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A Book of Vulgar Verse
by A Gentleman About Town
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1981
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- Hardcover
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, CAN
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€17.86
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An anthology of Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and other humorous verses and doggerel now for the first time brought together in book form. An enjoyable collection of ill-bred, ill-mannered, rude and stimulating poems of or relating to the common people. List of Poets are J.W. Riley, Eugene Field, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen Volume 1 Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park.
by Austen Jane
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- Modern Library Edition
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- 1992
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- Hardcover
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, CAN
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€15.55
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A Modern Library Giant. The three novels present are (1) Sense and Sensibility (2) Pride and Prejudice (3) Mansfield Park. Short gift giving message to prelim. Price-clipped dust jacket. This attractively bound book has the look and feel of newness in a condition that promises to please. Item Price
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The Charles Dickens Encyclopedia
by Hardwick Michael & Mollie
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- Fine
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- Wordsworth Edition
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- 1992
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- Hardcover
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, CAN
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€15.98
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This is one of the most comprehensive detailed and accurate single-volume reference books on the life and work of Charles Dickens ever compiled. Index provided.This encyclopedia will enormously enhance the pleasure of the novels for any reader.The illustrated dust jacket matches the hardboard front cover of the book in a most attractive way.The immaculate condition of this reference book promises… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lessons From The Wolverine
by Lopez Barry Illustrations by Tom Pohrt
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- As New
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- As New
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- First Edition First Printing
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- 1997
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- Hardcover
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- 9781550138597
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, CAN
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€14.09
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Toronto, Ontario: Key Porter Books Limited, 1997 Barry Lopez's story shows how one man comes to experience the wonderous power of animals and to understand his place in the natural world in a new way. Tom Pohrt's watercolor illustrations add vivid dimension to the story, bringing to life the land, people and animals the young man encounters on his journey… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Small General
by Standish Robert Author of 'The Three Bamboos"
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 1945
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- Hardcover
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, CAN
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€37.70
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Toronto: Reginald Saunders, 1945. Author's third novel. A novel by the same author that gave us "The Three Bamboos". etc. This book is a story of a business scandal, of love and conflict and patriotism, told in a highly entertaining way and laid in contemporary China. In his earlier novels Robert Standish has shown that he understands the Japanese as… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Violent Friend: The Story of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson
by Mackay Margaret
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- Used - Fine
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- Very Good
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- Abridged Edition
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- 1969
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- Hardcover
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€23.56
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London: J M Dent and Sons Limited, 1969. An abridgment of the edition published in the U.S. by Doubleday & Co Inc 1968. This is the romantic life story of Robert Louis Stevenson and the talented and remarkable woman Fanny, who became his wife. She was ten years older than Stevenson, an American with a husband and two children when… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Dark Lady
by Auchincloss, Louis
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1977
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- Hardcover
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- 9780395254028
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, CAN
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€23.52
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. The offices, penthouses and suburban chateaux of New York are the setting for Louis Auchincloss's The Dark Lady. Spanning three decades from 1930's to the McCarthy era, the novel chronicles a powerful woman's rise and the human toll it takes. The author examines the many faces of ambition and desire that rule both the schemers… Read more about this item Item Price
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Accordion Crimes: Author of The Shipping News
by Proulx E. Annie
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
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- 1996
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- Hardcover
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- 9780684195483
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€35.34
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New York: Scribner, 1996. Complete number line. The green accordion travels from hand to hand over a hundred-year period, plays the music of many different ethnic groups. The story of the fictional accordion maker is set into a fictionalized account based on March 1891 articles in the New Orleans paper the Daily Picayune, of the real 1891 lynching of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Merry Heart : Selections 1980-1995
by Davies, Robertson
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 1996
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- Hardcover
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- 9780771025846
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, CAN
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€51.84
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Toronto: A Douglas Gibson Book. McClelland & Stewart, 1996. As close to an autobiography as we can ever expect, this collection of reminiscences, speeches, book reviews, paradies, and essays tells us a great deal about the writer and the man. The introductions to each of the twenty-four chapters add further biographical details, followed by tantalizing fragments from Davies own… Read more about this item Item Price
€51.84
The Clintons and Others. Being the Fifth Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons
by Marshall, Archibald
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1920
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- Hardcover
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€23.09
