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By: Carmen Callil
Price: $20.90
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 2006
Edition: Uncorrected Proof.
Seller ID: 011966
ISBN: 0224078461
Condition: Very Good +
xxv, + 560 pages. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Printed card wrapper negligibly edge-bumped only. "Although personally responsible for the deportation of thousands of French Jews, Darquier was never brought to justice and spent the years after the war in Madrid. In Carmel Callil's masterful account Darquier's ascent to power during the years leading up to the Second World War comes to mirror the rise of French anti-Semitism and the role it played in the horrors that were to follow . . . " Book weight approx. 890g. * Customers outside Australia - This item w... View more info
By: Cockayne, Steve
Price: $16.15
Publisher: London, Atom (Imprint: Time Warner): 2006
Edition: Pre-Publication.
Seller ID: 007746
ISBN: 1904233929
Condition: Very Good +
343pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped only. " . . . Steve Cockayne's first novel for younger readers is both a spellbinding adventure story, and an extraordinarily powerful novel of growing up . . . " Deep in the English countryside, Kenneth Storey and his older brother have discovered the land of Arboria - a kingdom of adventure . . . Contents of this bookproof copy include: Prelims., 10 chapters. Book weight approx. 370g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. View more info
By: Coonts, Stephen
Price: $17.10
Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson: 1987
Seller ID: 003086
Condition: Good
329pp. Book square. Spine firm. Blue/grey limp wrapper mildly soiled, edgeworn and bumped. Former owner's sticker affixed to half-title page, otherwise leaves clean. An Uncorrected Book Proof [proposed British publication date: 14 May, 1987] of the author's debut novel, a story of U.S. Naval pilots involved in the Vietnam War . . . Book weight approx. 420g. View more info
Price: $12.35
Publisher: London, Picador: 2003
Edition: 1st Impression.
Seller ID: 003420
ISBN: 0330493361
Condition: Near Fine
476pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated, printed card wrapper undamaged. An Advance Reading Copy from uncorrected proofs, with a provisional publication date of 18 July, 2003. "Josh starts his first year at Oxford bursting with hopes, ambitions and ludicrously unrealistic expectations. 'Thinly Disguised Autobiography' is the story of his rude awakening, from the sleaze of Fleet Street to the terror of the LA Riots, from clubbing at the Wag to roughing it at Glastonbury, from Oxford to London via Venice, Spetses, Laguna Beach and Bromsgrove. Book weight appro... View more info
By: Frame, Janet
Price: $17.10
Publisher: North Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, Vintage Books (Random House Australia): 2007
Edition: Uncorrected Bound Proof.
Seller ID: 008427
ISBN: 1741667240
Condition: Very Good +
203pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and crisp. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly scuffed. " . . . a meditation on the themes of exile and return, homesickness and not knowing where home really is. It is suffused with beauty and tenderness and shot through with self-deprecating humour, knowingness and frailty . . . Janet Frame wrote this small and exquisite novel in 1963 whilst taking a break from her longest novel, 'The Adaptable Man'. It is a highly personal work that she did not want published until after her death." Book weight approx. 230g. Postage charge will be ... View more info
By: Harding, Traci
Price: $17.10
Publisher: Australia, HarperVoyager: 2009
Edition: Uncorrected Proof.
Seller ID: 009553
ISBN: 0732281229
Condition: Very Good +
xii, + 436pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly scuffed and indented, small, soft corner crease to rear panel. Book One of the 'Triad of Being' series. Book weight approx. 600g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Kittle, Katrina
Price: $10.45
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 2000
Edition: 1st. U.K.Impression.
Seller ID: 001867
ISBN: 034076872X
Condition: Near Fine
310pp., book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Gloss card wrapper undamaged. An uncorrected bound proof copy of the author's first novel. The story is relationship-based, featuring 'Summer', whose promising dance career is ended by injury and, finds her settling reluctantly into an unwanted career as a school teacher. Her long-term relationship with Nicholas becomes strained , and her brother Todd may have no future-he is HIV positive . . . Book weight approx. 250g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: Small 8vo View more info
Price: $12.35
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins Children's Books: 2006
Edition: Uncorrected Proof.
Seller ID: 010457
ISBN: 0060734086
Condition: Very Good +
328pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has a very small, soft corner crease to front panel. "In this spellbinding tale filled with humour, adventure, romance and song, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine invites you to join Aza as she discovers how exquisite she truly is." Book weight approx. 400g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Marriott, Janice
Price: $13.30
Publisher: Pymble, N.S.W., Australia, HarperCollins: 2006
Edition: Uncorrected Proof.
Seller ID: 009584
ISBN: 1869505727
Condition: Very Good +
168pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Printed card wrapper negligibly marked. "Eleven-year-old Thor is the lowest of the low at a subantarctic whaling station. As a whaler's boy, he spends long, hard days loading coal . . . Until the day a ghostly ship emerges from the mists. It is 'Endurance', carrying Shackleton and his intrepid explorers . . . " Book weight approx. 160g. Postage charge will be reduced as this book will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Milner, Donna
Price: $17.10
Publisher: London, Quercus: 2008
Edition: Uncorrected Proof Copy.
