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Gift inscription by the author on title page small stains on title page and following page see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music salisbury very good condition copy of this book publishedcover and dust jacket scuffed at edges
19 €
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Signed by the author on title page underneath an inscription: "to donald and evelyn / with many thanks for your kind / hospitality and generosity / mary & geoff / soames / sept 89"oxfam bookshop newport this guide describes the native flowers of the anglesea river valley, victoria australia and includes black and white illustrations, brief field descriptions and the common and scientific names for each species identifiedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreno highlighting or other notes; front cover has crease though - hence relatively low price for this scarce item
15 €
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Signed by the author on title pagesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'a country book', by fred archer, with text illustrations by james mosslife and events in ashton-under-hill, gloucestershire, between andhardback, cloth boards and interior in good condition; dust jacket has only minor wear to edges
8 €
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Signed by the author on title page beneath authors printed namesee oxfam website for delivery information read more imperfections of the front and rear covers on the bottom corners have been imposed onto the dust jacket cornersoxfam shop shirley added value: signed first edition title: nine perfect strangers author: liane moriarty publisher: penguin - michael joseph, london, published: binding: hardback book condition: very good dust jacket condition: very good isbn 13: a vg unread first edition, first printing hardback in an unclipped vg dust jacketotherwise, the book would be graded as an as new book and dust jacket
19 €
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Oxfam books & music aberdeen hardback book with dustjacket signed by author on title page second edition fourteen years after thursday next pegged out at superhoop '88, her jurisfiction job has been downgraded due to a potential conflict of interest, since her previous adventures are now themselves in printthursday, receiving a death-threat clearly intended for her written self, realises what is going on - there is a serial killer is loose in the bookworldsherlock holmes is killed at the rheinbach falls and his series is stopped in its tracksthursday alone realises the true intent of goliath's unwanted incursions into fiction, but she can't fight all these battles on her ownthis being fiction, however, jeopardy is never far awaysee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut it's no time to be pickybefore this can be righted, miss marple dies in a narratively inexplicable car accident, bringing her series also to a closemeanwhile, goliath have perfected a 22-seater prose portal luxury coach, and plan on taking literary tourists on a holiday to the works of jane austenthursday's time is spent worrying about her teenage son friday and tutoring new recruitsshe must team up with the one person she really can't get along with - the written thursday next, currently starring in the great samuel pepys fiasco
9 €
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Oxfam books & music aberdeen dedication by author on title page 'to john, special good wishes, virginia mckenna' foreword by joanna lumley published in now in a paperback edition, this book will inspire anyone who cares about the future of the planet and all the creatures dependent on it, including human beingssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is the inspirational story of virginia mckenna, who starred in some of the most popular and enduring movies of our time, such as born free
9 €
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Oxfam books & music aberdeen hardback book with dust jacket published in first edition signed by author on title page this is the story of sir john mandeville who left england in to make a pilgrimage to the holy land he came back 34 years later and claimed to have travelled half way round the worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
14 €
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Signed by author on title page see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop holmfirth by the author of the wooden horsedust jacket present, with some tearing to spine top and bottom and edge creases (see photo) mid blue boards, some bumps to corners, tight boundthis book goes into greater detail of the imprisonments prior to the escape
10 €
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Signed by the author on title page dedication on front loose end page - "to alwen, with christmas love, from gareth, december first published by penguin viking no damage or marksoxfam shop bury charles dickens a life by claire tomalin see oxfam website for delivery information read more
39 €
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Oxfam books & music aberdeen signed by author on title page trade paperback published in first paperback edition a captain damian seeker novel see oxfam website for delivery information read more
19 €
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Oxfam books & music aberdeen signed by author on title page first edition published in in this extraordinary, powerful polemic, celebrated writer frederic raphael looks back through two millennia of persecution, explaining not only exactly why it is people have been killing jews for so long, but how this religion continues to survive and flourishsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
16 €
