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U.S.A: Ballantine Books, 1997. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Blacked out name oninside of front cover and pages slightly toned, else fine. There are dark and sexual ambiguities in this erotic and ironic story about a menage a quatre in a New England university town. Irving shows how a one-to-one relatiionship is more demanding than a free-for-all. 154 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 1997, Ballantine Books, New York, New York, USA

Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1955. Paperback. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Penguin Books A290. Paperback in Fair to Good Condition. Cover is worn, tight, solid, former owner name on inside of front cover, pages evenly tones, clean and free from any markings. A series of essays on the literature and background of the period from Chaucer to Spencer including a specially edited anthology of medievel texts. 492 pages, indexed. 4.4 x 7.2 inches. 1955, Penguin Books, Middlesex, England

New York, New York USA: HarperPerenial, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Christopher Wormell. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean wraps with light wear to extremities; lower edge of text block has light spote; glued binding solid, tight; couple spots on endpapers, otherwise pages quite clean, no markings, no creasing. A brillaint novel, selected by Time as one of the best five novels of 1999. Inspired by a brief passage of Melville's Moby-Dick, where Captain Ahab speaks passionately of his young wife on Nantuckret, but the story of Una Spencer is her own. She is the daughter of a tyrannical father in the violent frontier Kentucky who leaves home and finds peace oina lighthouse on a New England lighthouse--where she promptly falls in love with two young men. Disguised as a boy, she signs on a whaling ship--and meets Captain Ahab. 668 pages. 1.25 x 5.2 x 8 inches. 2000, HarperPerenial, New York, New York USA

New York: The Modern Library, 1948. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Hardback Collectible. First Modern Library Edition, 1948. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Poor Dust Jacket protected in archival sleeve. Edited with an Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. This volume includes The Duneiad, Essay on Man, Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, a generous offering of odes, satires, pastorals, epigrams, epistles, and other writings. In gray full cloth binding with black title panels on front and on spine, very clean, well-protected by the jacket, quite clean and unmarked, lower corners lightly scuffed, upper corners less so; spine head and heel cloth lightly compressed; sewn binding is tight, solid and square. Pages are lightly and evenly toned, very clean, no markings of any kind, no creases. 388 pages. 5 x 7.25 inches. 1948, The Modern Library, New York.

Woodstock and New York: Overlook Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. First Printing. Remainder. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. 16 pages of illustrations. "--an enthralling tale of a batty pedant". (The Independent). The story of Alexander Cruden whose "Cruden's Concordance to the Bible'' is a combination index, dictionary, and analysis of the Bible and a monumental achievement--2.5 million words. Yet he is often remembered not so much for that, but for the belief that he was mad. Julia Keay restores the reputation of this lonely and misunderstood genius. Rem Mark on bottom edge, else Fine. Binding of black full cloth w/ sharp and bright gilt titles. Jacket has a few foxing marks, and very slight edgewear; not price-clipped. 269 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Overlook Press, Woodstock and New York, 2005.

London, England: Allison & Busby Limited, 2004. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Third Printing. Trade Paperback As New. Movie Tie-In. Clean and unmarked, soundly bound, internals spotless. Alfie, a randy and almost shameless Casanova, but you can't help but love him--funny, innocent, touching, 208 pages, 7.75 x 5 inches. 2004, Allison & Busby Limited, London, England

New York, New York, U.S.A: Henry Holt & Co, 1986. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back First American Printing. Translated by Sheila Fischman. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Mylar jacket cover. Binding of navy half cloth with silver titles, blue boards, clean and unmarked, tight & solid. Internals Fine. A picaresque darkly comic novel set in Montreal, Canada. Beauchemin has placed Montreal in a sisterhood of cities which includes Honore Balzac's Paris, Dickens's London, Franz Kafka's Prague amd James Joyce's Dublin. 450 pages. 6 x 8.5 inches. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1986.

USA: Modern Library, 1999. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Modern Library Edition. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked, light corner and edge wear. Writings by American literary giants, divided into topic classifications: The Revolutionaries: Longfellow, Freneau, Lord Byron, Thomas Jefferson; The Civil War: Julia Ward Howe, Grant, Harte, Francis Miles Finch, Walt Whitman;--and many others. 221 pages. 5.8 x 8.5 inches. 1999, Modern Library, USA

New York and Scarborough, Ontario: Signet Classic, 1963. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7?" tall. Paperback in Good Condition. Black illustrated cover with silhouettes on front clean and unmarked, slight weart to edges and corners, pages yellowing, clean and unmarked, no creases. In "The American" Henry James draws archtypal myths, with mimicry and imitation. It is a melodrama and simple romance of a man' s dream of a better life, travel to strange lands, marriage to high and noble ladies. At the same time it reveals a deep affection for American innocence which carries with it a fund of ignorance. 333 pages. 4.25 x 7 inches. 1963, Signet Classic, New York and Scarborough, Ontario

U.S.A: Viking Press, 1970. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. The Third Annual Collection of the Best from the Literary Magazines. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Contains eight stories, nine essays, and more than forty poems, taken from such magazines as The Kenyon Review, Chelsea, Virginia Quarterly, The Little Square Review, and Hanging Loose. It represents the most adventurous and contemporary spectrum of talents of the time. 417 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 1970, Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A

New York, New York, USA: Henry Holt Co, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover and Jacket in Very Good Condition. A violent book, speaking to the central issue of our times: how ordinary men come to do evil, how each of us is capable of descending into barbarism. It is an assault on violence, rape and racism, of crimes against humanity. Some scenes are graphic and disturbing. Bound in red half cloth, gilt titled, yellow boards; very clean and unmarked. Lower edges of boards are rubbed, else fine. Top edge pf text block dust-dulled. Internals clean, no markings, no creases. Jacket has a touch of edgewear, shelf rubbed. 338 pages. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. Henry Holt Co, New York, New York, USA

