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Till We Have Faces
de C S Lewis
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a 1956 parallel novel by C. S. Lewis. It is a retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, which had haunted Lewis all his life, and which is itself based on a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. The first part of the book is written from the perspective of Psyche's older sister Orual, and is constructed as a long-withheld accusation against the gods.
Sun Also Rises
de Ernest Hemingway
Based on real events and acquaintances of Hemingway, Sun Also Rises is about American and English expats in Pamplona.
Jane Eyre
de Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre, an Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell". Orphaned as a child, Jane felt like an outcast during her childhood. She was sent by her cruel aunt to a boarding school where she was met with further torment. After the devastating loss of a friend, she finds herself enrolled under a new headmaster at the Lowood School...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
de Ernest Hemingway
Many consider For Whom the Bell Tolls to be author Ernest Hemingway’s finest work. Inspired by Hemingway’s time as a war correspondent for The North American Newspaper Alliance during the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a stark and brutal commentary on the nature of war, sacrifice, and death. In fact, many believe his work is among the best depictions of the Spanish Civil War written. As with some of Hemingway’s other work, many of the characters, experiences, and...
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The Grapes Of Wrath
de John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
stands as a pivotal piece of American literature. The story follows
the Joad family (and thousands of others) as they are driven from the
Oklahoma farm where they are sharecroppers during the Great
Depression. The drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial
and agricultural industries send them searching for dignity and
honest work in the bountiful state of California.
The novel earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1940, and inspired the... Leer más sobre este artículo
stands as a pivotal piece of American literature. The story follows
the Joad family (and thousands of others) as they are driven from the
Oklahoma farm where they are sharecroppers during the Great
Depression. The drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial
and agricultural industries send them searching for dignity and
honest work in the bountiful state of California.
The novel earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1940, and inspired the... Leer más sobre este artículo
Cheever
de Blake Bailey
From the acclaimed author of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates comes the unforgettable life of John Cheever (1912--1982), a man who spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. "I was born into no true class," Cheever mused in his journal, "and it was my decision, early in life, to insinuate myself into the middle class, like a spy, so that I would have an advantageous position of attack,...
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A Tale Of Two Cities
de Charles Dickens
Written by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel that follows Manette, a French doctor imprisoned for 18 long years in Paris’s Bastille. Following his release, he goes to live in London with his daughter Lucie, who had never met him and believed him to be dead. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, A Tale of Two Cities is a fictitious story that falls both into the historical and adventure genres. The famous book is one of the...
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Of Human Bondage
de W Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention. " Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from Spinoza's Ethics
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The Proud Highway; Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman 1955-1967
de Thompson, Hunter S
New York: Villard (1997), 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. Large 8vo. [10], xii-xxxii, [5], 4-683, [3] pp. Quarter black paper over grey paper boards with red lettering on the spine, red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $29.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. Foreword by William J. Kennedy, edited by Douglas Brinkley. The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume 1. A beautiful example of this collection of Thompson's early...
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Gairm : Spring 1956 - No 15
de MacThomais, Ruaraidh (editor)
Glasgow, Scotland: Gairm Publications, 1956. Name on front cover. Light creasing to front cover. Clean tight pages with slightly dusty boards and page edges and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Gaelic magazine from a series which have features on literature, history, fashion, nature, music, politics, transport and travel etc. Most of text in Scottish Gaelic.. Soft Cover. Good. 8.5 x 5.5 inches.
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EUR 13.01
The Letters of John Cheever
de Benjamin Cheever
New York: Simon and Schuster 1988. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 0671687441 397 pages, photo-illustrated, index. Remainder mark and light reader crease to the spine. clph
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EUR 9.45
Holmes' Works (Spine Title, 10 volumes, with a charming contemporary holograph letter and illustrated card laid in). Including The Autocrat, Professor, Poet at the Breakfast Table; Medical Essays; One Hundred Days in Europe; Moral Antipathy; Poems; Essays
de HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Good. 1889. Hardcover. 8vo; half brown polished calf and marbled paper over boards; spines lettered & decorated in gilt; Autocrat & Poetical Works with engraved portrait frontis; Poet at the Breakfast Table, with engraved frontis; Poet title and text has Professor on spine, thus Professor has Poet on spine - bound to confuse!? Mortal Antipathy dated 1887; Poetical Works, no date. So a mixed up grouping in uniform bindings, with rubbing at spine ends and edges; top...
