Recent Arrivals from Lansdowne Books
Recent Arrivals from Lansdowne Books
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The Dust of the Empire
by Meyer, Karl E.
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
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- 2003
- ISBN
- 9781586480486
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A$30.00
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Near Fine First Edition (May 1, 2003) First Edition First Printing 237 uncut pages with B&W illustrations in text. Maps on endpapers. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Unclipped dustjacket in fine condition.
Veteran US journalist Meyer, coauthor of Tournament of shadows: the great game and race for empire in Central Asia (1999), seeks to educate Americans… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Old Pioneers' Memorial History of Melbourne, From the Discovery of Port Phillip down to the World War
by Selby, Isaac. J.
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- Used - Very Good+
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- FIRST EDITION
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- [1924]
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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A$100.00
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Includes two hundred and eighty photos, engravings from original pictures and maps. Frontispiece : First map of Melbourne, 2 fold-out maps at rear, (22" x 16" folding plan of the old Melbourne Cemetery and a 18" x 15" folding map of Melbourne, showing every Crown Grant and Original Sale of Land in the Business Centre of the City from the… Read more about this item Item Price
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A List of London Bookbinders 1648 - 1815
by Howe, Ellic
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1950
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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A$55.00
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First Edition, orig. cloth-backed boards, rare unopened & uncut pages in the original title-blocked cloth-backed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Series: Bibliographical Society. Subjects: Bookbinders, London ; Directories.
The introduction deals with the sources used in compilation and there is a seventeenth-century price list and a list of the directories consulted. Item Price
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Summer Lightning
by Wodehouse, P. G.
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Folio Society
- Published
- 2004
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- In publisher's slip-case
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First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette, illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth, gilt back, a fine copy bound in fully illustrated cloth in publisher's slip-case also in fine condition. Black and white illustrations throughout by Paul Cox and with pictorial cloth covers with drawings by the artist.
Hugh Carmody loved Millicent, Lord Emsworth niece,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Heavy Weather
by P. G. Wodehouse
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Folio Society
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- 2004
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- Cloth in slipcase
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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A$50.00
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London: Folio Society, 2004. First Folio Society Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 279pp. Illustrated cloth in slipcase. With illustrations by Paul Cox.
The gardens of Blandings Castle are that original garden from which we are all exiled. All those who know them long to return." ―Evelyn Waugh When Lord Tilbury receives a letter from Galahad Threepwood stating he… Read more about this item Item Price
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Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden
by Jekyll, Gertrude
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- Used - Good+
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
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- 1914
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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Country Life. London. 1914 (3rd) Tall 8vo. Gertrude Jekyll's advice and planning for flower gardens. A gardening classic. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Profusely ill. Photo ills. & planting diagrams, some fold out. With colour frontis plate. Foldout diagrams and protected colour illustration with tissue paper and numerous b/w photo ills. Quality pages with some… Read more about this item Item Price
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Green Grows the City
by Beverley Nichols the story of a London garden / with a foreword by Roy C. Dicks.
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- As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2006
- ISBN
- 9780881927795
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1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped dustwrapper now in protective mylar. Clean, tight and unmarked.
Summary: Anyone who has ever created a garden knows that it is a process replete with drama: there's the feverish excitement of drawing up plans and making lists of plants; the bleak depression of realizing that the plans will have to be… Read more about this item Item Price
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Garden Open Today
by Nichols, Beverley
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2002
- ISBN
- 9780881925333
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1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped dustwrapper now in protective mylar. Clean, tight and unmarked. B&W illustrations with decorative endpages.
When Beverley Nichols first published Garden Open Today in 1963, he was already well known for his "garden adventure" books such as Down the Garden Path and Merry Hall, whose unforgettable characters still live in the imaginations… Read more about this item Item Price
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Down the Kitchen Sink
by Beverley Nichols
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2006
- ISBN
- 9780881928044
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1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Cloth boards. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no inscriptions or marks. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped in archival quality removable mylar cover.
