FITCH, JANET

Chimes of a Lost Cathedral

New York: Little, Brown & Co, 2019. Large Print Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316454192. Remainer dot on top page edges, otherwise near-fine.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Revolution of Marina M. vol. 2; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1130 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 21558

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Russia

Keywords: 0316454192 RUSSIA

FLEMING, IAN

Gilt

New York: The Macmillan Co, 1961. Omnibus; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ and boards show shelf wear, with DJ scuffed and chipped with short tears. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Introduction by Paul Gallico; James Bond; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 685 pages; This Omnibus edition contains unabridged Casino Royale, From Russia With Love and Doctor No. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 20913

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: James Bond FICTION Fiction::Mystery

FORD, RICHARD

Independence Day

New York: Little Brown Canada, 1995. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. ISBN: 0316288268. Light edge wear, light curling of corners, crease top back corner, light shelf soil ; A tight solid book. Scan available upon request. Plain white card covers with black print. This was the first issue of the book, intended to be distributed to book reviewers and book sellers only ; Trade PB; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 451 pages; Richard Ford has created in Frank Bascome the most interesting, insightful & thought provoking character in American literature since Holden Caufield. Over the course of a Fourth of July weekend, Mr. Ford takes us on a journey that moves from the current day to flashbacks in the life of Frank Bascome. He is a real estate agent in a southern New Jersey town and one of his current clients is a couple who are looking for the ideal home. When Frank thinks he has found the right home, they have reservations. Frank never seems to be able to meet the couple's pie-in-the-sky expectations and that is central theme to the book. No matter how hard we try, we never seem to meet of own expectations in life. Frank has had a failed marriage, a failed career as a sportswriter and has entered what he calls an "existance period" in his life. He yearns for the days gone by when as he says "pride still mattered".. Very Good- .

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Book number: 12417

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0316288268 Uncorrected Proof, Arc FICTION

FORD, RICHARD

Independence Day

Toronto: Little, Brown and Company (Canada) Limited, 1995. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316288268. Light edge wear, scuffing of DJ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 1.5 x 9.4 x 6.4 Inches; 451 pages; Ford is the author now of five novels and a book of short stories, but he is probably best known for The Sportswriter (1988), widely praised as a realistic, compassionate and humorous view of American life as seen through the eyes of a highly intelligent and deeply involved observer. The man was Frank Bascombe of Haddan, N.J, and for those who came to see him as a new kind of American fiction icon, the good news is that he's back. Independence Day is an often poetic, sometimes searing, sometimes hilarious account of a few days around the Fourth of July in Bascombe's new life. Divorced, working with genuine enthusiasm and insight as a real estate salesman (not even John Updike has penetrated the working, commercial life of a contemporary American with such skill and empathy), embarked on a tentative new relationship with Sally, who lives by the sea, narrator Frank struggles through the long weekend with a mixture of courage, self-knowledge and utter foolishness that makes him a kind of 1980s Everyman. He desperately tries to find a new home for some brilliantly observed losers from Vermont, has some resentful exchanges with his former wife, takes a difficult teenage son on what might have been an idyllic pilgrimage to two sports Halls of Fame, bobs and weaves uneasily around Sally and, as the Fourth arrives, achieves a sort of low-key epiphany.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 14164

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0316288268 Frank Bascombe sportswriter FICTION

FORESTER, C. S.

Randall and the River of Time

London: Michael Joseph, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Unclipped DJ is chipped with a couple of short tears ; A bright solid, book, hinges intact; 320 pages; A more modern story than his Hornblower novels, the central character is a young soldier home on leave from the trenches in WWI. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 10846

Catalogue: Fiction::UK

Keywords: hornblower flanders WWI British Fiction

FORESTER, C. S.

The Ship ; Mr Midshipman Hornblower ; the Earthly Paradise ; the General ; the Captain from Connecticut ; the African Queen

London: Heinemann Octopus, 1985. Omnibus. Hardcover. ISBN: 0905712021. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Price-clipped.; A bright, solid book, as new. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 861 pages; A choice selection of Forester's works in Omnibus edition. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 20852

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: 0905712021

FORESTER, C. S.

The Ship ; Mr Midshipman Hornblower ; the Earthly Paradise ; the General ; the Captain from Connecticut ; the African Queen

London: Heinemann Octopus, 1985. Omnibus. Hardcover. ISBN: 0905712021. DJ shows very light shelf wear, gift inscription on page facing half title page. Dust jacket has dampstain base of spine, 1 inch tear base of fore-edge, chipping and general wear top edge, short faint ink mark front page edges ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 861 pages; A choice selection of Forester's works in Omnibus edition, six books, complete and unabridged.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 20995

Catalogue: Fiction::Maritime

Keywords: 0905712021 MARITIME Africa hornblower Fiction::Historical

FORESTER, C. S.

