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  • NOONDAY. by Barker, Pat.
    Barker, Pat.
    NOONDAY.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in London in the autumn of 1940 during the Blitz. "As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul Tarrant works as an air-raid warden." The final book in the Life Class trilogy, this can also be read as a stand-alone novel. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-0385537728.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)

    Book ID: 82331
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  • THE SUGAR MILE. by Maxwell, Glyn.
    Maxwell, Glyn.
    THE SUGAR MILE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's 8th book of poetry, a long narrative poem which "juxtaposes two cities on the brink of irrevocable change. It begins when the poet steps into an uptown Manhattan bar a few days before September 11, 2001. He is confronted by Joseph Stone, a barstool regular and a fellow expatriate.. . It has been almost exactly sixty-one years since London's 'Black Saturday,' the start of the worst of the Blitz during World War II." 140 pp. ISBN: 0-618562435.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80423
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  • MOTHER LONDON. by Moorcock, Michael.
    Moorcock, Michael.
    MOTHER LONDON.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harmony (Crown), (1989.). SIGNED first edition - Described on the back cover as Moorcock's 'centennial novel', this is one of his best - the story of 3 Londoners, patients at the same mental clinic and survivors of the German V2 bombings during World War II. Angela Carter described this as a 'vast, uncorseted, sentimental, comic, elegiac salmagundi of a novel' while Richard Burns called it 'wise and wistful, authentic and authoritative, intelligent and informed. It is a masterpiece.' SIGNED on the title page. 496 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in light gray printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 72332
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