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Illustrated by Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul The Sentry and the Shell Fairy British Imperial Oil Company, 1934 Illustrated wraps Fine 4to Muir 4851 suggests that this was published in 1934. . . |
AU$750.00 |
03535 |
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Unexpurgated Reprint Delhi: Rajkamal Publications, 1948 Cardboard Very Good/Good 8vo An English language Indian Edition "Price Rupees F. . . |
AU$9.00 |
03460 |
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Aleaxander Puschkin Illustrated by G. Schilt Das Goldene Fischlein Berlin: Olga Diakow, 1925 Illustrated Wraps Very Good/No Jacket 4to A lavishly illustrated portrayal of the classic Pu. . . |
AU$210.00 |
03619 |
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Edited by Louise De Salvo & Mitchell A. Leaska The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf First Edition London: Hutchinson, 1984 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 8vo Shortly after their first meeting in 1922, Virgini. . . |
AU$19.00 |
03451 |
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Ernest Hemingway For Whom The Bell Tolls First Indian Edition Bombay: Johnathan Cape, 1944 Cloth Good/Good 8vo A war economy standard publication of the Hemingwa. . . |
AU$119.00 |
03444 |
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Frank E. Thompson Diving Cutting and Welding First Edition New York: Cornell Maritime Press, 1944 Cloth Very Good/Good 8vo A wartime publication written by an operator, desi. . . |
AU$150.00 |
03627 |
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G. Bennett Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia 1860 Facsimile Edition Sydney: The Currawong Press, 1982 Cloth Fine/Fine Observations on the Animal and Vegetable Productio. . . |
AU$25.00 |
03585 |
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Heinrich Boll (Nobel Laureate) World Exhibition of Photography 1964 What is Man First Edition Hamburg:, 1964 Illustrated Wraps Very Good 8vo List of photographers includes Basch, Beaton, Bias. . . |
AU$9.00 |
03603 |
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Herbert O. Yardley The Education of A Poker Player First UK Edition London: Jonathan Cape, 1959 Cloth Good/Good 8vo With an Introduction by Ian Fleming
Scarce in. . . |
AU$9.00 |
03541 |
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Honore de Balzac The Love Letters of Honore de Balzac London: Downey & Co, 1901 Cloth Very Good Authorised ranslation with an introduction and not. . . |
AU$100.00 |
03598 |
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J E N Veron Corals of Australia and The Indo-Pacific First Edition Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1986 Cloth Fine/Fine 4to This magnificent study is the outcome of 15 years . . . |
AU$75.00 |
03629 |
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John Drinkwater The Outline of Literature Vol I & II London: George Newnes, 1922 Buckram Good/No Jacket 4to In original green buckram with gilt titles. Some s. . . |
AU$45.00 |
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Joyce Allan Australian Shells First Edition Melbourne: Georgian House, 1950 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 8vo This was the first fully comprehensive, fully illu. . . |
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03392 |
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Lionel Wendt Lionel Wendt's Ceylon First Edition London: Lincolns-Prager, 1950 Cloth Good/Good 4to Technical Note by Bernard G. Thornley.
255 pp.. . . |
AU$250.00 |
03457 |
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Michael Schuyt and Joost Elffers Fantastic Architecture First Edition Thames and Hudson, 1980 Cloth Very Good/Very Good Large 4to Personal and Eccentric Visions
Artists and ar. . . |
AU$80.00 |
03576 |
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Originally by Nathaniel Bowditch, LL. D. American Practical Navigator Volume I 1977 Edition Reprint Defense Mapping Agency, 1977 Cloth Very Good Large 8vo No notes, underlining. Clean unmarked pages. 1386. . . |
AU$9.00 |
03628 |
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R. Furneaux Jordan European Architecture in Colour Second Edition London: Thames and Hudson, 1962 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 4to From the Greeks to the Nineteenth Century.
