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Beck, Glenn
An Inconvenient Book Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems
<p>New York NY: Threshold Editions. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 2007. Revised Edition; 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 296 pages; Trade size paperback rubbed at spine ends edges and corner tips. Creased at the hinge front cover. Text block clean and pages tight. Illustrated. .</p> Threshold Editions paperback
Bookseller reference : 16738 ISBN : 1416560440 9781416560449
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Yallop, Richard
Step Too Far A: Peter Bland and the Obsession of Adventure
Sydney Australia: Pan Macmillan Australia 2002. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft cover first edition 468g 291pgs. A tale of gripping adventure and survival in some of the planet's most inhospitable regions as well as profound insight into what drives a preson to take such risks in the search for new adrenalin highs. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear and light page discolouration/spotting throughout otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Pan Macmillan Australia Paperback
Bookseller reference : BIOAUS29778 ISBN : 0732911540 9780732911546
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Ion L. Idriess
Heroes of the Outback : The Cattle King Flynn of the Inland Lasseter's Last Ride
Angus & Robertson Australia 1986. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Tony Pyrzakowski. Hardcover. 581 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Angus & Robertson Australia 1986. CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Covers have superficial rubbing/wear. Edges of pages are slightly soiled. Pages are lightly tanned. Binding is loose but fully intact. Illustrator: Tony Pyrzakowski. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australiana; ISBN: 0207154333. ISBN/EAN: 9780207154331. Inventory No: 19090015. 9780207154331 Angus & Robertson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 19090015 ISBN : 0207154333 9780207154331
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Zinn, Howard
The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
New York: Seven Stories Press. Fine copy. 1997. Later prt. softcover. 8vo 668 pp. . Seven Stories Press paperback
Bookseller reference : BOOKS087085I ISBN : 1888363541 9781888363548
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BISSET James
Tramps and Ladies My Early Years in Steamers
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1960 dust jacket worn to edges with some minor tape repairs chip at head of spine small pen name to corner of endpaper xvi 315pp plates map endpapers Sir James Bisset Commodore of the Cunard Line Captain of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth he was involved in the rescue of the survivors of the sinking of the Titanic and later served in RNR during first world war . reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Angus & Robertson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011290
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Margaret Gee
A Long Way from Silver Creek
Margaret Gee Australia 2000. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 351 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Margaret Gee Australia 2000. First Edition. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Tells the story of Margaret Gee's family spanning three generations living on the land in picturesque North Eastern Victoria near Beechworth-Kelly country and steeped in the history of the gold rush and early pioneers. This is a love story of a passionate 50 year romance and a portrait of an Australian family and their history. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 1875574395. ISBN/EAN: 9781875574391. Inventory No: 19060134. 9781875574391 Margaret Gee paperback
Bookseller reference : 19060134 ISBN : 1875574395 9781875574391
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Chava Pressburger
The Diary Of Petr Ginz
Pan Books UK 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Hardcover. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books UK 2007. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in fine dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. . Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. This book is an unread copy. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Not since Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light. In 1941 Petr Ginz was a young teenager living in Prague with his parents and sister. Adventurous artistic and optimistic he wrote poems and novels and edited a children's magazine inside the work camp at Theresienstadt. Originally written in his own special code-language Petr's diaries describe daily life for the Ginz family and document the introduction of anti-Jewish laws from a young adult's point of view pithy and unsentimental. The writing stopped when Petr was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 but his books survived in a Prague attic. They recently came to light in extraordinary circumstances and were published in the Czech republic in 2005 to a storm of publicity. Edited by his sister Chava and including background material and beautiful reproductions of Petr's artwork this book is a classic in the making. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780330423403. Inventory No: 19070044. 9780330423403 Pan Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 19070044 ISBN : 0330423401 9780330423403
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Harris, Frank
My Life - Volume I
New York: Frank Harris Publishing Co. 1925. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 294pp. Brown boards green cloth backing. Light wear to edges abrasion to front pastedown from bookplate removal interior otherwis clean and sound binding is tight. <br/> <br/> Frank Harris Publishing Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003973
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ASHER Michael
Lawrence the Uncrowned King of Arabia
London: Viking 1998 unclipped dust jacket unmarked book minor handling wear with modern colour photographs by Mariantonietta Peru as well as contemporary photos xix 419pp plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Viking hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011252 ISBN : 0670870293 9780670870295
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SHARP J. Alfred
David Livingstone Missionary and Explorer
London: Epworth press 1926 gift inscription to fep dated 1927 blue cloth with black titling and design frontis slightly foxed 239pp 500 gram rate. reprint. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. Epworth press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011245
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Australian Woman's Weekly Magazine
Diana a Celebration of Her Life in Pictures Collector's Edition
Sydney: ACP Publishing 1997 stapled magazine with stiff paper covers 131pp all pictorial with mainly colour photographs form her childhood to death and the funeral light spine rubbing tidy copy New Zealand edition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9 - 12" tall. Magazine. ACP Publishing paperback
Bookseller reference : 011249
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Bland, TA. T. A.
