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by Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays and short stories, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. His most recent novel is The Golden Age, and his new essay collection, The Last Empire: Essays 1993?2000, has just been published.
Belles Lettres Books & Ephemera
Stories
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1971. 4th Printing. Soft cover. Fair. Worn corners and edges, paper wraps with general wear. Soiled page edges. Solid binding. A few pages creased. Two of the six stories have pencil marks and underling, hard to notice at first glance. This is a stated 4th printing 1981 in paperback without illustrations. Translated to English by Olga Shartse and edited by Julius Katzer. 374 pages. Still a good reading copy.
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A$25.21
Passerelles Nomadismes (Printemps 1993) No.6
Revue d'Etudes Interculturelles, 1993. Soft cover. Good. Fine illustrated interior, solid binding, moderate surface and edge wear to covers, slightly foxed on top edge, curling corners.
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A$25.21
Comoedia Illustre : Journal Artistique Bi-mensuel, 1er annee, No.3 - 1er fevrier 1909
by collectif
1909. Staplebound. Fair. Staplebound revue 25 x 31 cm., approx 30 pages. Faded age-toned text, page foredges rippled from dampstain with no discolorations, interior still generally well preserved. Covers are in fair condition (etat correct) with frayed edges, scratches on front, rusted staples, thumb dents along spine and generally soiled.
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A$25.21
13: After [An anthology published by the 2007 MFA class of the Writing and Consciousness program of the New College of California]
San Francisco: New College of California, 2007. Soft cover. Good. 152 x 277mm; fine interior with moderately scuffed wraps, a few rub marks, one creased corner. Anthology of poetry, short stories, 136 pages.
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A$33.62
Catechisme du Diocese de Paris
by Darboy
Librairie d'Drien Le Clere et Cie., 1863. Hardcover. Fair. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 9 x 14 cm., 144 pages, relié toile avec dos collé. In-16. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Corners rubbed through, clean text except for foxing on first and last pages, splits in gutter, POS dated 1867.
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A$25.21
Livr'Arbitres: Litterature histoire des idees entretiens portraits, no.5 (printemps 2011) nouvelle serie
2011. Soft cover. Fine. ISSN 2107-3481
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A$20.17
Motherland
by William Nicholson
Simon & Schuster, 2013. Soft cover. Fine. One bumped corner, light general wear. Includes publisher's cover letter. Advance Reader's Edition / Uncorrected Proof in paperback ISBN 9781476712581. From an Academy Award nominated screenwriter, an epic novel of love and loss and the long shadows war leaves behind. Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer with Combined Ops. She falls instantly in love with Ed, who...
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A$33.62
Perry Mason: The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister (Pocket 50342)
by Gardner, Erle Stanley
New York, NY: Pocket Books, Inc., 1957. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. Fifth printing March 1967. Generally yellowed text. Wraps creased and rubbed, with tears and chips at spine tips.
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A$13.45
Soundings
by Brookner, Anita
London: The Harvill Press, 1997. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/very good. red cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 214 pp, spine sunned Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
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A$26.89
Green Mile Part 4: The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix Vol 4 (Penguin Audiobooks)
by Muller, Frank; King, Stephen
Penguin Audiobooks, 1996. Audio Book (Cassette). Fine. As new still in original shrink-wrap. 3 hours on 2 cassettes. ISBN 014086380X Read by Frank Muller.
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A$33.62
Los burgueses
by Silvina Bullrich
Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1969. Soft cover. Good. Decimotercera edicion publicada en octobre de 1969, 133pp. Scuffed covers with edge wear and rub marks on spine. Fine tight like new interior. En esta obra de singular estructura novelesca, donde los pensamientos y las conversaciones de los distintos personajes parecen fluir en un monólogo único, la autora de Bodas de cristal y Un momento muy largo traza todo un cuadro excepcionalmente animado de cierto sector social...
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A$30.26
Nineteenth Century Literature, Volume 45, Number 1 (June 1990)
University of California Press, 1990. Soft cover. Near Fine. Gently used, clean and unmarked, nice solid copy with minimal wear. This issue's articles on Pater, Trollope, and Twain. Book reviews.
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A$20.17
Letters of Yorick and Eliza; being the Correspondence Between Mrs. Draper and Laurence Sterne.
by Sterne, Laurence
London.: Serwood, Neely, and Jones., 1815. Third edition.. Contemporary full mottled calf, gilt spine decorations, black spine label with gilt title, marbled endpapers.. Very good, some wear to spine ends.. 12mo., 17x10 cm. . An uncommon edition of this famous correspondence between Sterne and “His Eliza”. weight: 0.4 lb. Engraves frontis.
