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Carrington, Dorothy
Granite Island: A Portrait of Corsica
Publisher: London: Penguin, 1984 reprint.. 336pp. illus. paperback: Fine [text is lightly age browned; else F] The Heinemann Award winner for 1971, a travel book the New Yorker called "Brilliantly conceived and brilliantly written . . . a model of its kind." Frederica Dorothy Violet Carrington (1910-2002) was an English writer and authority on Corsican culture who lived on the island for over half a century.
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AUD 28.99 | CAD 31.09 | EUR 23.26 | GBP 19.91 | JPY 2,727.27 | MXN 333.33 | ZAR 300.00 |
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Item number: 14851.
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Fraser, Antonia
Mary Queen of Scots Illustrated Abridged Edition
Publisher: New York: Delacorte, 1978 1st ed. thus.. 208pp. illus. orange cloth sm 4to: near Fine in a Good+ dj w/some edge tears. An attractive illustrated abridgement of Lady Antonia Fraser's (b. 1932) first book, her 1969 biography of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-87) that won the James Tait Black Prize for biography.
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AUD 9.61 | CAD 10.31 | EUR 7.71 | GBP 6.60 | JPY 904.55 | MXN 110.56 | ZAR 99.50 |
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Item number: 15431.
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Jordan, Judy
Carolina Ghost Woods: Poems
Publisher: Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2000 1st ed.. 59pp. black cloth tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj. Southern poet Jordan (b. 1961) won the 1999 Walt Whitman Award of The American Academy of Poets for this book.
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AUD 4.82 | CAD 5.17 | EUR 3.87 | GBP 3.31 | JPY 453.64 | MXN 55.44 | ZAR 49.90 |
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Item number: 14539.
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Lewycka, Marina
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Publisher: New York: Penguin, 2006 reprint.. 296pp. paperback: near Fine. An award winning first novel by the British writer Lewycka (b. 1946).
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AUD 1.92 | CAD 2.06 | EUR 1.54 | GBP 1.32 | JPY 180.91 | MXN 22.11 | ZAR 19.90 |
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Item number: 17936.
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Ndebele, Njabulo
Fools and Other Stories
Publisher: London: Readers International, 1986 1st ed. thus.. 280pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a Fine dj text is age browned owing to acidic paper; else VG] Five stories by the South African writer and academic Ndebele (b. 1948) that won the 1984 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, judged the best book published that year.
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AUD 4.82 | CAD 5.17 | EUR 3.87 | GBP 3.31 | JPY 453.64 | MXN 55.44 | ZAR 49.90 |
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Item number: 17868.
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Richardson, Bill
The Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast
Publisher: New York: St. Martin's Press Wyatt Books, 1997 1st ed. thus.. 152pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine. Winner of Canada's Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in 1994.
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AUD 1.92 | CAD 2.06 | EUR 1.54 | GBP 1.32 | JPY 180.91 | MXN 22.11 | ZAR 19.90 |
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Item number: 13305.
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Simmons, Charles
Powdered Eggs
Publisher: Greenwich, CT: Fawcettt Crest Books, 1964 reprint.. 144pp. paperback: Good. William Saroyan called this uninhibited novel "a masterpiece. " It won the William Faulkner Foundation Award.
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AUD 3.38 | CAD 3.63 | EUR 2.71 | GBP 2.32 | JPY 318.18 | MXN 38.89 | ZAR 35.00 |
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Item number: 14019.
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Torres, Antonio translated by John Parker
Blues For a Lost Childhood: A Novel of Brazil
Publisher: London: Readers International, 1989 1st ed. thus.. 202pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj bottom corners are lightly bumped; else nrF] A novel by the Brazilian writer Torres (b. 1940) that was chosen Novel of the Year by Brazilian PEN, originally published in 1986.
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Item number: 17873.
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Zachter, Mort
Dough: A Memoir
Publisher: Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2007 reprint.. 173pp. green cloth 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj [top corners very slightly bumped; else F] A memoir about inheriting wealth that won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction.
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AUD 9.61 | CAD 10.31 | EUR 7.71 | GBP 6.60 | JPY 904.55 | MXN 110.56 | ZAR 99.50 |
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Item number: 14987.
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