Life of Benjamin F. Butler
New York and Boston: Lee and Shepard and Charles T. Dillingham 1879. First Edition . Hardcover. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 202pp. Green boards gilt bust of Butler on front board gilt lettering to spine. Ex-library label on front pastedown inner hinges cracked but holding lengthy writing on rear endpapers former owners' names on front endpapers an aspiring artist has apparently colored part of the engraved frontispiece portrait with red watercolor. <br/> <br/> Lee and Shepard and Charles T. Dillingham hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003863
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Lytton, The Earl of
Antony Viscount Knebworth A Record of His Youth Association Copy
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1936. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 368pp. Blue cloth gilt lettering. Book is sound light wear and slight fading of spine. Laid-in are 3 letters addressed to the book's owner Alexander William Armour with references to the book about Viscount Knebworth son of Victor Bulwer-Lytton. Letters are from A.J. Armstrong of Baylor University Charles Erdman of The Theological Seminary of Princeton New Jersey and one letter is unsigned from someone in Greenwich Connecticut. Two of the three letters are handwritten and the Erdman lettter is typed and signed and contains a personal note at the end. Contents of the letters are mix of business and personal mostly of a personal nature. Owner's name and bookplate on front endpapers another personal handwritten note tipped-in at front. Also laid-in is brochure for the Knebworth House Herts the home of Bulwer-Lytton and the rear panel of the book's dust jacket. A very interesting association copy. <br/> <br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003865
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Yallop, Richard
Step Too Far A: Peter Bland and the Obsession of Adventure
Sydney Australia: Pan Macmillan Australia 2002. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft cover first edition 468g 291pgs. A tale of gripping adventure and survival in some of the planet's most inhospitable regions as well as profound insight into what drives a preson to take such risks in the search for new adrenalin highs. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear and light page discolouration/spotting throughout otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Pan Macmillan Australia Paperback
Bookseller reference : BIOAUS2976 ISBN : 0732911540 9780732911546
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Hyamson, Albert M.
A Dictionary of Universal Biography of All Ages and of All Peoples
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd. 1916. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Square Octavo. 744pp. Brown cloth gilt spine letterig. Light wear to eges and spine contents mildly ag-toned vertical wrinkle to title pageowner's bookplate on front endpaper binding is tight and book is overall sound. Over 700 pages and thousands of entries. <br/> <br/> George Routledge & Sons Ltd. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003828
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Stark, Freya
The Coast Of Incense: Autobiography 1933-1939
London: John Murray. 1953. Large octavo size 16x24cm approx. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Light marking to book's lower edge. Deckled edges and some offset to free endpapers. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 287 pages. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. John Murray hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIB305281
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Biography of Master Hsuan Hua Publication Committee Staff
Records of the Life of Tripitaka Master Hua
Buddhist Text Translation Society 1981. Hardcover. As New. Disclaimer:An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact; pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Buddhist Text Translation Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : G0917512782I2N00 ISBN : 0917512782 9780917512780
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Warden, William
Letters Written on Board His Majesty's Ship the Northumberland and Saint Helena; In Which the Conduct and Conversations of Napoleon Bonaparte and His Suite During the Voyage and the First Months of His Residence in That Island are Faithfully Described
London: For the Author By R. Ackermann 1816. Fourth Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 215pp. Publisher's original paper backed boads paper spine label frontispiece portrait folding map and one additional plate. Boards and spine darkened and lightly soiled spine chipped at bottom contents age-toned and faint foxing to first and last few leaves binding is solid small bookseller's label on front pastedown. <br/> <br/> For the Author By R. Ackermann hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003816
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Wilsie Short
Benjamin Short 1833 - 1912 : A Migrant with a Mission
Sydney Australia: University of New South Wales Press 1994. 138 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. University of New South Wales Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 022442 ISBN : 0868401021 9780868401027
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Schapelle & Bonella, Kathryn Corby
Schapelle Corby: My Story
