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London, UK Macmillan and Company, 1928. Hardcover First Edition [1928], unstated. Very Good in Good DJ. Book shows minor indications shelving along bottom edge of cloth-covered boards; outside edges tanned with age; very slight spine lean. Binding is quite secure; text clean. DJ shows minor chip loss, a little heavier at the head of the backstrip; moderate wear to extremities; backstip dulled a bit, but the titles thereon remain bold and clearly legible; short closed tear at lower front face; faint smudges; light soiling; price intact; mylar-protected. Excellent copy in scarce dustjacket with some chipping at head of spine. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. pp.xxvi, 457 pages; frontispiece and 15 plates. First Edition [1928], unstated. Hardcover with dustwrapper. A personal history of the Gladstone family with a discussion of his father's (William Ewart Gladstone) controversial Eastern foreign policy. Written by his son, this literary work tells the story of Mr. Gladstone's…
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After Thirty Years.
by The Right Honorable Viscount Gladstone.
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Breaking the Rules.
by Mary De Laszlo.
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London, UK Headline Book Publishing, 1995. Hardcover First Edition (1995), so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition (1995), so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Good in Near Fine DJ: The Book shows very slight spine lean; moderate shelving wear along the bottom edge of the boards; the expected tanning to the text pages, due to aging; just a hint of rubbing to the upper corner tips; the binding is secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. An attractive, carefully used copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and several minor imperfections. The DJ shows very mild rubbing to the panels; the price has been clipped; mylar-protected. Remains attractive. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or…
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Busted Scotch: Selected Stories.
by James Kelman.
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New York, NY W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997. Hardcover First Ed; First Printing indicated. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows binding square and secure; text clean. DJ unclipped; mylar-protected. As New. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 262pp. Hardback with DJ. These stories are as bleak as a Scottish winter. Kelman's characters are working class people--mostly men, mostly inarticulate--whose dead-end existences are relentlessly dark. Fortunately, the reader, if not the characters, is rescued from this lunarscape vision by bracing doses of Kelman's black humor and impressive prose.
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Charades.
by Janette Turner Hospital.
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Queensland, Australia University of Queensland Press, 1988. Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. First Ed thus, so stated. Very Good++ in Wraps: shows only minor indications of use: Shows considerable rubbing and the pages are tanned just slightly; else flawless; spine uncreased. The binding is square and secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. Not a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 345pp. Academic Press Paperback. Neither artifice nor parlor game, the title refers to the various versions of herself considered by Charade Ryan, a young Australian searching for her father. By this complex tale's end readers may be feeling as full of uncertainty as Heisenberg's principle of physics predicts. Tantalizing, convoluted, but shimmering with possibilities.
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Children of Tender Years.
by Ted Allbeury.
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New York, NY Lorevan Books: Critics Choice, 1987. Paperback First Edition Thus [1987], so stated. First Edition Thus [1987], so stated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: the pages have tanned slightly, due to aging; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 231pp. Mass Market Paperback.
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Epitaph for a Spy.
by Eric Ambler.
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New York, NY Alfred A. Knopf: Borzoi Books, 1952. Hardcover First Edition (1952), so stated. First Edition (1952), so stated. The front free endpaper has been removed. Else, Very Good: Shows lighrt wear to the extremities and mild rubbing to the panels; the aqua-blue floral print designs at the backstrip have been sun-blanched ( the titles on a pastedown plate are unaffected: bold and clearly legible. The binding leans very slightly off square, but remains secure; the text is clean. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A lightly used copy, structurally sound and tighly bound, showing a little wear and a few minor flaws and a single major one. NOT a Remainder, Book Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.75 x 5.3 x 1 inches). 263 pages. Language: English. Weight: 12.4 ounces. Hardback: Lacks DJ.
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Frankie.
by Domini Highsmith.
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New York, NY Bantam Press, 1990. Hardcover First Ed, unstated. First Ed, unstated. Fine in Very Near Fine DJ: Book shows binding square and secure; text clean. Dustwrapper shows just a hint ot edgewear along top edge; mylar-protected. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 192pp. Hardback with DJ. The story of Frankie, a cold hungry boy living in darkness at the top of a huge old house, while his mother pursues her own mysterious life in a warm, bright room downstairs. Frankie knows she will summon him, perhaps today, perhaps tomorrow and he awaits her call with dread and longing.
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Gordon Liddy Is My Muse: By Tommy "Tip" Paine : A Novel.
by John Calvin Batchelor.
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New York, NY Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 1995. Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; binding square and secure; text clean. Pages tanned a bit. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 303pp. Trade Paperback.
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The Killing Ground (Scribner Signature Edition).
by Mary Lee Settle.
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New York, NY Scribner: Signature Editions, 1988. Paperback First Ed; First Printing indicated. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR in blue ink on the front endpaper. There is also a printed "signature" at the title page, as do all titles in the signature series. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; wrappers covered with clear vinyl pastedown cover; little or no wear to the wrappers themselves;binding square and secure; text clean. Just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing; pages tanned a bit. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 385pp. [Book V of the Beulah Quintet]. Trade Paperback. Mary Lee Settle (July 29, 1918, Charleston, West Virginia September 27, 2005, Ivy, Virginia) was an American writer. She won the 1978 National Book Award for her novel Blood Tie and was a founder of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Settle is most famous for…
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The Middleman and Other Stories.
by Bharati Mukherjee.
