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The Popular Recreator A Key To In-Door And Out-Door Amusements. Volume 1

Various · 1873 · Bookbarrow

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Cassell, London, Circa 1873. First Edition, Hardcover (Half Leather). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half-leather binding over brown cloth boards; brown end-papers. The Popular Recreator: A Key to In-Door and Out-Door Amusements is a Victorian-era manual, originally published ar…

Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition

Shah, Idries · 1998 · Bookbarrow

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Octagon Press, London, United Kingdom, 1998. First Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9780863040726 To front: titles & detailed contents list. Contemporary esoteric systems almost invariably play on the desire of mankind to seek or acquire knowledge. Almost unive…

A Brush with Nature : The Gere Collection of Landscape Sketches

Riopelle, Christopher ; Xavier Bray · 1999 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

London, England, National Gallery Publications, 1999. Hardcover. Color illustrated dj with white text, turquoise boards with gilt text on spine. 176 pp. Color and bw illustrations. More than forty years ago, John and Charlotte Gere, both distinguished art historians, pioneered t…

László Moholy-Nagy: The Art of Light

Chiappe, Somenico (and) Luisa Lucuix (and) Herran Coombs · 2010 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$200.00 (€181.45 | £151.36 | ¥31,941)

Madrid, La Fabrica, 2010. Hardcover. A black fabric spine with the remainder of the cover in beige paper. There is a dust jacket with the title in black down a white spine. Pages: (10), 11-256, (8). Profusely illustrated with black-and-white images. "The Art of Light presents Mo…

Airways to Peace: An Exhibition of Geography for the Future: The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, 1 Volume XI, August 1943

Wilkie, Wendell L. · 1943 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York, MoMA, 1943. Paperback. White stapled wraps with bw illus. and black lettering. 24 pp. with bw images throughout. Wilkie's title article features How Man has Drawn His World, How Much Does Mercator Distort? Most Ancient and Modern Globes, Outside-In Globe, The Progress …

Helfried Kodre: Vedere L'Invisibile

Maurer-Zilioli, Ellen, Wolfgang Prohaska, and Carl Bollmann · 2006 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Stuttgart, Arnoldsche, 2006. Paperback. Black and illustrated wraps with teal and white lettering. 96 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Text in German and English. "Helfried Kodre is a pioneering Austrian exponent of contemporary art jewellery. He learnt goldsmithing in the 1960s …

Textiles for This World and Beyond: Treasures from Insular Southeast Asia

Gittinger, Mattiebelle · 2005 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

London, Scala Publishers, 2005. Softbound. Navy card wraps with color illustration of batik. 136 pp. profusely illustrated in color. Catalogue from the exhibition of the same title, held March to September 2005. An exploration of the role that textiles play in Indonesian and Mal…

Jack, le Tueur de Geants (Jack the Giant-Killer)

LATHAM, JEAN LEE (TRANSLATED BY JEANINE B. SEBASTIAN) · 1961 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1961. Hardcover. Illustrated by Pablo Ramirez. Color Illustrations; This book is COMPLETELY IN FRENCH. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright conditi…

Sneaky People

BERGER, THOMAS · 1975 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0671218972. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book covers are clean and bright. The text pages are clean and bright. All three edges of the text block has spots…

Real Family Food

ANTONY WORRALL THOMPSON · 2005 · Little Lane Books

A$23.00 (€14.14 | $15.58 | £11.79 | ¥2,489)

UK, Mitchell Beazley Limited. 2005. Hardcover with dust jacket, 26cm. Book, 175 clean white well bound pp, review > Antony Worrall Thompson (TV cookshow host) communicates the "healthy/bonded/respected/loving family message throughout his books- he has an excellent book on the G…

Virtue the Source of Pleasure.

[BARNARD (Edward)]: · 1757 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London: Printed by John Olive: Sold by J. Buckland...andJ. Ward..., 1757. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, pp. vii [viii blank], 319 [320 blank], including half-title, recent half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label. A very good copy. Mr. Barnard's title suggests a philosop…

The Search after Happiness: A Pastoral Drama. And Other Poems.

MORE (Hannah): · 1816 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies..., 1816. Small 8vo, 122 x 73 mms., pp. 198, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title-page, contemporary straight-grain plum morocco wirh \"H. Skinner.\" in gilt on front cover, gilt border on covers, gilt spine, no doubt an…

Combat! the Counterattack

DAVIS, JR. , FRANKLIN M. · 1964 · S. Howlett-West Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1964. Hardcover. Illustrated by Arnie Kohn. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. Bits of the laminate have …

Sonnets to a Red-Haired Lady (By a Gentleman with a Blue Beard) and Famous Love Affairs

MARQUIS, DON · 1929 · S. Howlett-West Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc, 1929. Early printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Stuart Hay. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends an…

Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction And Fantasy: Volume 3

Marie Hodgkinson · 2021 · Book Haven

NZ$20.50 (€10.27 | $11.32 | £8.57 | ¥1,809)

Paper Road Press 2021 Paperback, 262pp. The third volume in the annual anthology series celebrating the strength and diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand's SF writing. Table of Contents: New Zealand Gothic, by Jack Remiel Cottrell Synaesthete, by Melanie Harding-Shaw Kōhuia, by T T…

My Theodosia

Anya Seton · 2017 · Book Haven

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

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 2017 Paperback, 344pp. â€oeAnya Seton’s portraits of Aaron and Theodosia Burr alike are vivid and credible. The narrative is well sustained, and provides as background an entertaining account of the manners, the ways of living and traveling and entertain…

Hayley Westenra: The World At Her Feet

Paul Little · 2004 · Book Haven

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

Penguin 2004 Paperback, 199pp. Hayley Westenra is unstoppable. Her album Pure has sold one million copies worldwide, is the best-selling debut album in the history of the UK classical album charts and has held the longest number one spot on the New Zealand Top 50 album charts. H…

The Girl Next Door

Ruth Rendell · 2014 · Book Haven

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

Hutchinson 2014 Paperback. In The Waning Months Of The Second World War, A Group Of Children Discover An Earthen Tunnel In Their Neighborhood Outside London. Throughout The Summer Of 1944 - Until One Father Forbids It - The Subterranean Space Becomes Their Secret Garden,℗. Where…

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier · 2000 · Book Haven

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

HarperCollins Publishers 2000 Paperback, 249pp. The Dutch painter Vermeer has remained one of the great enigmas of 17th century Dutch art. While little is known of his personal life, his extraordinary paintings of natural and domestic life, with their subtle play of light and co…

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier · 2000 · Book Haven

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

HarperCollins Publishers 2000 Paperback, 249pp. The Dutch painter Vermeer has remained one of the great enigmas of 17th century Dutch art. While little is known of his personal life, his extraordinary paintings of natural and domestic life, with their subtle play of light and co…