The Ship ; Mr Midshipman Hornblower ; the Earthly Paradise ; the General ; the Captain from Connecticut ; the African Queen

London: Heinemann Octopus, 1985. Omnibus. Hardcover. ISBN: 0905712021. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Previous owner's bookplate pasted on back of FFEP. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 861 pages; A choice selection of Forester's works in Omnibus edition. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21547

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: 0905712021 hornblower FICTION

FORREST, ANTHONY

The Pandora Secret

London: Allen Lane, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0713915072. Slight fading of DJ spine. Previous owner's name on blank page, light edge wear. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; A Captain Justice Story; 320 pages; "It is the winter of 1804 and Robert Fulton, the brilliant, unpredictable American inventor, has been spirited from France to build a new and deadly weapon that will change the nature of war as it is known to Collingwood and Nelson. Captain John Justice, newly returned from France after a secret mission that succeeded on thwarting napoleon's invasion of England, is once again called to serve the clandestine Board of Beacons, Bells, Buoys and Mercantile Messengers. This time his task is to protect Fulton and foil a French plot to capture and destroy his secret weapon, the Pandora.". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 14939

Catalogue: Fiction::Naval

Keywords: 0713915072 Naval Robert Fulton Fiction::Historical

FOSTER, HAROLD D.

The Ozymandias Principles Thirty

Vancouver BC: Southdowne Press/ UBC, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 1894029011. Light wear to corners of card covers ; A bright, solid book. At the back of the book are provided, timeline, character notes and a glossary of terms to help clarify any confusing aspects of the book. ; Trade PB; 0.75 x 9 x 6.25 Inches; 201 pages; "This book probes the anatomy of resilience, the ability to accomodate change gracefully. Dissection takes place, not in an operating theatre but in the legislature of DeltaGlobe, a futuristic virtual reality world. In the the year 2096, government supporters argue in favour of graeter resilience, while members of the 'loyal opposition' deride each of its 31 dimensions." An interesting concept - a future philosophy novel as opposed to the more common future science. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 14943

Catalogue: Fiction::Science Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 1894029011 PHILOSOPHY Science Fiction Fiction::Canadian Fiction::Science Fiction & Fantasy PHILOSOPHY

FOWLES, JOHN

Daniel Martin

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0224014900. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, discoloration of DJ inner surfaces, light foxing of page edges and yellowing of pages common in British publications of this era. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 704 pages; "The eponymous hero of John Fowles's largest and richest novel is an English playwright turned Hollywood screenwriter who has begun to question his own values. Summoned home to England to visit an ailing friend, Daniel Martin finds himself back in the company of people who once knew him well, forced to confront his buried past, and propelled toward a journey of self-discovery through which he ultimately creates for himself a more satisfying existence. A brilliantly imagined novel infused with a profound understanding of human nature". Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 20441

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0224014900 British Fiction FICTION

FOWLES, JOHN

A Maggot

London UK: Jonathan Cape, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0224028065. Light fading on spine edge of front cover, general wear. Previous owner has drawn small artistic pieces top of FFEP and half title page with light ink transfer to front flap ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 460 pages; "A modern narrator supplements the views of a group of eighteenth-century travelers as they make an inquiry into the mysterious death by hanging of one traveler and the disappearance--into thin air--of another". Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 20883

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0224028065 maggot FICTION LITERATURE

FRANCIS, CLARE

A Dark Devotion

London: Macmillan, 1997. First British Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 033368303X. Signed by Author; Only slight wear and a light lean. ; DJ in Mylar, unclipped. Signed by author on title page ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 410 pages; "Alex and her husband, Paul, are criminal lawyers practicing together in London. Their work is putting a strain on their marriage, as she feels he is all too willing to represent the guilty. Then Will Dearden, an old friend whom she hasn’t seen for twelve years, calls upon her for help. He still lives in Norfolk, where they grew up together. His elegant wife, Grace, has disappeared. The police, he thinks, aren’t trying hard enough to find her.Despite—or maybe because—Alex once had a crush on Dearden, she goes to his aid, and discovers that he had very good reason for murdering the alluring but not so very lovable Grace". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 8050

Catalogue: Fiction::UK

Keywords: 033368303X Mystery Signed British Fiction Fiction::Mystery

FRANZEN, JONATHAN

Strong Motion

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1992. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374271054. DJ shows very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 6.25 X 1.75 X 9.5 inches; 508 pages; "Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings-earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance, Louis falls in love with a young seismologist, Renée Seitchek, whose theory about the origin of the earthquakes turns his world upside down.". Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 20978

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0374271054 Earthquake seismology FICTION

FRASER, GEORGE MACDONALD

Flashman at the Charge / Flashman in the Great Game

London: Chancellor Press, 1983. Omnibus. Hardcover. ISBN: 0907486371. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, small bubble in DJ lamination top fore corner. Some tanning of pages as is common in British publications from this era. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.8 X 6.1 X 1.7 inches; 622 pages; Thes complete novels are the fourth and fifth books in the Flashman series. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 20384

Catalogue: Fiction::Series

Keywords: 0907486371 harry flashman FICTION Fiction::Historical