Rare & Collectible Books from High Desert Books
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Star of the Unborn
by Werfel, Franz
- Condition
- Used - Very good condition both inside and outside
- Published
- 1976
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback With Pictorial Cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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NZ$420.95
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This is a very nice copy of a very hard to find book which explores humanity's future 100,000 years from now! Item Price
NZ$420.95
Daily Light and Strength - 1897 Edition
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Published
- 1897
- Binding
- Bound in flowered covers with gold decor on the spine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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NZ$42.10
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This book contains religious devotions for every day of the year. There is a former owner's gift inscription inside. Item Price
NZ$42.10
The Maiden Voyage - Leatherbound Easton Press Edition
by Marcus, Geoffrey
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Published
- 1987
- Binding
- Bound in dark brown leather with gold lettering and decor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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NZ$42.10
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This is one of the most comprehensive narrative's written of the Titanic's maiden voyage. It is bound in dark brown leather with gold lettering and decor, has gilded page edges, and is illustrated. There is a former owner's bookplate inside. Item Price
NZ$42.10
The Poems of Wordsworth - Bound in Blue Leather
by Wordsworth, William
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Published
- 1926
- Binding
- Bound in blue leather with gold lettering and decor.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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NZ$42.10
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This is a lovely old edition of Wordsworth's poems. It is in Good Conditon with slight fading on the spine. There is a former owner's name inside. Item Price
NZ$42.10
A Kentucky Cardinal
by Allen, James Lane
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Published
- 1899
- Binding
- Bound in green cloth covers with gold lettering
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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NZ$16.84
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This is a very nice copy of an early edition of this collectable book with three of its four original illustrations. Item Price
NZ$16.84
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Astronauts on the Moon: The Story of the Apollo Moon Landings - a Hallmark Pop-Up Book
by Hendricks, Stanley
- Condition
- Used - Good inide with some cover wear
- Binding
- Bound in pictorial hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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NZ$16.84
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This historic pop-up book is in Good Condition inside with some cover wear. There is a former owner's gift inscription inside. Item Price
NZ$16.84
The Gift of the Wise Men
by Henry, O.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Published
- 1911
- Binding
- Bound in beige hardcover with dustjacket and glassine tissue wrap
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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NZ$126.28
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This is a beautifully illustrated edition of a Christmas classic! There is a former owner's name inside. Item Price
NZ$126.28
A Atudy In Scarlet and A Scandal In Bohemia - Early 1895 Edition
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Published
- 1895
- Binding
- Bound in green pictorial cloth hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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NZ$210.48
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"A Study In Scarlet" was first published in 1887, and it was the first of the Sherlock Holmes novels. The copy we offer for sale was published only a few years later. It is in good condition and has a former owner's gift inscription on the front endsheet. It is bound in green cloth covers with a red floral design… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$210.48
In Memoriam
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Published
- 1919
- Binding
- Bound in white hardcover boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$42.10
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There is a former owner's Presentation Card on the front endsheet. Item Price
NZ$42.10
Idylls of the King
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Published
- 1902
- Binding
- Bound in pictorial hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$42.10
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This is a lovely book with a beautiful color illustration on the cover. There is a former owner's gift inscription inside dated . Item Price
NZ$42.10
The Winter's Tale
by Shakespeare, William
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Published
- 1919
- Binding
- Bound in red leather
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$42.10
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A part of the Temple Shakespeare editions. There is a former owner's gift inscription inside. Item Price
NZ$42.10
The Prefaces, Proverbs, and Poems of Benjamin Franklin Originally Published in Poor Richard's Almanac for 1733 - 1738
by Franklin, Benjamin
- Condition
- Used - Good condition with some cover wear
- Published
- circa 1900
- Binding
- Bound in red leather
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$42.10
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This book is bound in red leather with gold lettering and decor on the cover and spine. Item Price
NZ$42.10
The Works of George Eliot - Complete Nottingham Society Eight Volume Set
by Eliot, George
- Condition
- Used - Good condition with some edge wear
- Edition
- De Luxe Edition
- Published
- circa 1890's
- Binding
- Bound in 3/4 leather with dark cloth covers
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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NZ$328.34
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This eight volume set contains the following works by George Eliot:
Silas Marner, Scenes of a Clerical Life, Lifted Veil---Brother Jacob, Adam Bede, Mill on the Floss, Romola, Felix Holt, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, The Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Essays, Poetical Works.
