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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A perfect copy featuring 32 pieces gathered from magazines, mainly The New Yorker. Perelman's pun-laden prose tackles every subject from the Irish literary heritage to the difficulty of finding a good nanny in Manhattan.
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Baby, It's Cold Inside
by Perelman, S. J
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A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears - SIGNED
by Feiffer, Jules
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New York: Harper Collins, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. As New/near fine, with crease to front. A classic parody of a fairy story, complete with foolish Prince and grumpy peasants. In a tradition invented by James Thurber, with The 13 Clocks and The White Deer, Feiffer has his way with the knightly quest. SIGNED, with a dedication on the title page.
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The Basil and Josephine Stories
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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These 14 stories bring together two series that Fitzgerald had intended to combine, centering on the twin characters of Basil Duke Lee and his female counterpart, Josephine Perry.First appearing in The Saturday Evening Post, Fitzgerald predicted that if the stories were ever published together, they would have the same effect as a novel.
Small chip to jacket spine. Hardcover.
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Beat the Reaper
by Bazell, Josh
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New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2009. First American edition, third printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Simply the best and funniest thriller I have read for years, this debut novel by a real-life medical student is as ferociously comic as it is violent. A kind of Scrubs meets The Sopranos, it features a Mob cast and revolves around a Doctor's brilliant attempts to escape his own execution.
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
by Atkinson, Kate
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A perfect example of the author's first novel, winner of the Whitbread Award, a comic story of Ruby Lenox, born above a pet shop in York in the middle of the twentieth century. She is determined to understand both the family that precedes her (four previous generations of women) and the life that awaits her.
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The Believers - SIGNED
by Heller, Zoë
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New York: Harper Collins, 2008. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. An English womman, married to an older New York Lawyer, finds her world crumbling when he has a stroke. Every member of the family is forced to confront what they truly believe in. SIGNED with a dedication.
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Beyond Euphrates
by Stark, Freya
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Autobiography 1928-1933. : London: John Murray, 1951. . First UK edition. . Hardcover.. Very Good in poor dust-jacket. . Book is in great condition, with some darkening to first pages where newspaper clipping was kept. Unclipped cover has large chip missing from top of spine and another to front and back, but not extending into lettering of titles. Stated first printing.
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Birds without Wings
by de Bernieres, Louis
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New York: Knopf, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. This is a profoundly sad recreation of the disasterous effects of the 20th century on a typical sleepy Turkish town. Boys are conscripted to fight in the Great war and Armenians are marched to their death while the centuries of mutual understanding between communities is ripped apart. de Bernieres has woven a beautifully imagined and subtle tapestry from hundreds of ethnic threads, but all that is left is destruction.
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Birdsong
by Faulks, Sebastian
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A very good first printing of Faulk's second and most successful book to date. His weaving of an unsurpassed love story with the inconceivable horrors of trench warfare amounts to a triumphantly successful masterpiece.
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The Black Swan
by Mann, Thomas
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New York: Knopf, 1971. First edition, third printing. Very Good/good. The third printing of a classic short story by Mann, which first appeared in 1954, after he had returned from the States to settle in Switzerland. A morality tale of sensual awakening, as a German family shake off the war years and rediscover their pagan roots. Jacket has some light surface dirt, otherwise a sound copy.
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Blast from the Past - SIGNED
by Elton, Ben
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London: Bantam Press, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Elton's fifth novel, SIGNED on the title page, with no dedication. A London social worker's life is turned upsidedown by the re-appearance of an old American boyfriend, now a top Army General, as well as the unwelcome attentions of a deranged stalker from her work life.
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The Book of Dave - SIGNED
by Self, Will
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New York: Bloomsbury, 2006. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. You have to love Will Self's boundless love and hate for everything English. Here he parodies contemporary London with the written ramblings of a cabby, Dave, whose diary 500 years later, becomes a sacred text to survivors of a post-apocalyptic society. Simply SIGNED on the title page.
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Break In
by Francis, Dick
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Boldly signed on the title page, this is Dick Francis's 24th thriller, set in the world of horse racing.Book has small owner signature to first end page and general age-darkening to page edges.
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The Brigadier and The Golf Widow: and Other Stories
by Cheever, John
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John CheeverThe Brigadier and the Golf Widow
New York: Harper and Row, 1964.
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A collection of sixteen stories from Cheever, at the height of his melancholy powers.
Somehow, his own scandalous personal life infuses these tales of suburban ritual with an ironic tone that is often funny and moving.
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British Plants and Their Uses
by Edlin, H. L.
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An old-fashioned guide to the myriad ways plants have been used in traditional British life.450 different species of common plants are arranged by areas they can be found and the multiple ways country folk have found to eat, drink or just cultivate their flowers.
Published from an age when horses were still more common than tractors, this is still a fascinating compendium of folk custom.
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Bruce Chatwin - A Biography
by Shakespeare, Nicholas
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New York: Doubleday, 2000. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Eight years in the writing, Shakespeare seems to have created the perfect match for Chatwin's enigmatic and contradictory life-styles, which made him the most social and the most lonely of writer explorers.
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Budding Prospects: A Pastoral
by Boyle, T. C.
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T. Coraghessan BoyleBudding Prospects
New York: Viking, 1984
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An early novel, SIGNED by the author, in which the nascent Weed culture of California decides to go commercial.
What can possibly go wrong?
A novel for our times, ahead of its time.
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