Search Results: Authors starting with V from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

G. Bell & Sons, Ltd, London, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket. the book has a label pasted to the spine with the author surname and title, foxing to the edges of the text block, foxing scattered throughout the book, mainly at the end pages, some colour transfer to the last 10 or so pages where the rear panel was dampened. There is a rubber name stamp "The Linguists' Library" on the title page, and "E158" written on several pages in the ink a volume in Bell's Indian and Colonial Library with the Intended Circulation Only in India and the British Colonies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 382, (2), 16 pages, in original rent cloth covered hardcover binding.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 0240736. .

The Jacaranda Press, Milton, Brisbane, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 900 g; VIII, 152 pages, indexed. Apart from the 8 pages central photographic section in colour, the rest of the book is profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs, and some reproductions of documents and maps. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. The only damage to the book is a trace of foxing to the top edge of the text block. The book is a popular history of study of the Gold Coast, from the early 19th century, when John Oxley set out to find the mouth of a large river that flowed into Moreton Bay, to the present day. The discussion of the early days is a chronological exposition of the exploration and the 1st settlements on the coast. This account of the period of the 1920s is a fascinating story of the gradual growth of commercial centres, ports and communications in an area. The 2nd chapter discusses the vegetation that was native to the coastal strip and… Read More

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 234pp. colour illustrated dustwrapper. Translated by William Attwood. Novel set in post-Nazi occupied Paris, by the French film producer. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0283989556. ISBN/EAN: 9780283989551. Inventory No: 0203524. . 9780283989551

Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1964. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. a nice clean copy, page edges darkened slightly commensurate with age, general handling marks, but no damage to report. Penguin 2085 Size: 12mo (standard paperback). The book is a secondhand book with reading creases to the spine, and darkening of the page edges, but is otherwise clean, and free of annotation. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 0254628. .

Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1964. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Paul Hogarth – cover. a nice clean copy, page edges darkened slightly commensurate with age, general handling marks, but no damage to report. Penguin 2085 This is the first Penguin Edition. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). a clean secondhand copy, no damage to detail apart from age toning of the page edges and reading creases on the spine. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Paul Hogarth – cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 0267021. .

The Department For Torah Education and Culture in the Diaspora / The World Zionist Organisation, Jerusalem, No date. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Introduction to the first edition (1953), note to this enlarged second edition 5721(1961), biographical notes, list of abbreviations appendix – the aforementioned selections from sources in Hebrew. Plain text paperback binding with blue and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Title says it all. The book is showing age and use – please see photograph. Creasing, multiple to the book corners with reading creases to the back strip. Rubbing of the book edges and panels – which also show marks and stains. Sunning of the back strip which has also occurred to the top edge and front edge of the book panels. There is a stain that runs along the full length of the front and rear panels. This stain has caused a little bumping along the lower edge of the pages; with some presence noted to the first… Read More

International Marine Publishing Company, Camden, Maine, U.S.A, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 950 g; XII, 288, (4) pages, indexed, with glossary, and illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. In original hardcover binding, with a dust jacket which is slightly faded on the rear panel. Front fold over flat has been creased. There is no other damage to describe. The author gives you the opportunity to select the fibreglass building with best suited to your level of skill in the design you plan to build. He describes the hull construction techniques used in seven different one-off methods. The second part of the book moves from the hull construction onto finishing techniques the fibreglass. The only annoying feature of the book is that the word fibreglass is spelt "fiberglass". Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator:… Read More

Pyramid Books, New York, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Colour photographic paperback binding with orange and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Orange coloured tint to the text block edges. 12 short stories of forbidden desire and twisted obsession. A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Reading creases to the back strip with foxing to the text block edges. Light browning to the pages. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 173, [3 – of which two are further titles publishing house] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Short Stories; Erotica. Inventory No: 0121880. .

Duckworth & Co, London, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: drawings & reproductions of statues & weapons. second-hand copy, dust jacket is separated at the front panel, left-hand side next to the spine, previous owner's details written at the top of the inside of the front cover in pen, there are some pencil notes and pencil underlining starting at page 100 which appear to cease at page 132. This book examines the relationship between the ideals and practice of chivalry at a time when they are often said to have fallen into decay: Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. X, 206 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: drawings & reproductions of statues & weapons. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Medieval 10th to 15thc; history. ISBN: 0715610422. ISBN/EAN: 9780715610428. Inventory No: 0276854. . 9780715610428

RE/Search Publications, San Francisco, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. introduction by V. Vale, and index. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography. Coloured illustrated card cover with red, white and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and white colour titles to the backstrip. One of the most persistently accurate predictors of the future was the British author J. G. Ballard, "Provocative, witty and unafraid of embracing contradiction, Ballard especially illuminates anything to brew involving sex, death, technology, power, and media." – From the introduction page 5. A small book on Ballard's thoughts (using his works, articles, interviews and stories) to highlight this insightful man's thinking. Minor creasing to the book corners and. Rubbing to the book panels and book edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (8), 9-414, (2) pages,. Please refer to… Read More