Macmillan Australia 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. Trade Paperback. 305 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Macmillan Australia 2006. First Edition. CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have moderate creasing. Spine has minor lean and moderate reading creases. . Edges of pages are lightly browned. ABOUT THIS BOOK: It was meant to be a holiday. A fun-filled break to a tropical paradise to celebrate a sister's birthday. But for Schapelle Corby it ended up a waking nightmare. She was arrested at Denpasar airport after 4.2 kilograms of marijuana was found in her boogie-board bag. Schapelle had become the real-life victim of every traveller's darkest fear - drugs had been placed in her bag after she checked it in. Though completely innocent she was forced to face the consequences of someone else's crime in a country where the penalties for drug smuggling are among the harshest in the world. Her trial and conviction became one of the biggest stories of the decade in Australia and the entire nation watched in horror as she was sentenced to twenty years in jail. Yet despite the huge media coverage the one voice we never properly heard was Schapelle's herself. Now in this searing and utterly compelling book she tells her own story: of being wrenched from a carefree holiday into a stinking police cell of an alien legal system where her attempts to prove herself innocent were thwarted at every turn and of learning to survive - day by terrible day - in the squalor discomfort and violence of a third-world jail. Schapelle's story is an account like no other - of a young woman experiencing the unimaginable and enduring the unendurable with courage strength and humour. It is simply the most unforgettable book you'll ever read. Quantity Available: 1. Category: True Crime; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 1405037911. ISBN/EAN: 9781405037914. Inventory No: 18120149. 9781405037914 Macmillan paperback
Bookseller reference : 18120149 ISBN : 1405037911 9781405037914
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CORNELIUS Dazzler Joe
Thumbs Up the Amazing Story of a Wrestler's Life
London: Star 1984 VG used copy 147pp plates autobiography of a wrestler who went on to act 200 grams . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. Star paperback
Bookseller reference : 011214 ISBN : 0352315199 9780352315199
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BARRETT Wayne
Trump The Deals and the Downfall
New York: Harper Collins 1992 nice first edition with full number line and stated first edition 92 93 94 95 96 MAC/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 unclipped dust jacket green cloth spine over mustard boards an early critical work on Trump's business activities xvi 492pp plates. First Edition. Quarter cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Harper Collins hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011199 ISBN : 0060167041 9780060167042
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(Goodrich, Frank B.)
Tricolored Sketches in Paris During the Years 1851-2-3
New York: Harper & Brothers 1855. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 368pp. FIRST EDITION.Blue embossed cloth gilt spine lettering. Corners worn spine ends chipped spine slightly darkened slight internal separation endpapers darkened from offsetting light foxing to first and last few pages pencil notes on rear endpaperformer owner's name on front endpaper. <br/> <br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003715
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Karo, Nancy & Mickelsen, Alvera
ADVENTURE IN DYING.
Chicago: Moody Press. Very Good; Yellowed paper. 1976. Paperback. 0802401414 . 2nd printing. 'THE POIGNANT STORY OF A BRILLIANT YOUNG PASTOR STRUCK DOWN BY A RARE BLOOD CANCER' 280gms; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages . Moody Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 31548 ISBN : 0802401414 9780802401410
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Ainsworth, Ed (and WParker Lyon) W. Pa
Pot Luck; Episodes in the Life of W. Parker Lyon
Hollywood California: George Palmer Putnam Inc. 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 201pp. Orange cloth. Bottom edge rubbed some discoloration to endpapers text is sound. Dust jacket is soiled and has been taped along edges. Inscribed stamped and signed by W.Parker Lyon foreword by Irvin S. Cobb. Includes a handwritten 1942 letter by W. Lyon Parker and a W. Parker Lyon Narrow Gauge Railway ticket from Arcadia to Santa Anita along the Haw Haw Route plus addressed envelope. <br/> <br/> George Palmer Putnam, Inc. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003731
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McGilvray, Alan as told to Tasker, Norman.
McGilvray. The Game is not the Same.
Sydney: ABC Books 1985. 188pp bw ills. Or green cloth in jacket. Minor fading to spine. SIGNED and inscribed To xxxxx Best Wishes Sincerely Alan McGilvray on title page. Forner Test Cricketer and one of the great among cricket broadcasters reminisces about cricket and his life. Signed & Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. ABC Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 037993 ISBN : 0642529280 9780642529282
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Cooke, Alistair
Christmas in Vermont
London: Bodley Head 1979. Paperback with jacket. One of a limited edition of 225 for friends of Bodley Head. Dedicated by publisher and owner of Bodley Head Max Reinhardt on last page of text. From the collection of Catherine Ardizzone wife of the late artist Edward Ardizzone. Small format. Lightly tanned dust jacket with one or two minor marks. Pages are clean. Text is clear. AF. Paperback. Very Good. Used. Bodley Head Paperback
Bookseller reference : 471939
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DONOVAN Robert J.