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AU$35.00 |
03427 |
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Robert W. Newcomb Concepts of Linear Systems and Controls First Edition Stanford University: Brooks/Cole Publishing, 1968 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 8vo Signed by Author Still recommended reading in Systems Methodology &. . . |
AU$39.00 |
03428 |
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Robert W. Newcomb Linear Multiport Synthesis First Edition New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 8vo Signed by Author The classic text on linear systems and control, ge. . . |
AU$450.00 |
03529 |
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Spectator The Spectator Volume the Sixth Reprint Glasgow: William Duncan junior, 1757 Leather Very Good 12mo Reprint of first edition. Full calf, with five ra. . . |
AU$55.00 |
03308 |
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Vonnegut, Kurt Bluebeard First Trade Edition New York: Delacorte Press, 1987 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 8vo The story of a man who was a founding member of ab. . . |
AU$50.00 |
03413 |
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W. Saville-Kent The Great Barrier Reef of Australia Facsimile Edition South Yarra: John Curry, O'Neil, 1972 Cloth Very Good/Very Good Folio The text and plates of the original 1893 edition a. . . |
AU$250.00 |
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03008 |
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Atwood, Margaret Lady Oracle First UK Edition London: Andre Deutsch, 1977 Cloth Very Good/Very Good Atwood's third novel, about male/female roles in s. . . |
AU$80.00 |
02918 |
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Ackroyd, Peter First Light First Edition London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989 Very Good/Very Good Ackroyd's third novel, after "Chatterton" and "Haw. . . |
AU$10.00 |
01993 |
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Adams, Frank Illustrated by Adams, Frank Sam The Sportsman HC 1912 First Edition London: Blackie and Son, 1912 Paper board Very Good 4to Original staples have been removed and the book ha. . . |
AU$120.00 |
02663 |
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Arnold, Mathew Illustrated by Flint, W. Russell The Gypsy Scholar & Thyrsis Reprint London: Medici Society, 1922 Cloth Good/Good 16mo Scarce in the illustrated jacket. 10 illustrations. . . |
AU$85.00 |
03106 |
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Aubert, Louis Les Maitres De L'Estampe Japonaise Deuxieme Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1922 Quarter Leather Very Good/No Jacket 8vo << Image de ce monde ephemere >>
Avec 55 Plan. . . |
AU$130.00 |
03142 |
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Austen, John Illustrated by Austen, John Everyman First Edition London: Chapman and Hall, 1925 Cloth Very Good/No Jacket 8vo Professionally rebound in cloth with the original . . . |
AU$200.00 |
02681 |
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Boccaccio, Giovanni Amorous Fiammetta Limited Edition London: Navarre Society, 1926 Buckram Very Good/Very Good 8vo One of two thousand two hundred copies printed by . . . |
AU$95.00 |
03087 |
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Bronte Sisters Illustrated by Edmund Dulac Set of four Dulac Illustrated Bronte Novels Reprint London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1922 Cloth Very Good/No Jacket 12mo A set of four Bronte novels , each bound in olive . . . |
AU$240.00 |
03004 |
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Burroughs, William Dead Fingers Talk Reprint London: Tandem, 1966 Illustrated Wraps Good/No Jacket 12mo Paperback reprint with a wonderfully lurid cover f. . . |
AU$20.00 |
02680 |
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Cazotte, Jacques Illustrated by Labourer, J. E. The Devil In Love Limited Edition London: William Heinemann, 1925 Buckram Good 8vo Six engravings on copper. Copy 320/395 on Abbey Mi. . . |
AU$300.00 |
01554 |
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Clark, Manning Puzzles of Childhood Fine/Fine Signed by Author |
AU$120.00 |
01555 |
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Clark, Manning The Quest For Grace First Edition Cloth Fine/Fine |
AU$60.00 |
00029 |
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Cook, Beryl Private View First Edition London: John Murray Gallery Five, 1980 Very Good/Very Good 31pp. 30 Illustrations. Some very faint foxing t. . . |
AU$35.00 |
02702 |
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Dawkins, Richard The Blind Watchmaker First Edition London: Longman Scientific and Technical, 1986 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 8vo Not price clipped, no inscriptions, contemporaneou. . . |
AU$50.00 |
02703 |
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Dawkins, Richard The Selfish Gene First Edition London: Oxford University Press, 1976 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 8vo Seminal work on evolution that updates and extends. . . |
