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Handpress printed by Frances Cleverdon at the Trumpet Press in a limited edition of 205 copies. Illustrations by Brown's fellow Orcadian, Charles Shearer. Dove grey card covers with white title and author label to front, short story of eighteen pages. A nice example of fine press printing of a rare title.
Lifeboat and Other Poems by George Mackay Brown - 1971
by George Mackay Brown
Lifeboat and Other Poems
by George Mackay Brown
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One of only fifteen copies. This publication from he Manuscript Series No. 11, has the last poem in the book, Lifeboat, handwritten by George Mackay Brown alongside the printed version. The poet has also made two handwritten and signed corrections to two of the poems. Blue card cover with title printed on front, with 21 pages sewn in. 7.5 inches by 10.5 inches. An extremely rare book in outstanding condition.
- Bookseller Boreas Books (GB)
- Format/Binding Blue card cover with sewn in pages.
- Book Condition Used
- Edition First edition
- Publisher Richard Gilbertson
- Place of Publication Bow, Crediton
- Date Published 1971
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The Hooded Fisherman
by George Mackay Brown
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- first
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- First edition
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St Margarets Hope , Orkney, United Kingdom
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Carotid Cornucopius
by Sydney Goodsir Smith
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- first
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- Used
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- First edition
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St Margarets Hope , Orkney, United Kingdom
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'CAROTID CORNUCOPIUS: The first 4 fitts making "One Quart" by Gude Schir Skidderie Smithereens of Crankmirligo.' Blue paper-covered boards with title printed in black. Presentation copy from the author with eight line handwritten inscriptions by Sydney Goodsir Smith on front endpaper. This is the 1947 first edition with a limited run of just 300 copies. Frontispiece illustrated with print of an auk. 80 pages. Sydney Goodsir Smith was a poet, critic and journalist who is best remembered for his contribution to the 20th century revival of poetry in the Scots language. Discolouration around edges of cover and some wear to extremities. A scarce title from a truly eccentric writer.
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Religion: God and All Things
by W J Spratly
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Used
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- First Edition
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St Margarets Hope , Orkney, United Kingdom
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£110.00
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Red cloth with gold gilt lettering to front cover and spine. A very rare title as evidenced by this being the only copy available on the Internet. Gilt to all page edges. Undated but circa late 1800s. A very good copy. 66 pages. No dust jacket as issued. Shelf wear to all extremities and neat previous owner name to front endpaper. The book contains an allegorical poem concerning Providence, Blasphemy, Atheism, Infidelity, Wisdom and Inspiration. The author also wrote 'A Key to Truth, Superseding Darwinism by a Theory of Atomic Force', 'The Rise and Reign of Chaos, A Scientific Epic' and 'The Spectral Rock, A Poem'. This is the only example of this title available on the internet.
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Storm in the Village
by Miss Read
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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St Margarets Hope , Orkney, United Kingdom
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£62.00
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Book in very, very good condition with bright, clean, tight text block. Dust cover in very good condition with some little shelf wear to top and tail. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. 247 pages. Illustrated by J S Goodall. This is the true first edition of 1958, Michael Joseph published an American edition one year later in 1959 with the same dust jacket design. A scarce book as a first edition and a rare book with dust jacket. 'Storm in the Village' is the third of Miss Read's Fairacre books. Please view photographs for additional information regarding condition.
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Winner Take Nothing
by Hemingway, Ernest
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Good to Very Good
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- Correct 1st printing
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- Hardcover
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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£772.26
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Near Fine, apparently unread book that has softness at spine ends, slight bow to boards, and very light touch of foxing to front page edges; in a Good to Very Good dust jacket that has front flap that is about three quarters detached with a small tape repair to reverse, small chips along edges with color loss edges and front flap fold, wear and chipping to corners, mild sun and age toning to white portions, spine, and back flap, closed tear top front panel with a 4 inch triangular crease toward spine. The gold title labels and red top-stain are bright, and the title labels have also produced white offsetting to interior of jacket. A proper first with $2.00 price front flap, both Scribners "A" and imprint on copyright page, ow instead of two at p. 159 line 20. Six of the fourteen short stories appear here for the first time. First printing was just over 20,000 copies – all as per Grissom 2011 bibliography.
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The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation
by Peter L. Berger
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
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- First edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 13
- 9780385159678
- ISBN 10
- 0385159676
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- 1
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Palm Desert, California, United States
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£20.32
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This used paperback book is in very good condition. The pages are clean and neat. The binding is tight. The boards are clean inside and out.
