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WAKLING, CHRISTOPHER · 2005 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£35.07 (€42.04 | $46.34 | ¥7,401)

ISIS Large Print Books. 2005. (ISBN: 9780753170281). Paperback. Paperback in good condition, ex library book. 2003 ISIS LARGE PRINT. Newsday, April 17, 2003 - This is a thriller, all right. But one with a subplot that makes for intriguing psychological ambiguity. Radar Magazine …

Conversations at Cambridge.

Robet Aris Willmott · 1836 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, John W. Parker, 1836. First edition. Leather. A first edition of Wilmott's scarce 'Conservations at Cambridge.' Bound in half leather and marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt lettering. First Edition. Rather uncommon. With an armorial nameplate for Thom…

The Spanish Jade

Maurice Hewlett · 1908 · Rooke Books

£36.99 (€44.34 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz , 1908. Leather. A nice copyright edition of Hewlett's The Spanish Jade. Previously owned by Ronald Lindsay. A half leather hardback with marbled paper boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923), was an English hist…

The Real Kenneth Grahame: The Tragedy Behind The Wind in the Willows

Elisabeth Galvin · 2021 · Winkles Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Book New New 1st Edition White Owl Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame (1859 -1932) was a Scot. He was four years old when his mother died and his father became an alcoholic, so Kenneth grew up with his …

The behaviour cycle of the boa constrictor in captivity.

Verveen, A. A. · 2014 · Grimbergen Boeken Antiquariaat

€38.50 ($42.43 | £32.11 | ¥6,777)

European Snake Society, 2014. 404 pp. Softcover. Bedrukte papieren band. Many photos in coulour.Good attractive copy as new. l Owners of Boa constrictor (and other giant snakes) may find useful information in this book about how to handle, house and feed their pets and to bet…

Unpublished signed autograph letter from Pierre Louÿs to his half-brother Georges Louis

Pierre Louÿs (Georges Louis association) · 1899 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$495.00 (€449.10 | £374.61 | ¥79,055)

Nice, AN ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL UNPUBLISHED LETTER FROM PIERRE LOUŸS TO HIS BROTHER, THE DIPLOMAT GEORGES LOUIS. Dated February 6, 1899. 4 pages (two conjugate leaves); about 400 words in very legible script, written in Louÿs' characteristic purple ink. Louÿs begins by remindin…

Capt Thomas Malcolm Harvey Kincaid-Smith Mp; National Military Training. Issue 2129. (Rare Colour Half-Tone Gravure)

Spy (Sir Leslie Ward, 1851-1922) · 1909 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

London: Vanity Fair, 1909. Original colour half-tone gravure. 38 x 26 cm (15 x 10 inches). Very Good. Accompanied by 1 sheet of description, Very Good. Published in Vanity Fair, 18 Aug 1909. Hentschel-Colourtype, London (half-tone gravure). Rare. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Malcol…

Sir Jp Corry Bt Mp; a Temperate Ulster Man. Issue 967. (First Edition Before the Bound Volumes. )

Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.) · 1887 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

London: Vanity Fair, 1887. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm (15.75 x 10.6 inches). Very Good. Minor toning in margins and wear on edges, not affecting image. Dated 14 May 1887. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Sir James Porter Corry, 1st Baronet (8 September 1826…

C.L.R. James: A Life

Dhondy, Farrukh · 2002 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York Pantheon First Edition, First Printing pp. xvi, 224. 8vo. Lightest general shelfwear, neat ownership tamp to corner of ffep otherwise, the contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+ and housed in very good+ dustjacket. A long-overd…

Italian Shoes

Henning Mankell · 2010 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 2010; New Pr; 358pp.; Conditie: Goed; Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating…

Libellus de methodo concinnandi formulas medicamentorum. Editio altera revisa & aucta.Leiden, Coenraad Wishoff & Georgius Jac. Wishoff, Conr. Fil., 1752. 8vo. With woodcut vignette on title-page and 3 interesting historiated woodcut initials. Full calf over boards.

