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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1986. 320 pgs. Map endpapers. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in 1/2 cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Lusting after a clergyman's wife, smuggling opium to Hong Kong, coupling with an Amazonian woman river pirate, groveling before a ruthless warlord, and becoming the sexual plaything of the most beautiful and evil woman in the world, Harry Flashman, the supreme antihero of the Victorian era, is ready to rise to the occasion to matter what depths of dishonor he must plumb. In this uninhibited and uproarious adventure, Flashman is once again at his irascible best. Flashman and the Dragon is a 1985 novel by George MacDonald Fraser. It is the eighth of the Flashman novels. Presented within the frame of the supposedly discovered historical Flashman Papers, this book describes the bully Flashman from Tom Brown's School Days. The papers are attributed to Flashman, who is not only the bully featured in Thomas Hughes' novel, but also a well-known Victorian military hero. The book begins with an explanatory note detailing the discovery of these papers. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1990. 105 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "Nothing stays put," writes Clampitt in a poem from her fourth collection: "All that we know, that we're/ made of, is motion." It is against this motion, particularly the westward movement that seems to drive the fates of both humans and wildlife, that the poet holds her "frail wick of Metaphor." But given Clampitt's well-established reputation for opulent language and rich, almost heady, description, the claim to frailty is disingenuous indeed. Though many poems rely on the now-familiar wildflower litanies that typify much current poetry, Clampitt's interest in transplants ("what had been alien begins/ as it alters, to grow as though it were indigenous") adds an extra dimension to a book that grows gradually stranger as the reader's imagination travels through it. ; 6.25 X 0.75 X 9 inches; 105 pages.

. (illustrator). Very Good in VG clean jacket with chip at top corner of spine, now in clear protector. Owner's book plate on free front endpaper Hardcover 8vo, 311 pp. in jacket Lauritzen's first novel. Interracial conflict an confusion near where Utah meets the Navajo Nation. Conclusion: There is no other time than now. .

Zustand: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Slightly dampstained. Owner's name on front endpage. (ancient history, young adult, non-fiction).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1986. 320 pgs. Map endpapers. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in 1/2 cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Lusting after a clergyman's wife, smuggling opium to Hong Kong, coupling with an Amazonian woman river pirate, groveling before a ruthless warlord, and becoming the sexual plaything of the most beautiful and evil woman in the world, Harry Flashman, the supreme antihero of the Victorian era, is ready to rise to the occasion to matter what depths of dishonor he must plumb. In this uninhibited and uproarious adventure, Flashman is once again at his irascible best. Flashman and the Dragon is a 1985 novel by George MacDonald Fraser. It is the eighth of the Flashman novels. Presented within the frame of the supposedly discovered historical Flashman Papers, this book describes the bully Flashman from Tom Brown's School Days. The papers are attributed to Flashman, who is not only the bully featured in Thomas Hughes' novel, but also a well-known Victorian military hero. The book begins with an explanatory note detailing the discovery of these papers. EB; 6.25 X 1 X 8.75 inches; 365 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1964. X, 484 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This 1964 book by Dunham surveyed the history of Western philosophy, beginning with the Egyptian heretical pharaoh Akhnaton, proceeding through Socrates and concluding with the great U. S. Socialist Eugene Debs. Along the way, Dunham managed to cover such diverse figures as Jesus of Nazareth, Pelagius, the Protestant Reformers, thinkers of the Enlightenment, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx, to name just a few. Dunham portrayed the history of Western thought as being characterized by a dialectical struggle between the Orthodox and the Heretics, between Authority and Truth. He defined Heresies as "those ideas that disrupt an existing society in such a way as to change, or threaten to change, the distribution of power within it." Thus, he sought to relate changes in human thought to changes in societies. For Barrows Dunham, the great intellectual struggles of human thought are always intimately related to the struggles for power that exist in society.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 484 pages.

(16), 223, (19) Seiten u. 7 teils doppelblattgrosse Tafeln. Goldgeprägter OLwd.-Einband. 24x16 cm Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 800.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A Knopf, New York. 1972. 183 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Price-clipped DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The first book by this Assistant US Attorney (who also worked as a defense attorney) , one of the best novels ever written about life in the mob (in this case, the Boston mob. ) Filmed in 1973, with Robert Mitchum . "Eddie Coyle and his 'friends' - people he can trade in for his own life and who can kill him for theirs - are hoods. If the 'wise guys' - the syndicate wheels who sometimes surface in Eddie's world to give an order - are the same as executives, then henpecked, worried Eddie Coyle is the working stiff of crime." EB; 8.4 X 5.9 X 1.0 inches; 183 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1977. 373 pgs. First Edition/First printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "Rejecting the familiar slave-to-glands/dirty-mind images of post-puberty, Millhauser's claustrophobic second novel may carve closer to the truth of adolescence; perhaps it's precisely the asexual, the antisexual, that seals the cloister of those difficult years. The snug sensations of seeing a friend's room for the first time, of showing off a stamp collection, of being sick and staying home from school--for Arthur Grumm, the sitter for this Romantic portrait, these are precious, heightened rites. His operative words are "boring, "sullen," "langorous," "brown, " and any sentence that can begin with "O!" is peachy with him. Along with his friends--the upright William, the maudit Philip, the "phantom" Eleanor--Arthur wiles away Connecticut summers with either Monopoly or; 1.4 x 8.5 x 6 Inches; 373 pages.