Seller ID: 011967
ISBN: 1847244432
Condition: Very Good
346pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated soft card wrapper very good, small mark to rear cover. From the rear panel: "The border collie leapt over the picket fence and raced past the barn, a blur of black and white, barking a belated warning . . . He smiled at us from the other side of the fence as the border collie licked his hand. Mom smiled back, smoothed her damp apron and started down the porch steps. I hesitated for only a moment before I put down the laundry basket and followed. We met him at the gate. She was expecting him. She wasn't expecting ... View more info
By: Moran, Johanna
Price: $17.10
Publisher: Sydney, Harper Collins: 2009
Edition: Uncorrected Proof.
Seller ID: 010621
ISBN: 0007339410
Condition: Near Fine
Uncorrected proof copy. 367pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper undamaged. "In 1890, Henry Oades decided to undertake the arduous sea voyage from England to New Zealand in order to further his family's fortunes. Here they settled on the lush but wild coast . . . a darkly comic but moving historical fiction debut about love and family, based on a controversial court case from the early 1900s." Book weight approx. 400g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
Price: $17.10
Publisher: London, HarperCollins Children's Books: 2007
Edition: Uncorrected Proof.
Seller ID: 010456
ISBN: 0007262434
Condition: Very Good +
219pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has a soft corner crease to rear panel. "When Patrick saves a litter of greyhound puppies from the canal, he can't bear to hand them all over to the RSPCA . . . Patrick christens his puppy Best Mate, and that's what he becomes . . . " Book weight approx. 241g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Oliveira, Robin
Price: $15.20
Publisher: London, Fig Tree / Penguin: 2010
Edition: Uncorrected Proof.
Seller ID: 009936
Condition: Very Good +
xiii, + 364pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, light reading crease there-on. Leaves clean. Printed card wrapper near fine. "On the eve of the American Civil War, a brilliant, headstrong midwife from New York is dreaming of becoming a surgeon. Eager to escape the pains of a broken heart and a life in the shadow of her more beautiful twin sister, she travels to Washington to help tend the legions of Civil War wounded . . . " Book weight approx. 510g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Pratt, Tim
Price: $26.60
Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Night Shade Books: 2007
Edition: 1st Thus.
Seller ID: 006309
ISBN: 1597800538
Condition: Very Good +
209pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Advance Uncorrected Proof 'Solicitation Art' gloss wrapper (design by Richard Marchand) lightly edgeworn only. " . . . a stunning collection of 13 stories of the fantastic. Critics have called Pratt's short fiction 'quite Gaiman-esque . . . ' and this comparison is not unfounded." Some of the short fiction within this collection have previously been published in magazines and journals. Book weight approx. 380g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tal... View more info
By: Ramsay, Eileen
Price: $15.20
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 2004
Edition: Advance Reading Copy.
Seller ID: 002347
ISBN: 0340832584
Condition: Near Fine.
375pp. Book clean, spine nominally concave. Leaves clean. Gloss, pictorially-illustrated card wrapper trivially splayed and bumped on lower front foredge corner. In the style of Cathy Kelly and Charlotte Bingham, this ADVANCE READING COPY is a relationship-based story of Sophie Winter, five years after her marriage ends with a terrible accusation, now happy in a new job at Scotland's new Parliament and a fulfilling social life. A family wedding in Tuscany brings her into contact with Raffaele de Nardis; her proud, passionate, handsome ex-husband. Book weight approx. 500gms. View more info
By: Sedgwick, Marcus
Price: $17.10
Publisher: Great Britain, Orion Children's Books: 2005
Edition: Uncorrected Proof Copy
Seller ID: 008426
ISBN: 1842552198
Condition: Very Good +
278pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and crisp. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly scuffed. "It is 1915. Sasha Fox is seventeen years old and she has a terrible gift. She can see the future. Her premonitions show her horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, corpse worms crawling over the faces of the soldiers soon to die. And worse, they show her what will happen to her brothers Edgar and Tim . . . " Book weight approx. 315g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. View more info
Price: $19.00
Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, Flamingo/Harper Collins: 2001
Edition: Uncorrected Bound Proof.
Seller ID: 010673
ISBN: 0732269164
Condition: Near Fine
231pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Printed card wrapper near fine. "Elli has been dumped by Ben, so she's fragile to say the least. Certainly in no mood for a new relationship . . . " Book weight approx. 260g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Wilson, A.N.
Price: $10.45
Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton:
Edition: Uncorrected Book Proof [1985].
Seller ID: 002751
Condition: Very Good
310pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Printed limp wrappers creased on rear, short closed tears and fingermarks. Relationship-based novel, set in 'Victorian' England . . . Book weight approx. 420g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Wooff, Erica
Price: $15.20
Publisher: London, The Women's Press: 2002
Edition: Uncorrected Proof Copy.
Seller ID: 000386
ISBN: 0704347393
Condition: Very Good +
vii, 273pp., clean, tight pages. Heavy paper wrapper has negligible bump top foredge, else unmarked. Author's first full length novel, having had a previously published short story, and a trilogy of stories adapted and performed at the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Book weight approx. 330g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
