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Darwin and the Naked Lady

Comfort, Alex · 1962 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, George Braziller, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First American Printing of this valued collection of essays about poetry and biology, life and evolution. Contents include "On Hard and Soft Centres"; "Darwin and Freud"; "Phoebus and Pan"; "The…

Flights of Fancy, Leaps of Faith: Children's Myths in Contemporary America.

Clark, Cindy Dell · 1995 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, 1995. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 158 pp.Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy--is there still a place for these imaginary creatures in today's skeptical society? More importantly, is it appropriate to encourage children to believe in t…

Partners or Rivals?: European-American Relations after Iraq.

Parsi, Vittorio Emanuele (Editor). · 2005 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€24.00 ($26.45 | £20.02 | ¥4,225)

Ithaca :Cornell University Press, 2005. Paperback. 300 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - In Partners or Rivals?, a multinational group of scholars examines the state of European-American relations in the wake of the Iraq War that bega…

The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, Volume X.

1891 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company, 1891. Leather. 768p. A hardcover book bound in 3/4 black leather with black cloth boards. POOR CONDITION. The covers are cracking off and have been reinforced with tape. Hinges cracked and pages coming loose. LACKS the title page, t…

Famous Women of Britain

L du Garde Peach · 1938 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London, 1938. First Edition, Hardcover, Illustrated by: Evelyn Simpson. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Short plays about: Mrs Siddons; Florence Nightingale; and Queen Victoria. Green covers with white lettering are lightly rubbed at spine-ends, …

The Farmers Hotel Signed 1st Edition

O'HARA, JOHN · 1951 · Peter Austern & Co. / Brooklyn Books

$350.00 (€317.54 | £264.88 | ¥55,897)

New York, Random House. 1951. Hardcover. Book, In The Farmers Hotel, a handful of strangers are stranded in rural Pennsylvania. A sudden snowfall traps the group in the titular hotel - ironically, the first day that the hotel is officially 'open'. The owner and his tiny staff (i…

Salome and the Ballad of Reading Gaol

Wilde, Oscar · 1907 · Mare Booksellers

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.43 | ¥4,312)

New York, H.M. Caldwell, Publisher, 1907. Hard Cover. Paper covered boards with a reddish cloth spine. Paper designed to look like wood, with gilt decoration resembling door hinges present. Color pastedown illustration on the upper center cover. Xviii, 117; xii, 5-83 pp. An earl…

A Masque of Aesop

Davies, Robertson · 1952 · Mare Booksellers

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Toronto, Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition. Hard cover in unclipped jacket. Illustrations by Grant Macdonald. 47 pages. A play by Davies based in ancient Greece and using the dramatic tool of the masque. GOOD jacket on a VERY GOOD book. Ja…

Kulap in Oz: A Thai View of Australian Life and Society in the Late 1940s.

KULAP, SAIPRADIT. TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY SCOT BARMÉ. · 1995 · Erik Hanson (Books & Ephemera)

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Clayton, Victoria, Australia. Monash Asia Institute, Monash University. 1995. Hardcover. lxxi [71] + 198 pages. Some photo illustrations. Former paperbound now in library laminate-type hardcover rebinding. Moderate ex-library stamps and university-logo endpapers. Still a good co…

Leeds' Eight to the Bar - Boogie Woogie Piano Method Book in All Its Styles

PAPARELLI, FRANK · 1941 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$99.95 (€90.68 | £75.64 | ¥15,963)

New York: Leeds Music Corp, 1941. First Edition. Paperback. 64 pages. "Designed to meet the most theoretical minds, or the hobbyist with spare time to learn how to play 'just like Pete Johnson, Meade 'Lux' Lewis, or Albert Ammons.' Includes special arrangements of popular Boogie…

The Soviet School of Chess

KOTOV, A.; YUDOVICH, M.; STOKLITSKY, L. (TRANSLATOR) · 1958 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$69.95 (€63.46 | £52.94 | ¥11,171)

Moscow: Foreign Languages Press, 1958. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 390 pages. Name index. Game index. Translated from the Russian. Reproductions of black and white photos. "The authors have endeavoured to show the sources of the vigour of Soviet chess and to outline its disti…

Sylvia Plath" her life amd work.