PT 109 John F. Kennedy In World War II.
New York: McGraw Hill 1961 unclipped but edgeworn dust jacket bers book club designtion on fold in flap rubber name stamp to half title blue boards map end papers the full account of Presidnet Kennedy's Naval service and the ramming of his PT boat by a Japanese detroyer and the ensuing survival of his crew in hostile waters of the Solomon Islands 220pp. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. McGraw Hill hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011114
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Stuart, Dorothy Margaret.
HORACE WALPOLE.
New York:: Macmillan 1927. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in beige cloth no dust jacket. First US printing. A title in the new series of 'English Men of Letters' under the Editorship of Mr. J.C Squire. Index. 229 pp. Macmillan, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 71374
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SEWELL Brian
Outsider Always Almost: Never Quite an Autobiography
London: Quartet 2011 very tidy but used first edition autobiography of the erudite art expert homosexual and critic Brian Sewell. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Quartet hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011089 ISBN : 0704372495 9780704372498
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DOBREE Bonamy
Sarah Churchill Duchess of Marlborough
London: Gerald Howe 1927 dust jacket has some edge wear with some chipping loss age soiled partially erased ink inscription to free endpaper 94pp 500 gram rate. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Gerald Howe hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011079
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Tomlinson, Charles
Isaac Rosenberg of Bristol
The University Bristol: Bristol Branch of the Historical Association 1982. Paperback in very good condition. 20 pages. Signed and dedicated by the author on the opening page. Minor edgewear and faint marks on the cover. All text and images are clear. CM. Signed and Dedicated By Author. Paperback. Very Good. Used. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association Paperback
Bookseller reference : 466992 ISBN : 0901388297 9780901388292
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John Swenson
The John Lennon Story
Leisure Books USA 1981. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 224 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Leisure Books USA 1981. CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing and superficial rubbing/wear. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are considerably tanned. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 17080054. Leisure Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 17080054
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Richard Stoddard Aldrich
Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs A
Odhams Press UK 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover. 351 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Odhams Press UK 1955. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Covers have slight soiling. Edges of boards have superficial wear. Dust jacket has light creasing. Edges of dust jacket have moderate wear and moderate chips and/or tears. The dust jacket has been price-clipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Pages are reasonably tanned. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 17060213. Odhams Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17060213
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Gail Graham
A Long Season in Hell : The Battle to Save My Son
Macmillan Australia 1996. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 246 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Macmillan Australia 1996. First Edition. CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. . Edges of pages are lightly browned. This book appears to be unread. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0732908469. ISBN/EAN: 9780732908461. Inventory No: 17050020. 9780732908461 Macmillan paperback
Bookseller reference : 17050020 ISBN : 0732908469 9780732908461
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John Robson
Captain Cook's War and Peace : The Royal Navy Years 1755 - 1768
Sydney Australia: UNSW Press 2009. Usual library stamps. Creasing to early pages. 216 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. UNSW Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 021249 ISBN : 1742231098 9781742231099
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McEwan, James.
The Remorseless Road. Singapore to Nagasaki. An RAF Officer's Account of Capture and the Japanese Prison Camps in World War II.
Shrewsbury: Airlife 1997. 298pp index appendices bw ills maps. Or black cloth in jacket. Small bumps at bottom corners. The author's experiences while serving with the RAF during WWII. Split into three sections-posting to Singapore where he served as an Intelligence Officer and witnessed the loss of half his squadron at the Battle of Endau; dispatch in 1942 as King's Messenger to Java with classified documents where he and his comrades faced impossible odds against the Japanese; and finally experiences as a prisoner of War of the Japanese. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Airlife Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 036413 ISBN : 1853108863 9781853108860
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Mark Taylor
Taylor Made : A Year in the Life of Australia's Cricket Captain
Macmillan Australia 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. 190 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Macmillan Australia 1995. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Dust jacket has superficial rubbing. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0732908221. ISBN/EAN: 9780732908225. Inventory No: 17030006. 9780732908225 Macmillan hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17030006 ISBN : 0732908221 9780732908225
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BEHAN Brendan
Borstal Boy
London: Hutchinson 1958 light foxing to endpapers and closed edges gift inscription to half title light wear to cloth unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear small chipping at head of spine short tears to tail of spine corners rubbed light soiling or foxing to dust jacket 343pp frontis portrait autobiography of his time in juvenile borstal prison. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Hutchinson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011021
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Nomis, Leo with Cull, Brian.
