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ALLEN, JAMES LANE  The Invisible Choir
U.S.A. The Macmillan Company. 1897, First Edition / Later 1897 Year Printing. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, blue cloth bindiings, excellent fancy gilt designs on the cover with rich gilt titles, gold trimmed top endpages, the other endpages are untrimmed, on the inside front cover is a previous owners name and address, on the first front freepage is a simple gift inscription dated December 25th, 1897. The inner pages are excellent. Later 1897 Year Printing.This Kentucky born teacher, novelist, and essayist whose family experienced the turmoil, hardships, and poverty after the Civil War crafts a tale of hope, traditions, pride, and misdirected dreams in 1795 Kentucky. 361 pages + a rear book ad by the same author. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket.
USD 49.95 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 4408] Book number: 000179
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ANDERSON, ROBERT, ILLUSTRATED BY BARNETT PLOTKIN  Getting Up and Going Home
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library (First Edition Society) 1978. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No dust Jacket as Issued. First Edition. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Full leather, Red with gold stamping and gold page edges, satin endpapers, attached bookmark, raised band hubs at spine, With an introduction by the author written especially for this edition. 257 pages.
USD 40.67 [Appr.: EURO 27.25 | £UK 24.5 | JP¥ 3589] Book number: 576209
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BLOCK, PAUL  San Francisco / The Deceit
New York, NY, U.S.A. Lynx Books. 1989, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 1558021884) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light reading wear, slight age darkening, previous owners name inside. For many it was both the last chance and the greatest opportunity, where the Far East met the Wild West, where theives, whores, heroes, and holymen combined their energies to build a unique city, and where one family built a mercantile dynasty only to have it threatened from within... Very Good.
USD 9.41 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 | £UK 5.75 | JP¥ 831] Book number: 778430
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BLOCK, PAUL  San Francisco / The Deceit
New York, NY, U.S.A. Lynx Books. 1989, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 1558021884) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light reading wear, light age darkening. For many it was both the last chance and the greatest opportunity, where the Far East met the Wild West, where theives, whores, heroes, and holymen combined their energies to build a unique city, and where one family built a mercantile dynasty only to have it threatened from within... Very Good.
USD 9.41 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 | £UK 5.75 | JP¥ 831] Book number: 779204
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BORLAND, HAL  When the Legends Die
New York, New York, U.S.A. A Bantam Starfire Book. 1989, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0553257382) Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, normal age darkening. Ex-Student copy with all markings covered or removed, Perma-Bound. When his father killed another brave, Thomas Black Bull and his parents sought refuge in the wilderness. There they took up life as it had been in the old days, hunting and fishing, battling for survival. But an accident claimed the father's life and the grieving mother died shortly afterward. Left alone, Thomas vowed never to return to the White man's world. Very Good.
USD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 878] Book number: 782151
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BRADY, TAYLOR  Westward Winds / The Kinkaids - Book Four
NY, Avon Books. 1993, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0380771349) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light reading wear, bookstore stamped inside. A family born of the West, bound by desire and the bold spirit of the American Frontier, this is their saga of fate and proud destiny. Very Good.
USD 7.37 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 650] Book number: 902218
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CALDWELL, ERSKINE  Episode In Palmetto
NY: Macfadden Books. Paperback. Very Good+. 1st Printing. 1965,PB,MacFadden 1st.ptg. #50-232,tight-bright copy, light minor creases. After one lesson with the New Schoolteacher young boys begged to stay after school, and widowers, bachelors, and wayward husbands pleaded for her special assign ments. A close to a million books sold pulp fiction written before the public's awareness of this delicate problem in our schools by a very respectable bestselling author!.
USD 8.42 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 743] Book number: BQB1225
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CALDWELL, ERSKINE  A Lamp for Nightfall / Signet #1091
NY: Signet Books / New American Library, 1954. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Vintage Paperback. Very Good. 1st Paperback Printing. Tight copy, bright covers, minor spinal end edgewear and cornertip rubs, light page age darkening, light rear cover reading crease. A classic novel of hypocrisy, sordid sexuality, and what lies beneath the tranquil appearence of a New England Village. 160 pages.
USD 7.47 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 659] Book number: 222117
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CARTER, ASHLEY  Mandingo Master
New York, NY, U.S.A. Fawcett Gold Medal. 1987, First Printing. (ISBN: 0449131599) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Out Of Print, Bright/tight copy, light edgewear, lightly wavy covers from years of storage, light cover reading creases, clear archive tape reinforced covers, light age toning. Welcome to the world of the Old South, beneath its luxurious and peaceful surface, brutal passions and dangerous desires blaze as the sage continues!. Very Good.
