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International Modern and Contemporary Art Featuring Arab, Iranian and Western Art-Christie's Dubai / Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel-30 April 2008
by Christie's Dubai
Christie's Auction catalogue. 2008 Sale No. 7674. Lots 1-157. vo. 291 pp. Near fine with soft covers. Color plates, photographs. Text in English. Pages like new are clean and unmarked. Beautiful colour reproductions and photos.For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.
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£21.16
Mr. Lincoln's Wife
by Anne Colver
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Biography of Mary Lincoln in historical fiction. A 1st Edition published in 1965. Good condition...no DJ...name stamp on inside front cover...no writing or marking. 363 pages. 5x8".
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£4.05
Lost Boy Lost Girl
by Peter Straub
New York: Random House. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2003. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A beautiful unread copy of the 1st US edition. Winner of the 2003 Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel as well as the 2003 IHG Best Novel Award. Signed by Straub on the title page. Book and jacket both in very fine condition, jacket now with a brodart cover. ; Signed by Author .
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£28.33
The Wolf and the Buffalo
by Elmer Kelton
New York: Doubleday, 1980. SIGNED. 1st/1st. VG-/VG-. Stated First Edition. Signed by Elmer Kelton on the first free endpaper. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding. Spine ends pushed. Tiny stain to top page edges and faint brown vertical stains to side fore-edges. The textblock has tape residue on front pastedown, light foxing to front endpaper and creases to bottom edge of pages 419-420, else clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The...
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£72.86
Dahl's Boston
by Morton, Charles W
Boston: Atlantic Monthly / Little, Brown and Company, 1946. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dahl, Francis W.. 157pp. Oblong 8vo. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. Tan cloth covers, red decoration, no dj. Corners worn, some soiling and fading to covers, endpapers darkened and lightly spotted and front endpaper lightly creased. Front endpaper boldly SIGNED by author and illustrator.
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£36.43
Tales of Daring and Danger
by G A Henty
Collection of short stories: Bears & Dacoits; The Paternosters; A Pipe of Mystery; White-faced Dick; A Brush with the Chinese.Follows Newbolt 42.1 in all respects except no date on t.p. However, inscription on ep has prize dedication for 1889.Gutenberg has same binding as this copy.Decoration of dots, etc in red and black with gentians in circle.Title on bd. and sp. gilt.2 plates as called for.Sl. cockedTear to btm r. corner of ep.
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£24.99
LUXE World Grand Tour Box Set
These iconic pocket-sized, ultra-savvy concertina guides are housed in this gorgeous World Grand Tour Box featuring a deep purple velvet covering with gilt lettering. Included are Bangkok, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. There are 12 matt-laminated fold out guides that have never been used. LUXE City Guides in this elegant handmade box make a fantastic travel gift. Some first editions are included e.g. New York
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£63.49
Drawn from Memory and Drawn from Life
by E. H. Shepard
London: Methuen & Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1957-1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiographical book of Shepard childhood, later famous for his children illustration in particular books by AA Milne. A fine book in excellent condition. Internally clean with clean boards and clear red top stain. VG+ or better dust jacket. Some minor edgewear and some very small chips. Now in a protective cover, unclipped. An exceptional copy in collectors condition, the 2nd of Shepard's...
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£101.19
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle [Advance Reader's Edition]
by Wroblewski, David
New York: Ecco Press, 2008. ARC/uncorrected proof edition of this bestseller, a drama of murder, family trouble & dogs in rural Wisconsin. Stout paperback. General wear, edges rubbed, rear cover creased with faint stain, light staining to a few lower page margins. Text clean; [10], 562 pages.. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Good. 6¼" by 9".
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£10.12
The Loud Halo
by Lillian Beckwith
London: Hutchinson. Near Fine in Fine+ dust jacket. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine book, no names or inscriptions, usual v. Light age spots to closed book side & bottom edges, b&w illustrations by Douglas Hall, top edge blue, just about a mint DJ, truly remarkable condition for a 60 year old book, un-price clipped, clear wrapper held closed with sellotape that has marked end papers, jacket now in a new acid free clear wrapper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208...
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£24.28
The Iron Wolf and Other Stories
by Richard Adams
London: Allen Lane. Fine in Fine+ dust jacket. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine book, unopened with very tight spine. Some light toning and foxing on first couple and last couple pages. Book is otherwise mint. A very fine unclipped dust jacket now with a clear protective cover. 19 enchanted folk tales from around the world, coulour plates by Yvonne Gilbert and black and white drawings by Jennifer Campbell. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall .
