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ART, LIFE, AND NATURE IN JAPAN
by ANESAKI, Masaharu
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- Used - Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- 1932
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 34.36
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Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with photographs.
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SGD 34.36
HIROSHIMA
by HERSEY, John
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- Used - Promotional slip stapled to inside front cover. Near Fine
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- Revised Edition
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- 1985
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- Wraps
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 51.55
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Revised Edition. wraps. Promotional slip stapled to inside front cover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof in printed red wraps of this classic by Hersey, here printed with the final chapter for the first time.
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SGD 51.55
WITH MANY VOICES. EUROPE TALKS ABOUT AMERICA
by APPEL, Benjamin
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- Used - Near Fine in a price-clipped, near Very Good dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- 1963
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 34.36
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a price-clipped, near Very Good dustwrapper. A novelist's conversations with people on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books… Read more about this item Item Price
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A WRITER'S EYE. COLLECTED BOOK REVIEWS
by WELTY, Eudora
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- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- (1994)
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 25.84
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Jackson [MS]: University Press Mississippi, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney.
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SGD 25.84
IN OUR TIME
by WOLFE, Tom
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- Used - Slight foxing to endpapers. About Fine in a price-clipped, close to Fine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- (1980)
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 146.12
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to endpapers. About Fine in a price-clipped, close to Fine dustwrapper. Tom Wolfe. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") in cloth-backed boards, illustrated by the author and boldly SIGNED by him on the half-title page.
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SGD 146.12
BROKEN VESSELS
by DUBUS, Andre
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- Used - Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a tiny puncture and very slight crease to the front spine edge
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- First Edition
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- (1991)
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 25.84
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Boston: David R. Godine, (1991). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a tiny puncture and very slight crease to the front spine edge. His first book of essays, with an introduction by Tobias Wolff.
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SGD 25.84
IN JAPAN: WITHOUT CLOCK OR CALENDAR
by YULE, Emma Sarepta
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- Used - Cloth is still a bright red with minor fading to the spine. Owner name on the front pastedown. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrappe
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- First Edition
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- (1935)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 51.55
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Boston: The Stratford Company, (1935). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth is still a bright red with minor fading to the spine. Owner name on the front pastedown. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Red cloth, gilt lettered. With 37 illustrations from photographs. Apparently the only edition of this book, never reprinted.
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SGD 51.55
SAY, IS THIS THE U.S.A.
by CALDWELL, Erskine
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- Used - Near Fine, lacking the scarce dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- (1941)
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 257.74
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New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1941). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Quarto in pictorial boards. Illustrated with photographs by Margaret Bourke-White. A wonderful collaboration.
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SGD 257.74
THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
by AUSTER, Paul
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- Used - Tiniest of nicks at head of spine. Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1982
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- Wraps
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 171.83
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New York: Sun, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. Tiniest of nicks at head of spine. Fine. Pictorial wraps. His first full-length prose work.
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SGD 171.83
THE DIARY OF DOSTOYEVSKY'S WIFE
by FULOP-MILLER, R. & ECKSTEIN, F. (ed.)
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- Used - Short tears to top of spine. About Very Good, lacking a dustwrapper
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- First American Edition
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- 1928
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 43.02
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New York: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. Short tears to top of spine. About Very Good, lacking a dustwrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Dostoyevsky. An account of a trip from Russia through Germany to Switzerland with her famous husband. Hannah French's copy with her signature on the front endpaper.
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SGD 43.02
IRON JOHN: A BOOK ABOUT MEN
by BLY, Robert
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- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- (1990)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 77.39
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Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Bly's book on male initiation and the role of the mentor added to the drumbeats of the Men's Movement.
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SGD 77.39
SAL SI PUEDES. CESAR CHAVEZ AND THE NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION
by MATTHIESSEN, Peter
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- Used - Fine in a Near Fine deep red dustwrapper with a tiny tear at the spine head
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- First Edition
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- (1969)
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 85.91
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New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine deep red dustwrapper with a tiny tear at the spine head. One of the first books to highlight the struggle by California farmworkers to organize a union.
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SGD 85.91
THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
by AUSTER, Paul
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- Used - Very slight wear at spine tips. Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1982
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- Wraps
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 128.94
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New York: Sun, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. Very slight wear at spine tips. Near Fine. Pictorial wraps. His first full-length prose work.
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SGD 128.94
RED WOLVES & BLACK BEARS
by HOAGLAND, Edward
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- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- (1976)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 77.39
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New York: Random House, (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Collection of essays by this highly acclaimed writer.
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SGD 77.39
IRON JOHN: A BOOK ABOUT MEN
by BLY, Robert
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1990
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- Wraps
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 85.91
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Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Uncorrected Proof in printed wraps. Scarce issue of this popular and important study of male initiation which rapidly went into later printings.
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SGD 85.91
FAMILY MATTERS: WHY HOMESCHOOLING MAKES SENSE
by GUTERSON, David
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- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- (1992)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 43.02
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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. The second book by the author of SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS, an examination of the benefits of home schooling.
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SGD 43.02
BOOK OF INSECTS
by FABRE
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Reprint
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- (1939)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 128.94
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New York: Tudor Publishing Company, (1939). Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. Detmold. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") in publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates with tissue guards by Detmold.
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SGD 128.94
IN THE BEGINNING, LOVE. DIALOGUES ON THE BIBLE
by VAN DOREN, Mark and SAMUEL, Maurice
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- Used - Contemporary owner name on front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper
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- First Edition
- Published
- (1973)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 34.36
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New York: The John Day Company, (1973). First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary owner name on front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Spontaneous conversations about the Bible by two great educators, edited and annotated by Edith Samuel.
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SGD 34.36
