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The Country Diary Of an Edwardian Lady
by Edith Holden
“The first publication of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady in 1977 was a publishing phenomenon. The facsimile reproduction of Edith Holden’s naturalist’s diary for the year 1906 sold over one million copies in its first year and held the record number of appearances in bestseller lists for 15 years. Now on the 20th anniversary of its publication, we are reissuing the book. Edith Holden’s handwritten works, including her favourite poems, personal thoughts and observations on the wildlife...
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Das Tagebuch der kleinen Dame (2 Bücher) Auf den Spuren von André Gide 1918-1934 und 1934-1951
by Rysselberghe, Maria van:
Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, 1984+1986..
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NZ$28.09
Days of Our Years 1903 - 1938
by Pierre Van Passen
Book is in Fine/Near Fine condition with untrimmed leaves but inside binding split by title page. Dust on top pages of book. Small bookplate inside front cover. No dj. Almost no wear to cover but some fading on spine.
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NZ$29.79
ILLUSTRATED PHYTOTHERAPY, BOOK TWO
by THOMAS DESCHAUER
MAYWOOD, ILL.: THOMAS DESCHAUER PUBLICATIONS, 1945 NICE LOOKING BROWN TEXTURED COVER, REINFORCED SPINE, BLACK PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. GREAT DETAIL OF PLANTS AND USES. ARTWORK OF PLANTS. NAMES OF HERBS AND PAGES IN BACK. BOOK ASSOCIATED WITH THE NATIONAL HERB COMPANY. FOR THE LOVER OF HERBS AND DETAIL ON USES. Phytotherapy is the use of plants or herbs to manage health conditions. It also refers to substances that come from plants or herbs. Medicinal plants and herbs are a form...
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NZ$55.32
Don't Bet against Me!: Beating the Odds Against Breast Cancer and in Life (Association copy signed by Deanna Favre)
by Deanna Favre; Angela Elwell Hunt
Like New/tight binding. No wear to dj. but scratched. Inscribed on Front End page "To Jim, God Bless!! (with a smiley underneath) Deanna Favre.
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NZ$170.22
THE WAY OUT A True Story of Ruin and Survival, Advance Reading Copy
by Childs, Craig
Little, Brown & Company. Near Fine. 2004. First Edition. Softcover. 0316610666 . Advance proof. Excellent condition. Slight soiling upper edge of pages, light creasing to upper corner across pages & bottom cover corner. Description: In this taut, intensely dramatic narrative-the record of a perilous excursion into a remote and unmappable labyrinth of canyons in the American Southwest-two men confront immutable forces of nature and the limits of their own sanity... (400-noto) ; 8vo .
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NZ$16.17
DISEASES OF WOMEN FOR THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER; NATIONAL MEDICAL MONOGRAPHS
by PAUL TITUS, M.D.; EDITED BY MORRIS FISHBEIN, M.D
New York, New York: NATIONAL MEDICAL BOOK CO., INC., 1937 GREEN TEXTURED COVER WITH GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. NOTE ON PAPER INSIDE STATING BOOK OWNED BY GRANDPA, A SURGEON IN THE CIVIL WAR AND GENERAL PRACTITIONER AFTERWARD. ( HAD HIS TOE SHOT OFF BY A CANON BALL. TITUS WAS A OBSTETRICIAN AND GYNECOLOGIST IN PITTSBURGH. 17 CHAPTERS: INCLUDING ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY, GYNECOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS, MALFORMATIONS, DISEASES & INFECTIONS, TUMORS, INJURIES, UTERUS,...
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NZ$43.41
Mountain Passages
by Bernstein, Jeremy
320 page biography of mountains and those that climb them. Remainder mark to bottom page edges. bx39
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NZ$13.62
Thoreau
by Canby, Henry Seidel ( SIGNED
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. Book. Fine. Hard Cover Slipcased. Signed by Author(s). Limited / Numbered / Signed. Fine, unread copy, in original browned glassine jacket, which is missing an inch and a half strip from top of back panel and part of spine, and has small chips to bottom of front panel. The slipcase is solid, with a little rubbing to extremities. Fortunately, the glassine, and slipcase have kept this copy exceptionally bright and clean. It appears unopened. Top edge gilt. #...
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NZ$218.12
The Long Exile: A Tale Of Inuit Betrayal And Survival In The High Arctic
by McGrath, Melanie []
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. . First US edition [stated]. 268+ pages. Remainder dot else Near Fine copy [light spine heel bumping] in Fine Dust Wrapper. .Cel bx B
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NZ$20.09
MY PARADISE IS HELL: THE STORY OF THE CARIBBEAN
by Balink, Albert
New York: Vista Publishing Corporation. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Dark beige/light brown cloth with dark brown spine lettering/rules, 331 pages, map endpapers, appendix: the Carribbean islands, the Monroe Doctrine, Treaty of Petropolis; index. VG+ copy [light fraying to spine heel] but lacking the Dust Wrapper. .
bx 99
bx 99
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NZ$21.79
The Art of the Old West
by Rossi, Paul
Very light wear in like dust jacket. See photos bx95
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NZ$42.56
Sea of Glory
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Illustrated with photographs and maps, notes, selected bibliography, acknowledgments, index. Very good with spine end bumping in Near Fine Dust Wrapper with very light wear. bx108
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NZ$21.28
Maasai Days
by Bentsen, Cheryl
New York, New York: Summit Books , New York. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hard Cover. 0671660357 . Size : 6 by 9 inches Pages: 286 Condition : A fine book in a fine Dust Jacket in a Mylar protector. ; A indepth look at the Maasai tribe that 50 years after they were made famous by noted author Isak Dinesen . ; Photographs .
