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The Silent Cry: A Novel
by Oe, Kenzaburo
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- 1994
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- Fine
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- 1994 Reprint
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- 9784770019653
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£212.43
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U.S.A.: Kodansha USA, 1994. 1994 Kodansha reprint, translated by John Bester, the same year the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This 1967 novel was awarded the Tanizaki prize. Signed and inscribed to noted Swedish-American poet/writer/artist Siv Cedering, starting on the on the half-title and concluding on the title page: To Siv Cedering with… Read more
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Slade House: A Novel
by Mitchell, David
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- 2015
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- As New
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 9780812998689
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£42.49
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U.S.A.: Random House, 2015. In yellow colored boards with cut-out and without DJ as issued. From the author of Cloud Atlas. First edition of this fabulous haunted house novel and much more.. Boldly SIGNED By Author on a tipped-in Page. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. As New.
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2666
by Bolano, Robert
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- 2008
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 9780374531553
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£63.73
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Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008. Pictorial wrappers asissued in slipcase. Unopned in original shrinkwrap. The late Chilean novelist and poet's apocalyptic masterwork is a sprawling novel in five parts and numbering over nine-hundred pages that focuses on the unsolved serial murders of Ciudad Juárez (named Santa Teresa in the novel). Picked as on of the… Read more
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Middlesex
by Eugenides, Jeffrey
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- 2002
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 9780374199692
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£127.46
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New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, this is Jeffrey Eugenides second novel (following The Virgin Suicides) that follows the lives of a Greek family through three generations Light wear to spineends, one corner bumped, light sunningto text block.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near… Read more
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Sarah Canary
by Fowler, Karen Joy
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- As New
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- First Edition- First Printing
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- 9780805017533
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£29.74
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NY: Henry Holt, 1995 In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. An Unread Copy, In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. This is the true first edition that preceded the UK edition by eight months. Author's acclaimed first novel and a Nebula finalist, is a work of magic realism that takes place circa the 1870's in the Washington Territory.… Read more
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by Berendt, John
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- Near Fine
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- Later Printing.
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- 9780679429227
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£25.49
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NY: Random House, 1994 In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. This is John Berendt's masterpiece based on the true events surrounding a shooting death Savannah, Georgia. Was it murder or self-defense? Made into a highly successful and accomplished movie by Clint Eastwood, this is a mesmerizing true account surrounding the events of that fateful day in Savannah on May… Read more
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Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Maguire, Gregory
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- 2004
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- Fine
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 9780060391447
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£114.71
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New YorkRegan Books: Regan Books, 2004. In a clear Brodart mylar jacket. Cream colored endpapers. A beautiful copy of this novel which formed the basis of the popular broadway play of the same name. It's the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, years before she met up with Dorothy and her ill-fated destiny. A touch… Read more
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The Unknown Terrorist
by Flanagan,Richard
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- 2007
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- As New
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 9780802118516
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£25.49
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New York: Grove Press, 2007. The fourth book by the author of Gould's Book of Fish that has been receiveing ravereviews. In this brilliant and relentless novel, Gina Davies is a pole dancer known as the Doll at a club in Sydney, Australia who becomes an unwitting suspect in a series of terrorists bombing after beeing seen one night… Read more
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The Bean Trees
by Kingsolver, Barbara
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- Published
- 1988
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 9780060158637
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£254.91
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Harpercollins, 1988. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. Author's highly praised debut novel that follows the adventures of Taylor Greene, a young woman who having grown up poor in rural Kentucky, buys an old car and heads west. A touch of wear to bottom corners, a hint of soiling to bottom text block, tiny nick… Read more
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Bringing Out the Dead
by Connelly, Joe
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- 1998
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- Fine
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 9780375400407
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£21.24
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New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. Author's debut novel that formed the basis of the Martin Scorcese starring Nicholas Cage. Adrenaline-fueled novel that chronicles a harrowing forty-eight hour period in the life of Frank Pierce, an EMS medic working the graveyard shift in New York City's Hell's Kitchen. Light bumping… Read more
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The Final Solution: A Story Of Detection
by Chabon, Michael
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- 2004
