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AYALTI, HANAN J.  The Presence Is In Exile, Too: Collected Stories
Black Belt Press First English Language Edition . Fine Hardcover in no Dustjacket as issued. Cloth binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A unique book. This is the first collected English translation of Hanan Ayalti’s (1910-1992) short stories, which chronicle the Jewish refugee experience of the 1930s and ‘40s. Ayalti himself fled to South America to escape Nazi persecution, before making his way to the U.S. in 1946... ISBN: 1881320227
USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 | £UK 13.25 | JP¥ 1942] Book number: 7025
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BARNES, DJUNA  Ryder
Dalkey Archive Press Third Printing . Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "When it was first published in 1928, Djuna Barnes's Ryder, a bawdy mock-Elizabethan chronicle of a family very much like her own, was described in the Saturday Review as 'the most amazing book ever written by a woman.' One of modern literature's first and best denunciations of patriarchal repression..." Illustrations by the author including several previously suppressed. Afterword by novelist Paul West. ISBN: 0671211854
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 2583
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BARNES, DJUNA  Ryder
Dalkey Archive Press Third Printing . New Unread Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "When it was first published in 1928, Djuna Barnes's Ryder, a bawdy mock-Elizabethan chronicle of a family very much like her own, was described in the Saturday review as "the most amazing book ever written by a woman." One of modern literature's first and best denunciations of patriarchal repression.." Illustrations by the author including several previously supressed. Afterword by novelist Paul West. ISBN: 3518381385
USD 13.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.25 | £UK 8.25 | JP¥ 1191] Book number: 4684
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BARRINEAU, NANCY WARNER (EDIT.)  Theodore Dreiser's EV'RY MONTH
University of Georgia Press First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Collected in this volume are reviews and opinion pieces that Dreiser published in Ev'ry Month, a popular women's magazine that he edited for twenty-four issues, from October 1895 through September 1897. It was during this time, says Nancy Warner Barrineau, that Dreiser completed his transformation into the writer whose distinguished career would begin with SISTER CARRIE (1900)... ISBN: 0820318167
USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 | £UK 8.75 | JP¥ 1280] Book number: 6465
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BOLL, HEINRICH  A Soldier's Legacy
Alfred A. Knopf First American Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. From the German Nobel Prize-winner for literature, a rediscovered short novel, written in 1947 at the very start of his great career, then lost in the chaos of life in Germany in the late 1940's...a poignant evocation of youth trapped in war. ISBN: 0394536037
USD 22.50 [Appr.: EURO 15.25 | £UK 13.75 | JP¥ 1986] Book number: 3018
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BOLL, HEINRICH  Women in a River Landscape
Alfred A. Knopf First American Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Top edge stained green. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. From Germany's great Nobel Prize-winning novelist, his final book, completed just before his death: a powerful, angry novel about the greedy quest for influence, power, and money in the inner circles of government and industry, and its effect on the men and women involved. ISBN: 0394563751
USD 18.75 [Appr.: EURO 12.75 | £UK 11.5 | JP¥ 1655] Book number: 4451
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BROOKS, CLEANETH  William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond
Yale University Press First Edition . Very Good Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Book has mild top edge spotting and a scrape and small tear of front free endpaper. DJ has several small, closed tears; now held in a clear protective cover. Recognizing Faulkner's fine non-Yoknapatawpha novels - Soldier's Pay, Mosquitoes, Pylon, The Wild Palms, and A Fable - together with his poetry and his early miscellaneous prose are the chief concerns of this critical work by the author of the classic William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country. ISBN: 0300022042
USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 | £UK 8.75 | JP¥ 1280] Book number: 4223
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CARY, JOYCE  Mister Johnson
Time-Life . Fine Trade Paperback in stiff paper wraps. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The rise and fall of a roughish Nigerian clerk by the author of The Horse’s Mouth. With an Introduction by V.S.Pritchett. ISBN: 0809436116
USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 706] Book number: 7191
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CATHER, WILLA  My Antonia
Barnes & Noble . New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. Small corner creasing of back flap. Set against the backdrop of the Nebraska prairie in the 1880s, My Antonia tells the story of the intermingled lives of newly settled immigrants and established residents in a small frontier town.
USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 | £UK 3.75 | JP¥ 530] Book number: 3760
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CHEEVER, JOHN  The Wapshot Chronicle
Time-Life . Very Good Trade Paperback in stiff paper wraps. Light fore-edge spotting and very slight tanning of pages. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight and unmarked. The author’s first novel ; set on the Massachusetts seaboard. ISBN: 0809437333
USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 | £UK 4.25 | JP¥ 618] Book number: 7172
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COLLIER, JOHN  Fancies and Goodnights
Time-Life . Near Fine Trade Paperback in stiff paper wraps. Minor marginal creasing of a few leaves - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Short stories in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe, O.Henry and Saki.
USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 | £UK 4.25 | JP¥ 618] Book number: 7193
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CONRAD, JOSEPH  Tales of the East and West
Hanover House Book Club Edition . Near Fine Hardcover in Poor Dustjacket. Gentle creasing of spine, slight corner wear and slight edge spotting. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with numerous chips and a closed tear; now in a clear protective cover. Volume contains Almayer's Folly, The Secret Agent and seven shorter works.
USD 10.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 | £UK 6.5 | JP¥ 927] Book number: 2558
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CRONIN, A.J.  A Pocketful of Rye
Little,Brown First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Cloth binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with several small tears and chips; date written on back flap; in a clear protective cover.
USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 | £UK 6.75 | JP¥ 971] Book number: 1202
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CRONIN, A.J.  Shannon's Way
Little, Brown . Very Good Hardcover in no Dustjacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Lettering and design of spine remain bright. Book is tight and bright.
USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 | £UK 3.25 | JP¥ 441] Book number: 1474
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DINESEN, ISAK  On Modern Marriage and Other Observations
St. Martin's First Edition . Very Good Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Individual words or single sentences neatly underlined on a dozen pages. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ price-clipped witth two tiny closed tears; in a clear protective cover. ...the woman who was to become Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) sat down in 1923/4 to write "a little piece" on marriage and sexual morality. The aim of the essay was to clarify for herself the position of human love in relation to modern marriage. ISBN: 0312584431
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 794] Book number: 6463
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DINESEN, ISAK  Seven Gothic Tales
Harrison Smith and Robert Haas Book Club Edition . Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Quarter cloth binding with gilt spine lettering and front board design. Top edge stained red. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with slight tanning; in a clear protective cover. "Where you will ask yourself, puzzled, have I ever encountered such strange slanting beauty of phrase, clothing such arresting but controlled fantasy?" ___From the Introduction by Dorothy Canfield
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 5751
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DOCTOROW, E.L.  Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories
Random House First Edition . Very Good Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Small top edge remainder mark - else Fine. Handsome crimson cloth binding with gilt lettering and colored endpapers. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
USD 11.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 | £UK 7 | JP¥ 1015] Book number: 1659
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DOCTOROW, E.L.  Loon Lake
Random House First Edition . Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Cloth binding. Corner creasing of one leaf and a small fore-edge tear of one leaf-else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with two small chips and mild tanning of flaps; in a clear protective cover. ISBN: 039450691X
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 1140
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DOCTOROW, E.L.  The Waterworks
Random House First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A novel of post-Civil War New York, where maimed veterans beg in the streets, newsboys fight for their corners, the Tweed Ring operates the city for its own profit, and a conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect is all aglitter in a setting of mass misery. By the author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate. ISBN: 0394587545
USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 | £UK 8.75 | JP¥ 1280] Book number: 4881
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FORSTER, E.M.  Howards End
Vintage . Very Good Trade Paperback. Mild wear of wraps. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "...Bringing together people from different classes and nations by way of sympathetic insight and understanding, Howards End eloquently addresses the question "Who shall inherit England?'" ___Lionel Trilling
USD 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 3.25 | £UK 2.75 | JP¥ 397] Book number: 3788
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GALSWORTHY, JOHN  The Silver Spoon
Charles Scribner's Sons First U.S.Edition . Very Good Hardcover in no Dustjacket. Gilt spine lettering remains bright. Boards have mild scuffing and edge/corner wear. Previous owner's signature and date on front endpaper. Pages with slight tanning and occasional gentle creasing and slight spotting. Book is tight and overall bright.
USD 16.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 | £UK 10 | JP¥ 1456] Book number: 2007
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GREENE, GRAHAM  The Comedians
Viking Book Club Edition . Near Fine Hardcover in no Dustjacket. Very slight corner wear of binding. A small spot on one page. Book is tight and bright.
USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 | £UK 3.75 | JP¥ 530] Book number: 1344
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GREENE, GRAHAM  The Human Factor
Simon and Schuster Book Club Edition . Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Minor corner wear of binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with moderate edge wear and small, closed tears.
USD 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 3.25 | £UK 2.75 | JP¥ 397] Book number: 1482
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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST  For Whom the Bell Tolls
Simon & Schuster . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight", For Whom the Bell Tolls. ISBN: 0684803356
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 5502
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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST  True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir
Scribner LARGE PRINT Edition. Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Introduction by Patrick Hemingway.
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 2272
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