Aird, Eileen, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Perennial Library Harper, (1975). 1st ed. Fair PB. Traditionally Plath's work never received recognition until after her death. Owner name on fore-edge, book store stamp. on introduction page Individual study of a poet whose whose reputation has contineud to grow since her t…

The Irish Sketch Book of 1842 from the Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray.

Thackeray, William Makepeace, · 1902 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Collier, 1902. G. Drawings by Richard Doyle, Frederick Walker, Charles Green, George du Maurier, R. A. Wallace, and W. M. Thackeray. When it is stated that, throughout the town of Galway, you cannot get a cigar which costs more than twopence, Londoners may imagine the strang…

Away in a Manger: A Christmas Carousel Book

BECK, IAN · 1994 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£8.35 (€10.01 | $11.03 | ¥1,762)

Orion Children's Books. 1994. (ISBN: 9781858810812). Hardcover. Hardback no D/J in good condition. 1994 Orion Children's Books. Tied with a gold ribbon, this book is designed to introduce the youngest children to the Christmas story. The book opens into a three-dimensional scene…

Jigsaw Rhymes Here We Go

PUBLIGHING, TWO-CAN · 2000 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£16.70 (€20.02 | $22.07 | ¥3,524)

Two-Can Publishing. 2000. (ISBN: 9781854348821). Hardcover, 8.3 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches. Hardback no D/J in good condition. A book and 5 jigsaws all complete none missing. 2000 edition 1st Two-Can Publishing. An interactive board book that has lively photographs of children and puzzl…

The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo

BLUME, JUDY · 1992 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£6.68 (€8.01 | $8.83 | ¥1,410)

Macmillan Children's Books. 1992. (ISBN: 9780330327497). Paperback. Paperback in good condition. 1992 Macmillan Children's Books Picture Piper edition. Illustrations by Irene Trivas. For Freddy, life seems lonely as the middle child of the family. But when Freddy gets the chance…

Maria Stuart (Mary, Queen of Scots - a Tragedy in Five Acts)

SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON; EUGENE G. FASNACHT AND C. SHELDON EDS) · 1923 · Round Table Books, LLC

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London: Macmillan and Company, Ltd, 1923. First Edition Thus. Fifth Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, black lettering on spine and cover. Introductions and Notes in English, text of the play in German. Inscribed in an elegant hand on ffep: "Best wishes for Chri…

With Golden Quill (Limited Edition)

GRUNER, E. HAMILTON · 1936 · Godley Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)

Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Press. 1936, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Inscription on front end paper from 'the authoress' younger brother'. Also a Chinese proverb in Mandarin and in English No other marks A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked c…

Shakespeare's Comedy of Two Gentlemen of Verona

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; ROLFE, WILLIAM J. (EDITOR) · 1910 · Bluebird Books

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

New York: American Book Company, 1910. Hardcover. Shakespeare's comedy first appeared in print in the First Folio of 1623 and is reputed to be his first play. Edited and with extensive end notes by William J. Rolfe who also likely provided the uncredited introduction. Illustrate…

Tudor Facsimile Texts - The Pardoner and the frere, the curate and neybour Pratte [By John Heywood]. Date of the Earliest Known Edition, 1533 [Pepys Collection, Magdalene College, Cambridge]. Reproduced in Facsimile, 1909 .

HEYWOOD, JOHN (1497-1580) / FARMER, JOHN S. (EDITOR) . · 1909 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London ; Edinburgh : Issued for subscribers by T. C. & E. C. Jack 1909 0. A very good original binding. 11.5" x 8.75" x 0.25". pp.6/[16pp.]. With facsimile of original title page: "A mery play betwene the pardoner and the frere / the curate and neybour Pratte." [Colophon: Impryn…