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A Milton Encyclopedia
by [MILTON] HUNTER, Willliam B. (General Editor); SHAWCROSS, Jon T. and STEADMAN, John M. (Co-Editors); BOYETTE, Purvis E. and NATHANSON, Leonard (Associate Editors)
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- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
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- 1978
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- Cloth
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 144.88
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Lewisburg; London: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses, 1978. Cloth. Very good/very good. Hardcover : 8 volumes : Vol 1, A-B, 1978, 208pp; Vol 2, C-Ec, 1978, [206]pp.; Vol 3, Ed-Hi, 1978, [199]pp.; Vol 4, Ho-La, 1978, [218]pp.; Vol 5, Le-N, 1979, [206]pp.; Vol 6, O-Po, 1979, 216pp.; Vol 7, Pr-Sl, 1979, [208]pp.; Vol 8, Sm-Z, 1980, 205pp.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sometime Never
by DAHL, Roald
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- Used - Good
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- First Edition
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- 1949
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 90.55
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London: Collins, 1949. First Edition. Good. Hardcover : pp. [4] 255 [256] : magenta cloth covered boards : tail of block untrimmed.
Spine quite sunned; head of spine pushed and a little nicked; red ink ''C'' to front paste-down; block edges tanned, marked and foxed; foxing to endpapers and occasionally throughout; occasional smudge. Roald Dahl's first adult… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Ingoldsby Legends; Or Mirth and Marvels
by Rackham, Arthur [Illustrator] &
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- Used - Very good
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- Second Edition, fifth printing
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- 1920
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- Very good
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 135.82
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London: William Heinemann, 1920. Second Edition, fifth printing. Very good. Very good. Octavo, 549pp, 24 coloured plates tipped onto grey card mounts with titled guards, 12 illustrations with tint, and 66 in-text line drawings, illustrated cloth covers.
Head and tail od spine tender; lower corners lightly bumped; foxing to half title, last leaf and edges of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lady Chatterley's Lover; Including My Skirmish with Jolly Roger written especially and exclusively as an introduction to this popular edition
by LAWRENCE, D.H.
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- Pirate copy
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- 1930
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 181.10
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Privately Printed, 1930. Pirate copy. Hardcover : pp. [2, blank] [vi] VIII (Introduction) 365, [368, last three pages blank] : plain leather covers.
Leather covers are rubbed at the edges, joints and corners; minor spotting to the e.p.s; previous owner signature in pencil to f.f.e.p. Internally consistent with Paris Popular edition of 1929 [MacDonald (42)] except for the… Read more about this item Item Price
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In Transition: A Paris Anthology; Writing and Art from Transitin Magazine 1927 - 30
by FITCH, Noel Riley (introduction)
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- Used - Near fine
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- good
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- First Edition
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- 1990
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 45.28
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London: Secker and Warburg, 1990. First Edition. Near fine/good. Hardcover : pp. [4] 256 : illustrated : rich green cloth covered boards : gilt to spine : dust jacket design and illustration by Beverley Newman.
Top and fore-edge of text block foxed; dust jacket has lines of delamination running from head to tail. Contributions include, Samuel Beckett,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dubliners; The corrected text with an explanatory note by Robert Scholles and fifteen drawings by Robin Jacques
by JOYCE, James
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- Used - Very good
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- very good
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- Revised Edition
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- 1967
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 45.28
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. Revised Edition. Very good/very good. Hardcover : pp. [6] 7- [262] : erratum slip tipped in : top edge dye : green boards with gilt decoration of a streetlamp to top board and gilt lettering to spine : green dust jacket illustrated in blue and lettered in white and light green.
Jacket has… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Satanic Verses
by RUSHDIE, Salman
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- Used - Very good
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- very good
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- First U.K. Edition, First Printing
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- 1988
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 181.10
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London: Viking Press, 1988. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Very good/very good. Hardcover : pp. [x] [2] 546 [550] : blue cloth covered boards : gilt lettering to spine : dust jacket image shows detail from Rustam Killing the White Demon
Spotting to text block edges, mostly at top; slight curl to jacket edge. Item Price
SGD 181.10
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The Unfortunates; A novel
by JOHNSON, B.S.
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- First Edition
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- 1969
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 181.10
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London, Reading and Fakenham: Panther Books in association with Secker and Warburg, 1969. First Edition. Twenty-seven paper sections, temporarily held together by a removable mauve wrapper : housed in an illustrated hinged box lettered in black.
Unopened, lightly foxed; box a trifle marked. According to the publisher (verso of the top of box) the first and last sections… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Guiltless ; A Novel in Eleven Stories; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
by BROCH, Hermann
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- Used - Very good
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- very good
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- First English Language Edition
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- 1974
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 90.55
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Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. First English Language Edition. Very good/very good. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [3] 292 [296] : rich green endpapers : pale green cloth covered boards : gilt to spine : green illustrated jacket designed by Gerry Hoover.
