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Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biography of Vita Sackville-West
by Brown, Jane
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1985
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780670801633
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- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$18.18
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London: Viking, 1985. generally fine copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$18.18
Alfie: The Life and Times of Alfie Byrne
by White, Trevor
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2017
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$18.18
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Dublin: Penguin, 2017. generally fine copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$18.18
Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters
by Wilde, Oscar - Edited By Merlin Holland)
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- Published
- 2007
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$27.27
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New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007. generally fine copy.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$27.27
Memoir
by McGahern, John
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2005
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$14.54
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London: Faber & Faber, 2005. generally fine copy, no markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$14.54
The Shadow of the Telescope - A Biography of John Herschel
by Buttmann, Gunther
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1974
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$27.27
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UK: Abacus, 1974. generally fine condition. Illustrated with photos and drawings. Translated from the German.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$27.27
At Five in the Afternoon - My Battle with Male Cancer
by Murphy, Michael
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2009
- Binding
- Paperback
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- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$10.91
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Ireland: Brandon, 2009. sound clean copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$10.91
The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin
by Gauguin, Paul (trs. Van Wyck Brooks)
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1930
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$21.81
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London: Heinemann, 1930. In blue cloth binding of Travellers' Library series (which Heinemann had taken over from Cape), dustwrapper chipped at spine ends, but otherwise sound, book itself clean and sound, nice copy. First edition thus (previous publication was as a pricy limited edition).. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$21.81
Richard Strauss: The Life Of A Non Hero
by Marek, George R.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1967
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$18.18
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London: Gollancz, 1967. dustwrapper edge-worn, book quite sound.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$18.18
A Reasonable Rebel, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
by Brinitzer, Carl
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1960
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$27.27
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London: Allen & Unwin, 1960. sound clean copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$27.27
Boswell's London Journal, 1762-3: now first published from the original Manuscript
by Boswell, James, (ed. Pottle, F. A.)
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1950
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$18.18
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New York: McGraw-Hil, 1950. Spine title faded, some corners worn, internally sound and clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$18.18
Raven Seek Thy Brother
by Maxwell, Gavin
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1968
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$18.18
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London: Longmans, 1968. edges a bit brown-spotted, else sound clean copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$18.18
George Romney and his Art
by Gamlin, Hilda
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1894
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$36.36
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London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1894. original green cloth, gilt on spine, blind-stamped on boards, some occasional mild foxing in text throughout, illustrated, nice copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$36.36
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Le "Tueur de Lions". The Life and Adventures of Jules Gérard, The 'Lion-Killer' Comprising His Ten Years' Campaigns Among the Lions of Northern Africa
by Gérard, Jules
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1856
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$454.48
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London: Lambert and Co., 1856. undated but 1856 first edition, in half green morocco and marbled paper on boards, mildly scuffed with age, with frontispiece and extra illustrated title page, endpapers with some discoloration, a few brown spots on outer couple of leaves. Aristocratic bookplate of previous owner pasted to front pastedown (I do not recognise it - photo available… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$454.48
The Story of My Life, with Her Letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher Ann Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy
by Keller, Helen
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Fifth Edition.
- Published
- 1909
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$27.27
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. green cloth with some fading, front free endpaper torn out, a few pencilled marginal markings, newspaper photo of Keller and Polly Thompson dated 1946 tipped in on early blank.. Fifth Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$27.27
Split Focus : An Involvement in Two Decades
by Hopkinson, Peter
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Fifth Edition.
- Published
- 1969
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$21.81
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London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969. sound clean copy, . Fifth Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$21.81
A Story Half Told - a Wartime Autobiography
by Leslie, Anita
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Fifth Edition.
- Published
- 1983
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780091512101
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$18.18
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London: Hutchinson, 1983. dustwrapper price-clipped, small tear at base of spine, no ownership inscriptions, illustrated. The author was daughter of Sir Shane Leslie, of Castle Leslie, Co Monaghan. The main focus of the book is on her work as an ambulance driver at the front during the battle for Alsace and into Germany.. Fifth Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$18.18
Emerald and Nancy: Lady Cunard and Her Daughter
by Fielding, Daphne
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Fifth Edition.
- Published
- 1968
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$36.36
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London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1968. dustwrapper with couple of small tears, a little foxing to text block edges and endpapers, else clean sound copy.. Fifth Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$36.36
Toulouse-Lautrec
by Mack, Gerstle
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1938
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$54.54
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. some foxing around text block edges, fold-out genealogy of Toulouse family damaged at foredge due to incorrect folding by previous owner, else generally fine throughout. Interesting association copy - gift inscription on endpaper signed by Sean O Faolain, dated 1938. I cannot decipher the name of the reciipient - see accompanying photo.. First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$54.54
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Memoirs of Sir Edwin Landseer. A Sketch of The Life of The Artist, Illustrated With Reproductions of Twenty-four of His Most Popular Works
by Stephens, F G.
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1874
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$81.81
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London: George Bell, 1874. original green decorated bevel-edged cloth bumped and worn, text block edges all gilt, text block tight and generally clean and unfoxed. All 24 reproductions are present, with their tissue guards. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Quarto. Item Price
NZ$81.81
Few Come Out - Recollections and Reflections of a Sometime Trader's Assistant in Nigeria and Dahomey 1924-1928
by Clements, A.W.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1956
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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NZ$63.63
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UK: Privately Published, 1956. blue cloth sunned in spine area, otherwise clean sound copy. Inscribed on front endpaper "With best wishes from the author, 1964". Nicely-written memoir - I think it was modesty which caused the author to have only a few copies printed for his friends, rather than submit it for general publication.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$63.63