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Plain Murder

C. S. Forester · 1946 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head , 1946. Cloth. An uncommon impression of C. S. Forester's gripping crime novel, this copy with a particularly very scarce dust wrapper. The fifth impression. First published in 1930. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrappe…

Hornblower and the Hotspur

C.S. Forester · 1962 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Michael Joseph, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition copy of this exciting novel from the Horatio Hornblower series by C. S. Forester. First edition.In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.This novel f…

First World Bowls Championship, Australia, October 1966

JEFF Terence E. · 1966 · Fortuna Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Conpress pictorial boards with water mark along spine edge of boards, upper joint of spine is split split, binding opens at pp2 and is detaching from the boards, could do with restoration, 132pp includes many sponsorship advertisements, includes a history of the game, team profi…

Living New England Artists: Biographical Sketches

Robinson, Frank T. · 1888 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Boston, Mass, Samuel E. Cassino, 1888. Hardcover. Olive cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, 200 pp. 107 illustrations, 5 original etchings. Includes chapters and illustration on each one of the following artists: Thomas Allen, J. Appleton Brown, H. Caliga, W.B. Closson, …

A TALE Of TWO CITIES.; Petersons' Uniform Edition of Charles Dickens' Works. Complete in One Volume. Price Fifty Cents

Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870] · 1859 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$4,125.00 (€3,742.49 | £3,121.78 | ¥658,788)

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 806 Chestnut Street, 1859. 1st US book edition, 1st, issue, presumed first state, lacking the 2 page advert prior to the t.p. Original publisher's printed buff paper covers with wood engraving to center of front cover. Rear cover advert…

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Joseph Conrad · 1904 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Harper and Brothers , 1904. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first state of 'Nostromo', often considered Joseph Conrad's best work of long fiction. First edition, first state with p.187 misprinted 871 and final page correctly printed 480. First se…

A Selection of Psalms and Hymns, from the Companion to the Book of Common Prayer, for the Use of the Abbey Church of Great Malvern

1832 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1832. Leather. A smart, pocket-sized collection of psalms and hymns, for the use of the Abbey Church of Great Malvern. A very scarce edition of this work in a full morocco binding with gilt detailing to the boards and spine, and the gilt initials &ap…

Star Trek S.C.E. Book one. Have tech, will travel

De Candido, Keith R.A · 2002 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€6.00 ($6.61 | £5.00 | ¥1,056)

Pocket Books, 2002 Pocket. 396 pages. Text in English. As new. Star Trek S.C.E. Book One – Have Tech, Will Travel is the first paperback reprint of the ‘eBooks’ that Pocket Books began to release last year. This particular paperback contains the first four eBooks – ‘The Belly of…

[Confederate] [Indian Wars] A Brief Sketch of the Life of a Confederate Soldier and the Ups and Downs during Pioneer and Indian Warfare in Texas [Rare Variant]

NICKELSON, B. C. (1826-1923) · 1928 · Fine Editions Ltd

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.60 | ¥31,782)

Dallas, TX Stellmacher & Clark [Printers] Scarce survival of this sole edition, the far less common variant with "Ex-Confederate" in title. Copyright date is 1928 but author portrait is dated 1929. Crown 8vo (192 x 130mm): 16pp, with portrait frontispiece. Original grey paper wr…

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL. D. In Four Volumes

James Boswell; Malone; Piozzi · 1826 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, Various; Printed for Baynes and Son; Cowie, Low, and Co.; Smith, Elder, and Co. 1826. Hardback. A complete four volume set of Boswell's acclaimed biography, with a folding plate. A smart complete set of this late Georgian edition biography of influential writer and …

Life at the Margins of the State. Comparative Landscapes from the Old and New Worlds

Alicia M. Boswell , Kyle A. Knabb · 2022 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

University Press of Colorado, 2022, Hardcover, 276, Life at the Margins of the State examines the sociopolitical and cultural nuances, negotiations, and strategies of resistance developed by marginal communities—including frontiers, borderlands, borders, and other locations wher…

The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol

Deitch, Jeffrey and Nikki Columbus · 2012 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$120.00 (€108.87 | £90.82 | ¥19,165)

New York, Skira Rizzoli / Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2012. Hardcover. grey pictorial boards w/ reflective silver printing. illustrated pastedowns & endpapers. 240 pgs w/ color illustrations. Wonderfully illustrated. "The first large-scale exhibition exploring conte…

Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 1959, Volume LXXVIII (78)

Gracie, H S; (ed) · 1960 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,005)

The Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Bristol, 1960. First Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Contents include: The Roman Villa at Chedworth, 1958-59, by Prof. I A Richmond; The Excavation of an earthwork on Rodborough Common in 1954-55, by M…

Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the study of the history of Engineering & Technology. Vol. 74, no. 1 - 2004

Robert A Otter (Ed) · 2004 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,794)

The Newcomen Society, London, 2004. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. ISSN 0372-0187 Clean covers with lightly sunned spine and spine-edges of front and rear covers. Sound binding. Clean pages. Contents include: From Manufacturer to Prosumer in Two Hu…

Telephone Talk, September - October 1947: Magazine of the British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel. ) - Iris Steeves Cover Photo

SUTHERLAND, PEARD: EDITOR · 1947 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.48 | ¥23,948)

Vancouver: British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel), 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Lindsay, Jack; Macphail, Duncan. 28 pages. Features: Nice one-page photo of Lineman Gordon MacDonald, of New Westminster, at work on a pole near Cloverdale; One-page appeal f…

Journal of Fish Biology. Volume 6, Number 4, July 1974

L E Mawdesley-Thomas (Ed). W J R Lanzing; D S C Lewis; R S Hines & D T Spira; etc. · 1974 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,065)

Fisheries Society of the British Isles; Academic Press, London, New York, San Francisco, 1974. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. ISSN 0022-1112. Contents are: Sound production in the cichlid Tilapia mossambica Peters, by W J R Lanzing; The food and fe…

The Stair Society - Miscellany Four [ IV - 4 ]

MacQueen, Hector L [editor] · 2002 · Eastleach Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

The Stair Society, Edinburgh 2002 1st edition. Cloth, F. x+262pp, a fine copy. Publications of the Stair Society volume 49. Contains - Rights, Wrongs And Remedies In Late Medieval English And Scots Law By Alan Harding -- Jurisdiction In Heritage And The Foundation Of The Colle…

Golf World - a Weekly Golf Magazine, 26 October (Oct. ), 1956, Vol. 10, No. 21 - Cover Photo of Mr. And Mrs. Eric T. Clauson of St. Petersburg, Florida

O'NEIL, TOM: EDITOR · 1956 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$179.95 (€163.26 | £136.19 | ¥28,739)

Pinehurst, North Carolina: Golf World, 1956. First Edition. Paperback. 16 pages. Features: Roberts and Lynch tie; Moe Norman's amateur status doubted - he is removed from the Canadian team for the Americas Cup matches in Mexico; Betty Dodd Triumphs; Photos of Bob Prall, Lou Tobi…

Golden Leaves from the British Poets; American Poets; Dramatic Poets

John W. S. Hows · 1867 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

New York, F. J. Huntington and Co. 1867. Leather. A collection of three uniformly bound volumes tribute to British, American, and dramatic poets, collected by John W. S. Hows. Three volumes collecting some of the most beautiful and important poems of British, American, and drama…

The Young Hornblower

C. S. Forester · 1964 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Michael Joseph, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this omnibus collection of stories following fictional officer of the British Royal Navy, Horatio Hornblower. First omnibus edition. A collection of three novels featuring Horatio Hornblower, a fictiona…