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  • TWENTIETH CENTURY PSALTER (on jacket as 20th Century Psalter: A Poem Sequence) by Church, Richard (1893-1972)
    Church, Richard (1893-1972)
    TWENTIETH CENTURY PSALTER (on jacket as 20th Century Psalter: A Poem Sequence)

    Edition: First printing.

    London: J. M. Dent & Co Ltd., (1943) dj. Hardcover first edition - A sequence of 30 poems written during World War II, structured as a series of daily meditations, written as a spiritual response to the devastation of the war as they contrast the beauty of nature and man's determination to survive to the fear and devastation brought by bombers overhead. In addition to many books of poetry, Church also wrote an award-winning autobiography, novels, criticism and more. 74 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages and dust jacket, previous owner's name dated in Algiers in 1944)

    Book ID: 92905
    Keywords: bombing, english life, Poetry, world war ii
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  • UNDER PRESSURE. by Pobi, Robert.
    Pobi, Robert.
    UNDER PRESSURE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2000). First edition - The second Lucas Page thriller. A series of deadly explosions - including one at a gala at the Guggenheim Museum that killed 702 people - rock the city of New York and with too many victims and no known motive, the F.B.I. turns once again to Dr. Lucas Page, astrophysicist, university professor, and former FBI agent, is uniquely gifted for the task at handhe can visualize a crime scene as if he was a bystander and can break down any set of data at a glance. Even though Page - who now has a prosthetic leg and arm after barely surviving an explosion himself wants nothing to do with the…

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    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2000). First edition - The second Lucas Page thriller. A series of deadly explosions - including one at a gala at the Guggenheim Museum that killed 702 people - rock the city of New York and with too many victims and no known motive, the F.B.I. turns once again to Dr. Lucas Page, astrophysicist, university professor, and former FBI agent, is uniquely gifted for the task at handhe can visualize a crime scene as if he was a bystander and can break down any set of data at a glance. Even though Page - who now has a prosthetic leg and arm after barely surviving an explosion himself wants nothing to do with the FBI, with his city under attack and his family at risk, he steps in to find the killer. 448 pp. Publisher's material laid in.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 83502
    Keywords: arc, bombing, fbi, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, new york city, uncorrected proof
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  • AMERICAN LIGHTNING: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Century by Blum, Howard.
    Blum, Howard.
    AMERICAN LIGHTNING: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Century

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "evokes the original 'crime of the century' [the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building on Oct 1, 1910] and an aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself - a seminal episode in America's history that would spark national debate and draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, and industry-shaping filmmaker D. W. Griffith." Cast of characters, photographs, notes on sources. 339 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-307346943.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 71394
    Keywords: anarchists, bombing, California, los angeles, true crime
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