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The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
The Killer Angels is a historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. The book tells the story of four days of the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War: June 30, 1863, as the troops of both the Union and the Confederacy move into battle around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and July 1, July 2, and July 3, when the battle was fought. The story is character driven and told from the perspective of various protagonists.
Libra
by Don Delillo
In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped. A gripping, masterful blend of...
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Biographical Fiction Books & Ephemera
The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War
by Michael Shaara
Ballantine Books, 2007. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$9.81
A Youth's History Of The Rebellion
by William M Thayer
1865 hardcover as pictured. A nicely bound but worn edition. Binding is firm. Cranberry cloth boards with black and gold stamping are rubbed, scuffed and soiled with moderate edge wear and bumped corners. Owner's name on endpaper. Text is age tanned but unmarked. Several pages have folds. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR
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A$60.13
The Killer Angels
by SHAARA, Michael
New York: David McKay, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. First edition. Owner's name and a faint crease on the spine, else a nice, very good or better copy in a slightly rubbed, about fine dustwrapper. Basis for the movie *Gettysburg* and one of the very best and most beloved novels of the Civil War. It is also one of the scarcest American first editions of the 1970s and was a surprise winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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A$3,083.60
The Killer Angels
by Shaara, Michael
David McKay, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Like New/Like New. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($8.95 price intact). Published by C, 1974. Octavo. Dark blue cloth over blue boards stamped in gold. Illustrated map frontispiece. Book is like new; clean and crisp with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with some very light shelf wear and a small half-inch tear at front bottom right corner. First state...
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A$3,469.03
The Killer Angels
by Shaara, Michael
New York: David McKay Company, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good, a little shelf worn and lightly dust-soiled, with previous owner name date and "Friends of the Library" inked to front free end paper, though not an ex-library copy. Light foxing to edge of page block, prelims and terminals. Dust jacket is lightly edge worn, with light fraying at the spine ends, lightly rubbed; foxing and browning to blank verso; publisher's price of $8.95 intact.
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A$1,156.35
Beneath the Wheel
by Hesse, Hermann
Bantam, 1984-05-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 0 Paperback - Front page edges chewed - Binding square & tight, reading & corner creases, edge & corner wear, POI inside front cover, no stickers - 7 x 4.1 x .63 inches 4.6 oz
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A$21.51
The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War
by Shaara, Michael
Modern Library, 2004. Hardcover. New. 2004 modern library ed edition. 337 pages. 8.25x5.75x0.75 inches.
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A$39.32
The Killer Angels; A Novel
by Shaara, Michael
New York: David McKay Company, Inc. [1974], 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [8], ix-xvii, [5], 3-374, [2] pp. Quarter blue paper over light blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Broadfoot 521. Illustrated with a double-page and a full-page map. The basis for the 1993 epic film, Gettysburg. A sharp copy of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize Winner, one of the most highly-regarded and...
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A$2,543.97
The Web And The Rock
by Wolfe Thomas
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 210x145x45mm. 210x145x45mm+818g . . 500g Postage Incorrect see below for 1kg . . Harper and Brothers. New York. 1939. First Edition. 1st Printing. . Pp695. Blue cloth hard boards. Red and gold lettering to front and spine. No dust jacket. Head and foot of spine Rolled. corners worn. Slight shelf wear. mark on front board. spine faded. endpapers foxed: Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book and or Jacket may have...
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A$170.20
Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater
by De Quincey Thomas
London, Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Company. Hardcover. Very Good. 175x125x25mm. 175x125x25mm+346g . . The Walter Scott Publishing Company. London, Felling-on-Tyne. . . . . Pp275 plus 16 pages of Scott Library Ads. Green cloth hard boards. Gilt decoration and lettering to front and spine. Gilt top edge. Head and foot of spine Rolled. Corners bumped. boards Slight wear. Dent to front for-edge. Sporadic foxing to pages. No names or dedications: Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book...
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A$85.20
The Orgy
by Rukeyser Muriel
London: Andrei Deutsch, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 205x135x22mm. 205x135x22mm+343g . . Andrei Deutsch. London. 1966. First Edition. 1st Printing. . PP209. Green cloth hard boards. Gilt lettering to spine. In original dust jacket. Unclipped. Black ink mark to front free endpaper. Book block foxed - seen when book is closed. endpapers foxed. Jacket, flaps foxed: Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book and or Jacket may have names. dedications. marks. tears. foxing. browned...
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A$56.80
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
New York: David McKay Company, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing with no additional printings listed on the copyright page. This book measures approximately 8.5" x 5.75" with 374 numbered pages. The book is in very good plus condition. Minor bumping to the spine ends. Gilt lettering on spine is very well preserved. Minor staining on the edges of the textblock. The original dust jacket is in very good condition. Minor edgewear and chipping to the extremities. Small...
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A$732.36
The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War: 2 (Civil War Trilogy)
by Shaara, Michael
Paperback. Acceptable.
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A$8.47
The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War
by Michael Shaara
Paperback. Very Good.
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A$20.01
Young Adolf
by Bainbridge, Beryl
London: Duckworth. 2000. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 174 pages. Beryl Bainbridge's clever farce in which a young Adolf Hitler visits relatives in Liverpool and gets into serious trouble. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 2nd Impression. Hardback.
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A$22.00
THE HUMMINGBIRD'S DAUGHTER; A Novel
by Urea, Luis Alberto
New York and Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Like New/Like New. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, red quarter cloth with black lettering over ivory boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Carol Hayes, 499 pages + [2] About the Author. Weight: 1 lb. 12 oz. Luis Alberto Urrea (born 1955) is a Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist.<br /> <br /> SIGNED & in LIKE NEW CONDITION!...
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A$69.38
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
Random House Large Print, 2004. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$32.22
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Signet, 1969-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 0 Paperback - Binding square & tight, vertical crease front cover, tanning, no marks, no stickers
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A$19.97
The Killer Angels
by Shaara, Michael
New York: Random House, 1993. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Near Fine. Maroon Cloth and Black Board Covers with Gilt Lettering to Spine and "MS" initials in Gilt on Front Boards; top and bottom rear cloth binding shows fading/bleaching which has stained verso of dustjacket but does not appear to have bled through; Pictorial Map Endpapers of Gettysburg; Book Edges are Clean; Book Corners are sharp; Book Interior is clean and tight and unmarked; 8vo; 374 pages; dustjacket is protected by a...
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A$8.03
