The Wild Muse

Ignorance: A Novel

Kundera, Milan · 2003

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Harper Perennial First edition, trade softcover. Published NY:Harper Perennial, 2003, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 195pp. Flattened crease on top corner of one page, else fine. A brilliant novel set in contemporary Prague, by one of the most distinguished writers of our ti...

Immortality

Kundera, Milan · 1992

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Harper Perennial First edition, trade softcover. Published NY:Harper Perennial, 1992, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 345pp. Mild age tone to paper, else fine. Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 352

Appleby Plays Chicken: Death on a Quiet Day (16) (Inspector Appleby)

Innes, Michael · 2000

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House of Stratus First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire:House of Stratus, 2000, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 187pp. As new. David was hiking across Dartmoor, pleased to have escaped the oppressively juvenile and sometimes perilous behaviour of his fellow...

Appleby Talking: Dead Man's Shoes (14) (Inspector Appleby)

Innes, Michael · 2001

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House of Stratus First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire: House of Stratus, 2001, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 201pp. Fine. Arbuthnot is paying for a rash decision - he recently married a beautiful but slightly amoral girl whose crazy antics caught his rat...

Taras Bulba (Modern Library Classics)

Gogol, Nikolai · 2004

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Modern Library First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Modern Library, 2004, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, xxi+141pp. As new. The First New Translation in Forty Years Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol's epic tale recounts bot...

The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel (Penguin Classics)

Marquis, Don · 2006

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Penguin First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Penguin, 2006, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, xlii+346pp. Mild age tone to paper, else as new. Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis, who was frequently compared to M...

The Violins of Saint-Jacques

Patrick Leigh Fermor · 2004

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John Murray First edition, trade softcover. Published London: John Murray, 2004. 8vo. wrappers, 139pp., illustrated. Light crease at bottom edge of rear cover, else fine. On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is capti...

A Time to Keep Silence (New York Review Books Classics)

Leigh Fermor, Patrick · 2007

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NYRB First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: NYRB, 2007, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 96pp. As new. While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. Duri...

Elective Affinities (Penguin Classics)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von · 1978

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Penguin Trade softcover. Published London: Penguin, 1978. 8vo. wrappers, 300pp. Mild age tone to paper. Near fine. Condemned as immoral when it was first published, this novel reflects the conflict Goethe felt between his respect for the conventions of marriage and the possi...

Figures of Speech ~ Sixty Ways to Turn a Phrase

Quinn, Arthur · 1982

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Gibbs M. Smith First edition, trade softcover. Published Salt Lake City:Gibbs M. Smith, 1982, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 103pp. Paper age toned, else near fine. SynopsisWriting is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as...

Benchley Lost and Found (Dover Humor)

Benchley, Robert · 1970

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Dover Publications First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Dover, 1970. 8vo. wrappers, 183pp., illustrated. Near fine. These "39 prodigal pieces" show Robert Benchley at the height of his whimsicality, damning with gentle urbanity all the things that peeve every one o...

Memories of Mistresses

Luigi Barzini · 1986

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Mcmillan First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Mcmillan, 1986, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 311pp. Very good. Very Good No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 311

No Name

Collins, Wilkie · 1978

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Dover Pubns First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Dover, 1978, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 609pp., with 16 period illustrations. slight foxing edges/endpapers. Very good. Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian E...

The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed

Norman Lewis · 1984

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Hippocrene Books First edition, trade softcover. Published NY:Hippocrene Books, 1984, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 274pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Tiny ding on edge of last few sheets, else fine. Traces the history of the Sicilian mafia, looks at their feuds, customs,...

The Great Fire

Hazzard, Shirley · 2004

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Picador Trade softcover. Published NY: Picador 2004, ninth printing. 8vo. wrappers, 326pp. Some age toning to paper, else near fine. The Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate ...

Travesties: A Play

Stoppard, Tom · 1975

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Grove Press First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Grove Press, 1975, second printing. 8vo. wrappers, 99pp. Paper age toned, else very good. Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- Jame...

Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land

Stoppard, Tom · 1976

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Grove Press First edition, trade softcover. Published NY:Grove Press, 1976, second printing. 8vo. wrappers, 75pp. Near fine. Near Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 2nd Printing NY 8vo 75

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul: Two Plays

Stoppard, Tom · 1978

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Grove Press First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Grove Press, 1978, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 124pp. Near fine. It is Tom Stoppard's very special skill as the master comedian of ideas in the modern theater to create brilliant, biting humor out of serious concern...

Appleby's Other Story (28) (Inspector Appleby)

Innes, Michael · 2000

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House of Stratus First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire: House of Stratus, 2000, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 179pp. Fine. During a walk to Elvedon House, palatial home of the Tythertons, Sir John Appleby and Chief Constable Colonel Pride are stunned to ...

Appleby And The Ospreys (35) (Inspector Appleby)

Innes, Michael · 2000

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House of Stratus First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire: House of Stratus, 2000, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 159pp. Fine. Clusters, a great country house, is troubled by bats, as Lord and Lady Osprey complain to their guests, who include first rate det...