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A$147.64
On Higher Ground: A Postmodern Romance
by Tim Holt
Suttertown Publishing, 2000. Soft cover. Fine. Futuristic novel set in Mount Shasta region. ISBN 0914485199
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A$33.62
TROIS REPORTERS A FACHODA
by léo dex
Boivin & cie, editeurs, 1934. Hardcover. Fair. Clean but yellowed text. Boards worn and scratched, corners worn through. Faded spine, loose from splits, a few tears in cloth on exterior hinges. Gravures et dessins de E. Vavasseur. 4eme serie format in-8
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A$42.02
Les Civilises
by Claude Farrère
FLAMMARION, 1921. Half-Leather. Good. Superbe reilure demi-cuir: rebound in half leather and half marbled boards, spine has 4 raised bands, gilt title/author & anchor emblem. Original paperback wraps not retained. Yellowed text and light shelf wear. Later printing, circa 1930.
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A$33.62
Tome trente-neuvième [39] des Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire. Tome 2 - Romans. Nouvelle édition.
by Voltaire
Paris: chez Thomine et Fortic, 1821. Hardcover. Good/No DJ as Issued. Tome trente-neuvième [39] des Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire. Tome 2 - Romans. Nouvelle édition. Reliure plein cartonné, dos lisse orné et doré avec pièces de titre et de tomaison maroquin rouges. Bon état. Format in-12° (17x10). Imprimerie Carez. Boards heavily worn throughout (white marks) and rubbed through on all edges and corners, yet binding is solid and it still...
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A$42.02
Green Grass of Wyoming
by Mary O'Hara
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1946. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. A Story Press Book, 3rd impression. Third volume of the McLaughlin family saga. Bookplates on both front and back inside of boards has made pastedowns loose (open readily) otherwise tight binding, some rounding of spine. Page edges and top margins of text yellowed. DJ nicked at hinges, frayed edges, still attractive collectible early edition.
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A$43.70
Two Prague Stories
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Vitalis, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/No DJ as Issued. Translation from the German to English by Isabel Cole. Illustrated by Karel Hruska. Epilogue by Harald Salfellner. 148 pages. Ribbon. 45 explanatory footnoes. Rare.
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A$42.02
Ninth Wave
by Eugene Burdick
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fascinating period novel with great detail on Southern California. Mild rounding of spine with separation gap, opens readily to pastedowns, otherwise binding is fine. Foxing to top edge, yellowing edges, generally very well conserved with fine interior. BCE missing dust jacket.
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A$33.62
Reverse of the Medal (Aubrey-Maturin #11 audiobook)
by O'Brian, Patrick
Random House Audiobooks, 2001. Audio Book (Cassette). Near Fine. Still in original shrink-wrap, box has one bumped corner otherwise new. 5 hours on 3 cassettes. ISBN 0375415971 Read by Tim Pigott-Smith.
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A$50.43
Sincronie Rivista semestrale di letterature, teatro e sistemi di pensiero. Anno XIII, fascicoli 25-26, gennaio-dicembre 2009
by Andres Sanchez Robayna
Vecchiarelli Editore, 2009. Staplebound. Good. Some creasing of paper wraps otherwise fine, staplebound booklet 15 x 21 cm., paginated 119-131 and contains a single article entitled "Notas sobre el concepto de 'Gongorismo'." The journal is Italian but this particular article is written in Spanish
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A$8.40
Le Theatre des Quartiers d'Ivry presente Les Burgraves Trilogie de Victor Hugo
by Antoine Vitez, Ewa Lewinson, Erik Desmazieres, Morando Bellandi, Herve Boutard, et al
Theatre de Gennevilliers, 1977. Staplebound. Good. Moderate general wear, looks gently used but has no serious defects. Staplebound booklet 15 x 24 cm., 32 pages. Theatre program for 6-22 January 1978.
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A$20.17
Right to an answer (Ballantine books)
by Burgess, Anthony
Ballantine Books, 1966. 2nd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. As is typical of this title, the text is yellowed and there is a spine crease. It is the September 1970 second printing. Covers have mild surface wear and still look nice. The cover art by Wilson McLean is scarce and superb (not the same as the first printing and in my opinion much more interesting). Scarce collectible edition.
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A$23.53
Modern English Short Stories
by Edward J. O'Brien, editor
Jonathan Cape, 1934. Hardcover. Fair/No DJ. POS ex-libris Roger Perrineau; some fading of the boards; separation gap; two of the stories have underlining. 5th printing in the Florin Books Series.
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A$16.81