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THE CORNET: THE MANNER OF LOVING AND DYING OF THE CORNET CHRISTOPH RILKE
by Rilke, Rainer Maria (Translated by Constantine Fitz Gibbon)
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- Used
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- 1st Edition thus
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- 1958
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£6.45
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London: Allan Wingate, 1958. Very good (sunned cover edges and slightly browned pages, otherwise fine) in very good dust jacket (sunned and somewhat fragile, edgeworn and lightly soiled with one small missing chip at top of spine). Rilke's early short work, here translated into English. Dust jacket art by C.C.P. Lawson. 1st Edition thus. Hard Cover. Item Price
£6.45
CIMARRON REVIEW (October, 1976)
by Keeler, Clinton, editor
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- 1976
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- Paperback
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£4.03
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Stillwater, OK: Oklahoma State University, 1976. Near fine condition paperback literary magazine (one wrinkle in manufacturing on first page). Contributions include interesting essay on the music of Charles Ives, a photographic study the art of Bill McClary (who also furnished the cover), and a study of Tom Sawyer's role at the end of Huck Finn. Fiction editor is Gordon Weaver..… Read more about this item Item Price
£4.03
STORY TELLING NEW & OLD
by Colum, Padraic
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- Used
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- 1st Edition
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- 1961
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- Hardcover
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£30.25
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New York: Macmillan, 1961. INSCRIBED by Colum on first free endpaper and dated Dec 1964. Near fine (tiny scratch on front cover). No dust jacket. A lovely book. Originally published in "The Fountain of Youth" in 1927, here republished in this special format on the occasion of the presentation of the Regina Medal of the Catholic Library Association to Colum… Read more about this item Item Price
£30.25
LETTERS FROM NEW YORK
by Child, L. Maria
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- Used
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- 1844
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- Hardcover
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£8.07
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New York: C. S. Francis and Company, 1844. The second edition, the first having come in 1843. Good only (firm binding but edgeworn especially at spine and corners; faded and spotted covers although gilt title on spine is still bright; heavily browned, foxed, spotted pages, but all clearly legible; previous owner's name on first free endpaper). Lydia Maria Child was… Read more about this item Item Price
£8.07
SHAKESPEARE'S HERMIONE: A SHAKESPEAREAN STORY OF A STEADFAST WIFE
by Gerwig, George William
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- Used
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- 1st Edition
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- 1929
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- Paperback
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- 1
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£20.16
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East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1929. Very good soft-cover Roycrofters book. Some light edgewear, wear at spine. Rough cut pages. Soft-cover book with heavy-stock brown covers printed in red and black ink with woven cord binding. Attractively decorated in the Roycroft style. 18 pages.. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Item Price
£20.16
SHAKESPEARE'S LADY MACBETH: A SHAKESPEAREAN STORY OF TEMPTATION
by Gerwig, George William
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- 1st Edition
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- 1929
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- Paperback
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£20.16
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East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1929. Very good ex-library soft-cover Roycrofters book. Only one mark of library ownership, a light "Fresno High School Library" stamp on the front cover. Some light edgewear. Wear at spine with 1" tear down the spine at the top. Rough cut pages. Soft-cover book with heavy-stock brown covers printed in red and black ink with… Read more about this item Item Price
£20.16
SHAKESPEARE'S IMOGEN: A SHAKESEAREAN STORY OF UNPRIZED LOVE
by Gerwig, George William
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- Used
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- 1st Edition
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- 1929
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- Paperback
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- 1
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£20.16
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East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1929. Very good ex-library soft-cover Roycrofters book. Only one mark of library ownership, a light "Fresno High School Library" stamp on the front cover. Some edgewear especially at corners. Rough cut pages. One-inch coffee splat on page 14. Soft-cover book with heavy-stock brown covers printed in red and black ink with woven cord binding. Attractively… Read more about this item Item Price
£20.16
SHAKESPEARE'S CLEOPATRA: A SHAKESPEAREAN STORY OF PASSION
by Gerwig, George William
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- Used
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- 1st Edition
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- 1929
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- Paperback
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£20.16
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East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1929. Very good ex-library soft-cover Roycrofters book. Only one mark of library ownership, a light "Fresno High School Library" stamp on the front cover. Some light edgewear to covers, especially at corners and spine. Rough cut pages with some short tears, probably from opening pages carelessly. Last page (blank) has some stains, perhaps coffee. Soft-cover… Read more about this item Item Price
£20.16
SHAKESPEARE'S DESDEMONA: A SHAKESPEAREAN STORY OF JEALOUSY
by Gerwig, George William
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- Used
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- 1st Edition
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- 1929
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- Paperback
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- 1
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£20.16
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East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1929. Very good ex-library soft-cover Roycrofters book. Only one mark of library ownership, a light "Fresno High School Library" stamp on the front cover. Some edgewear. Wear at spine. Rough cut pages. Soft-cover book with heavy-stock brown covers printed in red and black ink with woven cord binding. One narrow stain on front cover, looks… Read more about this item Item Price
£20.16
PROFESSION 2005
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- 2005
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- Paperback
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- 9780873528924
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£4.03
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New York: Modern Language Association, 2005. Very good (corner crease on rear cover, otherwise fine) paperback book. 232 pages. Primary focus is on the future of the humanities in the twenty-first century university with related reports or essays on the problems of tenure, ethics, and linguistic diversity. . Paperback. Item Price
£4.03
SENSE, OR SATURDAY-NIGHT MUSINGS AND THOUGHTFUL PAPERS
by Pomeroy, "Brick" [M.M.]