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- As New
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- First American Edition, First Printing
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- 9780060763404
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£25.49
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New York: Fourth Estate, 2004. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. From the Pulitzer Prixe-winning author of 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'. Re-imagining the classic nineteenth century detective novrl, the author tell the story of nine year old Linus Steinman who has escaped from Nazi Germany and his gray parrot who meet an old retired detective in… Read more
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The Orton Diaries: Including the Correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and Others
by Lahr, John; Orton, Joe
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- 1986
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- Fine
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 9780060157432
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£16.99
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Harper & Row, 1986. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. A beautiful copy of this collection of the late playwright's diaries over a period of eight months of his life before he was murdered in 1967 by Kenneth Halliwell, his tutor and benefactor. A touch of wear to bottom corners, light rubbing to rear flap. light crease… Read more
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Exit A : A Novel
by Swofford, Anthony
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- 2007
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- As New
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- Advanced Reading Copy (ARC)
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£16.99
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Scribner, 2007. Author's followup to 'Jarhead' centers around the exploits of seventeen-year old Severin Boxx who lives on Yokota, a U.S. Air Force base outside of Tokyo near the mad neon sprawl of Haijima railroad station. . Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). As New.
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The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye: Stories
by Lethem, Jonathan; Harcourt Brace & Co
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- 1996
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- Fine
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 9780151001804
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£25.49
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New York: Harcourt, 1996. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. Unread. A collection of seven superb short stories by the author of Motherless Brooklyn and Amnesia Moon. Bump to one corner.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/As New.
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Empire Falls
by Russo, Richard
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- 2001
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- Fine
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 9780679432470
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£38.24
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New York: Random House, 2001. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. Author's well-recieved novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2002. This novel formed the basis of the film of the same name that starred Paul Newman. . A novel that centers on the textile town of the Empire Falls that has seen better… Read more
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The Zero : A Novel
by Walter, Jess
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- 2006
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- As New
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- Advanced Reading Copy (ARC)
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- 9780060898656
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£25.49
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2006. Unread. Only five days after 911, Brain Remy wakes up not knowing where he got where he is with aself-inflcited bullet wound to his head he realizes he works for a government agency who's tracking the most elusive target of them all - himself.. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). As New.
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The Lovely Bones
by Sebold, Alice
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- 2002
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- As New
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 9780316666343
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£84.97
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New York: Little Brown, 2002. In a clear protective mylar cover. True first edition with first state dust jacket with Margot Livesey quote on rear flap. Phenomenal best-selling book destined to become one of the first classics of the Twenty-first century. An absorbing exploration of adolescence and a family touched by darkness when their teenage daughter is murdered as… Read more
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Gilead
by Robinson, Marilynne
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- 2004
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- Fine
- Edition
- Third Printing
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- 9780374153892
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£76.47
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New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2004. In a clear protective mylar cover. Unread. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer-prize for fiction and the 2004 National Book Critic's Circle Award for fiction.. Toward the end of his life, the Reverend John Ames's writes a letter to his, gicving an account of his life and his forebearers,from thecivil war to the… Read more
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Riven Rock, Engl. ed.
by Boyle, T. C.
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- 1998
- Condition
- Fine
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- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN
- 9780670878819
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£29.74
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New York: Viking Press, 1998. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. The author delves into the fascinationg fictional lives of two real historical figures- Katherine Dexter , the first female graduate of the sciences at M.I.T, and Stanley McCormick, the heir ro a fortune built on the Reaper at the trun of the twentieth century. Light wear at spineends… Read more
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Europe Central
by Vollmann, William T.
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- 2005
- Condition
- Near Fine
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 9780670033928
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£50.98
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New York: Viking Press, 2005. In a clear protective mylar cover. Massive eight hundred page novel and winner of the National Book Award in 2005. The author explores the warring cultures of Germany and Russia during the height of WWII through the moral decisions of various generals from both sides and consequences they have on the fates of… Read more
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