U.S.A: HarperCollins, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. 2005 reissue of first Harper Perennial published 1991. Bright and clean cover with photograph by David Muench; slight wear to cover edges. Sound and tight binding, square. Pages very clean and unmarked. Codi Noline is at the end of her rope when she comes back to Grace, Arizona, to confront her past and her ailing, distant father. She finds a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe , some clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. A rich and compassionate book, filled with political and personal horrors and the hope and magic of everyday life. Kingsolver examines the nature of evil and innocence, and the way mythology can affect a people, a culture, a family, as well as a woman is search of her past and her future. Author of the Bean Trees and Poisonwood Bible, among other. 352 pages. 5.25 x 8 inches.… Read More

USA: HarperCollins, 1990. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Good+ Condition. Clean and bright cover with illustration by Lisa Desimini; cover has light edgewear with scuff at spine head edge, wear to front corners. Prev owner name on first page. Contents page has what looks like a coffee stain, otherwise, pages clean and unmarked. Tight and solid binging, slight lean to spine. A rich and compassionate book, filled with political and personal horrors and the hope and magic of everyday life. Kingsolver examines the nature of evil and innocence, and the way mythology can affect a people, a culture, a family, as well as a woman is search of her past and her future. The Author of The Bean Trees and Poisonwood Bible. 342 pages. 6 x 9.25 inches. HarperCollins, New York, 1990.

New York: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. First Picador USA Edition, 2000. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Winner of the Booker Prize. The author of "The Regeneration Trilogy" brings us this moving story of the ways in which the violent past returns to haunt and distort the present. The book is clean and unmarked, slight wear to cover, pages clean, binding solid and square. 278 pages. 8vo. 2000, Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York.

New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition. Tan linen quarter cloth with black titles, lighter tan speckled boards, vey clean and unmarked, a faint wrinkle to lower front corner; tight, solid and square sewn binding with red and yellow endbands. Internals as new. The focus in this book is on Kingsley Amis' non-fiction and his literary learning, his performance as a critic, a learned anthologist, a memoirist, a teacher, and a poet--a man of letters in the old sense, a writer conspicuous for complex literary knowledge and subtle taste as well as for vigorous views on politics and society. 206 pages, indexed. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 1994, Oxford University Press,

Penguin Books, 2013. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. A novel of redemption, healing and hope in the wake of a devastating loss. A flood destroys home and family in Trinidad. Gavin Weald returns home to try to start over but when the rainy season starts his daughter has nightmares about the storms. She and her father begin a voyage to begin to make peace with the waters, far from their Caribbean home. 360 pages. 7.75" x 5". 2013, Penguin Books.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. "Auden in Love" is not a discussion of his poetry but as a collection of memories about a relationship that has often been misunderstood, that between Auden and Chester Kallman. There are some letters between the two and some of Auden's poetry is included. Binding of green half cloth with gilt titles, gray boards, spine lightly sunned, boards clean and unmarked. Publisher's mark on bottom edge of text block. Internals very clean, unmarked, no underlining, no highlighting, no marginalia. 253 pages. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. Simon & Schuster, NY 1984.

Norwalk, CT: The Heritage Press, 1955. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9. R.J.Holden. Type: Hardback Handsome and Elegant Heritage Press Hardcover Book in FINE Condition with a Near Fine Slipcase. Gray slipcase is clean, with two very light marks on one side and a touch of wear on one edge. Book is beautifully bound in grey cloth with maroon panels on front and spine with gilt lettering. Tight, solid, square, in immaculate condition. Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks and delightfully charming illustrations by R.J.Holden, 32 of them, reproduced by a lithographic process in cheerful blue ink. The Autocrat--Oliver Wendell Holmes, father of Justice of the Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes--physician, poet, man of letters, wit of his day, brilliant conversationalist, author. This edition is the definitive text. Pages are open and readable, set in classic Caslon type. A marvelous volume, in content and the physical book itself. 281 pages. 11x 7.5 inches. 1955, The Heritage Press, Norwalk, CT

New York, New York, USA: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers, 1900. Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Leather-bound book published in 1900, with Introduction by Richard Burton. Delightfully charming illustrations. The Autocrat--Oliver Wendell Holmes, father of Justice of the Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes--physician, poet, man of letters, wit of his day, brilliant conversationalist, author. Tooled leather binding with floral illustration tooled on front and spine, gilt titles, rounded corners; Dark brown leather with all edges rubbed to tan; inner facing to leather partially loose. Formerowner name on endpaper which page has smalll piece missing from bottom of page. Endpapers and flyleaf dingy. Frontis illustration in color, signed by Frank Merritt (I think- name is very small) Illustrated Title Page-this page has a tear to fore-edge, three-quarters of an inch. While the internals are in quite good condition, generally clean and unmarked, but there are some defects in… Read More

Frankfurt/Berlin: Ein Ullstein Buch, 1990. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE. Tales of Don Camillo, the character created by Italian writer Giovanni Guareschi. Clean and unmarked white illustrated wraps, faint wear to extremities, glued binding tight, solid and square. No spine creases. Pages quite clean, no marks, no underlining or highlighting. Includes: Genosse Don Camillo, 175 pages; Don Camillo und die Rothaarige, 158 Pages; and und da sagte Don Camilli, 238 pages. 4.75 x 7.25 inches. 1990