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Simon And the Oaks

Marianne Fredriksson · 2000 · Book Haven

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

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group 2000 Paperback, 357pp. Simon is an ordinary boy growing up in Sweden; at least until World War II is declared; until he befriends the traumatised Jewish boy Isak; and until he learns that he is adopted. With his innocence forever…

Alcatraz from Inside: The Hard Years 1942-1952

Jim Quillen · 1991 · Judith Patton

CA$19.95 (€12.69 | $13.98 | £10.58 | ¥2,233)

Golden Gate Natl Park Assn Inscribed by Author(s) pp.164 clean tight copy - Interesting inscription by the author. He dedicated to Judge Martin, writes his name and prison numbers and then a personal note that this book is a true story that he wishes he could have changed. sligh…

One Day at a Time

Cutler Blackie, Jean · 1997 · Judith Patton

CA$10.95 (€6.96 | $7.67 | £5.81 | ¥1,226)

Saint John's, Newfoundland, Canada Robinson-Blackmore Printing & Publishing, Limited 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.95. Toronto raised Andy Walker must spend the summer with Nfld. grandparents he hardly knows while his father looks for work nearby. He learns to love them and apprecia…

Solo

Jack Higgins · 1980 · Book Haven

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

Book Club Associates 1980 Hardback, 212pp. John Mikali is known throughout the world as a brilliant concert pianist and playboy. But his true vocation is far more interesting and lucrative: He is a peerless international assassin. His music and fame give him entrée to complete h…

Kalik

Jack Lasenby · 2001 · Book Haven

NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,103)

Longacre Press 2001 Paperback, 236pp. ""Ish is introduced to Lutha's Headland, a cruel and primitive society driven by fear and superstition. He quickly distrusts a quality in Lutha and her beautiful, elegant friend and lieutenant Kalik. Ish wishes to escape but he ralises he ca…

The Amber Amulet

Craig Silvey · 2012 · Book Haven

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

Allen & Unwin 2012 Hardback, 86pp. Meet twelve-year-old Liam McKenzie, who patrols his suburban neighbourhood as the Masked Avenger - a superhero with powers so potent not even he can fully comprehend their extent. Along with his sidekick, Richie the Powerbeagle, he protects the…

One For My Baby

Tony Parsons · 2001 · Book Haven

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

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2001 Trade Paperback, 330pp. This is the story of a man who has strong beliefs. One of which is that you can only truly love one person in your life - he loses that love when his wife dies. Taking work as a teacher, he begins a series of affairs. Unt…

Pictures From The Water Trade: An Englishman In Japan

John David Morley · 1985 · Book Haven

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

A. Deutsch 1985 Hardback, 259pp. Boon, an Englishman, has difficulty fitting into the Japanese lifestyle. It is not until he realizes that it is proper for a man to be improper when he is at the bars and brothels that he makes a real friend. DJ. Dust jacket in plastic cover; boo…

The Soldier In The Wheatfield

Philip Hook · 1998 · Book Haven

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

Hodder & Stoughton 1998 Hardback, 408pp. Parnello Moran buys a German romantic landscape at an auction, but then it's stolen from him. When he sets out to recover it he discovers all its recent owners met violent deaths. Gradually he uncovers a deeper past, and the biggest surpr…

eigenhändig signierte und datierte Autogrammkarte. Münchener Debut.

SHELLES, Howard (Pianist): · 1988 · Versand-Antiquariat Bebuquin

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

München (Philharmonie), 24.4.1988. 8 x 12,5 cm. Karteikarte. Howard Gordon Shelley (born 9 March 1950) is a British pianist and conductor. He was educated at Highgate School and the Royal College of Music. He is married to fellow pianist Hilary Macnamara, with whom he has perfor…

Audio cassette "Lars Runsten : Per Norgard Buddha 1981

Lars Runsten · 1981 · The Victoria Bookshop

£57.33 (€68.73 | $75.75 | ¥12,098)

London, BBC, 1981. First Edition. Cassette. C60 cassette. Lars Runsten born in 1931 is a Swedish director, set designer, libretto writer and composer. He worked as a director at the Royal Opera 1956-64 . From 1969 to 1973 he was head of the Norwegian Opera in Oslo , and then he …

ORDINARY SEAMAN.

Gordon, John, · 1992 · A Book for all Reasons

£13.00 (€15.58 | $17.18 | ¥2,743)

Walker Books, London, 1992, 1st edn., 112pp, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper by Carolyn Piggford, the experiences of a teenager, a refugee from the 1930's depression in Jarrow he moved (with his family) to Wisbech in 1937. He relates his schooling t…

The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You

Harry Harrison · 1978 · Porcupine Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,065)

Michael Joseph 1978 First Edition First Printing . Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like, lightly browned Dust Jacket. . ''Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is still recovering from his efforts to save the world…

Secret Sins.

Charles, Kate, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Scottsdale, AZ, Poisoned Pen Press, (2007). 1st PB ed. VG PB. Life isn't easy for Callie. Her relationship with policeman Marco Lombardi grows ever warmer though he seems to be keeping. her at arm's length from his close Italian family. Ironically her brother Peter, beloved and …

Vietnam: Images of Her People.

Bader, Richard, photographer, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

np, Mac, (2005). VG in VG DJ. Bader lives and works in the Lakes Region of Maine and is a physical therapist and owner of Bader Physical Therapy which. he practices in Norway, Poland and Bridgton, Maine. Here in beautiful color he imparts a sense of the Vietnam he experienced, a…

George Bellows and the Ashcan School of Painting.

Braider, Donald, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Doubleday, (1971). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Bellows was a baseball shortstop, a very good basketball player, and may well have been the only American artist whose. mother wanted him to become a Methodist bishop. "He was a great artist. He had a magnificent ability to convey.the d…

Andy Warhol 1928-1987: commerce into art.

Honnef, Klaus, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

London, Taschen, (2000). VG lg sz PB. Some of his most famous art work plus some biographical info. "Contradictions seem to have been his life's elixir, the veiling. of biographical and other personal facts the means he used to create a mystery around himself. He had been traine…

Fugitive Pieces.

Michaels, Anne, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Vintage, (1996). 1st ptg thus. VG PB. In 1940 Jakob Beer bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city where he buried himself to hide from soldiers who murdered. his family. He is only 7 & by all rights should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village. But he su…

The Fire-Eaters

David Almond · 2003 · Porcupine Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Hodder 2003 First Edition First Printing . Edges/corners lightly rubbed/bumped, a light spine crease and page edges lightly marked - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof. . ''There he was, below the bridge, half-naked, eyes blazing. He sipped from a bottle, breathed across a…

Franz Schubert: An Essential Guide to his Life and Works.

JACKSON, STEPHEN. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Pavilion, 1996. 1857939875. Classic fM Lifelines series. "Schubert knew that he was the successor to Beethoven, yet often he was too poor to pay his shoemaker. He has cast a spell over generations, but his triumph over himself - like his music - seems uniquely and compel…