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Another World
Language: English
Published by Viking Penguin, LOND, 1998
ISBN 10: 0670870587 ISBN 13: 9780670870585
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine first British edition of this novel by the winner of the 1985 Booker Prize. Tight, clean copy.
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![Stock image for The Green Knight [Sir Gawain and the Green Knight] for sale by June Samaras](https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780143136231-uk-300.jpg)
Soft cover. Condition: As New. First Thus. A chivalric romance that was written anonymously and first published in the late 14th century as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This modern English translation by Bernard O'Donoghue was re-issued to coincide with the release of a movie based on the legend. Foreword by David Lowery. writer and director of the movie. xxiii, 94p. New except for tiny remainder mark.
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A BOOK OF ENGLISH CLOCKS.
Published by Lond. King Penguin., 1950
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
(revised ed.) Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 64pp. 64b/w plates. Very good copy. King Penguin No.28.
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THE DEATH OF GENTLEMANLY CAPITALISM.
Published by Lond. Penguin., 2000
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
First Edition
8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket (top corner sl. chipped) 398pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. How new regulations devised in an attempt to control a modernised British finance industry in the 1980's led to a dramatic shift in the present-day financial landscape.
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MENDELEYEV'S DREAM. The Quest for the Elements.
Published by Lond. Penguin., 2000
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Or.bds. Dustjacket. 309pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Unravels the dramatic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.
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DESERT PLACES.
Published by Lond. Penguin., 1996
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Or.bds. Dustjacket. 279pp. Col.plates. Name on ffe., else Fine. 1st ed. The author tells of her brave & moving journey through the Thar Desert in India with the Rajasthani nomads.
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SIGNED, PICPUS. Translated by David Coward.
Published by Lond. Penguin Books., 2015
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
Association Member: ANZAAB ILAB
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
Col.Ill.wrapps. 165pp. Fine. paperback edition. A Maigret story.
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GUNS BEFORE BUTTER.
Published by Lond. Penguin Books., 1963
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Green wrappers. 279pp. Fine. 1st paperback ed. A Van der Valk story.
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HOW ADAM SMITH CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE. An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness.
Published by Lond. Portfolio Penguin., 2014
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Or.bds. Dustjacket. 261pp. Fine. 1st ed. Can economists teach us how to live a good life? The author believes so.
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THE AENEID. A new prose translation by David West.
Published by Lond. Penguin Books., 2001
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
(rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 349pp. Very good copy. Virgil composed The Aenid between 29 & 19BC, an epic poem in Latin about the wanderings of Aeneas, a Trojan who travels to Italy to battle the Latins, & then become the mythological founder of Rome.
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THE DEATH OF KING ARTHUR. Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
Published by Lond. Penguin Classics., 2010
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Or.bds. Dustjacket. 316pp. (sl foxing) Very good copy. 1st ed. Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur made the legend of King Arthur immortal. Peter Ackroyd's new retelling transforms this medieval epic into a dramatic modern tale bringing life to a world of bravery.
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LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP AND OTHER USEFUL WRITINGS. Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Christine Alexander.
Published by Lond. Penguin Books., 2018
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
Or.dec.cloth. 446pp. Bound-in marker ribbon. Fine. Jane Austen's brilliantly sophisticated teenage writings constitute her beginnings as a writer. The title on the front board and title page misprinted as "Freindship".
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A BOOK OF ENGLISH CLOCKS.
Published by Lond. King Penguin., 1950
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
Association Member: ANZAAB ILAB
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
(revised ed.) Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 64pp. 64b/w plates. Very good copy. King Penguin No.28.
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Pleasing Myself. From Beowulf to Philip Roth.
Seller: Antiquariat Kai Groß, Gleichen OT Bischhausen, Germany
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
VIII,278 S., Ln. 2, OU.
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THE ENGLISH TRADITION IN DESIGN.
Published by Lond. Penguin., 1947
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Or.dec.bds. (a little rubbed) 36pp. + 72 b/w plates. Sl.foxing, else a very good copy. 1st ed. King Penguin no.34.
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THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY. Edited by Stephen Kersahw.
