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The Tamarack Tree
by Howard Breslin.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Jacket missing.
- Edition
- Early edition: possible book club.
- Published
- 1947
- Binding
- Tan cloth over boards; font decorated w/ tall tamarack tree in green. Green spine title box, gold titles.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£6.05
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Popular historical fiction set near Stratton Mountain, Vermont, in 1840, opening with political debate featuring historic authentic political figures, and fictional characters. Item Price
£6.05
Susan Spray
by Sheila Kaye-Smith
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition F-F, Set, printed, and bound by the Haddon Craftsm
- Published
- 1931
- Binding
- Soft cotton cloth over boards, copper color. Black front title box, matching spine box, both w/ gold titles.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£12.11
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Four parts: Susan Spray; part two, p. 73: Susan Strudwick; part three, part 3, p. 175: Susan Clarabut; and part 4, p. 309, Susan Pell. End pages and artwork in a light copper tone. The Susan Spray story opens noting her birth at Copthorne on the Surrey and Sussex borders in 1834. A poor field labourer, worked on a farm… Read more about this item Item Price
£12.11
Under Two Flags
by Ouida
- Condition
- Used - Good-
- Edition
- Reprint edition, no date.
- Published
- No date.
- Binding
- Tan cloth, decorated w/ black & blue graphic flowers.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£11.30
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Illustrated cloth tan binding, decorated in black and light blue petals; black titles. The auhor, "Ouida", early on, established the market for romance novels featuring Armies of France and England, and the Foreign Legion. This volume is "dedicated in sincere friendship" to Colonel Poulett Cameron. Upper right page block has old damp stain. 1920s-1930s. Historical fiction. Item Price
£11.30
The Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- 1968
- Binding
- Mass-Market paperback. Yellow cover framed by white. Wagon train scout leading covered wagons.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£6.46
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Magnum paperback editions published by Lancer Books are "Easy Eye" editions, with moderately larger type. The list at back includes classic literature. Francis Parkman, 23, went west from Boston to reach and observe the Rocky Mountains and the American natives who lived there. Ill-equipped as an explorer, and later in poor health, he was a keen observer and faithful writer,… Read more about this item Item Price
£6.46
The Sinners
by W Somerset Maugham
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- 1st printing. R-1104. 50c publisher cover price.
- Published
- 1964
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£7.26
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Introduction: "Murder without Regret". Short Stories: Before the Party; A Man with a Conscience; A Point of Law (making its first appearance in book form), The Letter, The Hairless Mexican, and Giulia Lazzari. Sun-fade moderate to spine. Edge wear to back top few pages. Cover note: "Six men and women you will love and hate -- but never forget". Back… Read more about this item Item Price
£7.26
Cimarron
by Edna Ferber
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 13th Pathfinder 1963 printing. Complete original text.
- Published
- 1963
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback. Cover art w/ gold frame.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£6.46
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Historical fiction featuring "The Cravats", Oklahoma pioneer family: Yancey, Sabra, son Cimarron, Osage Indian Princess Ruby. Standard mass-market format. The novel opens with the Land Rush of 1889 into modern times 20th century, the oil discovery by the Osage and the skyscraper city rising in the middle of the prairie. 60c cover publisher price. Item Price
£6.46
Memoir from Antproof Case
by Mark Helprin
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st edition; 1st printing "A"..
- Published
- 1995
- Binding
- Hardcover in brown cloth over boards. Gold spine titles.
- ISBN
- 9780151000975
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£6.05
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Hardcover novel featuring an old American living in Brazil, writing his memoirs. He had been an English teacher at the naval academy, is married to a woman much younger, and has a dearly loved young son. He sits in an oceanside Niteroi mountain garden, and carries a Walther P-88, and is addicted to coffee. Excellent prose; recalling life as World… Read more about this item Item Price
£6.05
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket issued.
- Edition
- 17th Fawcett Crest printing.
- Published
- 1968
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£7.26
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Illustrated red covers; white, black titles; black artwork; red spine titles against white. Red page block dye; Fawcett World Library back cover marketing text. Item Price
£7.26
The Double Bind
by Chris Bohjallian
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 8th printing of 1st edition.
- Published
- 2007
- Binding
- Hardcover.
- ISBN
- 9781400047468
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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£19.37
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Hardcover, almost new. Signed by author and dated 9/23/23 in Newport, New Hampshire, "Night of the Sarah Josepha Hale Award". One New England-based author annually is chosen by the Richards Public Library Board of Trustees as recipient of 18th century Newport native, author, editor of Godey's Ladies' Book periodical. The novel's theme began to gel when Vermont author Bojalian was… Read more about this item Item Price
£19.37
He went with Marco Polo
by Louise Andrews Kent
- Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Jacket missing.
- Edition
- Early edition, possible 1st; same date: title & copyright pages.
- Published
- 1935
- Binding
- Orange cloth over boards. Black titles.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£9.69
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Youth Audience: Historical fiction featuring a youth who travels across south central asia exploring with Marco Polo. The B&W artwork is wonderful, and the narrative inventive. However the book's cover condition has suffered water and general surface damage, leaving the iinterior pages still very readable, and binding intact. Good reding copy. Item Price
£9.69
The Golden Fury
by Marian Castle
- Condition
- Used - Very good-
- Jacket Condition
- Dust jacket missing.
- Edition
- Likely 1st or BCE.
- Published
- 1949
- Binding
- Hardcover in dark blue vinyl over boards.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£7.26
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Spine title box, gold. Gold graphic decorations on spine. Graphics repeated on facing title pages in gray. Top page block yellow. Historical novel theme: In late 1800s, a woman entrepeneur goes to the Leadville, Colorado, mining towns to make her way in business. There are several train lines serving the Rocky mountain region. Clean pages, well-bound with light corner and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Repent in Haste
by John P Marquand
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Missing jacket.
- Edition
- First Edition, stated. November 1945
- Published
- 1945
- Binding
- Peach cloth over boards. Blue titles.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£11.30
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Top page block, light soil. Minor wear, lower spine; Item Price
£11.30
Love in the Ruins
by Walker Percy
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- 1st printing.
- Published
- 1971
- Binding
- Durable black cloth over covers.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£44.39
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End papers, orange red. Is this novel a comedy, a satire, a love story, a fantasy, a cautionary tale?Featured is a doctor who has invented a "modern stethoscope of the spirit" which can "fathom the secret ills, the woes, depressions, rages, terrors, lusts which convulse his fellow Americans." Item Price
£44.39
The Black Book, a Novel (2006 Nobel Prize in Literature)
by Orhan Pamuk, and Maureen Freely (Translation and Afterword by)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 5th printing,
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Trade paperback.
- ISBN
- 9781400078653
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£6.46
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Gold front "Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature" round sticker. Lead character Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. Item Price
£6.46
Kristin Lavransdatter
by Sigrid Undset
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Missing jacket.
- Edition
- 3 titles in one volume copyrights 1926, 1929,1930.
- Published
- 1939
- Binding
- Emerald green cloth over boards.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£22.60
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A near fine, clean, well-bound classic 3-volume set in one edition, no jacket. Black and gold spine title box; gold front title. Line art decorated title page w/ brick title. Line art diagrams w/ notes at book's end. Set in Medieval Era, Norway. Notes p. 1045-1065; p. 1066, Designer's Note by W.A. Dwiggins. February, 1929, Nobel Prize Edition: 19th printing.… Read more about this item Item Price
£22.60
Preface to a Life
by Zona Gale
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket.
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Published
- 1926
- Binding
- Hardcover.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£7.26
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Contents: 3 chapters; 1900, 1911, 1925. Light green pebbled cloth over boards. Top page block, green dye. Minor darkening to spine. Blind-stamped small front publisher logo. G&D with bird. Front top center: black stamped title box, reverse print, 2 birds in flight w/ titles. In green, title page art: plough horses w/ farmer behind, trees, birds in oval; frame in… Read more about this item Item Price
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England, Their England
by A.G. MacDonell; and Christopher Morley (Foreword by)
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket included.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. edition, same date title, copyright pages.
- Published
- 1933
- Binding
- Hardcover.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£23.41
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Rose cloth over boards. Stamped gold spine titles. Front blind-stamped thin rectangular edge border. Prior owner bookplate inside front cover. Opens with remembered wartime conversation between 2 artillery subalterns on Western Front at start of October 1917. Foreword author wrote of a Satire, then moved to thoughts of burlesque. Vocabulary differences noted in cultures of England, and North America. Item Price
£23.41
QB VII
by Leon Uris
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- "16 M" near back page.
- Published
- 1970
- Binding
- Hardcover.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£5.65
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Likely Book Club. Black cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. Deckled side page block. Remainder mark, top edge. 7th Uris novel; fictitious characters, legal drama with British influence. Set in Monza, Italy, at start, November 1945. Themes: Polish liberated slaves with Fifteenth Free Polish Fighter Wing of the Royal Air Force; Sixth Polish Hospital Camp Tunbridge Wells, England. Item Price
£5.65
The Fall of a Titan
by Igor Gouzenko, and Mervyn Black (translated from the Russian by)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket included
- Edition
- Haddon Craftsmen.
- Published
- 1954
- Binding
- Hardcover.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£8.07
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Historical Fiction, early Soviet government organized into Books I, II, III with 3 parts each. No illustrations. Fiction set in Russia during Stalin's leadership imposing collectivization on the country. Early text describes "the horror, the sorrow, the humiliation for millions of peasants and workers which this policy wrought". Clean and square; minor cover blemishing; interior age-toning along end paper… Read more about this item Item Price
£8.07
The Blind Assassin (Advance Reading Copy)
by Margaret Atwood
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket issued.
- Edition
- 1st printing. ARC.
- Published
- 2000
- Binding
- Illustrated paper cover.
- ISBN
- 9780385475723
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£12.11
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Novel within a novel. Science fiction theme set in the 1940s. Romance, loss. Style Captures 1930s-1940s colloquialisms. Imaginative, richly layered. Author Margaret Atwood of Canada has been publishing for 25 years prior to this title, including "The Handmaid's Tale", which has become a TV series. Genre's include fiction, poetry, children's, non-fiction. Condition: Light edge wear, lighter cover soiling. Outside page… Read more about this item Item Price
£12.11