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Third printing of the 1992 first edition (as stated upon copyright page). 127 pages. Hardcover; H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. White dust jacket lightly rubbed, faint soiling. Brown cloth with gilt stamped spine lettering. Frontispiece and other illustrations by Patrick Benson. A crisp fine copy in near fine dust jacket. ISBN 0091774373.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Cover shows slight scuffing to edges and discoloration of spine. No markings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Softcover / Paperback. Condition: Fine. First edition. Softcover. On January 23, 1991, twin sisters Emma and Beckie Harper left their family home for a party. They didn't return that night and, the following day, local news reported a barn fire in a village outside their home town of Cheltenham. Human remains had been discovered in the barn - they were Emma and Beckie, aged just 17yrs. In this moving account, the twins' mother, Vicky, relates the tragic events surrounding their deaths and the battle to discover the truth. Three young men admitted being at the barn with the twins and were charged with murder, later reduced to manslaughter. At the trial, Vicky and Stephen Harper endured the destruction of their daughters' characters while two of the accused were discharged and the third acquitted. The book explores issues which horrify every family. The violent death of a child. Even worse, the violent death of two. The destruction of the people who are left. The failure of the judicial system to establish the truth. To this day, Vicky and Steve struggle to make sense of the evidence which had been ignored and to uncover further details of that terrible night in January 1991. Illus., Epilogue + Chronology of Events. 274pp. 8vo. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FINE AS-NEW First Edition (Orig. 1996) First Printing LOA hardcover, FINE mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ EXCELLENT edges & corners & showing orig. 35.00 price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, AS-NEW silk-finish British-green Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE handsome white on green LOA-patterned end-papers on heavy stock, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & green-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & emerald silk page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.24", 0.75 kg, 904 pp; W/ slipcase 5.36" x 8.48" x 1.34", 0.85 kg * CONTENTS: Lolita (1), Pnin (299), Pale Fire (437); Appendix: Lolita: A Screenplay (669); Chronology (837), Note on the Texts (869), Notes (873) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This LOA volume is the 2nd of 3 volumes that contain the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov. "Lolita" (1955), Nabokov's single most famous work, is one of the most controversial & widely read books of its time. Funny, satiric, poignant, filled w/ allusions to earlier American writers, it is the "confession" of a middle-aged, sophisticated European émigré's passionate obsession w/ a 12-year-old American "nymphet," & the story of their wanderings across a late 1940s America of highways & motels. Of its deeper meanings, Nabokov characteristically wrote: "I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction, and . . . Lolita has no moral in tow. For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm." (Nabokov's film adaptation of Lolita, as originally written for director Stanley Kubrick, is also included.) "Pnin" (1957) is a comic masterpiece about a gentle, bald Russian émigré professor in an American college town who is never quite able to master its language, its politics, or its train schedule. Nabokov's years as a teacher provided rich background for this satirical picture of academic life, w/ an unforgettable figure at its center: "It was the world that was absent-minded and it was Pnin whose business it was to set it straight. His life was a constant war w/ insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost as soon as they entered the sphere of his existence." "Pale Fire" (1962) is a tour de force in the form of an ostensibly autobiographical poem by a recently deceased American poet & a critical commentary by an academic who is something other than what he seems. Its unique structure, pitting artist against seemingly worshipful critic, sets the stage for some of Nabokov's most intricate games of deception and concealment. "Pretending to be a curio," wrote Mary McCarthy, "it cannot disguise the fact that it is one of the great works of art of this century." The texts of this volume incorporate Nabokov's penciled corrections in his own copies of his works which correct long-standing errors. * VLADIMIR NABOKOV: After a brilliant literary career writing in Russian, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) immigrated to the United States in 1940 & went on to an even more brilliant one in English. Between 1939 & 1974 he wrote the autobiography & 8 novels collected by the LOA in th authoritative 3-volume set. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Trade paperback. 160pp. Illustrated from black-and-white photographs. A dampstain to the fore edge partially affecting the margin of some pages, foxing and soiling to the wrappers, an abrasion to the spine affecting the text, very good.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Double Take. On 23rd January 1991, wi sisters Emma and Beckie Harper left their family home for a party. They didn't return that night and, the following day, local news reported a barn fire in a village outside their home two of Cheltenham. Human remains had been discovered in the barn - they were Emma and Beckie, aged just 17 years. In this moving account, the twin's mother, Vicky relates te tragic events surrounding their deaths and the battle to discover the truth. Three young men admitted being at the barn with the twins and were charged with murder, later reduced to manslaughter. At the trial, Vicky and Stephen Harper endured the desctruction of their daughters' characters while two of the accused were discharged and the third acquitted. This bok exlores issues which horrfy every familt. The violent death of a child. Even worse, the violent death of two. The desctruction of the people who are left. The failure of the judicial system to establish the truth. To this day, Vixcky and Steve are struggling to make sense of the evidence which has been ignored and to uncover further details of that terrible night in January 1991. May you never be in the same position. Illustrated. 274 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

First edition. PBO. Digest-size War Leader Book #8 in Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century. Illus. with many black and white photos. Near fine in pictorial wrappers. Well-written account of a man who said: "I know I shall hang. I am ready. But I am determined to go down in German history as a great man.all I did was for the Greater German Reich. In fifty or sixty years there will be statues of Hermann Goring all over Germany." Hermann Goring at the Nuremberg Trial.

Real & fictional spies inc a section on Conan Doyle & Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Kim Philby, Blake etc. Very well illustrated. VG in VG dustwrapper.

Card Covers. Condition: Near Mint. No Jacket. 25 pages of tipped in colour plates from the James Capel collection. Each painting has notes on artists. Soft covers show Poppies Red and Pink by John Houston.

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Condition: New. Ian Bond is the Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform (CER) and was previously a member of the British diplomatic service.Dick Leonard was a journalist, author and former Labour MP.Robert Taylor was a journa.

Condition: New. Michael Dawson Stephens and Gordon Wynne RoderickFirst published in 1984, Post-School Education attempts to compare development of post-school education in America and England in nineteenth century. Divided into eight chapters, it discu.

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Condition: New. R. W. ChurchFirst published in 1952, An Analysis of Resemblance has two-fold aims. The opening chapters seek to present what it is not about. It is not concerned with any sense of resemblance in which that term is used .

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Condition: New. R. W. ChurchFirst published in 1938, An Essay on Critical Appreciation aims to provide a language suited for the explication on beauty. This explication is not based merely on emotion but is motivated by contemplation a.

Condition: New. First published in 1989, The Economic Section 1939-1961 is a rare study of economic policymaking as seen from the inside. The Economic Section, formed in 1939-1940, was the first group of professional economists to operate full-time at the centre .

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Condition: New. James F. Weiner is Visiting Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National UniversityThis is the first book to explore the relationship between Martin Heideggers work and modern anthropology. Heideg.

Condition: New. Dick Leonard was a journalist, historian and Member of Parliament. He spent the last two decades writing biographies of all the British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Johnson. He was Assistant Editor of The Economist for 12 years.

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Condition: New. Dick Leonard is a journalist, author and former Labour MP. He was Assistant Editor of The Economist for 12 years, and has also worked for The Observer, the BBC, the Fabian Society, the Centre for European Policy Studies and.

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Condition: New. The late Michael Furmston was formerly Pro Vice-Chancellor, Dean, Professor of Law and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol formerly Dean of Law at Singapore Management University, Singapore and formerly of the Centre for Commerci.