Published by Lond. Penguin Books., 1991
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
wrapps. 466pp. Fine. An excellent reference.
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BERLIN 1961. Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth.
Published by Lond. Penguin Books., 2012
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
Col.Ill.wrapps. 579pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1961 was a pretty tense time during the Cold War & the construction of the Berlin Wall initiated by Khrushchev in 1961 became a faultline along which a wrong move could trigger a nuclear war.
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THE GREAT CAT MASSACRE. And other episodes in French cultural history.
Published by Lond. Penguin., 1991
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
(rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 300pp. b/w ills. Very Good copy. Examines the bizarre ways of thought in "the age of enlightenment".
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HITLER'S SCIENTISTS. Science, War and the Devil's Pact.
Published by Lond. Penguin Books., 2004
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
Col.Ill.wrapps. 535pp. b/w plates. Very good copy.
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REMOTE PEOPLE.
Published by Lond. Penguin Books., 1985
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
(rep) Ill.wrapps. 183pp. Pages tanned else a good copy. First published 1931. Waugh's travels in Africa.
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THE TALE OF THE GENJI. Translated with an Introduction by Edward G.Seidensticker.
Published by Lond. Penguin., 1985
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
(rep) Thick 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 1090pp. b/w ills. Sl.foxing to edges, else a Very Good copy. One volume edition. The famous Japanese tale describing court life in Heian Japan, from the tenth century into the eleventh.
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THE GARDEN. An Illustrated History from Ancient Egypt to the Present Day.
Published by Lond. Penguin., 1978
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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(rep) 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 388pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Inscript on ffe, else a Very Good copy.
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THE NATIONAL TRUST BOOK OF THE ENGLISH HOUSE INTERIOR.
Published by Lond. Penguin / The National Trust., 1991
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
Col.Ill.wrapps. 308pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. Geoffrey Beard's learned & well reasearched study of the interior of the English country house is full of essential facts from over 200 National Trust properties in England, Wales & Northern Ireland.
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THE PENGUIN ATLAS OF RECENT HISTORY. Europe since 1815. Maps devised by the author and drawn by David Woodroffe.
Published by Lond. Penguin Books., 1985
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
(rep) Oblong. 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 95pp. Profusely illustrated with maps. Very good copy. After the French Revolution, Europe became a mess of disputed territories. With various Kings & Queens trading off land after every war, this shifting of territory helped shape modern Europe today.
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THE PENGUIN ATLAS OF MODERN HISTORY. To 1815. Maps devised by the author and lettered by Ivan Atanasoff.
Published by Lond. Penguin Books., 1972
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Oblong 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 95pp. Profusely illustrated with maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. Between 1483 & 1815, Europe came to dominate the high seas, then much of the land around the globe. From 1483 the Venetians began trading in gold ducats & by 1815 the English sterling silver Pound.
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PENGUIN PORTRAIT. Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, 1935-1970.
Published by Lond. Penguin Books., 1995
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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First Edition
Col.Ill.wrapps. 368pp. Sl.foxing) to top edge. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Although founded during a deep recession & with war looming, Allen Lane's gamble with Penguin Books succeeded magnificently. Books were the mass medium for the 1st time. A look inside Penguin's archive.
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ARIEL. A Shelley Romance.
Published by Lond. Penguin Books., 1939
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
(8th imp) wrapps. 218pp. A little rubbed else a good copy of an early printing of Penguin No.1. Brilliant study of the life of Shelley, accepted as the best book on the poet. Masterly, ruthless, absorbing.
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GRIMM TALES. For Young and Old. In a New English Version by Philip Pullman.
Published by Lond. Penguin Classics., 2012
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
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Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Or.bds. Dustjacket. 403pp. With bound in marker-ribbon. Very good copy. 1st ed. English author, Philip Pullman has chosen 50 of his favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm & given them a fresh translation for the modern reader. Includes, Snow White, Cinderella, & many more.
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Art and Architecture in Italy. 1600 to 1750.
Published by (Lond.), Penguin Books, 1958., 1958
Seller: Antiquariat Kai Groß, Gleichen OT Bischhausen, Germany
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
4°, XXIII/428 S., m. mrr. Textabb., Ln. 2.
