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Pp. [vi]+312(last blank); med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Baen, New York, 2002. First edition. *A Vorkosigan Saga science fiction novel. More
Pp. [vi]+312(last blank); med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Baen, New York, 2002. First edition. *A Vorkosigan Saga science fiction novel. More
Edited by Chales W. Eliot. With Introductions and Notes. Pp. [iv]+418, frontispiece, title page decoration; demy 8vo dark green art. leather, lettered and decorated in gilt; dn.p., n.d. Harvard Classics Registered edition. *The Harvard Classics series was originally published by P. F. Collier & Son, New York. More
Pp. [viii]+296(last blank); dust wrapper; Constable, London, 2002. First edition. *Author's first novel. More
A Novel. Photographs by David Robinson. Pp. [ii]+158(last blank), 16 plates (8 coloured); qr. khaki cloth over navy cloth boards, lettered and ruled in gilt, the lower board lightly marked, bottom fore-corners bruised; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny chips, slightly soiled..... More
An Entertainment. Pp. x+390(last blank); med. 8vo; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased; edges of leaves faintly soiled; Hutchinson, London, 1982. First edition. More
Pp. 224, indices; post 8vo; red/pink cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed, the upper board slightly sprung, top fore-corner of lower board faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; free endpapers offset, occasional marginal pencilling, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Faber..... More
Pp. 96(last blank), frontispiece; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, faintly scuffed; text block faintly browned; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1985. First edition. *A paperback original. Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon was first performed at Covent Garden in 1826, with 'an execrable libretto by Planche which has..... More
Pp. [vi]+340(last blank); med. 8vo; dust wrapper; text block browned; Orion, London, 2003. First U.K. edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. The debut novel by the daughter of crime writer James Lee Burke. More
A Samantha Kincaid Mystery. Pp. [x]+356(last blank); med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2004.First edition. *Author's second novel, signed by her on the title page. More
Pp. [iv]+132, patterned cloth boards, slightly soiled, the printed title label on spine worn and lightly chipped; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle split, with two small internal tape repairs; top edges of leaves slightly stained; Constable, 1929. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author on..... More
Pp. 126, 4 plates, index; demy 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, the back panel faintly scuffed; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, upper free endpaper slightly offset, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Victor Gollancz Limited, London, 1977. First edition. *Herman Schrijver, Nancy..... More
[Two volumes in one, the second volume titled OUR FIRST LIEUTENANT AND FUGITIVE PIECES IN PROSE]. Pp. [vi]+272(last blank)+[vi]+[273]-434+[2](errata, blank); demy 8vo; qr. black leather, spine lettered and ruled in brown, black cloth boards, a trifle scuffed, the leather quite faded and rubbed; hinges starting, piece torn from top edge..... More
The life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924. Pp. xii+274, 16 plates, bibliography, notes, index; med. 8vo; boards slightly flecked; dust wrapper; Secker & Warburg, London, 1974. First edition. More
Pp. 3-82; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Cochin International, Brisbane, 1976. More
A bibliography of the William R. Smith Collection in the Library of the Supreme Council, 33°, S. J. With a Foreword by Akram Elias, Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons, Washington, D.C. Pp. lxvi+172(last blank), frontispiece, title page vignette, numerous text illustrations, indices; demy 4to; dark green cloth, lettered..... More
Pp. [vi]+186(last blank); boards a trifle scuffed; top edges red; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed; Cassell, London, 1970. First edition. Crime Connoisseur series. More
Pp. [iv]+214; dust wrapper; Australasian Book Society, Sydney, 1967. First edition. *Author's first novel, written to highlight some of the problems that contemporary prisons produce in men. More
Pp. 24, text illustrations; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, a trifle soiled; top fore-corner pp. 11/12 creased; Sweetwater, Brisbane, 1982. Edition limited to 150 copies. More
A plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments . . . With introduction, explanatory notes on the manners and customs of moslem men and a terminal essay upon the history of The Nights. Ten volumes, plus six volumes of SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS. With notes anthropological and explanatory. Together, 16..... More
What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & several cures of it. . . . Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. In two volumes. Pp. xvi+300+[iv]+301-592(mostly printed double column, last blank), pictorial title page both volumes, frontispiece portrait Volume I, numerous text illustrations (a few full page), the..... More
Pp. [x]+288; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in silver, black papered boards, the top fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1991. First edition. More
Pp. 110(last colophon); demy 8vo; mauve cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, boards a trifle canted, spine gilt slightly dulled; top edges pink; dust wrapper (designed by Duncan Grant), worn and slightly soiled, edges creased and torn, with pieces missing from top edge of both panels, the back panel detached..... More
Selected with an Introduction by G. D. H. Cole. Pp. 544, frontispiece, a few pages of printed music; tiny spot to upper board near top edge; top edges red; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and split, with a few small chips, the back panel slightly silverfished; bookseller's..... More
Illustrated by Andre Durenceau. Pp.[x]+430(last colophon), coloured frontispiece and 7 plates, black & white title page vignette and headpiece illustrations, the title printed in brown; roy. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; t.e.g., others uncut and largely unopened; within card slipcase with pictorial label, edges of slipcase worn..... More