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In Search Of Wales

Morton, H V [ Henry Vollam ] · 1939 · Eastleach Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Methuen 1939 11th impression. Red leather, VG. xvi+273pp, endpaper maps, b/w frontis, 8 double & 7 single page b/w plates, index, gift inscription, leather a little rubbed & spine a little sunned. Morton's tour of Wales which was first published in 1932. He made his British 'In…

Lovely

Frank Ronan · 1997 · Klondyke BV

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Paperback; 1997; Hodder & Stoughton; 235pp.; Enkele roestpuntjes op bovenkant boekblok; overigens OK -- Conditie: Redelijk; Successful, happy, rich, healthy, well-dressed, well-read, well-regarded and well-mannered, Aaron Gunn believes there's nothing he couldn't do or have if h…

The Remorseful Day

Colin Dexter, Dexter Colin · 2000 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 2000; Fawcett Books; 464pp.; Pocket, 2000, imn prima staat: schoon binnenwerk, recht boekblok, gaaf omslag. -- Conditie: Goed; For a year, the murder of Yvonne Harrison has baffled Thames Valley CID. But one man has yet to tackle the case, Chief Inspector Morse. So wh…

Campaigner Against Antisemitism: The Reverend James Parkes 1896-1981 (Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies)

Richmond, Colin · 2005 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€18.53 ($20.42 | £15.46 | ¥3,262)

London, Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. 312 pp. Very good copy. Paperback. James Parkes, Anglican priest and religious philosopher, cried out to an unheeding Church about the fate threatening the Jews of Europe. When it failed to respond in the measure he sought, he concentrated his…

Waugh, Evelyn

THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD · 1957 · Kalamos Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Boston, Logos. 1957, 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Book, " Evelyn Waugh 'does not deny that Mr. Pinfold is largely based on himself. His wildly witty and occasionally bloodcurdling novel is elaborated from an experience he actually had. He has since learned that 'a great number of …

NUCLEAR AGE

O'Brien, Tim · 1985 · Gibson

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Houghton Mifflin New York NY First Edition Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; At the age of 49, after a lifetime of insomnia and midnight peril, William Cowling believes the hour has come for him to seize control. So, he begins to dig a hole in his backya…

A Man of Parts

LODGE, DAVID · 2011 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€11.21 ($12.36 | £9.35 | ¥1,973)

Harvill Secker 2011 ADDED book review 565 p. SOFTCOVER: (Orig paperback VERY GOOD) Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells looks back on a life crowded with incident, books and women. Has it been a success for failure? Once…

Peter Paul Rubens

BAUDOUIN, FRANS / RUBENS · 1977 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€58.41 ($64.38 | £48.72 | ¥10,282)

Antwerpen: Mercatorfonds 1977 The text is in Dutch. 405 p., 181 ills., 95 full-page color, bibliogr., index, 25 x 34 cm. HARDCOVER: (Or. red cloth boards and a white spine, gilt. titles. Name on end paper, else NEW) RARE standard work. Baudouin, the conservator of Rubens House i…

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Mill, John Stuart · 1873 · Antiquariaat van Veen

€37.50 ($41.33 | £31.28 | ¥6,601)

London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, , 1873. 2nd edition 313 pp. cloth . Spine has heavy wear, small hole and is slightly discoloured. Edges yellowed. Corners bit bumped. Binding firm. Inside nice and clean. John Stuart Mill, 1806 - 1873) was an English philosopher, po…

Remember Me This Way

Sabine Durrant · 2014 · Book Haven

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

Mulholland 2014 Paperback. She thought losing him was the worst thing that could happen. She was wrong. They tell her not to worry. Her sister, the police. They say it's only natural, when someone close to you dies, to see him everywhere, sense him still nearby. But they don't k…

HIs Apologies.

KIPLING, R., · 1932 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

The Medici Society, London, 1932. 4th impr. 8p.(including cover, not numbered). ills.(B&W line drawings). Sewn. Cover a little bit worn to edges. Small piece of back cover gone. Gift intention in pencil on inside front cover. 'Master, this is Thy Servant. He is rising eight wee…

The Geology of England and Wales

WOODWARD, HORACE F.G.S., F.R.S. · 1876 · A G Cram Rare Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

1876, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Longmans Green, London, 1876. 8vo, xx, 476p, 2p cat. Frontispiece & text engravings, folding coloured map. Nr fine copy in original green cloth gilt. The British geologist who participated in the Geological Survey of England and Wal…

An Evil Cradling

Brian Keenan · 1993 · Book Haven

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

Vintage 1993 Paperback, 296pp. Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years. For much of …

Autograph letter in the hand of François Lamorinière addressed to Willem Geets at Mechlin ( Mechelen), together with a business card of the painter.

LAMORINIÈRE François - [ ] Willem GEETS : · 1891 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€159.00 ($175.25 | £132.63 | ¥27,989)

3. Autograph letter, in-8°, 1 pp, dated 3 may 1891. Written in French. The painter confirms that he will come to Mechelen to form part of the jury for the yearly Salon. He asks if there is museum in Mechelen because he probably has a little painting for it. The card confirms the…

Terence Donovan: Glances

Donovan, Terence · 1983 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

London, Michael Joseph, 1983. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver stamped lettering. Glossy black and BW-illustrated dust jacket with beige and white lettering. 138 unnumbered pages. Mainly illustrations in BW. "Terence Donovan's name has dominated the fashion pages of the…

Rogue Male

FIELD ROGER, GORDON-CREED GEOFFREY · 2012 · Little Lane Books

A$16.00 (€9.83 | $10.84 | £8.20 | ¥1,731)

Coronet, UK. 2012, 1st Soft Cover Edition. (ISBN: 9781444706352) Card Cover , 15cm. The story of one of the most remarkable heroes of the Second World War, a soldier of superb athleticism and almost superhuman instincts. To the men with whom he fought should to shoulder he was S…

The Toilet Of Doom

Michael Lawrence · 2001 · Book Haven

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

Watts Pub Group 2001 Paperback, 224pp. ""Feel that your life has gone down the pan? Well here's your chance to swap it for a better one!" When these tempting words appear on the computer screen, Jiggy McCue just can't resist. He hits 'F for Flush' and. Oh dear. He really shouldn…

Sweet Thames

Matthew Kneale · 2001 · Book Haven

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

Penguin 2001 Paperback, 328pp. London in the summer of 1849. With a deadly cholera epidemic threatening, young engineer Joshua Jeavons is convinced it is his mission to save the capital and reform its festering sewers. Meanwhile in his dometsic life he is troubled by the bafflin…

Descent From Xanadu

Harold Robbins · 1984 · Book Haven

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

Book Club Associates 1984 Hardback, 297pp. Judd Crane is ruthless, sexually irresistible, the wealthiest man in the world. and determined to conquer man's last frontier--eternal life. He pursues his dream on a dangerous, obsessive journey, from Yugoslavia to China, from his lush…

The Perk

Mark Gimenez · 2009 · Book Haven

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

Sphere 2009 Paperback, 499pp. City lawyer Beck Hardin hasn't been back to the small town in Texas where he grew up for more than twenty years. He has history there. Bad memories. But when his wife dies, Beck decides to return to Fredericksburg with his two young children. Beck l…