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New York: Ballantine, 1966 Book. Good. Pbk.. First Thus. Vintage copy.

London: World Books, 1967 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). One afternoon, in early summer, eighteen-year-old Laura Rowan sits on the garden steps of her house embroidering a handkerchief. She overhears a conversation between her father, an English Member of Parliament, and her mother, Tania, the daughter of an exiled Russian royalist. Tania's decision to take Laura to Paris to visit her grandfather, Count Nikilai Diakonov, means that Laura will unwittingly become a witness to the momentous events leading up to the Russian Revolution...Through a vivid canvas layered with intrigue, conspiracy and murder, Rebecca West has created a story that is at once a family saga, a political thriller, a philosophical drama and an historical novel..

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Ed... When Captain Buck Flashman sees the black boxer catch a fly in mid-flight he realizes that he is in the presence of speed such as the prize ring has never seen. Tom Molineaux may be crude and untutored, but if 'Mad Buck' knows anything (and like his notorious son, the archcad Harry Flashman, he has an unerring eye for the main chance), this ex-slave from America is a Champion in the making, on whose broad shoulders the ambitious Captain can climb to sporting and social fame. Under his patronage, the 'Black Ajax' is carried on a popular tide of sporting fever to his great dream: to fight the invincible, undefeated Champion of England, the great Tom Cribb. The story of Molineaux and his eventual battles with Cribb is told through a series of superbly original and individual voices -- colourful, powerful and funny. Together they create a magnificent picture of Regency England and a portrait of a flawed hero who… Leer más

New York: E.P.Dutton, 1963 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First US Edition. An autobiographical novel "of the education of a poet, written early in his career. It's setting is the mouldering Regina Hotel in London that shelters a group of strange, impassioned people- sensualists, idealists, self-searches, sex-seekers. In telling their story Lawrence Durrell has created a stunning, lustily humorous novel which savagely attacks the England of the 1930s." Introduction by Gerald Sykes. This precedes the UK edition which was not published until 1973, 250p. Neat tight copy with only sight scuffing to paper wraps..

London: Secker & Warburg, 1958 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. The authors first novel about a young boy in British Guiana who runs away to the up country diamond mines and gains and loses a fortune..

Toronto: MIRA, 2004 Book. As New. Pbk. 1st Canadian Edition.. Jonas Lamb is a lost sheep. He's always taken risks and played life's games by his own rules. Now, after a trail of broken marriages and an endless roller-coaster ride from fortune to bankruptcy and back again, Jonas has one last chance to turn his life around. His greatest regret is that he never had much of a relationship with his son. But now Patrick is back in Jonas's life. A genetic engineer, his son comes to him with news of a groundbreaking discovery -- code-named Black Sheep in honor of Jonas -- that could revolutionize energy markets, putting oil companies out of business and turning the world economy on its head. All Patrick needs is his father's help in finding financial backing. Jonas sees the opportunity of a lifetime. If he plays his cards right, he can redeem himself with his child, win the heart of Patrick's mother -- the only woman he has truly loved -- and become one of the wealthiest men on earth..

London: Gollancz, 1989 Ex-Library. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. Cat Conwell is an actress .. pursued by Ty, Lord Fortuneswell, the most eligible bachelor on either side of the Atlantic. Moving from film set to Venice, to a Greek village recreated in the Dorset countryside [this] is a captivatingly quirky novel, a masterpiece of cunning and intrigue. 154p Neat, clean copy, Cancellation stamp of British Council Library,Bahrain. on ffep, else near fine.

New York: A.A.Knopf, 1939 Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. 1st US Ed... Lavinia Brandon was a strikingly beautiful widow who privately adored attracting men of all ages while being perfectly pleased to avoid any trips to the altar. She was comfortably wealthy, completely happy, and lived with her grown son and daughter at Stories, a charming Georgian house in Barchester County. Lavinia Brandon was a woman who wanted nothing--least of all the fabulous Brandon inheritance, and certainly not a husband young enough to be her son. But one fine summer in Barsetshire, Lavinia Brandon discovered that she had a problem...358p. Neat tight copy, slightly agetoned endpapers, unmarked except for owner's name dated 1939.ated 1039..

London: Doubleday, 1997 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. Lila Cunningham, motherless since babyhood, was almost twenty-one when her familiar life in a small town on the Suffolk coast came abruptly to an end. It was 1938, and she learned with a shock that her endearing but feckless artist father faced financial disaster. With the loss of their home imminent, they had no option but to except an offer of a house in Malta, and on that hot and exotic island, in the magnificent but crumbling Villa Zonda, Lila at last glimpsed the kind of life of which she had always dreamed.But war was looming, and Malta became the focus of Hitler's attention while Lila became the focus of attention of three very different young men. As bombing devastated the island Lila, along with the other inhabitants, learned to live with privation and fear, and also to discover which dreams are really worth pursuing. During World War II Lila. working as a nurse, awaits the return of her love, a British soldier of noble birth.… Leer más

London: Corgi, 1997 Book. Near Fine. Pbk. 1st Pbk Edition. When Lila Cunningham moved to Malta, she glimpsed a chance of a life she had dreamed of. But then, Malta became the focus of Hitler"s attention just as Lila became the focus of attention of three different men. As Lila learns to live with privation and fear, she slowly realises the value of true love in all its forms. Name of previous owner, else fine..