The Desert Hawks. An American Volunteer Fighter Pilot's Story of Israel's War of Independence 1948.
London: Grub Street 1998. vi 127pp bibliography index appendices bw ills map. Or yellow boards in jacket. Very light edge wear. After volunteering with the RAF then transferring to USAAF the author volunteered in 1948 to fight with the embryonic Israeli Air Force flying the Avia SI99 with Israel's 101 Squadron. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Grub Street Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 036183 ISBN : 1898697825 9781898697824
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HASTINGS**, MAX:
DID YOU REALLY SHOOT THE TELEVISION Author SIGNED copy.
<p>UK8vo HBdw/djauthor SIGNEDillustrated1st edn2nd imp.Complete number line 2.Two circular adhesive removable stickers: 'BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week' and 'Waterstone's Signed by the author' to front panel of dw/dj. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten black felt-tip ink signature - without dedication - but year date 2010 to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright crisp clean matt monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with red black lettering to front and white lettering to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Topfore-edges slightly aged/toned but still generally bright and clean; contents bright tight clean solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' cornersappears unread - apart from my collation. Publisher's bright crisp clean sharp-cornered original plain tan cloth boards with bright crisp blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate colour pictorial illustrated endpapers. UK8vo HBdw/djauthor SIGNEDillustrated1st edn2nd impix-xpp1-278pp paginated includes Illustrations list/tableauthor/subject's Introduction14 chapters32pp contemporary b/w illusbiographical photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiecebetween pp54/5 pp86/7 pp182/3 and pp214/15 respectively an Appendix and an Index; plus unpaginated half-title author SIGNEDdate title page a dedicationand a Contents list/table. Want more/similar Max HASTINGS titles please search my SIGNED NAVAL/MILITARY and GENERAL catalogues. Max Hasting's account of his family's tumultuous twentieth-century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers theatre and TV pioneering in Africa and even - his father's most exotic stunt - being cast away on a desert island in the Indian Ocean.The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings and journalist and garden writer Anne Scott-James.One of his grandfathers was a literary editor while the other wrote plays essays and an enchanting memoir of his own Victorian childhood. His great-uncle was an African hunter who wrote verse and became one of Max's heroes. Hastings tells a richly picaresque story featuring guest appearances by a host of celebrities from Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad to John Betjeman and Osbert Lancaster who became his mother's third husband. 'All families are dysfunctional' Anne asserted impenintently to Max but the Hastingses managed to be more dysfunctional than most. His father roamed the world for newspapers and as a presenter for BBC TV's legendary 'Tonight' ptogramme while his mother edited 'Harper's Bazaar' became a famous columnist and wrote best-selling gardening books. Hastings brings together this remarkable cast of forebears 'a tribe of eccentrics' as he himself characterises them.By turns moving dramatic and comic the book portrays his own childhood fraught with rows and explosions in which the sudden death of a television set was only one highlight. His story will make a lot of people laugh and perhaps a few cry.It helps to explain why Max Hastings whose family has produced more than eighty books over three generations felt bound to follow their path of high adventure and popular journalism. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk for correctinsured shipping/ Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please notestocks' actual shipping/Pp costs are adjusted and any difference is refundedafter the order's receipt and before the order's despatchespecially if the items are offered either Pp included/FREE. N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can nowin some casescost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.</p> LONDON.HarperPress,2010. hardcover
Bookseller reference : rja650216 ISBN : 0007271719 9780007271719
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NEVINSON Henry W.
Goethe: Man and Poet
London: Nisbet and Co. Ltd. 1931 spotting to closed edges otherwise tidy used copy of the first edition published for the centenary of Goethe's death printed on laid paper 264pp plates. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Nisbet and Co. Ltd. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010941
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Darwin, Charles; Ralling, Christopher (selected/arranged by)
The Voyage of Charles Darwin.
New York: Mayflower Books 1979. 183pp index bw & col ills. or blue cloth in jacket. Slight edge wear some rippling to pages. Darwin's autobiographical writings selected and arranged by Christopher Ralling for a PBS television series. . First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Mayflower Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 035601 ISBN : 0831792124 9780831792121
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REEVES, MARJORIE:
SHEEP BELL & PLOUGHSHARE: the story of two village families.
