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A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America Dutton Adult October 1991 0525933670 / 9780525933670 First Edition Paper Back Used - Very Good Fine Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. First Edition, First printing. Now protected with Durafold unattached to jacket. Near fine book/Near Fine Dust Jacket. BEAUTIFUL copy. Satisfaction guarantee. This anthology includes short works by Carpentier, Quiroga, Cortazar, Borges, Onetti, Bioy Casares, Puig, Allende, Amado, and a dozen others. Explore the gothic sexual ambiguitites of Carlos Fuentes' 'The Doll Queen,' the psychological compression of Clarice Lispector's 'Love,' or the baroque pyrotechnics of Machado de Assis and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Discover the paradically 'hard-boiled' detectice fiction of Ana Lydia Vega and some decidedly 'soft-boiled' criminals in Rubem Fonseca's 'Lonelyhearts.' From erotic comedies by Isabel Allende and Jorge Amado to the playful labyrinths of Guillermo Cabrera Infante's London streets or Armonia Somers' roomful of elocks. A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes reveals the virtuosity of Latin American literature at its finest, and provides an illuminaing journey into dreamlike and unexpected worlds. 16.80
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DICK FRANCIS Field of Thirteen : Short Stories Gardners Books September 1998 0718143515 / 9780718143510 First Edition Hardcover Used - Very Good As New Very collectable condition. Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. Now protected with Durafold unattached to jacket. Near fine book/Near Fine Dust Jacket. BEAUTIFUL copy. First British Edition. 0.00
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Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Aubery, Peter Vegso Chicken Soup for the Beach Lover's Soul: Memories Made Beside a Bonfire, on the Boardwalk and with Family and Friends HCI May 2007 0757306055 / 9780757306051 Paper Back Used - Very Good SIGNED BY AUTHOR'S Jack canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. Lavisly illustrated with photographs and drawings in color and black and white. Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. Fine/no jacket as issue GREAT CONDITION, BEAUTIFUL COPY. There are many places we can go to enjoy time with friends, to have an action-packed vacation, or to enjoy a little solitude, but none of them have the same ability to soothe our souls as the beach. Perhaps it's the magic portrayed by children building sand castles or the gentle sounds of lapping waves on the shore. Chicken Soup for the Beach Lover's Soul is filled with recollections of special moments that will be appreciated by anyone who has been mesmerized by the spell of the ocean. Color photos of magnificent beach destinations across the United States, from the quaint, historic surroundings of Cape May, New Jersey, to the sultry scenes of Big Sur, California, capture the magic of America from sea to shining sea. 1.10
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JERRY KRAMER AND EDITOR DICK SCHAAP Eleven Plays of Henrik Ibsen Modern Library B000PJY7KK Hardcover Used - Very Good Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. Fine/no jacket as issue GREAT CONDITION, BEAUTIFUL COPY. . Some underlining and writing in margins in pen but only at 'A Doll House Play'all other plays are pristine. Intro. by H.L. Mencken. Includes: The Master Builder,Pillars of Society, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, A Doll's House, John Gabriel Borkman, The Wild Duck, The League of Youth, Rosmersholm, Peer Gynt. 0.00
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JERRY KRAMER AND EDITOR DICK SCHAAP Way of the World: Comedy In Five Acts HERITAGE PRESS January 1959 B000OL2VPM Limited Hardcover Used - Very Good Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. Fine w/ slip-case. Book Description: New York; Heritage Press, 1959. 1st Edition in this form. Physical desc.: xxiii, 108 p. col. illus., port. 27 cm Other names: Cleland, T. M. (Thomas Maitland). Near fine book with moderately sun faded edges. 0.00
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John Grisham Ford County: Stories Doubleday November 2009 0385532458 / 9780385532457 First Edition Hardcover Used - Very Good Fine Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. First Edition, First printing. Now protected with Durafold unattached to jacket. Near fine book/Near Fine Dust Jacket. BEAUTIFUL copy. Satisfaction guarantee. John Grisham is back, this time with his first collection of short stories that take place in Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel 'A Time To Kill'. A unique departure from his usual courtroom thrillers and featuring a cast of characters you'll never forget, these stories bring Ford County to vivid and colorful life. An entertaining collection from America's favorite storyteller. 16.00
