Black quarter cloth binding lightly rubbed, spine ends lightly bumped; no binding problems. Page edges pale tan; interior pages clean. Unclipped dust wrapper a bit edgeworn with a few closed tears. Pink portion of spine faded to tan, tiny skinned area on front panel, edges faintly yellowed.; The timeless coming-of-age novel about five young women who meet at Radcliffe College and together grow to maturity--through intrigues, ambitions, affairs, and marriages--from World War II to the 1980s. Lavinia, Peg, and Cathy seem to have little in common save for their freshman status. None of them could... View More...
196 pages; A lovely book. A few faint smudges to page edges. Unclipped dust wrapper has faint edgewear. ; This novel from the author of 'Tuesdays with Morrie' is the tale of one man's life and the people this life touched. 'Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to y... View More...
Two American poets decided to collaborate on this humorous novel, originally published in 1969, about life in the US suburbs 'purely by chance'. The bedroom community of Kelton, New York is some 50 miles from Manhattan. The well-heeled denizens we meet spend an awful lot of time playing rummy until two sisters from Paris enter their lives...; Spine ends faintly bumped, a lovely copy. Unclipped dust wrapper faintly edgeworn and rubbed.; Image is actual copy on offer. View More...
469 pages; Rear board dampstained, some pages rippled; inside back of dw stained and rippled.; Basis for the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name. A thief witnesses a woman's murder that results in a presidential cover-up. View More...
Faintly edgeworn and rubbed; a lovely copy.; Translated from the French by Alison Anderson. Wonderfully written story told from the viewpoint of two residents of an upscale building in Paris. Renée, 54, "outwardly conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. Paloma is a twelve-year-old genius. A talented and startlingly lucid child who has decided to end her life on the sixteenth of June, her thirteenth birthday. Until then sh... View More...
307 pages; Front flap of dw has a small crease, spine head and tail slightly bumped, publishing flaw has caused hinge to crack at half title page. View More...
Water damage to bottom text block edge, black cloth spine discolored by water, black has bled onto bottom edge and inside of dust wrapper; dw rubbed. View More...
Illustrated with drawings by Randy Glass and photographs by Geoff Spear. Spine ends and corners very lightly worn (not to boards). Unclipped dust wrapper faintly edgeworn. A very nice copy.; From the author of 'The Official Preppy Handbook'. Thirty years on she now looks at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping, G&T-soaked preppies adapt to the new order things such as the Internet, cell phones, rehab, political correctness, reality TV, and polar fleece.; Image is actual copy on offer. View More...
339 pages; Edgeworn, no spine creases; Award winning author's first novel. Detective Rachel Storrow attempts to solve the murder of a teenage girl in Flowering Dogwood, Maine. View More...
399 pages; Very faint spine creases and edgewear, a very nice copy.; The author, perhaps best known for her children's books, writes a novel for adults of growing up in the 1970's and 80's and the complexitie s of friendship. View More...
346 pages; Spine ends and corners bumped and worn revealing boards, previous owner name and dates on front free endpaper. No binding problems, pages clean and bright. Dust wrapper a bit edgeworn with a few short closed tears. ; A romantic suspense novel set in Tibet and England. From the dw: "The distance between a Tibetan monastery and Merlin's Keep, in the English countryside, was a long one and to Jani, reared in Tibet, nearly incomprehensible. Nor could she graps the full meaning of the high Lama's words to her that wintry day:' I see the woman in red who will be your friend, and throu... View More...
Spine ends and corners lightly bumped and worn (not to boards). Previous owner intials on front free endpaper, page edges yellowed, top edge dampstained; interior pages clean, no binding problems. Dust wrapper edgeworn and quite rubbed.; 'In just three years, San Francisco would grow from a muddy village to a rich, brawling city. Calico Palace is the story of those who found love and joy, fury and fortunes in the frenzied days of the Gold Rush.'; This author recommended by Kerry J. , Susan F., and Ellen of the DES email discussion list. View More...
Previous owner name on front endpaper; page edges soiled. Cloth spine ends lightly bumped and worn. The last 35 pages have a vertical crease as if the book was closed with these pages bent at one time. Dust wrapper, price clipped, is a bit edgeworn and lightly rubbed with a crease in the front flap. ; A three generation saga, from 1909 through 1980, of a family in the small town of Runnymede, on the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. The inhabitants of this town often forget that the Civil War ended in the 19th century. View More...
Previous owner gift inscription on half title page. Postcard of front of dust wrapper laid in. Dust wrapper, not price cut, is lightly rubbed. A very nice copy. ; Three short stories by this Booker prize winning author, and sister of Margaret Drabble, are each inspired by the artist Henri Matisse. View More...
Faint spine creases and edgewear. A lovely copy of a fun book originally published in this mass market paperback format.; Werewolves, vampires, and a preternatural spinster that can negate supernatural powers in a comedy of manners set in a version of Victorian England that has dirigibles and lots of tea-drinking of course! The first volume in this entertaining series won an ALA ALEX award.; 'Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, br... View More...
Printing flaw in front pastedown resulted in a creased and chipped front pastedown, an extra free endpaper, and tiny tears to the top edges of the first three pages. Spine ends very lightly bumped, a few page corners lightly creased; pages clean and bright. Unclipped dust wrapper very lightly edgeworn. ; From the author of the memoir 'Homer's Odyssey' this novel of a mother and daughter and the cat that unites them is humourous, touching, and filled with insight on cat behaviour. This makes sense as a good portion of this novel, set in New York, is told from Prudence's observant (and sometime... View More...
450 pages; Spine ends faintly bumped; a lovely copy. Unclipped dust wrapper has faint edgewear. ; Archaeologists working at the Dordogne River in France make a puzzling and seemingly impossible discovery at the medieval site. Suddenly they are taken by helicoptor to ITC, a secretive multinational corporation that has been sponsering their work while developing an astounding technology. A small group of archaeologists and historians is about to get the chance not to study the past but to enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France. Basis for the film of the same name. View More...
486 pages; Corners bumped; Novel of 15th century Florence involving DaVinci, Botticelli, Machiavelli. Gives a speculative account of a lost year in DaVinci's life. View More...
