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The Story of Little Black Sambo
by Helen Bannerman
- Condition
- Used - fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Published
- January 1923
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780397300068
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$42.30
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HarperCollins, January 1923. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar. Item Price
NZ$42.30
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Stevenson
- Condition
- Used - very good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1886
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
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NZ$10,998.00
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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1886. First. Softcover . Used - very good/No Jacket. Octavo, original buff wrappers printed in red and blue. The '5' in 1885 on the cover copyright date has been changed by the publisher to '6' as the publisher held back its issue for the new year due to the glut of books being… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$10,998.00
The Man with the Golden Gun
by Ian Fleming
- Condition
- Used - near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1965
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
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NZ$18,189.00
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First. Hardcover . Used - near fine/Near fine. First UK Edition, first state with golden gun embossed in gilt on front board, ‘18s’ on DJ flap. Copies with the embossed gun are considered the rarest of Fleming titles, including limited editions. Due to production costs, and early in the production run, copies were produced… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$18,189.00
Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing his Education: 
to Which is Subjoined a Brief History of the United States
by Noah Webster
- Condition
- Used - very good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1823
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
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NZ$5,076.00
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New Haven, CT: Howe & Spalding, 1823. Hardcover . Used - very good/No Jacket. 8vo. Pale blue paper covered boards spotted and stained with orange (painted?) spine. White paper title on spine. Rebound as evidenced by spine and tasteful new pastedown and endpapers, though boards probably original. Deckled edges. Lectures to a young man on right action (virtue),… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$5,076.00
1990 Venice Biennale, Australia: Artists, Rover Thomas, Trevor Nickolls : exhibition organised by the Art Gallery of Western Australia on behalf of the Australia Council
- Condition
- Used - very good
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9780730907831
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$42.30
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Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1990. Softcover . Used - very good. Sq 8vo; 60pp. Item Price
NZ$42.30
The Life and Work of Fredson Bowers
by G. Thomas Tanselle
- Condition
- Used - near fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1993
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780188363104
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
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NZ$50.76
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Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1993. Hardcover . Used - near fine/No Jacket. 8vo; 210pp. Second printing (2003). Superficial scuffing to covers, otherwise appears 'as new'. No dj. Item Price
NZ$50.76
California Bibliographies
by Francis J. Weber
- Condition
- Used - near fine
- Published
- 1991
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
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NZ$59.22
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Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1991. Hardcover . Used - near fine. 8vo; 58pp. One of 150 copies signed (by author, and one other...the printer?). Prelims and textblock edges foxed, otherwise 'as new'. Item Price
NZ$59.22
California Bibliographies
by Francis J. Weber
- Condition
- Used - very good
- Published
- 1991
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$59.22
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Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1991. Hardcover . Used - very good. 8vo; 58pp. Signed by author and one other (printer?), and with colored title page, one of 150 copies thus. Bookplate of Californiana collector, John Patrick Ford, front pastedown. Light foxing to textblock edges, otherwise Fine. Item Price
NZ$59.22
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by Ted Greenwald
- Condition
- Used - fine
- Published
- 2008
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
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NZ$33.84
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Cuneiform Press, 2008. Softcover . Used - fine. 8vo. Item Price
NZ$33.84
Missing Men of Saturn
by Philip Latham; Schomburg, Alex (illu.)
- Condition
- Used - near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good plus
- Edition
- First Edition stated
- Published
- 1953
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$109.98
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Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1953. First Edition stated. Hardcover . Used - near fine/Very good plus. 8vo. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Unclipped ($2.00) dj, lightly rubbed, with 4 small chips to extremities, one reaching the publisher lettering on the spine. Stain residue to bottom of real panel, perhaps price sticker residue. Overall,… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$109.98
Wee Ann, A Story for Little Girls
by Ethel Calvert Phillips
- Condition
- Used - near very good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Published
- 1919
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$59.22
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919. Hardcover . Used - near very good/Fair. Large 12 mo., Gift inscription, half-title. Square, tight copy with unmarked text. Partial white ring, half dollar sized, on front panel of blue cloth boards with other trivial cosmetic issues. Unclipped DJ, very scarce thus with numerous crease marks, chips to extremities. In… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$59.22
Adolph Levi: The Life and Times of a San Diego Pioneer
by Robert N. Levi
- Condition
- Used - near very good
- Published
- 2004
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$42.30
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San Diego: self-published, 2004. Softcover . Used - near very good. Large 8vo. An unmarked copy with front cover slightly curled and 2' crease mark to upper fore-edge corner. Item Price
NZ$42.30
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Historic California in Bookplates
by Clare Ryan Talbot; Robert Ernest Cowan, Intro.