bx 179
bx 179
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NZ$17.02
Higher Purpose: the Heroic Story of the First Disabled Man to Conquer Everest
by Whittaker, Tom; Dodd, Johnny
273 pages of courage and determination as Tom Whittaker climbs Everest after a tragic accident left him disabled. Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall
mil 8
mil 8
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NZ$17.02
Radical Redemption: The Real Story of Manny Mill
by Mill, Manny; Skallerup, Jude
Book like new Inscription on inside cover "Jesus is the Real Deal M. Mill Luke 9:23"
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NZ$25.53
Mother's Life in Early Okalahoma (my memoirs) Signed Association Copy
by Velma Warrick Chenoweth (born in 1899)
A 67 pg. memoir which includes photographs. Preface from Velma's daughter Vida states that these memoirs were written from her wheel chair at the Methodist Home in Enid OK, at the age of 89. Includes her family tree; she was born in 1899.
SIGNED Association Copy "To Florence and Louise from Velma"
Ships First Class with Delivery Confirmation within the continental U.S.
SIGNED Association Copy "To Florence and Louise from Velma"
Ships First Class with Delivery Confirmation within the continental U.S.
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NZ$59.58
The Find of a Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos
by Horwitz, Sylvia L
278 page biography about the discoverer of the ancient civilization of Crete. Condition: light dust soiling top page edges, else fine in fine dust jacket. See Photos
bx tv2
bx tv2
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NZ$17.02
Elvis: A Life In Pictures
by Frew, Tim
Book Fine/Near Fine. Dust Jacket Near Fine/VG+, crinkled along top edge, has scratches/movement marks. Priority Mail is not available for this oversized book.
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NZ$34.03
Music in Every Room: around the World in a Bad Mood
by Krich, John
NY, McGraw Hill, 1984 First Thus, 304 page travel book. Condition: Very light wear.
BX tv2
BX tv2
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NZ$17.02
ANATOMIC COPPERPLATES ALONG WITH EXPLANATIONS; TEN PLATES OF THE INTESTINES, MUSCLES AND LIGAMENTS.
by I.C.A. MAYER
BERLIN AND LEIPZIG: I.C.A. MAYER, 1786 RARE MEDICAL BOOK IN GERMAN, 10 COPPERPLATES AND GREAT DETAIL ON INTESTINES, MUSCLES AND LIGAMENTS. BOOK HAS A DARK BROWN COVER DESIGN WITH WEAR ON EDGES. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. THICK PAPER WITH LIGHT FOXING INSIDE. PAGES ARE TIGHT AND IN GOOD SHAPE, COPPERPLATES HAVE NICE ART AND ARE FOLDOUT. MAYER WAS A COURT COUNSELOR AND PROFESSOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE IN FRANKFORT. GREAT COLLECTOR ITEM. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.
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NZ$383.85
Alone
by D'Aboville, Gerard
New York, New York: Arcade Pub. 1993 1st ed. 167pp Fine in Fine dust jacket. clph
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NZ$20.43
RADIO FOR MILLIONS
by EDITORIAL STAFF POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY
NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1943 LIGHT BROWN COVER, BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND PRINT ON SPINE, NICE LOOKING BOOK, FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE, UNDER NAME LISTED U.S.S. SPEARFISH. USS Spearfish (SS-190), a Sargo-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the spearfish, any of several large, powerful, pelagic fishes of the genus Tetrapturus allied to the marlins and sailfishes. THE BOOK HAS A GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION ON RADIO. THERE IS A LARGE NUMBER OF PICTURES AND...
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NZ$41.70
Let X Be Excitement
by Harris Christie
NY: Aladdin Atheneum 1969. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Readers crease edge wear, and rubbing to covers, sunning to spine and rear cover, pages toned. Biography of aeronautical engineer and test pilot.
bx13
bx13
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NZ$17.02
COMPENDIUM OF PERCUSSION & AUSCULTATION, AND OF THE PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES AFFECTING THE LUNGS AND HEART
by AUSTIN FLINT, M.D
NEW YORK: WILLIAM WOOD & COMPANY, 1870 RARE BOOK, DARK BROWN COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. SUBJECTS INCLUDE VESICULAR RESONANCE, DIMINISHED, DULNESS, ABSCENCE, FLATNESS, TYMPSITIC, AMPHORIC, CRACKED METAL, VESICULAR MURMUR, RESPIRATORY, BRONCHIAL, TUBULAR, CAVERNOUS, CREPITANT RALE, VOICE, WHISPER AND OTHER TOPICS. Austin Flint I (October 20, 1812 March 13, 1886) was an American physician. He was a founder of Buffalo Medical College, precursor to The State University of New...
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NZ$123.41
Lessons of the Road: an Overland Journey to the East
by Schiffer, Michael
NY, Kenan Press, 1980 First Edition . From the anatolian Highlands to the Himalayas, a voyage of exploration and a quest to define oneself as aman and an American.
Condition:A very good book with a remainder mark to bottom page edges, light foxing to page edges, in fine dust jacket. 8vo, 252 pages.
Amer 31
Condition:A very good book with a remainder mark to bottom page edges, light foxing to page edges, in fine dust jacket. 8vo, 252 pages.
Amer 31
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NZ$17.02
