CLINE, BARBARA; DUCKWORTH (ADCOCK), MARILYN; ET.AL.

A College Spectator, No.1

Wellington, NZ, Wellington Secondary School. 1953. Paperback. Used, Staplebound paperback in very good condition. Includes multiple essays by numerous authors including Duckworth and Cline. Staples have started to rust and there is foxing to page block and to a few internal pages. Contents are clean throughout. AD. Very Good.

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DUCKWORTH, MARILYN

A Barbarous Tongue

Auckland, New Zealand, Vintage. 1994, Re-Issue. (ISBN: 1869412265) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. NZ Fiction. Her 3rd novel, it won the Award for Achievement 1963, is about a young woman pregnant to a wimpish, unreliable lover mystifyingly attached to his sister, and who finally, in the hands of a sympathetic older man, learns independence. Pp 152, nice and crisp copy. #New Zealand Literature#. Very Good.

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Book number: 13192

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Marilyn Duckworth

A Barbarous Tongue

Vintage 1994 Paperback, 152pp. (ISBN: 1869412265). Good.

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Marilyn Duckworth

A Barbarous Tongue

Vintage 1994 Paperback, 152pp. (ISBN: 1869412265). Good.

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Marilyn Duckworth

Cherries on a Plate: New Zealand Writers Talk About Their Sisters

Random House New Zealand 1996 Paperback, 270pp. (ISBN: 9781869412876). Very Good.

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Book number: 1256419

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Marilyn Duckworth

Disorderly Conduct

Sceptre 1990 Paperback, 160pp. (ISBN: 9780340533888). Very Good.

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Book number: 1466912

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DUCKWORTH, MARILYN

Explosions on the Sun

Auckland, New Zealand, Hodder & Stoughton. 1999, Edition Unstated. (ISBN: 0340492945) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. NZ Fiction, a collection of 17 short stories chart a complex, often tortuous landscapes of despair or healing by one of NZs best writers. Pp 111. Copy is crisp with minor handling wear. #New Zealand Literature#. Very Good.

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Book number: 13211

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Marilyn Duckworth

Explosions on the Sun

Hodder & Stoughton 1989 Hardback, 111pp. (ISBN: 9780340492932). Good.

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Keywords: Fiction, NZ, Short Stories9780340492932 9780340492932

DUCKWORTH, MARILYN

A Gap in the Spectrum

London, New Authors Ltd Hutchinsons. 1959, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Authors first book. A young woman wakes up one day in a rented room in London, with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. Slowly she pieces the story together: she is a New Zealander vacationing in England and is soon to be married to a man she doesn't remember. CONDITION Black bds (unworn) 191 pages are crisp and clean with toned end pages. DJ has been in old style brodart cover at some stage causing mild damage to edge, short tear at rear near spine head. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 15805

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DUCKWORTH, MARILYN

Married Alive

New Zealand, Hodder & Stoughton. 1985, 2nd Impression. (ISBN: 0340379448) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. NZ Fiction. "Futuristic theme; New Zealand is hit by a dangerous epidemic whose violent effects are symbolically reflected in the sinister, malevolent behaviour of the heroines lover." CONDITION Purple bds not bumped, 166 pages nice and crisp. DJ has one short tear at spine head else unworn. #New Zealand Literature#. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 13202

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Keywords: Married People_fiction Fiction_general 0340379448

Marilyn Duckworth

Married Alive

Hodder and Stoughton 1985 Paperback. (ISBN: 0340379456). Fair.

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Marilyn Duckworth

The Matchbox House

Oxford University Press 1988 Paperback, 192pp. While her husband seeks solace with the widow next door, Jean takes refuge in fantasy. A moving tale of a woman's precarious hold on sanity. (ISBN: 9780195581713). Good.

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DUCKWORTH, MARILYN

Message from Harpo

New Zealand, Sceptre. 1989, Edition Unstated. (ISBN: 0340508299) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. NZ Fiction. Three generations of women confront the social upheavals which Halleys Comet apparently introduced in 1986, including homosexuality and the passage of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, Alzheimers disease and the Womens Movement. CONDITION Pp 312, bright and clean, gift inscription and name label. #New Zealand Literature#. Very Good/N/A.

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Book number: 13191

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Keywords: Fiction New Zealand 0340508299

DUCKWORTH, MARILYN

Pulling Faces

New Zealand, Hodder & Stoughton. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340416408) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. NZ Fiction. "Tragi-comic love story that combines science fiction and social satire with the thriller genre, Stuart tries to bind elusive Gwyn in a conventional union. Towing her caravan wherever she likes, she eludes her mother and child, and Stuart; she alters her mind with drugs, and is ultra-secretive about her movements, playing childhood games of pulling faces to disguise self. Ironically she uses a machine to try to bind others to her by capturing their thoughts on videotape. Women are as prone to power complexes as the traditional male, and if communication exists only via computer, Utopia is a long way off." CONDITION Bds clean sl crushed cnrs, 204 pages are bright and crisp. Nice DJ. #New Zealand Literature#. Very Good/Near Fine.

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Book number: 13206

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Marilyn Duckworth

Pulling Faces

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1999 Paperback. Stuart Price, reformed male chauvinist, lives in one half of a modular home. his ex-wife, Lilian, drove away with the other half on the back oif a trailer. Poet, post office clerk and father of teenage children, he is determined to get it right in his new relationship....This novel examines the oftne fragiles architecture of human relationships in a changing world. (ISBN: 9780340416419). Good.

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Keywords: Fiction, NZ9780340416419 9780340416419