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Sweet Francaise
de Nemirovskys, Irene
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- First Edition
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- 2006
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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Hardcover. Condition: N. Fine. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition now in protective mylar.
1st Edition. Translated from the French by Sandra Smith.
The manuscript for this novel, written by Nemirovsky before she died in Auschwitz in 1942, was discovered by her granddaughter in 2004. Source of the 2015 film.
Illus with b&w map and pictorial endpapers Precio
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Who's Who In The World Of Women. Victoria, Australia.
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- Usado - Near Fine
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- Centenary Edition Vol. IIus
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- 1943
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- 1
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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Centenary Edition; profusely illustrated with b/w photographic illustrations throughout; A Representation of Every Sphere Showing Activities and Interests Social, Philanthropic, Historic, Scholastic, Sport and Travel.
Original maroon cloth, title lettered on spine and front. Well-preserved with pages clean and tight. Overall a fine copy.
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Redman Wine: The Story of a Winemaker
de Hinton, Les
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- Usado - Very Good+
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- First Edition
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- 1971
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- 1
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: V.G+ . A very good copy bound in red deckled cloth with gilt logo on front with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Signed by Redman. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.
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Hope Farm: Cradle of McLaren Vale Wine Industry.
de Geoffrey Haydon Manning
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- Usado - Very Good+
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1980
- ISBN
- 9780959439403
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- 1
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Signed by the Author. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: V.G+ Cloth boards with slight bumping to top and bottom edges with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. The life and times of its founder George Pitches Manning. Includes fold out family tree, decorative end pages, photos, previous owners bookplate. This book may be collected at Port… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Mao's last dancer
de Li, Cunxin
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- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good+
- Edición
- First edition
- Published
- 2003
- ISBN
- 9781904132899
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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First impression, not price-clipped. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, dust jacket now in protective mylar. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Subjects: Li, Cunxin 1961-. Ballet dancers. Defectors. Genre: Biography. Language: English
Synopsis:An extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study ballet and went on to… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Fanny and the Regent of Siam
de Minney, R.J.
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- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good+
- Published
- 1962
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Blue buckram, gilt titles. In original pictorial dust jacket [original artwork in pastel by artist Jillian Willettnow ] now in protective mylar with slight damage at top of spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs: contemporary portraits and the author's own photographs of the places mentioned. Romance and thriller in one, all based on factual records. Set in diplomatic and… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Melba: a Biography by John Hetherington
de Hetherington, John Aikman
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- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good+
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1967
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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1st Edition. Near fine hardback purple cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Dust jacket in protective mylar. Physical description: . Subjects: Melba, Nellie Dame 1861-1931. Melba, Nellie Dame. Opera Singing Melba, Dame Nellie Biographies. Opera - Singers. Singers - Biography. Singers Australia; Biography. 1 Kg.
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Girls of Riyadh: A Novel
de Alsanea, Rajaa
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- First Edition
- Published
- 2007
- ISBN
- 9781594201219
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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Near Fine in fine unclipped dust jacket in protective mylar. Hardcover first edition - First printing. A debut novel, originally published in Arabic in Lebanon, which discusses frankly the " social, romantic and sexual tribulations of four young women from elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia." Translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth. Includes glossary of names, 286 pp.
Originally… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Daughter of the Desert: The remarkable life of Gertrude Bell
de HOWELL, Georgina
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- First Edition
- Published
- 2006
- ISBN
- 1397814050458
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 18.66
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Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition. F/F. 8vo. original grey boards with gilt letter in dust jacket with mylar protective cover;
pp. xxiv, 520 (last blank), with illustrations.
Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty. The daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Gertrude turned her back on house parties and debutante balls,… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Duty Free: Australian Women Abroad
de Pesman, Roslyn
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- As new
- Edición
- First Edition
- Published
- 1996
- ISBN
- 9780195536393
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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EUR 12.44
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First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket protected with mylar covering.
About the Author: Ros Pesman has taught history at the University of Sydney.
Synopsis: The historian Roslyn Pesman has produced a subtle, erudite and fastidiously researched account of Australian women's travel from the 1870s--when travel in Europe became popular--until 1970, when jet travel altered the concept of this key Australian rite of… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The House of Seppelt 1851-1951.
de SEPPELT J.E.
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- Usado - Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Published
- 1951
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- 1
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SIGNED BY Sepplets family - [ see photograph]
Hard Cover. Near Fine with fading to front and back cover. First Edition. 9 X 6".
Being an Historical Record of the Life and Times of the Seppelt Family through Four Generations.
51 pages. B/w and colour illustrations. Comes with an old Seppelts Compliment Slip. Illust. end-papers.
12 photographic plates, some colour. Decorated… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Birds, Beasts and Relatives
de Durrell, Gerald
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- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- First Edition
- Published
- 1969
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 37.33
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A near fine copy of the 1969 first edition, first issue. 256-page text in fine, tight, clean condition with no inscriptions. Dust jacket price-clipped and in fine condition and in protective mylar covering. An unusually difficult book to find in fine condition. This is the second instalment of 'The Corfu Trilogy' by Durrell Precio
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A Voyage From Plymouth to Melbourne in 1839-the Shipboard and Early Melbourne Diary of Jonathan Binns Were
de Jonathan Binns Were
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- Usado - Near Fine
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1964
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Facsimile of original handwritten diary with transcript on facing pages. The authors recorded his voyage on the sailing ship "William Metcalfe" between 25 July 1839 and 15 Nov. 1839. Inscribed Issued to Clients by Were and Son in April 1964
frontis. maps on endpapers , dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board in protective mylar jacket,… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Arabia Phoenix:
de De Gaury, Gerald
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Published
- 1946
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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George G. Harrap, London, 1946. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket in protective mylar covering. First Edition. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2. Original binding in orange cloth with gilt title. With a forward by Freya Stark and sixty-four plates in Half-tone. 169 pages, includes index. Colour map printed end papers. A very nice tight, clean, straight. An account of… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Dust in the Lion's Paw
de Stark, Freya
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good+
- Edición
- First Edition
- Published
- 1961
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine, owners signature to front: yellow dust jacket: approximately 5.75 x 9 inches tall: 297 handcut pages including index: black and white photographic illustrations.
Includes the original newspaper article from The Times Saturday January 10 1981 news article, " Letters from Libya" by Freya Stark as a separate item.
Synopsis : Freya Starks autobiographical… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE COAST OF INCENSE Autobiography 1933-1939
de Stark, Freya
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Published
- 1953
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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EUR 37.33
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John Murray 1953: Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine and to front: approximately 6 x 9.5 inches tall: dust jacket: 286 handcut pages: black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis: The third volume of Freya Starks autobiography based on her letters of the 1928 33 period, describing her travels in Arabia, and in Greece and Syria immediately before the… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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TRAVELLER'S PRELUDE
de Stark, Freya
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Edición
- First edition
- Published
- 1950
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 55.99
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London, John Murray, 1950. First edition, xii, 346pp, with double-paged map, 24 illustrations, wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, index, original cloth with slightly damaged dust jacket in mylar. Uneven bottom edges from when the uncut edges were separated.
Very good condition.
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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
de Khayyam, Omar; Sarkis Katchadourian
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Published
- 1974
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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Galahad Books, New York, 1974. Hardcover (Illustrated Boards). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.
A note about the artist.--Omar Khayyam: an introduction, by E. J. FitzGerald.Green coloured endpages. The text is illustrated with coloured illustrated frontispiece, coloured plates and black-and-white drawings throughout the text by Sarkis Katchadourian. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured illustration to the front panel… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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