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Tls to Geoffrey Robinson Declining Invitation

Raybould, Clarence · 1950 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Kent, December 7, 1950. 1 p. Clarence Raybould, born in 1886 in Birmingham where he later studied music with Granville Bantock. He joined the BBC in 1936 and was Assistant Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra between 1936 and 1945. Many of his recordings with the BBC and othe…

The Mark of The Horse Lord

SUTCLIFF,ROSEMARY · 1967 · Kalamos Books

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1967, 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Charles Keeping. Book, All around him Phaedrus the Gladiator could hear the triumphant shouts of the crowd; and he knew that he had won his wooden foil and was free. But he had not left a life of chance behi…

The El Greco Puzzle

MURPHY, JOHN [RONAN GRADY] · 1974 · Kalamos Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, Ballantine. 1974, Reprint. (ISBN: 0345250532) Pbk. Book, The Millionaire offered Clancy a proposition he couldn't turn down if he would find the missing El Grecos hidden somewhere in Spain. The Girl Who Went with the Deal presented Clancy with trouble he hadn't expecte…

Le sculpteur Jean Del Cour. Sa vie, son oeuvre, son évolution, son style, son influence. Etude historique, esthétique et critique.

COUR,JEAN DEL. Lesuisse,Rene. · 1953 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

[N.pl., Couillet, 1953]. 222 pp. 128 monochrome ills. Orig. hardcover (gilt lettered beige cloth). 4to. Jean Delcour, or Del Cour (1627, in Hamoir - 1707), was a Baroque sculptor from Liège, in present-day Belgium. At the age of 15 he became a sculpture pupil in Liege of the mon…

The Cybergypsies

Indra Sinha · 2008 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Simon & Schuster UK 2008 Paperback. THE CYBERGYPSIES describes one man's exploration of cyberspace over many years and the folk he meets on the Net, the virus writers, hackers, witches, sex-peddlars, conmen, net vamps, randy paratroopers posing as girls; the A-bomb blueprints he…

The Family

Martina Cole · 2010 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Headline 2010 Paperback, 512pp. Phillip Murphy is a family man. He worships his old mum; he takes care of his siblings who help run his business empire; he dotes on his two young sons who will one day take over. And then there's his wife and saviour Christine, whom he loves with…

Memoirs of a Master Forger

William Heaney · 2008 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Gollancz 2008 Hardback, 304pp. 'William Heaney is a fraud. A charming fraud, but a fraud nevertheless. He writes poetry so that a more attractive friend can pass it off as his own, he produces fake Jane Austen first editions so that he can fleece foolish and greedy book collecto…

The Little Snake

A. L. Kennedy · 2018 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Canongate 2018 Paperback, 144pp. This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and fluttering kites. When she is still very small, Mary meets Lanmo, a shining golden snake, who becomes her very best friend. The snake visits Mary many times…

Dead Lagoon

Michael Dibdin · 1994 · Book Haven

NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,102)

Faber & Faber 1994 Hardback, 328pp. When the man in white appeared, blocking his path, Giacomo felt a brief surge of relief at the thought that he was no longer alone. Then he remembered where he was, and terror rose in his throat like vomit. Aurelio Zen returns to his native Ve…

Fugitive Pieces

Anne Michaels · 1998 · Book Haven

NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1998 Paperback, 294pp. In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should h…

The Forest of Hours

Kerstin Ekman · 1999 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Random House UK 1999 Paperback, 488pp. This novel begins in the Middle Ages when Skord, a magical being who is neither man nor animal, finds himself in a forest with no memory, no past and no language. As he observes the behaviour of the human beings he meets in the forest, he b…

The Forest of Hours

Kerstin Ekman · 1999 · Book Haven

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Random House UK 1999 Paperback, 488pp. This novel begins in the Middle Ages when Skord, a magical being who is neither man nor animal, finds himself in a forest with no memory, no past and no language. As he observes the behaviour of the human beings he meets in the forest, he b…

Dr. John McLoughlin: Master of Fort Vancouver, Father of Oregon.

Historic Site,Oregon City, Bert Webber, Editor, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Medford. Oregon, Webb Research Group Pubs, (1994). VG PB. Covers everything that could be discovered about Mc Loughlin from his earlier days until the day he died. He got in trouble. with his British employers because he was a compassiionate man who did his best to help sick, hu…

A Selection of Poems.

cummings, e. e. with intro by Horace Gregory, · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, (1965). G. "The two modes of his poetry, lyricism and satire, he joined in a unified vision of the modern world, in this he was unique.". A New England aristocrat, he was in the great tradition of the dissidence of dissent: dissent from all that was …

HOMEGOING

Pohl Frederik · 1991 · Fantastic Literature

£9.95 (€11.93 | $13.15 | ¥2,099)

VGSF 1st printing. Sandy Washington was a pretty normal guy. He was a good friend, sensitive & caring. He respected his elders & obeyed his teachers. near fine paperback

Harlan Ellison's Watching.

Ellison, Harlan, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Novato, CA, Underwood-Miller, (1989). VG PB. Ellison unblushingly exposes his psyche and personal prejudices with every film he views, he watches viscerally.

Magazin für die Oryktographie von Sachsen. Ein Beytrag zur mineralogischen Kenntniß dieses Landes und zur Geschichte seiner Mineralien, heft 3-9.

FREIESLEBEN, J.C., · 1829 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€460.00 ($507.00 | £383.76 | ¥80,962)

Freyberg Graz u Gerlach, 1829-1837, Incomplete set of this important work published as periodicals on minerals in Sachsen, heft 3-9 in three identical volmes with hardcover binding, paper on board with some wear and tear to bindings, gilt titles on leather tickets on spines. Vol…

Soldier Songs from Anzac, Written in the Firing Line

Skeyhill, Signaller Tom · 1915 · Creaking Shelves Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1915. Soft Cover. From Discover War Poets: Tom Skeyhill was born on 10 January 1895 in Terang, Victoria, Australia and educated at a local state school and St Mary's Convent School, Hamilton. At 14 he left school to become first a telegraph messenger and lat…

HOW LIKE A GOD

Clough Brenda · 1998 · Fantastic Literature

£23.95 (€28.71 | $31.64 | ¥5,053)

Tor 1st printing. When a software developer suddenly discovers that he has the ability to read the hearts and minds of everyone around him, he expects to enjoy his godlike power, but when his power reveals its darker side, he is driven from his family near fine paperback, Rick B…

Crewel Lye

Anthony, Piers · 1988 · Eastleach Books

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

Orbit 1988 3rd impression. Paperback, F. 3093pp, a nice fine copy. Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna. Once he had been a valiant knight, but he had been betrayed & his bones scattered. This was a shame as he could recover from any injury. If enough of his body could be reassem…