Leiden NL: Brill Academic Publishers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 9004092579 . Bottom fore corners lightly bumped ; Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles front and spine, A bright, solid book, text unmarked; 0.5 x 9.5 x 6.2 Inches; 70 pages; Studies on the expectation of salvation in the apocalyptic literature of ancient Judaism and Christianity, text in German . ... more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0448165384 . Small dampstain top of DJ and book spine, small stain top page edges near spine, price clipped DJ ; A bright solid, book, DJ in Mylar ; 253 pages; Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot... more information

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London: Ward, Lock, and Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1875. First British Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to boards, light foxing to first few pages. Previous owner's stamp back of frontispiece ; Book has been rebound into navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt title on spine, a very attractive, tight solid book, almost appears unread. ; B&W Illustrations; 350 pages . ... more information

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Frankfurt: Eichborn Verlag. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Reprint. Hardcover. 382180114X . Only slight wear; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar ; 230 pages; This is a Japanese novel 'Tanin No Kao' originally published in Japanese by Kodansha in 1964 translated into German by Oscar Benl. . ... more information

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London: University Press of Liverpool/Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Top fore corners bumped. Previous owner has written the titles of three related reference books on page facing title page. Head of spine shows light wear, tail of spine has a half inch tear & a quarter inch tear ; A tight solid book, hinges intact; 297 pages . ... more information

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London: Chapman & Hall. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1914. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. Front & back inner hinges cracked, but still solid. Light wear to blue cloth covered boards, starting to fray base of spine. Some offset discoloration back end paper ; A tight solid book. ; B&W Photographs; 302 pages . ... more information

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New York: Howard, Ainslee & co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1899. First English Edition. Hardcover. Some edge wear to extremities of cloth covered boards, a little softening of top fore corners, light soil, light lean. Previous owners' names on front free end paper, missing tissue guard to frontispiece ; A bright, solid book, slate grey cloth covered boards with gilt black and red design stamped on front cover, gilt titles front and spine, top edge gilt, red and black publisher insignia stam... more information

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London: Sinclair-Stevenson. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. 1st UK. Hardcover. 1856196968 . Dust jacket in Mylar. Slight wear. A what-if story about the life John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, might have led if he had fled to the America of the early Puritans. . ... more information

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New York: SFBC. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 0739410121 . Light dampstain top boards does not extend to pages, some creasing to DJ ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar ; 1.8 x 8.4 x 5.6 Inches; 839 pages; Contents: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish; Mostly Harmless. . ... more information

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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Third Printing. Hardcover. 015191320x . Some edge wear to DJ, prlce clipped, some light staining top back DJ panel. Top fore corner of book lightly bumped. ; DJ in Mylar ; 179 pages; A major catastrophe turns up a manuscript purportedly written by Firedrake, a 606 year old dragon. . ... more information

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London: Concrete Publications Limited. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1950. Third Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. DJ has some soiling, sun-faded at top, small tears, chipping. ; DJ in Mylar, Tight solid book, text unmarked. ; B&W line drawings; 152 pages . ... more information

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London: S. W. Partridge & Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Some wear to extremities, pages yellowed, missing free end papers. Book is a little shaken but hinges solid. Split in middle of book repaired with hinge tape. Previous owner's name in front. ; Text unmarked, blue cloth covered decorative boards show a girl with a soldier, outlined with flowers, gilt print and gilt outlining title on spine ; B&W Illustrations; 96 pages; A novel set during the English Revolu... more information

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London: Allen Lane. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. First British Edition. Hardcover. 0713910550 . Dust jacket in Mylar. DJ shows light edgewear, prlce clipped. 'Set in the Lake District, it recounts the adventures of two dogs who escape from an establishment where experi ments are carried out on animals for so-called scientific reasons..Once free, they join forces with a fox and attempt to live wild..national alarm breaks out when it is learned that they may be carriers of bubonic plague... more information

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London: Century Hutchinson. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1990. First British Edition. Hardcover. 0091739675 . DJ has very light scuffing. ; DJ in mylar, unclipped. A bright solid book. ; B&W Photographs; 398 pages; The autobiography of the author of "Watership Down". . ... more information

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Cape Town SA: Howard Timmins. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0869780395 . DJ scuffed and chipped with a couple of short tears ; A tight solid book. DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 425 pages; A layman's study of Israeli history, written for the layman . ... more information

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New York: Viking Adult. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0670034487 . Light edge wear; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book ; 1.6 x 9.1 x 6.3 Inches; 392 pages; On October 21, 1805, as Britain’s Royal Navy under the command of Horatio Nelson clashed with Napoleon’s forces in an epic sea battle off the coast of Spain, the fate of Europe hung in the balance. Though the cost was high, and Nelson himself was killed, the British vict... more information

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Victoria, BC: Govt. of British Columbia, Ministry of Social Services. Very Good. 1996. Paperback. 0772629137 . Light edge wear to card covers, crease down front spine edge, government stamp on title page ; A tight solid book. ; Trade PB; B&W Illustrations; 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 Inches; 150 pages; "Woodlands in New Westminster was first built as the Lunatic Asylum but later became home to most of the province's mentally handicapped children." . ... more information

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New York: Mcdowell, Obolensky. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1957. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. DJ in mylar. DJ is soiled with creasing, chips and tears, prlce-clipped. Tape repaired, 3 inch tear in back of DJ. Light wear to cloth covered boards with light fading around edges . ... more information

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Toronto, ON: Nautical Mind. Very Good. 1989. Paperback. Some scuffing and light wear to card covers ; A tight solid book. ; Trade PB; B&W Illustrations; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 111 pages; This may be an outdated catalogue but it contains the titles of many books essential for a nautical life. Undated but appears to be late 1980's. . ... more information

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New York: John Wiley & Sons. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1992. Third Printing. Hardcover. 0471542865 . Light edge wear to DJ; DJ in Mylar ; Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering; 9.75 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 445 pages; The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester * ".readers searching for a wide ranging and up-date view of fibre optic communication systems would do well to purchase this book." * This comprehensive, up-to-date account of fiber-optic communication focus... more information

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