- Condition
- Used - near very good
- Published
- 1936
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
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NZ$126.90
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Los Angeles: Graphic Press, 1936. Hardcover . Used - near very good. 8vo; 287pp. Bookplate of Californiana collector, John Patrick Ford. Additionally, tipped in is the bookplate of the author of the Introduction, Robert Ernest Cowan (not sure if this is his copy, or if he supplied bookplates with copies of the books, or at least… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$126.90
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The Niagara Book: A Complete Souvenir of Niagara Falls
by Mark Twain, et al.
- Condition
- Used - near very good
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1893
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
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NZ$169.20
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Buffalo: Underhill and Nichols, 1893. First. Hardcover . Used - near very good. 18mo; 225pp. First Edition, first issue (3 line copyright, p 226 blank, no ads...BAL3437). Rebound in half-leather and green linen boards with marbeled endpapers. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Leather rubbed at joints and linen boards rubbed and mottled.… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$169.20
Pretty Pictures: A Fable. Miniature Book.
by Tom Neal
- Condition
- Used - fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near very good
- Published
- 1967
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
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NZ$84.60
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Los Angeles, 1967. Hardcover . Used - fine/Near very good. Miniature Book; Miniature Book. 2 7/8 x 2. <b> Limited to 150 copies. Signed.</b> Front panel of dj with 3 short tears and a few tiny smudge marks/stains. Item Price
NZ$84.60
Liberator: 50th Anniversary B-24 Special Edition, 1939-1989
by Ray Wagner
- Condition
- Used - near fine
- Published
- 1989
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
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NZ$33.84
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San Diego: San Diego Aerospace Museum, 1989. Softcover . Used - near fine. 4to; 33pp. Superficial wear to covers and a slight 1' vertical fade band to front cover at fold. Basically looks nearly 'as new'. Item Price
NZ$33.84
Historic Sites Survey York County
by Catawba Regional Planning Council
- Condition
- Used - very good
- Published
- 1977
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
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NZ$50.76
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Rock Hill, 1977. Softcover . Used - very good. Large 8 vo. clean and unmarked text with unbroken binding. Item Price
NZ$50.76
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
by Rose Allyn, compiler; Burd, G. M., and Higgins, Violet Moore (illu.)
- Condition
- Used - near very good
- Published
- 1919
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
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NZ$50.76
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Chicago: Stanton and Van Fliet Co., 1919. Hardcover . Used - near very good. 8vo; 126 pp plus 1 pg of ads. Eight color illustrations by Burd, and b-and-w illustrations by Higgins. Pg 15 with short tear, in margn only. Endpapers lightly stained. Color illustrated covers lightly stained and moderately scuffed, although illustration itself… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$50.76
In Praise of Walking
by Joy Lichtenstein
- Condition
- Used - good
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
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NZ$59.22
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San Francisco: Self-Published, 1942. Softcover . Used - good. 8vo; 12pp. Limited to 500 copies. Inscribed. An essay on the virtues of walking from the author of The Blue and the Gold: A Tale of Life at the University of California' (1901). Green wrappers, uneven sunning to front cover, extremities rubbed and bumped, spine… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$59.22
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Chicago's 1934, a Century of Progress
- Condition
- Used - near very good
- Published
- 1934
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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San Diego, California, USA
- Item Price
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NZ$33.84
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Chicago: The Geographical Publishing Co., 1934. Softcover . Used - near very good. oblong 12mo; Unpaginated, but 60 pp. including covers. Nearly every page with a captioned B&W photo. Very light rubbing to covers, 1' crease mark to lower foredge corner of rear cover, and an almost imperceptible 1 and 1/2' round stain to front cover… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$33.84
