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First Edition. Half-title is stamped in blue with "NOT FOR RESALE / REVIEW PURPOSES ONLY". 224 p. Fine.From the back: October, 1962, the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Clement Greenberg, the art critic of the 20th century, is more interested in silencing his rival Harold Rosenberg than with the threat of nuclear destruction. Greenberg is driving from New York to the Emma Lake artist colony in Saskatchewan, where he intends to shut Rosenberg up once and for all. With him is infamous Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. The 1950s were Greenberg's decade. Abstract Expressionism was the genre he championed. Yet by 1962, everywhere Greenberg looks he is bedevilled by Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup cans, just as everywhere Althusser looks he sees the capitalist decadence. Althusser, who escaped prosecution for strangling his wife on an insanity plea, is heading to a Saskatchewan hospital for LSD therapy. Pursuing them is Jean Claude Piche, a veteran of the conflicts in Indochina and Algeria, contracted to… Leer más

First Edition. (UK) xii, 709 p., [1] folded leaf (genealogical table). Deep red hardcover, with blindstamped cover, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, and red-coloured foredge (top edge only). The covers show some minor edgewear, the tip and heel of spine have some mild bumping, and the coloured foredge exhibits some fading, but it is otherwise Near Fine, with the exception of the folded leaf of the genealogical tree, which has been previously misfolded, resulting in a few very small closed tears to its far edge. The dust jacket is housed in a removable protective sleeve to prevent further damage, but the paper is aged, with some sunning, and tears and chips to edges. See listing images for details. From dust jacket flaps: In The Bright Pavilions, Hugh Walpole goes back to Elizabethan days for a new Chronicle of the Herries family. Cumberland is again the central ground of the story. There are various family relations, but The Bright Pavilions tells in the main the adventures of two brothers,… Leer más

English (translated from Norwegian). 160 p.; 21 cm.
Though from a school library, has only mild shelfwear and sticker residue on covers and some unobtrusive library markings to title page, but otherwise internally Fine.

From the back cover:
Reim and his sister, Tir, are slaves to a mighty earl in tenth-century Norway. Their existence is a bitter and harsh one, with little respite from the toil and pain that pervades each day. But the children remember happier times in Ireland where they lived as Patric and Sunniva—before the Viking warriors raided their village and captured them. Proud and strong in spirit, Reim and Tir live for the day they can return to their homeland. But as days pass into months, their chances of escape.' seem very slim indeed.
Torill Thorstad Hauger, born in 1943, has studied Norse archaeology at the Oslo University and worked at the Historic Museum. She made her literary debut in 1976 and is a very popular author in Norway. She has received various literary awards for her… Leer más

xv, 71, [4] p. ; 21 cm. Vintage paperback in bright orange and deep blue pictorial cover, shows minor wear, some sunning to spine, a very faint dampstain accompanied with a slight wrinkling of textblock, but otherwise Very Good. Please see images. From the rear cover: The Elephant Man is based on the life of John Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A horribly deformed young man, who has been a freak attraction in traveling side shows, is found abandoned and helpless and is admitted for observation to Whitechapel, a prestigious London hospital. Under the care of a famous young doctor, who educates him and introduces him to London society, Merrick changes from a sensational object of pity to the urbane and witty favorite of the aristocracy and literati. But his belief that he can become a man like any other is a dream never to be realized. Bernard Pomerance is a young American playwright born and raised in New York City. While a number of his plays have been… Leer más

250 p. Illustrated.Covers show significant wear with cracked hinges, and the textblock has a few minor tears, but is otherwise internally Fine and possibly even unread. From cataloguing data: A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

Inscribed by author, award-winning debut novel. Second printing.385 p. Mild shelfwear and "On the Same Page" program sticker on inside of cover, otherwise Near Fine. Comes with matching bookmark in Fine condition. From the back: Lily Piper and her family live in an ephemeral world, due to collapse any moment when the Lord comes to pluck his faithful from the drought-ravaged Prairies. Lily tries to be ready, but she is restless, not the daughter she feels her mother wants. In her teens, Lily is sent to England to care for her grandmother, where she explores the delicious question of whom she might become. Experiencing life in all its ambiguity, she waits with the rest of England for World War II to start – until the news she has been dreading arrives on the doorstep.

554 p. Blind-stamped brown cloth hardcover with some (dulled) gilt. Covers are worn, ffep is missing, frontispiece detached but present with some edge tears, shaken, starting at first folio, but the majority of the textblock (pg. 9-554) is in remarkably fine condition for its age, well-bound, clean and bright. This classic by Dickens, one of the best-selling novels of all time, is about a doctor who was imprisoned for 18 years and his life thereafter with a daughter he hadn't yet met, set historically around the French Revolution.

419 p; ill. (frontispiece). Red cloth hardcover with gold lettering to cover and spine, an ex-library book (library binding) with usual stamps etc., some sunning, slightly shaken, front hinge cracked but holding, a few light stains here and there throughout, but text remains clear and bright, with evidence of some dog-earing throughout. From Google Books: First published in 1869,"The Wild Man of the West: A Tale of the Rocky Mountains" is a Western fiction novel aimed at children by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. Presented as a series of stories told by "mountain men", it revolves around the early trappers and hunters of the Rocky Mountains and their tumultuous relationship with the Native Americans. A rip-roaring adventure full of beautiful descriptions and fantastic characters, "The Wild Man of the West" is highly recommended for all with a love of the Western genre. Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825 - 1894) was a Scottish author of children's fiction. He was a prolific writer and produced over 100… Leer más