Search Results: Titles starting with P from The Secret Bookshop

Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 1999. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A good clean copy. Gerarda Bossard was in her early teens in 1943 when the Japanese army swarmed through the Dutch East Indies and took her, along with her mother and two sisters, prisoner. For three years she suffered a painful and humiliating existence as a prisoner of war. This is her story.

Australia: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Kilmeny Niland. A very clean copy with very minor edge wear to the jacket.

NSW: Centennial Publications, 1982. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A very good clean copy.

London: Collins, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Collins, London, 1961. 256pp. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. One 0.4cm closed tear to front to leading edge.

London: Ward Lock, 1914. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A Very rare first edition copy. First Impression. Dated 1914 on the CP. Green boards with gilt titles and blind stamped decoration. Gift inscription to front paste down dated xmas 1915. Tape remnants to eps. Tanning to ep's. Light foxing throughout. Cracked in numerous places and very loose, but holding. 320pp

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. Book has lightly rolled corners and pushed spine tips. Small amount of rubbing to the edge of the front board. Pen inscription to pictorial end paper. Small amount of foxing to fore edge. Contents clean and sharp. Jacket has small amounts of chipping, some dulling down and some staining to the rear.

Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1980. Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Quarter bound blue leather and blue cloth with two raised bands to spine. Gilt decorations and titles. A fore edges tipped in 22ct gold. Silk marker. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Albert Lynch. Book has not been read and feels as though never opened.

London: William Heinemann, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Lacking the last fly page. Australian issue DJ. Large chip from backstrip.

Blenheim: Express Printing Works, 1959. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Small pen name to front cover and some very light damp staining to some pages. Some closed tears to the last four pages, not affecting text.

London: Ian Allan, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Volume 2 only. First impression 1969. Some mottling to blue boards. Foxing to prelims and fore edges. Otherwise good. Dust jacket minor edgewear. Price clipped. 240pp

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Some staining to the front board from the blue of the jacket. Edge wear to one page. Gift inscription to ep. Light foxing throughout.

UK: National Trust, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The story of how the Keating sisters tried to buy back the remainder of the Plys yn Rhiw estate sold off in 1874. A very clean copy. 2011 reprint.

New York: Garland Publishing, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is from the overseas collection at the National Library of New Zealand. A very clean copy, other than a couple of stamps.

London: VICTOR GOLLANCZ, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Victor Gollancz., London., 1972. Hardcover. 294pp. Book Condition: Near Fine. Very minor foxing to prelims and fore edges. Dust Jacket Condition:Fine. Not price clipped.

London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, London, 1912. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. Oxford Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Green padded boards with gilt lettering and Flower decorations to the front and spine. 886 pages with gilt text fore edges all-round and marbled endpapers. Neat ink inscription dated 1913 to verso of frontis. Corners and head and foot of spine are lightly rubbed and bumped. Some very light scattered foxing, and also lightly tanned.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Foxing to prelims and page edges and some light tanning. Thus. No dj. Inscription to the fep.

Christchurch: Capper Press, 1973. Facsimile Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gift inscription to the fep, otherwise some very minor shelf wear only. Fold out map at the rear.

Christchurch: Capper Press, 1973. Facsimile Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very good clean copy with only some very minor marks to the closed page edges.

Wellington: R E Owen Government printer, 1957. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A good clean copy with a faint crease to the rear cover

London: Robert Hale, 1969. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Robert Hale. london. 1969. Second Edition. Hardback. Book Condition: Fine. appears unread Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Minor edge wear.