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Signed by author on title pageoxfam bookshop thame 'toast' is nigel slater's award-winning biography of a childhood remembered through foodpages are age-darkenedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhether recalling his mother's surprisingly good rice pudding, his father's bold foray into spaghetti and his dreaded boxing day stew, or such culinary highlights as arctic roll and grilled grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in wolverhampton), this remarkable memoir vividly recreates daily life in s suburban england
9 €
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Owner's stamp on flyleaf; signed by author on title pageoxfam shop pinner published ; third editionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebooks from this shop are normally dispatched on tuesdays and fridaysvery comprehensively illustrated in colour;Â includes over 50 cars specially photographed; bodywork, interior and mechanical details; and barn-find cars as they were discoveredblack board covers, illustrated dust jacket with small tears at edge
65 €
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Dedication by the author on title pagevery slight crease on 2 pagesslight crease at top corner of front coveroxfam shop kendal paperbacksee oxfam website for delivery information read moresubtitled: from edinburgh to the ukraine by yachtotherwise like new
16 €
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Signed by author on title pageoxfam bookshop bath a hardback in very good conditionthe red cloth boards with gold illustration and text are in very good conditionnow in a coma, his memories run wild, and life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novelsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe pages are clean and tight and appear unreadyambo promptly retreats to the sprawling attic, cluttered with boxes of newspapers, comics, records, photo albums and adolescent diariesbut a relapse occursthere, he relives the story of his generation: mussolini, catholic education and guilt, josephine baker, flash gordon, cyrano de bergerachis wife, who is at his side as he slowly begins to recover, convinces him to return to his family home in the hills somewhere between milan and turinthe dustjacket shows very minor shelf wear onlyyambo struggles through the frames to find at last the face of the girl he loves: she descends the stairs of their high school and morphs into a dante-esque promise (or threat) of the afterlife, as he struggles harder to capture her simple, innocent, real-life image - the schoolgirl he never forgotmultiple colour illustrationsas he recovers his memory, two voids remain shrouded in fog: a terrible event he experienced during the resistance, and the vague image of a girl whom he loved at sixteen, then lostyambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (yambo remembers all about julius caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his 'autobiographical' memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, doesn't remember anything about his parents or his childhoodcopiously illustrated throughout with images from comics, book jackets, record sleeves and other printed ephemera, the mysterious flame is a fascinating and hugely entertaining new novel from the incomparable umberto eco
75 €
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Oxfam bookshop lincoln rare copy; signed by the author on title pagequarter bound with red cloth and paper floral print; there is no dust coversee oxfam website for delivery information read morea report of the discovery of the glass-factories at corinththe boards, binding, pages and text are in good conditionillustrated with monochrome photographs and pen & ink drawings
19 €
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Oxfam books & music norwich fine copy signed, without dedication, by author on title pageunclipped dw has very slight creasing at spine tail and front tuck-in tail see oxfam website for delivery information read moreno split or tearsinsure, signed for delivery included in the standard shipping price
149 €
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Signed by author on title pagesee oxfam website for delivery information read morelawrence, john (wood engravings) (illustrator)cloth covered boardscondition: very goodoxfam bookshop canterbury long barn books, gloucestershire
26 €
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The page block is clean and brightthis edition has been an inscription by the author in black marker pen on the title page: 'to margaret, merry christmas, larry hagman'see oxfam website for delivery information read morefrom his early days opposite barbara eden on i dream of jeannie, to the show that turned him into an international celebrity and led him to become the biggest screen villain of the eighties as power-mad oil baron jr ewing on dallaseven the parliament in turkey adjourned so representatives could rush to their tv setshis stetson now resides in the smithsonian and over 400 million fans in eighty-five countries had to find out just who shot jr' written with us weekly bureau chief, todd gold, hello darlin' is a forthright look at hagman's star-studded careerit was focused on themthis hardback first edition is in a very good conditionthe top edge is slightly turned and the corners are slightly bumpedthe black cloth boards are unmarked and gilt-stamped on the spinei was just the brotherthe glossy dustjacket shows few signs of shelf-wear and is unpriceclippedto put it in jr's own words, 'once you got rid of the integrity, the rest was a piece of cake'oxfam bookshop hexham 'as it was originally written, dallas was really about patrick duffy and victoria principalhagman tells all about the trials and turmoil and the intrigue and dangers of filming dallas, and also the madness that ensued when it became one of the most popular television shows in historyshe was from the wrong side of the tracks and we were the rich family and they were getting married, they loved each other, blah, blah, blah
44 €
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Signed by author on title pageoxfam bookshop lymington paperback published by the author inblue grey and white illustrated card covers with white title on spine and black title on front cover see oxfam website for delivery information read moreclean and tightly bound with no further inscriptionsvery slight wear to extremities of spine and covers
