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Plantin Publishers 1987. 1987. Softcover. 8vo softcover 352pp index, b/w illus. Good+. .

Plutonium - Losefriends.com 2005. 2005. Hardcover. Trade sized hardcover. Pictorial Laminated boards, no d/w. LCD clock (stopped working) embeded into front cover. This novel is about a group of inspired terrorists whose actions not only changed the world but also distorted it. Will today's world win the war over terror only to loose out to corruption and greed? .

Arco Publications, London 1955.. 1955. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 239pp. index,b/w illus. Good, foxed. / Good, sunned d/w with some tears & chips on top edge .

P.R.Y.D.E. in Australia (Parents Reaching Youth through Drug Education. 1987. 1987. 8vo. Softcover. 300pp. very good. Revised and augmented. Keep off the Grass, considered a classic, is written by one of the world's most knowlegeable scientists on the subject. Dr. Nahas explains exactly what marijuana is, what hashis, cannabis and THC are, the history of marijuana and how its use eroded ancinet civilizations, how it differs from aalcohol and tobacco, includes How to get your Child off marijuana advice by Dr. Harold Voth. .

0. Softcover. 8vo. softcover. 294pp. b/w illus. Good, spine slanted. .

New York Vintage; 1st Vintage Books ed 1981. 1981. Softcover. 8vo softcover 232pp. very good, cover creased. Impressions of Five Societies - British, French and Dutch - in the West Indies and South America .

Abacus September 7, 2000. 2000. Softcover. 8vo softcover 333pp very good. In 1949, aged 17, V.S. Naipaul left his native Trinidad to take up an Island Scholarship at University College, Oxford. This volume presents his letters to his father - a journalist with the "Trinidad Guardian" - over four years until his father's death from a heart attack in 1953, aged 47. .

BBC Books February 19, 1998. 1998. 4to. Hardcover in d/w. 192pp very good. Sailing through the Crinan Canal to Islay and to St Kilda, Nick Nairn passes some of Scotland's most dramatic scenery and exercises his culinary skill on a wide range of fresh fish and local produce. .

Rigby 1986. 1986. Softcover. 8vo softcover 142pp Very good. Signed by Ann Nakano on half-title. Illustrated with photos. Myth and Mystery has shrouded the lives of Japanese women for nearly a century, and made them an enigma to the rest of the world. Japanese Women is a collection of revealing interviews with 26 women from different walks of life which will lift the veil on this misconception. Interviews with a politician/pioneer of birth control, a doctor, a geisha, a daughter of a samurai family, a public relations executive, a mountain climber, a fashion designer, political activists, a publishing executive. .

Kodansha International, Tokyo 1971. 1971. Softcover. 8vo. softcover. 140pp. illus., one folding Very good, a few spots on verso of folding illus. Foxing inside covers & on outer page edges. .

London Gollancz 1975. 1975. Hardcover. 8vo hardcover 465pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. .

Batsford, London, 1981.. 1981. Hardcover. Large 8vo. hardcover. 144pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w. .

Readers Union, UK, 1974.. 1974. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 240pp. index. b/w illus. very good. / very good d/w. .

John Murray, London, 1910.. 1910. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 469pp. Fair, some foxing chips to spine. .

New York, USA: Mayflower Books, 1979. 1979. Hardcover. 4to. hardcover. 119pp. colour illus. near fine. / near fine d/w. .

Naval Institute Press, 2020.. 2020. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 338pp. index, b/w plates. Fine./ Fine d/w. .

Murdoch Books Pty Limited 2006. 2006. Softcover. 8vo softcover 288pp very good. This is the true story of a woman who lived through extraordinary times. Its author is the oldest of Ursula's six children. Born in Germany, fleeing to Palestine, Laurens van der Post, Scandal, England and Australia all feature in this moving true story. .

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, (1990). First edition. 0. A Family Album introduced and selected by Linell Nash Smith. 8vo; pp. 357; portrait frontispiece, b/w illustrations; a very good copy with purples paper spine on blue papered boards. A collection of Nash's letters to his family and dozens of previously unpublished poems. Nonsense poems. .

Grant Richards Ltd., London, 1924. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 291pp. index, b/w frontis. Good, covers faded, foxed. / poor d/w. .

Hodder 2006. 2006. Softcover. 8vo. softcover. 346pp. index, b/w illus. very good, light toning to page edges, owner's inscription on fep. .