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Imprint: Boston, MA, Little, Brown & Company, 1994 Spine head and tail lightly bumped. Dust wrapper, not price cut, rubbed and very lightly edgeworn. ; Author contends that Washington DC is mired in bureaucracy and that it needs purging and revitalization. This is his blueprint for a political upheaval. , 231 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper Stock number: 1777. ISBN: 0316706183
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Imprint: London, Penguin, c1998,1999 Some edgewear and rubbing, spine and cover creases, some page edges a bit rippled; pages clean, none loose.; He has been called by some' the James Herriot of schools'. Phinn recalls his first year as a County Inspector of Schools in North Yorkshire in this warm and humorous memoir. 'He meets some large- than-life characters, from farmers and lords of the manor to teaching nuns and eccentric caretakers. Best of all, he discovers the endearing and disarming qualities of the Dales children. Readers will enjoy his keen ear for the absurd and his sharp eye for the ludicrous.', 276 pages, Very Good Stock number: 4369. ISBN: 0140275428
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Imprint: London, Penguin, c2000, 2001 Edgewear, spine and cover creases; pages clean and bright, none loose.; Phinn regales us with his adventures during his second year as a County Inspector of Schools in North Yorkshire in another warm and humorous memoir., 340 pages, Very Good- Stock number: 4485. ISBN: 0140281290
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Imprint: New York, Fawcett Columbine, 1994 455 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper Stock number: 748. ISBN: 0449909077
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Imprint: NY, St Martins Press, 1995 728 pages; Spine ends faintly bumped, a few smudge marks to top page edges, otherwise a lovely copy. Dust wrapper, unclipped, has very light edgewear., Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper Stock number: 5214. ISBN: 0312134517
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Imprint: New York, Dell Publishing, c1975,1989 264 pages; Light edgewear and spine creases, a nice copy.; 'We revisit the lives of some of the author's earlier characters, artist Grenville Bayliss and his family, this time from the point of view of the artist's granddaughter. When Rebecca Bayliss' dying mother reveals to her the existence of a family Rebecca knew nothing about, she is determined to find them--and is soon deeply enmeshed in relationship s torn by passion, greed and an old family mystery. '' , Very Good Stock number: 944. ISBN: 0440202531
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Imprint: New York, Dell, c1971,1989 233 pages; No spine or cover creases, faint edgewear, page edges lightly yellowed; covers and pages clean. A very nice copy.; 'Sitting on a California beach at summer's ends, Jane Marsh thought back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotland. She remembered not only the heather-covered hills and lonesome loch, but her grandmother... and, of course, Sinclair. She had secretly dreamed of marrying rakishly handsome Sinclair and settling at Elvie forever. Now an urgent visit from her grandmother's lawyer would become the catalyst for her return to Scotland...' , Very Good+ Stock number: 4463. ISBN: 0440202558
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Imprint: New York, St Martin's Press, c1984,1986 276 pages; Sunned spine is creased, covers have a bit of edgewear; no loose pages.; Newly married, shy, and recovering from illness, Laura Haverstock is unable to join her husband on his annual trip to Scotland. Instead she goes to his family's cottage on the Cornish coast to recuperate and eventually to learn more about his family and herself. ' , Very Good Stock number: 951. ISBN: 0312914741
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Imprint: NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1982 Spine ends very lightly bumped, one corner bumped; no binding problems. Faint soil to page edges; interior clean and bright. A nice copy. Unclipped dust wrapper edgeworn with some tiny closed tears, creases to flap ends, sunned spine. ; The tenth novel in this prolific author's Plantagenet saga., 366 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper Stock number: 6609. ISBN: 039912750X
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Imprint: London, Pan Books, 1978 Book one in this Plantagenet series features Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry Duke of Normandy, and Thomas Becket.; Light edgewear, page edges yellowed; no spine or cover creases, interior pages clean. A nice copy.; This author also wrote as Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, and Eleanor Burford., 332 pages, Very Good Stock number: 6559. ISBN: 033025359X