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Thousand Years of Spiritual Poetry : The Landscapes of the Soul
de Pagett. Fiona (editor)
London: The Chaucer Press, 2003. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little light creasing to edges. A scarce book. 157pp. A beautifully illustrated volume with verse revealing a rich inner life which will find echoes in many readers. Many poems express the poet's closeness to nature, often seen as a manifestation of the divine. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As...
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Favorite Poems
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co., 1909. Hardcover. Fair. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co., 1909. Fair. Book Condition: Fair. No Jacket. A rare volume. Exterior moisture damage, scuffs, soils and edge wear; some markings. Inscription to Po owner dated 1909. 312 pages.
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EUR 12.24
Crossing Open Ground
de Lopez, Barry
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1988], 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [14], 208, [2] pp. Quarter grey cloth over blue paper boards with copper lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on front flap of jacket. A Near Fine book with the rear board slightly bowed; jacket shows minor toning to the flaps.
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EUR 26.47
The Private Press Ventures of Samuel Lloyd Osbourne and R. L. S. With facsimiles of their publications.
de Hart, James D
(San Francisco): The Book Club of California. Fine. 1966. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 500 copies printed by Alfred & Lawton Kennedy. 49pp.; 4to; tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt; 9 facsimiles in rear pocket. Publisher's printed announcement laid in. Typographic and literary history regarding Osbournes printing efforts and the influence of his father-in-law, Robert Louis Stevenson. .
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Dissertations by Mr. Dooley
de [Dunne, Finley Peter]
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine. 8vo. [6], 3-312, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and decorations in blind on the front board and spine, three gold owls on the front board. With the publisher's device on the title page. Caxton Club, Chicago by the Book #20. Finley Peter Dunne was a famous Irish-American journalist and satirist. Mr. Dooley (an Irish-American citizen), was his persona that he used in his writings to criticize national and...
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The Dog's Not Laughing: Poems 1966-98 (Redbeck Poetry) (Signed By Author)
de Jim Greenhalf
Bradford: Redbeck Press, 1999. Signed by Author on dedication page, also an inscription on same page. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. Slight creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, two small stains to page fore-edges and no bumping to corners. 212pp. These poems reveal the range and diversity of the author's work over the years 1966 to 1998.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8.5 x 5.25 inches.
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EUR 8.87
Mark Twain-Howells Letters; The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells 1872 - 1910
de Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens); Howells, William D
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2 vol. 8vo. [8], ix-xxv, [3], 3-454; [8], 455-948, [2] pp. Black cloth with white and gold lettering on the spine. Light brown endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $20.00 on the front flaps of the dust jackets. Volume one illustrated with a frontispiece and with four plates and a full-page illustration; volume two illustrated with seven plates. The illustrations contain facsimiles...
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EUR 155.96
The Gaskell Society Journal : 2016 Volume 30
de Styler, Dr Rebecca (editor)
London: The Gaskell Society, 2016. No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to upper edge of rear cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 109pp. Articles, reviews, notes and reports on all aspects of the 19th century writer Elizabeth Gaskell.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
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EUR 5.91
Book and Magazine Collector : No 182 May 1999
de Crispin Jackson (editor)
London: Diamond Publishing Group Ltd, 1999. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight traces of storage and minor bumping to upper corner. 163pp. This issue includes Edgar Wallace, King Arthur in fiction and poetry, Honore de Balzac, Thomas Mann, Helen Cresswell interview, British bird books, Comics auction prices and index, letters and classified... Soft Cover. Very Good. 8.25 x 6 inches.
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EUR 5.85
THIRTY BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN SHORT STORIES
de Editors: Getto, G.; Enriques, A.; Clough, R. Trillo
Bologna, Italy: Nicola Zanichelli Editore. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1959. ........ Hardcover. In Italian, except for title and forward. See photos for more detail. . 8vo., 147, Spine faded, corners bumped, otherwise good. .
