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AKSYONOV, VASSILY  In Search of Melancholy Baby
Random House First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Here the acclaimed Russian emigre novelist Vassily Aksyonov offers an exuberant chronicle of his encounters with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as he makes the United States his home. ISBN: 0394543645
USD 14.75 [Appr.: EURO 10 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1268] Book number: 3777
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L'AMOUR, LOUIS  Education of a Wandering Man
Bantam First Edition 1989. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Shortly before his death in June 1988, Louis L'Amour completed his most unique adventure story: a personal reflection on his lifelong love affair with learning. In Education of a Wandering Man, he vividly recalls many of the books he read, the places he visited, and the people he met that catalyzed his evolution as a writer. Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin. ISBN: 0553057030
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1204] Book number: 5760
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ANGELOU, MAYA  Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now
Bantam . Fine Mass Market Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic. ISBN: 0553569074
USD 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 2.5 | £UK 2.25 | JP¥ 301] Book number: 4052
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ANISSIMOV, MYRIAM  Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optomist
Overlook Press . Near Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Small corner creasing of front wrap - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A major biography of the much-loved writer, philosopher and Holocaust survivor and witness. Illustrated. ISBN: 1585670200
USD 10.50 [Appr.: EURO 7 | £UK 6.5 | JP¥ 903] Book number: 6171
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BURGESS. ANTHONY  Little Wilson and Big God: The First Part of the Confessions
Grove Weidenfeld . Near Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Tiny bottom edge spot - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. An autobiographical work by the author of numerous works including A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. An unforgettable portrait of his first forty years, from his childhood in Manchester, England, to the moment when, having been told he was dying from brain cancer, he dedicated himself to writing. ISBN: 0802132405
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1032] Book number: 6673
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ASIMOV, ISAAC  I. Asimov
Bantam . Very Good Trade Paperback. Spine is gently creased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. An autobiography of the prolific science fiction and popular science author and polymath. Illustrated. ISBN: 055356997X
USD 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 | £UK 4 | JP¥ 559] Book number: 7774
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BELL, ANNE OLIVIER (EDIT.)  The Diary of Virginia Woolf - Volume One 1915-1919
Harcourt Brace . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Introduction by Quentin Bell. ISBN: 0156260360
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 860] Book number: 6394
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BISHOP, JAMES, JR.  Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist: The Life and Legacy of Edward Abbey
Simon & Schuster . New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. Novelist, essayist, naturalist, philosopher, and social critic, the late Edward Abbey may have been the most popular writer to take the American Southwest as his subject. He was also an impassioned critic of the exploitation of the wilderness by governmental, industrial, and ranching interests, as well as by the tourist industry. Illustrated. ISBN: 0684804395
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1032] Book number: 4693
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BOOK, FREDRIK  Hans Christian Andersen: A Biography
University of Oklahoma Press Second Printing . Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Cloth binding with some small areas of fading. Top edge stained pink. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Spine lettering and design unfaded. DJ with slight wear and a small chip of back; in a clear protective cover. Translated from the Swedish by George C. Schoolfield. An authoritative biography of the greatest Danish writer of the nineteenth century. Illustrated. ISBN: 0686887891
USD 13.50 [Appr.: EURO 9 | £UK 8.25 | JP¥ 1161] Book number: 2687
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BOOK, FREDRIK  Hans Christian Andersen: A Biography
University of Oklahoma Press Second Printing . Very Good Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Slight edge spotting. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge/corner wear; in a clear protective cover. Translated from the Swedish by George C. Schoolfield. An authoritative biography of the greatest Danish writer of the nineteenth century. Illustrated. ISBN: 0686887891
USD 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 6 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 770] Book number: 4745
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BRESLIN, JIMMY  Damon Runyon
Ticknor & Fields First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with creasing of front flap; in a clear protective cover. In this perfect union of author and subject, Jimmy Breslin, America's most colorful and celebrated writer/journalist, recreates the life and times of the extraordinary Damon Runyon, the journalist who personified the razzle-dazzle of Broadway and the Roaring Twenties. ISBN: 0899199844
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1204] Book number: 5818
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BUCHWALD, ART  I'll Always Have Paris
G.P. Putnam's Sons First Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The noted columnist and humorist writes of his post-war Paris years. ISBN: 0399141871
USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1505] Book number: 2216
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BUCHWALD, ART  I'll Always Have Paris: A Memoir
G.P.Putnam's Sons First Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The noted columnist and humorist writes of his post-war Paris years. Illustrated. ISBN: 0399141871
USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1505] Book number: 2560
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CARPOZI, GEORGE, JR.  Poison Pen: The Unauthorized Biography of Kitty Kelley
Barricade Books First Printing . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "She bashed Frank Sinatra, she trashed Nancy Reagan. Now it's her turn." Illustrated. ISBN: 0942637364
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1075] Book number: 5350
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CLAPP, SUSANNAH  With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer
Penguin . New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. The celebrated author of such beloved works as In Patagonia and The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin was a nomad whose desire for adventure and enlightenment was made wholly evident by his writings...With Chatwin is a mesmerizing portrait of one of the most legendary writers of our time. ISBN: 0140276459
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 774] Book number: 7131
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CLARKE, ARTHUR C.  The View from Serendip
Random House . Very Good Hardcover in no Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. Biographical essays by the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey - many centered upon his beloved Ceylon.
