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How I Live Now
by Rosoff, Meg
Wendy Lamb Books, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Wendy Lamb Books, 2006. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked, solid book with minor wear to cover edges. Thoroughly original, a book for all ages, a sensitive look at the complexities of being young in a world teetering on chaos. A story of 15-year-old New Yorker Daisy who is sent to the English countryside to live with cousins she has never met. England is attacked and occupied by an unknown enemy. Daisy and the...
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A$11.08
Here's a New One
by Davidson, Adolph
New York: Dodge Publishing, 1913. Edition Not Specified. Very Good/No DJ. 12mo = 7-9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. A book of after dinner stories. Gilt lettering on front & spine.
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A$4.71
Great Atlantic Adventures
by Snow, Edward Rowe
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1970. Edition Not Specified. Very Good +/Very Good + DJ. 12mo = 7-9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. Illus w/photos. Cloth covers. Dj is soiled slightly, some tearing on edges - especially near spine. Gift note on front endpaper.
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A$19.61
The Magazine Encore October 1943
by Edited by Dent Smith with stories and articles by H.L. Mencken, E.B. White , Theodore Dreiser and many others
The Encore Press, N.H. , 1943 First Edition 127 page Vintage Digest sized magazine. Edited by Dent Smith with stories and articles by H.L. Mencken, E.B. White , Theodore Dreiser and many others , See Photos A very good to near fine copy , bumped at the head of the spine ,light dust soiling to the covers. See Photos this week bx
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A$18.83
The O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories 2002
by Dark, Larry (Series Editor)
USA: Anchor Books/Random House, 2002. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good+ Condition. Clean and unmarked card cover, crease on bottom corner, no spine creasing, tight glued binding. Prev owner name on inside of front cover. Pages clean and free of any markings. Edited and with an Introduction by Series editor Larry Dark. The O. Henry Awards are considered the most prestigious American awards for short fiction. Twenty or so short fiction stories...
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Changeling And Other Stories
by Byrne, Donn
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923. Edition Not Specified. Very Good minus/No DJ. 12mo = 7-9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. Green cloth over hard covers with embossed stamp on front cover. Printing on spine and front cover. Bumping on corners and spine with wearing along edges. Clean.
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A$15.69
Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal
by Vidal, Gore
USA: Random House Inc, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. An iconoclastic tale about the New Testament and Christianity. The time is A. D. 96 and Timothy, bishop of Macedonia, is under pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since far into the future the Hacker is systematically destroying evidence of Christianity and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the...
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A$16.10
The Secrets of Nostradamus Exposed
by Comfort, Ray
Bellflower, California, U.S.A: Living Waters Pubns, 1996. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Here are the undisclosed secrets of the world's greatest prophet. Some say his knowledge was obtained through the occult. Some say Nostradamus was a man who heard from God. This book will reveal to you that there was another means by which he obtained such incredible prophecies. The book is clean and unmarked, faint...
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A$8.85
Book and Magazine Collector : No 54 September 1988
by John Dean (editor)
London: Diamond Publishing Group Ltd, 1988. A very small number of classified section listings highlighted in very pale yellow. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 131pp. This issue includes the black magic books of Dennis Wheatley, Catherine Cookson, HG Wells fiction, World War 2 Bomber Command, Lord Byron and Louisa M Alcott.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8.25 x 6 inches.
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A$9.63
Transgressive Readings The Texts of Franz Kafka and Max Planck (Studies in Literature and Science)
by Valerie D. Greenberg
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 1990 Hardcover. 0472101587 First edition. 224 pages, bibliography, index. Near Fine or better copy in Fine Dust Wrapper. bx169
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A$15.69
Middle English Literature
by Kane, George
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1951. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very faintly sunned boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight sunning to spine. 252pp. Detailed critical study of the Middle English Metrical Romances, Religious Lyrics and the vision of Piers Plowman.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Near Fine. 7.5 x 5...
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A$34.05
Poems By Francis Thompson
by Thompson, Francis
London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1893. Limited Edition of 500 copies.. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to paper covered boards or to spine. Well preserved gilt embossing to front and to spine. Clean pages in a tight binding with marked boards, dusty page edges and well-rubbed corners and spine ends. Lower and fore-edges untrimmed. Fourteen page publishers list plus 81pp. One of 500 copies of Limited First Edition with seven sections of 'Love in Dian's Lap', six...
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A$255.40
Beacon Lights of Literature Ninth Year
by Chamberlain Rudolph W. & Richards Edwin B
A book written to make a pleasurable experience of the pupil's formal introduction to literature. Ninth year students. (we read Of MIce and Men- Wonderful! and Catcheer in the Rye - not so much) These students are reading Poe, Homer, Coleridge, Longfellow, Emerson, Frost, Shakespeare... hey wait! Pretty much all the same stuff I read in 1973. 940 pages. Very slight wear.