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New York, NY Ballantine: Fawcett Crest, 1989. Paperback First Edition Thus [1989], so stated. First Edition Thus [1989], so stated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only minor indications of light use. Book shows short tear in rear panel near rear hinge and affecting the last few pages of the book; nevertheless, binding square and secure; text clean. Remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable, but not longer quite 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. Not a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 12mo. 194pp. Mass Market Paperback. Mukherjee's central preoccupation is the problematical nature of personal encounters between East and West. These expertly crafted tales all turn on recent Third World immigrant experience in or closely affected by North America. Mukherjee's keen eye for telling and sensuous detail make these stories rewarding. Her limpid prose has a capacity to surprise with trenchant wit and delight with finely calibrated lyricism.
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Only My Dreams: An English Childhood.
by Hilda Ann Salusbury.
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Chicago, IL Academy Chicago Publishers, 1990. Hardcover First Edition [1990], unstated. First Edition [1990], unstated, in accordance with Academy Chicago's customary practice. Very Good+ in Near Fine DJ: Book shows indications of light use: shows light shelfwear along bottom edge of boards; fore-edge shows some faint thumb-soil. Binding square and secure; text clean. DJ shows mild rubbing; price intact; mylar-protected. Overall, remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 271pp. Illustrated with Kathy Blankley's black & white line drawings. Hardback with DJ. Hilda Ann Salusbury grew up in England, and came of age during the period between the wars; this covers 1913 to 1930, a yung woman of the lower middle class . Her mother had her head turned by the dashing soldiers she'd met, and deserted Hilda & her father and 3 siblings, during the First World War . Hilda's Grannie, who had already raised 23…
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Out of This World.
by Graham Swift.
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London, UK The Penguin Group: Viking , 1988. Hardcover First Ed, so stated. First Ed, so stated. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ show only minute indications of use. Book shows pages tanned somewhat, with age; faintest dampstain at bottom edge, faintly visible, but does not penetrate the text block or cause any waviness at all; binding square and secure; text clean. DJ shows some barely discernible rubbing to its sheen; price unclipped. Overall, very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 208pp. Hardback with DJ.
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Phineas Finn: The Irish Member.
by Trollope, Anthony.
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Rutland, VT Charles E. Tuttle : Everyman Trollope, 1997. Paperback First Edition Thus (1997). The Everyman Edition was first published in 1929. Fine: Flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing no flaws. Bright and Clean. Corners sharp. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 16mo. (7.75 x 5.2 x 1.5 inches). xxxv, 698 pages. Edited by David Skilton and Hugh Osborn with an Introduction by W.J. McCormack. Language: English. Weight: 17.4 ounces. First Edition Thus (1997). The Everyman Edition was first published in 1929. Trade Paperback.
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Port Mungo.
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New York, NY Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Hardcover First Ed, so stated. First Ed, so stated. Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows binding square and secure; text clean. DJ unclipped. As New. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 242pp. Hardback with DJ.
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Rebuilding Coventry: A Tale of Two Cities.
by Sue Townsend.
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New York, NY Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. Hardcover First Ed USA, First Printing indicated. First Ed USA, First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ show only minute indications of use. Book shows the slightest spine lean, though binding remains perfectly secure; text clean. DJ shows barely discernible rubbing to its sheen; price unclipped. Overall, very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 155pp. Hardback with DJ.
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The Roof: A Play in Seven Scenes.
by John Galsworthy.
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London, UK Duckworth, 1929. Hardcover First Ed, so stated. First Ed, so stated. Near Fine in Very Good DJ: Book shows darkening at top edge, presumably due to dust; very mild edgewear; barely discernable spine lean, though binding remains perfectly secure; text clean. DJ shows light wear to extremities; mild rubbing; darkening at backstrip; four small chips; unclipped; mylar-protected. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 12mo. 118pp. Hardback with DJ.
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Staring at the Light (Sarah Fortune Series, Book 3).
by Frances Fyfield.
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New York, NY Penguin Group: Penguin Books, 2001. Mass Market Paperback First Edition Thus [1999]; First Printing indicated. First Edition Thus [1999]; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of wear to the extremities; some very faint creasing at the backstrip. The binding shows barely discernible lean, but remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of any creases. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A Near perfect copy: Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.95 x 4.2 x 0.95 inches). 307 pages. Language: English. Weight: 6 ounces. Sarah Fortune Series, Book 3. Mass Market Paperback.
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Summer at Gaglow.
by Esther Freud.
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Hopewell, NJ The Ecco Press, 1998. Hardcover First Ed; First Printing indicated. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ show only minute indications of use. Book shows slight spine lean, though binding remains perfecly secure; text clean. DJ unclipped; mylar-protected. Overall, very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 243pp. Hardback with DJ.
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The Thinking Reed.
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New York, NY The Viking Press: Viking Compass, 1966. Paperback First Ed thus, but later printing. Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of moderate use; slight spine lean; light wear to extremities; mild rubbing and faint soiling to wrapper covers. A clean, sturdy, presentable copy. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 431pp. Trade Paperback. West is at her most impressive in this little-known but gorgeous novel. Described as one of the first and few genuine "novel of ideas" written by a woman, this is a profound exploration of human emotions, choices and the interplay of fate and free will. It is also a delightful, quirky love story, with an accessible and funny plot and two endearing main characters. Isabel is a bored, rich, beautiful American woman living a life of luxury in Paris, where excitement comes in the form of a hot-tempered French lover. Vain, snobbish, yet highly sympathetic, Isabel is also fiercely intelligent and in desperate quest of…
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Upon Dark Waters.
by Robert Radcliffe.
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London, UK Time Warner Book Group UK: Abacus Books, 2004. Paperback First Ed thus, though unstated. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of light use; spine leans; some faint creases at backstrip; else very little wear; binding perfectly secure; text clean. No longer 'As New', but remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 439pp. First Edition thus, though unstated. Trade Paperback.
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