Block edges foxed; head of spine toned and gently pushed; jacket spine sunned, verso… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 90.55
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The Road Under the Sea
by PARK, Ruth
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- Used - Very good
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- good
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- First Edition
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- 1962
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 22.64
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Sydney: Ure Smith, 1962. First Edition. Very good/good. Jennifer Murray. Hardcover : pp. [4] 125 [128] : illustrated by Jennifer Murray : green and blue motif design cloth covered boards, repeated on jacket with additional illustration : pictorial endpapers.
Head and tail of spine gently pushed; toned block edges; chipping to jacket edge. Item Price
SGD 22.64
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Dead Fishy
by HANSEN, Derek
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- Used - Very good
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- Second Edition
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- 1996
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 81.50
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Port Melbourne: Mandarin, 1996. Second Edition. Very good. Softcover : pp. [viii] [3] 327 [328] : cover illustration by Geoff Cook.
Toned and foxed block edges; occasional fox spot but mostly clean throughout; edges of cover a little rubbed. Item Price
SGD 81.50
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Sweetwater; Translated from the Norwegian by Joan Tate
by FALDBAKKEN, Knut
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- Used - Near fine
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- fine
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- 1994
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 45.28
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London: Peter Owen, 1994. Near fine/fine. Hardcover : pp. [4] 5-184 : e.p.s illustrated with a rat : dark green boards lettered in silver : Green dustwrapper illustrated in black & white.
Top edge lightly toned. The sequel to Faldbakken's widely acclaimed "Twilight Country Item Price
SGD 45.28
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Late Postmodernism; American Fiction at the Millennium
by GREEN, Jeremy
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- Used - Fine
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- fine
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- First Edition
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- 2005
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 72.44
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New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2005. First Edition. Fine/fine. Hardcover : pp. [vii] viii [1] 246 [248] : black boards : argent lettering to spine : jacket design by Emily Mahon. "Professor Green's Late Postmodernism should be welcomed by those who still regard literary fiction as one of the great American art forms. It makes a compelling argument for… Read more about this item Item Price
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Searching for Sebald; Photography After W.G. Sebald
by PATT, Lisa (editor) ; DILLBOHNER, Christel (foreword)
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- Trade Edition
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- 2007
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 54.33
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Los Angeles: Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 2007. Trade Edition. Fine. Softcover : pp. [9] 631 [632] : illustrated throughout : includes essays by Richard Crownshaw, Deborah Cullen, Adrian Daub and many more : this volume also includes the first English translation of a landmark interview with Sebald in which he discusses his use of images : illustrated French… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 54.33
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Re-Covered Rose; A Case Study in Book Cover Design as Intersemiotic Translation
by SONZOGNI, Marco
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- 2011
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SGD 54.33
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2011. Near fine. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [3] 181 [184] : illustrated : mostly blue glossy boards.
Board corners pushed. "When a reader picks up a book, the essence of the text has been translated into the visual space of the cover. Using Umberto Eco's bestseller The Name of the Rose… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nigger Heaven
by VAN VECHTEN, Carl
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- Used - Good
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- fair
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- First Edition
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- 1926
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 181.10
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London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. Good/fair. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [2] 3-386 [388] : brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine : thick black paper dust jacket lettered in grey.
Jacket brittle and in two pieces (now protected in plastic); corners bumped; all edges foxed and foxing to the first and last leaves. Van Vechten's… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cutting Timber; An Irritation
by BERNHARD, Thomas
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- Used - Near fine
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- very good
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- First Edition
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- 1988
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 45.28
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London: Quartet Books, 1988. First Edition. Near fine/very good. Hardcover : pp. [vi] [2] 148 [2 blank] translated from the German by Ewald Osers : blue cloth boards : gilt to spine : pale grey illustrated jacket.
Block edges toned; head of spine pushed; jacket faintly scratched and edges creased. Item Price
SGD 45.28
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture. By The Right Hon. Lord Lytton; (Knebworth Edition, Vol. X)
by LORD LYTTON [Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton]
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1874
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- Hardcover
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 76.97
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London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo : [512]pp. : original half-bound leather : marbled boards : elaborate gilt decorations and lettering to spine : frontispiece : marbled endpapers and page edges.
Small signed ownership label on front endpaper bearing the signature of J. S. Rumsey, Chicago; light edge-wear. Although Lord Lytton (1803-1873)… Read more about this item Item Price
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Young Törless
by MUSIL, Robert
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- Used - Very good
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- 1961
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 13.58
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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1961. Very good. Softcover : pp. [4] 188 [192] : translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser : illustrated cover.
Toned block edge; bookplate pasted to half-title page; sinned spine; booksellers stamp to verso of front cover; cover a little grubby. Robert Musil was an Austrian philosophical writer. Item Price
SGD 13.58
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The Waste Land Suite
by PECK, Marilyn
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- Used - Near fine
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- near fine
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- First Edition
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- 2004
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
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SGD 36.22
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Melbourne: Macmillan, 2004. First Edition. Near fine/near fine. Hardcover : pp. [6] 111 [112] : richly illustrated : orange cloth boards with blind stamped title : gilt to spine : illustrated glossy silver grey dust jacket : Australian Society of Miniature Art (QLD) stapled booklet loosely inserted.
Two pin size fox spots to top edge of block;… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 36.22