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Victoria's Heyday - 1st Edition / 1st Printing
by Priestley, J. B
New York; Evanston, Il; San Francisco, Ca; London: Harper & Row, Publishers. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A gorgeous first edition / first printing with lightly soiled edges and slightly loose front hinge, marred spot on front fly leaf, and a name written on reverse of same, protected by a Fine dust jacket exhibiting only insignificant rubbing at panel seams; This book tells the story of Queen Victoria's reign, from 1837-1901. It is an...
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A$92.96
Walking and Exploring the Battlefields of Britain
by John Kinross
Photographs and illustrated throughout, Walking & Exploring The Battlefields of BritainBook Condition: Fine Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
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A$12.60
The General's Daughter - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Demille, Nelson
New York: Warner Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0446513067 . First edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with light soiling to page edges in alike dust-jacket with light laminate separation and mild edgewear; An intriguing and sophisticated murder mystery of an upstanding military officer - the base commander's daughter - who's been leading an unsavory double life ; 8vo; FSA .
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A$77.47
Someone At The Door - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Crane, Caroline
New York: Dodd, Mead. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0396086012 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in alike dust-jacket; Caroline Crane's Someone At The Door is the story of a family's fight to keep their home and the secrets that keep them safe. After a decade of being terrorized by a serial killer, the family has finally found the courage to move. But when their new home is broken into, they realize that the killer is still after them....
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Go: A Novel
by John Clellon Holmes
Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 1988. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear, very light wear at spine.Published 5 years before On the Road, this candid and perceptive roman à clef chronicles the adventures of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neal Cassady before they became literary icons. In dive bars and all-night diners, cabs racing across Manhattan and squalid apartments sticky with "tea" smoke, these would-be artists pursue the ecstatic experiences that...
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A$11.29
The Lad and the Lion - 1st Edition
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A bright first edition/first printing, blue cloth with red tettering on the front cover and spine in Near Fine condition with light wear to extremities and prior owner's stamp to front free end paper in Very Good+, laminated dust-jacket with little edgewear and limited chipping. Zeuschner 235; The story of the Lad who might have been king, parallels that of his uncle and...
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A$1,084.58
The Rosewood Casket - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by McCrumb, Sharyn
New York: Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0525940111 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Signed and dated May 18, 1996, by author Sharyn McCrumb. Recipe card for Scripture Cake laid in; This book is a mystery set in the Civil War era. It tells the story of Union soldier Tom York and his search for the Rosewood Casket, which is said to contain the remains of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson....
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Very Old Bones - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Kennedy, William
New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0670834572 . A nice first edition/first printing in Fine, seemingly unread condition in alike, dust-jacket; Kennedy's novel tells the story of a family of archaeologists who find themselves embroiled in a centuries-old mystery. When their patriarch, an esteemed scholar, dies suddenly, his children must navigate their way through a dizzying array of conspiracies and hidden agendas to discover what killed...
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The Theater Essays Of Arthur Miller - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Miller, Arthur
New York: The Viking Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670698016 . A most beautiful first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust jacket, SIGNED by author and Pulitzer prize-winner Arthur Miller directly on the title page; From the dustjacket: "Written for a variety of publications, with a variety of purposes, the twenty-three essays and three interviews collected here show with remarkable consistency the evolution of Arthur...
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A$557.78
The Burning Season - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Revkin, Andrew
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 039552394X . A bright first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with light foxing in alike dust-jacket with minor edgewear; The Burning Season is the harrowing, true story of a teenage boy's journey across a lawless and violent California frontier in 1858. Teaming up with a group of criminals, John Ross sets out to make a new life for himself and his younger sister...
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Hollywood Trains - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Beck, J. Spencer; J. C. Suarès (Ed. )
Charlottesville, VA: Thomasson-Grant. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1565660668 . A smart first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Hollywood Trains tells the story of railroads and movie trains in Los Angeles from the late 1800s to the present day. The book includes extensive and beautiful color and black-and-white photography, as well as maps, sketches, and details about the trains, studios, and people who made Hollywood the...
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A$92.96
A Way with Widows - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Adams, Harold
New York: Walker and Company. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0802731902 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Very Fine condition in Very Fine dust-jacket; A Way with Widows is a book about how to deal with widowhood. It is written by Harold Adams and it was published in 1984.; A Carl Wilcox Mystery; 8vo .
