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Anderson, Paul Hunger's Brides Paul Anderson 17th Century Mexico
Carroll and Graf Publishers 2005 0786715413 / 9780786715411 First American Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good Hard Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
1358 pages, 9 1/2" tall, "An epic novel of genius and obsession," presenting a multi-layered novel at whose heart is Juana Inés de la Cruz, 17th century Mexico"s most enigmatic figure, who died in 1695 at the age of forty-six. VG. DJ edges lightly bent. There is tape on a small tear on the spine and bottom edge of the DJ and a chip on the back cover. Inside pages clean and binding is tight.
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15.00 USD
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Barrett, Monte Sun in their Eyes Monte Barrett Signed Limited Ed Texas
Bobbs Merrill Co. 1944 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author
Signed by Author 1944, Stated First Edition, Blue Cloth Hardcover, 319 pages, Alamo Edition Limited to 2000 copies of which this is No. 466. Signed by the Author. This is a novel of Texas in 1812. Very Good. No dustjacket. Very slight corner wear. Personal library stamp and name stamped on inside front board and top outside page edges. Inside pages clean and binding is tight.
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34.00 USD
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Hearon, Shelby Now and Another Time Shelby Hearon Signed First Edition
Doubleday & Co. 1976 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author
Signed by Author 1976, stated first edition, Beige Cloth with rust spine, Hardcover, 275 pages, 8 1/2" tall, Signed and gift inscribed on first endpaper by author. Hearon"s fourth novel is about "...three generations of two Texas families [and] the intertwined stories of inherited dreams. Opening in 1934 in the port of Houston with a woman"s bargain with God, flashing back to 1927 in the piney woods to a young man"s first plunge into politics, the novel concludes in present-day Austin, as the children of these earlier families bring the passions, compulsions and taboos of the past to their inevitable conclusions." Very good. Small pull chips at the top of the spine. Light foxing on endpapers Back corner bent. Inside pages clean and binding is tight.
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35.00 USD
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Idell, Albert E The Great Blizzard Idell 1948 East Coast
Henry Holt & Co. 1948 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Black Cloth Hardcover, 282 pages, 8 1/4" tall, A novel based on true events of the great blizzard on the East Coast in late1880"s. Very Good. Edgewear on spine and corners. Pages slightly yellowed. Inside pages clean and binding is tight.
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10.00 USD
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Maclaren, Ian Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Malaren
Dodd Mead & Co. 1935 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Red Cloth Hardcover, Illustrated. MacLaren, the pseudonym of popular religious leading member of the Kailyard school of Scottish fiction: nostalgic and sentimental short stories on Scottish rural life set in the fictional villiage of Drumtochty. Contents include: Domsie.--A Highland mystic.--His mother"s sermon.--The transformation of Lachlan Campbell.--The cunning speech of Drumtochty.--A wise woman.--A doctor of the old school. Very Good. corner slightly bent. Spine has a couple of light spots and sunfaded. Light foxing on endpapers. Inside pages clean and binding is tight.
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10.00 USD
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