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Remembrance of Things Past Vol. 1
by Marcel Proust
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- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- 1989
- ISBN
- 9780140182224
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2nd paperback printing in this edition.
Condition: Very good plus, light spine crease, light edge wear.
"The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria — this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work" — Vladimir Nabokov
Originally rendered by C.K. Scott Moncrieff from an… Read more about this item Item Price
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Traitors' Legion
by Jay Scotland
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First paperback edition
- Published
- 1963
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Ace G-532. 1963. First paperback edition. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and spine nicks, slight yellowing of interior pages due to age.
A vivid, action-packed novel of Imperial Rome's days of shame and glory from Ace vintage paperbacks. Item Price
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Contes Fantastiques
by Roger Tremblay and Rene Labonte (Editors)
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1981
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Condition: Very good, edge wear and corner bumps, light discoloration at top left corner, previous owner's name on inside few first pages has been blacked out.
Learning French as a second language text. Item Price
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Modern English Prose
by Guy Boas (Editor)
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 11th printing
- Published
- 1949
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MacMillan and Co., London, 1949. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, spine wear and light wrinkling at top and bottom edges, previous owner's name and inscription on inside front cover, underling and notes. Green cloth with gold lettering, no dust jacket.
Features prose by Walter Raleigh, Hilaire Belloc, Winston Churchill, Hugh Walpole, John Galsworthy, G.K. Chesterton, and Vita… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lettres Philosophiques
by Voltaire
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1966
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Condition: Very good, light edge wear and small corner creases, spine has creasing, previous owner's name on inside front cover.
In French. Preface and chronology by Rene Pomeau. Item Price
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Andromaque
by Jean Racine
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1968
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Condition: Very good, light edge wear and slight scuffing on covers, light crease at rear cover, previous owner's and price on inside front cover.
In french, with notes, analyses, and commentary by Denise-P. Cogny and Pierre Cogny. Item Price
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The Teahouse Fire
by Ellis Avery
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2006
- ISBN
- 9781594489303
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Riverhead Books, New York, 2006. First edition/Book Club Edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket, very light edge wear on dust jacket, light bumping at corners.
The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history—Japan as it… Read more about this item Item Price
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Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel
by Arthur Golden
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- Later printing
- Published
- 1999
- ISBN
- 9780679781585
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Vintage, New York, 1999. Later paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge ware and corner bumps, spine creasing and nicks, back cover has creasing, well read.
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel presents with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances… Read more about this item Item Price
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The First Woman Doctor
by Rachel Baker
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- 8th printing
- Published
- 1975
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Scholastic Inc., New York, 8th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge wear and corner bumps, spine nicks and creasing, creasing on covers, previous owners name and scribbling on inside front cover. Well read.
A biography of a strong and dedicated woman who successfully worked for the recognition of women in the field of medicine in both the United States and Great Britain. Item Price
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The Tragedies
by William Shakespeare
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- Later printing
- Published
- 1950
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J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., London, 1950 edition. Condition: Good, Green boards with gold lettering, slight edge wear and corner bumps, spine has slight nicks and slight bowing, light scuffing on covers. Previous owners inscription on inside front cover.
Includes Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and 7 others. Includes the original photogravures by E.J. Sullivan. Item Price
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Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2003
- ISBN
- 9780156029063
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Harvest/Harcourt, 2003. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good edge wear and corner bumps, bottom edge has small tears, spine crease and nicks.
It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley / Berni Wrightson
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1983
- ISBN
- 9780939766758
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Marvel Comics, New York, 1983. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, spine has light nicks at end.
Introduction by Stephen King.
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Orenda
by Joseph Boyden
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- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- 3rd printing
- Published
- 2014
- ISBN
- 9780143174165
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Penguin, Toronto, 2014. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, slightly bowed, faint creases at spine.
In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl's captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Colomba
by Prosper Merimee
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- Used - Good
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Condition: Good, book has light edge wear and corner bumps, slight scuffing at spine ends, some notes and underlining and previous bookstore stamp on inside front cover. no dust jacket. No date or edition noted.
Edited with notes and vocabulary by Osmond T. Robert and new-type exercises, passages for prose translations by H.L. Humphreys. Item Price
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Rogue Herries
by Hugh Walpole
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1957
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Condition: Good, edge wear and corner creases, spine has nicks, slight discoloration on rear cover, slight fading on interior pages and some underlining and notes from previous owner.
The first in the Herries Chronicle saga by Hugh Walpole.
The tale of Francis Herries, the "rogue" of the title. A violent and impetuous man, a faithless husband and a capricious father, the Borrowdale… Read more about this item Item Price
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La Bête Humaine
by Emile Zola
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 8th printing
- Published
- 1987
- ISBN
- 9780140443271
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Penguin, London, 1987. 8th paperback printing in this edition. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, slight creasing and nicks at spine.
Translated and with an introduction by Leonard Tancock.
One of Zola's most violent and pessimistic novels, La Bete Humaine is haunted by the idea that "love and death, possessing and killing, are dark foundations of the human soul".
La… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Road to Damietta
by Scott O'Dell
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1985
- ISBN
- 9780395389232
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Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1985. First hardcover edition. Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket, dust jacket has light edge wear and creasing.
Rich in the atmosphere of thirteenth-century Italy, The Road to Damietta offers through Ricca di Montanaro's eyes a new perspective on the man who became the famous Saint Francis of Assisi, the guileless, joyous man who praised the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
by Leo Tolstoy
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- 3rd printing
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- 9780553210354
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Bantam, New York. 3rd paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, corner creases, rear cover has soiling, well read.
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Doctor's Sweetheart and Other Stories
by L. M Montgomery
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1979
- ISBN
- 9780070827905
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McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto, 1979. First printing. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket, book has light bumps, dust jacket has wrinkling, light edge wear, price sticker on front cover, price clipped.
In this remarkable collection of fourteen previously uncollected stories, L.M. Montgomery weaves her unique brand of magic as she explores the private passions of the heart. A country doctor never… Read more about this item Item Price
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby
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- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- 3rd printing
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- 9780802131379
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Grove Press Evergreen edition, New York. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine nicks, price sticker on rear cover.
Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn.
Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who… Read more about this item Item Price
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