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Darkness at Noon.

Koestler, Arthur, translated by Daphne Hardy, · 1941 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Modern Library, (1941). Reprint. G. "He who established a dictatorship and does not kill Brutus.will only reign a short time." Machiavelli, Discorsi. Tale of old Bolshevik Nicholas Rurashov, now imprisoned, an aging revolutionary who can no longer condone the excesses of a r…

The Edge of Doom.

Brady, Leo, · 1949 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Dutton, 1949. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. You sit with Martin Lynn in the drab room where his mother lies dead and go with him to the man from whom he expects help. Then to the funeral home with the body of the man he has slain, his feline stalking of the woman who talked too much, …

You, the Jury.

Borden, Mary, · 1952 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Longmans, Green, 1952. BCE. VG in G DJ. Story of Merriedew as told by Lady Barbara, daughter of the Earl of Greymouth. She and her brother Francis played as. children with the famly of the village doctor, Merriehew. He tries to live the Christ ideals in the modern world. As …

Touch the Top of the World: a blind man's journey to climb farther than the eye can see.

Weihenmayer, Erik, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Dutton, (2001). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Erik learned early that he was destined to lose his sight by 13 and determined he would rise above his disability. Fewer than. 100 mountaineers have climbed all Seven Summits - the highest peak on each of the seven continents. Erick has …

The New Year's Owl: encounters with animals, people & the land they share.

Shetterly, Susan Hand, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Dublin, NH, Yankee, (1987). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. The injured owl that neighbors brought to Susan on New Year's Eve should not have survived. He had a compound fracture of. one wing but he survived to fly again. Shetterly is a licensed wild bird rehabilitator. Owner name …

That Quail, Robert.

Stanger, Margaret, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Philadelphia, Lippincott, (1966). 4th ptg. VG. In July 1962 Robert started life as an egg on the kitchen counter in a Cape Cod home in Orleans, MA. Rescued from an. abandoned nest & mothered by a boudoir lamp's warmth, he soon had the run of the house & grounds. He would not go …

I'm Not Scared.

Ammanniti, Niccolo, translated from Italian by Jonathan Hunt, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Edinburgh, Canongate, (2004). VG in VG DJ. The hottest summer of the 20th century, 6 children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted country side and. 9 yr old Michele finds a secret so momentous, so terrible, he cannot tell anyone but must deal with what he ha…

Disgrace.

Coetzee, J. M., · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Viking, (1999). 13th ptg. VG in VG DJ. At 52, Prof. David is divorced, filled with desire but lacking in passion. He retreats to his daughter's after an affair with. his student leaves him jobless. There he attempts to relate to his daughter & a society with new racial compl…

The Navy Colt (complete & unabridged): a Johnny fletcher mystery.

Gruber, Frank, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Harrisburg, PA, Superior/Military Serv Pub, (1945). 3rd ptg. G PB. Would you like to earn 10 dollars? All you have to do is punch a guy in the nose when he opens the door. Fletcher in Chicago. where he becomes involved with gun-fanciers, blackmailers, plug-uglies, literary ladie…

The Province Beyond the River: the diary of a Protestant at a Trappist Monastery.

Jones, W. Paul, · 1981 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Paulist Press, (1981). G PB. A seminary professor realizes he has never "experienced" God, never sensed His presence, never prayed with ardor. He goes to. a remote Trappist monastery in the mountains of Colorado to live & pray with the Monks to discover whether God lives in …

The Gardener's Grandchildren.

Willard, Barbara, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, McGraw-Hill, (1979). BCE. VG in VG DJ. When Mr. Alexander went away he told his gardener to "keep it as we both would wish until my return" but when the gardener. died his children wondered where Mr. Alexander had gone, why was there no word from him and when would he return…

Nietzsche, a biographical introduction.

Lavrin, Janko, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Scribner, (1971). G PB. Widely misquoted & minunderstood, Nietzsche broke all rules of philosophy by trampling over Christian-based ethics. He came. to believe that christianity, far from sustaining mankind, had harrowed Europe cruelly for hundreds of years; that man, if he …

To Open Minds: Chinese clues to the dilemma of contemporary education.

Gardner, Howard, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Basic Books, (1989). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Noted cognitive psychologist Gardner explores both progressive as his own education & traditional as practiced for centuries in. China. On his first visit to China, he was appalled by China's emphasis on structured learning skills b…

In My Own Good Time: an autobiography that defies gravity.

Gibbs, Anthony, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Boston, Gambit Inc., 1970. 1st ptg ss. VG in G DJ. DJ rubbed & price clipped. Son of Philip Gibbs, Anthony was born into the correct world of Edwardian London, where he. traveled with his father on journalistic missions where he met literary celebrities of the day, wrote some pl…

Crabbe's Journey.

Bell, William, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Little Brown, (1986). 1st U.S. ed ss. VG in G DJ. 18 year old Franklin Crabbe, smart, rich & semi-alcoholic, has had everything served to him on a silver platter but he's. tired to trying to be what his parents want him to be. Instead he packs his gear & heads into the w…

Lincoln: a Photobiography

Freedman, Russell · 1987 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$3.00 (€2.72 | £2.27 | ¥479)

NY: Clarion Books, 1987. Light edgewear otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete very good+ paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Winner of the 1988 Newberry Medal. Lincoln was an American folk hero but he was no ordinary man. He was, in fact, complex and this v…

Search Dog

LOCKE, ANGELA · 1989 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£11.36 (€13.62 | $15.01 | ¥2,397)

Time Warner Paperbacks. 1989. (ISBN: 9780747401490). Paperback. Paperback in good condition, pages browned. This is a moving and anecdotal account of Sam, a Labrador rescue dog, which works as part of the Search and Rescue Dog Association team. He mainly operates in the Yorkshir…

John Darke's Sojourn in the Cotteswolds and Elsewhere

BUCKMAN, S.S. · 1890 · Godley Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Chapman & Hall. 1890, First Edition. Hard Cover, 7.75 x 5.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with discolouration to boards, rubbing to ends of very sunned spine and minor bumping to corners. 204…

Blackeyes

Dennis Potter · 1987 · Porcupine Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Faber 1987 First Edition First Printing . Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket with the price removed . ''The writer, Maurice James Kingsley, is seventy-seven. It is twenty years since he has pr…

The Brightonomicon

Robert Rankin · 2005 · Porcupine Books

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

Gollancz 2005 First Edition First Printing . Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened and marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket . ''When our teenage hero takes his beloved one, Enid Earles, away for a dirty weekend in Brighton, things do n…