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$30.00
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Athens: Its Grandeur and Decay


N/A

Sm octavo hardcover (G+) scruffy copy; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Religious Tract Society N/D (c.1840s?)

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Greece ancient Greek Athens history

$16.50
xxhad215778

In the Penny Arcade


MILLHAUSER, STEVEN

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 1986

KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature Steven Millhauser short stories

$35.00
xxhad215779

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition


YATES, FRANCES A

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1991

KEYWORDS: philosophy literature Giordano Bruno

$30.00
xxhad215780

The Big Six


RANSOME, ARTHUR

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1940

KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction novels adventure Arthur Ransome modern first editions

$35.00
xxhad215781

The Picts and the Martyrs: or, Not Welcome at All


RANSOME, ARTHUR

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1943

KEYWORDS: children's literature fiction novels adventure Arthur Ransome modern first editions

$20.00
xxhae215785

The Serpents of Paradise


ABBEY, EDWARD & MACRAE, JOHN (ED)

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Henry Holt and Company 1995

KEYWORDS: literature Edward Abbey nature anthology anthologies literary collections

$17.50
xxhae215790

Good News


ABBEY, EDWARD

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Plume / Penguin 1991

KEYWORDS: fiction novels literature Edward Abbey

$17.50
xxhae215791

The Brave Cowboy


ABBEY, EDWARD

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Avon Books 1992

KEYWORDS: fiction novels literature Edward Abbey

$15.00
xxhae215792

The Conscience of Words and Earwitness


CANETTI, ELIAS & NEUGROSCHEL, JOACHIM (Trans)

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Picador / Pan Books 1987

KEYWORDS: literature prose essays Elias Canetti philosophy

$25.00
xxhae215793

Bart: The Story of a Dog


BURTON, ORMOND & CLARK, RUSSELL (Illus)

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: H H Tombs N/D

KEYWORDS: literature Ormond Burton

$9.00
xxhae215795

The Grass Widow's Tale


PETERS, ELLIS

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Futura 1991

KEYWORDS: Ellis Peters literature novels fiction Sergeant Felse series crime

$9.00
xxhae215796

Fallen Into the Pit


PETERS, ELLIS

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Futura 1991

KEYWORDS: Ellis Peters literature novels fiction Sergeant Felse series crime

$13.50
xxhae215798

Electric City, and Other Stories


GRACE, PATRICIA

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1989

KEYWORDS: short stories literature fiction Patricia Grace

$40.00
ak5/15/22

Poems from Bengali


SRI AUROBINDO

Super octavo, cream light card covers, green lettering to spine, green & red lettering to front cover, unpaginated prelims + 91pp, VG- (light chipping & soiling to spine/extrems, 4cm closed tear to top of spine/front cover hinge, moderate water staining to base of spine & front cover, moderate to heavy foxing to covers, heavy insect damage to bottom corner of page block- some loss, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate insect damage to prelims, minor water staining to base of front gutter)

PUBLISHER: Sri Aurobindo Ashram 1956

KEYWORDS: poems poetry verse literature Bengal Bengali

$40.00
ak5/15/27

The English Mining Engineer


JACKSON, BRIAN ANDREW

Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, printed eps, 236pp, VG (light to moderate creasing & soiling to spine & covers, sm patch of label residue to front cover, sl soiling to page edges, tidy tape reinforcement to front & rear gutters)

PUBLISHER: Tall Stories Publishing 2008

KEYWORDS: New Zealand mining English miners oil exploration gas literature Brian Andrew Jackson

$50.00
ak5/15/36

Logic: The Theory of Inquiry


DEWEY, JOHN

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, black decoration to spine, ix + 546pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, minor staining to boards, light to moderate tanning to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, patch of white-out to ffep, moderate pencil annotation to rear eps)

PUBLISHER: Henry Holt and Company 1938

KEYWORDS: logic philosophy literature John Dewey

$65.00
ak5/15/37

Hareios Poter he tou Philosophou Lithos (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Ancient Greek)


ROWLING, J K & WILSON, ANDREW (Trans)

TEXT IN ANCIENT GREEK! Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt train illus to front board, unpaginated prelims, 250pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl fading & soiling to spine)

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2004

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN ANCIENT GREEK children's literature youth ya Harry Potter series J K Rowling novels fiction fantasy

$45.00
ak5/16/7

Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis


ROWLING, J K & NEEDHAM, PETER (Trans)

TEXT IN LATIN, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt train illus to front board, unpaginated prelims + 249pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2003

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN children's literature fantasy fiction novels J K Rowling Harry Potter series

$45.00
ak5/16/14

Little Black Sambo


BANNERMAN, HELEN & EULALIE (Pictures)

Octavo, blule heavy boards, black lettering & illus to front board, illus eps & title page, frontispiece, VG (moderate scuffing to spine & board corners, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prevl owner's name in ink & prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep, light to moderate cracking to front & rear gutters)

PUBLISHER: The Platt & Munk Co 1955

KEYWORDS: classic children's literature picture books Helen Bannerman little black sambo

$275.00
ak5/16/32

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in Seven Parts


COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR & POGANY, WILLY (Presented by)

Quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, coloured illus to front board, teg, deckled page edges, illus eps, illus/illuminated prelims, unpaginated, illus/plates- all but one present, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing to extrems, moderate staining to front board, light to moderate staining to rear board, moderate tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional light cracking to gutters, occasional light foxing, single plate missing- page still present)

PUBLISHER: George G Harrap 1910

KEYWORDS: illuminated illuminations illustrated literature Samuel Taylor Coleridge verse poetry poems

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