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Academic Murder: A Mystery Set in the Halls of Cambridge

Academic Murder: A Mystery Set in the Halls of Cambridge

by Fiske, Dorsey

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St. Martin's Press, NY, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "The leisurely life of intellectual contemplation enjoyed by the Fellows of Sheepshanks College, Cambridge is shattered when the eminent Pryevian Librarian, Ernest Garmoyle, collapses and dies over his port at dinner. When arsenic is discovered in his drink, Inspector Bunce of the Cambridge police is called in. A tangled web of motives lurk beneath the academic surface. Bizarre characters and suspicious behaviour." [Pub. Info] 1ST US EDITION
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The Afterlife

The Afterlife

by Updike, John

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Knopf , 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. There is a protective mylar cover.
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Alaska

Alaska

by Michener, James A

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Random House, NY , 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "As his characters struggle for survival, Michener weaves together the exciting high points of Alaska's story: its brutal origins; the American acquisition; the gold rush; the tremendous growth and exploitation of the salmon industry; the arduous construction of the Alcan Highway, undertaken to defend the territory during World War II. A spellbinding portrait of a human community fighting to establish its place in the world, Alaska traces a bold and majestic saga of the enduring spirit of a land and its people." [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST EDITION.
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Babbitt

Babbitt

by Lewis, Sinclair

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Harcourt Brace, NY [Modern Classics], 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/ Fine "Lewis's scathing satire of middle-class America: Babbitt explores the social pressures of conformity and materialism... the story of George Babbitt, a middle-aged family man who becomes disillusioned with both conformity and his belated attempts at rebellion. Set in the fictional Midwestern town of Zenith, Babbitt offers a powerful critique of the American Dream and all it entails." [Pub. Info] The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 was awarded to Sinclair Lewis "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters". [Nobel prize website] Owner name. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST Thus.
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Cancer Ward

Cancer Ward

by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux/ NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own: Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered."" [Pub. Info] 560 pages. The book is in Fine/ As New condition. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST US EDITION; 3RD PRINTING.
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The Complete 'Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister'

The Complete 'Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister'

by Hacker MP, the Right Hon. James; edited by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay

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Salem House Publishers, Topsfield. Massachusetts, 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. "In the spring of 1983 the BBC TV series 'Yes Minister' became the first program ever to win the British Academy award for the Best Comedy Series for three years running." [Pub. Info] First published by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Some very minor wear to dust jacket edges. 1ST US EDITION.
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Darkness Visible

Darkness Visible

by Golding, William

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Farrar Straus Giroux, NY , 1979. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "[The] tour de force by the Nobel laureate that is "a vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes" (The New York Times Book Review). It opens during the London blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire... [and] becomes a wanderer and a seeker. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. In a final conflagration, William Golding's book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time." [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST US EDITION.
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Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of Camille Pissarro

Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of Camille Pissarro

by Stone, Irving

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Doubleday, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Owner's signaure. There is some chipping to the dust jacket. There is a protective mylar cover.
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Eating Pavlova

Eating Pavlova

by Thomas, D. M.

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Bloomsbury , 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST UK EDITION.
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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

by Cleland, John

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Luxor Press, London, Deluxe edition. Hardcover. Fine. Written in 1749. It was a huge success. The publisher's preface contains a brief biography of Cleland and a brief accounting of the dismissal of a NY lawsuit to have the book banned for obscenity in 1963.
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Foretaste of Glory

Foretaste of Glory

by Stuart, Jesse

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Dutton, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "The citizens of the small town of Blakesburg see the aurora borealis and decide Judgment Day has come in this 1946 best-seller."" [Pub. Info] A compelling novel by Kentucky's master story-teller.
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Gallipoli

Gallipoli

by Bennett, Jack

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St. Martin's Press, NY, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Novel based on the screenplay by David Williamson and the story by Peter Weir (who also directed the Australian film Gallopoli). The story concerns young men who enlist in WWI and "come-of-age" in the failed Allied Campaign (Britain and France) against the Ottoman Empire. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST US EDITION.
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Larsson, Stieg; translated by Reg Keeland

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Knopf, NY, 2009. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she'll need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll seek revenge - against the man who tried to kill her and against the corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life."" [Pub Info] As New; STATED 1ST UNITED STATES EDITION.
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Go Set A Watchman

by Lee, Harper

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Harper Collins. NY, 2015. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "The sequel to the globally renowned 'To Kill a Mockingbird'... forces readers and characters alike to accept some difficult truths when the narrator, Scout, returns to her hometown and becomes infuriated with the stagnation, lack of ambition and backwards attitudes of people she has known and loved her whole life." [Pub. Info] The book and dust jacket are both in Fine condition. There is a protective mylar cover. STATED FIRST EDITION.
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The Greek Treasure:  A Biographical Novel of Henry and Sophia Schliemann

The Greek Treasure: A Biographical Novel of Henry and Sophia Schliemann

by Stone, Irving

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Doubleday , 1975. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. There is some chipping to the dust jacket. There is a protective mylar cover.
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Henry James: Washington Square, The Portrait of the Lady, and The Bostonians

Henry James: Washington Square, The Portrait of the Lady, and The Bostonians

by James, Henry; Notes and Selections by William T. Stafford

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Library of America/ University of Cambridge, UK, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Written in London and Italy between 1879 and 1885, these novels portray American women confronting crises of independence and possession. Studies in the exercise of power that mark relations between sexes, classes, and cultures, they show James' special solicitude for the young heroines who occupy the center of his fictional world."" [Dust Jacket] There is a protective mylar cover. STATED 1ST PRINTING.
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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

by Fielding, Henry

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Random House, 1964. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. Among the earliest, if not the first, English work described as a ""novel"". Written in 18 sections (Books) including Book I - Containing as Much of the Birth of the Foundling as Is Necessary or Proper to Acquaint the Reader with in the Beginning of This History, and ending with Book XVIII - Containing About Six Days. Illustrations by Lawrence Beal Smith. There is a slipcase in Very Good condition. This is a 1st thus edition. [Check for shipping cost on larger format books].
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The Information

The Information

by Amis, Martin

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Harmony , 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal--they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even as Tull himself sinks deeper into the sub-basement of literary failure. The only way out of this predicament, Tull believes, is the plot the demise of Barry."" [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST US EDITION.
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The Killing of Monday Brown

The Killing of Monday Brown

by Prowell, Sandra

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Walker and Company, NY, 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Lauded by 'The New York Times Book Review', this sizzling mystery explores crime on an Indian reservation. The victim, Monday Brown, is a white man who pillaged the Native American culture for profit. The suspect is Matthew Wolf, a young Crow traditionalist who'd do anything to preserve his heritage. Investigator Phoebe Siegel, hired to clear Matthew's name, discovers the truth in the sacred mysteries of the Crow culture." [Pub, Info] Author Signature. 1ST EDITION
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King, Queen, Knave

King, Queen, Knave

by Nabokov, Vladimir

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McGraw Hill, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. ""The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic Franz."" [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. STATED 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.
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