Hardcover. An astonishing debut novel--Blue Velvet meets Oedipus Rex-- about an eight-year-old psychopath in (where else?) Southern California.

Leinen. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1st edition. XVIII, 244 + XV Seiten / pages schöner Leinenband im Format 17 x 25 cm mit Goldtitelprägung; sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit zahlreichen Abbildungen - excellent linen copy with many illustrations Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York. 1946. Xviii, 510 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. An annotated anthology of writings about animals. Some thirty tales, winnowed to size with care by Ivan Sanderson. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Olive H. Coates Palgrave (illustrator). This is a Borzoi Book.Volume I and II. Almost as new and unread.

306 s. Publsiher's boards with dust jacket.

Zustand: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. Portions of the dust jacket are cut and pasted onto the endpages and flyleaf. Owner's name on front endpage. ( cherokee indians, history, cherokee ).

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Jill Bennett (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1975. 196 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in 1/2 brown cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Danny's life seems perfect: his home is a gypsy caravan, he's the youngest car mechanic around, and his best friend is his dad, who never runs out of wonderful stories to tell. And when Danny discovers his father's secret, he's off on the adventure of a lifetime. Here's Roald Dahl's famous story about a 9-year-old boy, his dad, and a daring and hilarious pheasant-snatching expedition. Just as important, it's the story of the love between a boy and his father who, in Danny's own words, is "the most marvelous and exciting father a boy ever had. "; 6.25 X 0.75 X 9.5 inches; 196 pages.

Fifth printing. XLI, 724, XXI, 4 Seiten. Gr.8vo. Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Papier und Umschlag zeitbedingt etwas gebräunt. Umschlag innen sorgfältig am oberen und unteren Rand mit Klebestreifen hinterlegt. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1300.

VIII, 324 (1) pp. Publisher's quarter cloth, dust jacket with sticker. Half title page signed by the author. First free end leaf with Jan Olov Ulléns name signature, his notes in the margin and underlinings through out the text.