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Imprint: NY, Three Rivers Press, c1993, 2003 No spine or cover creases, light edgewear. A very nice copy.; One of this prolific author's "Qeens of England" series. 'Born into an impoverished branch of the noble Howard family, young Katherine is plucked from her home to live with her grandmother, the Duchess of Norfolk. The innocent girl quickly learns that her grandmother’s puritanism is not shared by Katherine’s free-spirited cousins, with whom she lives. Beautiful and impressionable, Katherine becomes involved in two ill-fated love affairs before her sixteenth birthday. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, she leaves her grandmother’s home to become a lady-in-waiting at the court of Henry VIII. The royal palaces are exciting to a young girl from the country, and Katherine finds that her duties there allow her to be near her handsome cousin, Thomas Culpepper, whom she has loved since childhood. Stock number: 6604. ISBN: 0609810170
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Imprint: Edinburgh, Greyladies, c1959, 2011 A new book with light edgewear and very faint soil to page edges.; The spring term is always disaster-prone, but this one at Ledenham School surpasses itself. The Headmaster’s invaluable secretary collapses with appendicitis and has to be replaced by Oonagh – ‘Swooner’ to the boys; a young master’s fancy, lightly turning to thoughts of love, causes a major crisis at Governors’ level; the Headmaster’s daughter Alison’s romance is beset by unwelcome public scrutiny and comment. Stock number: 6628. ISBN: 9781907503108
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Imprint: Stroud, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, c1979, 1998 A new book with faint edgewear.; 'This is a revised and updated edition of Alison Plowden's classic study of the dominant women of the Tudor era. The women of the royal family are the central characters in this book - royal women set the style and between them they provide a dazzling variety of personalities as well as illustrating almost every aspect of life as it affected women in Tudor England. The story of the Tudor queens, from the founding of the dynasty, through Henry VIII's wives and culminating in Elizabeth I, is narrated clearly, set against the background of the politics and society of the age. Alison Plowden also explores lower- and middle-class women's status, education and upbringing, painting a picture of life for the average Tudor housewife in this beautifully written and carefully researched book.', 182 pages, Near Fine Stock number: 6436. ISBN: 075092005x
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Imprint: New York, Harper Collins, 1997 8vo; 282 pages; Spine head and tail bumped, remainder mark bottom edge. Dust wrapper is not price cut has very slight wrinkle at spine head and tail. ; Author of" What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew", Pool now turns his attention to the lives of the great Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Trollope. , Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper Stock number: 1183. ISBN: 0060183659
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Imprint: Pacifica, CA, Pacifica Press, 1985 Signed by Author; Signed and inscribed by author on half title page. No spine creases, very light edgewear; book and pages clean and bright. A very nice copy.; Introduction by 'Pappy' Boyington. Author's 'life as a Marine combat fighter pilot, from his earliest days as a naval aviation cadet before World War II, to his adventures guarding America's defense line in the South Pacific, to his aerial combat over the Solomons.' He also tells of his 'exacting night-fighter combat training and his rare double-kill night mission over Okinawa.' , 278 pages, Very Good+ Stock number: 6429. ISBN: 0935553312
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Imprint: NY, William Morrow & Company, 1991 639 pages; Spine ends lightly bumped, a few faint splashes and one smudge on top page edges. Red remainder mark on bottom edge. Unclipped dust wrapper has very light edgewear and rubbing. A nice copy.; An intriguing and absorbing novel featuring four people in a story of science (DNA, genomes, computers), music (Bach), and love. "The four protagonists are driven toward a provisional definition of life in all its chemical particulars - the secret shorthands, the compositional impulse of evolution, the links laid down between the cell itself and the complex organism that would try to understand it. Each must discover something of the unified diversity of the life molecule, its endless, mutating variations on a four-note theme.", Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper Stock number: 4572. ISBN: 0688098916
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Imprint: Simi Valley, CA, Tze Ulmad Press, 1976 Signed by Author; Spine head and tail bumped, blue cloth binding worn at spine ends and corners, but not to boards. text block edges lightly yellowed. Inscribed and signed by Prager on front free endpaper. Dust wrapper, not price cut, is very rubbed, edgeworn, and chipped. ; Some of the questions discussed: Who needs Jewish laws or organized religion- isn't it enough to be an ethical person? How do you account for unethical religious Jews- and for ethical people who are not religious? How does Judaism differ from Christianity, Marxism, and Ethical Humanism? How do I begin acting Jewish? The authors' answers to these and other questions "are so rational, so well substantiated, and so provocative, that no reader-Jew or non-Jew....will close this book without having been severely challenged.' , 207 pages, Very Good in Very Good- dust wrapper Stock number: 1990.
