London: Hutchinson. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. 1st UK. Hardcover. 0091509602 . Light chipping of extremities; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 285 pages; WWII Africa is the site of this action packed novel . ... more information

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Garden City: Doubleday. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1979. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 0385152213 . Black cloth covered boards show only slight wear, DJ chipped and scuffed with short tears; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped, hinges intact; 326 pages; A thriller pitting British Colonel Ramage against a Russian KGB agent and bomb maker in hot spots around the world . ... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1984 Second printing. When 19-year-old Helen Reynolds sets out to cross the country by train from California to Washington, D.C., she has some idea of what to expect at the end of her journey but no notion of the emotional baggage she is destined to acquire along the way. Helen is going to see her mother, the sad, beautiful, alcoholic Selma. America has enter WWII, and the train is crowded with soldiers. One of them, John O'Connell, a union organizer and former boyf... more information

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Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1942 Seven men imprisoned in the Westhofen camp decide to attempt an escape. George Heisler, one of the escapees, is a communist; the narrative follows his travels across the countryside and to the rare citizen who is willing to take him in for a night. The other six escapees are gradually captured. The Seven Crosses refer to trees which are used for a subtle torture when the escaped prisoners are returned. A film by MGM, and starring Spencer Tracy, was produced from this ... more information

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. 1st printing. VG/VG. 190 p., maps on endpapers, small 8vo; ... more information

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Seattle: Goodfellow Press, 2001. 1st edition. Fine/Fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, 344 p., 8vo; ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group, 1991 Tod Friendly, now living in an American suburb, is a doctor who worked in the medical unit at Auschwitz. Narrating his story is a doppelganger imprisoned within Dr. Friendly, sharing his every sensory impression; a separate conciousness that is literally living the doctor's life backward from death to birth. This spectral observer's ignorance of the doctor's past combines with the reader's awful knowledge to reverse the numbing effects of ti... more information

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New York: Riverhead Books, 1998 This book was first published in Isreal, in Hebrew. It was awarded one of the country's most prestigious literary prizes, esablishing Michal Govrin as a singular new voice in comtemporary Jewish literature. This is the story of Amalia, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, named for her father's first wife, a concert pianist who perished in a Nazi death camp and whose sanctified memory haunts Amalia's youth. In a decisive, rebellious break from the culture of remem... more information

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New York: P. F. Collier & Son, Inc., 1930 This novel begins as our seventeen-year-old's lover goes overseas to war. "So she kissed Christopher good-bye, and told him how brave he was, and how handsome in his ensign's uniform, and how glad she was that he wouldn't have to fight in the trenches." 316 pages, maroon cloth binding. Light wear at the edges, corners, and spine ends. Moderate wear along the front spine edge. Embossed decoration on the front. Spine is tight. 12mo - over 6&f... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 2008 Set in decadent, turbulent revolutionary France, this is the story of Gabrielle de Montserrat. An impoverished noblewoman raised in a remote province, Gabrielle is only fifteen when she meets her first love, a commoner named Pierre-Andre' Coffinhal. But, she is forced into a marriage to an aging wealthy cousin by her brother and guardian. Still in love, Gabrielle arrives at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in time to be caught in the emerging storm... more information

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NY: Thomas Crowell, 1945. 1st printing. Good/VG, tape marks inside covers, bookplate on front endpaper. vi, 186 p., small 8vo; ... more information

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NY: E.P. Dutton, 1982. 1st printing. VG/VG. 227 p., small 8vo, author's first novel; ... more information

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Oakville: Frederick Harris Music Co., 1985. 1st paperback printing. VG. 271 p., 8vo wraps; ... more information

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London: Seeley Service & Co., 1975. 1st printing thus. VG/VG. 222 p., 8vo; ... more information

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NY: Sun Dial Press, 1927. reprint. VG/no dust jacket, gift inscription on front pastedown. 260 p., small 8vo; ... more information

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Chesapeake: Maximilian Press Publishers, 2002. 1st printing. Fine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, [14], 213 p., 1 color illus, trade paperback, novel regarding the 10th Special Forces (Green Berets) in Germany in the 50's. Written by an American school principal who knew many of the characters and incidents depicted; ... more information

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New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. 0375503374 . Some scuffing of DJ fore edge, light edge wear ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book ; 0.8 x 9.3 x 5.9 Inches; 256 pages; "On a rainy night in 1938, the train from Budapest pulls into Paris bearing Nicholas Morath, a playboy Hungarian expatriate and sometime spy for his uncle, a wealthy Hungarian diplomat based in the French capital. Morath, a veteran hero of the G... more information

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New York: William Morrow & Company, 1948 This novel is about John Singleton Mosby as a warrior of tall stature. The writing of this book impelled continuing research and elaboration of the incident to shape a fictional pattern.The changes in pattern of Mosby's doings are the author's and strictly for the sake of a tighter tale. The red binding has light wear at the corners, the top and bottom of the spine is bent, the top having two small tears. 442 pages, no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾... more information

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London: Harpercollins. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2004. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0007120133 . Light wear top edge of DJ. ; DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; 350 pages; In September of 1810, just before repulsing the French army on the bare slopes of Bussaco ridge in central Portugal, Captain Sharpe is forced to take Lieutenant Slingsby, Colonel Lawford's arrogant, heavy-drinking brother-in-law, under his wing. Sharpe then stumbles into a confrontation with Ferragus, the malevo... more information

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Gretna: Pelican Publishing Co., 1988. 2nd edition. VG/VG. xvi, 548 p., frontis, 8vo; ... more information

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