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Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken. Pathbreaking journalist, trenchant social observer, and unbridled humorist, Mencken was the most provocative and influential cultural critic of the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling collection presents H.L. Mencken's insightful recollections, drawing from his acclaimed autobiographical volumes....

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning/foxing. Markings: possible previous owner. A landmark collection drawn from H.L. Mencken's celebrated...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket — cloth/board shows yellowing and light surface soiling on the mustard-yellow boards. Page Condition: tanned/aged given the publication era; fep clipped. Markings:...

Edition: 6th pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good — pages intact, binding firm. