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The Golden Prince

Rebecca Dean · 2010 · Book Haven

NZ$9.50 (€4.76 | $5.25 | £3.97 | ¥838)

HarperCollins 2010 Paperback. It’s 1912, and seventeen-year-old Prince Edward, England’s Golden Prince of Wales, is feeling the burden of his position. As heir to the greatest throne in the world, he hates the constrictions and superficial demands of his royal life. His father, …

An Elephant in My Garden: Recollections of An Australian Vet

Geoff Fethers · 1980 · Book Haven

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

Queensberry Hill Press 1980 Hardback, 164pp. The author was born on 2 April 1897 in Malvern, Melbourne. He spent a year at Longeronong Agricultural College before attending the University of Melbourne. In 1918 he appointed a captain in the Australian Army Veterinary Corps, Austr…

Fitzroy The Remarkable Story Of Darwin\'s Captain And The Invention Of The Weather Forecast

John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin · 2003 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,544)

Review 2003 Paperback, 336pp. Admiral FitzRoy made his name as a captain on the HMS Beagle. It was for his second voyage on the ship (1831-36) that he decided to ask Charles Darwin to accompany him, and it was during this time that Darwin began to develop the ideas that would le…

Full Battle Rattle My Story As The Longest-Serving Special Forces A-Team Soldier In American History

Changiz Lahidji and Ralph Pezzullo · 2018 · Book Haven

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

St. Martin\'s Publishing Group 2018 Hardback, 304pp. Master Sergeant Changiz Lahidji served on Special Forces A teams longer than anyone in history, completing over a hundred combat missions in Afghanistan. Changiz is a Special Forces legend. He also happens to be the first Musl…

Memoirs of a London Fine Art Dealer

Wengraf, Alex: · 2020 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€47.50 ($52.35 | £39.62 | ¥8,361)

03 2020, (19,6 x 24 cm), 256 pp. English text, hardcover. Stories from the golden age of art dealing. London art gossip. Alex Wengraf was born in Vienna in 1938 and came to England before he was a year old. After school (Bryanston) he studied Dental Surgery at Guys Hospital, …

WINGS ON MY SLEEVE.

Brown, Captain Eric, · 2008 · A Book for all Reasons

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Phoenix, London, ND (circa 2008), 4th printing, trade paperback, half tone photo frontis, 296pp, numerous half tone photo ills. in text, coloured upper wrapperr, the memoirs of a WW2 Royal Navy pilot who became a test pilot for the Royal Navy and the Royal Aircraft Establishmen…

BYWATER - The Man Who Invented The Pacific War.

Honan, William H., · 1990 · A Book for all Reasons

£14.50 (€17.38 | $19.16 | ¥3,060)

Macdonald, London, 1990, 1st edn., xiv, 337pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 5 maps in text, grey cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, biography of the journalist and naval historian Hector Bywater, British born his family had emigrated to USA in 1901 a…

Schoolmeester En Collectant. (Antique Dutch Boardgame)

LOUWERSE, P · 1880 · Antiquariaat Jacob E. van Ruller

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

Amsterdam, Vlieger. Published ca. 1880. Above at center is the title of the game: ‘Schoolmeester en collectant. Een nieuw spel “Voor ‘t jonge volkje” in zijn vrijen tijd. Lithography on paper, printed in three colors, black, red and blue;measuring 50 x 72 cm Rectangular boardgam…

Frederick Edwin : Earl of Birkenhead by his son.

[Furneaux Smith, Frederick Winston, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead]. · 1936 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.01 | ¥3,169)

Londen : Thornton Butterworth, 1936. 2ns impression. Contemp. halfcalf library binding. 319 pp. (The Keystone library). Small library stamp on title-page. Copy of the Johannesburg Book Club, with bookplate. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good.…

Max Beckmann and Berlin.

Köhler, Thomas & Stefanie Heckmann. · 2015 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Bielefeld : Kerber, [2015]. Paperback. 279 pp. With 154 (mostly in color) illustrations. 28 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Though he is perhaps more commonly associated with the city of Frankfurt, where he held a teaching position unt…

Is celstraf nog langer geoorloofd en gewenscht?

