec cover and spine. corners bumped and frayed,spine corners splitting (minor). lacks fep. binding opening between frontis and title. tissue guard present. top edge dusty, looks like laid paper. foxing to closed page edges. some corners have b...

Justice ends at home and other stories

STOUT Rex edited John McAleer · 1977

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Viking papered boards, cloth spine, a little dusty but otherwise VG+ DW is also VG under plastic cover, unclipped. 267pp. Intro + 16 early Stout tales (pre-Nero Wolfe). NOTA the title on the spine is blue at the top of the letters but green at the lower part, this may be sunni...

The Haunted and the Haunters

LYTTON Edward Bulwer Lord · 1925

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Simpkin Marshall red papered boards lettered black with a border, rubbed to edges and spine split at upper joint 1/3 way along from the bottom, corners and spine ends rubbed, endpapers browned, ink name to endpaper, 165pp + 3pp adverts + frontis portrait and a plate as well as...

Letters and Sketches from the New Hebrides

PATON Maggie Whitecross · 1895

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Hodder olive cloth with gilt vignette to cover. cloth rubbed through at corners , tail and head of spine chipping. front hinge cracked, edges of frontis and the tissue guard are foxed. some minor foxing and soiling throughout the text. xii, 382, ii + frontis .plates in the t...

Myra Breckinridge

VIDAL Gore · 1968

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Anthony Blond first UK edition. black papered boards. hint of foxing to fep and page edges. top edge dusty. DW price-clipped and with surface rubbing along edges and corners. Abridgement notice on page (4) stating that this UK edition has had sections excised from the America...

Operator

WILLIAMS Charles · 1958

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

Cassell First UK printing and first hardback edition. Black papered boards with Crime Connoisseur thumbprint logo and text in silver to spine, very minor bumping to spine ends and corners. Front paste-down has a 3 digit ink stamp and a few areas of tape oxid residue. lacks fe...

The Key to Theosophy

BLAVATSKY H P · 1933

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Theosophical Publishing House Adyar first Indian edition sewn into thin card boards with blue printed wrappers, some spine fade to paper not printing of covers, 292 + vi pp very tidy copy internally. Questions and answers on Theosophical themes new age metaphysics spirituality...

Aldous Huxley a Biography Volume One 1894-1939

BEDFORD Sybille · 1973

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Chatto & Windus pale green wrappers with printed title and PROOF COPY, also in pen [please return to Collins Christchurch. jointly published by Chatto and Collins, spine is faded, minor spots of foxing to covers. xv 396pp + plates, small area of soiling to closed fore edge. s...

Golden Thoughts from the Great Writers a Volume of Selected Devotional Poems and Extracts

FULLER Alfred J · 1899

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Ernest Nister undated but presentation plate is dated 1899, bevelled boards , green cloth with red, dark green and gilt decoration, rubbed to edges and the detail on the spine is worn, corners starting to fray, front hinge cracked, 192 pp, all edges gilt, well illustrated, col...

The New National and Folk Song Book Part 2

MACMAHON Desmond · 1948

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Thomas Nelson third printing, cloth frayed at spine ends lacks prelims before title, rubber stamp to paste down, 'being a collection of well-known national folk songs and rounds arranged for use in schools " vocal and piano parts, vii 212pp, 130 peices in total. H reprint No J...

Precisely Pig

BERTHOUD Michael · 1982

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Collins Six stories of the goings on of anthropomorphic farm animals. excellent unclipped DW first edition very tidy, 96pp, line illustrations. (500 gram rate) H First Edition Very Good London Very Good John Lawrence 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall