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30 Great Short Stories
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30 Great Short Stories

by Maugham, W. Somerset Selected By

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9780907486466
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0907486460
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Great Britain: Chancellor Press (1983) Complete & Unabridged. . W. Somerset Maugham is widely recognised as one of the greatest short story writers in the English language. The stories in this collection are among Maugham's finest work....Largely written in the three decades following the First World War, the stories range from pure comedy, as in "The Facts of Life", to high tragedy, as in "The Unconquered." As varied in setting as in mood. Maugham's stories are always compelling and often hauntingly memorable. Bright blue boards with silver title print to spine. Pale yellow endpapers. No ownership markings. Text edges lightly toned. Illustrated dust jacket. (photo of author on rear panel). A clean, bright copy.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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Above The Dark Circus

by Walpole, Hugh (SIGNED COPY)

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London: MacMillan and Co; Limited, 1931. "This Is One Of Two Hundred Large Paper Copies Printed In February 1931" Signed 'Hugh Walpole'. Extra paper title label still attached to rear of book. Many unopened leaves. Leaves remain white and bright. Blue boards with beige spine. matching blue endpapers. Bright title label to spine. All edges untrimmed.... dusty top edge. Corner tips worn through. Previous ownership embossed to rfep. A square respectable book.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Accordion Crimes: Author of The Shipping News

Accordion Crimes: Author of The Shipping News

by Proulx E. Annie

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9780684195483
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0684195488
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New York: Scribner, 1996. Complete number line. The green accordion travels from hand to hand over a hundred-year period, plays the music of many different ethnic groups. The story of the fictional accordion maker is set into a fictionalized account based on March 1891 articles in the New Orleans paper the Daily Picayune, of the real 1891 lynching of eleven Italians in New Orleans. A masterpiece of storytelling by this accomplished Pulitizer Prize Winner. A stunning novel - an excellent read! An exceptionally bright copy.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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Ackroyd

Ackroyd

by Feiffer, Jules

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9780671225025
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0671225022
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. Jules Feiffer has written one of the funniest, most brilliant and most intriguing novels. 'Ackroyd' is at once a marvelous read, full of characters that only Feiffer could create, and a fascinating puzzle about people in quest of their own identies or in flight from them. Jules Feiffer is a well-known novelist, cartoonist and playwright. This book carries a remainder symbol to top edge. Price-intact dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. A respectable copy.. ISBN: 0-671-22502-2. First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Roger Ackroyd Private Detective Fictional Character + Modern First Edition. Catalogs: Literature.
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All In A Lifetime

by Allen, Walter

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London: Michael Joseph June 1959. Second Impression..... First published April 1959. Walter Ernest Allen...British novelist and critic. 'All In A Lifetime' was published in the US with the title; 'Threescore and Ten'. This novel deals with the rise of power of the working class as William Ewart Ashted, who tells his own story, has experienced it himself.... Dark blue cloth boards. Gilt title print to spine. Title print remains bright. No sign of previous ownership. Light toning to text. Price-intact dust jacket. Jacket design by Donald Green.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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Almayer's Folly

by Conrad, Joseph

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New York: Double,Page & Company 1925 (c.1921). 'Personal Edition' Dark navy blue boards. Gilt to top edge bright. Blind-stamp ship decoration to spine. Title print to spine dulled. Text white and bright.... a lovely clean tight book.. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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Anna Christie..... The Emperor Jones..... The Hairy Ape

Anna Christie..... The Emperor Jones..... The Hairy Ape

by O'Neill, Eugene. Introduction By Lionel Trilling

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New York: The Modern Library (Random House) (c.1937) Modern Library Edition. #146. This book offers Eugene O'Neill's three best-known plays issued in a single volume. "They represent an important phase in the cultural life of America and they mark the full steps in the philosophic search to which Eugene O'Neill has devoted his artistic life." These plays were all written or produced between 1920 and 1921 and all were notable Broadway events. The three plays established the reputation of the winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature. Introduction by Lionel Trilling. Red cloth boards. Title block to front board and spine. "Trinity College" bookplate affixed to fep. A firm, square copy in dust jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Any Old Iron

Any Old Iron

by Burgess, Anthony

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9780091738426
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0091738423
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London: Hutchinson, 1989. Written by the same author that gave us "A Clockwork Orange",.. "Inside Mr. Enderby", etc. Despite a mesh of serious themes, this is a remarkable - and possibly outstanding - comic novel. An extremely bright book in a price-intact illustrated dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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Barefoot In The Park: A Comedy In Three Acts

Barefoot In The Park: A Comedy In Three Acts

by Simon, Neil

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New York: Samuel French Inc, 1966. Stapled card covers. 93 printed pages cover the three acts followed with the property plot for each act, scene designs and ads for "Never Too Late" - "A Thurber Carnival" - "Come Blow Your Horn" and "A Thousand Clowns". A sound ,most servicable copy of this play. . Soft Cover. Very Good.
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Baylor College Verse

Baylor College Verse

by Baylor College Foreword By Emma C. King and Wm H. Vann

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Privately printed (undated). Book Very Good. 58 pp. This volume is a book of poems which are representive of the types of verse produced by students and former students of Baylor College. Some of the prize winning poetry is dated 1922...1923...1924 and 1925. A variety of subject matter. Name and date to ffep (1927). Dappled blue boards with darker blue cloth spine. Gilt title print to front board and spine. A sound copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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Bech: A Book

Bech: A Book

by Updike, John

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9780233962702
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0233962700
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1970. Henry Bech, a middle-aged American Jewish writer, goes through the motions of success. John Updike makes exuberant comedy of Bech's public life - his journey abroad to Russia and Bulgaria, his sortie into swing London, his response to a lecture-audience of nubile southern belles and finally his crowing with official laurels - while at the same time Bech's rising panic at the dislocation between what he appears to be and what he knows himself to be. An immaculate book in a price-intact illustrated dust jacket.. ISBN: 0-233-96270-0. First Edition, Second Impression. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Henry Bech Fictional Character. Catalogs: Literature.
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The Bedside Esquire

by Gingrich, Arnold (edited by)

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap ( 1940 ) The best stories and articles from Esquire - superlative writing by the outstanding figures in contemporary literature, from Hemingway to D.H. Lawrence, from Steinbeck to Thorne Smith. Gift inscription to ffep. Illustrated dust jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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The Belfry

by Sinclair, Mary (Mary Amelia St. Clair)

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New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916. . 332 pp plus book ads.... books that were written by this author. (Two leaves of these remain unopened). Wine cloth boards. Gilt title print to front board and spine still bright. Ffep has been removed. Spotting to top edge of book (mild foxing). This book by British novelist, short-story writer and poet, remains clean and respectable.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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Bell Call

Bell Call

by Ashton-Warner, Sylvia

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. The novel is set in New Zealand in the present. Its central character is a genious-mother, Tarl, a young woman totally committed to her belief in freedom - for herself and her children. It is a novel about the different ways of nurturing children. It is a novel that explores in moving, human terms the scope and boundries of freedom. Tarl is the creator, the artist, eternally at war with the civilizers and organizers of society. Name to ffep. Remainder stroke to bottom edge of book. A bright, clean book in a price-intact dust jacket.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Parenting + Teaching + Parent Nurturing + Freedom + Literature + Education + New Zealand + Modern First Edition + NOISBN.
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Beloved Exiles

Beloved Exiles

by Keith, Agnes Newton

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Author's first novel. She uses North Borneo for its setting - that part of the world she devoted so much of her life and from where the settings of her non-fiction work took place. The background is Southeast Asia from 1936 to 1951, a period during which social attitudes began a revolutionary change....'Beloved Exiles' is filled with drama and compassion - a remarkable novel. Beautifully decorated boards and dust jacket - a similar motif. A bright, square book in a price-clipped dust jacket. A handsome copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. North Borneo Fictional Novel + 1936-1951 North Borneo Fiction + NOISBN. Catalogs: Literature.
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Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques. Text of The Plays and Masques. Jonson On His Work....

Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques. Text of The Plays and Masques. Jonson On His Work. Comtemporary Readers on Jonson. Criticism

by Jonson, Ben. Selected and Edited by Robert M. Adams

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9780393090352
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0393090353
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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979. 'A Norton Critical Edition.' Illustrated glossy card covers. Robert M. Adams...Professor Emeritus of English, University of California at Los Angeles. This volume presents a new and fresh selection of Ben Jonson's dramatic works. A chronology of the playwright's life and works ans a selected bibliography provided.. First Edition Stated. Soft Cover. Very Good.
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The Boatman and Other Poems

by Macpherson, Jay

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Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1968. Wrap-around illustration on the cover is derived from a design by Jean de Beaugrand for the arms of the Dauphin (1604). A re-issue of Jay Macpherson's 'The Boatman' with the addition of seventeen previously uncollected poems. 'The Boatman' was published in 1957.... (winner of a Governor General's Award). Wear to extremities of covers.... text clean and bright. This book remains sound and most serviceable.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good.
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The Book Of The Dun Cow
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The Book Of The Dun Cow

by Wangerin. Jr. Walter

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9780060263461
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0060263466
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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978. Author's First Novel. Los Angeles Times sums it up with this review: " Belongs on the shelf with Animal Farm, Watership Down, and Lord of the Rings. It is, like them, an absorbing, fanciful parade of the war between good and evil. A powerful and enjoyable work of the imagination." Walter Wangerin,Jr. was born in Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Evansville, Indiana where he is pastor of a small inner-city congregation, Grace Lutheran Church. Blue boards with light grey cloth spine. Well illustrated jacket art by Ronald Keller. The same illustration adorns title page.. BOMC. Half-Leather. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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A Book of Vulgar Verse

A Book of Vulgar Verse

by A Gentleman About Town

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An anthology of Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and other humorous verses and doggerel now for the first time brought together in book form. An enjoyable collection of ill-bred, ill-mannered, rude and stimulating poems of or relating to the common people. List of Poets are J.W. Riley, Eugene Field, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and others , the greatest of them all is : Anonymous.
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A Breeze Of Morning

by Morgan, Charles

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London: The Reprint Society 1953 Reprint. "A beautiful evocation of boyhood trembling on the verge of youth, most sensitive to every shade of what is happening, but inhibited from inexperience from being more than an onlooker. It is an old story, this, of beauty glimpsed and never forgotten through life's long succeeding days." Here it is once more told with exceptional tenderness. Green cloth boards - dark title block with gilt print to spine. Minor wear to bottom edge extremity. A sound, most serviceable copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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