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Cry The Beloved Country

By: Alan Paton

Price: $29.95

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1948

Seller ID: 002882

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Early Edition with code R-9.56[H]. Green cloth covered boards with white titles. Bindings square and tight. Light shelf wear. Price-clipped dust jacket has wear to extremities and small loss at corners and spine tips. Small tear through "d" of title. Protected in Mylar sleeve. ___ A social protest against the structures of the society that would later give rise to apartheid.___Made into a film, twice.
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A Story Teller's Story

By: Anderson, Sherwood

Price: $29.95

Publisher: New York : Morningside Heights, B. W. Huebsch, Inc.,: 1924

Seller ID: 008849

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, First Printing. [Ref: McBride] 8vo; [6], 442; 21 cm. Publisher's maroon pebbled terracotta cloth covered boards. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Previous owner's name on front free endpage. ------- "The Tale of an American Writer's Journey through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts with Manu of His Experiences and Impressions Among other Writers." from the title page. ------- Anderson's first memoir which includes sections on Gertrude Stein, Paul Rosenfeld, Ring Lardner and Sinclair Lewis, also noted...
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The Verificationist

By: Antrim, Donald

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Knopf: 2000

Seller ID: 008558

ISBN: 0375408223

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

First Edition, Second Printing. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo; 179 pages. -------- "A darkly comic tour-de-farce that's at once attenuated and hyperkinetic.... Antrim has provided a striking meditation on the nature of self-identity and a fierce affirmation of the power of imagination." -- Publishers Weekly.
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Destiny Bay

By: Byrne, Donn

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown And Company: 1928

Seller ID: 002367

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, #219 of a limited edition of 365 copies.----Title in black and green. At the head of title: Don Byrne.----i-xiv, ,1.-350, blank leaf. Portrait frontispiece inserted. 8 5/8 inches tall by 5 5/8 inches.-----Green linen sides, white vellum shelfback and corners. Top edges gilt.----Minor soiling to spine. Bindings sqaure and tight. No other flaws of blemishes to book. Issued green slipcase with paste on title.---- Novel set in Ireland posthumously published. ---- Memoirs of childhood in Ireland, a sentimental novel of an Irish village that sits at the edge of sparkling Destiny Bay....
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Exiles

By: Caputo, Philip

Price: $21.95

Publisher: New York, Knopf: 1997

Seller ID: 009810

ISBN: 0679450386

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

First Edition, First Printing. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. ------- No matter the backdrop, Philip Caputo's ear for the vernacular is unerring, while his interrogation of human nature--of the deceptions we inflict on ourselves and others--is unflinching. Exiles affirms the remarkable range, the freedom from genre, of a writer whose "meditations on the love and hate of war were hailed by William Styron as "among the most eloquent I have read in modern literature.
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Delcorso's Gallery

By: Caputo, Philip

Price: $13.95

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Co: 1983

Seller ID: 009879

ISBN: 0030582776

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. ------- At thirty-three, Nick DelCorso is an award-winning war photographer who has seen action and dodged bullets all over the world–most notably in Vietnam, where he served as an Army photographer and recorded combat scenes whose horrors have not yet faded in his memory. -------- When he is called back to Vietnam on assignment during a North Vietnamese attempt to take Saigon, he is faced with a defining choice: should he honor the commitment he has made to his wife not to place...
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The Voyage

By: Caputo, Philip

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, Knopf: 1999

Seller ID: 009880

ISBN: 0679450394

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. NYTimes Book Review Laid-in. ------- On a June morning in the century's infancy, Cyrus Braithwaite -- without explanation -- orders his three teenage sons to sail from their Maine home and not return until September. The three boys and a friend board the Braithwaites' forty-six-foot schooner and begin a perilous journey down the East Coast, bound for the Florida Keys. A storm abruptly ends their passage, leaving them stranded in Cuba, bu...
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A Rumor of War

By: Caputo, Philip

Price: $29.97

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Co: 1977

Seller ID: 009882

ISBN: 003017631X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

ARC - Advanced Readers Edition. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Minimal handling wear. ----- A thoroughly honest view of what the experience of Vietnam meant to a young college graduate, a 'gung-ho' lieutenant in the marine corps who enlisted for the 'heroic experience' of war . . . It is the most eloquent statement yet on what Vietnam was for the lower echelons who had to do the dirty work. -- Seattle TimesHeartbreaking, terrifying, and enraging . . . It will make the strongest among us weep.-- Los Angeles Times
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Year of the Zinc Penny

By: De Marinis, Rick

Price: $16.95

Publisher: New York, W W Norton & Co Inc: 1989

Seller ID: 001095

ISBN: 0393027589

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality, First Edition; First Printing; Full Number Line; Dust jacket in protective Mylar sleeve. -------- Set in Los Angeles during World War II, this engaging novel charts the uncertain life of its narrator, 11-year-old Trygve Napoli, as he is reunited with his mother after three years. Focusing on the interplay of emotions among Trygve and his mother, stepfather, and other relatives, DeMarinis shows how each deals with the anxiety of war, loss, fear, ridicule, and, finally, death.
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Orientale [L'Aventure De Therese Beauchamps]

By: De Miomandre, Francis; Translated by Ralph Roeder.

Price: $49.95

Publisher: New York:, Brentano's: 1929

Seller ID: 010220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Publisher's yellow cloth with decorated titles in red and black on the spine and front. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear with mild darkening on the perimeters. 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; 199 pages on stiff paper. Illustrations by Alexander Canedo. ----- Stylized dustjacket with a price of $2.50 has age-toned with wear and small losses at top edge. ----------- The theme of an unloved wife who cheats on her husband is uncommon for the era due to her lover being Chinese. "A boorish husband, a wife starved for love, and a lov...
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Partners

By: Deland, Margaret

Price: $145.00

Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Row, Publishers: 1913

Seller ID: 011560

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated with 4 plates which include a tissue-guarded frontispiece. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall. 115 pages. ----------- Margaret Deland was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet generally considered part of the literary realism movement. ----------- The Illustrator, Charles Dana Gibson was an American graphic artist, best known for his creation of the Gibson Girl, an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century. ---------- Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling ...
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Stillness

By: Delbanco, Nicholas

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company Inc.: 1980

Seller ID: 001099

ISBN: 0688037089

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Unopened, Unread Only flaw is a bit of dust-dulling to top edge. Dust jacket in protective Mylar sleeve. Author's 10th book and final volume of his Sherbrookes trilogy.
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Schultz

By: Donleavy, J. P

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence: 1979

Seller ID: 010020

ISBN: 0440079578

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First Printing. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Minor textblock edge toning. Still Gift Quality.
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The Onion Eaters

By: Donleavy, J. P.

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Delacourte Press: 1971

Seller ID: 009889

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, First Printing. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear with some aging to the top of the text-block. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has toned a bit with minor rubbing to top front edge. 8vo; 21.5 cm.; 8.5 inches tall. 306 pages. --------- Donleavy commented in an interview that this book differs from all of his other fiction in that it is the only work in which all the characters are socially climbing downward.
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The Revolt of Aphrodite : Tunc & Nunquam [Two Volumes Complete]

By: Durrell, Lawrence

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 0

Seller ID: 010045

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Revolt of Aphrodite consists of two novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published in 1968 and 1970. They deviate significantly from his earlier style and because they approach more openly political and ideological problems. ------- The novels are densely allusive and reflect the political tensions of the May 1968 general strike in Paris. They also address the same theme of multiplicity and contingency Durrell developed in The Alexandria Quartet, often in a way that shows Durrell's interest in Nietzsche: Lawrence George Durrell (1912 - 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet,...
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Mountolive

By: Durrell, Lawrence

Price: $49.95

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc.: 1959

Seller ID: 010047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Mountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the explosive passions of the modern Middle East. ------ First Edition, First Printing.; American. Alexandria Quartet #3Very Good in a Good price-clipped dust jacket. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Dust Jacket is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has toning to white of rear panel. 20.5 cm.; 8.25 inches tall; 318 pages.
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The Cocktail Party. A Comedy.

By: Eliot, T. S.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber Ltd: 1950

Seller ID: 009749

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, First Printing. First issue, with the error at page 29, line 1 "here" for "her." Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear with fading to top edge. Previous owner's name on front free endpage. Dust Jacket price-clipped is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has minor chips with tiny loss at spine tips; some age-toning. ---- Eliot's most popular play published in his lifetime. The Cocktail Party was written while Eliot was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1948. It was first performed at the Edinb...
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Madame Bowary

By: Flaubert, Gustave

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York:, Random House,: 1957

Seller ID: 004740

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Translated by Francis Steegmuller. The Modern Library Edition. Book is unopened unread. Bindings tight and square. Text clean Light shelf wear to lower edges. Dust jacket with price. Has wear with small loss top spine. Spine aged. Blue line lower front. Tape remain lower front.
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The Sky and the Forest

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: 1948, Little Brown,: 0

Seller ID: 005177

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Bindings square and tight. Text clean, hint of toning. Light/minimal shelf wear. Dust jacket chipped with small loss corners in a new Mylar sleeve. ----- A story of a god who becomes a man.
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Three Galsworthy Volumes: Svanesang, Den Hvide Abe, Underaaget [The Modern Comedy]

By: Galsworthy, John

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Kobenhaven, Denmark, Gydendalske Boghandel: 1933

Seller ID: 009069

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Each uniformly bound in half leather with gilt decorated spines to marbled boards. Text block in similar marbling. 8vo; 8 inches tall. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. Minimal shelf handling. [ English titles: Swan Song, The White Monkey, Indian Summer] --- John Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. The three titles are the three books of The Modern Comedy. --- Text in Danish.
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