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Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
by Joel Chandler Harris
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Published
- 1955
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$40.00
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Signed by Richard Chase who compiled this edition. Assorted illustrators, b/w plate frontis of Uncle Remus. DC bookshop sticker on rear pastedown. Glossary among 875 clean pgs of Southern plantation classic. Item Price
$40.00
Bridge On the River Kwai
by Pierre Boulle
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1996
- Binding
- Mass market paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$14.25
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Mass market paperback, no creasing and 171 clean pages for this classic that David Lean made into awards winning film. Item Price
$14.25
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Tobacco Road
by Erskine Caldwell
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Published
- 1932
- Binding
- Orange boards with title enclosed in black rectangle and embossed zig-zag lines
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$20.00
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Dust jacket is tattered but intact, interior is clean and tight. Gift inscription dated 1941 - see photos
This story is a crazy twist on peoples' reactions to the realities of life. The storyline is focused on the many hardships and sufferings of the rural poor. Item Price
$20.00
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Elephants and Quaker Guns
by Jane Chapman Whitt
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Published
- 1966
- Binding
- Black boards with silver lettering on spine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$35.00
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Inscribed by author on verso of title page. Dust jacket has minor edgewear and "color" label scar upper right corner, mapped endpapers, b/w photos, illustrations and index among 103 clean pages. Prev owner name and address verso of fep and verso of half-title page. Included is a typed paper Ephemera titled the History of Bailey's Crossroads. See photos Item Price
$35.00
Harlot's Ghost
by Norman Mailer
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1991
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$35.00
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Inscribed by author to prev.owner on half title page. Interior hinge exposed on fep. Dj is complete and pages are clean Item Price
$35.00
Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 2012
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$10.50
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His first published book, 265 clean pages, no creasing to spine, cover, etc. Like New
More than just a merciless satire of cloistered college life and stuffy post-war manners, Lucky Jim is an attack on the forces of boredom, Item Price
$10.50
Flashman on the March
by George MacDonald Fraser
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First U.S.
- Published
- 2005
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$14.00
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Full dj, appendices, 335 clean pages. Item Price
$14.00
Leopard, The
by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Published
- 1988
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$10.00
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Translated from the Italian, 320 clean pages
The story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution in the 1950s. Item Price
$10.00
Our Game
by John Le Carre
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1995
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$10.00
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Complete dj with mapped endpapers. Continues Le Carré's themes regarding the fall of communism, and the West's complicity in the arms trade. Item Price
$10.00
Mount Vernon Love Story
by Mary Higgins Clark
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Published
- 2002
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$16.50
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With Mt.Vernon bookplate signed by author on fep, full dj and 223 clean pages, like new.
With extensive biographical and historical research brings George Washington and his life and marriage fully into focus for readers. Item Price
$16.50
The Underground Man
by Mick Jackson
- Condition
- like new
- Jacket Condition
- like new
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1997
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$25.00
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This novel was short listed for the Booker prize and is signed by author on the title page. Covered in the first issue/edition fold-out dust jacket protected by mylar cover. An eccentric Duke best known for the elaborate network of tunnels he had built beneath his estate. Deeply strange and very entertaining. Item Price
$25.00
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Last of the Wine
by Mary Renault
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Published
- 1956
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$60.00
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Modern Library #336 with intact but edgeworn dj, not price clipped. Interior pgs are bright and tight, maps, glossary, chronological table among 389 clean pages. Item Price
$60.00
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Silent Woman
by Edward Marston
- Condition
- like new
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$18.00
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An Elizabethan Theater Mystery featuring Nicholas Bracewell. Stated First Edition with mylar covered dust jacket. Item Price
$18.00
The Prince of the Skies
by Antonio Iturbe
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$14.50
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Hardcover edition with pictorial cover, in Very Good condition with 534 clean pages. Based on the true story of Antoine De Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince). Item Price
$14.50
This Side of Murder
by Anna Lee Huber
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$12.25
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A WWI widow investigates murder and her late husband's secrets Item Price
$12.25
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The Wine-Dark Sea
by Patrick O'Brian
- Condition
- like new
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First American
- Published
- 1993
- Binding
- Blue spine with cream covers
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$200.00
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Hardcover with dust jacket not price clipped and signed on title page by O'Brian. Small crease to bottom dj flap. This is the sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin maritime series, Like New condition with 261 clean pages. Item Price
$200.00
My Other Life
by Paul Theroux
- Condition
- Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Published
- 1996
- Binding
- Grey boards with black spine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$12.50
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Hardcover with complete dust jacket. Remainder mark atop text block. Author's Note states, "...a life I could have lived had things been different - an imaginary memoir". Item Price
$12.50
Tomorrow is Forever
by Gwen Gristow
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Binding
- Green cloth with gilt title on spine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$15.00
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Vintage hardcover with complete but edgeworn dj sunned spine and small blemish to thumb-nail sized photo of author on backside. Pictorial endpapers, prev.owner's signature on half title page.
A wife and mother grapples with love and loss in World War II-era Hollywood. Made into a film starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles and Natalie Wood. Item Price
$15.00
Hemingway's Chair
by Michael Palin
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Binding
- Blue cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$7.00
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No dust jacket, bright and tight interior. The first novel by Michael Palin of Monty Python fame. Hemingway and rural England are strange bedfellows - as one character acknowledges - but the result is rather unique. Item Price
$7.00
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The Monarch of the Glen
by Compton Mackenzie
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Published
- 1967
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
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$32.00
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Illustrated cover with triangular price clip in center of the interior flap. Previous owner's signature and date on fep. Minor foxing to the text block exterior but pages are bright and tight.
A humorous glimpse into the culture and folkways of a highland chieftain and landowner. Item Price
$32.00