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The Kingdom of the Wicked

By: Burgess, Anthony

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1985

Seller ID: 009743

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Limited First Edition; SIGNED; No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Includes publisher's letter laid-in. Illustrations by Richard DeFlice.

The Kingdom of the Wicked is a 1985 historical novel by Anthony Burgess. Like two of his earlier works, the long narrative poem Moses and the novel Man of Nazareth, Burgess wrote The Kingdom of the Wicked in part as preparation for a screenplay; in this case for the television series A.D.

A Roman saga, taking in the excesses of Tiberius, Caligula and Nero and an irreverent account of the early days of Christianity.
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Captains and the Kings

By: Caldwell

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company: 1972

Seller ID: 013494

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A historical novel by Taylor Caldwell chronicling the rise to wealth and power of an Irish immigrant, Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, who emigrates as a penniless teenager to the United States.

An inter-generational saga focusing on the themes of the American dream, discrimination and bigotry in American life, and of history as made by a cabal of the rich and powerful, through Armagh's attempt to make his eldest son, who eventually becomes a senator, the first Catholic President of the United States. [wiki]

The book was adapted into an eight-part television miniseries by NBC in t...
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In Cold Blood

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Random House,: 1965

Seller ID: 012086

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966; it details the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. Three film adaptations have been produced based upon the book. ------------ Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has shelf handling wear with rubbed corners and some closed chipping.
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Lost World (Movie Tie-In Edition)

By: Crichton, Michael

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Knopf: 1997

Seller ID: 013107

ISBN: 067945540X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes but a remainder dot on the top edge. Unopened; Unread.; First Trade Edition.

Six years after the secret disaster at Jurassic Park and the destruction of the dinosaurs, the dismantling of the park, and the closing of the island, rumors persist that some form of life has survived
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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 Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman

By: Hope, Anthony

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Garden City, International Collectors Library: 0

Seller ID: 007577

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, minor aging to text-bloch edges. Minimal handling wear. Includes collector notes. No date c1960. --- An adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum.
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Green Mansions

By: Hudson, W.H. (1841 - 1922)

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Mount Vernon, Peter Pauper Press: 0

Seller ID: 013609

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Light green decorated cloth-backed paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, light green paper-covered slipcase; full page lithographs and each page decorated page number.

Bindings tight and square, light handling wear. Spine sun-darkened, as in paste-on label. Lacking slipcase.

William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922) was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. Hudson's best known novel is Green Mansions (1904).....Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest is an exotic romance traveler to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dw...
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Lummox

By: Hurst, Fannie

Price: $39.95

Publisher: New York, Harper& Brothers: 1923

Seller ID: 009891

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, First Printing. Code: i-x. A warm inscription SIGNED by the author on first blank page.

Publisher's cloth with titles stamped in gold. titles on spine a bit sun-faded. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. 8vo; 19.5 cm.; 17.75 inches tall; 329 pages with 2 pages of Adds.

Fannie Hurst (1885 - 1968) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works were highly popular during the post-World War I era. Her work combined sentimental, romantic themes with social issues of the day, such as women's rights and race rel...
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Millennium Series: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

By: Larsson, Stieg

Price: $175.00

Publisher: 0

Seller ID: 010706

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Each is an American First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. Millennium is a series of best-selling and award-winning Swedish crime novels, created by Stieg Larsson. Gift Quality, unread.
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The Missouri Breaks

By: McGuane, Thomas

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1976

Seller ID: 013378

ISBN: 0345252187

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

1st paperback edition and first edition with stills from the movie. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear.

The Missouri Breaks was a 1976 American epic Western film starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson. The film was directed by Arthur Penn, with supporting performances by Randy Quaid, Harry Dean Stanton, Frederic Forrest, John McLiam, and Kathleen Lloyd. The score was composed by John Williams.
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Twilight Collector's Edition (The Twilight Saga Book 1)

By: Meyer, Stephenie

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers: 2008

Seller ID: 013610

ISBN: 0316033413

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Collector's edition of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight. Has a ribbon bookmark, cloth cover, ragged edges, chapter opener designs, and a beautiful protective slipcase. Fine in a Fine slipcase; No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Autopen/facsmile signature of Stephenie Meyer in red on the title page.
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Cross Creek [Facsimile Dust Jacket]