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Dodd,Mead & Company, 1920. 1920 to title page. Copyright 1919. Frontispiece: Photo titled - Marshall's Chalet in Switzerland. The contents provide: (1) Kencote, (2) The Terrors, (3) The Son of Service, (4) In That State of Life,(5) The Builder, (6) The Little Squire, (8) Audacious Ann, (8) The Bookkeeper, (9) The Squire and The War. Decorated spine. A… Read more about this item Item Price
€23.09
Samuel Pepys The Man In The Making
by Bryant, Arthur
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1945
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- Hardcover
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€25.92
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London: Cambridge University Press, 1945. 1945 to title page and copyright page. Reprint of the 1933 first edition. Frontispiece portrait of Samuel Pepys on semi-gloss stock. A list of illustrations provided, all present and in excellent condition. Preface by Arthur Bryant, followed by a shortened pedigree of Samuel Pepys to illustrate the relationship referred to in this volume.… Read more about this item Item Price
€25.92
Gabriela Clove and Cinnamon
by Amado. Jorge
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
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- Fourth Printing
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- 1962
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- Hardcover
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, CAN
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€21.21
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New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1962. November 1962. BOMC Edition. Translated from the Portuguese by James L. Taylor and William L. Grossman. The story is set in the year 1925 in Ilheus, Brazil.... it was the year Gabriela moved in from the backlands, one of a flock of dirty, bedraggled migrant workers - but what a girl she turned… Read more about this item Item Price
€21.21
Evelyn Waugh. Portrait Of A Country Neighbour
by Donaldson, Frances
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1968
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- Hardcover
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€23.56
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London: Readers Union/Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. Orignally published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1967. The contents of this biography is divided into two parts. Part one - Piers Court covers: First Love, Social Occasions, A Family Friendship, The Real Mr. Pinfold, and Income Tax. Part two - Combe Florey covers: Visits To Somerset, Letters and Postcards and a Last… Read more about this item Item Price
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Love and Hatred : The Troubled Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy
by Shirer, William L
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
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- 9780671881627
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, CAN
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€28.23
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. The author of The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich, The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler, The Berlin Diary, etc. now gives us his last book Love and Hatred being the stormy marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy. It is a touching brilliant biography of one of literary history's most famous… Read more about this item Item Price
€28.23
Taps For Private Tussie
by Stuart, Jesse. Illustrated By Thomas Benton
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- Very Good
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- Hardcover
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, CAN
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€17.44
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New York: E.P Dutton and Company, Inc Copyright 1943. Taps For Private Tussie - Winner of the 1943 Thomas Jefferson Southern Award. " What Bret Harte was to the Outcasts of Poker Flat, and Joel Chandler Harris to the Plantation Negro, Jesse Stuart is to the folk of the Kentucky Mountains." in part by Ralph Thomson. Perhaps no… Read more about this item Item Price
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Traffics and Discoveries
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- Used - Good
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1904
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- Hardcover
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, CAN
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€25.92
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Toronto: Morang & Co: Limited, 1904. Traffics and Discoveries is a book of adult short stories. Some of them being: The Captive - The Bonds of Discipline - A Sahibs' War - Their Lawful Occasions Part One and Part Two - The Comprehension of Private Copper - Steam Tactics, etc. A poem is written before each separate story. Rudyard Kipling… Read more about this item Item Price
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Favourite Winter Stories From Fireside Al
by Maitland, Alan (Selected and Introduced by)
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
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- 9780670856107
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, CAN
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€25.92
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Toronto: Viking, 1994. For more years than Alan Maitland probably cares to count, CBC Radio listeners have enjoyed the inimitate warmth and charm of "Fireside Al," Canada's best loved storyteller. Now, for the first time, Fireside Al's favourite winter stories have been collected in book form, offering fans of all ages a chance to put their feet up, sip some… Read more about this item Item Price
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Some Fell Among Thorns
by Doner, Mary Frances
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1939
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- Hardcover
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€27.29
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Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1939. One title of Mary Frances Doner's books known as her "Great Lakes" novels. These novels focused on the people who sailed the freight and passenger ships on the lakes, their ambitions and joy in their work and the drama of storms and accidents; on the wives and girlfriends and the children who awaited them… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Living Novel
by Pritchett, V.S
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Good
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- First Edition
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- 1946
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- Hardcover
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€61.26
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London: Chatto & Windus., 1946. "The Living Novel" consists of thirty-two essays of which the first twenty-one are concerned with English novels - or more precisely, novels written in English - in historical perspective, beginning with Fielding and Richardson and ending with Walt Whitman and Stephen Crane. Of the remainder, one is devoted to the Italian Giovanni Verga, four to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Barefoot In The Park: A Comedy In Three Acts
by Simon, Neil
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1966
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- Paperback
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€15.55
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New York: Samuel French Inc, 1966. Stapled card covers. 93 printed pages cover the three acts followed with the property plot for each act, scene designs and ads for "Never Too Late" - "A Thurber Carnival" - "Come Blow Your Horn" and "A Thousand Clowns". A sound ,most servicable copy of this play. . Soft Cover. Very Good. Item Price
€15.55