AU$250.00 |
02381 |
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Dunnett, Dorothy Checkmate First Edition London: Cassell, 1975 Cloth Good/Very Good 8vo The final book in the "Lymond" series, each alludi. . . |
AU$56.25 |
00937 |
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Welch, Denton Maiden Voyage First Edition London: Routledge, 1943 Good/No Jacket Exact Change: "Maiden Voyage is an account of auth. . . |
AU$50.00 |
02146 |
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Elliott, Sumner Locke Careful He Might Hear You First UK Edition Gollancz Very Good/Very Good Miles Franklin Award winner. . . |
AU$35.00 |
02805 |
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Fitzgerald, Edward Illustrated by Pogany, Willy Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Reprint Cloth Very Good/Very Good 12mo Undated with gift inscription dated 1950. Some lig. . . |
AU$50.00 |
01623 |
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Flanagan, Richard Gould's Book of Fish SIGNED First Edition Fine/Fine Signed by Author |
AU$100.00 |
00895 |
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Gash, Jonathan Different Women Dancing SIGNED First Edition , 1997Signed by Author |
AU$60.00 |
02686 |
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Gay, Mr Illustrated by Nicholson, william The Beggar's Opera and Polly 2 Vols Reprint London: Heinemann, 1923 Very Good/Very Good 8vo The Beggars Opera, Reprint, 1923 in Jacket. 8 plat. . . |
AU$60.00 |
02342 |
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Golding, William The Lord of the Flies Seventh impression London: Faber and Faber, 1943 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 12mo A very presentable copy of the classic text . Some. . . |
AU$40.00 |
00411 |
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Humphries, Barry MORE PLEASE An Autobiography First Edition , 1992 Viking 1992 1st Edition HC/DJ, black cloth boards,. . . |
AU$50.00 |
01120 |
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Huxley, Aldous Brave New World First Edition , 1932 Cloth Very Good/Very Good Small open tear on the front panel, some wear to j. . . |
AU$4500.00 |
02371 |
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Johnson, Colin Wild Cat Falling First Edition Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1965 Cloth Very Good/Very Good The first novel published by an aboriginal. A toug. . . |
AU$50.00 |
02969 |
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King, Dean A Life Revealed PATRICK O'BRIAN First Edition New York: Henry Holt, 2000 Cloth Fine/Fine A biography of the great historical novelist, a mu. . . |
AU$75.00 |
00604 |
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Magazine MAN Magazine June 1971 BETTINA ARNDT |
AU$9.00 |
00102 |
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Mailer, Norman The Naked and the Dead Reprint New York: Rinehart, 1948 Very Good/No Jacket |
AU$50.00 |
00103 |
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Mailer, Norman The Deer Park First UK Edition London: Allan Wingate, 1957 Cloth Good/Good Lots of foxing on the dust jacket and endpapers. M. . . |
AU$50.00 |
00104 |
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Mailer, Norman An American Dream Book Club Book Club, 1965 Cloth Good/Good Extensive foxing on all edges. Mailer's fourth. . . |
AU$20.00 |
00105 |
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Mailer, Norman An American Dream First UK Edition London: Andre Deutsch, 1965 Cloth Good/Good Dust marks to top edge, some slight tears to top . . . |
AU$30.00 |
00107 |
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Mailer, Norman Tough Guys Don't Dance SIGNED First Edition New York: Random House, 1984 Very Good/Very Good Signed by Author Man discovers head where his marijuana should be.. . . |
AU$120.00 |
00648 |
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Mailer, Norman The Prisoner of Sex First Edition , 1971 Little Brown 1st US 1971 A Very Good book in a. . . |
AU$10.00 |
01346 |
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Mailer, Norman The Naked and the Dead First Edition New York: Rinehart, 1948 Cloth Very Good/Good 1st Printing with colophon on copyright page, and . . . |
AU$1100.00 |
01826 |
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Mailer, Norman Barbary Shore First Thus London: Jonathan Cape, 1952 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 8vo |
AU$90.00 |
02203 |
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Marsden, John Darkness Be My Friend - SIGNED First Edition Sydney: MacMillan, 1996 Very Good/Very Good Signed by Author The 4th title in the "Tomorrow" series, with an in. . . |
AU$70.00 |
02225 |
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Marsden, John Tomorrow When The War Began BOXED SET SIGNED Sydney: Pan MacMillan Paperback Very Good Signed by Author The first five paperbacks in the Tomorrow Series, . . . |
AU$120.00 |
02378 |
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Marsden, John The Journey First Edition Sydney: Pan, 1988 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 8vo The authors second book.
