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Bech: A Book
by UPDIKE John
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1970
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780233962702
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 12.37
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1970 second impression of first UK edition, clipped dust jacket with small split at top corenr fold. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Item Price
SGD 12.37
The Birds of Paradise
by SCOTT Paul
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1962
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 16.49
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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962 light dust to top edge, DW unclipped, book clean, 264pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Item Price
SGD 16.49
The Silences Between ( Moeraki Converstaions)
by HULME Keri
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1982
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780196480077
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 103.05
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Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1982 Hulme's rare first work before her Booker winning The Bone People, and this copy is the TRUE FIRST printing in 1982, has minor handling wear, no incriptions apart from bookseller pencil, verse, 55pp, slight sun fade to spine. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Item Price
SGD 103.05
Love in Suburbia
by CONWAY John
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1964
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 20.61
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Derby: Monarch Books, 1964 heel of spine split, Monarch #455 cover painting by Ray Johnson, first edition PBO. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Ray Johnson. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Item Price
SGD 20.61
Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
by GIBBONS Stella
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1949
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 78.32
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London: Longmans Green and co, 1949 DW not price clipped, a clean tear down rear flap fold has detached the rear flap, apart from this and very minimal rubbing to spine ends is a VG DW, with a nice unfaded design to the front. book boards very slightly dust soiled otherwise book as well VG+, excellent copy of this British… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 78.32
Devil Ray, Devil Woman
by SHUBIN Seymour
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 28.85
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Sydney: Beacon Beacon 167, pulp novel seems to be a UK publisher with this the Australian issue? undated but would guess early 1960s. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Item Price
SGD 28.85
Coeds Three
by JOYCE Carlton
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1964
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 20.61
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Derby: Monarch Books, 1964 bookseller stamp to first page, Monarch #463 cover painting by Len Goldberg, first edition PBO. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Len Goldberg. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Item Price
SGD 20.61
Other voices other Rooms
by CAPOTE Truman
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- reprint
- Published
- 1949
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 16.49
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New York: Signet, 1949 VG third printing July 1949 , upper cover a little curled, lamination not peeling, Signet 700, rear cover lamination chipped to the fore edge . 142pp . reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Item Price
SGD 16.49
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Christina Alberta's Father
by WELLS H. G.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- facsimile
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1925
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 32.98
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1925 red cloth with black titling to spine, endpapers toned, spine sunned, name to fep, 410pp, social commentary in form of novel with a post Great War spiritualist angle, facsimile of an unclipped DW which had trimming to four corners of the fold in flaps, small nick at top of front panel, spine ends some minor… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 32.98
The Tavern Knight
by SABATINI Rafael
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 20.61
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London: Hutchinson assumed first, red cloth (not paper) boards with black titling, lightly rubbed boards, bookplate to fep, stationers stamp to title page reads ' N.NICKELS Railway Bookstall Dunedin Bookseller' in oval cartouche, 272pp, spine leans. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Item Price
SGD 20.61
Anglo-Saxon Attitutdes
by WILSON Angus
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1956
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 16.49
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1956 lacks rear fep otherwise tidy, unclipped DW with Ronald Searle art with a few short edge tears and some chipping, 412pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Ronald Searle. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Item Price
SGD 16.49
A Civil Contract
by HEYER Georgette
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1961
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 37.10
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London: Heinemann, 1961 small crease to spine ends, slight foxing prelims and closed edges. DW is unclipped, some minor rubbing to corners and edges, a few short edge tears or nicks. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Item Price
SGD 37.10
A Kind of Loving
by BARSTOW Stan
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1960
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 20.61
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London: Michael Joseph, 1960 unclipped dust jacket, minor age soiling, slight fade, closed edges browned, first work by this author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Adrian Bailey . 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Item Price
SGD 20.61
Slay-Ride
by FRANCIS Dick
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780718111502
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 20.61
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London: Michael Joseph, 1973 excellent DW under protective cover, DW spine MAY be slightly sunned, hard to tell, book is VG excepting former owners name on the front pastedown AND the rear paste down in ink, Front free end paper has been neatly removed and there is a small booksellers label to the foot of the front… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 20.61
A Kind of Loving
by BARSTOW Stan
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1960
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 12.37
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London: Michael Joseph, 1960 slight mottling to boards, some foxing to endpapers, ink name to fep, light foxing to closed edges, top edge has a small pencil line. page 83 has a smalltear and crease at top margin, DW complete and unclipped but a bit soiled and with tape residue on reverse at head of front panel, some minor… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 12.37
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The Man with the Golden Arm
by ALGREN Nelson
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1959
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 61.83
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London: Neville Spearman, 1959 first UK edition. DW unclipped with little sign of wear, some scattered foxing to the white lower panel, Book starts with half title but I believe it was bound this way as at the rear the final leaf is also the final page (343) followed by a blank, no leaves appear to be removed. … Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 61.83
The Angels Weep
by SMITH Wilbur
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1982
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 61.83
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London: Heinemann, 1982 dust jacket is not price clipped , this has no printed price to the flap, 506pp + 6pp adverts at rear, very occasional small spot of foxing to the closed edges. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Item Price
SGD 61.83
The Lion's Legacy
by DYMOKE Juliet
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1974
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780234778296
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 24.73
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London: Dobson, 1974 DW price clipped with tiny split bottom corner otherwise very tidy, top of free end paper clipped corner, book otherwise VG, 281pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Item Price
SGD 24.73
The Last Love
by COSTAIN Thomas B.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1964
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 12.37
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New York: Pocket Books, 1964 first thus paperback edition, bookseller stamp to first page, mild handling wear to wrappers, 423pp + adverts, historical ficiton detailing Napoleon's exile to St. Helena . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall. Item Price
SGD 12.37
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The Process
by GYSIN Brion
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780586039069
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
- Item Price
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SGD 144.27
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Frogmore: Panther, 1973 first UK a-paperback issue with distinctive cover art, 236pp, Brion Gysin was a sometime collaborator with William S. Burroughs Drug themed Psychedelic Novel, TIDY used paperback, label lift to cover blacked out with marker (just below the Panther logo), some age and handling shows, still tight and tidy though,. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 144.27