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Imprint: New York, Duffield & Company, 1911 B&W Photographs; 593 pages; Decorated blue cloth binding rubbed at corners and spine ends; text block edges browned. Binding is in excellent condition; book has a slight musty odor. No dust wrapper. ; A practical handbook for students and travellers. Detailed descriptions of more than 32 English cathedrals and churches. , Very Good Stock number: 1796.
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Imprint: NY, Random House, 1969 246 pages; Spine head bumped, page edges faintly soiled. White, unclipped, dust wrapper has a creased front flap, and is lightly edgeworn and yellowed with a bit of soil.; The third collection of short fiction by this short story writer, novelist, and critic., Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper Stock number: 5142.
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Imprint: NY, Random House, 1968 244 pages; Lightly bumped spine ends, pages pale yellow. Dust wrapper, unclipped, has very light edgewear. A very nice copy indeed. ; In this first volume of the autobiography by this short story writer, novelist, and critic he tells of his childhood in turn-of-the-century and World War I London. His London is a working-class city and his countryside is rural Yorkshire where he visited his granfather, a Congregationalist minister, and his uncle, a fierce atheist. "A young man's early encounters with life and literature shed light on the development of a writer-the apprenticeship of writer as child.", Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper Stock number: 4158.
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Imprint: NY, Random House, c1964,1968 467 pages; A lovely copy with a few smudges to page edges. White, price clipped,dust wrapper is a bit soiled and has light edgewear.; The revised and expanded edition including essays on Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Maria Edgeworth, E. M. Forster, Ford Madox Ford, Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Edith Wharton, Nathanael West, William Golding, Gorky, Dostoevsky, Anthony Powell, and Arnold Bennett amongst others. "The critical essays of V.S. Pritchett are unparalleled for their wit, geniality, subtlety, and profound good sense.", Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper Stock number: 4174.
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Imprint: NY, Random House, 1972 271 pages; Lightly bumped spine ends, pages pale yellow with one smudge mark on edge. Olive cloth binding has faintly sunned edges and spine. A clean and nice copy. Dust wrapper, unclipped, has light edgewear, a bit of soil and one tiny closed tear at spine head.; This second volume of the autobiography by this short story writer, novelist, and critic opens in 1921. With twenty pounds in his pocket he has arrived in Paris determined to become a writer. After going to Ireland to cover the revolution for the 'Christian Science Monitor' he arrives in Spain in 1924., Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper Stock number: 4159. ISBN: 0394474759
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Imprint: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1978 Spine ends lightly bumped, clean purple boards faintly faded at edges; no binding problems, pages clean and bright. Unclipped dust wrapper lightly edgeworn and creased, one tiny closed tear.; Profusely illustrated with black and white drawings, photographs, and paintings. This history "has a serious intent but is also an entertainment. Pullar has caught and analyzed the manners of society during four centuries" including the author's experiences during her own two seasons. "It is doubtful whether the London season now has any significance, although as the author says 'snobbery is as intrinsic to the British as it ever was when Elizabeth I was rampant, or James sold titles in return for gold.' But its history is both fascinating and salutary.", 192 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper. Illustr: B&W Illustrations Stock number: 6264. ISBN: 0241899656
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Imprint: NY, Knopf, c1995, 2002 Faint spine creases, one cover crease, light edgewear, some page corner creases, a few smudges on page edges.; This first volume of the trilogy was recently made into a film. Published as "Northern Lights" in the UK and winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Fiction Award. Chapter heading illustrations done by the author. Highly recommended., 399 pages, Very Good. Illustr: Illustrated by Philip Pullman; B&W Illustrations Stock number: 6175. ISBN: 037582345X
