Domestic And Family Fiction from Books of the World
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The Harafish
by Naguib Mahfouz; Naguib Mahfuz; Najib Mahfouz; Najib Mahfuz; Najīb Maḥfūẓ; Catherine Cobham (trans)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- April 1995
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385423357
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$14.95
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New York: Anchor Books, April 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Interior tanned, but unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight dogear to top front corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 406 pages.
An epic novel that chronicles the dramatic history of the al-Nagi family: a family that moves, over many generations, from the height… Read more about this item Item Price
$14.95

Heidi (Young Readers' Classics) (Abridged)
by Johanna Spyri; Barbara Greenwood
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Published
- 1994
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1550135503
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$13.95
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Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition Thus / full number line. Fine book in pictorial covers / no jacket. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 94 pages. Profusely illustrated glossy hardcover. Abridged version for younger readers. An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the… Read more about this item Item Price
$13.95

The Power of the Dog
by Jane Campion
- Condition
- As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Published
- December 2021
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 1649800533
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$108.00
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New York: Assouline, December 2021. Hardcover. Pictorial linen over boards in a thick luxury slipcase. As New book in an As New slipcase. Pristine inside and out. 304 pages, 280 color illustrations. 12.3 x 10.6 x 2.3 inches. 6.8 pounds. Heavy item: extra charges for expedited or international shipping.
Lavishly illustrated coffee-table book that accompanies Jane Campion's film… Read more about this item Item Price
$108.00

Muse of the Department, A Prince of Bohemia, and other stories (Novels of Balzac, Centenary Edition)
by Honoré de Balzac; Honore de Balzac; James Waring (trans); Jno. Rudd (trans); George Saintsbury (preface)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Centenary Edition
- Published
- 1899
- Binding
- Hardback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$34.95
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Philadelphia: Gebbie Publishing Co., 1899. Hardcover. Gray linen over boards, spine faded to a handsome beige. Crimson leather title band with gold lettering and border design; gilded top edge. Frontis and eight B&W plates. Very Good book / no jacket. No markings. Corners and spine ends bumped. Not from a library. Very handsome on the shelf. Two volumes in one.… Read more about this item Item Price
$34.95

Father Goriot, Ursule Mirouët, and other stories (Novels of Balzac, Centenary Edition)
by Honoré de Balzac; Honore de Balzac; Ellen Marriage (trans); Clara Bell (trans)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- Centenary Edition
- Published
- 1899
- Binding
- Hardback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$34.95
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Philadelphia: Gebbie Publishing Co., 1899. Hardcover. Gray linen over boards, spine faded to a handsome beige. Crimson leather title band with gold lettering and border design; gilded top edge. Frontis and eight B&W plates. Very Good+ book / no jacket. No markings. Spine ends bumped. Not from a library. Very handsome on the shelf. Two volumes in one. Contents: Volume… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Printing of the Movie Tie-In Edition
- Published
- November 2001
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0743225406
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$5.95
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New York: Simon & Schuster / Scribner, November 2001. Mass Market Paperback. First Printing of the Movie Tie-In Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Interior unmarked, but lightly tanned. Spine straight, tight and lightly creased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 364 pages.
A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical… Read more about this item Item Price
$5.95

Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- May 2000
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0006551793
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$12.95
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London: HarperCollins / Flamingo, May 2000. Paperback. Near Fine. Asia Books stamp to first page, otherwise Unmarked. Pages lightly tanned. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 198 pages. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection of short stories unerringly charts the emotional… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.95

I Do Not Come to You by Chance
by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
- Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- May 2009
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1401323111
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$8.95
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New York: Hyperion, May 2009. Trade Paperback. First Edition (stated) / full number line. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 402 pages. A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to You by Chance tells the story of one young… Read more about this item Item Price
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Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, later printing
- Published
- June 1999
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 039592720X
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$8.95
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Mariner, June 1999. Trade Paperback. First Edition, later printing. Very Good. Prior owner's name inked inside front cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 198 pages. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection of short stories unerringly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of… Read more about this item Item Price
$8.95

The Witch of Exmoor
by Margaret Drabble
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- Published
- September 1997
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151003637
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$10.95
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New York: Harcourt Brace, September 1997. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition (stated) / full number line. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Prior owner's name to front pastedown. Text block unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Light reading wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 281 pages. Item Price
$10.95

One Last Look
by Susanna Moore
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- September 2003
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679450416
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$13.95
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, September 2003. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 288 pages. Calcutta in 1836: an uneasy mix of two worlds-the patient, implacably unchangeable India and the tableau vivant of English… Read more about this item Item Price
$13.95

Six of One (Runnymede, 1)
by Rita Mae Brown
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Published
- July 1999
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0553380370
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$14.95
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New York: Bantam, July 1999. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 270 pages.
Perched right on the Mason-Dixon line, tiny Runnymede, Maryland, is ripe with a history almost as colorful as the women who live there-from Celeste Chalfonte, headstrong and aristocratic, who murders for… Read more about this item Item Price
$14.95

Baby Teeth: A Novel
by Zoje Stage
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Published
- July 2019
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1250170761
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- 1
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$13.95
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New York: St. Martin's Griffin, July 2019. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition, second printing. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 304 pages.
MEET HANNA: Seven-year-old Hanna is a sweet-but-silent angel in the eyes of her adoring father Alex. He's the only person who understands her. But her… Read more about this item Item Price
$13.95

One Day (Vintage Contemporaries)
by David Nicholls
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- July 2010
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0307474712
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$7.95
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New York: Vintage, June 2010. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with light reading wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 435 pages.
It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over… Read more about this item Item Price
$7.95

The Safety of Objects: Stories
by A. M. Homes
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- January 2013
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0143122703
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- 1
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New York: Penguin, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Full number line. Very Good. A few notes on first page, but text is unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 171+21 pages.
The breakthrough story collection that established A. M. Homes as one of the most daring writers of her generation. This… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Way Life Should Be: A Novel
by Christina Baker Kline
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Published
- September 2014
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0062363549
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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New York: William Morrow, September 2014. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. A touch of reading wear to lower front corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 274 pages + 27 page reader's guide.
A novel of love, risk, and self-discovery. Angela can feel the clock ticking. She is single… Read more about this item Item Price
$13.95

The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici
by Jeanne Kalogridis
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- July 2009
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312368437
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$21.95
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New York: St. Martin's Press, July 2009. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight wear to top edge. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 470 pages.
Confidante of Nostradamus, scheming… Read more about this item Item Price
$21.95

Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Published
- August 2005
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1593083610
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$12.95
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New York: Barnes & Noble, August 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, head lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight wear to top edge. No tears, creases or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xlii + 353 pages. Wuthering Heights was deeply controversial at the… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.95

June: A Novel
by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- May 2016
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0553447688
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$10.95
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New York: Crown, May 2016. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Jacket clean and bright with light wear at spine ends. No tears or creases. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 386 pages. A novel of suspense and… Read more about this item Item Price
$10.95

The Revolving Door of Life (44 Scotland Street, 10)
by Alexander McCall Smith
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- February 2016
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1101971916
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, USA
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$7.95
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New York: Anchor, February 2016. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Text unmarked. Light spine crease. Light edgewear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 282 pages.
Excitement abounds when the revolving door of life brings fresh faces and hilarious new developments to the residents of 44 Scotland Street. Things are looking up for seven-year-old Bertie Pollock. The arrival… Read more about this item Item Price
$7.95