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  • RAGTIME IN SIMLA. by Cleverly, Barbara.
    Cleverly, Barbara.
    RAGTIME IN SIMLA.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Carroll & Graf, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second in the Joe Sandilands series set in India during the 1920s. On the way up to the Himalayan hills to Simla, the summer capital of the British Raj, Commander Sandilands' traveling companion, a Russian opera singer, is killed by a single shot. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-12465.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 53842
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  • THE LAST KASHMIRI ROSE. by Cleverly, Barbara.
    Cleverly, Barbara.
    THE LAST KASHMIRI ROSE.

    Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.

    New York: SOHO Press, (2011.). The author's first novel, and the first in the Joe Sandilands series set in India during the 1920s. 276 pp. plus an except from 'The Blood Royal.'. ISBN: 0-7867-12465.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 87593
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  • THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands. by Hartley, Aidan.
    Hartley, Aidan.
    THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Hartley, a journalist who worked in Africa in the 1990s describes his childhood as the son of a British colonial officer, a legacy that stretched back over 150 years - four generations of one family. As a journalist he witnessed genocidal activities in Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Congo; the death of his friends, and heard stories of terrible attrocities. Burnt out by a decade of horrors he retreated to his family's home in Kenya where he found the Zanzibar chest his father had left him and inside the diaries of his father's best friend who had died in mysterious circmstances more than 50 years earlier- and…

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    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Hartley, a journalist who worked in Africa in the 1990s describes his childhood as the son of a British colonial officer, a legacy that stretched back over 150 years - four generations of one family. As a journalist he witnessed genocidal activities in Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Congo; the death of his friends, and heard stories of terrible attrocities. Burnt out by a decade of horrors he retreated to his family's home in Kenya where he found the Zanzibar chest his father had left him and inside the diaries of his father's best friend who had died in mysterious circmstances more than 50 years earlier- and so he set out on a journey to Southern Arabia to unlock Davey's story and that of his family. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Jim Harrison who called this a stunning piece of writing. Photographs. 415 pp. ISBN: 978-0871138712.

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    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (small spot delaminated on front cover of dj from sticker removal).

    Book ID: 88385
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  • Mason, Daniel.
    THE PIANO TUNER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First edition - The author's highly praised and unusual first novel, set in Burma in 1886. The author spent a year studying malaria on the Thai - Myanmar border, which gives the setting its authenticity. Author's note, 317 pp. Rather uncommon advance issue - and even though the cover indicates a first printing of 150,000 copies, the book went quickly into later printings.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 38522
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  • THE PIANO TUNER. by Mason, Daniel.
    Mason, Daniel.
    THE PIANO TUNER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised and unusual first novel, set in Burma in 1886. The author spent a year studying malaria on the Thai - Myanmar border, which gives the setting its authenticity. Author's note, 320 pp. This went quickly into later printings. ISBN: 0-375-414657.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 38852
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  • THE PIANO TUNER. by Mason, Daniel.
    Mason, Daniel.
    THE PIANO TUNER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised and unusual first novel, set in Burma in 1886. The author spent a year studying malaria on the Thai - Myanmar border, which gives the setting its authenticity. Author's note, 320 pp. This went quickly into later printings. ISBN: 0-375-414657.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 41321
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