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Imprint: NY, Dell Laurel-Leaf, c1985, 2000 230 pages; Spine and cover creases, inside covers and page edges light brown; interior pages clean, none loose.; An ALA Best Book for Young Adults (Ages 12 and older). A mystery/thriller set in Victorian London by the author of the 'Dark Materials' trilogy. This is the first volume of the Sally Lockhart trilogy. Basis for the Masterpiece Theater production of the same name., Very Good Stock number: 5839. ISBN: 0394895894
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Imprint: New York, Knopf, 1997 Dark blue boards quarterbound in navy blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Bottom corners of a few pages creased, Christmas gift inscription on front free endpaper. No remainder marks. Unclipped dust wrapper faintly edgeworn. A very nice copy indeed.; The second volume in the "His Dark Materials" trilogy. The first volume was made into a film. Highly recommended., 326 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper Stock number: 2355. ISBN: 0679879250
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Imprint: NY, Dutton, 1985 Tear on one bottom corner reveals boards; no binding problems, pages clean and bright. Very lightly edgeworn dust wrapper, spine lightly sunned. A nice copy. ; Comic novel originally written in 1939-40; set aside when Pym became involved with war work., 8vo; 216 pages, Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper Stock number: 6841. ISBN: 052524333x
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Imprint: NY, Perennial; Harper & Row, c1978,1980 Inside covers browned, text block edges browned, spine and covers creased, rubbed, and edgeworn; no loose pages., 208 pages, Fair Stock number: 2186. ISBN: 0060805110
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Imprint: Columbia, MO, University of Missouri Press, 1986 No spine creases, light edgewear; pages clean and bright. A very nice copy.; Benet posits, "Pym is a chronicler of universal human problems." Her "ten novels center on one great subject that moves, shapes, or disfigures all her major characters: the many guises of love, sought, attained, or frustrated.... In Pym's universe, the heart and mind require an object of love as the bridge from their fearful isolation to the world of feeling and caring.", 164 pages, Very Good+ Stock number: 6950. ISBN: 0826204937
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Imprint: Iowa City, IA, University of Iowa Press, 1986 Essays by nineteen distinguished contributors, almost all of which were written especially for this volume. They 'offer a variety of perspectives on Pym's novels and life and examine dimensions of her work not previously considered in earlier reviews.'; Spine and board edges sunned and worn; no binding problems, pages clean and bright. Dust wrapper, faintly edgeworn, sunned spine and edges. A nice copy., 210 pages, Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper Stock number: 6769. ISBN: 0877451591
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Imprint: Boston, G. K. Hall And Co., 1991 162 pages; Dark maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A new book with a small soil spot on top page edges. A very nice copy. No dust wrapper, as issued.; A bibliography of writings by and about Barbara Pym., Near Fine Stock number: 5376. ISBN: 0816190763
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Imprint: Boston, David R. Godine, c1930, 2011 No spine or cover creases, faint edgewear, a few very light smudges on textblock edges. A lovely copy.; The first volume in the Swallows and Amazons series for children. Recommended by many adults as 'inner child' reading. :o) Image is actual copy on offer., 351 pages, Near Fine. Illustr: Illustrated by Arthur Ransome; B&W Illustrations Stock number: 7112. ISBN: 9781567924206
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Imprint: New York, Saturday Review Press, 1970 559 pages; Black cloth boards lightly rubbed, text block edges lightly yellowed, top corner of front free endpaper clipped; no dust wrapper. ; Originally published in Britain in 1949. After WWII an elderly man and his adopted daughter arrive at an old, restored, London home. The story of the retired publisher's life begins in late Victorian England., Very Good with no dust wrapper Stock number: 1419.