By: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1942

Seller ID: 011554

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition - First Printing, Scribner "A" present. -------- Green cloth covered boards with raised titles in silver gilt. Bindings tight and square; Spine is sun-faded, minor browning on endpages. FACSIMILE dust jacket in new Mylar sleeve is unflawed. ------------ Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature. For the millions of readers raised on The Yearling, here is the story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's experiences in the remote Florida hamlet of Cross Creek, where she lived for thirteen years. -------- From the daily labors of managing a seventy-two-acre orang...
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The Clositer and The Hearth

By: Reade, Charles

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: 1956

Seller ID: 008153

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Modest handling wear. Dust Jacket price-clipped is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has toned with small loss top of spine and has moderate handling wear. ----- First published in 1937. Spine style: 8 ['39 - '63]. Rear panel 8 ['54 - '59] Modern Library #62. 377 titles listed on inside of jacket. [1956] [Toledano]. ------The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is an historical novel by the English author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the story revolving about the travels of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard E...
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The Human Comedy

By: Saroyan, William

Price: $49.95

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company: 1943

Seller ID: 012071

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Early printing of the first edition. The story of The Human Comedy, and the characters Homer and Ulysses in particular, is based on Saroyan's life, living fatherless with his siblings and his mother. Ithaca, California is based on the real town of Fresno, California, Saroyan's hometown.

The book contains several references to Homer's Odyssey. Basis for the MGM movie version staring Mickey Rooney.

Bound in the publisher's original salmon colored cloth with black title lettering and line drawing to the spine and black line drawing to front board. Bindings are tight and square. Te...
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Wings

By: Saunders, John Monk

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1927

Seller ID: 009089

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Wings is a 1927 American silent war film set during the First World War produced by Lucien Hubbard, directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and Richard Arlen. Gary Cooper appears in a small role which helped launch his career in Hollywood.

Acclaimed for its technical prowess and realism upon release, the film became the yardstick against which future aviation films were measured, mainly because of its realistic air-combat sequences. It went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Picture at the first annual Academ...
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The Forgotten Village: Life in a Mexican Village

By: Steinbeck, John

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1941

Seller ID: 011224

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

"This is a story of the little pueblo of Santiago on the skirts of a hill in the mountains of Mexico. And this is the story of the boy Juan Diego and of his family and of his people, who live in the long moment when the past slips reluctantly into the future." From Dust Jacket.

First Edition, Second Printing prior to publication. [There were only 15,000 first printings]

Oatmeal cloth, green titles and stamped illustration; top edge stained green. Illustrated with 136 pictures from the movie of the same name. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal h...
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The Wayward Bus

By: Steinbeck, John

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1947

Seller ID: 013612

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear with minor rubs on the bottom edges. Dust Jacket with price of $2.75 is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve is First Issue with book title listed at the top of the front flap and has age-toned with loss on the spine tips, top corners and on the 'W' of Wayward; and a small hole center front near spine. 8vo; 20.5 cm.; 8 inches tall; 312 pages.

The novel is about a group of people on a bus traveling California's back roads, it is unclear whether the characters are traveling toward a hopeful destination or m...
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Millennium

By: Varley. John

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, Berkley Books: 1983

Seller ID: 013324

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Book Club Edition.

A time travel triller from the Hugo and Nebula awarded author.

A DC-10 and 747 collide. In the distant future, a time travel team prepares to snatch passengers, leaving prefabricated smoking bodies behind. And an air disaster investigator will get a phone call that changes his life ... and the end of the world as we know it. Basis for the 1989 film of the same name.
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The Chariot Race from Ben-Hur

By: Wallace, Lew (1827 - 1905)

Price: $49.95

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1908

Seller ID: 012476

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

In 1908, seeking to capitalize on the famous copyright case against Kalem Studios, Harper & Brothers compiled and illustrated the most famous part of the epic novel Ben - Hur. Enjoy this battle of wits among Ben Hur and his foe Messala.

Purple decorated cloth boards, Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Spine age-faded along with the top edge. Gift inscription and small booksellers label on front endpages. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 133 pages printed on laid-paper. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded color frontispiece and three more plate b...
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