William Heinemann Australia, Port Melbourne, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. previous owner's name on the first page, no other damage to describe. The book has a forward by Tom Keneally. The adults of the title are the child survivors, the Jewish children who survived the Holocaust, and the psychology and psychological aspects and personal narratives of 10 of those survivors are detailed in this book, experiences ranging from living in hiding to physical and sexual abuse, safe from neither the supposed protector nor the obvious enemy. the author, himself a childhood survivor and psychiatrist, with great analytic insight, explores the deepest memories of those he interviews Size: Trade Paperback. 288 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Psychology & Psychiatry; Judaica; Children. ISBN: 0855615524. ISBN/EAN: 9780855615529. Inventory No: 0285020. . 9780855615529

Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, New South Wales, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Tony Pyrzakowski -- Dustwrapper. publisher's note, author's note, foreword by author's father and acknowledgements. Dark green coloured endpapers. Bottle green boards with white coloured titles to the spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, by Tony Pyrzakowski, with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The story of an American soldier captured in New Guinea interned in the Philippines. Story is told by Douglas Valentine which is based on recollections of his father, Douglas Valentine Snr. Shelf wear evident to the bottom edges of the book and the head and the heel of the spine slightly bumped. Slight dust marks to the top paper edge. On the free front end page, top right-hand corner, there is a erasure mark as well as a black marker mark. The top edge of the dustwrapper is slightly crinkled. Size:… Read More

The Dalkey Archive Press, Elmwood Park, Illinois, 1988. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrated card cover with black and ochre coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. "The story moves from Barcelona to Mexico to Buenos Aires, but above all it is about Argentina: its recent history, its 30,000 missing children, its stunned middle class, its writers in exile. He Who Searches is multifaceted in structure, combining narrative references to old-fashioned storytelling, realism, psychoanalysis, feminism, politics, and suspense, all of them tinged with a patina of eroticism that reflects a feminist perspective. Ultimately the disguises of the plot -- transvestism, transsexualism, differing sexual points of view --become pieces in a puzzle that can be taken apart to create other figures, other puzzles. It ends with its narrator back in Buenos Aires: "He who searches, finds.". -- from rear panel blurb. Translated by Helen Lane. Creasing to the book corners with… Read More

The Dalkey Archive Press, Elmwood Park, Illinois, 1990. Third Printing. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrated card cover with white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. "The story moves from Barcelona to Mexico to Buenos Aires, but above all it is about Argentina: its recent history, its 30,000 missing children, its stunned middle class, its writers in exile. He Who Searches is multifaceted in structure, combining narrative references to old-fashioned storytelling, realism, psychoanalysis, feminism, politics, and suspense, all of them tinged with a patina of eroticism that reflects a feminist perspective. Ultimately the disguises of the plot -- transvestism, transsexualism, differing sexual points of view --become pieces in a puzzle that can be taken apart to create other figures, other puzzles. It ends with its narrator back in Buenos Aires: "He who searches, finds.". -- from rear panel blurb. Translated by Helen Lane. Creasing to the book corners And to the… Read More

Serpent's tail, London, 1987. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. translated by Gregory Rabassa. Size: Mid Sized Paperback ( 7¾" - 9¾" tall ). 280 pages. A very clean secondhand copy, with no damage to report.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 1852421126. ISBN/EAN: 9781852421120. Inventory No: 0246620. . 9781852421120

Vineyard Freepress, New South Wales, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover (Laminated Illustrated boards). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Oliver, David & Cameron, Jane. a fictional story about a real place in Australia – a pioneer farm dating from the first days of European settlement. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 68 pages. A very clean secondhand copy, with no damage to report.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Oliver, David & Cameron, Jane. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; ISBN: 0646112740. ISBN/EAN: 9780646112749. Inventory No: 0244941. . 9780646112749

de Driehoek, Amsterdam, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 98 pages including bibliography, XXVIII plates, in black and white, and colour. Map, small line drawings, text is in English. Colour illustrated dust jacket, short tears on the back panel, rubbing and chipping of the edges. . The dating of this book is done by guesstimate, the bibliography refers to a book dated 1958. The author considers each of the areas of Holland, and describes in great detail the clothing of both the men and women. Coincidental to this description, a great deal of the history of Holland is given. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crafts & Hobbies; Local History -- Europe; Inventory No: 0211634. .

Delacorte Press, New York, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. clean copy, no damage to describe. This is the 9th Harry Stoner novel, with the private eye investigating the disappearance of the daughter of a well-known Cincinnati psychiatrist, and simultaneously the tragic death of the missing girl's mother 15 years before. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; ISBN: 0385299125. ISBN/EAN: 9780385299121. Inventory No: 0249137. . 9780385299121

Delacorte Press, New York, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (10), 226, (4) pages, in original hardcover binding with colour illustrated dust jacket. There is no damage to describe.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; ISBN: 0385299664. ISBN/EAN: 9780385299664. Inventory No: 0250396. . 9780385299664

Delacorte Press, New York, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. clean copy, no damage to describe. This is the 7th Harry Stoner novel, pitting the private eye against the Cincinnati underworld. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; ISBN: 0385295898. ISBN/EAN: 9780385295895. Inventory No: 0249030. . 9780385295895