Slight shelfwear on . . . |
AU$50.00 |
02379 |
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Marsden, John So Much to Tell you First Edition Sydney: Walter McVitty Books, 1987 Cloth Fine/Fine 8vo A little rubbed on the rear panel.
The author. . . |
AU$150.00 |
02783 |
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Marsden, John The Night Is For Hunting SIGNED First Edition Sydney: MacMillan, 1998 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 8vo Signed by Author Signed by the author on the title page. Jacket is . . . |
AU$80.00 |
02789 |
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Marsden, John Out Of Time First Edition Sydney: Pan, 1990 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 12mo |
AU$15.00 |
02803 |
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Marsden, John The Other Side Of Dawn - SIGNED First Edition Sydney: MacMillan, 1999 Cloth Very Good/Very Good Signed by Author Slight marks on fep. Boards a little scuffed. Sign. . . |
AU$110.00 |
02888 |
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Marsh, Ngaio Dead Water First Cheap Edition London: Collins Crime Club, 1964 Very Good/Very Good Chipped corners, soiled jacket, slightly cocked sp. . . |
AU$10.00 |
01901 |
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Masefield, John Letter From Pontus First Edition , 0 |
AU$5.00 |
00100 |
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McCarthy , Cormac The Crossing First UK Edition Third printing London: Picador, 1994 Fine/Fine Price intact. Volume two of the Border trilog. . . |
AU$20.00 |
00101 |
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McCarthy, Cormac Cities of the Plain First UK Edition London: Picador, 1998 Fine/Fine Volume 3 of the Border Trilogy. McCarth puts the p. . . |
AU$20.00 |
00021 |
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McEwan, Ian Amsterdam First Edition London: Jonathan Cape, 1998 Cloth Very Good/Very Good Later printing of cover (with Booker Prize named).. . . |
AU$30.00 |
02177 |
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McEwan, Ian Enduring Love First Edition London: Jonathan Cape, 1997 Very Good/Very Good Signed by Author Slightly cocked spine, interior clean and white, r. . . |
AU$90.00 |
02781 |
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McEwan, Ian The Innocent BOMC New York: Doubleday, 1990 Cloth Good/Good 8vo |
AU$10.00 |
02815 |
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McEwan, Ian Saturday First Edition London: Jonathan Cape, 2005 Cloth Fine/Fine 8vo |
AU$30.00 |
01610 |
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Mede, Joseph Diatribe Discourses et al 1642 First London: Private, 1637 Full Leather Good 8vo Six publications bound as one volume, small 4to, c. . . |
AU$650.00 |
01854 |
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Melville, Herman Illustrated by Schaeffer, Mead Typee , 0 Cloth Good ex-lib |
AU$20.25 |
01658 |
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Miller, F W G Ink on my Fingers First Edition , 1967 Very Good/Very Good The memoirs of Fred Miller, newspaper journalist i. . . |
AU$20.00 |
02662 |
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Money, Sir Leo Chiozza The Immortal Purpose First Edition London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, 1924 Cloth Good/Good 12mo Scarce in dustjacket. Badly foxed preliminaries, a. . . |
AU$20.00 |
01922 |
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Mountford Illustrated by Roberts, Ainsley The Dreamtime Book , 0 Cloth Very Good/Very Good Folio |
AU$5.00 |
01657 |
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Naipaul, V. S. In A Free State - Booker Prize wrapper First Edition London: Andre Deutsch, 1971 Fine/Fine Owner's name on fep, which is also has minor yello. . . |
AU$60.00 |
03003 |
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Niland, D'Arcy The Shiralee First Edition London: Angus & Robertson, 1955 Cloth Very Good/Very Good Small booksellers stamp on pastedown, previous own. . . |
AU$50.00 |
00027 |
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Okri, Ben Astonishing the Gods First Edition , 1995 1995 Phoenix House London First British Edition Ha. . . |
AU$30.00 |
02370 |
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Park, Ruth Playing Beattie Bow - 1st UK First UK Edition London: Kestrel, 1981 Cloth Very Good/Very Good Published a year after the Australian Edition.