, True Confessions, [10], 341 pages; Dutch Shea, Jr, 352 pages, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, ISBN 0671412922; Nothing Lost, [8], 331 pages, advance reader's edition in paperback First Editions , slight bumping to spine of True Confessions, sunning to top and bottom edges of Dutch Shea Jr, front cover of Nothing Lost is curled slightly, True Confesssions havs foxing to the block edge, half title and last few leaves and some page edges are creased, Dutch Shea has very light foxing to edges and endpapers, books in very good condition , dustwrapper to True Confessions is rubbed at edges, dustwrapper to Dutch Shea Jr is in very good condition , cloth with gilt titles on spine; quarter cloth and paper covered boards with silver gilt titles on spine and initials to front board; printed card wraps , 24 cm x 16.5 cm Hardback and Paperback SIGNED by the author ISBN: 525223657.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1980. 348 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present (light chipping present to the edges of the DJ). Bound in half cloth red boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The search for diamonds, a crucial scientific breakthrough and a mythical ruined city set off this adventure into the heart of the Congolese jungle. The American expedition is led by Karen Ross, desperate to find her husband and recover the data he found before he disappeared. But there are other teams trying to get there first, and the way is strewn with life-threatening dangers -- plane crashes, civil wars and a dormant volcano awoken by dormant explosives. In the tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle and H. Rider Haggard, Congo is a novel of high adventure from the master of the modern thriller. ; 6 X 1.5 X 8.75 inches; 348 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1982. 479 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The story immediately follows the end of Flash for Freedom! Part one In his haste to leave New Orleans and avoid arrest, Flashman agrees to accompany Susie Willinck and her company of prostitutes westwards on the California Gold Rush; Willinck forces him into marriage before the journey. Despite being attacked by a band of Comanche on the journey, they reach Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Flashman absconds with $2,000 made from selling one of the prostitutes, Cleonie, to Navajos. Flashman falls in with a group of travellers but he discovers them to be scalp-hunters, when they attack a band of Apaches. Flashman joins in but refuses to take any scalps or rape captive women, and when the scalp-hunters are attacked by the remainder of the tribe, he is saved and marries Sonsee-Array, the daughter of chief, Mangas Coloradas. He eventually escapes and is saved by Kit Carson on the Jornada del Muerto. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1975. 336 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Flashman is at Balmoral Castle as a guest of Queen Victoria; he meets Lord Palmerston, who recruits him to go to Jhansi in India and investigate rumours of a rebellion among the Sepoys. Flashman again encounters Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev, and the Russian tries to kill him while hunting. Once in Jhansi he meets the queen, Rani Lakshmibai. He listens to her grievances against the British Raj and attempts to seduce her. Shortly afterwards he is nearly garroted by Thuggees and assumes the disguise of Makarram Khan, a Hasanzai of the Black Mountain, and takes refuge in the native cavalry at Meerut. While there, the Sepoy Mutiny begins. Flashman survives the Siege of Cawnpore and the Siege of Lucknow but ends up imprisoned in Gwalior after an attempt to deliver Lakshmi into British hands. He is released just in time to witness her death in battle. In the aftermath Flashman is awarded the Victoria Cross and is knighted; he is also given a copy of the recently published Tom Brown's School Days, which describes him being a bully and a coward while at school. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 336 pages.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1990. Xii, 277 pgs. Signed by Alice Munro on the FFEP. Advanced reading copy in slipcase. Slipcased in a maroon and white printed card box. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's pastand instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The masterythe almost numinous ability to say the unsayablemakes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event. ; 6 X 0.75 X 8.5 inches; 273 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1983. 335 pgs. Signed by John Le Carre on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Charlie, a jobbing young English actress, is accustomed to playing different roles. But when the mysterious, battle-scarred Joseph recruits her into the Israeli secret services, she enters the dangerous ''theatre of the real''. As she acts out her part in an intricate, high-stakes plot to trap and kill a Palestinian terrorist, it threatens to consume her. Set in the tragic arena of the Middle East conflict, this compelling story of love and torn loyalties plays out against the backdrop of an unwinnable war. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 429 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf. 1991. 335 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Nothing is as it was. Old enemies embrace. The dark staging grounds of the Cold Warwhose shadows barely obscured the endless games of espionageare flooded with light; the rules are rewritten, the stakes changes, the future unfathomable. John le Carré has seized this momentous turning point in history to give us the most disturbing experience we have yet had of the frail and brutal world of spydom. The man called Ned speaks to us. All his adult life he has been in British Intelligencethe Circusa loyal, shrewd, wily officer of the Cold War. Now, approaching the end of his career, he revisits his own pastan intricate weave of suspicion, danger, boredom and exhilaration that is the essence of espionage and of his own sentimental education. He invites us on a tour of his three decades in the Circus, burrowing deep into the twilight the Circus, burrowing deep into the twilight world where he ran spies"joes"from Poland, Estonia, Hungary, men and women to whom he gave his most profound love and hate. Along the way we meet a host of splendid new characters and reacquaint ourselves with the legendary old knights of the Circus and the notorious traitor, Bill Haydon. Telling the story of his own life's secret pilgrimage, Ned illuminates the brave past and the even braver present of George Smileyreluctant keeper of the flamewho combines within himself the ideal and the reality of the Circus. Smiley, Ned's mentor and hero, now gives back to him the "dangerous edge" of memory which empowers him to frame the questions that have haunted himand the worldfor thirty years, and that haunt us still. The Secret Pilgrim holds us galvanized by its storytelling genius, by its perceptions of the moral conundrums at the heart of our society, and by its singular grasp of the myths and fantasies underlying the conflicts of nations. It is John le Carré's most magnificent novel. ; 6.54 X 1.35 X 9.46 inches; 335 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1973. 286 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Flashman is ordered to protect and mentor William of Cellea (fictional) cousin of Queen Victoriaduring the Crimean War; William is killed. Flashman is subsequently involved in The Thin Red Line, the charge of the Heavy Brigade and the charge of the Light Brigade, where he surrenders. He is taken into Russia and placed in the custody of Count Pencherjevsky; he also meets his old school friend Scud East, and Count Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev, a vicious Russian army captain. After overhearing plans for the Russian invasion of British India, Flashman and East escape, but Flashman is recaptured. He is taken by Ignatiev across central Asia as part of his plans to conquer India, but is subsequently rescued from prison by cohorts of Yaqub Beg. Tajik and Uzbek warriors attack and destroy the Russian fleet with the aid of Flashman, who had been drugged with hashish. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1946. 118 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in green cloth boards with titles present to the spine and blkindstamped title present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest -- were doing at 8: 15 a. M. On August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. Then he follows the course of their lives hour by hour, day by day. The New Yorker of August 31, 1946, devoted all its space to this story. The immediate repercussions were vast: newspapers here and abroad reprinted it; during evening half-hours it was read over the network of the American Broadcasting Company; leading editorials were devoted to it in uncounted newspapers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 118 pages.

Portrait frontispiece and 19 other inserted plates, black cloth with gilt spine titling and gilt device on upper board. Lacking dust-jacket. A very good copy.