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Insect Architecture

[Rennie, James] · 1830 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Charles Knight London xii, 420, 160 text figs. . HB. 12mo, recent qtr calf, leather title piece to spine, marbled boards and edges. Prize bookplate (London University School, second prize in Latin, presented to George Sibley, 1834), laid down to new endpapers. Vg. George Sibley …

Against the Odds / Survival on the Russian Front

John Stieber · 2016 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 2016, paperback, leesvouwen in rug. John Stieber was a twelve-year-old schoolboy in Ireland when he was sent to secondary school in Germany. Caught there by the outbreak of the Second World War, he was unable to return to his parents …

Kurt Gets Truckloads

Erlend Loe · 2013 · Book Haven

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

Gecko 2013 Paperback, 128pp. Kurt is a truck driver. He loves his truck. He loves his wife, too, and their three children. Kurt has always been a very kind man, until. One day Kurt saves a man's life and is rewarded with a diamond as big as a football. But what use is a diamond?…

An Exposure of the Fallacy of the Hamiltonian System.

HAMILTONIAN LINGUISTIC SYSTEM. HARTNOLL (John Hooper) · 1823 · Forest Books

£102.13 (€122.44 | $134.95 | ¥21,552)

Published by Effingham Wilson, 1823. First edition, 32pp., title-page and terminal leaf a little soiled, disbound. James Hamilton (1769-1829) was an English educationalist. He introduced the Hamilton System, a method of teaching languages. The basic principle is that words are…

The El Greco Puzzle

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

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1974, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0684137127) Hardcover. 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…

AT DELHI.

Fraser, Lovat. · 1903 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Bombay: Times of Indian London W. Thacker & Co. N.d. c.[1903]. 1st UK Ed. Sm. 8vo. [xii] + 214pp. Red and black lettered title page. Upper hinge sprung though firm, from the Library of Professor Malcolm Yapp, light age toning, gilt lettered blue cloth, some marking, spine sl. bu…

Memoir of Sir William Herries

1925 · Tinakori Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

London, Spottiswoode, Ballantyne. 1925, First Edition. Blue Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, vii, 70 pages, frontispiece and 7 b/w plates. Ex-library copy, clean. William Herries (1859 - 1923) was born in England and arrived in New Zealand in 1881. From the 1890s he was at…

Selection Day: A Novel

Aravind Adiga · 2017 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Simon and Schuster 2017 Paperback, 304pp. Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket—if not as good as his older brother, Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantl…

Socjalizm I Sprawiedliwosc. Studium Etyko-Ekonomiczme.

BELMONT, Leo. Leopold Blumental · 1909 · Marijana Dworski Books

£69.00 (€82.72 | $91.17 | ¥14,561)

Warsaw Warszawa, Gebethner & Wolff, 1909. Printed wrappers, 179pp. A good, clean, tight copy. Covers a little chipped. Author's presentation copy. Used; Very Good Leo Blumental was a well-known publicist before World War I, he was harassed by tsarist authorities for his radical …

Revolution Day: The Human Story of the Battle for Iraq

Rageh Omaar · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Viking 2004 Paperback, 304pp. 'Rageh Omaar was BBC television's main correspondent reporting from Irag during the war. He watched the suffocation of Iraqi society after a quarter of a centuiry of dictatorship and then he witnessed the last deperate hours of peace before the bomb…

Boy In The Big Blue Glasses

Susanne Gervay · 2019 · Book Haven

NZ$18.50 (€9.27 | $10.22 | £7.73 | ¥1,632)

EK Books 2019 Hardback, 32pp. Sam doesn't like his new glasses. They make his ears hurt. His parents say he looks handsome in them. But Sam just wants to look like himself. His teacher doesn't recognize him; she says he must be a new superhero. But Sam doesn't want to be a super…

Master Of The Five Magics

Lyndon Hardy · 1985 · Book Haven

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

Corgi 1985 Paperback, 416pp. TO MASTER FIVE GREAT ARTS OF MAGIC AND WIN A QUEEN WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR ALODAR THE APPRENTICE. HE MUST DO WHAT NO MAN DARED! Alodar was a mere apprentice thaumaturge, learning the least of the five arts of magic. As such, he had no right to aspire to t…

Charlie Johnson in the Flames

Michael Ignatieff · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Vintage 2004 Paperback, 224pp. Charlie Johnson is a veteran war correspondent who thinks he has seen it all - until he makes one rash expedition into a war zone in the Balkans. Horrified, he watches as a woman who sheltered him is set on fire. As he tries to save her, he too is …

White Devils

Paul J. McAuley · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Pocket 2005 Paperback, 672pp. Nicholas Hyde, a volunteer charity worker in Africa, is part of a team which is ambushed by small, ape-like creatures - pale, fierce and preternaturally strong - who slaughter most of the group in a matter of minutes. 'Diable blanc' the team's gover…

The Broken Shore

Peter Temple · 2009 · Book Haven

NZ$16.50 (€8.27 | $9.11 | £6.90 | ¥1,456)

The Text Publishing Company 2009 Paperback, 352pp. Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction (Australia)Joe Cashin was different once. He moved easily then. He was surer and less thoughtful. But there are consequences when you’ve come so close to dying. For Cashin, they in…

Dark Winter

Andy McNab · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,015)

Corgi 2004 Paperback, 496pp. When maverick agent Nick Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a shadowy biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Osama Bin Laden’s network of terror. But there are complications — not l…

The Rule Of Thoughts

James Dashner · 2014 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,015)

Corgi Books 2014 Paperback, 336pp. Michael completed the Path. What he found at the end turned everything he\'d ever known about his life completely upside down. He thought he\'d been helping VirtNet Security to track down the cyber-terrorist Kaine. He thought the VirtNet would …

[Kaigara No Uta] ??? ? ?? (1) 60/100

Satoh Nobuo ???? · 1981 · Boston Book Company

$325.00 (€294.86 | £245.96 | ¥51,905)

Satoh Nobuo ????. [Kaigara no Uta] ??? ? ?? (1) 60/100. Sheet size 39.2 x 32.7cm and image size 26.5 x 19.5cm. Numbered 60/100. Dated 1981 in pencil in the bottom margin. Polychrome mezzotint print of a lemon above a grouping of seashells. Satoh Nobuo ???? (1926-2005) developed …

Song of Shell??? ? ?? (1) [Kaigara No Uta]

Satoh Nobuo ???? · 1981 · Boston Book Company

$325.00 (€294.86 | £245.96 | ¥51,905)

c. Song of Shell??? ? ?? (1) [Kaigara no Uta] 12/100. Sheet size 39.5 x 33.7cm and image size 26.5 x 19.5cm. Numbered 12/100. Signed and dated 1981 in pencil in the bottom margin. Polychrome mezzotint print of a lemon above a grouping of seashells. Satoh Nobuo ???? (1926-2005) d…

Shishit? a ???? a [Pepper a]

Satoh Nobuo ???? · 1926 · Boston Book Company

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Satoh Nobuo ????. Shishit? a ???? a [Pepper A]. Sheet size 25.2 x 28cm and image size 14.2 x 18cm. Signed and numbered 66/100 in pencil in the bottom margin. Undated. Black and white mezzotint print of hot peppers.Some stains in top margin with dull scratch on print. Satoh Nobuo…