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La Peste
by Albert Camus
The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague epidemic. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace.
Le Rouge Et Le Noir
by Stendhal
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black), 1830, by Stendhal, is an historical psychological novel in two volumes, chronicling a provincial young man’s attempts to socially rise beyond his plebeian birth with a combination of talent and hard work, deception and hypocrisy — yet who ultimately allows his passions to betray him.
Letters Of C S Lewis
by C S Lewis
“Yes, autumn is really the best of the seasons: and I’m not sure that old age isn’t the best part of life. But of course, like Autumn, it doesn’t last.” What better way to know a writer’s innermost thoughts than by reading their letters? This volume collects C.S. Lewis’s correspondence with family, friends, and fans, and spans from his youth as a student to just a few weeks before his death. Witness his conversion from atheism to Christianity, as well as...
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The Selected Letters Of Marianne Moore
by Marianne, Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller Moore
Belles Lettres Books & Ephemera
United States
by Vidal, Gore
Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays and short stories, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. His most recent novel is The Golden Age, and his new essay collection, The Last Empire: Essays 1993?2000, has just been published.
Forty Stay In
by John W. Vandercook
Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No DJ. Stated "First Edition G-F". Novel set in Liberia, dedicated to Frances Perry Vandercook, so draw your own inferences. Soiled lightly yellowed page edges with clean interior. Boards considerably worn and rubbed through on corners which are also bumped. Spine is foxed, cocked, and showing separation at the head, opens readily to pastedowns.
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€50.00
Down to a Sunless Sea
by Freese, Mathias B
Wheatmark Inc, 2007. Soft cover. Fine. Down to a Sunless Sea plunges the reader into uncomfortable situations and into the minds of troubled characters. Each selection is a different reading experience -- poetic, journalistic, nostalgic, wryly humorous, and even macabre. An award-winning essayist and historical novelist, Mathias B. Freese brings the weight of his twenty-five years as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist into play as he demonstrates a vivid understanding of -- and compassion...
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€20.00
Underdogs
by Mariano Azuela
Signet Classic, 1963. Mass Market Paperback. Good. J.C. Orozco. Yellowed, rubbed edges, nicked and creased spine. Vintage cover art of fifth printing.
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€10.00
William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond
by John Henrik Clarke, editor
Beacon Press, 1968. 4th Printing. Soft cover. Fair. Covers have rubbed edges, corner wear and light general scuffing; clean text except for POS on half title page; binding crack on title page (binding is solid and square, but the glue peeled back a bit on this page so it opens readily to it). Contributors include Lerone Bennett Jr; Alvin F. Poussaint; Vincent Harding; John Oliver Killens; John A. Williams; Ernest Kaiser; Loyle Hairston; Charles V. Hamilton; Mike Thelwell; John Henrik Clarke.
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€30.00
Kitchen
by Banana Yoshimoto
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. Soft cover. Good. Edge wear and yellowed page edges otherwise fine. Presque TBE / VG- Clean copy. No markings. No ex-library. Translated to English from the Japanese by Megan Backus, 150 pages.
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€18.00
Les nouvelles histoires marseillaises de Marius recueillies par Stor
by K. Stor
Les Belles Éditions, 1937. Soft cover. Fair. Superbly well preserved front cover however said covers are semi-detached from the text block. Yellowed text.
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€15.00
Yale French Studies (1960) Number 25 : Albert Camus
Yale University, 1960. Soft cover. Fair. Sunned, chipped, creased spine. Some yellowing of scuffed wraps but the interior is clean and tight. 144 pages. All articles in English.
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€15.00
Oeuvres completes illustrees de anatole france tome XIV crainquebille suivi crainquebille (comedie) le mannequin d' osier (comedie) suivi au petit bonheur (comedie)
by Anatole France
Calmann-Lévy, 1928. Soft cover. Fair. Gabriel Belot. Volume 14 only. Tire sur velin u marais. illustrations des bois graves de gabriel belot interieur impeccable avec jaquette -578pp-in4-broché. Interior is in fine condition, crisp clean and bright. Covers and DJ mildly worn except for spine panel which is in a precarious state, binding still intact but there are multiple creases and stress marks causing rippling, tears and chips at both ends of spine.
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€30.00
Histoire d'un Crime - Deposition d'un Temoin - Edition Illustree
by Victor Hugo
Eugene Hugues, editeur, 1879. Half-Leather. Good. Frontispice en noir et blanc - plats et contre-plats jaspés - dos à 5 nerfs - auteur, filet et titre dorés au dos.- Relié demi-cuir- EDITION ILLUSTREE avec nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc dans et hors texte par J.-P. LAURENS - G. BRION - E. BAYARD - CHIFFLART - D. VIERGE - ADRIEN MARIE - LIX SCOTT - GILBERT - CHAPUIS. Imprimerie A. Quantin a Paris. Des rousseurs et papier jauni dans la plupart des cas dans les marges de...
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€35.00
Introducing Anthropology
by James R. Hayes and James M. Henslin, editors
Holbrook Press, 1975. Soft cover. Good. Wraps partially sunned, one stain, average edge wear, one bumped corner, tear at head of spine. Interior is fine, clean and tight binding. 22 contributions by Benedict, Mead, Malinowski, Simpson. 434 pages. Scarce.
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€26.00
HARFANG - REVUE DE LITTERATURES - octobre 2000 - Nouvelles du Concours 2000 - hors serie N° 5
Nouvelles R, 2000. Soft cover. Good. Tight binding, fine interior, soiled covers with light edge and corner wear, sticker scar on front. ISSN 1164-6160.