<p>UKslim 8vo HBdw/djillustrated1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright crisp clean glossy laminated colour pictorial scenic watercolour of The Yew Trees Brattonby F.M. Brinkworth illustrated dw/dj with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Spine/backstrip of dw/dj inevitably slighly sunned/faded.Top edge coloured pink/mauve fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright tight clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners would appear unread apart from my collation. Publisher's bright crisp clean sharp-cornered origial speckled pinkish mauve cloth boards with bright crisp blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and family tree illustrated endpapers with some minimal off-set foxing from dw/djs' inner flaps to both free endpapers. UKslim 8vo HBdw/djillustrated 1st edn5-180pp paginated includes a Contents list/table with Illustrations list/table to it's verso author's Foreword with another note to it's verso11 chapters16pp contemporary b/w facsimile reproductions illustrations and b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiecebetween pp28/9 and pp156/7 respectively and an Index; plus unpaginated half-title title page with dedication to it's verso and 4pp blanks at the rear of the book. In 1974 the death of an old lady of 97 ended the direct line of a family that had been in continuous residence in the Wiltshire village of Bratton for more than 300 years.Much of the material on which this book is based - a wide variety of documents the family treasures and domestic bric-a-brac accumulated over the generations together with the records of a family business the iron Works - came into the possession of the author herself a native of Bratton. She has used it as the basis for a new approach to local history: the fascinating story of two village families seen through their artefacts as it were.As well as their interests in farming and later in rural industry the two families were much concerned with education and the improvement of village lifeand both played a pioneer and very active part in the Baptist movement in Wiltshire. Prosperous rigid in principle but liberal in their outlook they dominated village affairs for a considerable period and in re-constructing their lives in a detailed and sometimes moving way the author has drawn together the diverse threads of changing social attitudes within a stable society that make up the very fabric of rural life . . . Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note stocks' shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the orderespecially if the item is offered either Pp included/FREE. N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can nowin some casescost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.</p> UK.BRADFORD-ON-AVON,WILTSHIRE.MOONRAKER PRESS,1978. hardcover
Bookseller reference : rja606316 ISBN : 0239001745 9780239001740
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Eunice Diment
Kidnapped: Eunice Diment's Story
Paternoster Press UK 1976. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 79 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Paternoster Press UK 1976. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are moderately bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Religion & Theology; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0853641994. ISBN/EAN: 9780853641995. Inventory No: 16110066. 9780853641995 Paternoster Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 16110066 ISBN : 0853641994 9780853641995
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Mark Twain
Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol. 1
<p>Volume 1 2nd edition</p> University of California Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio124 ISBN : 0520267192 9780520267190
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BISSET James
Tramps and Ladies My Early Years in Steamers
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1960 lacks dust jacket inscription facing half title inscription at head of title in marker covers bumped tidy reading copy xvi 315pp plates map endpapers Sir James Bisset Commodore of the Cunard Line Captain of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth he was involved in the rescue of the survivors of the sinking of the Titanic and later served in RNR during first world war . reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Angus & Robertson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010926
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LONDON Jack
John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs
London: Mills and Boon 1914 500 gram rate the only edition of this title to bear the subtitle 'Alcoholic Memoirs' blue cloth lightly soiled to boards and faded to spine minimal foxing to prelims FAULT to pp 2 a pencil line in the text and one line of printed text has been erased 7th line down apart from this a tidy book probably from the Mills & Boon Shilling Cloth Library London's memoirs of his days on the drink. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5 - 6 tall. Mills and Boon hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010913
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LORD BYRON (George Gordon)
Lord Byron's Correspondence chiefly with Lady Melbourne Mr. Hobhouse TheHon. Douglas Kinnaird and P. B. Shelley. Edited by John Murray 2 Volumes
London: John Murray 1922 first reprint green cloth with sunned spines gilt arms with mermaid crest to upper boards ink name to each fep frontis with tissue guards top edge of frontis in vol 1 has minor water mark xiii 308pp errata and plates / ix 326pp errata and plates. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. John Murray hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010883
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Mundle, Rob
Flinders The Man Who Mapped Australia
Sydney: Hachette Australia. 2012. Large octavo size 16x24cm approx. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Colour illustrations. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 386 pages. Brings to life the fascinating life of Flinders an exceptional maritime explorer - from the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks his part in naming Australia his cruel imprisonment by the French and the comfort he got from his cat Trim to his trgic death at just forty. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Hachette Australia hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIB287014 ISBN : 0733628508 9780733628504
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