LEIGHTON ALEXANDER

Wilson's Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland. Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative.

London, Walter Scott. 1889, revised. Decorative Cloth, 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall. (500 gram rate) bookplate to paste dwon 'ex libris E M Sladden' designed by Collins, tidy used copy with minor wear or soiling to cloth, rubbed, frayed at spine ends, 256+16pp adverts (dated for 1889). Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 007881

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Scotland Scottish Borders Wilsons Tales Scots History British History Folk Lore Legend Myth

TROCCHI ALEXANDER

Young Adam (The Traveller's Companion series)

London, New English Library. 1966, First Edition. Mass Market Paperback, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (200 gram rate) minor wear to edges, paper lift scarring at top of cover, remainder stamp to top edge, 160pp, erotica published by Four Square / New English Library under the aegis of the Olympia Press. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006625

Catalogue: Erotica & Sexology

Keywords: The Traveller's Companion 109 Erotica Erotic Fiction Pronography Collectable Paperback Olympia Press

DAVID-NEEL ALEXANDRA

Initiations and Initiates in Tibet

London, Rider. 1958, Second Revised Enlarged. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. black papered boards, price-clipped dust jacket. minor tape stain to endpapers, bookseller stamp to end paper. authorised trsl by Frank Rothwell , This edition has extra material to the 1931 original, 224 pp , some faint foxing to page edges. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 011690

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Tibet Buddhist Travel Exploration Tantra Metaphysics Occult Mysticism Tibetan

DUMAS ALEXANDRE

Joseph Balsamo; or the Memoirs of a Physician

London, John Dicks Press. First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. red cloth with sunned spine, gilt titled leather spine label, A E L Scott's book label to paste down, Victorian cheap printing, presumably sold in wrappers as this has been cased, newsprint stock, double columns, numerous full page illustrations, 314pp +2pp adverts, assumed to be around 1880? A novel based on the persona of Joseph Balsamo, aka Count Cagliostro, the Masonic mountebank. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004905

Catalogue: Occult New Age Metaphysics

Keywords: Cagliostro Comte de Joseph Balsamo Victorian Cheap Edition Alexandre Dumas English Translation Illustrated Rosicrucian Freemasonry Occult Novel Fiction Historical a E L Scott

LYKIARD ALEXIS

The Drive North

London, Allison & Busby. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0850312000) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped DW thin band discolouration along top and bottom edges (2mm) very tidy. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002045

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: British Literature Sex Poet Fiction Novel 0850312000

HUNTER ALEXIS

Fears/Dreams/Desires, A Survey Exhibition 1976-1988

Auckland, Auckland City Art Gallery. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0864631677) Soft Cover, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. (500 gram rate) near fine unmarked copy in pictorial soft covers, 52pp, colour and black and white reproductions. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 007943

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: New Zealand Art Modern Art Female Woman Womens Art Artist Alexis Hunter Feminist Themes Exhibiton Booklet Catalogue 0864631677

PROYSEN ALF

Mrs Pepperpot's Year

London, Hutchinson. 1973, First Edition. (ISBN: 0091171407) Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: Bjorn Berg. unclipped dust jacket has two short edge tears to front panel, 92pp illustrated in line by Bjorn Berg, collection of tales translated from Norwegian. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 005140

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: Norway Norwegian Fiction English Translation Pepperpot Illustrated Children's Ficiton 0091171407 Bjorn Berg

RIMMER ALFRED

About England with Dickens

London, Chatto & Windus. 1899, New and Enlarged. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. minor rubbing to cloth, small split at head of spine, old ink inscription to fep 'Frederick W Gale Kaikoura 1900', light foxing to endpapers, tissue guarded frontis, ix 307pp + plates +32pp publishers adverts, illustrated in line throughout and on plates, places Dickens referred to in his writings. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 013124

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: British Travel Writing Victorian British Literature Literary Novelist Charles Dickens Frederick W Gale New Zealand

HOWARD ALFRED

The Beauties of Byron Consisting of Selections from His Works

London, Thomas Tegg. 1832, First Edition. Hard Cover, 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall. small 16mo with printed papered boards with title etc as well as adverts to lower board, part VI of the Howard's Beauties of Literature series, boards slightly stained or browned, light edge bumping or rubbing, backstrip darkened, spine price at 2/6', undated but has a small copperplate inscription to fep [Francis Simpkinson 1832], the engraved frontis. port. is foxed, tissue guard loosening, vii 184pp, undated, a little dust soiling to hinges, tidy collection from Byron's works, a pocket edition, (500 gram rate). Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011390

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: British Poetry Literature Nineteenth Centurybyron Anthology Collection Rare

SHARP J. ALFRED

David Livingstone, Missionary and Explorer

London, Epworth press. 1926, reprint. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. gift inscription to fep dated 1927, blue cloth with black titling and design, frontis, slightly foxed, 239pp (500 gram rate). Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011245

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: David Livingstone Africa African Exploration Victorian Missionary Biography

TURNEY ALFRED

Disaster at Moscow, Von Bock's Campaigns 1941-42

London, Cassell. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0304936685) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. price clipped DW sunned to spine, minor wear or soiling, book clean with minor spotting to closed edges, xvii 228pp, uncommon account of the push to Moscow by Bock's Army Group Centre, researched through his unpublished war diary. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 008506

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Second World War Eastern Front Army Group Centre General Von Bock Moscow Nazi German Third Reich Military History 0304936685

NOYES ALFRED

The Enchanted Island and Other Poems

Edinburgh, Blackwood. 1909, First Edition. Buckram, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. olive green buckram lightly rubbed to spine ends and corners, original green endpapers slightly discoloured, 209pp + adverts, assumed first edition, nice laid paper, top edge gilt. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 007471

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: British Poetry Early Twentieth Century Alfred Noyes

DUGGAN ALFRED

Family Favourites

London, Faber. 1960, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. unclipped jacket, toned endpapers, bookplate of the New Zealand historian and academic Vincent Orange, some mild scattered foxing mainly to closed edges (500 grams). Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 011770

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Historical Fiction, Rome, Roman Empire, Elagabalus, Vincent Orange,

DUGGAN ALFRED

God and My Right

London, Faber. 1963, reprint. (ISBN: 0571053696) Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 grams) name to fep, lacks DW, 352pp, second impression after 1955 first, medieval historical fiction set in Britain and France. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004974

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Historical Fiction Medieval Britain France 0571053696

VAUGHAN ROBERT ALFRED

Hours with the Mystics, a Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion

London, Gibbings & Company. 1895, reprint. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. seventh edition, being two volumes bound as one by the publisher, xxxix 372pp + x 383pp, navy cloth gilt titled spine and medallion to upper board, tidy, smallest fray to corners, browned fep, tidy unmarked copy, Early Oriental Mysticism; The Mysticism of the Neo-Platonists; Mysticism in the Greek Church; Mysticism in the Latin Church; German Mysticism in the Fourteenth Century, Sufi, western mysticism, theosophy of the Reformation, Lutheran mysticism, Cabbala, Alchemy, Cornelius Agrippa, Theophrastus Paracelsus, Jacob Behmen, Rosicrucians, Fama Fraternitatis, Quietidm, English mysticism, Swedenborg. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002899

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Mysticism Religion Spirituality Christian Pagan Neo-Platonism Plato Sufi Islam Hindu Yogi Medieval One Volume Edition Cabbala Kaballah Qabalah Kabbalah