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€8.00
Comoedia Illustre : Journal Artistique Bi-mensuel, 1er annee, No.1 - 15 decembre 1908
by collectif
1908. Staplebound. Fair. Staplebound revue 25 x 31 cm., approx 30 pages. Yellowed text still well preserved. Covers are in fair condition (etat correct) with frayed edges, tears on back, rusted staples, thumb dents along spine and extensively soiled.
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€15.00
Guyane Killer [triologie] T1 L'Or du Maroni / T2 Docteur Curare / T3 Les Ailes de la Blanche
by Joel Jean Deplanque
chez l'auteur, 2002. Soft cover. Good. Tome 1/Volume one is in fair condition (etat correct) with heavily worn and creased covers, bent corners, and one crack in binding. The text is clean but there is writing in the endpapers. The other two volumes VG- (presque TBE) condition with like new interiors and tight binding, some scuffing of wraps, a few rub marks on spine. 167 + 204 + 253 pages. Self-published jungle adventure novels by a French forest ranger.
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€20.00
Sakhaline
by Edouard Verkine
Actes Sud, 2020. Soft cover. Near Fine. Roman traduit du russe par Yves Gauthier.
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€20.00
Long Grass Whispers: A Book of African Folk Tales
by Geraldine Elliot
Schocken Books, 1975. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Sheila Hawkins. The 1975 publication date I have listed is for the second printing. Dust jacket has a large tear along spine starting at head soon to become a chip. Also chipping at the tail and worn through the upper two foredge corners. Adhesive tape residue on back cover and tail of spine, a few spots on front, and inside pastedowns where apparently a mylar protector had been removed. Missing the FFEP and a stamp on back board verso has been...
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€45.00
Borges en la Escuela Freudiana de Buenos Aires. ([ACME Agalma Editorial) (Spanish Edition)
by Borges, Jorge Luis
Agalma, 1993. Soft cover. Fair. Argentina: Agalma, 19.5. Buenos Aires, Agalma, 1993. 160 p. Contiene tres conferencias: "Los sueños y la Poesía" (del 1980), "Baruch Spinoza" (1981) y "El poeta y la escritura" (1982). Desgaste de cubierta. Sello de librería en 1era pag en blanco. Interior impecable.. 1993. Agalma 9509982113 AR Published in Argentina in Spanish. Fine interior but the edges of the covers are rubbed and the binding is weak from two splits...
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€40.00
L'Erotisme dans les reves
by Roland Gagey
Soft cover. Fair. One split in binding with corresponding stress line in spine, otherwise tight binding. Text is yellowed. First half of text block well cut, second half uncut, between the two there are 20 pages poorly cut resulting in chips in the page margins (no loss of text). Not an attractive gift copy, but a good reference or reading copy. Undated edition.
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€15.00
Free Air
by Sinclair Lewis
Jonathan Cape, 1933. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 5th printing. Mildly soiled boards, no jacket, POS ex-libris Roger Perrineau.
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€15.00
Afternoon in the Jungle : The Selected Short Stories of Albert Maltz
by Albert Maltz
Liveright, 1970. Hardcover. Acceptable/Fair. Soiled and worn, contains usual library stickers/stamps/pouch, library discard still a good solid reading copy. Hollywood Ten. Scarce hardcover edition.
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€18.00
Bis die Gotter vergehn: Eine abendilandische Mythologie
by Herrmann Mostar
Scherz & Goverts Verlag, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. DJ shows rub marks on spine and edges; nicks and creasing to top edge. Book has tight binding in text, loose on pastedowns, stain on top page edges (hard to see at first glance).
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€10.00
Cesar S'en Est Alle
by Desjardins, Christian
Chez L'auteur, 1975. Soft cover. Good. Exemplaire en bon état enrichi d'un tres bel envoi de l'auteur - livre autographe - dedicace - envoi de l'auteur - rare paysannerie et vendomois. Broché. Illustrations de Serblair. L'histoire d'un brave paysan du Perche Vendômois qui ayant 'avalé son bulletin de naissance', est reçu à la porte du Paradis par l'auteur qui l'a devancé. Mildly soiled and worn covers, one corner...
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€15.00
Oraisons choisies de Cicéron, traduction revue par M. de Wailly, avec le Latin à côté, sur l'édition de M. l'Abbé Lallemant, & avec des notes. Nouvelle édition retouchée avec soin. TOME PREMIER
by Ciceron. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Lallemant. Mailly
Paris: J. Barbou, 1786. Half-Leather. Fair. TOME PREMIER TOUT SEULE. Texte français en regard du texte latin. Relié plein cuir marron. Titre sur le dos à 5 nerfs. Tranches poivrées rouges. [12] + 539 + [1] pages. 10.5 x 17,5 x 3,5 cm. Leather boards are heavily worn and rubbed through on corners, gutters are cracked inside and out and the boards are still attached thanks only to the binding threads running through 5 raised bands. Name plate and engraved encircled volume...
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€22.00
Catcher in the Rye (Modern Classics)
by J. Salinger
Penguin, 1994. Soft cover. Good. Well used but still solid, crease in spine and tape on all corners and spine tips (with the intention to reinforce them I suppose), clean interior. Still a good reading copy.
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€5.00
Remanences Revue Litterarire et Artistique (Mai 2000) No.15
by Yvan Mecif
Remanences , 2000. Soft cover. Good. Association copy inscribed by editor/author Yvan Mecif to Martine Le Coz. Tight binding, like new illustrated interior, covers sunned and foxed on margins/spine.
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€12.00
Contes du Liban
by Khawam, René R
Éditions Asfar, 1989. Soft cover. Good. Soiled scuffed covers, one creased corner, fine binding and interior.
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€15.00