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Sketches from Life and Fancy by A. Hendschel (4-Volume Set)

1878 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

New York, Stroefer & Kirchener, 1878. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt and raised decoration; Vol I. 24 plates, vol. II 20 plates, vol. III 33 plates, vol. IV 20 plates. According to WorldCat, original edition had 100 plates; 97 are present here; Includes wonderful plates depict…

Writing Home

Alan Bennett · 2006 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,015)

Faber & Faber 2006 Paperback, 634pp. This book brings together his diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play, Forty Years On , which starred John Gielgud, together with hilarious accounts of his many tel…

Geronimo Stilton: The Race Against Time - The Third Journey Through Time

Geronimo Stilton · 2016 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,015)

Scholastic Books 2016 Hardback, 320pp. Join Geronimo on a whisker-tingling trip through history! I, Geronimo Stilton, was so excited to travel on my third journey through time! Professor Paws von Volt had invented a portal to take my family and me to the past. On this trip, we v…

Circle Of Death

Keri Arthur · 2009 · Book Haven

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

Piatkus 2009 Paperback, 292pp. In one vicious night, Kirby Brown's world is torn apart. Her best friend is dead - killed by a madman who is now after Kirby - and she has no idea why. Doyle Fitzgerald has been sent to Melbourne to hunt down the killer but what he doesn't expect t…

The Bodyguard. A novel. (PRESENTATION COPY)

ADRIAN MITCHELL. · 1970 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing) - a presentation copy, inscribed by the author: "For John [Conroy] with love and many thanks for Teddy in Woman Overboard. Hoping to work with you again next year! Adrian. Peace 1988" and …

The Member of the Wedding. A novel.

CARSON MCCULLERS. · 1946 · Clearwater Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

The Cresset Press, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the considerably more common US edition. 8vo. 183pp. Orange cloth, gilt lettered at the spine and upper board (the lettering a little faded in places). A little light spotting to t…

The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

"BARON MUNCHAUSEN". [RASPE, R.E ?]. · 1900 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Frederick Warne and Co, nd. (c.1900). Illustrated with Thirty-Seven Curious Engravings, from the Baron's Own Designs, and Five Woodcuts by G.Cruikshank. The fictional Baron's exploits, narrated in the first person, focus on his impossible achievements as a sportsman, sol…

Traditional Drama and Music of Southeast Asia. (Papers presented at the international conference on traditional drama and music of Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur, 27th to 30th August, 1969).

OSMAN, Mohd. Taib ed. · 1974 · The Book Firm

A$100.00 (€61.47 | $67.75 | £51.27 | ¥10,820)

Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka, 1974. Hardcover. Small mark to endpapers, one corner lightly bumped, some indentations to intro. pages, small nick to bottom of spine, o/wise good (no markings to text). Music exs. Includes papers on Themes and Motifs of the Cambodian Ramayana in the Sh…

A Chronicle Of An Unforgettable Season - Clwb Rygbi Llanymddyfri - Blwyddyn Bythgofiadwy

Huw S Thomas · 2024 · Dodman Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Llandovery, Clwb Rygbi Llanymddyfri, 1st Edition, The 2023-24 season was the greatest in the long history of the Carmarthenshire rugby club Llandovery. Not only did they finish top of the Indigo Premiership table after winning 22 of their 24 league games, they went on to win the…

The Dance Of Life

Dan Totheroh · 1930 · Dodman Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, The Readers Library, ND. 1930 (WorldCat) Cheap edition from The Readers Library, pioneers in mass fiction publishing. This volume a novelisation of the play by Arthur Hopkins And George Manker Watters, and as stated on title page, now a Paramount Production starring Nanc…

The Best Known Works of William Shakespeare

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM · 1940 · Bluebird Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

Garden City, New York: The Book League of America, [c.1940s-50s]. Flexible hardcover. A selection of plays and poems by William Shakespeare, with an introduction to each play, adapted from the Shakespearean primer of Professor Dowden. Edited by W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright. P…