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£48.57
Great Ascents - a Narrative History of Mountaineering (Rare Double Signed)
by Eric Newby
David & Charles. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edit, 1st imp, hbk, pub by David & Charles, nr. FineBook, flat signed by the author without dedication & his wife (as book dedicated to her) , no names or inscriptions, full of photographs, probably unread, fine++ DJ, un-clipped, 25 x 23cm, normally just scarce in this condition but this a great unique copy with both signatures, copy of above signed postcard laid in, Book deals not only with successful ascents...
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£76.90
The Spuddy
by Lillian Beckwith
London: Hutchinson. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine book, some foxing on the top edge. Internally clean with a fine unclipped jacket now with a clear protective cover ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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£24.28
New York Style (Icons)
by Christiane Reiter and Daisann McLane, Angelika Taschen (Editor)
Taschen, 2006. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps.Beginning with archival images of the Big Apple from the past century, and blooming with gorgeous photos of the city's most beautiful and unique interiors, this book explores the real New York inside and out.
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£2.34
Fishing Tackle Antiques
by Jackie Simpson (Assembler)
Leather bound. Book in Very Good condition. Pages clean and tight. Gift message to prior owner on pastedown.
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£48.57
Journey on the James
by Earl Swift
Book Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and tight. Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Slight shelf wear. See photos.
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£28.33
The House of Seppelt 1851-1951.
by SEPPELT J.E
SIGNED BY Sepplets family - [ see photograph]Hard Cover. Near Fine with fading to front and back cover. First Edition. 9 X 6". Being an Historical Record of the Life and Times of the Seppelt Family through Four Generations. 51 pages. B/w and colour illustrations. Comes with an old Seppelts Compliment Slip. Illust. end-papers. 12 photographic plates, some colour. Decorated end papers. Hard cover. Gilt spine lettering with purple boards a little fading with gilt family crest to front board with gilt...
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£52.91
Lizard Radio
by Schmatz, Pat
Somerville MA: Candlewick Press, 2015. Young adult life at a strange camp in a universe not quite ours, but with similasr problems of identity & belonging. SIGNED by the author on the title page, with sketch of a lizard. Stated first edition (first printing) with full number string. Black hardcover, silver titling. Light wear to book & jacket; near fine.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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£20.24
Scotland Expects
by J Storer Clouston
A very good, solid copy in bright orange cloth covers with black lettering to font and spine. Extremely rare dust jacket with creasing, chips, tears and some loss at extremities.
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£105.00
Da Vinci Code, Special Illustrated Edition
by Dan Brown
Quarto format black hardback brown lettering to the spine. Price un-clipped DJ. Illustrated with more than 150 colour photos, drawings. Clean pages. . 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, full number line present. In excellent condition. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. Special illustrated edition. SCARCE in 1st/1st. This is heavy book postage to be advised.
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£21.16
Fish Out of Water
by Gilbert Hackforth-Jones
Hodder & Stoughton, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Dust wrapper in protective film. Good, wear to the extremities of the dust wrapper (particularly at the head and tail of the spine), previous owners name on front paste down, contents clean, bright and tight.
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£9.99
From Cairo to the Cataract
by Carson, Blanche Mabury
L. C. Page & Company, Boston, 1909. Original Hardcover V. Good First Edition. Decorative endpapers, Rough cut pages on fore-edge and lower edge sound and tight. ; 330pp + 47pls. ; In protective jacket.
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£37.04
The Pickwick Papers: Some Bibliographical Remarks
by Bay, J. Christian
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1938. "An address delivered before the Caxton Club, January Sixteenth, 1937", discussing the illustrator Robert Seymour's share of the credit for creating Pickwick, and various states of text & one illustration in early issues of the book. Hardcover, full red cloth, gilt titling, blind-stamped decoration. One of 250 copies printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press in Boston. Light wear to corners; previous owner's name in pencil on front end sheet;...
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£40.48
Let's Kill Uncle Lionel
by York, Jeremy [John Creasey]
London: Andrew Melrose, 1947. Three nephews & a niece deal with their difficult uncle; Inspector Folly resolves. First British edition (first printing). Hardcover, full black cloth, gilt titling. Some wear to book; price-clipped (but with 6/- sticker added) jacket rubbed and creased, chipped; spine spotted with chipped ends. Text clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Duodecimo.
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£48.57
