Alan Halliday (101 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Pakistan Insight Guide (Insight Guides) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Hard Cover; Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. AH 02 8¾"x11½"; 112 pages; Hard cover with pictorial cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. Contains the following: The Dirtiest Election (Grover Cleveland and James G. Blaine, 1884) by Marvin and Dorothy Rosenberg; The Soda Fountain (John Matthews manufactured carbonating machinery) by Joseph L. Morrison; Sherman Modern Warrior (William Tecumseh Sherman) by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart; My Beloved and Good Husband? (Margaret Winthrop, John Winthrop, Massachusetts Bay Colony) by Darrett B. Rutman; Never Alone At Last (Chang and Eng Bunker were Siamese-American conjoined twin brothers whose fame propelled the expression Siamese twins) by Jonathan Daniels; Latrobe's America (Benjamin Henry Latrobe (May 1, 1764, September 3, 1820), Architect of the Capitol) by Paul F. Norton and E. M. Halliday, with a portfolio of water colors and drawings by Benjamin Latrobe; Ride-In! (Robert Fox was an African-American activist who sparked a civil rights battle in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1870s by entering a segregated streetcar.) by Alan F. Weston; Nuremberg: The Fall of the Supermen (Nuremberg trials, a series of military tribunals held after World War II) by Francis Biddle; When the Twain Met! (William Jennings Bryan presidential campaign, 1896); (American Heritage Book Selection) The Decisive Day is Come excerpt from Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill by Richard M. Ketchum; Reading, Writing, and History by Bruce Catton; Dream On. H. M. Small (Patent drawings for inventions that never caught on).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Insight Guides: Pakistan This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of short stories. Featured are Brett Halliday's The Medici Casket, W.L. Fieldhouse Murder Behind the Bar, L.J. Washburn A Matter of Memories, Gene DeWeese Midnight Jogger, Jean Darling Homer's Odyssey, Alan J. Warren Scavenger's Daughter, Willi M Stephens Where There's a Will, Betty Ren Wright The Survivor, Wade Mosby The Ten Code Caper. Light crease to the rear cover. In very good condition.

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Wraps. Condition: Reading Copy. Vol. 49, no. 2. Edited by Charles E. Fritch. Cover art by Pecorar for "The Quick and the Dead" (novel) by Brett Halliday. Includes "The "B" Murders" (novelt) by Mike Taylor; "Music Man" (novelet) by Stewart Street; "The Charm Bracelet" by Joseph A. Sekelsky; "Sweet Sister" by Mel Washburn; "Smithereens" by Alan Warren; "A Matter of Policy" by Michael Bracken; "A Delicate Situation" by Lane Marsh. Features: "Purloined Letter" (art quiz) by Richard Connolly; "Stiff Competition" (book reviews) by John Ball. Partial label and associated pulls on front; edge and corner wear; stress crack; 1" tear at upper edge of rear cover; tanning. Reading copy. Magazine.

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Wraps. Condition: Good. Vol. 46, no. 5. Edited by Charles E. Fritch. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "The Medici Casket" (novelet) by Brett Halliday; "Murder Behind the Bar" (novelet) by W. L. Fieldhouse; "A Matter of Memories" (novelet) by L. J. Washburn; "Midnight Jogger" by Gene DeWeese; "Homer's Odyssey" by Jean Darling; "Scavenger's Daughter" by Alan J. Warren; "Where There's a Will" by Willi M. Stevens; "The Survivor" by Betty Ren Wright; "The Ten Code Caper" by Wade Mosby. Features: "Stiff Competition" (book reviews) by John Ball.Mild cover stains (see scan); creasing; stress; tanning. Magazine.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Chris Stewart, best-selling author of 'Driving over Lemons, ' "an exquisitely crafted novella" -The main protagonist comes on stage immediately in the opening lines. Ana Anderssen,Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London.The tug-of-war continues in France, at Champigny-sur-Veude, a village in Indre-et-Loire,some fifty kilometres from Tours, the setting for the dramatic arrival of chain-smoking Ana,Gilles' guest at the family chateau in order to do research on Chaim Soutine who was givenrefuge in the area during WW2. For lovers of France, this rural setting in the 1960s is a dream, with a Citroen DS, Camel cigarettes, ashtrays with the Ricard motif.Alan Halliday is a brilliant raconteur who skilfully interweaves fact and fiction in a veryProustian manner, espionage, sexual encounters, art history, treachery, malice, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Lolly, Trinity College Cambridge, and the world of art dealers. Dialogue is forever witty, sarcastic and authentic, indeed hilarious, with never a dull moment.This is a book within a book. Like Marcel Proust, the Narrator is engaged in writing the bookthat he decides to publish at the end 'a novella called Tante Brutus' under the new name ofAlan Halliday!Cynthia GambleCover art Alan Halliday, drawing of a woman in ink and gouache, 1972 Chris Stewart, best-selling author of 'Driving over Lemons,' "an exquisitely crafted novella" -The main protagonist comes on stage immediately in the opening lines. Ana Anderssen, Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 46, no. 5. Edited by Charles E. Fritch. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "The Medici Casket" (novelet) by Brett Halliday; "Murder Behind the Bar" (novelet) by W. L. Fieldhouse; "A Matter of Memories" (novelet) by L. J. Washburn; "Midnight Jogger" by Gene DeWeese; "Homer's Odyssey" by Jean Darling; "Scavenger's Daughter" by Alan J. Warren; "Where There's a Will" by Willi M. Stevens; "The Survivor" by Betty Ren Wright; "The Ten Code Caper" by Wade Mosby. Features: "Stiff Competition" (book reviews) by John Ball. Tanning; creasing; edge and corner wear. Magazine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Insight Guides: The Silk Road This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Two small stickers, one mostly removed, upper back cover. ; Illus. , historical arms series no. 27; 36 pages.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Pakistan Insight Guide (Insight Guides) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Alan Halliday plunges the reader into a potent cocktail of Proust, sex, drugs, haute couture, Pop Art, theatre, opera, ballet and photography. He transports us from a Blackpool beach in the 1950s to the Bal Proust in 1971 at the chateau de Ferrieres, from Marrakech with Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Berge and the Majorelle gardens to downtown Manhattan, markers in the gripping Odyssey and Proustian quest of Dolly and Johnny in their attempts to rediscover each other after being separated. Alan Halliday is an engaging raconteur, and this book, with its rich repertoire of various accents and voices, lends itself to a perfect audiobook. Review by Cynthia Gamble, a noted authority on Marcel Proust, and author, most recently, of Marie Nordlinger, la muse anglaise de Marcel Proust (2024) Alan Halliday plunges the reader into a potent cocktail of Proust, sex, drugs, haute couture, Pop Art, theatre, opera, ballet and photography. He Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good. Vol. 37, no. 2. Edited by Cylvia Kleinman. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "Death Wears a Velvet Glove" (short Mike Shayne novel) by Brett Halliday; "A Woman Seven Feet Tall" (novelet) by Robert W. Alexander; "A Rope Through His Ear" (novelet) by James Holding; "Twine" by Edward D. Hoch; "Death of a Bookie" by Herbert Harris; "The Old Home Place" by Robert Chesmore; "The Bubble" by Robert Alan Blair; "Hang for a Sheep" by Edward Wellen. Illustrations are uncredited. Edgewear with nicks and dings; minor soiling/stains; creasing; sticker ghost on front; tanning. Book.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.