New York: Ballantine, 1964 Book. Very Good. Pbk.. Reprint. Vintage pbk English title "Requiem for a Wren" Sidelined by a wartime injury, fighter pilot Alan Duncan reluctantly returns to his parents' remote sheep station in Australia to take the place of his brother Bill, who died a hero in the war. But his homecoming is marred by the suicide of his parents' parlormaid, of whom they were very fond. Alan soon realizes that the dead young woman is not the person she pretended to be. Upon discovering that she had served in the Royal Navy and participated along with his brother in the secret build-up to the Normandy invasion, Alan sets out to piece together the tragic events and the lonely burden of guilt that unravelled one woman's life. In the process of finding the answer to the mystery, he realizes how much he had in common with this woman he never knew and how "a war can go on killing people long after it's all over.".

Toronto : Guernica Editions, 2010 Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Canadian Edition.. A collection of stories - The legend of the Cherry Blossom Fairy / Bridge in the rain/ The perfect woman/ Years of silence/ Heads or tails/ Night walks - all set in present day Toronto and linked by an inscription on a bench in High Park.141p..

London: HarperCollins, 1996 Book. As New. Trade Paperback. Reprint. Based on real events of 400 years ago, this is a vivid depiction of the terror and brutality of life on the Anglo-Scottish Border. To the young Lady Margaret Dacre, raised in the rich security of Queen Elizabeth's court, the Scottish Border is a land of blood and violence, where her inheritance lay at the mercy of the outlaws and feuding tribes of England's last frontier. Beyond the law's protection, alone but for her servants and an elderly priest, Lady Margaret must somehow find the means to fight the terror approaching from the northern night.177p, Historical notes, glossary..

New York: Signet, 1969 Book. Fine. Pbk. Reprint.. No one but a madman would put to sea in such conditions. A blizzard cut visibility to yards. Long Island Sound was galloping whitecaps. But in this second year of the war of 1812, conditions like these spelled opportunity to Captain Josiah Peabody, USN. His mission: break the British Blockade. The only thing in his favor was surprise. Who would expect a Yankee frigate in Long Island Sound at night? ..

London: Methuen, 1984 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. "They were the keepers of each other's secrets, the caretakers of each other"s souls"..

London: Pandora, 1989 Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. First Pbk.Ed... Set in a quiet New Zealand town, this novel explores what happens when ordinary people's lives are disrupted by mysterious happenings. The author transports the reader to a realm of shifting dimensions where unquestioned beliefs fall into doubt and ordinary lives blossom in the Ancient Springtime..

London: Duckworth, 1942 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. It is the summer of 1940 and England is fighting for her life. In a rural corner of England the vagaries of war bring together a group of people wrestling the enemy within--fear, despair, loss of faith. A web of chance... a fateful meeting in a London street... A lost teddy bear... the wrong train... and the lives of four people were altered forever! A shy, middle-aged spinster was to find a new home and fall impossibly in love. An elderly street fiddler, bitter and lonely, was to take an unexpected train ride and encounter kindness from a total stranger. Two frightened children were to escape their terrors of wartime London and bring dramatic changes to the Castle on the Hill. 296p. Clean tight copy in fading blue cloth binding, some rubbing on extremities, spine slightly cocked..

New York: St.Martin's Press, 1999 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. "Having survived scandal and the disdain of many a society lady and gentleman in years past, Caterina is now the mistress of her household, and the talented artist behind a successful series of cartoons. But her hard-won independence is far from secure. The political turmoil followiong Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 has left a vacuum of power and a dangerous climate for liberal freethinkers like Caterina"..

New York: Fawcett Crest, 1964 Book. Very Good +. Pbk. First Pbk.Ed.. "The story concerns George Caldwell, a school teacher, and his son Peter, outside of Alton (i.e., Reading), Pennsylvania. The novel explores the relationship between the depressive Caldwell and his anxious son... One thing George and Peter share is the desire to get out, to escape their hometown. Updike drew on the myths of antiquity in an attempt to turn a modern and common scene into something more profound, a meditation on life and man's relationship to nature and eternity. George is both the Centaur Chiron and Prometheus (some readers might see George's son Peter as Prometheus), Mr. Hummel, the automobile mechanic, is Hephaestus (AKA Vulcan); and so forth. The novel's structure is unusual; the narrative shifts...from describing the characters as George, Vera, and the rest, to the Centaur, Venus, and so forth" Neat tight copy.

London: Michael Joseph, 1991 Book. Illus. by John S. Goodall. As New. Hardcover. 1st UK Ed...