<. . . |
AU$30.00 |
02808 |
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Richards, Paul Mosses First Edition London: King Penguin, 1950 Very Good/Very Good 12mo Price clipped, slight wear at corners, half inch c. . . |
AU$15.00 |
00649 |
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Robbins, Tom Skinny Legs and All First Edition , 1990 Bantam Books 1990 1st edition A Very Good book. . . |
AU$10.00 |
00923 |
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Russell, Bertrand Satan in the Suburbs First Edition London: The Bodley Head, 1953 Very Good/Very Good The author's first work of fiction, written at the. . . |
AU$50.00 |
03072 |
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John Selden Esq Table-Talk A New Edition London: J. Wilkie, 1777 Leather Very Good/No Jacket 16mo Being the discourses of John Selden Esq or his. . . |
AU$120.00 |
00024 |
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Severn, Marilyn Ballet in Action First Edition Signed by Author 1938 First Edition signed in pencil. Hardback with. . . |
AU$125.00 |
02657 |
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe The Lyrical Poems and Translations of Percy Bysshe Shelley First Trade Edition London: The Florence Press Chatto & Windus, 1924 Very Good/Very Good 8vo Edited and newly arranged in chronological order . . . |
AU$120.00 |
02658 |
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe The Dramatic Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley First Edition London: The Florence Press at Chatto & Windus, 1922 Very Good/Very Good 8vo Arranged in chronological order by C. H. Herford. . . . |
AU$110.00 |
00915 |
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Sontag, Susan Brother Carl First Edition New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1974 Very Good/Very Good A filmscript, "something recognizably Scandinavian. . . |
AU$25.00 |
03146 |
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Stow, Catherine Illustrated by Heysen, Nora Woggheeguy First Edition Adelaide: F. W. Preece & Sons, 1930 Cloth Fine/Very Good 8vo Slightly tanned original jacket with a small piece. . . |
AU$150.00 |
02697 |
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Thompson, Hunter S. Better Than Sex First Edition New York: Random House, 1994 Cloth Very Good/Very Good 8vo Confessions of a political junkie. Trapped Like A . . . |
AU$50.00 |
01767 |
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Thomson, James City of Dreadful Night 1st Limited Ed 1926 Limited Edition Kahoe & Keith, Yellow Springs, 1926 Cloth Good/No Jacket 8vo ex-lib No. 433/500. Bookplate on pastedown, ex-libris sta. . . |
AU$30.00 |
01655 |
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics First Edition , 1956 Translated from German by G. E. M. Anscombe, Macmi. . . |
AU$400.00 |
02187 |
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Wyndham, John The Day of the Triffids First Edition London: Michael Joseph Very Good/Very Good Professionally rebound in green cloth boards with . . . |
AU$350.00 |
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02684 |
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Lot of 6 Quarter Leather Classics Reprints London: Heinemann Quarter Leather Very Good 12mo Joseph Conrad, Nigger of the Narcissus, 1937
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AU$60.00 |
02685 |
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Lot of Six Quarter Leather Presentation Classics Quarter Leather Good 8vo Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did, reprint Hodder & st. . . |
AU$50.00 |