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A$22.75
Aldebaran Winter '93-'94
by Rossi Matthew W. III editor
Bristol,RI Roger Williams University.RI 1993. Fine. No Jacket as Issued 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Aldebaran is a student run literary magazine, created in 1971 and publishing semi-annually and annually for the past 22 years, is the result of the work of both the contributors and the staff. Aldebaran publishes poetry and fiction in traditional, contemporary and experimental forms. genfic9
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A$15.69
Undying Passion a Book of Anecdotes About Men, Women, Love, Sex, and the Literary Life
by Joseph Randolph Orgel
New York: William Morrow and Company Inc [1985]. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0688022189 . First edition. Dozens of literary figures and their comments on sex, etc. 379 pages, sources, index. Near Fine copy in VG+ Dust Wrapper with two 1" tears at/near the upper right corner of the front panel.bx77
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A$19.61
Shakespearean Whodunnits -- Murders And Mysteries Based on Shakespeare's Plays
by Ashley, Mike (Editor)
USA: Carroll & Graf, 1997. First Thus. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Carroll & Graf Edition. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked cover has wear to the lower corner which is creased, little scuffing of upper corner, reading crease along spine hinge. Interior clean and unmarked, toned. Prev owner name on first page. An original and wonderfully entertaining collection of more than twenty superb whodunnits based on and around favorite characters from...
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Harlan Ellison: Unrepentant Harlequin (Popular Writers of Today V. 6)
by George Edgar Slusser
San Bernardino: R. Regiunald / The Borgo Press. 1977. 0893702099 . First edition. Decorated/pictorial wrappers [about 5.25" x 8.25"], saddle-stapled, [64] pages [last numbered page is 63], bibliography. Generally Near Fine copy [some foxing-like staining to the upper left corner of the front cover]. bx35,WHB7
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A$18.83
Treasury of North American Fiction, A
by Harper's Magazine
New York: Gallery Books, 1991. Edition Not Specified. Very Good/Very Good DJ. 8vo = over 9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. A collection of Harper's Magazine.
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A$11.77
Voices from Wah'Kon-Tah : Contemporary Poetry of American Indians
by Dodge, Robert K. & McCullough, Joseph B. (editors)
New York: International Publishers Co Inc, 1976. Name/address label to front end papers. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 144pp. In an introduction, the editors consider some of the myths which were thrust upon the Native Americans. There follows about 112 pages of poetry of their writing. Each poem is attributed to the named Native American author and each author is...
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A$24.32
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories
by Murray, John
New York: HarperCollins, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Collectible. First Edition. Hardcover and Jacket As New. Binding of black half cloth w/gilt titles, tan paper-wrapped boards. very clean and unmarked, no edgewear. Tight & solid, square. Jacket very striking red with gold filigree butterflies and a realistic Monarch butterfly in full color. Bright, clean, tight, no tears, unmarked, not price clipped. Very handsome book. A collection of stories,...
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Going Somewhere Soon Collected Stories & Drawings
by Brian Andreas
Decorah, IA: Story People [2000]. Near Fine. 2000. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. 0964266024 . Later [6th] printing. Pictorial wrappers, unpaginated, heavily illustrated with drawings. Near Fine copy with light upper corner creasing to the front portion of the book bx217
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A$19.61
The Humor of Love in Prose
by Masson, Tom, editor
New York: Moffat, Yard, 1906. First Edition. Very Good +/No DJ. 12mo = 7-9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. Green cloth hard covers, spine faded slightly. Anthology of shorts by many authors.
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A$7.84
Critics on Pope (Readings in Literary Criticism)
by O'Neill, Judith
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1978. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly sunned boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. 120pp. . A selection of the best critical essays on the works of Alexander Pope.. Soft Cover. Very Good (+). 8.5 x 5.25 inches.
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A$10.12
Choruses for Morning
by Rosenburg, Robert K
Baltimore, MD: Linden. Good. 1963. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards have mild discoloration. Clean text, no name inside. A collection of poems including: Cleopatra, Africa, Taj Mahal, Lesbos, Jephthah's Daugther; Eumenides, Southern Belle, Parlor Grame, In Memoriam: Alban Berg, etc .
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A$18.83
A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy
by Sterne, Laurence
Paris: The Black Sun Press / Editions Narcisse. 1929. First Edition Thus. Softcover limited edition Copy #352 of the stated 335 copies on Arches paper even though there were 400 total copies printed and some over printed copies numbered. Printed "under the direction of and for Harry and Caresse Crosby". Printed self-wrappers [about 6.5" x 8.25"], [192] pages [last numbered page is 191], illustrated with 5 full-page drawings [with tissue guards] plus other smaller chapter decorations. A very good copy...
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A$156.88
