Search Results: Titles starting with W from The Secret Bookshop

Wellington: Grantham House, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A beautiful copy with only very light dulling down to the jacket spine of note.

New Zealand: Grantham House, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The book is very close to fine with only some very minor rubbing to the board edges. The dust jacket has some light dulling down and a repaired closed tear

Wellington: I. Latham, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very good clean copy with only minor rubbing and a tiny hint of foxing.

London.: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1881. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket Issued. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The first of the three tales contained in this volume is reprinted from the ''Cornhill Magazine''. The second is transferred from the ''Atlantic Monthly''. The last originally appeared in the Parisian. So First Thus But First in Book form. This copy specially bound for the New Zealand General Library (Now Parliament). Half brown leather, 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine and armorial device of the library to the front board set in gilt. Board edges are heavily rubbed. Library book plate to front marbled paste down, over stamped canceled. Front hinge is cracked and very shaky. Silk marker. Contents are clean and bright, save for some light foxing to prelims. Some minor offsetting. Card holder to rear pastedown. 401pp.

Auckland: Vintage, 2005. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This copy feels unread and has only very minor shelf wear. The empty tussock dryness of New Zealand's South Island, the ancient stone buildings of Italy's Perugia, unsolved murder, the capricious indignity of Alzheimer's disease, adoption - there is a rich variety of setting and subject in this superb new collection by short fiction master Owen Marshall. Several longer stories give WATCH OF GRYPHONS a special depth and resonance, but present, as always, is the startling range and subtlety of emotion readers have come to expect from this most gifted of writers. Few other authors can move as deftly from the almost unbearably touching to the wildly absurd or the tenderly ordinary; few can see so much within and behind the everyday of life.

Masterton: WEL New Zealand in association with Fraser Books, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A very good clean copy.

Wellington: WELLESLEY COLLEGE, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The book is in very fine condition and the jacket has just a tiny hint of dulling down.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Some very, very light foxing to fore edges and prelims. Very light bumping to corners and spine tips. Jacket has minor edge wear and one tiny closed tear to the rear.

Auckland: Random House, 1995. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A very clean copy. A Military unit of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force formed to play in the field under all conditions, it earned the respect and affection of Allied Forces in the Middle East and Italy. at a wartime performance for the children of Malta, the concert party was given a souvenir of the occasion - a silver model of a fishing boat from the nearby island of Gozo. That little boat became the group's mascot and good luck charm.

Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A good clean copy. The jacket has a repaired closed tear and some edgewear.

Miami: Fielden Books, 1993. Reprint . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second printing. A very good reading copy.

london: Collins & Brown, 2005. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A good clean copy.

Christchurch: Basclands Limited, 1985. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very clean copy.

Auckland: David Bateman, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book has tiny amounts of rubbing to board edges and some minor foxing to the prelims. No inscriptions. The jacket has very light shelf wear and dulling down to the spine.

Christchurch: Hilton Press, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Flat signed by the author. 150 year of the History of the Marlborough family which started with William and Amelia escaping poverty from Alton Hampshire. ill., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports.

New York & London: Garland, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is from the overseas collection at the National Library of New Zealand. A clean copy, other than a couple of stamps.

Sydney: Australian & New Zealand Book Company, 1979. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A very clean copy

London: JOHN WISDEN & CO., 1991. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 128th Edition. Limp. No concaving .Text block clean and tight. Feels unread

Surrey: John Wisden & Co Ltd, 1981. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. John Wisden & Co Ltd, Surrey, 1981. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 118th year. Yellow cloth boards with brown lettering to front and spine. Boards are generally in good order, just a little grubby. inscription in pencil to fep.

London: JOHN WISDEN & CO., 1991. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. John Wisden & Co Ltd. London, 1991. limp Edition. 128th First Edition. 1360pp. Book condition: Near Fine. Very minor concaving, couple of tiny marks on the fore edges else fine.