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- Used
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- 1st Edition
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- 1868
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- Hardcover
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£10.49
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New York: G. W. Carleton & Co , 1868. Very good (considerable edgewear at the top of the spine; lightly bumped corners and some fading and rubbing of covers; interior quite clean and unmarked except for owner's bookplate on front pastedown and another owner's ink name on the second page and on the last page. Pages very slightly yellowed; illustrations… Read more about this item Item Price
£10.49
THE ESSENTIAL GESTURE: WRITING, POLITICS AND PLACES
by Gordimer, Nadine
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- Used
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- 1st American edition
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- 1988
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- Hardcover
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- 9780394568829
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£1.41
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New York: Knopf, 1988. Very good (small foxing spots on page edges, otherwise fine) in near fine dust jacket (one ink line drawn through price on dust jacket). The first collection of Gordimer's non-fiction pieces, covering subjects ranging from the beginnings of her career to the inevitable concerns over politics and life in South Africa. Edited and introduced by Stephen… Read more about this item Item Price
£1.41
WORDS THAT MUST SOMEHOW BE SAID
by Boyle, Kay
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- 1st Edition
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- 1985
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- Hardcover
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- 9780865471870
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£3.23
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San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985. Very good (faint foxing on page edges, otherwise fine) in near fine dust jacket. 262 pages. Selection of Boyle's essays, covering a wide range of topics--as was her wont--from the Indians occupying Alcatraz in 1970 to a scintillating review of a French doctor's humble book of experiences trying to deal with the Nazi persecution… Read more about this item Item Price
£3.23
BRAZIL
by Bishop, Elizabeth
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- 1st Edition
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- 1962
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- Hardcover
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£18.15
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New York: Time , 1962. Very good (edgewear at spine top and bottom, an abrasion on the top of front cover, two bumped corners, a couple of lightly creased pages) without dust jacket, as issued. This is a typical volume in the Life World Library, with many photographs, except that the text was written by American poet Elizabeth Bishop,… Read more about this item Item Price
£18.15
THE CAPTAIN'S DEATH BED AND OTHER ESSAYS
by Woolf, Virginia
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- 1st American edition
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- 1950
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- Hardcover
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£22.58
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New York: Harcourt Brace & Co, 1950. Very good (slight wear at bottom cover edges and corners) in very good dust jacket (darkened spine and about 1" around front and back panel top and side; price-clipped; chipped at spine top and flaps' folds; 2 soil spots on back panel). SEE SCANS. Edited by Leonard Woolf, her husband. Pictorial dust jacket… Read more about this item Item Price
£22.58
MOUNTAINS AND CAVERNS: SELECTED ESSAYS
by Sillitoe, Alan
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- 1st Edition
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- 1975
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- Hardcover
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£26.21
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London: W.H. Allen, 1975. Near fine (one bumped corner) in very good+ dust jacket (same bumped corner, some light rubbing and scratches). Includes a long autobiographical piece published for the first time, along with essays from the 1960s and 1970s from newspapers, magazines, and lectures. INSCRIBED by author on first free endpaper, "All best wishes, Alan Sillitoe." 160 pages. .… Read more about this item Item Price
£26.21
ONE EARTH, FOUR OR FIVE WORLDS: REFLECTIONS ON CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
by Paz, Octavio
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- 1st American edition
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- 1985
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- Hardcover
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- 9780151693948
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£3.63
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San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. Near fine (very slight wear) in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, light edgewear at spine, two short closed tears). Translated by Helen R. Lane. A collection of articles, revised somewhat to reflect events of the mid-1980s. 213 pages. . 1st American edition. Hard Cover. Item Price
£3.63
SELECTED ESSAYS
by Ivanov, Viacheslav
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- 1st Edition
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- 2001
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- Hardcover
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- 9780810115224
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£60.50
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Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2001. As new without dust jacket as issued. Still in publisher's shrink wrap (see shrink wrap wrinkles in our scan; the shrink wrap is wrinkled, not the book). Ivanov was a Russian symbolist poet and philosopher. Translated from the Russian and with notes by Robert Bird who is a professor at the University of Chicago… Read more about this item Item Price
£60.50
A RHAPSODY OF WORDS
by Brown, Ivor
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- 1st Edition
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- 1969
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- Hardcover
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Santa Monica, California, USA
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£9.68
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London: Bodley Head, 1969. Near fine (small sunned area at top of spine) in near fine dj. Another in Brown's series of books on the English language, examining odd and wonderful words from "ado" to "zap.". 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Item Price
£9.68
