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This is a very good minus hardcover copy, lacking the dust jacket. The binding is tight, but it earns its minus for rubbing at the corners leading to exposed board and wear on the spine. The front free end paper has an inscription.Du Gard, Roger Martin. The Thibaults. New York: The Viking Press, 1939 edition, translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert, 871 pp., cloth.This novel was key in winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937 for its author.

Genet, Jean. Nossa senhora das flores. 4a edicao. Apresentacao de Jean-Paul Sartre. Traducao de Newton Goldman. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Nova Fronteira, 1988, 331 pp.Good plus paperback with foxing around the edges of the pages. Previous owner's name on title page, otherwise no marks. In Portuguese. EM PORTUGUES DO BRASIL.

This is a hardcover book in very good condition with a dust jacket in very good condition. There are no marks and this book seems unread.
Talbot, eds., George and Pamela Williams. Essays in Italian literature and history in honour of Doug Thompson. Dublin/Portland: Four Courts Press, 2002, 249 pp., index.

Gilmore, H.H. Model planes for beginners. New York: Harper & Row, [1964] F-O print, 1959, new edition. 96 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good hard cover bound in blue cloth with very good price clipped dust jacket, protected by mylar. Bright clean copy.

Gombrich, Richard F. Precept and practice: traditional Buddhism in the rural highlands of Ceylon. Oxford: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1971, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index, 366 pp. First edition.Very good hardcover copy with very good dust jacket. Binding is solid, no marks in text. corners are sharp. There is a previous owner's name blind stamped into half title page.

Gombroqicz, Witold. Three novels (Ferdydurke; Pornografia; Cosmos). New York: Grove Press, Inc. 1978, 272 pp., 191 pp., 166 pp. Translated by Eric Mosbacher (Ferdydurke and Cosmos) and Alastair Hamilton (Pornografia)Good paperback copy of this first printing. There is a one inch rip to the front cover. The pages are browning from age. Aside from previous owner's initials on the title page, the pages are unmarked and the binding is tight.

Frazier, Gregory W. Europe by motorcycle: how to motorcycle tour in Europe. Denver: Arrowstar Publishing, 1999, 197 pp., black and white photographs throughout. Second edition. Very good paperback in illustrated paper wraps. There are no marks in the text, binding is tight. While this book may have dated information, it is full of photographs of Europe and motorcyclists in Europe. Dr. Frazier's tips are timeless and his tone is charming. I have included a picture of a "frog fence and tunnel."

Guilloux, Louis. OK, Joe. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, 121 pp. Translated with an introduction by Alice Kaplan. First American edition.Very good hardcover with dust jacket. Bound in brown cloth with gilt spine titles. The book has no marks in it, binding is tight, corners are sharp. Dust jacket is in very good condition.