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The Famished Road
Ben Okri · 1991 · Book Haven
NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)
Random House 1991 Hardback, 480pp. Set in an unnamed African country at an unspecified time (though the similarities with Nigeria in the early 1960s are unmistakable),The Famished Roadis narrated by Azaro, an African spirit-child or abiku who, in the folklore of southern Nigeria…
The Long Flight
Terence Horsley · 1947 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London, Country Life Limited , 1947. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of Terence Horsley's anthology of migration stories with illustrations by CF Tunnicliffe. The first edition, first impression of this work. Containing a series of tales of migration, telling o…
The Ant Collective: Inside the World of an Ant Colony
Schieb, A. · 2024 · Pemberley Natural History Books
£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)
Princeton University Press 128, 120 col illus. . PB. NEW. . Ants come alive on this fabulously illustrated journey into the heart of a bustling colony.Ants share a vibrant and complex communal life and remarkable abilities to communicate with each other. <i>The Ant Collective</i…
Richard Wagner: Ring Resounding; the Perfect Wagnerite; and Richard Wagner: The Man, the Mind and His Music (Three Volumes)
Culshaw, John (and) Robert Gutman (and) Bernard Shaw · 0 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)
Time-Life Books. Slipcased. Three volumes in a black textured leather box slipcase. Each volume is black leather with gilt lettering on the spine. Pages: Volume One, 'Richard Wager: The Man, His Mind, and His Music,' (20), 1-537; Volume Two, 'The Perfect Wagnerite,' (30), 1-114;…
The Hour of God: Selections from His Writings
Sri Aurobindo · 1996 · Denton Island Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
Sahitya Akademi, 1996. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; creasing to jacket edges and some writing imprints. Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), a pioneer of India's freedom movement, poet, seer and the exponent of Integral Yoga, visualises the poss…
The Woodland Year
Law, Ben · 2008 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA
€23.00 ($25.35 | £19.19 | ¥4,049)
Permanent Publications, 2008 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 173 pages. Text in English. As new. Packed with stunning colour photographs, The Woodland Year is an intimate month-by-month journey through Ben Laws yearly cycle of work, his naturally attuned lifestyle and his deep unde…
The nature of frogs. Amphibians with attitude
Parsons, Harry · 2000 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA
€13.00 ($14.33 | £10.84 | ¥2,288)
Greystone Books, 2000 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 102 pages. Text in English. Clean copy with slightly damaged dust jacket, internally nearly as new. Tiny and golden (in Brazil) to the relatively hefty Goliath in Africa, frogs come in a staggering assortment of forms and occupy…
British Butterflies: Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species with an Account of Butterfly Development, Structure, Habits, Localities, Mode of Capture, and Preservation
W. S. Coleman · 1888 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
London, George Routledge & Sons, 1888. Cloth. A smart copy of this beautifully illustrated study of British butterflies. Illustrated with sixteen plates, fourteen of which are in colour, and many in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed study of British butterflies with ref…
The Seasons
James Thomson; Patrick Murdoch · 1793 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)
London, J. Rivington and Sons et al, 1793 . Leather. A bright late 18th century edition of this poetical series from James Thomson, complete with four engraved plates. A new edition of the completed poem cycle in a single volume. Illustrated with four plates, one for each season…
The End of a World
Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer]; Jeffrey E. Jeffrey [translator] · 1927 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this romance novel from Claude Anet, translated from the original French. First edition. Illustrated throughout. A romance novel recording the last cycle of the history of the Cro-Magnon period. Follow…
British Moths and Their Transformations
J. O. Westwood · 1845 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)
