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The Paperchase

Marcel Theroux · 2002 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Abacus 2002 Paperback, 224pp. Damien March hasn't thought of his eccentric uncle, Patrick, for almost twenty years, so he is shocked to learn that he has inherited his ramshackle house on Ionia, an isolated island off the coast of Cape Cod. But his new future means moving circui…

Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch

John Bayley · 2002 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Abacus 2002 Paperback, 304pp. 'It is wonderfully peaceful to sit in bed with Iris reassuringly asleep and gently snoring. Half asleep again myself I have a feeling of floating down the river, and watching all the rubbish from the houses and from our lives - the good as well as t…

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

Alexander McCall Smith · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,102)

Abacus 2004 Paperback, 210pp. 'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been…

Man and Number

SMELTZER, DONALD · 1974 · Bluebird Books

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

Buchanan, New York: Emerson Books Inc. / Distributed by Dover Publications, Inc, 1974. Hardcover. ISBN: 0875231071. Stated Fourth Printing, 1974 of a work first published in 1958. Donald Smeltzer has traced the story of mankind's use of numbers, from the earliest days through ju…

The gospel according to the son

MAILER, NORMAN · 1998 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€11.21 ($12.35 | £9.35 | ¥1,973)

London: Abacus 1998 First Abacus edition 242 p. . SOFTCOVER: Orig. paperb. Little traces of use. VERY GOOD For two thousand years, the brief ministry of a young Nazarene preacher has remained the largest single determinant of Western civilization's triumphs and disasters. Now, …

A Hand-Book; or Concise Dictionary of Terms Used in the Arts and Sciences

Walter Hamilton · 1825 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, John Murray, 1825. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of this pocket sized dictionary of the terms used in the arts and sciences. First edition of this work presenting a short dictionary of useful scientific and artistic terms compiled by Walter Hamilton. A s…

The End Of Alchemy: Money, Banking And The Future Of The Global Economy

Mervyn King · 2017 · Book Haven

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Abacus 2017 Paperback 430 The past twenty years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed. In the space of little more than a year what had been seen as the age of wisdom was viewed as the age of foo…

The Potato Factory

Bryce Courtenay · 2000 · Book Haven

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Penguin Books 2000 Paperback 832 The first in a fictional trilogy set in London and Australia, first published in 1995. Tells the story of two women, Mary Abacus, sometime mistress of London criminal Ikey Solomon, and Hannah, wife of Ikey. They raise separate families, both name…

Freedom In Exile The Autobiography Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama Of Tibet

Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho · 1998 · Book Haven

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Abacus 1998 Paperback, 324pp. In 1938, a two-year-old boy was recognized through a traditional process of discovery as being the reincarnation of all previous Dalai Lamas, the spiritual rulers of Tibet. Taken away from his parents, he was brought up in Lhasa according to a monas…

The Vine of Desire

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 2003 · Book Haven

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

Abacus 2003 Paperback, 352pp. When Sudha leaves India to join her cousin Anju in California, it starts a chain of events that will change both their lives. The women have been bosom friends since childhood and, having recently suffered tragedy, need each other more than ever.Ten…

Still Here

Linda Grant · 2003 · Book Haven

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Abacus 2003 Paperback, 384pp. Alix, arrogant, middle-aged and angry comes home to the derelict port of Liverpool as her mother lies dying. Irritably resigned to living alone for the rest of her life she suddenly finds herself erotically attracted to a stranger. Joseph is an Amer…

The Bleeding Heart

Marilyn French · 1989 · Book Haven

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Abacus 1989 Paperback, 342pp. "By the author of the groundbreaking feminist novel THE WOMEN\'S ROOM, THE BLEEDING HEART is a compelling novel about the devastating power of marriage -- and the unexpected power of love. A love story for and about adults, it speaks to the hearts a…

AN ARMY AT DAWN - The War in North Africa, 1942-1943.

Atkinson, Rick, · 2004 · A Book for all Reasons

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,321)

Abacus, London, 2004, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, [xx], 681pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., Allied Chain of Command and 18 maps in text, pictorial montage wrappers, winner of the Pulitzer prize for history in 2003 this is an account of the climax of North African campaign s…

Less

Andrew Sean Greer · 2018 · Book Haven

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.71 | ¥1,836)

Abacus 2018 Paperback 272 WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM YOUR PROBLEMS? Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be t…

Stephen Hawking / A Life in Science

Michael White · 2003 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Abacus. 2003; paperback; goed exemplaar / good copy. "An updated edition of the definitive biography on Stephen Hawking that marries biography and science to tell the story of one of the most remarkable men in history. Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. He has broadened o…

Small is beautiful. A study of economics as if people mattered

Schumacher, E.F., · 1975 · Antiquariaat Clio / Cliobook

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

(Lond.), Abacus, (1975). Reprinted ed. 19,5x13 cm. Softcover. 255 pp.(sl.foxing), notes; ¶ The German-born British economist Schumacher (1911-1977) questioned the need for endless economic growth and limitless consumption in the western world; inspired by, what he called 'Buddhi…

COQUINA IOVIS. Acqueforti di Abacuc [Silvano Gilardi].

FOLENGO Teofilo. · 1969 · Scriptorium Studio Bibliografico

€400.00 ($440.85 | £333.71 | ¥70,399)

Mantova, Edizioni degli Amici del Libro d'Arte [Verona, Sommaruga], 1969 in folio (cm 38,5), pp.48, lg. m. perg. edit. con tit. oro al d. e fregio in oro al piatto ant. Con 3 acqueforti originali. Contiene il testo originale in maccheronico tratto dal Baldus di Teofilo Folengo n…

Unspeak: Words Are Weapons

Steven Poole · 2007 · Book Haven

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Abacus 2007 Paperback 304 Unspeak is language as a weapon. Every day, we are bombarded with those apparently simplewords or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings. 'Climate change' is less threatening than 'Global Warming', we say ethniccleansing when we mean mass murder.…

Fortune's Rocks

Anita Shreve · 2000 · Book Haven

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Abacus 2000 Paperback, 464pp. 'In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she le…

Less

Andrew Sean Greer · 2018 · Book Haven

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Abacus 2018 Paperback 272 WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM YOUR PROBLEMS? Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be t…