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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. . .
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AU$750.00 |
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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AU$119.00 |
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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. . .
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AU$150.00 |
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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 . . .
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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. . .
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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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Lionel Wendt
Lionel Wendt's Ceylon
First Edition London: Lincolns-Prager, 1950 Cloth Good/Good 4to Technical Note by Bernard G. Thornley.
255 pp.. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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 &. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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Firsts and collectibles
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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AU$56.25 |
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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,. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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AU$75.00 |
00604 |
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Magazine
MAN Magazine June 1971 BETTINA ARNDT
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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 . . .
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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.. . .
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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. . .
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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 . . .
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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. . .
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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, . . .
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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 . . .
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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. . .
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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 . . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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).. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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AU$50.00 |
00027 |
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Okri, Ben
Astonishing the Gods
First Edition , 1995 1995 Phoenix House London First British Edition Ha. . .
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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.
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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 . . .
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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. . . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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 . . .
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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. . .
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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. . .
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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 . . .
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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. . .
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AU$50.00 |
