Boston, Little Brown, (1999). 1st ptg thus. VG lg sz PB. Jack Crabb, fictional eyewitness to frontier history, meets, drinks with & rides with Bat Masterson, Annie Oakley & Doc. Holliday & accompanies Buffalo Bill on a visit to Queen Victoria.
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NY, Avon, (1980). VG PB. A daring affair with a woman half his age a prize-winning biographer, pursuer of lives he cannot live, dreams and grieves. jogs and diets, lusts and loves, searches for a new way of living in the autumn of his life. Slight edge wear.
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NY, Knopf, 2004. 1ST Amer Ed. VG Hardback in VG DJ. A long-awaited new novel by the author of "Corelli's Mandolin". This is a great book that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. Prevous owner's notations, some underlining. Political and personal costs of war and love. Story of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the voices of the people- Christian and Muslims of Turkish and Greek and Armenian descent. whose lives are rooted there, intertwined for an untold nmber of years. The author was selected one of the 20 best of young British novelists in 1993. His most recent book is Red Dog.
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Berkeley, Univ of California Press, 1971. 1st Amer ed. VG in VG DJ. A philosophical tour de force that contains de Ayala's opinions on life, the human condition, science, art & religion expressed. with fine irony and a Cervantesque sense of comedy.
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NY, St. Martins, (1991). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Called home from convent after her brother's death, Anna is reluctant to leave but soon discovers her lust for life. DJ edge wear.
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Washington, D.C., Counterpoint, (1984). 1st ptg. VG PB. A fiction writer on being left by her lover is trying to remember a man she left behind years ago, her older brother,. a troubled soul and the shame has lingered for years. Remainder mark.
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NY, Scribner, (1997). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A train crashes in the bayou & a woman lies injured in the mud. A rescuer pushes her face deeper into slime so he can record. her gasps on his portable cassette player.
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NY, Macmillan, 1944. BCE. VG in G DJ. Ownr nm fep, DJ chpd. How 3 children made a home for themselves in a farm on the edge of the wilderness near Lake Champlain.
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NY, Macmillan, 1944. VG. How 3 children made a home for themselves in a farm on the edge of the wilderness near Lake Champlain. Owner name, bookplate. Green binding, brown decorations and title block on spine.
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Berkeley, CA, University of California, (1999). 1st ptg thus. VG in VG DJ. Studies concerning lovers' separations, and one lover forcuses on separation and loneliness with highly eccentric & extravagant. exaggerations.
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