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THE LIEUTENANT AND OTHERS

By: "Sapper" (H.C. McNeile)

Price: $24.70

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1916

Seller ID: 013655

Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)

Condition: Very Good

vi, + 175pp. Book clean and square. Spine lightly creased. Text-printed, khaki-coloured original cloth boards undamaged. No dustjacket. Textblock mildly flecked, else very good. First published in 1915, this early reprint edition was published in 1916. In his preface, "Sapper" (H.C. McNeile, b.1888-d.1937) states that the stories herein are 'mere impressions' of the grim drama being played out in and around "the salient of Ypres . . . " Heart-rending and anguishing, contents include: Prelims. Preface. 12 stories, beginning with 'The Lieutenant' and closing with 'The Aftermath'....
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THE LOST DIARY OF DON JUAN

By: Abrams, Douglas Carlton

Price: $20.90

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2007

Seller ID: 008253

ISBN: 0297851705

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

x, + 308pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Fine pen stripe to head and foot of textblock. Printed card wrapper negligibly scuffed. The life and exploits of Don Juan, in the 'words' of the great lover himself . . . Includes Editor's Note. Book weight approx. 400g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY

By: Adams, Douglas

Price: $21.85

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1987

Seller ID: 006287

ISBN: 0671625829

Binding: Hardcover and Dustjacket

Condition: Very Good +

247pp. Book clean and square. Blue quarter-cloth spine, bright gilt title there-on. Plain black boards undamaged. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated (Paul Bacon), loose-plastic protected dustjacket nominally edgeworn only. A simple search, for a missing cat, by Private Detective Dirk Gently develops into a ghost-horror-detective-time travel-romantic comedy epic . . . more interested in telekinesis, quantum mechanics and lunch, our hero's task is not easy. Sadly for the cat . . . Douglas Adams, born in Cambridge, U.K., in 1952, died in 2001. Book weight approx. 460g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾&...
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SHARDIK

By: Adams, Richard

Price: $20.90

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1974

Seller ID: 006699

ISBN: 0671220152

Binding: Hardcover and Dustjacket

Condition: Very Good +

604pp., colour, story-setting map endpapers (art by Rafael Palacios). Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over nominally bumped spine. Stylized art design over undamaged brown cloth boards. A discreet remainder stripe on textblock foot abutting spine, otherwise leaves clean. Art-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket mildly edgeworn, with short closed tears and slight tanning. Following his multi-award winning debut novel 'Watership Down', Richard Adams' 'Shardik' is "a fantasy of somber-indeed of tragic-character, centered upon the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic ...
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THE LAST EXILE

By: Aldridge, James

Price: $16.15

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1961

Seller ID: 005906

Binding: Hardcover and Dustjacket

Condition: Very Good

790pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm, vivid silver title there-on. Red boards undamaged. Lower margin damage (creased; plus one with biopredation) on several leaves, otherwise very good. Art-illustrated (P. Youngman-Carter) loose-plastic protected dustjacket edgeworn, with jagged tears and creases, plus minor fading on spine. Action thriller set in Egypt during and after the Suez crisis. By 1956 few Englishmen are left in the country. One exception is the mysterious and problematic Captain Scott, who works for the Egyptian Government Survey. He had previously been court-martialled while in...
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THE HONOURABLE THIEF

By: Anastasios, Meaghan Wilson

Price: $17.10

Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, Pan Macmillan: 2018

Seller ID: 013235

ISBN: 1760552623

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

viii, + 440pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper very good +. From the rear panel: "Istanbul, Turkey, 1955. Benedict Hitchens, once a world-renowned archaeologist, is now a discredited - but still rather charming - shell of his former self. Once full of optimism and adventure, his determination to prove that Achilles was a real historical figure led him to his greatest love, Karina, on the island of Crete and to his greatest downfall, following the disappearance of an enigmatic stranger, Eris. He has one last chance to restore his reputation, solve t...
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BEYOND THE BEYOND

By: Anderson, Poul

Price: $15.20

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1970

Seller ID: 002406

Binding: Hard Cover + D/J [Oblong]

Condition: Very Good.

224pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Minor spots on rear free endpaper and text-block edges, otherwise clean. Typical, bright yellow, loose-plastic protected, printed d/jacket edgeworn, small jagged closed tears, smokey spine panel and price-clipped. Five Novellas, previously published in 'somewhat different form', i.e.; "Memory" [under the title "A World Called Maanerak"]. Contents: Memory. Brake. The Sensitive Man. The Moonrakers. Starfog. Book weight approx. 370gms. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight.
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KINGS CROSS SWINDLERS. (Signed Copy)

By: Andrew, Patrick

Price: $12.35

Publisher: Australia, Gordon A. Publishers: 1994

Seller ID: 002032

ISBN: 0646027581

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

189pp., book clean, square. Spine firm. Signed on title page by author, otherwise leaves clean. Art-illustrated card wrapper has several mild creases and lightly splayed, else good. "This is a humourous story about the confidence tricksters who inhabit Australia's famous bohemian centre . . . " Book weight approx. 250g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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THE PIG PLANTAGENET

By: Andrews, Allen

Price: $19.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1980

Seller ID: 010656

ISBN: 0091427401

Binding: Hardcover and Dustjacket

Condition: Very Good +

199pp., b/white line-drawn illustrations by Michael Foreman. B/white illustrated endpapers. Book clean, square. Spine firm, silver title there-on. Plain blue boards undamaged. Leaves clean. Illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket has one tiny surface abrasion to flap fold. "Set in medieval France, the hero is - yes - a pig, a small but highly intelligent pig with a little boar blood lurking in his veins . . . When the feudal lords of Pitou decide with the farmers to rid the nearby forest of wild animals, it is Plantagenet (beloved of the farmer's daughter, Adele) who warns his cous...
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PARALLEL FORCES. (Signed Copy)

By: Anggraeni, Dewi

Price: $16.15

Publisher: Briar Hill, Victoria, Australia, Indra Publishing: 1988

Seller ID: 005462

ISBN: 0958771812

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

197pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Concise inscription, signed by author on her bio. page, otherwise leaves clean. Art-illustrated (David Wong) card wrapper lightly edgeworn only. Are dark forces at work? Amyrra believes she is being overpowered by the force of an ominous prediction. Desperate to free herself, she tries to fight it with brutal force. Will it be enough? Book weight approx. 230g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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CHTHON

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: $28.50

Publisher: London, Macdonald: 1970

Seller ID: 006799

Binding: Hardcover and Dustjacket

Condition: Very Good

252pp. Book clean. Bright gilt title over slightly cocked spine. Light splash-stain on plain grey boards. Former owner's name on ffep., else leaves clean. Art-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket edgeworn, with short closed tears, browned on rear text panel. This first British Edition tells the story of Aton, whose crime, it seems, was to fall in love, as a child, with Minionette, a semi-mythical siren universally despised and feared. Condemned to the brutally hot subterranean mines of Chthon, Aton seeks answers to his questions. None forthcoming, he decides to escape the place wher...
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KING OF TUZLA

By: Arnold Jansen Op De Haar

Price: $20.90

Publisher: London, Holland Park Press: 2010

Seller ID: 010393

ISBN: 1907320067

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

199pp. Book clean. Spine firm. Leaves pristine. Illustrated card wrapper undamaged. First published in the Netherlands as 'De Koning van Tuzla', De Arbeiderspers, 1999. English translation by Paul Vincent. "All of a sudden, Tijmen Klein Gildekamp, a young Army captain, finds himself in a real war. He is part of the UN, based in Bosnia in the former Yugoslavia, the scene of the most recent war in Europe . . . A truly original coming-of-age story." Book weight approx. 290g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾&#...
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INTRIGUE & ARDOUR : Lady Gwendolen Investigates. My Lord Footman. (Quills)

By: Ashley, Anne and Thornton, Claire

Price: $20.90

Publisher: Chatswood, N.S.W., Australia, Harlequin Mills and Boon: 2009

Seller ID: 007796

ISBN: 0733595960

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

569pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has soft corner crease, minimal edgewear. 'Lady Gwendolen Investigates' : "Elegant yet feisty, well travelled yet innocent to the world, beautiful yet modest - prying into others' lives isn't for Lady Gwendolen Warrender. Until murder and mayhem come to Marsden Wood ! . . . " 'My Lord Footman' : "Pierce Cardew, Viscount Blackspur, has played many parts - spy, smuggler, privateer captain. So when his family is threatened by a greedy blackmailer, and Pierce becomes convinced that the recently widowed Comtes...
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THE ADVENTURES OF ONE ON THE RAILWAYS

By: Ashley, John Anthony

Price: $14.25

Publisher: Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Author / FFFL Productions: 2009