8 €
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Signed by the author on the title page, with a label to that effect on the front1 bestselling author of 'the ashes of london' and 'the fire court' comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following james marwoodcat lovett had every reason to want her cousin deadbut time is running out for everyonesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop fulwood road from the noa royal scandal that could change the face of england forever  james marwood, a traitor's son, is ordered to cover up the murderbut the dead man is edward alderley, the cousin of one of marwood's acquaintancesthe discovery of a body at clarendon house, the palatial home of one of the highest courtiers in the land, could therefore have catastrophic consequencesin the court of charles ii, it's a dangerous time to be alive - a wrong move may lead to disgrace, exile or deathsince his murder, she has vanished, and all the evidence points to her as the killer marwood is determined to clear cat's name and discover who really killed alderleyif he makes a mistake, it could threaten not only the government but the king himself
9 €
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There is quite marked foxing of the end papers and the the edges of the page blockthere is a certificate signed by the author on the ffep and dated september hardback with no dj the bottom of page has a tear and between pages 131 and 158 some of the pages have been cut shortoxfam books & music totnes this is the third volume of the eliots sequencesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreotherwise in good condition with no internal annotations and good bindingthe front and back covers have water or grease spots on them the spine cover is a little grimy and the title, in gilt on a blue background is faded and difficult to read
14 €
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The coloured chart faces page 252oxfam bookshop henley-on-thames inscribed and signed anonymously by the author on the ffepbrown cloth, gilt titles to spine, no dust jacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea scarce title, signed especially solight rubbing to cloth, very minor bumping at extremities, light foxing to endpapers and the odd mark elsewherethe inscription records a detail about the author's wife
500 €
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Inscribed "to will - with all my good wishes" and signed by author in ink on title pagesome marks on opposite page from offsetting of inkends of spine lightly bumped hardback book in very good conditionwith dust jacket i very good conditiontop fore corner chippedshelf wear and creasing to edgesoxfam books & music berkhamsted compendium volume of the first four alex rider novels - "storm breaker", "point blanc", skeleto key", "eagle strike"  see oxfam website for delivery information read morea few light marks on edges of text blockends of spine and corners bumpednot preice clipped
30 €
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Signed by the author on the title pagegift inscription on half title hardback book in very good conditionwith dust jacket in very good condition see oxfam website for delivery information read morebottom corners lightly bumpedoxfam books & music berkhamsted autobiography of the tv personality and ornithologistshelf wear to edgesends of spine bumped
20 €
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Oxfam books & music aberdeen written by david toulmin and signed by him on title page published by the centre for scottish studies in story of the author's life in the north and north east of scotland front cover scuffed, creased and showing signs of age internally clean and tight name in pen to back end paper see oxfam website for delivery information read more
24 €
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Feist on the title pageoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames flat signed by raymond edust jacket very slightly bumped along edges, not price clippedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefirst impression (with number 1 on copyright page)black cloth, gilt titles, tight and square, small stain at top edge, text bright and unmarked throughout
20 €
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Oxfam books & music aberdeen autobiography by molly weir, who came from glasgow, and was an actress and writer book is signed on title page on opposite page is the previous owner's name and address published in first edition dust jacket is slightly creased along top edges see oxfam website for delivery information read more
29 €
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Signed by author on title pageillustrated light green dust jacket with black titleblack cloth covered boards with gilt title on spineupper edge of pages greyspine bumped slightly top and bottom see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop lymington hardback first edition published by oscar blackfordclean and tightly bound with no further inscriptionsworn at extremities with a few small tears; spine tanned and foxed
14 €
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On offer just the title page5 cm title page (with hand coloured woodcut of eagle)superb folio title page from gesner's first edition of the vogelbuch, x 21zurich: christopher froschauerreference: nissen fischbuch 59are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithis has been laid down to restore marginal tearsrubbed and with some stainingconrad gessner was a renaissance polymath, a physician, philosopher, encyclopaedist, bibliographer, philologist, natural historian and illustratorthe woodcuts for the work were undertaken by hans asper, johann thomas, and lukas schrönlater hand colourplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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40 €