The Trial of Mary Dugan. Theatre Programme

Bayard Veiller. · 1928 · The Victoria Bookshop

£17.64 (€21.15 | $23.31 | ¥3,723)

London, Queen's Theatre, 1928. First Edition. Paperback. 4pp + includes "author's note and Trial Juror slip. Damp effects to font cover edges and vertical fold down centre of whole. Red ink notes on back and cast list. The melodrama concerns a sensational courtroom tri…

"NAZARETH" [as published in] SOUVENIR GOLDEN JUBILEE SANTA CLARA COLLEGE. 1851. 1901

[Santa Clara College - California]; Greene, Clay M. [1850 - 1933] · 1901 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$214.50 (€194.61 | £162.33 | ¥34,257)

Santa Clara, Ca: Chas. A. Nace, Printer, 1901. 1st Edition. Not in Rocq. Beige wrappers with lettering embossed in gilt. [i-ii], 1-64, [i-ii] [1-4], 5-59, [60] pp. 25 b/w plates on glossy paper. Oblong format: 6-1/2" x 9-5/8". Some chips at the first few leaves, creases to wrapp…

Sailing (Magazine) - the Beauty of Sail: February 1973

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1973 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.48 | ¥23,948)

USA: Port Publications, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Features: Autumn on the Chesapeake; Last Dance off Steel Shore (Chicago); Cape 25 is small cruiser with good looks; Luxurious Challenger 48 is large cruising sailer; The Triton - glass success of the fifites; A Portfolio...…

The Glass Lady

BORDAGES, ASA · 1951 · S. Howlett-West Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York: Lion Books, Inc, 1951. Ephemera. Mass Market PB. This is a mass market paperback book. Lion Book #56. The book is in Good only condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The books covers have some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and the corners. There …

MANNERS FOR MEN.

Humphry, Mrs (Madge of Truth), · 1995 · A Book for all Reasons

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pryor Publication, Whitstable, 1995, reprint, paperback, 160pp, [10pp] ads., paper wrappers, a facsimile reprint of the 1897 edition published by James Bowden, a comprehensive guide to the rules of etiquette and social mores for men for every occasion including dress and behavi…

Aristophanes: Lysistrata Edited with Introduction and Commentary

ARISTOPHANES; JEFFREY HENDERSON (ED. ) · 1991 · Ancient World Books

$33.00 (€29.94 | £24.97 | ¥5,270)

Oxford University Press, 1991. Softcover. ISBN: 0198144962. minor pencilling. Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [née Ward]). Creasing to spine. ; Clarendon Paperbacks; 320 pages; The first new edition in almost sixty years, this volume of Aristophanes' Lysistrata brings …

The Illustrated London News Vol. LIX (July-December 1871)

1871 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London, George C. Leighton, 1871. Hardcover. Ex-library. An oversize hardcover book with a black cloth spine, green cloth boards, and black leather corners. Corners rubbed through and library markings inside. Front hinge cracked. Folding color plates torn into multiple pieces. T…

Webster's Dictionary of Proper Names

PAYTON, GEOFFREY · 1970 · Bluebird Books

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Company, [c.1970s]. Hardcover. ISBN: 0877790833. A useful reference book, the purpose of which, per compiler Geoffrey Payton's preface, ".is to help readers through the barrage of proper names with which we are all daily bombarded." Na…

Picture Post - Hulton's National Weekly Magazine, March 20, 1943 - Germany's West Wall

HASTINGS, MACDONALD · 1943 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$199.95 (€181.41 | £151.32 | ¥31,933)

London: Hulton Press, Ltd, 1943. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Features: Russia - The Snow Begins to Melt - war photos; Egypt Gets A Railway Line to Europe; Dog Racing - Old Style; Rescue of a Swimming Eagle; Brighton Rock - An English Gangster Play; Cover Girl's First P…