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Bloomsbury , 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST UK EDITION.

Knopf , 1986. 1st edition . Hardcover. Fine. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST TRADE EDITION, 2ND PRINTING.

Knopf, 1953. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. There is a protective mylar cover.

Doubleday, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Owner's signaure. There is some chipping to the dust jacket. There is a protective mylar cover.

Allen, Towne & Heath Inc, NY , 1948. 3rd edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Historical novel about the life of Tchaikovsky written by the son of Thomas Mann.

Salem House Publishers, Topsfield. Massachusetts, 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. "In the spring of 1983 the BBC TV series 'Yes Minister' became the first program ever to win the British Academy award for the Best Comedy Series for three years running." [Pub. Info] First published by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Some very minor wear to dust jacket edges. 1ST… Read more about this item

Harper Collins, NY, 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "During a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before. Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie… Read more about this item

Harper & Row, NY, 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "As Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn seeks the identity of a murder victim, Officer Jim is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors. As the layers of each case are peeled away, it becomes clear that they are connected, and that Leaphorn and Chee… Read more about this item

St. Martin's Press, NY, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "The leisurely life of intellectual contemplation enjoyed by the Fellows of Sheepshanks College, Cambridge is shattered when the eminent Pryevian Librarian, Ernest Garmoyle, collapses and dies over his port at dinner. When arsenic is discovered in his drink, Inspector Bunce of the Cambridge police is called in. A tangled web… Read more about this item

Walker and Company, NY, 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Lauded by 'The New York Times Book Review', this sizzling mystery explores crime on an Indian reservation. The victim, Monday Brown, is a white man who pillaged the Native American culture for profit. The suspect is Matthew Wolf, a young Crow traditionalist who'd do anything to preserve his heritage. Investigator Phoebe… Read more about this item

Dutton, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "The citizens of the small town of Blakesburg see the aurora borealis and decide Judgment Day has come in this 1946 best-seller."" [Pub. Info] A compelling novel by Kentucky's master story-teller.

HarperCollins, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life. This book... is the first to analyze frankly the meaning as well as the events of Fitzgerald's life."" [Pub. Info] Definitive biography.

Viking, NY, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "A critical biography of Kipling focuses on the writer's literary and peripatetic searches for a refuge to replace the lost Indian Eden of his childhood." [Pub Info] Definitive biography. 397 pages. 1ST US EDITION.

Harper Collins. NY, 2015. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "The sequel to the globally renowned 'To Kill a Mockingbird'... forces readers and characters alike to accept some difficult truths when the narrator, Scout, returns to her hometown and becomes infuriated with the stagnation, lack of ambition and backwards attitudes of people she has known and loved her whole life." [Pub. Info]… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, Oxford/ NY, 1992. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The world difficulties of preparing a book of villains is that the field stretches towards infinity… They are everywhere, down narow streets and in brightly lit office buildings and parliaments, dominating family life, crowding prisons and law courts, and providing plots for most of the works of fiction… Read more about this item

George Brazziller NY, 1954. Hardcover. Fine /Fair-General wear to the extremities. "Almost inevitably... [O'Casey] became a stranger when the English-speaking theatre became constricted in heart and imagination just as he was growing more impassioned and imaginative. It is a stimulating experience in these days of humdrum theatre to read O'Casey's plays, the most exciting dramatic writing since Shaw completed 'Saint… Read more about this item

Library of America/ University of Cambridge, UK, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Written in London and Italy between 1879 and 1885, these novels portray American women confronting crises of independence and possession. Studies in the exercise of power that mark relations between sexes, classes, and cultures, they show James' special solicitude for the young heroines who occupy the center of… Read more about this item

Farrar, Straus and Giroux/ NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters… Read more about this item

Luxor Press, London, Deluxe edition. Hardcover. Fine. Written in 1749. It was a huge success. The publisher's preface contains a brief biography of Cleland and a brief accounting of the dismissal of a NY lawsuit to have the book banned for obscenity in 1963.

The Pilot Press, London, in conjunction with Peter Davis Press, London, 1947. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. "This omnibus brings together the three charming novels of George du Maurier. 'Peter Ibbetsom' and 'Trilby' were among the first 'best sellers' in the modern senseÉ.'The Martian' is of especial interest in that it shows us something of du Maurier,… Read more about this item