USD 9.99 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 882] Book number: 908203
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CARTER, ASHLEY  Sword of the Golden Stud / A Lance Horner Novel
New York, NY, U.S.A. Fawcett Gold Medal. 1977, First Printing. (ISBN: 0449138429) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Out Of Print, Bright/tight copy, very light edgewear, very light rear corner reading creases, faint age darkening. Welcome to the world of the Old South, beneath its luxurious and peaceful surface, brutal passions and dangerous desires blaze!. Very Good+.
USD 9.94 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 877] Book number: 903244
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CASPARY, VERA  Thelma: The Story of an Ambitiious Woman Who Wanted Her Daughter to Have All the Advantages
Chicago, IL:, Little, Brown and Company / Sears Readers Club. 1952, Sears Book Club Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, rubbed ends and cornertips, one small rear hinge tear, lightly shelf bumped spine and cornertips, the clear Brodart covered dust jacket has minor cover rubbing, minor edgewear, and a chipped spinal crowm. The tale of a struggling single Polish-American mother who through luck, determination, and destiny meets and marries on of the Roebuck millionaires of the Sears & Roebuck fame, and how her suddenly becoming a wealthy socialite changes her character from sweet and warm to jaded, greedy, and selfish. The author confesses this was a near autobiographical novel with many events and characters changed as she is married to a Hollywood film producer and lives in Beverly Hills, California. Excellent Reading! 342 pages. Very Good-/Very Good-.
USD 11.49 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 | £UK 7 | JP¥ 1014] Book number: 333035
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CHURCHILL, WINSTON  Coniston
NY, The MacMmillan Company. 1906, Later Printing. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Illustrations By Florence Scovel Shinn. Vintage Printing, Tight Copy, Burgundy Cloth Bindings, Gold Gilt Titles and Borders, minor shelf rubbing and edgewear, a few interior endpage edges have nicks from the old style publisher co-joined page end printing and separation necessities, unmarked text, no names or stampings. This is a story of a ong ago time after General Jackson had gotten into the White House and had shown the World what a real Democracy was in this Romantic Story of Fiery New Hampshire Politics, Relentless Ambition, and how life and dreams were forever changed in the Small Town of Coniston in the new Era of Progressive Reforms. With Colorful Politicians, Shameless Corruption, Rivals and a True Love. 543 pages + the rear book ads. {This is an American born author - not to be confused with Sir Winston Chirchill of Great Britain}.. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket.
USD 16.95 [Appr.: EURO 11.5 | £UK 10.25 | JP¥ 1496] Book number: 906482
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DANTON, PIERRE  No River So Wide / Translated By Jean Raggan
New York, NY, U.S.A. A Dell Book. 1978, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0440102154) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, slight age darkening. This is the magnificent epic of a proud people and their bloody road to exile, of an African empire betrayed by its own leaders, of slave traders and their Tombships full of "Black Gold", and of a beautiful black girl named Yawana who followed her warrior husband into the white man's hell, who found another, wilder passion there, with the slave-ship captain, Jonathan Collins, and who finally reached the sweet, throbbing fullness of her womanhood in their forbidden love while carrying the hope of her people in an alien land... Very Good.
USD 12.41 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.5 | JP¥ 1095] Book number: 780232
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DURRE, LLOYD  The Clinch Hollow Story / An Ozark Novel
Branson, Missouri, Lloyd Durre. 1975, Later Printing. Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, advetising sticker on upper rear cover, small crease to upper cornertip. Signed, "Best Wishes, Lloyd Durre, Shepard of the Hills". The Dramatic Actor / Author creates a unique Historical Fiction Work about a Small Town in 1871 with no connections to the Outside World except through a bi-weekly Stagecoach passing through on its way between the Towns of Springfield, Missouri and Harrison, Arkansas. Very Good. Signed by Author.
USD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 878] Book number: 562478
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ERDRICH, LOUISE  The Beet Queen
New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1989, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0553347233) Trade Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, faint spinal creasing, professionally reinforced copy. A vibrant tale of abandonment and sexual obsession, jealousy and unstinting love. On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. Orphaned in a most peculiar way, Karl and Mary look for refuge to their mother's sister Fritzie, who with husband Pete, runs a butcher shop... Very Good.
USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 742] Book number: 778086
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ERDRICH, LOUISE  The Beet Queen
New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1987, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0553268074) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, previous owners name inside, professionally reinforced copy. A vibrant tale of abandonment and sexual obsession, jealousy and unstinting love. On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. Orphaned in a most peculiar way, Karl and Mary look for refuge to their mother's sister Fritzie, who with husband Pete, runs a butcher shop... Very Good-.
