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Dodo Press, 2007. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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The Viking Press. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Reading copy only. Front hinge cracked. Several pages detached. (british literature, humor)

George G Harrap & Co Ltd, 1947. hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). This book does NOT include a jacket. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

MP3 Audio CD. Beasts And Super-Beasts In An Eternal Struggle Against Human HypocrisyHector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name Saki, is widely regarded as one of the great masters of the short story. He has written countless stories generally dealing with human hypocrisy and nature?s struggle against it. Many of his greatest stories are compiled into his collection Beasts and Super-Beasts.The author named the collection Beasts and Super-Beasts ? apparently a parody to George Bernard Shaw?s Man and Superman. In it, his mostly parodies the ?high? Edwardian society and its whims. Most of his short stories are about nature?s struggle against man?s greed and hypocrisy, with the nature generally winning. He is most likely to have been influenced as a child while growing up in British Burma.Most of his stories have animals as the heroes. In these, the fierce struggle of nature is usually emphasized, with humans usually losing against it. An example story tells about a forest in the Eastern Carpathians… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Beasts And Super-Beasts In An Eternal Struggle Against Human HypocrisyHector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name Saki, is widely regarded as one of the great masters of the short story. He has written countless stories generally dealing with human hypocrisy and nature?s struggle against it. Many of his greatest stories are compiled into his collection Beasts and Super-Beasts.The author named the collection Beasts and Super-Beasts ? apparently a parody to George Bernard Shaw?s Man and Superman. In it, his mostly parodies the ?high? Edwardian society and its whims. Most of his short stories are about nature?s struggle against man?s greed and hypocrisy, with the nature generally winning. He is most likely to have been influenced as a child while growing up in British Burma.Most of his stories have animals as the heroes. In these, the fierce struggle of nature is usually emphasized, with humans usually losing against it. An example story tells about a forest in the Eastern Carpathians… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Beasts and Super-Beasts THE SHE-WOLF Leonard Bilsiter was one of those people who have failed to find this world attractive or interesting, and who have sought compensation in an “unseen world” of their own experience or imagination—or invention. Children do that sort of thing successfully, but children are content to convince themselves, and do not vulgarise their beliefs by trying to convince other people. Leonard Bilsiter’s beliefs were for “the few,” that is to say, anyone who would listen to him. His dabblings in the unseen might not have carried him beyond the customary platitudes of the drawing-room visionary if accident had not reinforced his stock-in-trade of mystical lore. In company with a friend, who was interested in a Ural mining concern, he had made a trip across Eastern Europe at a moment when the great Russian railway strike was developing from a threat to a reality; its outbreak caught him on the return journey, somewhere on the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Beasts and Super-Beasts THE SHE-WOLF Leonard Bilsiter was one of those people who have failed to find this world attractive or interesting, and who have sought compensation in an “unseen world” of their own experience or imagination—or invention. Children do that sort of thing successfully, but children are content to convince themselves, and do not vulgarise their beliefs by trying to convince other people. Leonard Bilsiter’s beliefs were for “the few,” that is to say, anyone who would listen to him. His dabblings in the unseen might not have carried him beyond the customary platitudes of the drawing-room visionary if accident had not reinforced his stock-in-trade of mystical lore. In company with a friend, who was interested in a Ural mining concern, he had made a trip across Eastern Europe at a moment when the great Russian railway strike was developing from a threat to a reality; its outbreak caught him on the return journey, somewhere on the… Read More

Viking Press, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. No Edition Remarks. 240 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Visible creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to spine and front board. Textblock is shaky.

NY: Viking. G. (1928). Blue binding, paper label on spine, tanning to edges, owner's name front endpaper. .

Viking Press, 1928. hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 17 to 19 cm tall (12mo). 1928 printing. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

John Lane The Bodley Head, 1930. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. This 1930 edition is in good condition. No inscriptions, markings or wear to the pages. A good clean copy.

Paperback / softback. New.