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 645] Book number: 7148
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CLINE, SALLY  Zelda Fitzgerald, Her Voice in Paradise
Arcade First U.S. Edition . Very Good Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Small corner creasing of three leaves and tiny marking on four pages. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Six years in the making, this powerful biography is the first on Zelda in more than thirty years. In it, Sally Cline presents a far more complex and controversial portrait, and an analysis of the Fitzgeralds' marriage very different from what we have been told so far. ISBN: 1559706880
USD 13.75 [Appr.: EURO 9.25 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1182] Book number: 6101
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COLLIER, RICHARD  A House Called Memory
E. P. Dutton First U. S. Edition . Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Mild wear and fading of boards and an area of writing on front paste-down. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with edge wear with several small chips; in a clear protective cover. A Distinctive Memoir of a Boyhood in England by the author of The City That Would Not Die.
USD 13.50 [Appr.: EURO 9 | £UK 8.25 | JP¥ 1161] Book number: 2490
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DABNEY, VIRGINIA BELL  Once There Was a Farm...A Country Childhood Remembered
Ballantine . New Unread Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "I have been indelibly imprinted by my own years growing up on a working farm", Mrs. Dabney writes, and with loving hindsight she re-creates for the reader a world that is forever lost. ISBN: 034536502X
USD 11.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 | £UK 7 | JP¥ 989] Book number: 4562
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DAHL, ROALD  Boy: Tales of Childhood
Puffin . Near Fine Trade Paperback. Very slight wear of wraps - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Roald Dahl's fascinating tales of his own childhood. Illustrated. ISBN: 0140318909
USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 | £UK 2.5 | JP¥ 344] Book number: 2654
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DAHL, ROALD  Boy: Tales of Childhood
Puffin / Penguin. Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. “As full of excitment and the unexpected as the stories he writes, Roald Dahl,s tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating, often very funny, and are not to be missed!Ã
   ¶ Illustrated. ISBN: 0140318909
USD 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 | £UK 2.75 | JP¥ 387] Book number: 7043
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DREWE, ROBERT  The Shark Net: Memories and Murder
Viking First American Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A memoir of extraordinary events from his childhood in Perth by one of Australia's most celebrated writers. ISBN: 0670888095
USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 | £UK 8.75 | JP¥ 1247] Book number: 5459
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O'FAOLAIN, NUALA  Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman
Riverhead First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The Irish author of ARE YOU SOMEBODY? provides a provocative account of one woman's experience of "the crucible of middle age". ISBN: 1573222410
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1204] Book number: 6655
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O'FAOLAIN, NUALA  Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman
Henry Holt . New Unread Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Nuala O'Faolain has been a waitress, sales clerk, and maid; a university lecturer; a TV producer; and, most recently, a columnist with the Irish Times. She lives in Dublin. ISBN: 0805056645
USD 8.75 [Appr.: EURO 6 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 752] Book number: 4601
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FLETCHER, CHRIS  Joseph Conrad
Oxford University Press . Fine Hardcover in no Dustjacket as issued. Decorative laminate binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The British Library writers’ lives. Nicely illustrated. ISBN: 0195214412
USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 | £UK 6.75 | JP¥ 946] Book number: 6925
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