London, William Smith, 1845. First edition. Leather. Volume two of Westwood's highly influential Victorian educational guide to the moths of Great Britain. The first edition of the work. Volume two only, published in 1845. Volume one was published in 1843. Lacking all pla…
A Son of Earth: Collected Poems
William Ellery Leonard · 1928 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
New York, The Viking Press, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A limited first edition of the poetry of William Ellery Leonard, signed by the author. First edition. No. 306 of a limited edition of 350 copies. Â Signed by the author to the frontispiece. Â In the publisher's origi…
Private Equity and Venture Capital
Serena Gallo , Vincenzo Verdoliva · 2022 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV
€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)
Springer International Publishing, 2022, Gekartonneerd, 92, The terms venture capital and private equity may differ across countries. This book discusses venture capital not only as risk capital toward unlisted companies with the aim to enhance the investee firm, but also analys…
Field Guide to Butterflies of Seychelles: Their Natural History and Conservation
Lawrence, J.M.; Crafford-Venter, M. (Illus) · 2014 · Pemberley Natural History Books
£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)
Siri Scientific Press 125, col photos, 14 col plates, maps. . PB. As new.. Designed for easy use in the field, featuring all 39 species and subspecies so far recorded from the Seychelles Archipelago. Of these 39 taxa, three are considered extinct, with a further five either non-…
Beetles of the World: A Natural History
Barclay, M.V.L.; Bouchard, P. · 2023 · Pemberley Natural History Books
£21.00 (€25.18 | $27.75 | ¥4,432)
Princeton University Press 240, 150 col illus, col distribution maps. . HB. NEW. . A richly illustrated guide to the astonishing variety of beetles around the world. Beetles make up about a quarter of known animal species and are arguably the most diverse group of organisms on E…
RSPB Spotlight Puffins
Dunn, E. · 2018 · Pemberley Natural History Books
£12.99 (€15.57 | $17.16 | ¥2,741)
Bloomsbury Publishing 128, col photos. 210x148mm. PB. NEW. . Enduringly popular, Puffins are perhaps our most iconic species of bird, and are the most immediately identifiable of seabirds with their decorative bills and clown-like gait. Yet when they take to the air they wheel a…
Field Guide to Butterflies of Seychelles: Their Natural History and Conservation
Lawrence, J.M.; Crafford-Venter, M. (Illus) · 2014 · Pemberley Natural History Books
£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)
Siri Scientific Press 125, col photos, 14 col plates, maps. . PB. NEW. . Designed for easy use in the field, featuring all 39 species and subspecies so far recorded from the Seychelles Archipelago. Of these 39 taxa, three are considered extinct, with a further five either non-re…
Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp. Art and political economy in an age of religious conflict.
RUBENS. Sammut,Adam. · 2023 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.
€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)
Leiden & Boston, Brill, [2023]. XXVI,[2],526 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. hardcovers (boards). 8vo. (Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history, 67). [ISBN: 978-90-04-27637-6]. - As new.This book is about the Dominican church in Antwerp (today St Paul’s). It i…
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&Sf): July 1957
F&SF (CHAD OLIVER; C. M. KORNBLUTH; ROBERT F. YOUNG; JOHN NOVOTNY; S. D. GOTTESMAN; POUL ANDERSON; AVRAM DAVIDSON; WILLIAM CHAPMAN WHITE; IDRIS SEABRIGHT; CAROL EMSHWILLER; CHARLES VAN DOREN; MARY-CARTER ROBERTS; RICHARD MATHESON) · 1957 · Books from the crypt
$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)
NY, Fantasy House. 1957. Wraps. Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 1. Edited by Anthony Boucher. Cover art by Mel Hunter. Includes "The Wind Blows Free" (novelet) by Chad Oliver; "MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie" by C. M. Kornbluth; "Your Ghost Will Walk" by Robert F. Young; "A Trick …
Titian to 1518: The Assumption of Genuis
Joannides, Paul · 0 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
$33.00 (€29.94 | £24.97 | ¥5,270)
New Haven, Yale University Press. Hardcover. bright red boards w/ black spine printing. 340 pgs w/ color & b&w illustrations. contents as follows: "The work that Titian produced during the first decade of his career is beautiful and varied, but it has raised many questions of at…