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Imprint: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988 Spine head lightly bumped, front board very slightly flared, pages yellowed, erased pencil marks on front free endpaper. Dust wrapper not price cut, spine sunned, light edgewear. ; Poppy is 16 in 1911 and is attending suffragette meetings in London. Life is exciting with wonderful possibilities. The outbreak of the Great War in 1914 changes everything and adds a new kind of excitement and freedom as Poppy becomes an ambulance driver. Part two of a six part series. , 309 pages, Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper Stock number: 1016.
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Imprint: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987 Spine head and tail bumped, front board slightly flared, pages yellowed, erased pencil marks on front free endpaper. White dust wrapper not price cut, spine sunned, light edgewear. ; Poppy is one of the last of the Victorians, born in 1895. Her parents were culturally and socially worlds apart. Her mother, a woman with no fortune, meets her father, an East-End boxer in a London she never knew existed until one fateful evening. Part one of a six part series. ;, 375 pages, Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper Stock number: 1015. ISBN: 0297791532
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Imprint: NY, Random House, 1992 511 pages, Near Fine Stock number: 496. ISBN: 0679742808
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Imprint: Chicago, Academy Chicago Publishers, c1968,1990 Light edgewear and cover creases, no spine creases, page edges yellowed (seen before in this edition).; The village of Fairacre has a festival to help pay for the damage done to the roof of St. Patrick's church by an October storm., 104 pages, Very Good. Illustr: Illustrated by J. S. Goodall; B&W Illustrations Stock number: 6534. ISBN: 0897333330
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Imprint: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1981 Spine ends faintly bumped, a few smudges on top page edges; interior pages clean and bright, no binding problems. Dust wrapper has lightly yellowed white back and flap edges and light edgewear. Remnant of old price tag on front flap. First American edition stated but dust wrapper flap says book club edition. A very nice copy.; The village school at Fairacre is one hundred years old and there is the Caxley Spring Festival to enjoy., 236 pages, Near Fine in Very Good+ dust wrapper. Illustr: Illustrated by J. S. Goodall; B&W Illustrations Stock number: 6459. ISBN: 0395312620
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Imprint: Bath, UK, Palazzo Editions, c1935, 2008 A new book received with light colour loss to tiny areas on board edges and very faint edgewear to dust wrapper.; Illustrated with wonderful period black & wwhite photographs and delightful drawings by Anna K. Zinkeisen. Originally published in England in 1935, this 'gently satirical handbook to being the right sort of girl effortlessly guides readers through the troublesome twists and turns of the social whirl. Monica Redlich dispenses advice for every possible encounter; from how to combine kindness with absolute honesty when reassuring friends (They always say a big nose is a sign of character) and what to say when caught in an awkward situation (I am just trying to get some dust out of poor Freddie's eye) to the perfect reply on receiving congratulations upon your engagement (Thank you, Angela darling. I only wish we could manage to find someone for you). Nice girls once reigned supreme, and with this essential companion they could again. No modern girl should be without it.', 160 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper. Illustr: Illustrated by Anna Zinkeisen; B&W Illustrations Stock number: 6797. ISBN: 9780955304613
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Imprint: New York, Crown, 1995 Spot on top of text block edge (Coffee? ) ; dust wrapper has light edgewear and scoring. Book has 1st American edition stated but no price on dust wrapper, indicating a probable book club edition. ; A Chief Inspector Wexford mystery., 327 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper Stock number: 1091. ISBN: 0517700735
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Imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955 Drawings; 368 pages; Spine top corners bumped, bottom edges of boards lightly worn, previous owner bookplate on front decorated pastedown; dust wrapper edgeworn and slightly chipped at extremities. ; Great emphasis on houses and castles in the National Trust. , Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper. Illustr: Illustrated by The Author Stock number: 1097.