USD 7.91 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 698] Book number: 779404
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ERNI, BILL  Papa's Gift
Nh, Citadel Press. 1963, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tight copy, clear Brodart covered dust jacket, very slight edgewear, signed, " Sincere and best wishes, Bill Erni". The jacket has rubbing to the front cover, nicked and chipped edges, several short small edgetears, and very faint soiling. A novel of an aspiring Italian American family in 1930's Detroit. With a wise, hero like Papa always working, scheming, and enthusiastically holding the large but loving family together for a better life. 156 pages. Very Good/Good+. Signed by Author.
USD 69.95 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 | £UK 42.25 | JP¥ 6174] Book number: 564108
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VAN EVERY, DALE  The Captive Witch
New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1973, 3rd Printing. (ISBN: 055306659X) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening. They weathered the brutal winter of '79 in an isolated cave deep in the Kentucky wilderness: Adam Frane, backwoodsman, rifleman, soldier; and Nita, the prowd, passionate woman who had rejected her civilized past for the life of a Cherokee squaw... Very Good.
USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 742] Book number: 780575
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VAN EVERY, DALE  The Captive Witch
New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1973, 3rd Printing. (ISBN: 055306659X) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy. They weathered the brutal winter of '79 in an isolated cave deep in the Kentucky wilderness: Adam Frane, backwoodsman, rifleman, soldier; and Nita, the prowd, passionate woman who had rejected her civilized past for the life of a Cherokee squaw... Very Good-.
USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 742] Book number: 781509
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FOX, GARDNER F.  THE STONEHEDGE SLAVES
NY, Belmont Tower Books. 1969, First Printing. Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bright/Tight copy, light edgewear, light normal interior page age tanning. A tale of Slavery, Hatred, Lusts, Freedom's Dream, and Savagery as dangerous desires, angers, and forbidden passions explode. Very Good.
USD 9.94 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 877] Book number: 908067
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GARDINER, DOROTHY  The Golden Lady
NY, The Literary Guild. 1936, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tight copy, gray/green cloth bindings, gilt spinal titles, minor spinal cover sun fading, clean unmarked text. Stated First Edition! A Grand Historical Epic Nover of the Lust for Gold, Boom Toen Glamour and Glitz, Colorado Mining, Miner's and Hard Lives, and Historical America as told through the life of Vannie Swenk,child of the Leadville Lady. 498 pages. Very Good/No Dust Jacket.
USD 8.33 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 735] Book number: 904090
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GENTRY, PETER  Matanza
New York, NY, U.S.A. Fawcett Gold Medal Book. 1979, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0449141179) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, minor light edgewear, minor light spinal and cover reading creases and rubs, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy, previous readers small neat name inside. Maguire wished he could forget the past, but he dared not forget. In a Mexico ravaged by terror, no one knew what the future held. Suddenly he knew he would risk his life for a man he hated and a woman he loved, he would live every hell-damned minute of it as if it were his last.... Very Good- to Good+.
USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 742] Book number: 780761
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GILES, RAYMOND  Rebels Of Saberhill
NY, Fawcett Gold Medal. 1976, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0449136957) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bright/Tight copy, light edgewear, minor spinal and cover reading creases, clear archive tape reinforced covers, light normal interior page age tanning. A tale of Slavery, Hatred, Lusts, Freedom's Dream, and Savagery as one man's dangerous desires, angers, and forbidden passions explode. Very Good.
USD 8.94 [Appr.: EURO 6 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 789] Book number: 908289
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GILES, RAYMOND  Saberhill
NY, Fawcett Gold Medal. 1974, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0449139565) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bright/Tight copy, light edgewear, minor spinal creases, clear archive tape reinforced cover cornertips, light normal interior page age tanning. A tale of Slavery, Hatred, Lusts, Freedom's Dream, and Savagery as one man's dangerous desires, angers, and forbidden passions explode. Very Good.
USD 8.94 [Appr.: EURO 6 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 789] Book number: 907353
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GIPSON, FRED  The Home Place
. Hard Cover, 5 1/2" Wide x 8 1/8" Tall. Peoples Book Club Edition, Chicago, IL, 1950, green black cloth bindings, gilt spinal titles in a maroon spinal border box, color illustrated endpapers, light edgewear, unmarked text, the color illustrated price clipped clear Brodart covered dust jacket is still attractive but has a large piece worn away from the upper spine, VG neatly written on the inner front fold, several closed edgetears, light end chipping, minor edgewear, and very faint small old rust colored spot on the upper rear cover. A moving tale of Sam Crockett who after his wife died decided to bring his three young sons up on a farm. His cranky ex-Texas Ranger father, and their trials on the farm, good and bad times, bad soil, hardluck, true friends and neighbors, and his efforts at building happiness & security for his children and himself. 248 pages.. Very Good+/Very Good.
USD 17.71 [Appr.: EURO 12 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1563] Book number: 903539
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