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George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel, A Biography
by Roderick Beaton
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- Used - Fine
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- Near Fine
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- October 1, 2003
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- 9780300101355
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First Edition
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Poet, essayist, diarist, novelist, and diplomat, George Seferis brought about a revolution in the way people viewed his native Greece. Acclaimed for his thought-provoking lyric poetry, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. At the same time, he rose in the diplomatic… Read more about this item Item Price
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Remembrance of Things Past Vol. 1
by Marcel Proust
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- Used - Very Good+
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- 1989
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- 9780140182224
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2nd paperback printing in this edition.
Condition: Very good plus, light spine crease, light edge wear.
"The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria — this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work" — Vladimir Nabokov
Originally rendered by C.K. Scott Moncrieff from an… Read more about this item Item Price
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Divagations
by Stéphane Mallarmé
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- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First edition
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- 2007
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- 9780674032408
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Belknap Press (Harvard University Press),Cambridge MA, 2007. Presumed first paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and price sticker on rear cover, else fine.
This new translation, by Barbara Johnson, is available English as Mallarme arranged it. The result is an entrancing work through which a difficult-to-translate voice shines in all of its languor and musicality. Item Price
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Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson
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- Used - Very Good
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- 12th printing
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- 2002
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- 9780060512804
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Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods—World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They're part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Vanishing Half: A Novel
by Brit Bennett
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- New
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- 2020
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- 9780525536291
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The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine. Item Price
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Acta Victoriana Volume 113, Number 2
by Elias Polizoes and Emma Thom (Editors)
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- First Edition
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- 1989
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Condition: Very good, edge wear and corner bumps, spine creasing. corner crease at top rear cover, light scuffing.
Poetry, short fiction, photography by Elaine Yau, Tony Esolen, Thomas Mackay, Hans Straub, Stephen Pender, Margraet Wigglesworth, Carol Ashton, Chris D'Iorio, Antonino Mazza, David K. Fujino and others, and an interview with John Reibetanz. Item Price
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Acta Victoriana Volume 113, Number 1
by Elias Polizoes and Brian Burch (Editors)
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1988
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Poetry, short fiction, photography by Chris D'Iorio, Jacques Servin, Gerry Stewart, Kate Manahan, Katie Jaimet, Louise Allin, Cornelia Hornosty, Robert Martin, David K. Fujino and others, and an interview with Robert Fulfod. Item Price
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RE/SEARCH Number 8/9
by V. Vale and Andrea Juno (Editors)
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- Used - Very Good+
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- 4th printing
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- 1989
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Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, slight nick at spine ends, scuffing noticeable on back area of covers.
The J.G. Ballard issue including interviews, fiction, no-fiction, bibliography, an excerpt from Crash, The Atrocity Exhibition, biography, and critical essays by and from Ballard, Graeme Revell, William S. Burroughs, and others. Item Price
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RE/SEARCH Number 4/5
by V. Vale and Andrea Juno (Editors)
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- First Edition
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- 1982
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Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, light scuffing noticeable on black areas of covers.
Includes articles, interviews, photography, and excerpts from and by William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Throbbing Gristle, Terry Wilson, Jon Savage, Rieki, V. Vale, and others.
Burroughs' The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin, Cities of the Red Night (excerpt), and excerpts from Revised Boy Scout… Read more about this item Item Price
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La Belle Captive: A Novel
by Alain Robbe-Grillet and Rene Magritte
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- Used - Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1995
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- 9780520059160
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University Of California Press, Berkeley, 1995. First edition. Condition: Fine books in near fine dust jacket, dust jacket has light edge wear. This is a large, heavy book and may require additional postage.
"It begins with a stone falling, in the silence, vertically, immobile. It is falling from a great height, a meteor, a massive, compact, oblong block of rock, like… Read more about this item Item Price
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L'Après-Midi d'un Faune: Mallarmé, Debussy, Nijinsky: [Exposition Musée Dorsay Du 14 Février Au 21 Mars 1989]
by Jean-Michel Nectoux (Editor)
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First Edition
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- 1989
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- 9782711822485
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Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and creasing at spine, light corner bumps.
Catalogue published in conjunction with the Mallarme, Debussy, Nijinski exhibition at the Musee dOrsay in 1989. Item Price
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Arc 43: Canada's National Poetry Magazine
by John Barton and Rita Donovan (Editors)
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- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 1999
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- 9770705639003
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Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear, price sticker residue.
Features poetry by Richard Lemm, Elizabeth Philips, Jim Roberts, Sephanie Bolster, Neile Graham, Erina Harris, Anita Lahey, Linda Rogers, and P.K. Page. Item Price
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La Lampe de Noel
by Micheline Cloos
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- Used - Good+
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- 1980
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- 9782707441300
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$2.19
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Condition: Good plus, edge wear and corner bumps, spine creasing and light nicks, previous owner's notes and underling on first 3 pages only. Item Price
$2.19
Tar Baby
by Toni Morrison
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- Used - Good+
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- 14th printing
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- 1987
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- 9780452264793
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Plume/Penguin, New York, 1987. 14th trade paperback printing. Condition: Good plus, edge wear and slight corner creasing. spine has creasing and very small tears at bottom edge, well read.
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat… Read more about this item Item Price
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Modern English Prose
by Guy Boas (Editor)
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- Used - Very Good
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- 11th printing
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- 1949
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MacMillan and Co., London, 1949. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, spine wear and light wrinkling at top and bottom edges, previous owner's name and inscription on inside front cover, underling and notes. Green cloth with gold lettering, no dust jacket.
Features prose by Walter Raleigh, Hilaire Belloc, Winston Churchill, Hugh Walpole, John Galsworthy, G.K. Chesterton, and Vita… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Suffrage of Elvira
by V. S. Naipaul
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1982
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- 9780140029383
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Penguin, New York, 1982. Presumed 6th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, creasing at bottom edges, spine nicks, previous owner's name on inside front cover.
An old, comically timid and absent-minded man runs for office, aided by superstition, bribes, and an aggressive campaign.
"I consider V.S. Naipaul the finest living novelist writing in English" - Francis Wyndham… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tempest Rising: A Novel
by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 5th printing
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- 9780688166403
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Quill/William Morrow, New York. 5th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, remainder mark on bottom edges.
It is 1965 in Philadelphia. Clarise, Finch, and their three adolescent daughters are living the dream life of the black financially privileged. Then everything changes with the suddenness of a violent summer thunderstorm. Finch's lucrative catering business falls on hard times.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Lying Life of Adults
by Ferrante, Elena
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- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Published
- 2020
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- 9781609455910
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Europa Editions, 2020. Condition: New.
Soon to be a Netflix Original Series. A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. Item Price
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Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel
by Arthur Golden
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- Later printing
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- 1999
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- 9780679781585
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Vintage, New York, 1999. Later paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge ware and corner bumps, spine creasing and nicks, back cover has creasing, well read.
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel presents with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances… Read more about this item Item Price
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Eleven Minutes: A Novel
by Paulo Coelho
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- Used - Very Good
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- 24th printing
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- 2015
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- 9780060589288
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Harper Perennial, New York, 2015. 24th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, faint creases at bottom corner, spine has creasing.
Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find… Read more about this item Item Price
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