Search Results: Titles starting with U from Trolls Treasure

Houghton Mifflin, 1946. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good +. Volume one of a world famous trilogy about the United States in World War I. The lives of five young Americans are changed forever. Book is in very good condition with minor edge wear, corners bumped. Lower front cover edge crimped slightly which caused a small tear and also tore the end page slightly.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. From one of England's most celebrated writers, the author of the award-winning, The History Boys, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading. When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads… Read More

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1968. First edition. Soft Cover. Good. Book is in good condition with minor edge wear, edges rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped. Surface of the cover has some scuffing. The lower page block has a little speckling. The inside of the covers are just beginning to tan.  Approximately 9 pages have some underling.

New York: Signet, 1996. First edition. Very Good. The last place Gilbey Kentwell, Viscount Cranford wants to spend two weeks is at Rivington, the family seat of the St. Aldwyns where the purpose of the house party is to find husbands for the St. Aldwyn twins. He would rather stay at Cambridge and bury his head in a book. His protests are overcome by the persuasive powers of his best friend, Nicholas St. Aldwyn, who wants Gilbey to help him keep his twin sisters out of trouble. Gilbey comforts himself with the knowledge his rank and fortune are too low for him to be counted among the suitors and looks forward to Rivington's fine trout fishing. Lady Venitia St. Aldwyn and her twin, Lady Vivian, have been given an ultimatum by their father. The sisters are notorious for refusing all offers of marriage and devising ingenious, often embarrassing tests for their suitors. Now they must choose husbands from the invited guests. They watch from the gallery as the guests parade through the great hall… Read More