Seller ID: 012808

ISBN: 1445240955

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

92pp., several b/white halftone plate illustrations. Book clean and square. Colour-plate illustrated card wrapper slightly wavy, else very good. Textblock unmarked. From the author of "The Gathering of The Fairy Horses" comes the story of 'One', a character who sees no bad in anyone. Set in the year 2010, within a multicultural "Aussie Land" the story follows the fortunes of 'One', who goes from a baby in an orphanage to a youth on a farm, to the army, prison service, catering school, and disability services to an employee in the railways services. Along the way he experiences ...
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THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF CANADIAN SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH

By: Atwood, Margaret and Weaver, Robert [Selected by]

Price: $22.80

Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario, Canada, Oxford University Press: 1997

Seller ID: 003593

ISBN: 0195412206

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good +

xv, + 462pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Text-block very slightly distorted. Signed on the half-title page by major-name contributor: author Carol Shields [1935-2003], otherwise leaves are clean. Art-illustrated card wrapper nominally edgeworn only. Chosen by Margaret Atwood and Robert Weaver, this current edition is a selection of more contemporary, twentieth-century authors, the earlier edition having included many born from 1850 on. Names included here comprise the cream of Canadian literature, viz: Atwood, Carol Shields, Alice Munro, Matt Cohen, Mavis Gallant, Caroline Adderson, Mar...
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THE WIRE CLASSROOM. (Signed Copy)

By: Bailey, John

Price: $20.90

Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, The Australasian Book Society: 1976

Seller ID: 010092

Binding: Hardcover and Dustjacket

Condition: Very Good

203pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Plain green boards very lightly bumped on lower foredge corner. Author signature and stamped number '67' to half-title page, else leaves clean and unmarked. Art-illustrated (Gary Shead), loose-plastic protected dustjacket negligibly edge-creased and indented. " . . . a funny, frank, satirical, serious, highly topical novel of New Guinea. It is centred on an innocent young Australian schoolteacher who, in the remote hot village of Wendi, finds himself confronted by such appalling characters as Peanuts O'Neil, Mucker, Bendix van Kra...
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THE ANTHOLOGIST

By: Baker, Nicholson

Price: $17.10

Publisher: London, Simon & Schuster: 2009

Seller ID: 010682

ISBN: 1847376363

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

243pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, fine reading crease there-on. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper very good. " . . . a wholly entertaining and beguiling love story about people and poetry: from Tennyson, Swinburne, and Yeats to the moderns (Roethke, Bogan, Merwin) to families, neighbours and the strangers in our lives . . . " Book weight approx. 342g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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THE DARLING

By: Banks, Russell

Price: $20.90

Publisher: Great Britain, Bloomsbury: 2005

Seller ID: 010155

ISBN: 0747574006

Binding: Hardcover and Dustjacket

Condition: Very Good +

391pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, white title there-on. Plain black boards undamaged. Attached ribbon bookmark, which is slightly frayed at end. Leaves clean. Illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket very mildly edge-creased only, with one tiny closed tear. "Stretching from the sixties to the present day, 'The Darling' is a vast, complex novel about colonialism and its legacy on modern-day Africa. Russell Banks has drawn an unforgettable heroine to tell his story. Hannah Musgrave is a true blue radical : tough, enigmatic and an eternal outsider. Reminiscent of the novels of Gre...
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JOHN WAYNE: A Novel

By: Barden, Dan

Price: $15.20

Publisher: New York, Anchor Books (Doubleday): 1998

Seller ID: 012843

ISBN: 038548710X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

(ix) + 179pp. B/white halftone plate frontispiece (John Wayne movie still - courtesy Bettman archive). Book clean. Spine firm, nominally canted. Illustrated card wrapper undamaged. Textblock unmarked. An interesting imaginative work of fiction/part memoir. The author manages to intersect the story of John Wayne with the story of the Bardens . . . Contents include: Prelims., Prologue, 8 chapters. Book weight approx. 165g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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RUBBISH (Signed Copy)

By: Barfoot, Chris and Klapish, Simon

Price: $14.25

Publisher: Hartwell, Victoria, Temple House/ Sid Harta: 2003

Seller ID: 001849

ISBN: 1877059528

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

v, + 254pp., b/w art illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine tight. Inscription, signed by Simon Klapish on title page, else leaves unmarked. Art-illustrated [Beau White], card wrapper undamaged. The humorous adventures of Dave who runs the biggest rubbish dump in the state. Rubbish and money are his passions, although he has a growing desire for the local pig farmer's daughter. On a government-sponsored fact-finding tour in France, the head of the Paris dump offers to pay Dave to take some 'harmless' packages off his hands from a French Pacific island . . . Book weight approx. 350...
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Category: Fiction [General]