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Theodore or The Mouse who wanted to Fly

PAPAS · 1969

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Oxford University Press white papered boards with illustration in colour, replicated on the unclipped dust jacket, tidy under plastic sleeve 24pp illustrated in colour H First Edition Very Good London Very Good Papas 4to - over 9? - 12" tall

Going After Cacciato

O'BRIEN Tim · 1978

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Jonathan Cape First state of first edition with unclipped jacket with GBP 4.95 price intact, also pp 171-2 is the expected tipped in cancellation / repalcement page. Book is clean, jacket very minimally sunfaded to the spine, novel about the Vietnam War H First Edition Very Go...

My Twenty Years of Racing

FANGIO Juan Manuel & Marcello Giambertone · 1962

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Temple Press thrid impression of first edition, lacks DW, tidy but some ageing, lightly rubbed spine, faint foxing closed edges, 224pp + plates, Fangio on his career H First Edition No Jacket London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Medical Hypnosis: New Hope For Mankind

VAN PELT, AMBROSE & NEWBOLD · 1953

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Victor Gollancz lacks DW, mild age spotting otherwise tidy, 190pp includes use of hypnosis in psychoneuroses/ hypnotherapy / gynaecology and childbirth H First Edition No Jacket London Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

Look and Move On

MRABET Mohammed Translated By Paul Bowles · 1976

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

Black Sparrow (500 gram rate) small label adhesive stain top corner, bookseller pencil to plain white fly leaf, wraps faintly faded, Paul Bowles audio-taped , translated and published this tale from the Moghrebi, 125pp S First Edition No Jacket Santa Barbara Very Good 8vo - ov...

A Synopsis of Anaesthesia (General Anaesthesia, Regional Analgesia, Intensive Therapy) ninth Edition

ATKINSON, RUSHMAN & LEE · 1982

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Wright PSG soft covers lightly rubbed to joints, pen name to first page and front cover, small inscription to rear blank leaf, x 962pp S Ninth No Jacket London Good 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall

A Book of Gypsy Folk-Tales

YATES Dora E. · 1948

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Phoenix House DW some wear and rubbing, gift inscr to paste down, xvii 197pp, selected by secretary of Gypsy Lore Society, frontis and plates, gypsy lore and legend from following traditions; Welsh Polish Russian Latvian Bulgarian Serbo-Bosnian Hungarian Rumanian Piedmontese...

Buckinghamshire and Berkshire

MITTON G E · 1929

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

A & C Black second edition with fewer illustrations than first , blind dec blue cloth with silver titled spine, DW chipping loss to bottom half of spine, inscr to fep, 32 colour plates, 232pp H Second Edition Good London Very Good Sutton Palmer 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Chain of Life in Geologic Time

DAWSON J William · 1888

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Religious Tract Society Religious Tract Society Library binding, two tone blue cloth quarter bound, gilt titled spine, blind impress to cover, original floral dec endpapers, 'A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of animals and Plants', third revised edition with numerous ill...

The Road

LONDON Jack

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Mills and Boon blue cloth sunned to boards and faded to spine, minimal foxing to prelims, joints starting to fray at ends, internally tidy book from the Mills & Boon Shilling Cloth Library, 302 +14pp adverts, London writing on the life 'On The Road' years before the Beatniks,...

The Road

LONDON Jack

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Mills and Boon blue cloth sunned to boards and faded to spine, minimal foxing to prelims, top joint starting to split, pencil name to paste down, internally tidy book from the Mills & Boon Shilling Cloth Library, 302 +14pp adverts, London writing on the life 'On The Road' yea...

Orlando Orlando The Marmalade Cat Buys a Cottage

HALE Kathleen · 1963

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

Country Life No dust jacket as issued, pictorial hard covers with lamination just starting to lift along spine, slight wear to spine ends, and corners. page 3 has two small holes where a sewing pin has been pushed through the upper corner to hold a note on the page (!) otherw...

Secret Agenda the United States Government, Nazi Scientists and project Paperclip

HUNT Linda · 1991

$245.00 (€222.28 | £185.45 | ¥39,111)

St Martins book bruised at head of spine otherwise VG with no faults, DW has some edgewear to spine ends and a little scuffing to rear panel, a 25mm tear along the lower flap fold not price-clipped.340pp+ b&w plates. leading Nazi scientists given refuge in America in exchange...

The Dramatic festivals of Athens

PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE Sir Arthur · 1953

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

Oxford 1953 original red buckram faded to peach colour on spine and to a lesser extent on the boards which have been damp at sometime with light mottling and surface bubbling where glue has gone HOWEVER generally still nearly VG condition. corners bruised and a small puncture ...

Listen to the mocking bird

PERELMAN S J · 1950

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Reinhardt & Evans hardback cloth is mottled slightly with light spotting, foxing just starting on endpapers, front endpaper trimmed top 20mm with the remains of the owners name descenders just showing. dustwrapper not price clipped, but worn to edges and with some tears leadi...

Nine Chains to the Moon

FULLER R Buckminster · 1973

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

Jonathan Cape first UK edn, DW unclipped but with some small areas of discolouration, rear panel has small puncture in the joint, and some surface scoring, edges slightly rubbed or soiled still VG- though, Book top edge dusted blue, other closed edges slightly foxed, top cor...

The Saint on TV

CHARTERIS Leslie and Fleming Lee · 1968

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Hodder ex-library with stamps to endpapers and title page, pen scribble to blank foot of final text page, stamps to rear fep and top and bottom edges, paper scar to paste down , tape ghost to board edges, hinges partially reinforced with paper tape, scarce book with TV script ...

The Saint on TV

CHARTERIS Leslie and Fleming Lee · 1968

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Hodder owners name and address stamp to title page, a few pages have thumb marks or yellowed spots , closed edges foxed, DW is price clipped and has a small chip out of lower front corner, it has been taped to a sleeve and the removal of this has lifted some paper from the r...

The Lost World of Agharti, the Mystery of Vril Power

MACLELLAN Alec · 1983

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

Corgi Discusses the mystical tradition of a subterranean world linking the continents and housing the occult Master of the World, head of the great White Brotherhood, includes the tradition as revealed in Bulwer Lytton's 'The Coming Race', Theosophy, Roerich etc. SCARCE ITEM, ...

Cinema Papers December 1994 Number 99 with Special Cinematography Supplement

MURRAY Scott editor · 1994

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

MTV Publishing limited excellent copy , Australian films at Cannes '94, special cinematography supplement, 92pp, an Australia cinema / film magazine (500 gram rate) S First Edition No Jacket Very Good 4to - over 9? - 12" tall