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JOHN O'HARA The Time Element & Other Random House October 1972 0394482115 / 9780394482118 First Thus Hardcover Used - Very Good Fine Very collectable condition. Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. First Edition Thud. , Minor edgewear to cover. Now protected with Durafold unattached to jacket. Near fine book/Near Fine Dust Jacket. BEAUTIFUL copy. Satisfaction guarantee. Issued after this under-appreciated writer's death in 1970, a collection of thirty-four short stories, fourteen not previously published, from the beginning of his career in the 1940s; 0.00
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John Updike Trust Me N/A April 1987 0394558332 / 9780394558332 First Edition Hardcover Used - Very Good Fine Very collectable condition. Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. First Edition, First printing. Now protected with Durafold unattached to jacket. Near fine book/Near Fine Dust Jacket. BEAUTIFUL copy. Satisfaction guarantee. Twenty-two of Updike's short stories, displaying the essence of life seen through a master's eye. Titles include Still of Some Use; Deaths of Distant Friends; Pygmalion; More Stately Mansions; The Ideal Village and Made in Heaven. The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs throughout; 0.70
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Paula Gunn Allen Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature, 1900-1970 Ballantine Books June 1994 0345375262 / 9780345375261 First Edition Hardcover Used - Very Good Fine Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. First Edition, First printing. Now protected with Durafold unattached to jacket. Near fine book/Near Fine Dust Jacket. BEAUTIFUL copy. Satisfaction guarantee. American Indian Literature 1900-1970. Edited and with an Introduction by Paula Gunn Allen. Large octavo, cloth spine, paper-covered boards, pp. xiv, 322. Paula Gunn Allen is a Laguna Pueblo/ Sioux Indian. Pretty nice copy. Anthology. 23 contributions from 17 different authors. Nicely bound with red cloth and gilt titles on spine, cream papers on boards. 26.40
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ROBERT BARNARD Death of a Salesperson: And Other Untimely Exits Scribner Book Company December 1989 0684190885 / 9780684190884 First Edition Hardcover Used - Very Good As New Very collectable condition. Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. Now protected with Durafold unattached to jacket. Near fine book/Near Fine Dust Jacket. BEAUTIFUL copy.Scribners. Short Story Collection. 0.00
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Stephen King Just After Sunset: Stories Scribner November 2008 1416584080 / 9781416584087 First Edition Hardcover Used - Very Good Fine Very collectable condition. Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. First Edition, First printing. All international shipments are made via PRIORITY MAIL, U.S. Postal Service. Please see amount before purchase. Now protected with Durafold unattached to jacket. Near fine book/Near Fine Dust Jacket. BEAUTIFUL copy. Satisfaction guarantee. The stories in this collection have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, Esquire, and other publications. ;Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating—and then terrifying—journey. And just the first two..... 1.54
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STEPHEN KING Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay Pocket February 1999 067103264X / 9780671032647 First Edition Paper Back Used - Very Good Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. mint dust cover. Book Description: New York, Pocket Books, 1999. 067103264X., 1999. Near fine paperback copy of this unusual Stephen King screenplay novel. First Edition. 1.13
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STEPHEN KING Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay Pocket February 1999 067103264X / 9780671032647 First Edition Paper Back Used - Very Good Fine Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. Near fine book/Near Fine Dust Jacket. BEAUTIFUL copy. The inhabitants of a sleepy little town on a small island off the coast of Maine find themselves completely cut off from the rest of the world . First Edition. 1.13
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Wallace Irving The Sunday Gentleman a Portfolio of Unusual People, Places and Things- From the Simon and Schuster January 1965 B001NI9WFC First Edition Hardcover Collectible - Very Good Very Good Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. First Edition, First printing. Near fine book/Near Fine Dust Jacket. BEAUTIFUL copy. Satisfaction guarantee. The Sunday Gentleman is a remarkable series of personal adventures, a lively and uninhibited account of the strange people, places and things that fascinated the author over the past twenty years. 0.00
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