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A near fine copy of the 1969 first edition, first issue. 256-page text in fine, tight, clean condition with no inscriptions. Dust jacket price-clipped and in fine condition and in protective mylar covering. An unusually difficult book to find in fine condition. This is the second instalment of 'The Corfu Trilogy' by Durrell

First Edition first impression. Black cloth boards. Silver lettering to spine with pages clean and tight. Near fine original dust jacket unclipped. DJ now protected in our mylar sleeve. Overall a very nice copy.

The Bohemians at the Bulletin: illustrators, including Norman Lyndsay, who provided social and political commentary through black and white illustrations from the late 1880s.Full-page black & white drawings The Irish-Australian artist & writer describes his meetings with famous writers for the Bulletin, including Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson and Steele Rudd

pp. xxxix, (i), 279, (i). Frontispiece and 15 fabulous colour plates from H M Brock accompany these wonderful stories, head- and tail-pieces and end-papers all by Brock. Uncut pages slightly foxed and now in protective jacket.

Well-preserved cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very good copy.

Hardcover in the dust jacket in protective mylar Signed by the author to title page Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.

Hardback, Very nice blue pebbled/textured cloth with decorative black paneling to front with coloured vignette plate of a small boy in centre of front cover, with gilt lettering to spine and front. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped, rear top corner slightly rubbed at edge. Cover clean and smart. Some minor darkening and minor foxing to free endpapers. Inside pages all very clean and tight (bright semi-gloss type paper) Illustrated with 22 B&W illustrations from original drawings by L. Rossi

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression,Condition: V.G+ . Dust Jacket Condition: V.G.+ D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Red cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Madhur Jaffrey can tell a story beautifully especially when it is the account of her own childhood in India. This enchanting memoir of an exuberant young girl, growing up in an age and society that has now disappeared, is made all the more evocative by Madhur's passion for food. The tastes, the smells, the colours - these food memories form and shape her reminiscences. Today's most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disappeared. Madhur (meaning "sweet as honey") Jaffrey grew up in a large family compound where her grandfather often presided over dinners at which forty or more members of his extended family would savor together the wonderfully flavorful dishes that were forever imprinted on Madhur's palate. Climbing mango trees in… Read More

Hardcover in tight binding with some foxing to front pages and end pages otherwise a clean copy with little foxing throughout. Dust jacket in protective mylar.

Quarto format black hardback brown lettering to the spine. Price un-clipped DJ. Illustrated with more than 150 colour photos, drawings. Clean pages. . 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, full number line present. In excellent condition. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. Special illustrated edition. SCARCE in 1st/1st. This is heavy book postage to be advised.

Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia. Here, the princess turns the spotlight on her two daughters, Maha and Amani, both teenagers. Surrounded by untold opulence and luxury from the day they were born, but stifled by the unbearably restrictive lifestyle imposed on them, they reacted in equally desperate ways. Their dramatic and shocking stories, together with many more which concern other members of Princess Sultana's huge family, are set against a rich backdrop of Saudi Arabian culture and social mores which she depicts with equal colour and authenticity. We learn, for example, of the fascinating ritual of the world-famous annual pilgrimage to Makkah as we accompany the princess and her family to this holiest of cities. Throughout, however, she never… Read More

1st edition pictorial boards. Large octavo 133 pp., col. frontis., b/w ill., Gladys Henriques Lister (1887–1957) was the seventh of ten children, and was born in Hawthorn, Victoria. Her family had emigrated to Australia from America, though her mother's ancestry was Irish. After leaving school, Gladys Lister studied painting under Julian Ashton; married in 1913.Lister's stories used what happened to her life, as well as current events. During the Second World War, some British children were evacuated to Australia, and her book Jennifer Stands By featured evacuees and their adventures. Gladys Lister had always owned a pony, to which she ascribed her love of horses. Includes descriptions of post-war sea voyages made by Lister to North America, England and Europe.

The complete and unexpurgated editions with the original 16 plates by Louis Challon reproduced and coloured by hand. Volume 1 ; 332pp. Volume 2: 404pp. 1.24Kg.
Vol 1 & 2 with illustrated introductions and sixteen hand-coloured illustrations (some nicely erotic) from original drawings by Louis Chalon
Hardbacks. Condition: Very Good. Unclipped Dust Jackets Condition: V. Good in protective covering. Undated: circa 1960. Pages clean & tight. No inscriptions.
ORIGINAL PRICE 63/- FOR THE TWO VOLUMES.
Extra postage for the TWO VOLUMES HARDBACKS.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: F. D/J protected in mylar. Heavy book, black line-embossed cloth boards, embossed title at top front, very bright gilt lettering at spine. Uncut quality pages clean and tight. 1st US. (Originally published in Italian, 1957, a First Thus) New Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Velokhonsky. Includes translation notes, notes to pages, epilogue and the Poems of Yuri Zhivago.In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is a new translation of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.Overall a fine copy.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.This eloquent and spirited memoir of a young Jewish girl's coming of age in Nazi-occupied France recounts her own family's difficult and brave survival and portrays as well the love and quiet heroism of her rescuers. A powerful central figure is Madame Marie Chotel, the Catholic concierge and seamstress who hides seven-year-old Odette and her mother in her broom closet while police search, who secures the child's safe haven in a distant province, and who is cherished by Odette, even in absentia, as her godmother and mentor.

FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured plates; original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in gilt and black, blue endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
This edition follows the text of the first edition of 1922.

FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured plates; original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in gilt and black, blue endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
This edition follows the text of the first edition of 1922.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a fine copy.Contents: The Letters I Marina's Afterword 243 Postscript 252 Chronology 255 Slava's Amnesty International case-file 257 Amnesty's letter-writing campaigns 262 Acknowledgements 264.Consists of correspondence mainly between the English antiquarian bookseller Harold Edwards and Marina Aidova and her mother, Lera Shestakova.Formerly CIP."One of the most moving books you'll ever read—a powerful tribute to the far-reaching effect a single act of kindness can have."-Time Out London

First Edition. Large 4to. Fine red cloth copy in an equally fine DJ. Particularly well preserved; tight, bright, clean and surprisingly sharp cornered. Abundantly illustrated with finely printed black and white and colour plates. ; 280 pages; Physical desc. : 280p : ill (some col. ) , facsims, ports ; 32 cm. Subject: Books --Book collecting --History --Rare books --Manuscripts --Collectors and collecting. For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Cloth boards with red and white lettering on spine and front cover with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Illustrator: Nick Bantock.
A delightful book a part mystery and a part romance and a complete work of art. But Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she? Thus begins the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. And since each letter must be pulled from its own envelope, the reader has the delightful, forbidden sensation of reading someone else's mail. Griffin & Sabine is like no other illustrated novel: appealing to the poet and artist in everyone and sure to inspire a renaissance in the fine art of letter-writing, it tells an extraordinary story in an extraordinary way.