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The Hooded Fisherman
by George Mackay Brown
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- first
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- Used
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- First edition
- Quantity Available
- 1
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St Margarets Hope , Orkney, United Kingdom
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£185.00
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Handpress printed by Frances Cleverdon at the Trumpet Press in a limited edition of 205 copies. Illustrations by Brown's fellow Orcadian, Charles Shearer. Dove grey card covers with white title and author label to front, short story of eighteen pages. A nice example of fine press printing of a rare title.
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£185.00
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Carotid Cornucopius
by Sydney Goodsir Smith
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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St Margarets Hope , Orkney, United Kingdom
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£439.00
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'CAROTID CORNUCOPIUS: The first 4 fitts making "One Quart" by Gude Schir Skidderie Smithereens of Crankmirligo.' Blue paper-covered boards with title printed in black. Presentation copy from the author with eight line handwritten inscriptions by Sydney Goodsir Smith on front endpaper. This is the 1947 first edition with a limited run of just 300 copies. Frontispiece illustrated with print of an auk. 80 pages. Sydney Goodsir Smith was a poet, critic and journalist who is best remembered for his contribution to the 20th century revival of poetry in the Scots language. Discolouration around edges of cover and some wear to extremities. A scarce title from a truly eccentric writer.
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£439.00
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Religion: God and All Things
by W J Spratly
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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St Margarets Hope , Orkney, United Kingdom
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£110.00
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Red cloth with gold gilt lettering to front cover and spine. A very rare title as evidenced by this being the only copy available on the Internet. Gilt to all page edges. Undated but circa late 1800s. A very good copy. 66 pages. No dust jacket as issued. Shelf wear to all extremities and neat previous owner name to front endpaper. The book contains an allegorical poem concerning Providence, Blasphemy, Atheism, Infidelity, Wisdom and Inspiration. The author also wrote 'A Key to Truth, Superseding Darwinism by a Theory of Atomic Force', 'The Rise and Reign of Chaos, A Scientific Epic' and 'The Spectral Rock, A Poem'. This is the only example of this title available on the internet.
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Storm in the Village
by Miss Read
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- first
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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St Margarets Hope , Orkney, United Kingdom
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£62.00
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Book in very, very good condition with bright, clean, tight text block. Dust cover in very good condition with some little shelf wear to top and tail. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. 247 pages. Illustrated by J S Goodall. This is the true first edition of 1958, Michael Joseph published an American edition one year later in 1959 with the same dust jacket design. A scarce book as a first edition and a rare book with dust jacket. 'Storm in the Village' is the third of Miss Read's Fairacre books. Please view photographs for additional information regarding condition.
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Bloody Sunrise
by Spillane, Mickey
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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Tempe, Arizona, United States
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1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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Saint Monkey (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
by Townsend, Jacinda
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- near fine
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- first
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780393080049
- ISBN 10
- 0393080048
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Tempe, Arizona, United States
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2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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Gold
by Eugene O'Neill
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- very good
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- first
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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£12.19
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First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
by Cohen, Leonard
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- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Edition
- Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC)
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- Paperback
- ISBN 13
- 9780802160478
- ISBN 10
- 0802160476
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478
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Quelques Optimistes.
by Sempe
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- ISBN 13
- 9782207238615
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- 220723861X
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Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X
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Manhattan Beach
by Jennifer Egan
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- Fine
- Hardcover
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- first
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9781501184321
- ISBN 10
- 1501184326
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Tomball, Texas, United States
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£20.32
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First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page. A pristine copy of this novel from the Pulitzer winning author of "A Visit From the Good Squad". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.
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Two Novels by Anthony Powell. Venusberg. Agents & Patients
by POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000)
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- near fine
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- Used - Near Fine
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions…
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Christopher Blake
by Hart, Moss
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition.
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- Hardcover
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Temecula, California, United States
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Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Book has some toning to the edges; one word previous owner's name to the front free endpaper. The unclipped jacket ($2.50) has light wear to the spine ends /corners and toning to the rear panel. A very good or better copy.
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Palmares
by Jones, Gayl
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- Fine
- Paperback
- first
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket
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Temecula, California, United States
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Beacon Press, 2021. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Galleys. Fine in illustrated wraps. By the author of Corregidora.
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The Polynesian Triangle
by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert
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- Very Good+
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- First American Edition
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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