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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 174 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When retired English Colonel plans a nostalgic walking tour in the South of France, his wife engages Kenworthy to mind him. Is this an unpardonable breach of personal privacy? Will the assignment prove a damp squib? Or is Colonel Neville's purpose as sinister as it sometimes seems? Kenworthy finds him in turn eccentric, domineering, secretive and on occasion bumblingly inefficient: then he loses him. Murder follows, and Kenworthy, helped by Monique Colin, a delectable young private eye from an agency in Nice, traces a trail back to the wartime Resistance, a world of pride, passions, jealousies and shame, in with the harshness of reality was sometimes more powerful than the heroism. Condition: Corners bumped else a very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 260 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt letting to spine over grey boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Isolation and boredom can do strange things to people. After years and years of too much time on her hands, lonely housewife Margaret Tucker's mundane routine becomes smattered with odd behavior. Her husband, Bernard, is cold and distant. Spending most of his time in London with only infrequent visits back to the marital home, Margaret knows nothing about her husband's other life and has been all but discarded by the man she once loved. When Margaret starts losing periods of time and cannot recall her actions she knows things have got to change. But just as she is beginning to rediscover herself, her husband's mysterious life once again collides with hers . . . 'Compulsive Canning' "Yorkshire Post" Condition: Jacket spine heal and corners lightly rubbed, spine head small chip, price clipped else a very good copy in like jacket.…

paperback. Condition: Good. DETAILS: small PAPERBACK, cover price 95c, good copy of this old small paperback, probably not used but worn by age, especially along spine. FERGUSSON, FRANCIS. The human image in dramatic literature : essays. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday & Company, 1957, A Doubleday Anchor Original, xx, 217pp., . Cover designed by Leonard Baskin. Typography by Edward Gorey. Series: Doubleday anchor books, A124 CONTENTS: pt. I The Modern Theater: Reflections on the life of the American theater : prolegomena. -- The American theater between the wars -- Broadway -- The mysterious present -- Note on the Academic theater -- Five contemporary playwrights -- Three allegorists : Brecht, Wilder, Eliot -- Joyce's Exiles -- Don Perlimplín : Lorca's theater-poetry -- T.S. Eliot's Poetry and drama -- Boleslavsky's The first six lessons -- pt. II Shakespeare. Macbeth as the imitation of an action -- Measure for measure -- Two comedies -- pt. III Critical attitudes. "Myth" and the literary scruple -- The Golden Bowl revisited -- Kenneth Burke's Grammar of motives -- Two perspectives on European literature.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 180 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First British edition. The murder of schoolteacher Henry Gower brings Superintendent Kenworthy to a village jolted out of its placid ways by events leading to the killing. Keeping the reader rooted to the ramifications in Hilton's 16th novel about the urbane master detective, the question that needs answering is whether Gower was guilty of ""indecent assault,'' as charged by four adolescent girls in his classes. Kenworthy artfully engages the girls' families in sessions with Sgt. Polly Parrot and Constable Patsy Price, skilled at penetrating sham. They hope to breach the conspirators' defenses when the weakest of the quartet confesses the accusation was a hoax. But it is a long and frustrating time before startling facts reward the superintendent and his police women with the case's solid conclusion. The author's insights into fraudulent personas as well as his stinging wit are, as always, the main attraction in his stylish mysteries. Condition: Head corners gently bumped. Jacket with light edge wear else a near fine copy in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 164 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First British edition. The late author's final case for Detective Constable Brunt (The Quiet Stranger, 1985; etc.) is another of his finely crafted, psychologically acute police procedurals. In the early 1900's Walderslow village is isolated and provincial. Widower Horatio Brittlebank, local squire and landowner, shares his manor with reclusive housekeeper Charlotte Machin and spoiled, self-centered son Bernard, just home from Oxford and already the seducer of Mary Ann, daughter of Septimus and Ellen Durden, owners of run-down Slickensides farm and the old mine beneath it. Rumors of Bernard's departure for Canada, spread by a couple of strangers in the village; a reported break-in at the farm; and unexplained changes in the neighborhood's water-flow patterns lead Brunt to the discovery of Bernard's corpse in the old mine workings. The young man had a legion of enemies, so it takes all Brunt's patience and acumen to find the murderer and conjure up an unconventional justice. Believable characters, sound motivation, and solid evocation of time and place have been Hilton hallmarks. Slickensides is no exception. A fitting windup to a first-rate career in the British traditional genre. Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $15.95, near fine. ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. A single man. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001, later printing, 186pp., . "After the sudden death of his longtime lover, George must adjust to life on his own as a professor in Southern California in the early 1960s. During the course of an ordinary day, George is haunted by memories as he seeks connections with the world around him". ISBN 9780816638628 8.00.…

