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An Enemy of the People
by Ibsen, Henrik & Arthur Miller
Penguin. Good. 1988. Paperback. 0140481400 . Clean text. The story of Dr Stockman, who discovers poison in his town's water supply and what happens when the truth conflicts with the will of the majority; Penguin Plays; .
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$6.75
Poursuite Inattendue (The Unexpected Pursuit)
by Szeps-Fralin, Christiane; Alfred G. Franlin, Jr
Emc/Paradigm. Good. 1984. Staple Bound. 0821900218 . Stapled wrappers. 56 pages. Clean, good binding. Illustrated with drawings. A play written in French. 1984 copyright; .
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$6.00
Stories To Remember: A Basic Reading Program
by Bond, Guy L. ; Marie C. Cuddy
Lyons and Carnahan. Good. 1953. Hardcover. Green outer boads have some wear, clean text, marks on the sides, name inside. Some of the contents include stories about P. T. Barnum, Stephen Foster, Belgium, drums in Africa, Cherokee alphabet, Declaration Independence, sperm whales, Switzerland, and more. Classmate Edition ; Developmental Reading Series .
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$7.25
Book and Magazine Collector : No 95 February 1992
by John Dean (editor)
London: Diamond Publishing Group Ltd, 1992. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with very slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 147pp. This issue includes JRR Tolkien, Edgar Wallace, Mary Webb, Beezer comic, Lovejoy, Jonathan Gash, Abraham Merritt, early photographic books, Rupert Brooke.. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8.25 x 6 inches.
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$6.24
James Joyce in Padua
by Berrone, Louis (edited, translated and Introduced by)
Random House. Good in Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0394409906 . Includes James Joyce essays and translation recovered from the archives of the University of Padua by Professor Louis Berrone of Fairfield University. Also includes a detailed introduction by Professor Berrone of James Joyce's life while writing the essays. Clean book. DJ has mild wear, crease on the back cover, light knick on the inner board.146 pages ; .
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$12.00
My Hand and Seal
by Rosenbaum, Nathan
The Beechhurst Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. A collection of 79 sonnets. Pages and endpapers have some browning. Themes are Of Man's Fate and Of Man's Love .
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$8.00
DOTEKY
by Cacalova, Libuse
Universal Publishing, Inc. Good. 1979. Soft Cover. A collection of Libuse Cacalova's poetry. Illustrated with unusual maze-like graphics. Written in Czech. Some of the poems include: Oblazkovy kraj; Usmevne chvile; Nezahojene; Bez tebe; Smutneni; Polni cesty; Vanoce; Laska; Nexbytne...and others. Clean with some cover creasing, light edge wear .
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$14.00
Voices in the Whirlwind and Other Essays
by Mphahlele, Ezekiel
Hill & Wang. Good in Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0809096277 . Clean text, good binding. DJ creased, scratched, edge torn slightly in the back. . Book has 6 essays on the literature and culture of Africa and Black America ; .
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$9.00
Johnson and Boswell: the Story of Their Lives
by Pearson, Hesketh
Harper & Brothers. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. 390 pages. Clean text, good binding, endpapers are browned. DJ has edge tears, creases, drak age browning. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. 28 chapters, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated. A combined story of the two men with Johnson's career up until he met Boswell and Boswell's career up until he met Johnson. Boswell was Johnson's contemporary and friend .
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$11.00
Balade Vesele Si Triste: Parodii Originale Migdale Amare
by Topirceaunu, George
Bucharest, Romania. Good. 2004. Softcover. 162 pages. Romanian language only. March 20, 1886 – May 7, 193, this is a collection of Topirceaunu's poetry .
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$8.00
Selected Poems
by Yevtushenko, Yevgeny
Penguin Books. Good. 1967. Paperback. Book has browning. Text is clean. ; The fearless spokesman of his generation, Yevtushenko is outspoken in verse about the famous protest over the Jewish pogrom at Kieve. He also write lyrically of love, a birthday, a holiday in Georgia, and a visit to his home in Siberia. ; Penguin Modern European Poets .
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$8.90
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher; John William Ward, Afterword
Signet. Fair. 1966. Paperback. 494 pages. Clean text, front free endpaper, with the author's biography has some numbers written in the upper blank area. 495 pages. Spine has heavy creases, one edge is chipped. Endpapers browned ; .
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$6.00
The Virginia Quarterly Review Vol. 60, No. 1, Winter 1984
by editors
The University of Virginia. Very Good. 1984. Softcover. Includes: the Militarization the American Space Program by Clayton Koppes; Dusting Off Evangeline; Down the River, A Story by Virginia Moran; Poetry; Economic Control in the 70's; Potemkin Villages on the Potomac; N. V. M. Gonzales; etc .
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$10.00
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CRONICA DI MATTEO VILLANI A Miglior Laezione Ridotta [6 Volumes]
by Villani, Matteo
Firenze, Italy: Per il Magheri. G/No Dustjacket. 1825. ........ 1/4 Leather. 6 volumes . Sm 4to., v. p., covers rubbed, bumped, frayed, page foxing, toning .
