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ACKROYD, PETER  Milton in America
Vintage . New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the King's return to London, had decided to flee England in order to avoid imprisonment or death? What if he had crossed the ocean and joined the Puritans recently settled in New England? From this idea Peter Ackroyd creates an entralling story of conflict, treachery, hypocrisy and greed. ISBN: 0749386258
USD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 878] Book number: 5210
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ACKROYD, PETER  Milton in America
Vintage . New Unread Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the King's return to London, had decided to flee England in order to avoid imprisonment or death? What if he had crossed the ocean and joined the Puritans recently settled in New England? From this idea Peter Ackroyd creates an entralling story of conflict, treachery, hypocrisy and greed. ISBN: 0749386258
USD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 878] Book number: 5211
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ALTER, JUDY AND A. T. ROW  Unbridled Spirits: Short Fiction About Women in the Old West
Texas Christian University Press . Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. This collection of short stories (by Willa Cather, Mari Sandoz, Bret Harte, Jack London and many others) is designed to refute the traditional notion that women in western fiction were mere stereotypes - the soiled dove or the pure schoolmarm... ISBN: 0875651240
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 6501
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BARTH, JOHN  The Tidewater Tales (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
The Johns Hopkins University Press . Near Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Minor bumping of one corner - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Sailing on Chesapeake Bay, a young couple tell each other tales to ease the worries of her eight and a half months pregnancy. ISBN: 080185556X
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 7597
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BENNETT, WILLIAM J.  The Moral Compass: Stories for a Life's Journey
Simon & Schuster First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The inspiring and instructive companion volume to The Book of Virtues, offers many more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in exemplary stories from history. ISBN: 0684803135
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 6089
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BINDING, PAUL  Separate Country: a literary journey through the American South
Paddington First Edition . Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Faint edge spotting - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with the slightest of wear; in a clear protective cover. Paul Binding, an Englishman long fascinated by Southern literature, made an extensive journey through the South, talking to its most distinguised writers in their homes. Includes conversations with: Walker Percy, Eudora Welty, Andrew Lytle and other Southern writers. ISBN: 0448220725
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 5912
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BIOY CASARES, ADOLFO  Asleep in the Sun
Persea First American Edition . Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.DJ with moderate wear, small creasing of flaps and a small, closed tear; in a clear protective cover. Love and freedom are untimately illusions, Bioy Casares seems to be telling us, while totalitarian systems, in most of today's world, are all too real. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine. ISBN: 0892550309
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 3032
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EL-BISATIE, MOHAMED  Houses behind the Trees
University of Texas Press . New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. Set in a small village in the Egyptian Delta, El-Bisatie’s finely tuned novella illustrates the social and sexual tensions in a community in which nothing is secret and where people’s pasts haunt their present. ISBN: 0292720955
USD 9.75 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 861] Book number: 7213
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BLOOM, HAROLD  How to Read and Why
Simon & Schuster . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. ISBN: 0684859076
USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 706] Book number: 5855
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BOLL, HEINRICH  absent without leave
McGraw-Hill Second Printing . Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Very slight edge spotting and corner wear of binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a small area of tape residual and scraping on reverse; in a clear protective cover. Volume contains two novellas by the 1972 Nobel Laureate: Absent Without Leave and Enter and Exit. His works focus principally on the Second World War, its aftermath, the havoc it wreaked on the people of Germany. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. ISBN: 070064040
USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 17 | JP¥ 2471] Book number: 2872
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BUNCLE, JOHN, JNR.  Of Wives and Wiving: A Manual of Instruction, Exhortation & Admonition gathered from Older Authors for the Guidance, Delight and Moral Fortification of Contemporary Readers
Henry Regnery. Near Fine Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Mild corner bumping and previous owner's small stamp on front paste-down. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ price-clipped with moderate wear and tanning and with small chips and closed tears; in a clear protective cover. A quaint little collection of brief writings on wives, love and marriage by many older authors including Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Francis Bacon and the like.
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 5951
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CELA, CAMILO JOSE'  The Family of Pascual Duarte
Little, Brown . Near Fine Trade Paperback. Several tiny, superficial scratches of front wrap - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The classic of modern Spanish literature by the Nobel Prize-winning writer. Translated from the Spanish by Anthony Kerrigan. ISBN: 0316134317
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 794] Book number: 5847
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COETZEE, J.M.  Disgrace
Penguin . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Set in South Africa by the Nobel Laureate for Literature. ISBN: 0140296409
USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 750] Book number: 7582
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COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR  Biographia Literaria
Everyman's Library . Very Good Hardcover (12mo) in no Dustjacket as issued. Top edge stained black. Mild soiling of binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A collection of essays on literary criticism by Coleridge. With an Introduction by Arthur Symons.
USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 | £UK 13.25 | JP¥ 1942] Book number: 5277
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CONRAD, JOSEPH  Tales of the Sea
Castle . New Unread Oversized Trade Paperback. Unmarked. A collection of Conrad's powerful and beautifully-written sea stories including Lord Jim, Typhoon, Children of the Sea, Heart of Darkness and others. ISBN: 0890098018
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 6733
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COSTAIN, THOMAS B.  Read With Me
Doubleday Book Club Edition . Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Top edge stained red. Book has slight corner wear and previous owner's very small label on front paste-down. It is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge wear and mild scuffing; in a clear protective cover. A personal anthology of memorable reading, selected and introduced by Thomas B. Costain. Contains stories by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Woolf, Godden, Priestly, Gallico and many others.
USD 10.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 | £UK 6.5 | JP¥ 927] Book number: 2645
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DARRAH, JOHN  The Real Camelot: Paganism and the Arthurian Romances
Dorset . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The Real Camelot introduces us to a King Arthur who belongs not to a post Roman Britain but to an earlier, pagan era. ISBN: 0880290277
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 7419
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DAVIS, ROBERT MURRAY  Playing Cowboys: Low Culture and High Art in the Western
University of Oklahoma Press . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Robert Murray Davis examines the Western hero - a principal image of American manhood since publication of The Virginian - as portrayed by a variety of post-World War II novelists and filmmakers. ISBN: 0806124024
USD 10.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 | £UK 6.5 | JP¥ 927] Book number: 3293
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DOCTOROW, E.L.  The Waterworks
Random House First Trade Edition . Very Good Trade Paperback. Slight wear of wraps and slight edge spotting. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. By the award winning author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, World's Fair and others.
USD 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 | £UK 5.75 | JP¥ 838] Book number: 2292
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DOCTOROW, E.L.  World's Fair
Random House First Edition . Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Cloth binding with some fading; lettering remains bright. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with several small tears; in a clear protective cover. ISBN: 0394525280
USD 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 | £UK 5.75 | JP¥ 838] Book number: 1281
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ELLIOT, JEFFREY M. (EDIT.)  Conversations with Maya Angelou
University Press of Mississippi Third Printing . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Conversations between Maya Angelou and various interviewers concerning her life and writings. ISBN: 087805362X
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 6076
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GIBRAN, KAHLIL  The Eye of the Prophet
Frog . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A collection of writings by the author of the poem, The Prophet, translated from the Arabic and French. ISBN: 1883319404
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 7521
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GOLDING, WILLIAM  Darkness Visible
Farrar,Straus,Giroux Third Printing . Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. A small area of writing on front paste-down, wear of lower board edges and edge spotting. Book is tight and overall bright. DJ with edge wear and a small, closed tear; in a clear protective cover. "...a boy steps out of the flaming destruction of the London Blitz miraculously alive, but orphaned and hideously scarred for life...He becomes a prophet, a wandering soul, who has his own 'voices'." ISBN: 0374135029
USD 11.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 | £UK 7 | JP¥ 1015] Book number: 2434
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HARTHAN, JONATHAN  The History of The Illustrated Book: The Western Tradition
Thames and Hudson First U. S. Edition . Near Fine Tall (Folio) Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. A faint trace of edge spotting - else Fine. Full cloth binding with gilt spine lettering and front board design. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A profusely illustrated account of book illustration from ancient Egypt to the present day. The author was formerly Keeper of the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. ISBN: 0500233160
USD 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.75 | £UK 33.25 | JP¥ 4854] Book number: 5326
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HARWELL, RICHARD (EDIT.)  Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With The Wind" Letters, 1936-1949
Macmillan Second Printing . Near Fine Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. Slight edge spotting - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with slight edge wear and two small, closed tears; now nicely held in a clear protective cover. "Alas", wrote Margaret Mitchell in January 1937, "where has my quiet peaceful life gone?" Within six months of publication, her Gone With the Wind had been hailed as a literary and publishing phenomenon..The agony and ecstacy of this undreamed-of success is told in her personal correspondence, the publication of which represents another literary event. Illustrated. ISBN: 0025486500
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 5670
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