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Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 121 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. In this bizarre and entirely absorbing story, Stephen Coulter dissents, with great subtlety, wit and delight in the macabre, a sinister sibling relationship and reveals the dangerously deceptive sanity of a pathological mind. Condition: Pages age toned, remainder stamp to heal end pages else better than very good in a fine jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 184 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Asked to speak at a conference on the topic of riot control, Inspector Kenworthy of Scotland Yard grows utterly perplexed when an obscure government agency is linked to a crime involving a gang of football hooligans. Condition: Jacket moderate extremity wear, fold over edge flap creased.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 156 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Years after the murder of Mr Fred, a beloved family friend, the secrets surrounding his death still haunt Kathy Hollinshead. Turn-of-the-century rural Derbyshire come to life as Kathy delves deeply into her family's past and discovers the schocking relationship between Mr Fred and her parents. All the Hollinsheads adored Mr Fred, even though the neighbors spread vicious rumors about him. Mr Fred couldn't be the murderer and child molester people said he was-or could he? Outwitting the formidable Inspector Brunt, Kathy stumbled on Mr Fred and glimpsed his dark mystery. Kathy stumbled on Mr Fred and glimpsed his dark mystery. Surprised and frightened by her discovery as a child, Kathy is a grown woman before she finally penetrates the intertwined lives of Mr Fred, her father and her mother, in a stunning, emotional conclusion. Condition: A near fine copy in a fine jacket.…

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $16.95, attractive copy, near fine. ÖZLÜ, TEZER. Cold nights of childhood. Translated by Maureen Freely, with an introduction by Aysegül Savas. Oakland, California: Transit Books, 2023, 1st printing number line ending in 1, 111pp., . Translation of: Çocuklugun soguk geceleri. - "The narrator of Tezer Özlü's novel is between lovers. She is in and out of psychiatric wards, where she is forced to undergo electroshock treatments. She is between Berlin and Paris. She returns to Istanbul, in search of freedom, happiness, and new love. Set across the rambling orchards of a childhood in the Turkish provinces and the smoke-filled cafes of European capitals, Cold Nights of Childhood offers a sensual, unflinching portrayal of a woman's sexual encounters and psychological struggle, staging a clash between unbridled feminine desire and repressive, patriarchal society. Originally published in 1980, six years before her death at 43, Cold Nights of Childhood cemented Tezer Özlü's status as one of Turkey's most beloved writers. A classic that deserves to stand alongside The Bell Jar and Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Cold Nights of Childhood is a powerfully vivid, disorienting, and bittersweet novel about the determined embrace of life in all its complexity and confusion, translated into English here for the first time by Maureen Freely, with an introduction by Aysegül Savas.". ISBN 9781945492693. …

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $6.95, heavy pencil notations in margins in a few pages in chapter on Heschel, a few other pencil markings, still quite good used copy. COHEN, ARTHUR A. The natural and the supernatural Jew: an historical and theological introduction : SOME MARKINGS. New York: Behrman House, 1979, Second, revised edition, xvi, 334pp., . With a 4-page preface to the second edition, where he notes the main text is unchanged. - the second edition is scarce. 9780874412918 ISBN 0874412919.…

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover_pictorial boards. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 6.5"x9.5". 374 pages. Thumb indexed. Still in original cellophane. The materials of Scientology comprise the greatest accumulation of knowledge ever assembled on the mind, spirit and life. Through more than a hundred books and publications, thousands more articles and essays, and over 3,000 recorded lectures, the works of L. Ron Hubbard embrace virtually every aspect of living. Here, then, is Scientology: A New Slant on Life, containing a timeless selection of Ron's discoveries drawn from the full wealth of his writings and each one presenting a broad, yet comprehensive overview of Scientology applied to a specific aspect of existence -- and, in combination, providing the panoramic overview of life itself. Here are the answers to questions Man has sought through the ages; here are practical answers you hoped could be found somewhere; Source: Publisher.…

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, no covers; owner's catalog number; o/w in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, no covers; owner's catalog number; o/w in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, no covers; in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.