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Four Past Midnight
by Stephen King
First edition, first printing, with complete number line.
Book is in Very Good+ condition with very light rubbing to corners. Small discoloration spot on top of page edges. Pages otherwise clean and tight.
Dust jacket is in Very Good+ condition, with very light edgewear, mostly to spine. Two puncture marks, looks like from a staple, at top edge of front jacket flap.
Book is in Very Good+ condition with very light rubbing to corners. Small discoloration spot on top of page edges. Pages otherwise clean and tight.
Dust jacket is in Very Good+ condition, with very light edgewear, mostly to spine. Two puncture marks, looks like from a staple, at top edge of front jacket flap.
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£29.95
Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
by Conrad, Joseph
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First edition of Conrad's first book; first state, with missing letters on page 110 and missing . from the header on page 43. Hardcover, full green cloth, gilt titling, top edge gilt. General wear, spine slanted & tanned with chips at the head, small stains to covers; endsheets foxed with penciled notes & ink name, minor foxing within. Text clean; 272 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
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£323.80
Bone: The Dragonslayer
by Jeff Smith
Cartoon Books, Columbus, 1998. First softcover edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear.Collects issues 21 to 28.The forces of evil are growing stronger - but could our heroes' worst enemy be Phoney Bone himself?Fone Bone confronts a host of dangers in Book 4 of the BONE saga, The Dragonslayer. He and Gran'ma Ben and Thorn have a terrifying encounter with Kingdok, ruler of the rat creatures. The Hooded One is inciting his army to full-scale war. Someone is continuing to haunt Thorn in her...
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£7.68
Tenting at Stony Beach
by Pool, Maria Louise
Boston / New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. Second book by Miss Pool, a fictionalized account of a pre-'season' stay on the Massachussetts coast, with humorous & sympathetic accounts of its colorful & hardscrabble denizens; dedicated to C. M. B., Pool's longtime "literary companion" Caroline M. Branson. Small hardcover, as pictured. First edition (first printing), with same date on title & copyright pages. Light wear to book, some staining to front cover,...
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£121.42
The Gay Deceiver
by Leslie, Peter
New York: Stein and Day, 1967. Campy British espionage thriller/satire - Leslie also wrote a number of Man From U.N.C.L.E. novels. First American edition, listing no later printings; hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, spine ends bumped, minor edgewear, hint of foxing to front endsheet; jacket also shows minor edgewear, faint interior foxing at the flap creases, $4.95 price intact, pop art design by Paul Omin. Text clean, no names or marks. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very...
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£80.95
Speaking of Switzerland
by De Beer, G.R
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952. Part of 'The New Alpine Library' collection. D/w has finger markings, especially to spine. Bumping and tearing to edges. Previous owners award pasted to front left endpaper. Light foxing throughout. . First Edition. Hard Cover - Cloth. Good-fair/Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£10.58
PARSIFAL
by OLIVER HUCKEL
1903 EDITION, PAGED UNMARKED, BINDING SOUND. LOVELY COVER AND DESIGN.
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£80.95
US Army Psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New Challenges in Extended Counterinsurgency Warfare (Textbooks of Military Medicine)
by Norman M Camp M.D
US Army Psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New Challenges in Extended Counterinsurgency Warfare (Textbooks of Military Medicine)
by Norman M Camp M.D.
Laminated Hardcover 558 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 2015. Handsome laminated black boards and white lettring shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and... Read more about this item
by Norman M Camp M.D.
Laminated Hardcover 558 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 2015. Handsome laminated black boards and white lettring shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and... Read more about this item
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£25.50
The Ludi Victor
by Leigh, James
New York: Coward McCann & Geoghegan. 1980. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 264 pages. Author's first book. Winner of the Crime Writers Association's John Creasey Memorial (New Blood) Award. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.
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£13.23
Golf Club Maker: Thomas Carruthers 1840-1924
by Tom Carruthers
Cualann Press, 2004. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Very Good Signed Copy - some shelf wear to the extremities otherwise looks unread
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£9.99
Don't Walk Down College Street
by Ted Ramsey
Ramshorn, 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Good. corners bumped, very slight tanning around the edges of the pages otherwise contents clean, bright and tight.
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£25.00
Garden Party: Collected Writings 1979 - 1999
by Strong, Roy
Hardcover. 1st Edition As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Red cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A near fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.
