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  • JACK MAGGS. by Carey, Peter.
    Carey, Peter.
    JACK MAGGS.

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. Hardcover - The story of a foundling, deported to Australia for thievery, who returns to England in 1830, despite the threat of execution hanging over him. Gripping and thoughtful historical fiction by this prize-winning author. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-679-440089.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 46396
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  • JACK MAGGS. by Carey, Peter.
    Carey, Peter.
    JACK MAGGS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - True first edition of this story of a foundling, deported to Australia for thievery, who returns to England in 1830, despite the threat of execution hanging over him. Gripping and thoughtful historical fiction by this prize-winning author. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-679-440089.

    Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (the usual toning to the pages, but otherwise a tight and clean copy.)

    Book ID: 60590
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  • JACK MAGGS. by Carey, Peter.
    Carey, Peter.
    JACK MAGGS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a foundling, deported to Australia for thievery, who returns to England in 1830, despite the threat of execution hanging over him. SIGNED on the title page. Gripping and thoughtful historical fiction by this prize-winning author. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-679-440089.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 61641
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  • JACK MAGGS. by Carey, Peter.
    Carey, Peter.
    JACK MAGGS.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Faber & Faber, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a foundling, deported to Australia for thievery, who returns to England in 1830, despite the threat of execution hanging over him. SIGNED on the title page. Gripping and thoughtful historical fiction by this prize-winning author. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-571-19088x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 64971
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  • ARTISTS AND WRITERS IN PARIS: The Bohemian Idea, 1803-1867. by Easton, Malcolm.
    Easton, Malcolm.
    ARTISTS AND WRITERS IN PARIS: The Bohemian Idea, 1803-1867.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at artists in the first half of the nineteenth century and how they were portrayed by writers, Illustrated with a frontispiece and six plates. Index. vi, 205 pp.

    Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, overall tight and clean in a good dust jacket (peeled spot on the spine of the dj extending to the back cover, presumably from careless removal of a spine label.)

    Book ID: 83132
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  • VIEWS OF A VANISHING FRONTIER. by Ewers, John C.; Marsha V. Gallagher, David C. Hunt and Joseph C. Porter.
    Ewers, John C.; Marsha V. Gallagher, David C. Hunt and Joseph C. Porter.
    VIEWS OF A VANISHING FRONTIER.

    Edition: First printing.

    Omaha, Nebraska: Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Catalogue for an exhibition organized by Joslyn Art Museum's Center for Western Studies based on the written accounts of the 1832-1834 North American experiences of Maximilian, Prince of Wied. Includes more than 100 of Karl Bodmer's orginal watercolors and sketches Inclides list of illustrations,and checklist of the exhibition. Large format. 103 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-936364-122.

    Condition: Fine in a verynear fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 59459
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  • AFTER THE LOVEDEATH: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture. by Kramer, Lawrence.
    Kramer, Lawrence.
    AFTER THE LOVEDEATH: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture.

    Edition: First printing.

    Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. Hardcover first edition - An "attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Kramer traces today's sexual identities to their nineteenth-century sources, drawing on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how normal identity both promotes and rationalizes violence against women. To make his case, he uses operatic lovedeaths, Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata" and the Tolstoy novella named after it; the writings of Walt Whitman and Alfred Lord Tennyson, psychoanalysis, and the logic of dreams." Notes, bibliography, index. ix, 281 pp. ISBN: 0-520210123.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 83114
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  • THE MAN WHO BROKE NAPOLEON'S CODES. by Urban, Mark.
    Urban, Mark.
    THE MAN WHO BROKE NAPOLEON'S CODES.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the early days of cryptography - this book uses the original sources, including many ciphers and code-tables and shows that Lieutenant Colonel George Scovell was a true forerunner to the great code-breakers of the twentieth century. Photographs, maps, notes on sources, index. xix, 346pp. ISBN: 0-06-018891X.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 62835
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  • Young, Miriam.
    NO PLACE FOR MITTY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Four Winds Press, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of a young girl in San Francisco, Oakland and Emeryville in the 1880's. Based on the experiences of the author's mother. ISBN: 0-590-07415-0.

    Condition: Fine in a very good+ dustjacket (2 very short edgetears, some toning to the spine of the dj.)

    Book ID: 16274
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