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The Facts And Fictions of Minna Pratt

Patricia MacLachlan · 1991 · Book Haven

NZ$8.50 (€4.26 | $4.70 | £3.55 | ¥750)

Walker Books (UK) 1991 Paperback, 128pp. Minna wishes for many things. She wishes she understood the quote taped above her mother's and fiction are different truths. She wishes her mother would stop writing long enough to really listen to her. She wishes her house were peaceful …

Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence 1921-1960

Lazar Fleishman and Maya Slater and Nicholas Pasternak Slater · 2010 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,544)

Hoover Inst Pr 2010 Paperback. This selection of Boris Pasternak's correspondence with his parents and sisters from 1921 to 1960—including more than illustrations and photos—is an authoritative, indispensable introduction and guide to the great writer's life and work. His letter…

Bunker 13

Anirudha Bahal · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Faber and Faber 2004 Paperback, 352pp. Minty Mehta (aka MM) likes to play dangerously - he is making a documentary about the Indian army's conflict with the Pakistanis but drug-fuelled parachute jumping with Major Rodrigues is only part of the fun. Things are due to get serious …

Gillespie and I

Jane Harris · 2011 · Book Haven

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Faber and Faber (UK) 2011 Paperback, 440pp. In the late 1920s, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her relationship with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame he deserved because, back in the early 1890s, he destroyed his own work before…

Journey's End. A novel.

R. C. SHERRIFF AND VERNON BARTLETT. · 1930 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 286pp. Black smooth-weave cloth lettered in yellow at the spine. Edges quite lightly spotted. The cloth faded at the backstrip, and with some toning to the free endpapers and pastedowns, and some spo…

Mortal Coils. Stories.

ALDOUS HUXLEY. · 1922 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 229pp. Blue cloth with a printed paper spine label. Publisher's blue stain to the top edge, the fore and bottom edges untrimmed. A narrow sliver of fading to two margins of the upper board. The free endpa…

HELLAS: A Spectacle with Music and Dances in Four Acts.

Collin, Rodney. · 1951 · J.D. Holmes, ABAA - ILAB

$189.00 (€171.47 | £143.03 | ¥30,184)

Cape Town: The Stourton Press, 1951. FIRST EDITION. Bookplate of Alexander D'Agapeyeff (known for the undecipherable cipher); Very Good+ Cloth Volume in nice dust jacket, with light stain along lower edge of rear panel. Very scarce, like many of Fairfax Hall's press works, whic…

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Nikolitseas, Dimitris · 1988 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.24 | ¥5,749)

Athens, Greece, Strats Philippotis, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Bilingual, English and Greek text play by Dimitris Nikolitseas, with fine illustrations by Themos Maipas, and with Foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Translations from the original Greek by Am…

[Hip Hop] Monie Love Born to B.R. E.E. D. Promotional Sticker

1993 · Mare Booksellers

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

No Place, No publisher. Unbound. 6 by 3 inch sticker on a slightly larger backing. Fine print on the sticker reads, "Build Relationships where Education and Enlightenment Dominate." Co-written by Monie Love and Prince (who also produced the song), Born to B.R.E.E.D was one of Mo…

Worke for Cutlers : or a Merry Dialogue Betweene Sword, Rapier and Dagger

SIEVEKING, ALBERT FORBES (EDITOR) · 1904 · Godley Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, C. J. Clay and Sons. 1904, First Edition. Hard Cover, 9 x 7 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, some foxing throughout, tanned end papers and no bumping to corners. Untrimmed page …

Forgotten Books of the American Nursery; a History of the Development of the American Story-Book, by Rosalie V. Halsey

Halsey, Rosalie V. (Rosalie Vrylina) · 1911 · Brookline Village Books

$115.00 (€104.34 | £87.03 | ¥18,366)

Boston, C.E. Goodspeed & Co. 1911. Hardcover. viii, [1], 244, [1] p. front. plates, facsims. 26 cm. "Of this book seven hundred copies were printed in November 1911, by D.B. Updike, at the Merrymount Press, Boston. Very good condition Contents: Introductory--The play-book in Eng…

Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association For the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art Vol LXXXII (82) Sidmouth 1950

Waterfield, R (ed) · 1950 · The Victoria Bookshop

£29.11 (€34.90 | $38.46 | ¥6,143)

Devon, The Devonshire Association for the Adv, 1950. 1st Edition. Paperback. A good copy, in pale grey paper covers with black lettering on browning spine, which has vertical creasing and minor wear/small tears to top & tail. Minor foxing to fore edge. Covers/pages a little bowe…

Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association For the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art Vol LXXXII (82) Sidmouth 1950

Waterfield, R (ed) · 1950 · The Victoria Bookshop

£29.11 (€34.90 | $38.46 | ¥6,143)

Devon, The Devonshire Association for the Adv, 1950. 1st Edition. Paperback. A good copy, in pale grey paper covers with black lettering on browning spine, which has vertical creasing and minor wear/small tears to top & tail. Minor foxing to fore edge. Covers/pages a little bowe…

A Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan

Franklin, Benjamin · 1949 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, for the Friends of the Princeton Library, 1949. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Containing some observations on the prodigal practices of publishers. Introduction by Carl Van Doren, published in a fine …

The Careless Husband. A Comedy

Cibber, Colley · 1735 · Mare Booksellers

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,111)

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1735. Pamphlet. Pamphlet, disbound, lacking any wrappers or cover issued. Leather remains along the spine. 108 pp. plus an illustrated frontispiece. A 1735 printing of Colley Cibber's play, The Careless Husband. This work, exploring infidelity i…

THE CROWN & ANCHOR A Chelsea Quarto [inc. Weather Wise by Noel Coward]

Reginald Blunt (ed); Noel Coward, Laurence Binyon et al · 1925 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

The Chelsea Publishing Company & The Cayme Press, 1st Edition, Eclectic 'Chelsea Miscellany' with contributions from Noel Coward, Laurence Binyon, and others (see photo of contents page). Coward's short play, Weather Wise, is one of his most obscure and was not performed until 1…

Bonkers! : Fortnight in London.

Rheims, Bettina. · 2014 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Göttingen : Steidl, cop. 2014. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 95 pp. illustrations (color). 30 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - In Bonkers! A Fortnight in London, Bettina Rheims continues to explore the cities that inspire her. After Paris feat…

Policing the Ports: Reducing Illicit Trafficking in South Africa.

Minnaar, Anthony. · 2003 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Pretoria : Institute for Security Studies, 2003. Paperback. 108 pp.(ISS Monograph Series, 84). - Among the conclusions and recommendations arising from this study are suggestions for the improvement in a number of areas. These range from information sharing to profiling risk ana…

The Book of Sport

Underhill, Ruth; Astor, John Jacob et al. · 1901 · Mare Booksellers

$486.00 (€440.93 | £367.80 | ¥77,617)

New York, J.F. Taylor and Company, 1901. Half Leather. #44 of 450 copies of the edition de Grande Luxe. Half leather with marbled boards. Folio. 411 pp. Black and white photos throughout. A history and survey of a variety of sports in the United States. This includes section on …

Complete Hockey Instruction - Skills and Strategies for Coaches and Players

CHAMBERS, DAVE · 1992 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$49.95 (€45.32 | £37.80 | ¥7,977)

Toronto, ON, Canada: Key Porter Books Limited, 1992. Reprint. Paperback. ISBN: 1550131540. 224 pages including bibliography. This comprehensive guide to coaching hockey includes illustrated drills for all hockey skills, from skating and passing to shooting and puck control. Desi…