GAUBIUS, Hieronymus David. · 1705 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)

(16), 437 (pp. 422-432 numb. 522-532), (19) pp.Second corrected and enlarged edition of this important manual on pharmacology by the German physician, chemist, vitalist and Leiden professor Hieronymus David Gaubius (Jerome Gaub, 1705-1780). The first edition was published in 173…

Sailing to Sarantium [The Sarantine Mosaic Book I]

KAY, GUY GAVRIEL · 1998 · Kalamos Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Toronto, Viking Press. 1998, 1st Can Ed. (ISBN: 0670880930) Hardcover. Book, The saga of Caius Crispus, called to Sarantium to work on the Mosaics of the great church (Hagia Sophia) "Crispin is a mosaicist, a layer of bright tiles. Still grieving for the family he lost to the pl…

THE SPORTSMAN’S DICTIONARY; Containing Instructions for Various Methods to be Observed in Riding, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Farriery, Hawking, Breeding and Feeding Horses for the Road and Turf; the Management of Dogs, Game and Dunghill-Cocks, Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, Doves, Singing Birds, Etc. and the Manner of Curing their Various Diseases and Accidents. Improved and Enlarged by ...

Pye, Henry James. · 1807 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

John Stockdale 1807. 5th Ed. 4to. v + [iii] + 547pp. 17 engraved copper plates. Light browning, marbled e.ps., contemporary half calf with marbled boards, corners rubbed, joints rubbed with sl. loss towards heads, dec. gilt motifs with gilt lettered title labels to spine, spine …

My Life East and West

HART, WILLIAM S. · 1994 · Round Table Books, LLC

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1994. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, Lakeside Press medallion, gilt, on cover, t.e.g. Illustrated with 47 B&W photographs. The life and times of William Surrey Hart (1864-1946). …

My Life East and West

HART, WILLIAM S. · 1994 · Round Table Books, LLC

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1994. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, Lakeside Press medallion, gilt, on cover, t.e.g. Illustrated with 47 B&W photographs. The life and times of William Surrey Hart (1864-1946). …

Zur Geschichte Der Anfänge Griechischer Kunst.

Conze, A. [C. L.] · 1870 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

Wien, Karl Gerold's Sohn (for the Akademie der Wissenschaften), 1870. 8vo (24.5 x 15.5 cm). 30 pp. [numbered 505-534]; 11 lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = Important early contribution to this subject by the German archaeologist, Alexander Christian Leopold Conze…

Malerei und technische Künste bei den Dayaks.

Hein, A. R. · 1889 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1889. Large 8vo (28.0 x 18.5 cm). 92 pp.; 80 text engravings, ten lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = A finely illustrated work, written and illustrated by the German painter Alois Raimund Hein (1852-1937). He "studied Semitic studies, German s…

The Devil in Iron

HOWARD, ROBERT E. · 1976 · S. Howlett-West Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc, 1976. 1st Edition; Deluxe Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0937986089. Illustrated by Dan Green. Color & B&W; Limited to 3500 unnumbered deluxe copies. This book is Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- dust jacket. T…

Sectionum Conicarum Libre Quinque. Editio Secunda, Emendatior & Auctior.

SIMSON (Robert): · 1750 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Edinburgi: Apud W. Sands, A. Murray, & J. Cochran. Sumptibus W. Sands, & A. Kincaid. 1750. 4to, 250 x 187 mms., pp. viii, 224, 38 folding engraved plates, contemporary calf; joints cracked (but holding, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, spine rubbed. A very modest co…

Sourland

William Armstrong · 1993 · Book Haven

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

Puffin Books 1993 Paperback, 112pp. Life is hard for the three Stone children. The death of their mother has left them bereft and grieving. Their father tries hard to make things better, but he is busy trying to keep their farm going. Even the land around them seems to have betr…