CHEVALIER, TRACY

Falling Angels

New York: Dutton, 2001. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0007108257. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Her first novel, The Virgin Blue, was published in the UK in 1997 and was chosen by W H Smith for their showcase of new authors. Her second novel, entitled Girl with a Pearl Earring, was published in 1999. The work, which was based on the famous painting by Vermeer, has been translated into 38 languages. As of 2014, it has sold over five million copies worldwide. It won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award in 2000. In 2003, a film based on the novel was released, receiving three Academy Award nominations in 2004, along with ten BAFTAs and two Golden Globes. Her 2013 novel, The Last Runaway was honored with the Ohioana Book Award and was chosen for the Richard and Judy Book Club for autumn 2013. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 40861

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O'CONNOR, ROBERT

Buffalo Soldiers

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679415084. This is the author's first novel. " This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "He is the author of a novel, 1993's Buffalo Soldiers, which was adapted into the film of the same name. The literary magazine Granta called him one of the most promising young novelists, and novelist James Carroll, in a positive review in The New York Times, called him a "fine novelist." In the United Kingdom, Buffalo Soldiers was highly praised by the reviewer of The Independent, who called it "powerful" and said that the novel's denouement was "delicate, unflinching and deeply moving." Other reviewers praised his portrayal of American military life in Germany, including its "race hatred and race-related violence." " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 46454

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CROWNINSHIELD, FRANK (INTRODUCTION BY)

Vogue's First Reader

New York: Julian Messner, Incorporated, 1942. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine - condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. One page was misfolded and shows some creasing (page 547 / 548). There is a previous owner's inked name, and date (and sorority name) on the front pastedown page (neatly). The dust jacket has several nicks, beginning edge tears and edge wear / rubbing along with some sunning, especially to the spine. This book contains numerous writings from the pages of Vogue magazine: all of the works included in this volume have never been printed in any other anthology, making this a First Hardback Edition for a number of the works. Included are A Prologue to America by Thomas Wolfe, The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming by Ernest Hemingway (on fishing), Brooklyn is My Neighborhood by Carson McCullers, The Scars of London by Cecil Beaton, Five Pretty Little Fables by William Saroyan, Fanny - You Fool! by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, I Saw the Moscow Blitz by Margaret Bourke-White, These Grapes need Sugar by Rex Stout, and many more.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 35411

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DANOEN, EMILE (TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY MARY GLASGOW)

Tides of Time

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1952. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Originally published in France as Une Maison Soufflee aux Vents (and in the UK as Dust in the Wind). This is the first American edition. This book is part of the Ballantine Books Hardback series; this book was published simultaneously with the paperback and is the First Hardback Edition. This is Book Number H6. The book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean, but noticeably toned due to the acid content of the paper. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and rubbed spots along with an inch long shallow chip to the front panel. "The Rue Dauphine was a narrow street in the very heart of Le Havre's dockland slums. A picturesque street - the tourists said. But pinched houses oozed poverty and dirt - their inhabitants knew every kind of brutality and passion." "Émile Danoën (10 January 1920 – 7 May 1999) was a French journalist and novelist. Émile Danoën (10 January 1920 – 7 May 1999) was a French journalist and novelist. Danoën was born Émile Orvoën, to Pierre Orvoën and Léonie Le Doze at Moëlan-sur-Mer in Finistère, Brittany, but he grew up in the seamen's hostel run by his parents in the district of Saint-François in Le Havre. During the Second World War, he moved to Marseilles with his first wife Georgette, with whom he had two sons, Michael and Peter. He worked at the magazine Les Cahiers du Sud while at the same time appearing in bars and restaurants in the old port working as a street violinist." (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 46089

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DICKENS, CHARLES

Little Dorrit

London, England: Bradbury & Evans (Bouverie Street), 1857. 1st Hardback Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by H. K. Browne. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This copy is bound in green 3/4th morocco leather and brown figured cloth. This is a First Hardback edition, first state, with the character's name as Rigaud (instead of Blandois on pages 469, 470, 472 & 474; with NO ads in the book (either front or rear) and page 371 with signature B2 instead of BB2. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing and wear, The cloth book covers have spots of rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright, though there are spots of foxing throughout. "Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens’ own father had been imprisoned. Dickens is also critical of the lack of a social safety net, the treatment and safety of industrial workers, as well the bureaucracy of the British Treasury, in the form of his fictional "Circumlocution Office". In addition he satirises the stratification of society that results from the British class system." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 45759

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DIEHL, WILLIAM

Reign in Hell

New York: Ballantine Books, 1997. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0345411447. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is one tiny nick to the bottom spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket (a wrap-around band, not a full dust jacket) is crisp and clean with the exception of one tiny nick to the spine. "Diehl was a successful photographer and journalist, when he began his novel-writing career at 50. His first novel, Sharky's Machine, was made into the 1981 film of the same name, directed and starred Burt Reynolds. Diehl saw it being shot on location in and around his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. Its cast included Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith, Charles Durning, Earl Holliman, Rachel Ward, Bernie Casey, Henry Silva, and Richard Libertini. It was the most successful box-office release of a film directed by Reynolds. Diehl relocated to St. Simons Island, Georgia, in the early 1980s, and lived there for the next 15 years before returning to Atlanta. While living on St. Simons, he completed eight other novels, including Primal Fear, which was adapted into a 1996 film." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 39857

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ESQUIVEL, LAURA

The Law of Love

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1996. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0517706814. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "In her novel Like Water for Chocolate released in 1989, Esquivel uses magical realism to combine the ordinary and the supernatural, with narrative devices similar to those used by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier as "el real maravilloso" and by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez and Chilean author Isabel Allende. Como agua para chocolate is set during the Mexican Revolution of the early twentieth Century and features the importance of the kitchen and food in the life of its female protagonist, Tita. The novel is structured as a year of monthly issues of an old-style women's magazine containing recipes, home remedies, and love stories, and each chapter ("January," "February," "March," etc. ) opens with the redaction of a traditional Mexican recipe followed by instructions for preparation. Each recipe recalls to the narrator a significant event in the protagonist's life. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 40688

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FORD, RICHARD

Independence Day

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679492658. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Ford published his first novel, A Piece of My Heart, the story of two unlikely drifters whose paths cross on an island in the Mississippi River, during 1976, and followed it with The Ultimate Good Luck during 1981. During the interim he briefly taught at Williams College and Princeton University. Despite good notices the books sold little, and Ford retired from fiction writing to become a writer for the New York magazine Inside Sports. "I realized," Ford said, "there was probably a wide gulf between what I could do and what would succeed with readers. I felt that I'd had a chance to write two novels, and neither of them had really created much stir, so maybe I should find real employment, and earn my keep." " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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FORD, RICHARD

The Lay of the Land

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0676972489. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Ford published his first novel, A Piece of My Heart, the story of two unlikely drifters whose paths cross on an island in the Mississippi River, during 1976, and followed it with The Ultimate Good Luck during 1981. During the interim he briefly taught at Williams College and Princeton University. Despite good notices the books sold little, and Ford retired from fiction writing to become a writer for the New York magazine Inside Sports. "I realized," Ford said, "there was probably a wide gulf between what I could do and what would succeed with readers. I felt that I'd had a chance to write two novels, and neither of them had really created much stir, so maybe I should find real employment, and earn my keep." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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FORSYTH, FREDERICK

The Dogs of War

New York: Viking Press, 1974. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670277533. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Forsyth decided to write a novel using similar research techniques to those used in journalism. His first full-length novel, The Day of the Jackal, was published in 1971. It became an international bestseller and gained its author the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. In this book, the Organisation Armée Secrète hires an assassin to kill then-French President Charles de Gaulle. It was made into a film of the same name. In Forsyth's second full-length novel, The Odessa File (1972) , a reporter attempts to track down an ex-Nazi SS officer in contemporary Germany. The reporter discovers him via the diary of a Jewish Holocaust survivor who committed suicide earlier, but he is being shielded by an organization that protects ex-Nazis, called ODESSA. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 39935