Aletrino, A. · 1906 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Amsterdam & Leipzig : Maas & Van Suchtelen, 1906. Modern cloth binding. Orig. printed covers included. [6],170 pp. Bookplate. Library stamps. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Treatise questioning solitary confinement by Arnold Aletrino (…

Annals of Philosophy, Natural History, Chemistry, Literature, Agriculture, and the Mechanical and Fine Arts for the Year 1801 (Vol. II)

Several Getleman ( Thomas Garnett ) · 1802 · Creaking Shelves Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

T.Cadell Jun. And W.Davies, 1802. Hardcover. vii (1) 432p + 8p index; the second annual volume (of three) published initially by Thomas Garnett - (1766-1802), chemist and physician, M.D. at the University of Edinburgh. He wrote contributions to the third Encyclopaedia Britannica…

True Poems and Narrative Tales of a Backwoods Boy

CLARK, GEORGE L. (SIGNED) · 1977 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$49.95 (€45.32 | £37.80 | ¥7,977)

British Columbia: Self-Published (Van Coillie, Dries), 1977. Reprint. Paperback. 118 pages. Author's signature upon front flyleaf. Author's parents moved to Canada when he was seven. He worked as a jack of all trades for the greater part of his life in the primeval bush country …

Little, Colorado, Settlement to Centennial (by Friends of the Littleton Library & Museum).

July 1990, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Littleton, CO, Littleton Hist. Museum, (1990). VG hardback book. Best wishes signed Bucholz and McQuarie. Beautiful copy, gilt lettering on cover, cream binding gilt design by Ann E. Green. McQuarie was originally from Santa Fe, NM, and has been involved in Littleton's history s…

Vanished Hero: the life, war, and mysterious disappearance of America's World War II strafing king.

Stout, Jay A., · 2016 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

Philadelphia, Casemate, (2016). VG in VG DJ. A hell-bent-for-leather fighter pilot, Elwyn G. Righetti remains one of the most elusive commanders of WWII. Arriving. late in the war he led the England-based 55 Fighter Group against the Nazis during the closeing months of the fight…

At His Side: the last years of Isaac Babel.

Pirozhkova, A. N., translated by Anne Frydman & Robert L. Busch, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

S. Royalton, VT, Steerforth Press, (1996). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. When the writer Isaac Babel was arrested by Stalin's secret police May 1949 he said to his wife, they didn't let me finish. Eight months later he was shot by the NKVD although it would be another 50 years before the…

Hershey.

D'Antonio, Michael, · 2006 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2006). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. Real life rags-to-riches story of Milton Sh. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman whose idealistic sense of purpose. created an immense financial empire, a town, and a legacy that lasts to this day. The son of a minister's…

Notes on the Post-Pliocene Geology of Canada. With especial reference to the conditions of accumulation of the deposits and the marine life of the period. [From the Canadian Naturalist, New Series Vol VI].

Dawson, J W. · 1872 · John Turton

£27.84 (€33.38 | $36.79 | ¥5,875)

Montreal: printed by Mitchell & Wilson, 1872. [vi], 112 pp, frontis plus occasional other plates, 2 maps. Authors compliments to upper section of title page. 'From the library of James CROLL (1821-1890), Scottish scientist and geologist. He was essentially self-taught with a bac…

The Geological and Natural History of Minnesota. The Sixth Annual Report for the tear 1877. Submitted to the President of the University, May 25, 1878.

[Minnesota]. · 1878 · John Turton

£30.16 (€36.16 | $39.85 | ¥6,365)

Minneapolis: Johnson, Smith & Harrison, 1878. 225[1] pp including index & errata leaf, numerous plates, text illustrations, folding and multifolding maps including some that are coloured, text atbles, etc, etc. 'From the library of James CROLL (1821-1890), Scottish scientist and…

The Relative Age of Some Valleys in the North and South of England, and of the various and post-glacial deposits occuring in them. [Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Geologists Association Vol IV No 4].

De Rance, Charles. · 1880 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)

No printer, publisher or date, (c1880). 33[1] pp, cross section illustration with the pagination. Authors compliments to upper section of the title page. 'From the library of James CROLL (1821-1890), Scottish scientist and geologist. He was essentially self-taught with a backgro…