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Tom Jones: Part Two

Henry Fielding · 1964 · Book Haven

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Everyman's Library 1964 Paperback 427 Fielding used all his art and all the craft he had amassed as a successful playwright for the eighteenth-century London stage to tell this hugely entertaining story of a foundling and how he arrives, through sexual misadventures and elaborat…

The Beetle In The Box: A Love Story

Chris Else · 2001 · Book Haven

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

Vintage 2001 Paperback, 291pp. When Jack Collingham becomes chauffeur to the Casturians, it seems the perfect arrangement. But when true love strikes, Jack is suddenly forced into a situation he is ill-prepared for - a dangerous choice between what he cares about most in the wor…

Big Italy (a Commissario Trotti Novel)

Timothy Williams · 1997 · Book Haven

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

Vista 1997 Paperback, 352pp. First published Gollancz, 1996. A seedy journalist wants Inspector Trotti's help in tracking down the murderer of a prominent doctor. Trotti, however, can't wait to retire to the lakeside villa that he jointly owns with his cousin, so what does he ca…

The family man

Ian Cross · 1993 · Book Haven

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

Random House NZ 1993 Paperback, 193pp. Bob Grey, married with two young sons and a baby daughter, is happy enough in his journalistic career in the early 1960s. BUt he discounts early signs of his actress wife's discontent, until events threaten him with changes that he desperat…

Tis: A Memoir

Frank McCourt · 2000 · Book Haven

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

Touchstone 2000 Paperback 368 Frank McCourt was born in 1931 in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents; grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in various New York City high schools, including Stuyvesant, and in city coll…

Q & A with Dr. K

Karl Kruszelnicki · 2001 · Book Haven

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,837)

HarperCollins 2001 Paperback 179 Dr Karl rampages on, doing what he does best: writing about the latest scientific discovery in the unique blend of fact, theory and anecdote which appeals to everyone from kids to adults. This time he covers such topics as the physics of biscuit …

Power Trip. The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd

David Marr · 2010 · Book Haven

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

Black Inc. 2010 Paperback, 138pp. Based on extensive research, observation and interviewing, it examines the forces that have made Kevin Rudd and the way he wields his power. It investigates both the fragility of Rudd's hold on the Labor leadership and considers what he might do…

Fizz: The Wildest Boy In The Universe

Tony Williams · 1996 · Book Haven

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

Scholastic 1996 Paperback, 124pp. Twelve year old Stubby is so bored he makes a wish for a spine-chilling adventure; when Fizzhogwart McDuff arrives, an alien from outerspace, Stubby realises he might have been happier being plain bored. The story is partly told through Fizz\'s …

The Pumpkin and the Crafty Creeper.

Mathy, Margaret, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard Books, (1991). 1st prntg. G Hardback ex-library. Mr. Purkin is a pumpkin man. He grows pumpkins and only pumpkins. So he was a little taken abck when a curious vine. wamts him to take it back with him. ex lib pocket fep, library stamp inside front cover…

Jean Sibelius: his life and personality.

Ekman, Karl, foreword by Ernest Newman, · 1938 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Knopf, 1938. 1st Amer ed. VG in G DJ. Sibelius,s an aloof, mysterious figure whose life & personality are little known. He believes a composer should be known by. his work alone. But here he breaks his long silence. DJ edge wear, spots to fore-edge, tanning to DJ interior.

Healing the Haunted

MCALL, DR. KENNETH · 1989 · John Thompson Books

CA$15.00 (€9.54 | $10.51 | £7.96 | ¥1,679)

London, Darley Anderson. 1989, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 1-869-838-25-4) Trade Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 102 pages. Square tight copy with light wear on covers. "His remarkable encounters with ghosts. Who they are. How he cures them. How he stops them haunting people and …

CONCENTRATION SOLDIER.

Welsh, Ken, · 1979 · A Book for all Reasons

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Sphere, London, 1979, paperback original, 156pp, [iii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a novel of a German soldier, after the 'brutal inferno' of the Russian front where he was wounded for rehabilitation he is posted to one of the Nazi death camps as a guard, slight sun…

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Waitzkin, Fred · 1990 · Antiquesportsbooks.com

€10.95 ($12.07 | £9.13 | ¥1,928)

Penguin Books, London, 1990. In this compelling memoir Fred Waitzkin describes how he helped his brilliantly gifted son Josh to become a leading contender. ISBN: 0140126570, 226 pp, 1e druk, Cond.: goed. One little folded corner. The cover is bit discolored. In this compelling m…

Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Stopped Death

LINNEA, SHARON · 1993 · Mike Long Books

$59.75 (€54.21 | £45.22 | ¥9,542)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Jewish Pubn Society. 1993. (ISBN: 0827604408). Hard Cover. Gd. condition - He did what no other country or individual was able to do, he saved more than 100,000 Jewish men, women and children from extermination .. (AR48621z). Good.

Hold on, Mr. Presidient

SAM DONALDSON · 1987 · Mike Long Books

$29.75 (€26.99 | £22.51 | ¥4,751)

Random House Publishing. 1987. Hard Cover. Hardcover/pub.1987/Gd. condition/260 pages - The most brashest, most irreverent, most provocative television reporter in Washington telling us just how he got there and how he gets away with it. [AE72 7171]. Good.

Jim Bridger - Mountain Man

STANLEY VESTAL · 1970 · Mike Long Books

$29.75 (€26.99 | £22.51 | ¥4,751)

University Of Nebraska Press. 1970. Soft Cover. PB/pub.1970/Gd. condition/333 pages - Among the mountain men Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was also a fur trapper and and Indian fighter extraordinaire. He was one of the greatest explorers an d pathfinders in American hist…

Mosby and His Rangers

SUSAN PROVOST BELLER · 1992 · Mike Long Books

$44.75 (€40.60 | £33.87 | ¥7,147)

Betterway Publishing. 1992. Soft Cover. PB/pub.1992/VG condition/96 pages - John Singleton Mosby was one of history's first guerilla fighters. He helped the southern cause and this made him a controversial hero. He and his rangers gave nort hern troops fits during the civil war.…

Doctrina de morbis venereis

PLENCK, J.J. von · 1779 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€700.00 ($771.54 | £583.90 | ¥123,220)

Vienna, R. Graeffer, 1779. Old. hlf. vellum (lower cover stained.).(176 pp.). First edition. Prokasch, 438 a.o.p.: 'Possessed of an encyclopedic mind, Von Plenck brought a multitude of knowledge and talents to every field he investigated. He is usually considered a member of the…

Lighthouse in My Life: the story of a Maine lightkeeper's family.

Wass, Philmore B., · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Camden, ME, Down East, (1987). 1st ptg. VG PB. Details a childhood during which he was isolated from the usual activities associated with growing up but we sense through the. story but he gained a kind of spirituality and polished the childhood imagination first shaped along Lib…

The Boy's Story of Lindbergh the Lone Eagle.

America's Part in the World War, · 1928 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Philadelphia, Winston, 1928. VG. First solo transatlantic flight and the welcome he received by various country where he was touted as a hero. Owner stamp. Paste down color pictorial show Lindbergh's airplane and him in a golden wreath with the banners "clean living preparedness…