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The Language of Love, an Anthology of Australian Love Letters, Poetry and Prose
Allardice, Pamela (ed.) Angus & Robertson (Publishers) Ptd Ltd 1991 NSW Australia 0207168954 / 9780207168956 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
162 page, b/w & colour illustrated. Green-cloth cover, very minor edge wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, minor edge wear, some denting on top corners, slight peeling to top near spine. Pages clean, straight and unmarked. Strong, intact binding. ". a collection of love letters, prose and poetry from Australia's sentimental blokes and sheilas'." This book contains a love note in stamp envelope, from the husband of ex-owner - 19/04/92. 000127
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20.00 AUD
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Pavilions of the Heart; The Four Walls of Love
Blanch, Lesley G. P. Putnam's Sons 1974 New York First Edition 399112243 Hard Cover Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
192 pages, b/w & colour illustrated. Red-cloth cover, minor edge-wear, some pushing to edges, few small light marks. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, edge-wear, pushing to edges, sun faded to spine & edges, very small hole to spine front. Small mark to closed page edges, otherwise pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "The title of this book is taken from an Arab love-song which exhorts the beloved to leave the black tents of her tribe, since she has the Red Pavilion of her lover's heart. High romance is the essence of this collection of vignettes. Through the author's perceptive and often slyly ironic viewpoint, the various climates and moods, the furnishings, colours and styles, which surrounded the lovers, rise around them vividly. All these are interwoven in a counterpoint of drama and history." 001091
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32.00 AUD
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Monkeys in the Dark
d'Alpuget, Blanche Aurora Press 1980 Sydney, Australia First Edition 0867480017 / 9780867480016 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Inscribed by Author
176 pages. Red-cloth cover, minor edge-wear and pushing. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, minor edge-wear, few small marks. Note from author to ex-owner on front fly-leaf 'To Lesley, Best Wishes, Blanche d'Alpuget, November 1980. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "Alexandra Wheatfield, a young journalist, has come to work in the Australian embassy in Djarkarta at a time of chaotic change: the coup of 1965 has been crushed but the new Order of the Indonesian Army has not yet overthrown the revered President, Sukarno. He has warned that without him the people are 'monkeys in the dark'." 000960
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85.00 AUD
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Cold Comfort Farm
Gibbons, Stella The Folio Society 1997 London Eigth Printing Hard Cover Fine Slip Case - Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
203 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated, green-cloth cover. Green slip-case. Pages are clean, straight & unmarked. Tight binding. "Cold Comfort Farm tells the story of Flora Poste - young, sophisticated, and determined - who leaves fashionable London to visit 'Cold Comfort Farm' in deepest Sussex, where she transforms the lives of her unruly relatives, the Starkadders." 001649
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Everyman's Book of English Love Poems
Hadfield, John (editor) J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1980 London First Edition 0460044451 / 9780460044455 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
431 pages. Blue cover, very minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, minor edge-wear, some light foxing to inside. Some pages have light foxing, a few small marks throughout, otherwise pages are clean and straight. Strong, intact binding. "This superb and distinctive anthology of more than four hundred poems ranging over the past four hundred years . witty, charming, melancholy, passionate . named poets and anonymous . sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . illustrates vividly the changing attitudes of English men and women through successive ages ." 001134
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28.00 AUD
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These Old Shades / Sprig Muslin / Sylvester / The Corinthian / The Convenient Marriage
Heyer, Georgette William Heinemann Limited /Octopus 1977 London First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
862 pages. Red boards, gold lettering. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, minor edge-wear, small spot of chipping to top rear corner. Pages are lightly dust stained to top closed page edges, light rubbing mark to front closed edges, light crease to top corner of last two pages, otherwise pages are clean, straight & unmarked. Binding is a bit soft, however is strong and intact. "Hilarious comedy, fast-moving drama, romance spiced with wit and charm - Miss Heyer combines all this with the period conversation and manners she knows to perfection." 001651
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22.00 AUD
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Scarlett
Ripley, Margaret Macmillan 1991 London, England First Thus 0333490991 / 9780333490990 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
759 page. Blue-cloth cover, gold titling to spine, minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, very minor edge-wear, clean & straight. Illustrated end papers. Pages clean, straight & unmarked (unread). Strong, intact binding. ".the story begun in Margaret Mitchell's magnificent classic ('Gone With The Wind') continues the greatest love affair in all fiction between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler. Scarlett seamlessly picks up the narrative . what new joys, frutstrations and adventures does the future hold?" 000147
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Animal Instincts
Titchmarsh, Alan Simon & Schuster 2000 London, England First Edition 0684861461 / 9780684861463 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
269 pages. Blue-cloth cover, minor pushing to edges. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, minor edge-wear, small chip to rear bottom edge. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "From the immensely popular bestselling novelist and presenter of 'Ground Force' comes another wildly entertaining novel filled with Alan Titchmarsh's trademark blend of romance, humour and suspense. - When Kit Lavery's father dies, he is forced to return home after a ten year stint in Australia to sort out his affairs. A well known conservationist and champion of wildlife, Rubert Lavery has left behind a nature reserve in the heart of the British countryside, staffed by two very determined women. When a buyer is found for the state, Kit is torn. Will he stay or will he go? Will the sun and sea of Australia exert a greater pull than the intrigues and jealousies of coastal Devon?" 000959
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A Celebration of Gone With The Wind
Turner, Adrian Dragon's World Ltd 1989 Surrey, England First Edition 1850280886 / 9781850280880 Hard Cover Fair Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
189 page, colour & b/w photos thr/out. Red-cloth cover, minor edge-wear, small tear top edge, front cover has small split at spine bottom. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, slight edge-wear. Moisture has gotten into spine so marking and slight sticking to first part of text body, otherwise pages good. Intact binding. ". colour frame enlargements have been produced to enable readers to follow the entire film virtually scene-by-scene with captions drawn largely from direct quotes from the soundtrack . a unique pictorial records of a motion picture that sums up both the madness and the genious of the Holllywood system, and the men and women who made 'Gone With the Wind'." 000316
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Love Among the Ruins; A romance of the Near Future
Waugh, Evelyn Chapman & Hall 1953 London First Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
51 pages. Red boards, scuffed and pushed to corners and spine ends, gold lettering to spine and picture on front quite faded. Pages are very lightly and evenly age coloured, a couple of very small dots thr/out text body, two pages have pencil 'scribble' on them, otherwise pages are clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. 002717
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