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THE LISBON CROSSING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second thriller, set in neutral Portugal in 1940 in the early days of World War II as Germany has overrun France and is preparing to attack England. Jack Teller arrives "on the arm of international screen legend Lili Sterne, to help her search for her childhood friend, Eva Lange. Having escaped Germany, staying one step ahead of the Nazi terror, Eva is believed to be hiding among the thousands of desperate refugees who have descended upon Lisbon. But Jack isn't the first on her trail. Top Hollywood detective Eddie Grimes had been on the case until he turned up dead." 310 pp. ISBN: 978-0061188435.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 91139More details Price: $18.50 -
COME BE MY GUEST.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Morrow, 1964. dj. Hardcover - Romantic novel by this popular and prolific author, set in Portugal. 218 pp. Dust jacket by Mircea Vasilu. ISBN: 0-688-031714.
Condition: Ex-library in a sturdy library binding, missing front endpaper, but few other markings in a very good dust jacket (spine label) .
Book ID: 88886More details Price: $21.50 -
THE FRIENDLY AIR.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Morrow, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Romantic novel by this popular and prolific author - Emily is engaged to a brilliant and promising young attorney and when he requests her assistance with a difficult and demanding client, she is at first reluctant - but then she finds Lady Grantly a delight and when she picks to coast of Portugal as the site of her new home, Emily accompanies her there. 218 pp. Dust jacket by Vasilu. ISBN: 0-688-031714.
Condition: Ex-library - missing front free endpaper, remnants of brodart lining glued to endpapers and with some spine slant, but with only a few other markings in a very near fine and unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 88885More details Price: $21.50 -
THE GOLDEN COLLAR.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Morrow, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Romantic novel - her 23rd - by this popular and prolific author, set in Portugal. 221 pp.Dust jacket by Vasilu. ISBN: 0-688-031714.
Condition: Ex-library - missing front free endpaper, remnants of brodart lining glued to endpapers and with some spine slant, but with no other markings in a very near fine and unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 88884More details Price: $18.50 -
A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON.
Edition: First printing.
London: Harper Collins, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The death of a young girl in modern Portugal is discovered to have its roots in Nazi wartime deals in 1941. A complex mystery, linking past and present, winner of the CWA Golden Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel. 440 pp. ISBN: 0-00232668x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 87682More details Price: $31.50 -
THE LIBERATION OF GUINE: Aspects of an African Revolution.
Edition: Paperback.
London: Penguin, (1971). Foreword by Amilcar Cabral, An "important new field-study of guerrilla warfare in an African context.. Quoting extensively from the private archives of the African Independance Party of Guin and the Cape Verde Islands (PAIGC) and from speeches of Amilcar Cabral, Davidson shows the importance of this guerrilla war for the rest of Africa and indeed for the whole of the Third World." A very personal account which begins with Davidson witnessing the Portuguese dropping napalm on the rebels and villagers. A title in the Penguin African Library, edited by Ronald Segal. Photographs, references, bibliography. 167 pp plus 2 pp of maps.
Condition: Good overall (prev owner's name, creasing to front cover)
Book ID: 85195More details Price: $16.50 -
THE GRAND PEREGRINATION, Being the Life and Adventures of Fernao Mendes Pinto.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (toning to pages and endpapers, some chipping to the dj at the top of the spine)
Book ID: 84600More details Price: $45.00 -
ALENTEJO BLUE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2006). First edition - The second novel by this award winning writer who was born in Bangladesh, but grew up in England. This is the story of a village community in Portugal as it adapts to the modern world. 226 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 80807More details Price: $17.50 -
ALENTEJO BLUE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Doubleday, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, one which tells the stories of the people in a small village in Portugal. SIGNED on the title page, and dated in the year of publication. 299 pp. ISBN: 0-385-604866.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74344More details Price: $30.00 -
!CARNIVALE!
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set on the border of Spain and Portugal, against the backdrop of a fiesta. Bullfighting glossary. 221 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket/
Book ID: 66546More details Price: $16.50 -
ALENTEJO BLUE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2006). First edition - The second novel by this award winning writer who was born in Bangladesh, but grew up in England. This is the story of a village community in Portugal as it adapts to the modern world. 226 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (toning to the pages, lower corner somewhat bumped)
Book ID: 64715More details Price: $12.50 -
A GOD STROLLING IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 64690More details Price: $75.00 -
THE STONE RAFT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Both an epic adventure in which the Iberian Peninsula breaks off from the continent and floats out to sea and a political fable about the European community by this winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1851980.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (bookplate, corners slightly bumped,)
Book ID: 52629More details Price: $25.00 -
ALENTEJO BLUE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel, one which tells the stories of the people in a small village in Portugal. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-93037.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50886More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CAVE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A simple story of a potter who finds his craft obsolete, of the struggle against a faceless bureaucracy and most of all, a powerful allegory of modern life by this winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1004145.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43188More details Price: $25.00 -
A YEAR IN THE WORLD: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Broadway Books, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "With her beloved Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal, France, The British Isles, elsewhere in Italy, and to the Mediterranean world of Turkey, Greece, and North Africa, Fez" Map endpapers. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-767910052.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41770More details Price: $15.00 -
PAPA, I CAN HARDLY WAIT.
Edition: First printing.
Chico, California: Brock Publishing Co, (1977.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel based on the appearance of the Virgin Mary to three young children, shephards, in Portugal in 1916, as told by the least known of the children, Francisco Marta, brother of Jacinta and cousin to Lucia (Lucy). SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author, the wife of a Sacramento Valley farmer, who wrote this book out of her deep religious convictions and her pride in her Portuguese heritage. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-930534026.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40926More details Price: $30.00 -
TODAY THERE IS NO MISERY: The Ethnography of Farming in Northwest Portugal.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at small farmers in the parish of Minho- and at how issues like technical changes, fragmentation of the land, etc affect them. Photographs, graphs, notes, references, index. 177 pp. ISBN: 0-8165-12442.
Condition: Fine (as new) in brown cloth, no dustjacket as issued.
Book ID: 28094More details Price: $18.00