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Tenocha

By: N/A

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Fullarton, South Australia, Daybreak Publishing: 1995

Seller ID: ID303381

Binding: Softcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Light wear to edges and corners. 247 pages A thriller about an Aztec cult in Adelaide.
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The Lambs of London

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 2004

Seller ID: ID223571

ISBN: 0701177446

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine copy in Fine dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic cover. An excellent copy. 216 pages A fictionalised account of the life of Charles and Mary Lamb.
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The Fall of Troy. A Novel

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 2006

Seller ID: ID263668

ISBN: 0701179112

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine copy in Fine dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic cover. Review copy with Review Label to front free endpaper. 215 pages A dazzling work of imagination - part accurate and part fantastic.
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The Great Fire of London A Novel

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1982

Seller ID: ID301460

ISBN: 0241107040

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Just a touch of fading to DJ spine. Dj is complete i.e. not price-clipped. 169 pages
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $24.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 2008

Seller ID: ID303407

ISBN: 0701182954

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 296 pages
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Longleg

By: Adams, Glenda

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1990

Seller ID: ID93675

ISBN: 020716892X

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 339 pages The third novel of the Miles Franklin Award winner. This title won the 1990 Age Book of the Year and the 1991 National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction.
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The Wandering Falcon (Inscribed and Signed by Author)

By: Ahmad, Jamil

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New Delhi, Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Books: 2011

Seller ID: ID296478

ISBN: 0670085332

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Lengthy inscription by the author to David Parker. 181 pages Shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011. A collection of interlinked short stories set in the area where the borders of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran meet.
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Momo

By: Ajar, Emile [Romaine Gary]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Collins & Harvill Press: 1978

Seller ID: ID289920

ISBN: 0002614588

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Dustjacket is price clipped with a small piece missing to the upper rear edge. A tiny spot of foxing to lower edge of front free endpaper and some scattered dots of foxing to fore edge. 182 pages Translated from the French by Ralph Manheim. Winner of the Prix Goncourt. First published in France in 1975 as La Vie Devant Soi. Emile Ajar was one of Romaine Gary's pseudonyms.
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A Soldier Erect or Further Adventures of The Hand-Reared Boy

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1971

Seller ID: ID235155

ISBN: 0297003305

Binding: Hardcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A closed tear to rear panel and upper front panel of DJ. 272 pages The successor to The Hand-Reared Boy, the humorous further adventures of Horatio Stubbs in the British Army in India and Burma during World War Two.
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The Chocolate Spy

By: Alexander, David M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghan: 1978

Seller ID: ID14800

ISBN: 0698109090

Binding: Hardcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 223 pages. Now writes as David Grace. This was his first novel a spy thriller science fiction overtones. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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Brick Lane

By: Ali, Monica

Price: $22.00

Publisher: London, Doubleday: 2003

Seller ID: ID309532

ISBN: 038560484X

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 413 pages Short-listed for the 2003 Booker Prize. Author's first novel. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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Original Sins

By: ALTHER, Lisa

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1981

Seller ID: ID398

ISBN: 0394516850

Binding: Hardcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. 592pages The Author's second novel.
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Russian Hide and Seek

By: AMIS, Kingsley

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1980

Seller ID: ID201253

ISBN: 0091420504

Binding: Hardcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 240pages.
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One Fat Englishman

By: AMIS, Kingsley

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd: 1963

Seller ID: ID301781

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped. 192 pages.
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The Folks That Live on the Hill

By: Amis, Kingsley

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1990

Seller ID: ID308392

ISBN: 0091741378

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Tiny remainder dot to base. Previous owner's details to half-title page. 246 pages
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Yellow Dog

By: Amis, Martin

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 2003

Seller ID: ID307472

ISBN: 0224050613

Binding: Hardcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 340 pages
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Taking Shelter

By: Anderson, Jessica

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Viking: 1989

Seller ID: ID9876

ISBN: 0670829501

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 232 pages
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In an Edinburgh Drawing Room

By: Andrews, Lucilla

Price: $85.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1983

Seller ID: ID296939

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Dust jacket illustration by Jane Evans. 162 pages Completes the story begun in One Night in London and continued in A Weekend in the Garden.
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The Secret Life of Laszlo Count Dracula

By: Anscombe, Roderick

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 1994

Seller ID: ID312120

ISBN: 0786860405

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 407 pages. The debut novel by psychiatrist, roderick Anscombe, based around Dracula - not as a vampire but a tortured man.
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The Birdman's Wife

By: Ashley, Melissa

Price: $35.00

Publisher: South Melbourne, Affirm Press: 2016

Seller ID: ID312229

ISBN: 1925344991

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Coloured endpapers and several black and white drawings by John Gould. Includes a guide to the endpaper images. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 389 pages. A novel based on the life of artist, Elizabeth Gould, wife of artist John Gould.
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Category: Modern 1st