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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer's Companian by Mark Twain. Part of the Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series. Edited, with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto. Illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton. Easton Press Collector's Edition. With frontispiece specially commisioned. Bound in Genuine Leather. Brown with gilt lettering and embellishment on front/back cover and spine. Raised bands on... |
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As Soon As It Rains hails the debut of Kaylie Jones, talented daughter of one of Americas foremost writers, James Jones. In this, her first novel: Chloe Raymond is painfully - and often self-destructively - trying to forget the death of her father at a time when she is not a child and yet not quite grown up. She embarks on a journey of discovery that will lead her beyond the adolescent sphere of boys and... |
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Chesapeake by James A. Michener. Random House, 1978, manufactured in the USA. Hardcover with green cloth binding. Measures 8 1/2 x 6 inches with 865 pages. Has mapped end pages of the Choptank and Chesapeake Bay Regions. Based on the history of the North America east from the late sixteenth century to present times. The action takes place on a broad stage, including England, France, Africa, South America the... |
$11.50
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Croatan Historical fiction. By Mary Johnston. Little, Brown, and Company Boston 1923. Copyright 1923 by Mary Johnston. Published October 1923. A first edition. Printed in the USA. Hardcover, red cloth binding with blind stamped decoration on front cover, black lettering on cover and spine. Measures 7 3/16 x 5 1/8" with 298 pages and mapped endpages. Mary Johnston a leading historical novelist, was born... |
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Mr. Maddocks story starts dramatically with the torpedoing of a Spanish-bound ship. The passengers are rescued by a destroyer and taken to Gibralter, the centre of much activity, as Spain is on the eve of joining the Axis powers. In this topical thriller Mr. Maddock makes full use of his Mediterranean background. Title: Date with a Spy Author: Stephen Maddock, Pseudonym of J. M. Walsh Copyright: 1943... |
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Entry E transcends the usual category of college novels. It probes deeply and dramatically into a genuine human conflict that characterizes, but also extends beyond the new college generation. It will undoubtedly shock many people, but there can be no question of the integrity of Mr. Frede's intent and the seriousness of his concern about what he calls the I.B.M. generation. His protagonist, Ed Bogard, is... |
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This quietly devastating novel dramatizes the plight of an Organization Man, who, after 10 years of docile commutation between his fashionable suburban home, and his well-paying job with Tower Mutual Life, suddenly rebels. Abe Rogoff is jolted out of his complacent, comfortable pattern of existence by the suicide of his best friend, who was also his immediate superior in Tower Mutual. It is Abe's secret... |
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By the author of "The Tamarack Tree" which was a Literary Guild" selection. A warm intimate portrait of an Irish-American family, the Callans, and their full, eventfull lives in the gay twenties and lean thirties. Made up of the very stuff of American family life...neighborhood gang fights, a high school dance, a funeral which the children into a riotous picnic and a boy's fierce pride in his... |
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Letter from Peking is a tender and suspenseful story of love in a world split apart, love struggling against the barriers of race, politics, distance, and misunderstanding. The time is today, the setting Vermont with flashbacks to China. The protagonist, is an American woman whose husband Gerald - half Chinese has elected to stay in Peking under communism while she returns to live in America. A counterpoint... |
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An Historical Novel Of Haitian military general Toussaint Louverture, his rise to power and the story of the only successful slave revolution in history. In this chronicle of Toussaint's victory and its aftermath, Bell gives a many faceted portrait of this extraordinary figure as seen through he eyes of the men and women whose paths he crossed. Master Of The Cross Roads by Madison Smartt Bell (author of All... |
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Strange Adventures Of The Sea A book of murders, maroonings, treasure-hunts, piracies, mutinies and tales of horror on the high seas. By J.G. Lockhart. Philip Allan & Co, London. Made and printed in Great Britain. First published in 1925. A first edition. Includes frontispiece and numerous b/w illustrations. Contains list of illustrations. Hardcover, burgundy cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine.... |
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Texas by James Michener. Random House 1985. Hardcover with unclipped dustjacket measuring 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches with 1096 pages. Mapped endpages in color. Historical fiction. A saga as only Michener can write them. Spanning four and a half centuries beginning in the early 1500's, when the first Spaniards - Cabeza de Vaca and Francisco de Coronado - explore parts of it, and ends with its present day eminence as... |
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The Covenant by James Michener. Corgi, 1980. Softcover with 1080 pages plus extra pages in glossary. Not an exlibrary. No inscriptions. Has reading wear and page toning. The cover and pages are intact. |
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...tells of the last war from a curious and unheroic vantage point - that of a strange little unit with the ostensible mission of clearing out the remnants of facism overlooked by the front-line troops. The Freebooters is a novel filled with colorful episode, with outrageous things occuring plausibly. But the liveliness is deceptive, for one grows increasingly aware of a nightmare quality that becomes... |
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Emotional entanglement and confrontation are seen in inescapable connection to the bonds of money: Money impinges, either as the bruising's of poverty or as the isolation's that accompany luxury. It warps identity: it tragically confuses the issues of responsibility and love. Rose is an eccentric, indeed notorious, heiress who, ten years before, at twenty-one, had publicly defied her parents to marry a... |
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