A collection of Sir Roy Strong's articles on all aspects of gardens and gardening. A mixture of old and new, the articles offer lively insights and embrace a wide cultural perspective. From what is a garden?, Strong moves on to look at the art of gardening in... Read more about this item
A collection of Sir Roy Strong's articles on all aspects of gardens and gardening. A mixture of old and new, the articles offer lively insights and embrace a wide cultural perspective. From what is a garden?, Strong moves on to look at the art of gardening in... Read more about this item
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£26.46
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls (the Complete Series)
by Philip R. Davies, George J. Brooke, Phillip R. Callaway
1st Edition. 216 illustrations, 84 in colour. No marks or inscriptions.
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£13.23
German Expressionism: Art and Society
by Barron, Stephanie; Dube, Wolf-Dieter
Rizzoli, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This is a first edition copy of this comprehensive catalog of the expressionism in the early 1900s Germany, including the political changes and technological advancements that influenced the space. Dust jacket has some shelf-wear to the edges and the inside flaps. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked.
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£80.95
Cursed be the Treasure
by Drake, H. B
New York: Macy-Masius, 1928. Weird fiction regarding smugglers' caves, a haunted house & an evil treasure. In "333". First edition (first printing). Hardcover, full olive cloth, yellow titling. Light wear, spine rumpled, spine ends frayed. Text clean; viii, 310 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
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£24.28
STARDUST
by ROBERT B PARKER
FIRST EDITION. DJ IN PROTECTIVE COVER, PAGES IN TACT, UNMARKED,TIGHT.
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£12.14
Racing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passage
by Buckley Jr., William F
New York: Random House, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean hardcover first edition, first printing in clean unchipped dust jacket - now in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates; some dust-speckling to text block page edges. Illustrated with full color photographs. 344 pages....
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£12.14
Analog: Science Fiction / Science Fact - December 1968
by John W. Campbell (Editor)
Conde Nast, New York, 1968. First edition. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, spine has creasing and wear at ends, light soiling on white areas of covers, slight yellowing of interior pages, ink mark on front cover. A well-read magazine.Includes The Custodians by James H. Schmitz; The Reluctant Ambassadors by Stanley Schmidt; Pipeline by Joe Poyer; A Learning Experience by Theodore Litwell; The Form Master by Jack Wodhams.Science Fact: Situation of Some Gravity by Joseph F. Goodavage. Reader's...
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£1.75
The Runaways
by Philippe, Edouard
New York: Key Publishing, 1956. Novel of a truck-driving smuggler, ex-Resistance, who meets a homeless girl, ex-collaborator, in post-war Belgium, and his attempts to help her - the covers & flap copy are trying to sell this as soft-core porn, but it's just a romance of the underworld in tough times. Hardcover in jacket as pictured. Light wear to book; jacket shows minor rubbing. 152 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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£20.24
Mary Marie
by Porter, Eleanor H
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920. Mischievous thirteen-year-old, daughter of an austere father & flighty mother who are getting divorced, tells her story. First printing. Hardcover, dark green cloth with yellow lettering. Light general wear; jacket shows some edgewear, chipping at the corners; reinforced internally at the head of jacket spine with non-archival but non-yellowing tape; shoer closed tear and crease at head of spine/rear panel; jacket lightly tanned on spine and edges. Text clean;...
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£24.28
The Threshold
by von Wahl, Karin
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. Novel of refugees waiting at Ellis Island, many fleeing the devastation of World War Two, hoping for entry into the United States; "the story of many lives suspended in time and place between their tragic pasts and their tenacious hopes for the future." The author was herself a Latvian who travelled & studied extensively in Europe, coming to America in 1946, barely escaping the complete closure of the Iron Curtain. First edition (first printing) with date on...
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£28.33
Damnation Spring
by Ash Davidson
New York: Scribner, 2021. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Scriber Hardcover Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Ash Davidson on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Faint creases to spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new...
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£39.67
One to Count Cadence
by James Crumley
New York: Random House, 1969. 1st/1st. VG/VG. Stated First Printing. Carefully read book, tightly bound and square with good corners. Faint fading in places, else brown boards are clean and unmarred. Top-stain is fine. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Pages lightly tanned. Dust jacket is unclipped ($6.95). Mild rubbing, shelf wear at corners, spine ends and upper back. Small crease to upper front flap. Protected in a Brodart cover. 8vo - over...
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£56.66
The Great Rebellion
by MIERS, Earl Schenck
The World Publishing Company, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Dust wrapper worn and torn at the extremities, previous owner name on ffep, contents clean, bright and tight.
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£9.99