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Imprint: NY, Bantam Books, 1999 A lovely book. ; Publisher's letter laid in. , 323 pages, Fine in Fine dust wrapper Stock number: 394. ISBN: 0553110632
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Imprint: New York, Viking, 1999 Spine ends slightly bumped with a light vertical spine crease that does not damage binding. Dust wrapper, not price cut, is very lightly edgeworn and rubbed. ; 'In 1556, the jealous Queen Catherine de Medici, whose husband Henri II is having an intrigue with Diane de Poitiers, turns to Nostradamus, the court astrologer for help. He introduces her to a magic box in which the head of an ancient magician called Menander the Undying will grant all her wishes in return for her soul. The box falls into the hands of a young woman named Sibille who foils its power when she refuses to wish for anything.', 386 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper Stock number: 878. ISBN: 0670884502
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Imprint: NY, Viking, 1996 In this tale of Tudor England, 'King Henry VIII arranges to marry his sister to the aging king of France to put an English heir on the French throne. Painter Susanna Dallet catches Henry's eye, and soon Susanna is unknowingly carrying with her the key to a secret that will embroil her in the French court's diabolical plots.'; Top board edges faintly sunned. A very nice copy in an unclipped dust wrapper., 467 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper Stock number: 424. ISBN: 067086661x
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Imprint: NY, Harper Collins, 1998 Faint edgewear, page edges pale yellow.; Uncorrected proofs in wraps. This "meticulously researched novel is a sequel to his best-selling Nimitz Class. In his new high-tech thriller, the good guys, once again, are the gallant men of the U.S. Navy--specifically, the submarine service. The plot concerns 10 formidable Soviet-built Kilo Class patrol submarines, which can run submerged at speeds up to 17 knots without being detected, travel 6,000 miles before refueling, and fire nuclear-tipped torpedoes. An insolvent Russian military has agreed to sell them to China. With the subs, China could control the Taiwan Strait, blocking Western trade routes. The Chinese could then attack and conquer Taiwan. The U.S. Navy must stop delivery of the subs without starting World War III. Robinson again uses a large cast of characters in a global setting.", 436 pages, Very Good+ Stock number: 243. ISBN: 0060994711
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Imprint: New York, Knopf, 1983 318 pages; Creases on spine and front cover, previous owner's embossed stamp on half title page; The five marriages discussed are of Catherine Hogarth and Charles Dickens, John Ruskin and Effie Gray, Jane Welsh and Thomas Carlyle, Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot and George Henry Lewes. , Very Good Stock number: 614. ISBN: 0394524322
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Imprint: NY, Penguin, c1993, 1994 Light spine and cover creases, light edgewear, front free endpaper removed, a few page corners creased; interior pages clean, none loose.; Our introduction to the unflappable Julian Kestrel, 'the very model of a proper Beau Brummel-except for his unusual willingness to plunge headlong into murder investigations. And an investigation's hard to avoid when, during an elegant weekend at a friend's country estate, a beautiful young murder victim turns up in his bed. With the help of his Cockney manservant, Dipper, Kestrel sets out to find the killer'. Highly recommended, unfortunately there are only four mysteries in this series as the author passed away in 1998., 337 pages, Very Good- Stock number: 6125. ISBN: 0140233946
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Imprint: NY, Penguin, c1997, 1998 No spine creases but book curved/bent as if stored for a long time in a box that was too full (?), covers have light edgewear; interior pages clean, none loose.; The fourth and, unfortunately, final mystery in the Regency Julian Kestrel series, is set in early 19th century Northern Italy. Highly recommended, there are only four mysteries in this enjoyable series as the author passed away in 1998., 496 pages, Very Good Stock number: 7127. ISBN: 0140263640
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Imprint: New York, Mason Charter, 1977 302 pages; Spine ends and bottom front corner lightly bumped. Dust wrapper, not price clipped, lightly rubbed and edgeworn, interior white flaps have yellowed edges. ; A comprehensive biography of the younger brother of Napoleon. , Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper Stock number: 2480. ISBN: 0884054934
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Imprint: NY, Penguin, c1995, 1996 Spine lightly creased, covers edgeworn, laminate beginning to lift at edges, pages pale yellow but clean, none loose.; The third mystery in this enjoyable series set in Regency England. Unfortunately the author died quite young and there are only four books featuring the 'dandyish man-about-town' amateur sleuth Julian Kestrel., 382 pages, Very Good- Stock number: 7008. ISBN: 014024767X
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