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EUR 33.08
The Best of Abbie Hoffman
de Hoffman, Abbie
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows (1989), 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [3], iv-xiii, [3], 3-421, [1] pp. Black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $21.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several in-text and full-page black and white photographs. Foreword by Norman Mailer. Edited by Daniel Simon and Abbie Hoffman. A collection of Hoffman's works, an important body of work from one of America's counterculture icons. A very...
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EUR 36.86
Book and Magazine Collector : No 165 December 1997
de Crispin Jackson (editor)
London: Diamond Publishing Group Ltd, 1997. No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163p. This issue includes GA Henty auction report, Colin Dexter - Inspector Morse books, Rumer Godden, Thomas Hood - Victorian poet, AL Rowse, Simon Raven, Dandy Diamond Jubilee, index and letters and classified... Soft Cover. Fine. 8.25 x 6 inches.
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EUR 5.85
Gairm : Winter 1954 - No 10
de MacThomais, Ruaraidh (editor)
Glasgow, Scotland: Gairm Publications, 1954. Number '1' on front cover and translation notes on one pages of Gaelic language course. Small crease to lower corners of covers. Clean tight pages with clean boards and slight tanning to page edges. 96pp. Gaelic magazine from a series which have features on literature, history, fashion, nature, music, politics, transport and travel etc. Most of text in Scottish Gaelic.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5 inches.
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EUR 15.37
Book and Magazine Collector : No 58 January 1989
de John Dean (editor)
London: Diamond Publishing Group Ltd, 1989. 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 early novels of W Somerset Maugham, 'Chums' Boys Paper, Colin Wilson, Roald Dahl children's books, Victorian and Edwardian paperbacks, HV Morton travel books and Arthur Rackham.. Soft...
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EUR 5.85
A Certain Climate; Essays in History, Arts, and Letters
de Horgan, Paul
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [14], 4-257, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Tan endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $16.95 on front flap of dust jacket.
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EUR 20.79
Mrs Gaskell's Observation and Invention : A Study of Her Non-Biographic Works
de Sharps, John Geoffrey
Fontwell, Sussex: Linden Press, 1970. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not torn or creased with name/date to front end flap and minor traces of storage. A very detailed study of all of Elizabeth Gaskell's writings apart from 'The Life of Charlotte Bronte', examining the close relation between her life and works and showing how heavily she drew on her observation of places and people.....
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EUR 28.38
Staying on Alone; Letters of Alice B. Toklas
de Toklas, Alice B
New York: Liveright [1973], 1973. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. (4), v-xxii, [2], 3-426 pp. Purple cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $11.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs with some facsimiles of the letters of Toklas. Edited by Edward Burns. With an introduction by Gilbert A. Harrison. A collection of letters written by Toklas during the twenty years after Gertrude Stein's death. Toklas writes in detail...
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Book and Magazine Collector : No 64 July 1989
de John Dean (editor)
London: Diamond Publishing Group Ltd, 1989. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 147pp. This issue includes CS Forester, Antonia White, the Plantagenet Kings, Ted Hughes, VS Naipaul, George Orwell, Mark Twain, LTC Rolt, London Book Fairs and early golf books.. Soft Cover. Very Good (+). 8.25 x 6 inches.
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EUR 5.85
The Meaning of It All; Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist
de Feynman, Richard P
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley (1998), 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [13], 4-133, [1] pp. Grey paper-covered boards quarter-bound in navy cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $22.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A tiny spot of discoloration to the jacket's reverse, else Fine.
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EUR 41.59
Folio - The Quarterly Magazine For The Folio Society : Winter 1997/98
de The Editor
London: Folio Society, 1997. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 32pp. With articles by well-known writers on Making fiction of history, Towering Inferno, Collector's Piece and Ace Morality... Soft Cover. Fine. 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
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EUR 4.73
Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis & their Friends, Serendipity Books Catalogue 41.
de [Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis] Peter B. Howard
(Berkeley): Serendipity Books no date. Near Fine. Softcover. 976 items representing 76 authors catalogued; 8vo; cream wrappers. Faint abrasion to spine, with a light tanning mark at the very foot. .
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EUR 14.18
