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8.75" (21 cm) Tall Coded First Edition Square with sharp corners and tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright text. DJ has minor edge rubbing. 242 pp. Discussion of major literary figures and central issues of Western civilization. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/610063.jpg

Very-nice copy of this beautifully illustrated book. - No writing or marks - No tears - Tight spine - 158 pages

Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Stated First U.S. Edition - Price inside book: $19.95 - NO writing of tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - At long last, Inspector Douglas Roper is able to get away from England to Greece for a much-needed vacation. He spends his mornings at an archeological dig in Crete, and his afternoons sightseeing with Miss Carmody, an attractive and intelligent woman, with an alluring aura of independence. But Roper's peaceful, idyllic holiday is interrupted when he discovers Mrs. Gribo, one of the guests at his hotel, brutally murdered in her ransacked room. In the midst of his easy romance, with Mrs. Gribo's murder unsolved, Roper reluctantly returns to work in rainy Dorset, where nothing appears to have changed in his absence. When the body of Albert Haddowes is discovered, murdered in his armchair and dead for a week or more, Roper discovers that the strands of two investigations intertwine. He is left with a complicated knot to untangle, and a romance that goes beyond his cautious expectations.

Nice ex-libris copy of this Gary Hart book - Usual library markings - Inner pages are free from writing, marks and tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - 180 pages

Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - 275 pages - Navy-blue boards with silver lettering and decoration -

Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $15.95 - 241 pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - This impressive collection of eight stories is divided into three sections, each section complete in itself, each examining, from a different angle, the themes that hold Wegner captive. The sense of place is always the same though the name differs: a provincial mid-European town, just before and after World War I. Wegner is fascinated by the lightly veiled bestiality of the different European ``tribes''; all his protagonists are at odds with an alien society. The first four stories loosely follow the adventures of Zofia and Ala, upper-middle-class twin children of Polish extraction living in the Ukraine, and the stories of love and betrayal they either indirectly experience or hear secondhand. Representative is ``The Huzul Flute,'' which describes their vacation in the Carpathian Mountains with their mother and her lover. The second section contains one story, ``A Death in a Quiet Town,'' which recounts from different points of view a hanging by the SS during the war just outside Salzburg. The last three narratives, manifestly the best, follow Dirk, a Silesian teenager who dreams of going to the U.S. after the war while he works in a German coal mine to support his family. With Dirk, the author has found his subject matter; these stories are vivid and extremely moving.

Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 319 pages.

1st edition. ~ Paperback, F. 128pp, b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. ~ Useful guide to hedging & laying to make a living fence from Hawthorn & Beech, as well as fencing with posts & wire. The book gives practical advice on how to set fences & hedges.

Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback Second Impression Illustrated and includes glossary, bibliography and index.