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A$139.45
A Pillar of Rest
by BARKER, Dudley
London: Cassell, 1970. First Edition. Very good/good. Hardcover : pp. (4) 186 (2, blank) : INSCRIBED by the author on the title page : black cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine : unclipped jacket designed by Michael Bell. Edges of block lightly flecked; top edge toned; jacket foxed. Dudley Raymond Barker (1910-1980) was a British journalist, editor and author of fiction, nonfiction, and literary essays. He was born in London and educated at Oxford and served in the RAF during WWII. He married...
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A$100.00
Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America
by Dennis McNally
Delta, New York, 1990. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light creasing at spine, price sticker on rear cover.Jack Kerouac--unwilling "King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful readership; a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist; a lover of freedom...
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The Widows of Eastwick - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0307269604 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in a Nearly Fine dust-jacket that is somewhat edgeworn; In this novel, John Updike tells the story of four women who are widows. Each woman is dealing with her own unique set of emotions and challenges. The novel explores the ways in which these widows cope with their loss and build new lives for themselves.; 8vo; 308 pages .
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A$108.46
Standoff - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Hogan, Chuck
New York: Doubleday. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0385477163 . First edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition with several dings to bottom of front and rear boards and lightly soiled bottom edge in Near Fine dust-jacket with minor edgewear; Author's first novel; 8vo; FSA .
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A$77.47
Ancient Andean Life - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Hewett, Edgar L
Indianapolis And New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Good. c1939. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first edition/first printing in Good condition with soiling to the boards, creasing and edgewear to the starting spine, and many adhesive markings throughout the pages from pictures and other inserts; This book describes the lives of ancient Andean people who lived in the Andes Mountains. The author provides information about the culture and history of the Andean people and their way of...
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Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Adelman, Bob; with an introduction by Tess Gallagher
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. c1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0684191660 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with an unreadable stamp to bottom edge, else Near Fine, in alike dust-jacket with minor edgewear; In this book, photographer Bob Adelman attempts to capture the world of Raymond Carver, who published eleven short story and poetry collections during his brief life. The text has been taken from...
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Recipes from the Dump - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Stone, Abigail
New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0393038548 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; This cookbook is filled with recipes that were culled from the garbage of various restaurants and homes. The author takes the reader on a gastronomic journey through the filthiest of kitchens, revealing the secrets to some of the best-tasting dishes ever created.; 8vo .
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A$92.96
Carolina Choo Choos In The Foothills
by Marsh, Blanche
Greenville, SC: Volume I. Fine+. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A beautiful first edition limited to 300 copies (this one being #147) in bright blue cloth with black lettering on front and spine. This book in Fine+ condition is SIGNED by author Blanche Marsh and illustrator Florence Brothers directly on the title page. A beautiful collectible; Tale Spinner Blanche Marsh portrays in her book early locomotives in the Carolinas like The "Best Friend" that was put in service...
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Forced Out - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Frey, Stephen
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Atria Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1416549633 . A Fine first edition/first printing in like dust-jacket; ieWhen seventeen-year-old Jacob comes out to his family and friends, he knows that most of them will never accept him for who he is. So, Jacob packs his bags and leaves for a new life on the other side of the country.Jacob's new life is full of new people, new experiences, and new love. But as he starts to...
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The Lovely Bones - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Sebold, Alice
Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0316666343 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Alice Sebold directly on the title page; Alice Sebold's first novel, The Lovely Bones, starts in heaven, where Susie Salmon, announces "I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." During the next ten years after her murder, she watches over her family and...
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A$232.41
Pulse - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Buchanan, Edna
New York: Avon Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0380973316 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Signed "Miami, It's murder! Come on down!" by author Edna Buchanan directly on the title page; In Pulse, Edna Buchanan tells the story of a young girl who is trying to make sense of her life and the strange world around her. She is trying to find her place in the world and find her purpose in...
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The Hamish Hamilton Book of Dragons
by Roger Lancelyn Green
London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1970. First. Krystyna Turska. Roger Lancelyn Green - The Hamish Hamilton Book of Dragons Illustrated by Krystyna Turska Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London, 1970, first edition. 256 pp 24,5 x 16 cm Pages are clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket. The Hamish Hamilton books, antholigies in which stories from all over the world have been selected to illustrate some of the key characters in myths, fairy tales, legends and folklore. One of the...
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A$464.80