This is the Edition De Luxe published by the Nottingham Society. The volumes are bound in 3/4 leather (leather spines and… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$328.34
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life - Two Volume Set
by Darwin, Charles
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Edition
- 6th Ed., 33rd thousand
- Published
- 1888
- Binding
- Bound in 3/4 leather with marbled covers
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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NZ$2,104.75
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This complete two volume set is the Sixth Edition, 33rd thousand. The volumes are bound in 3/4 leather (leather spines and corners) with marbled covers and endsheets, and gold lettering and decor on the spines. The tops of the page edges are gilded. There is the handwritten name and date (1890) and bookplate of a former owner inside. Both volumes… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$2,104.75
Five Volume Leather Bound Set of Browning's Works: Poems, Volumes 1 and 2; Men and Women; Sordello, Stratford, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day; Dramatis Personae
by Browning, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Published
- 1864
- Binding
- Bound in 3/4 leather with marbled covers
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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NZ$294.66
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This five volume set is bound in 3/4 leather (leather spines and corners) with marbled board covers, marbled page edges, and marbled endsheets. Some leather on the covers shows slight scuffing. The leather on the spines is in very good condition and has gold decor with red and black labels.There is a former owner's name and date pencilled in two… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$294.66
The Youth's Keepsake: A Christmas and New Year's Present
- Condition
- Used - Good with slight spine wear
- Published
- circa 1840's
- Binding
- Bound in dark cloth hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$109.45
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This collectiion of stories and poetry fom the 1840's is in good condition on the outside with slight wear on the spine, and very good condition of the inside. It is bound in dark cloth with gold lettering and decor on the spine. Item Price
NZ$109.45
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Queen's Gardens: A Paper For Girls: Volume 25, Number 1; January 7, 1939 through December 30, 1939, bound into one volume
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition with very slight cover wear
- Published
- 1939
- Binding
- Bound in green cloth hardcover with gold lettering
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$42.10
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Queen's Gardens was a weekly magazine which published stories and poetry for girls. Each issue was also well illustrated. This volume being offered for sale contains all of the weekly issues for the year 1939 bound into one volume. It is in Very Good Condition. Item Price
NZ$42.10
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Queen's Gardens: A Paper For Girls: Volume 245, Number 1; January 1, 1938 through December 31, 1938, bound into one volume
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Published
- 1938
- Binding
- Bound in green cloth hardcover with gold lettering
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$42.10
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Queen's Gardens was a weekly magazine which published stories and poetry for girls. Each issue was also well illustrated. This volume being offered for sale contains all of the weekly issues for the year 1938 bound into one volume. It is in Very Good Condition. Item Price
NZ$42.10
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Queen's Gardens: A Paper For Girls: Volume 25, Number 1; January 7, 1939 through December 30, 1939, bound into one volume
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Published
- 1939
- Binding
- Bound in green cloth hardcover with gold lettering
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$42.10
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Queen's Gardens was a weekly magazine which published stories and poetry for girls. Each issue was also well illustrated. This volume being offered for sale contains all of the weekly issues for the year 1939 bound into one volume. It is in Very Good Condition. Item Price
NZ$42.10
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Queen's Gardens: A Paper For Girls: Volume XXIII, Number 1; January 2, 1937 through December 25, 1937, bound into one volume
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Published
- 1937
- Binding
- Bound in green cloth hardcover with gold lettering
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$42.10
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Queen's Gardens was a weekly magazine which published stories and poetry for girls. Each issue was also well illustrated. This volume being offered for sale contains all of the weekly issues for the year 1937 bound into one volume. It is in Very Good Condition. Item Price
NZ$42.10