Illustrated with drawings by Val Biro. Foreword by Roy C.
Facsimile of the original edition which… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Country Child
by Uttley, Alison
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- As New
- Edition
- First Folio Edition
- Published
- 2008
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- Fine in Slipcase
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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A$40.00
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Fine Hardback. No inscriptions or bookplates. Fine slipcase. Introduced by Diana Athill. Bound in Cloth, blocked with design by Neil Gower. Pp. (no inscriptions)
THE COUNTRY CHILD is a semi-autobiographical story about a girl growing up in the country. Alison Uttley has drawn on her own youth to produce memories so vivid and nostalgic that you can almost smell the honeysuckle… Read more about this item Item Price
A$40.00
My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne Du Maurier
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- As New
- Edition
- First Folio Edition
- Published
- 2008
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- In Slipcase in fine condition
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Fine Hardcover in slipcase. Blue and brown cloth with gilt decorations in a fine brown slipcase. Illustrated
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Room With a View
by Forster, E.M.
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- As New
- Edition
- First Folio Edition
- Published
- 1996
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- Fine purple slipcase
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As new Hardcover. Purple spine with gilt lettering and purple boards and richly illustrated. Item Price
A$40.00
Oscar and Lucinda
by Cary, Peter. (Text) Streeter, Katherine. (Illustrations) Kemp, Peter. (Preface)
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- As New
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- First Folio Edition Special Edition
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- 2009-01-01
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- In slipcase in fine condition
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Special Edition. First Folio Society edition in 2009. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. No inscriptions or bookplates. Preface by Peter Kemp. Colour illustrations by Katherine Streeter. Item Price
A$40.00
The Tale of Despereaux
by Kate DiCamillo
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition First Impression
- Published
- 2003
- ISBN
- 9780763617226
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A$25.00
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Near Fine condition Near fine dust-jacket now in protective mylar.
WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL!
Kate DiCamillo introduces a hero for all time!
Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world… Read more about this item Item Price
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Literary Houses Ten Famous Houses in Fiction
by Ashe, Rosalind
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Very Good+
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- First Edition
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- 1982
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A$15.00
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in mylar. 1st. Ed. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Profusely illustrated throughout. Item Price
A$15.00
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Rhododendrons and Azaleas
by Cox, Kenneth
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- As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
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- First Edition
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- 2005
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Condition: As New. 2005. Hardcover.
Profiles over 4,000 varieties of this popular and striking plant. Illustrated with over 2,200 colour photographs, each entry includes: a description of the plant and flower colour; notes on hardiness, height and spread, and flowering time; advice on cultivation and proven performers; the name of the parent plants, the raiser and similar varieties.
Overall a fine copy.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Paper Daughter: A Memoir
by Mar, M. Elaine
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 1999-06-01
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A$20.00
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Paper Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine (in mylar). First Edition. Pages tight and very clean and sound with minimal wear. Overall a fine copy.
Subjects Mar, M. Elaine, 1966- | Chinese American women -- Biography. | Chinese Americans -- Biography. | Denver (Colo.) -- Biography. | Hong Kong (China) -- Biography. Item Price
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Enchanted April
by von Arnim, Elizabeth
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- Used
- Edition
- First Folio Society
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- 2002
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FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured plates; original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in gilt and black, blue endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
This edition follows the text of the first edition of 1922. Item Price
A$40.00
Enchanted April
by von Arnim, Elizabeth
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- Used - Fine
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- First Folio Society
- Published
- 2002
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- IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
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FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured plates; original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in gilt and black, blue endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
This edition follows the text of the first edition of 1922. Item Price
A$40.00
JUSTINE
by Durrell, Lawrence
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- Folio First Edition First Printing
- Published
- 2008
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- In Slip Case
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A$45.00
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JUSTINE Folio Society. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Folio Society, New York 2008 Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing
Justine, first published in 1957, is the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. Justine is one of four interlocking novels which each tell various aspects of a complex story of passion and deception from various points of view. The quartet is set… Read more about this item Item Price
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