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The Magician

MANN, THOMAS · 2022 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€34.81 ($38.37 | £29.04 | ¥6,128)

Penguin 2022 First Penguin edition 437 p. SOFTCOVER: (Orig. paperback. AS NEW) THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magi…

Descriptive Ethnology Vol's I and II complete; Asia, Europe, Africa, India (original edition of 1859

LATHAM, ROBERT GORDON · 1859 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€223.61 ($246.46 | £186.52 | ¥39,362)

London : John van Voorst 1859 First edition (48 chapters divided into hundreds of world peoples from the earliest history) Vol I :VIII + 516 p. VIII & Vol II :506 p. Vol II: renewed strap with leather spine with repaired tear in spne. HARDCOVER: (Rebound in red cloth. Ex-lib.…

Newton's Gift

BERLINSKI, DAVID · 2001 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€23.01 ($25.36 | £19.19 | ¥4,050)

Duckworth Overlook 2001 215p p., ills., appendixes, index HARDCOVER: (Orig. pictorial boards. AS NEW) This account of Newton examines both his work and his life. This is no mean feat as Newton lived in isolation, never travelling beyond England, had few freinds and while he wrot…

Bewilderment

Richard Powers · 2021 · Book Haven

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

Hutchinson Heinemann 2021 Paperback, 278pp. Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving, and fille…

Bewilderment

Richard Powers · 2021 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Random House UK 2021 Paperback, 278pp. Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving, and filled wit…

[Tlss] Letter from President of Princeton Unable to Provide Funds for a Talk by H.G. Wells Plus 3 Other Letters

[H.G.Wells] [Princeton] Hibben, John Grier · 1916 · Kaaterskill Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Princeton, 1916. 1. Letter dated October 21, 1916, from Hibben to a Mr. de Lima, stating that he is very sorry but they have spent their funds for the coming year, and thus could not assure $350 for an H.G. Wells visit, but "if he is willing to come to us I am very confident tha…

The Plays and Fragments. Translated with Explanatory Notes by M. Balme. With an Introduction by Peter Brown.

MENANDER, · 2001 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€62.50 ($68.89 | £52.13 | ¥11,002)

Oxford University Press, Oxford (...), 2001. XXXIV,312p. Cloth wrps. Nice copy. 'Peter Brown provides a sharp and wide-ranging, yet coherent introduction. Brown covers Menander's life, dating of the plays, the development of Greek stage comedy, theatrical and generic convention…

Gunner on the Somme: The Memoir of William Robert Price 1st South Midland 1914-1917

W. R. Price · 2016 · Winkles Books

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,216)

Book New New 1st Edition The History Press Stroud 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Gunner of the Somme is a remarkable memoir detailing the life of a gunner on the Western Front as observed by a gentleman scientist who served in the ranks. William Price was a Cambridge botanist who work…

Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Ancaster preserved at Grimsthorpe. ( Published by the ) Historical Manuscripts Commission.

LOMAS S.C. ( introduction ) - Peregrine BERTIE - Lord WILLOUGHBY ( subject ) : · 1907 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€73.00 ($80.46 | £60.89 | ¥12,850)

Dublin, printed for His Majesty's Stationary Office by John Falconer, 1907, xl pp + 594 pp + viii (catalogue of the Commission), index. Contemporary half leather with marbled boards. Binding worn by technically sound, interior good but with some foxing at first leaves. Very inte…

Carapace - the Motor Car in New Zealand : a Roadside View

M. H. Holcroft · 1979 · Book Haven

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

J. McIndoe 1979 Hardback 136 Scarcely anybody now asks if motor cars are really necessary, but a few people still mange to live without owning or driving them. Monte Holcroft admits that this apartness can be a form of second-class citizenship. But he is not sure that a first-cl…

Adultery

Richard B. Wright · 2004 · Book Haven

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

HarperCollins Publishers Australia 2004 Paperback, 279pp. A compelling story of sex and consequences. A young woman is brutally murdered at a seaside town in Devon, England. She had been in a car with Fielding, her older, married lover. They had been drinking and making love and…

The LIFE And DISCOURSES Of JOSHUA REYNOLDS, First President of the Royal Academy

Reynolds, Joshua [1723 - 1792] · 1853 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$49.50 (€44.91 | £37.46 | ¥7,905)

Hudson, Ohio: Sawyer, Ingersoll and Company, 1853. First American Edition [stated]. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & boards blocked in blind. Yellow eps. [2], 286, [4 (blank)] pp. 12mo, "was an English painter who specialised in por…

Akio Makigawa : Art and Australia Monographs No 2

Bromfield, David; Makigawa, Akio · 2001 · Ariel Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Craftsman House Akio Makigawa is a Japanese/Australian sculptor whose work can be contextualized within a Western art tradition while remaining within the realm of a Japanese aesthetic sensibility. He was born in Japan in 1948 and came to Perth, Western Australia in 1974 to work…

FBI Wanted Poster no.624, Milton Xiscatti-Michel

Interpol- Child Pornographer-Paraguay-1991 · 0 · Peter Austern & Co./ Brooklyn Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Poster Good This is an Original FBI wanted poster. This is wanted flyer 624, Milton Xiscatti-Michel. It was issued May 5th, 2001. Heavy wrinkles, tape repaired tears and staining. It measures 12 3/4" long by 8 1/2" wide Milton Xiscatti-Michel is charged in U.S. District Court in…

How To Watch Soccer

Ruud Gullit · 2017 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Penguin 2017 Paperback, 304pp. Ruud Gullit knows better than anyone else that to understand soccer you have to understand strategy. When he started playing soccer, his only â€oestrategy” was to get the ball, outrun everyone else to the other end of the field, and score. At fir…

[Jugendstil gouache] "Roter mohn" [Poppy].

Westphal, O. · 1898 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)

Dresden, not published, ca. 1898. Single sheet (40.0 x 39.6 cm), mounted on larger, blank sheet (60.7 x 48.8 cm). Gouache, painted on one side. = A fine original work - of a typical Jugendstil design with poppies - by the German artist Otto Westphal (1878-1975), apparently a des…

Sur un problème de Tchebychef.

Liapounoff, A. [Lyapunov] · 1905 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

St.-Pétersbourg, l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1905. Large 4to (33.5 x 25.1 cm), 32 pp. Printed wrappers. = Important paper by Russian mathematician Alexandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1857-1918). "He created the modern theory of the stability of a dynamic system" (Wikipedia). …

L.V. F. Randolph: A Tribute by Two of His Daughters

Randolph, Marion · 1922 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.90 | ¥15,172)

Plainfield, New Jersey, Privately Published, 1922. Light green cloth covers with gilt title. 59 pp. 3 bw plates. Many POD copies available out there, but this is the real deal. Flawless copy, just about. Lewis Van Syckle Fitz Randolph (1838-1920) was an American businessman and …

The American Revolution

Ranklin, Hugh F. · 1964 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First American Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, white & red & illus. dust jacket, 382 pp. 6 maps. "A thrilling narrative account of the War for Independence. In these pages the reader can identify himself w…

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 14: 1866

Burkhardt, Frederick (editor) · 2004 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$165.00 (€149.70 | £124.87 | ¥26,352)

New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004. Hardbound. Black cloth boards w/ green DJ, [xl] 655pp, numerous BW illustrations. From the publisher--Charles Darwin's health improved substantially in 1866 under a dietary and exercise regime prescribed by his physician Henry Bence Jo…