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Sofka Zinovieff · 2018 · Book Haven

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

Bloomsbury Publishing 2018 Paperback, 370pp. It is the 1970s and Ralph, an up-and-coming composer, is visiting Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss a collaboration. Through the house's colourful rooms and unruly garden flits nine-year-old Daphne – dark, te…

Being Invisible

BERGER, THOMAS · 1987 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1987. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316091588. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is cri…

San Francisco Hotel Greeters Guide January, 1950; Vol. XXXIII, No. 1

HOTEL GREETERS OF AMERICA · 1950 · S. Howlett-West Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

San Francisco, CA: Hotel Greeters of America, Charter 4, 1950. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized pamphlet with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. Th…

Neighbors a Novel

BERGER, THOMAS · 1980 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, NY: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0440065569. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The d…

Goshawk Squadron

ROBINSON, DEREK · 2003 · Little Lane Books

A$13.00 (€7.99 | $8.81 | £6.67 | ¥1,407)

Cassell. 2003. Soft cover with dust jacket, 15.5cm. Book, Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson is under 500g at 224pp World War One aviators were more than just soldiers they were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised the gallant young heroes. But for Stanley W…

The Conscious Lovers. Gli Amanti Interni Commedia Inglese del Cavaliere Ricardo Steele.

STEELE (Sir Richard): · 1724 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Londra No Publisher [?John Picard] 1724. FIRST ITALIAN EDITION. 12mo, 147 x 88 mms., pp. [x], 166, engraved frontispiece, recently rebound in full maroon morocco, raised bands, title in gilt on spine, all edges gilt. A fine copy. The Conscious Lovers was first performed on 7…

Case of Dunkirk Faithfully Stated and Impartially Considered. By a Member of the House of Commons.

[BOLINGBROKE (Henry St. John), Viscount: · 1730 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London: Printed for A. Moore..., 1730. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 51 [52 blank], disbound. Another edition of 32 pages was published in the same year, but it is not clear which has precedence. Bolingbroke suspected that the French were rebuilding the harbour of Dunkirk and re-fortifyin…

The Life of David Garrick, Esq.

GARRICK (David). MURPHY (Arthur): · 1801 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£300.00 (€359.65 | $396.41 | ¥63,309)

Dublin: Printed by Brett Smith, for Messrs. Wogan, Burnet, Porter, Moore ...[et al], 1801. FIRST DUBLIN EDITION. 8vo, pp [iv], xxxi [xxxii blank], 507 [508 blank], including half-title, contemporary sheepskin, red morocco label (probably a Dublin binding); lacks front free end…

Professor Wormbog's Gloomy Kerploppus a Book of Great Smells

MAYER, MERCER · 1977 · S. Howlett-West Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Racine, WI: Golden Press, 1977. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Mercer Mayer. Color Illustrations; His book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This is a First Edition, First printing, with the correct points. (there is a letter …

Talk Talk

T.C. Boyle · 2006 · Book Haven

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Bloomsbury Publishing 2006 Paperback, 352pp. The first time he saw Dana she was dancing barefoot, her hair aflame in the red glow of the club, her body throbbing with rhythms and cross-rhythms that only she could hear. He was mesmerised. That night they were both deaf, mouthing …

Trance State

John Case · 2001 · Book Haven

NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,103)

Random House 2001 Paperback, 455pp. Don't let them inside your head. Don't let them play their mind games with you. Because they're merciless. And they'll kill to win The Swiss-based Institute of Global Studies seems like the kind of philanthropic body any idealistic young scien…

Stonedust (Ben Abbott Mystery)

Justin Scott · 1995 · Book Haven

NZ$7.50 (€3.76 | $4.14 | £3.14 | ¥662)

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 1995 Paperback, 304pp. Ben Abbott is back in StoneDust, a complex, richly plotted, and enthralling mystery that tests this witty, literate realtor and fledgling detective as never before. The Fisks’ weekend party, a â€oesleep-over” for select cou…

The Captive Wife: Conflicts Of Housebound Mothers

Hannah Gavron · 1968 · Book Haven

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Pelican 1968 Paperback, 176pp. In 1965, at the age of twenty-nine, the young sociologist Hannah Gavron took her own life. A year later, the book based on the research she carried out for her thesis was published as The Captive Wife. Based on first-hand accounts of the lives of w…

Steel Trapp: The Academy

Ridley Pearson · 2010 · Book Haven

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Hyperion Books 2010 Hardback, 416pp. Steven â€oeSteel” Trapp has been placed in an East Coast boarding school for gifted kids by his FBI agent father. He soon discovers that there’s a clubby element of the faculty and upper classmen that is very secretive and protective. To …

The Scorpio Illusion

Robert Ludlum · 1993 · Book Haven

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HarperCollins Publishers 1993 Paperback, 672pp. Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer - one of the best - until the rain-swept night in Amsterdam when his wife was murdered, an innocent victim of the games spies play. Now he's called out of retirement for one last as…

Profiles Of The First World War The Silhouettes Of Captain Hl Oakley

Jerry Rendell · 2013 · Book Haven

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The History Press LTD 2013 Softcover. H.L. Oakley was one of the most talented and prolific silhouette artists of the twentieth century. Despite his fame, he was determined to enlist and play his part in fighting for his country in the First World War. He joined up in the summer…

Men And Cartoons

Jonathan Lethem · 2005 · Book Haven

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Faber and Faber 2005 Paperback, 160pp. The author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn now beguiles his readers nine times over into the ironic, heartbroken, eerie and absurd territory he has made forever his own. The nine stories in this collection present charac…

Sil a Novel

Jill Harris · 2005 · Book Haven

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Longacre 2005 Paperback. A Watership Down of a tale for junior readers based around New Zealand's native bird, the tui. Sil: adolescent tui and rising star. His startling song compositions arouse admiration and jealousy among his age-mates as he prepares for the annual competiti…

Supermarket Supermodel

Jim Cartwright · 2009 · Book Haven

NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)

Black Swan 2009 Paperback, 368pp. Sitting among the rows of tills in Supersafe supermarket in the North of England, the fortunes of a young checkout girl are on the brink of change Linda works the tills at Safeshop. It's what everyone does. The grammar school girls get the caree…

Black Obsession

Gregor Paul · 2010 · Book Haven

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Exisle Publishing 2010 Paperback, 242pp. This thought-provoking book is a search for answers to the vexing phenomenon of why the world's undisputed greatest rugby team can't win the World Cup. It is an in-depth investigation that explores how societal change, combined with the a…