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FRANKLIN, TOM

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

New York: William Morrow, 2010. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060594667. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Though some characterize Franklin as being a crime writer, his fiction is much more diverse, and he is best described as being a Southern writer, who is often compared to Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor. Franklin's first book is collection of ten short stories, Poachers (1999) , the title story of which won the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Short Story. In an interview for the website Mississippi Writers and Musicians, its author writes of the book as being " stories that address the injustice and irony that life can sometimes have as well as the corruption present in daily life. Franklin puts his characters in situations where temptation makes the line between right and wrong unclear at times." " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 40722

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FRASER, GEORGE MACDONALD

Black Ajax

London, England: Harper Collins, 1997. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002255855. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages have some beginning toning / darkening to the edges of the pages due to the quality of the paper used. The foredge and top edge of the text block have noticeable toning as well. The dust jacket is clean and bright.. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 46155

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GANN, ERNEST K.

Brain 2000

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385143931. Publisher's review copy. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of small edge tears and there is one small spot of chipping to the bottom spine end. There are several small spots of ground-in dirt. "After earning his pilot certificate, Gann spent much of his free time aloft, flying for pleasure. The continuing Great Depression soon cost him his job and he was unable to find another job in the movie business. In search of work, he decided to relocate his family to California. He took odd jobs and flight instructed at Burbank and nearby airports and began to write short stories. A friend got him a part-time job as a co-pilot with a local airline and it was there that he flew his first trips as a professional aviator. During the late 1930s many airlines were hiring as many pilots as they could find; after learning of these opportunities, Gann moved his family back to New York where he was hired by American Airlines to fly Douglas DC-2 and Douglas DC-3 aircraft. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 40036

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GERRY, MARGARITA SPALDING

The Toy Shop a Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket and the accompanying box. The front cover has a rectangular pictorial pastedown illustration, that has edge wear, rubbing and some beginning nicks. The bottom front corner of the book cover have noticeable rubbing. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is some light scratching to the rear cover of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page which features an illustration of Abraham Lincoln. ""I started to write stories because I realized that they were marketable products for which I could receive money", Gerry explained to an interviewer in 1917. Novels by Margarita Spalding Gerry include The Toy Shop (1908) , The Masks of Love (1914) , The Sound of Water (1914) , Philippa's Fortune (1921) , Philippa at the Chateau (1922) , and Philippa's Experiments (1923). Her serialized The Flowers appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1908, with illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Similarly, Gerry's As Caesar's Wife appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1911, with illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg, before being published as a volume in 1912. Most of her short stories appeared between 1905 and 1925, in Harper's, though some were instead published in Scribner's and The Smart Set. A collection of her early short stories, Heart and Chart, was published in 1911. Gerry also wrote a non-fiction work, Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body Guard to President Lincoln (1910)." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 42815

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GILMAN, LASELLE

The Red Gate

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1952. 1st Edition; 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book Number H-9 in the Ballantine Books series. This book is an early Bantam Books Hardback editions (published simultaneously with the paperback editions). A Very Good+ copy of the book in a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright, but noticeably toned due to the acid content of the paper. The dust jacket has several small edge tears, nicks and wrinkles. There is one one + inch long mostly closed tear to the top front edge of the dust jacket. "LaSelle Gilman started out his writing career at the Daily Nebraskan, where he penned a ditty titled “Four of the reasons why the author is going to leave the Middle West after graduation. ” The reasons correspond to the four seasons. Spring features “eternal drizzling rain, ” Summer “blaring, blinding heat” and Winter “icy winds that blow/without redeeming snow. ” Autumn repeats the Spring verse." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 45938

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Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Laselle Gilman Korean War China Soviet Union World History spies Suspense