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$225.00
Book and Magazine Collector : No 141 Dec 1995
by Crispin Jackson (editor)
London: Diamond Publishing Group Ltd, 1995. 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 The Bond File - books about James Bond & Ian Fleming, J Meade Falkner and Moonfleet, Thomas the Tank Engine, Ngaio Marsh centenary celebration, Thomas Carlyle, Early Cinema books, index and letters and classified... Soft Cover. Fine. 8.25 x 6 inches.
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$6.24
The Poets of England, from Ben Johnson to Beattie, Selected and Chronologically Arranged with Biographical and Critical Noticies
by Aikin, Dr
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1853. First edition thus. Leather_bound. Good. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1853. First edition thus. Good. Illustrated with fine steel engravings. Specially bound in full red morocco, elaborately decorated, embossed, gilt, all edges marvelised. Some foxing to plates and end pages, plates protected by tissue. Spine missing, first 3 pages loose but binding tight for rest of book. 807pp. Po signatures 1909 and 1991. Shelf wear. <br/><br/>
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$125.00
Tortilla Flat: Complete and Unabridged
by Steinbeck, John
Grosset & Dunlap. Good with no dust jacket. 1935. Hardcover. 315 pages. Clean text, good binding. Red cloth board with some white specks on the front boards, nameplate on the endpaper. Illustrated. Complete and unabridged. 17 chapters. Copyright page shows: Copyright, 1935, by John Steinbeck; no other date shown. Image shown is one of the illustrations .
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$40.00
Talking Drums: a Selection of Poems from Africe South of the Sahara
by Tadjo, Veronique (editor)
Bloomsbury. Good in Good dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 1582348138 . Clean, good binding, DJ in protective plastic. A collection of 75 poems from various writers, some of which are: Praise Song to King Shaka, The Lion Roars with Fearful Song, Quicksand, Dry Your Tears, Africa; City Johannesburg, etc ; Ex-Library; .
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$8.75
Searching for the Ox
by Simpson, Louis
William Morrow. Good in Good dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 93 pages. Good binding, clean text. Business library name stamped on the blank title page and the title page. DJ has some tears in the back, mild creases. Photo and bio of Louis Simpson on the inner back DJ flap. Book is divided into four parts of various poems - including Baruch, The Stevenson Poster, Cliff Road, Baruch, A Donkey Named Hannibal, etc .
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$11.00
York Notes on Richard II, Shakepeare
by Barber, Charles
Longman. Good. 1981. Softcover. 0582781922 . 84 pages. Clean text, cover creased. Includes Introduction, Summaries, Commentary, Hints for Study, Suggestions for further reading. This is the study guide only .
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$6.00
Maryland My Maryland and Other Poems
by Randall, James Ryder
John Murphy Company. Poor. 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Hinge cracked, front cover is loose. Spots on outer boards. Clean text, mark on side; 180 pages. Frontispiece of author at age 22. Some of the contents include: Pelham, John W. Morton; The Battle Cry of the South; The Unconquered Banner; At Arlington; Palinodia; Malison; Elsie Gay; Isis; Cuthbert in Heaven; La Fete Des Morts; Resurgam and more. Hinge cracked, front cover is loose. Spots on outer boards. Clean text, mark on side ;...
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$12.90
All the Collected Short Poems 1956-1964
by Zukofsky, Louis
W. W. Norton. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards, mild wear; clean text. DJ has edge tears. A collection of the writer's best short poems written over a period of 40 years. Contents : Some Time 1940-1956; I's (pronounced eyes) 1937-1960; After I's 1961-1964; Index of First Lines and Title. An American Jewish poet, raised in the ghettos of New York, Zukofsky's first language, Yiddish, then English, he was a serious leftist who followed the...
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$38.00
Promised Lands
by Sacks, Peter
Viking. Good. 1990. Hardcover. 067083176X . 88 pages. Clean, good binding. Poems by the author include Redersburg, Houw Hoek, Galilee, Capernaum, Safed, Caesarea, Jerusalem, Elegies for the Promised Land, Veteran's Day: Washington, DC's Confederate Graveyard: Franklin, Tennessee; Medanales, New Mexico; Sabbath: Los Alamos. Seasons ; .
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$12.00
Collected Stories
by Pritchett, V. S
Vintage Books. Fair. 1983. Softcover. 0394717244 . Cover has heavy creases. Text is clean. A collection of 29 short stories; Clean text, good binding, back cover is heavily creased; front cover creased. A collection of 29 short stories. Includes The Sailor, Many Are Disappointed, The Voice, The Wheelbarrow, Blind Love, etc .
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$5.90
Marcel Proust : Selected Letters Volume Two 1904-1909
by Proust, Marcel & Kolb, Philip (editor)
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage and no fading to spine. 482pp. This volume of Proust's letters covers the crucial period leading up to his final discovery of his true vocation as a writer.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.
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$31.54
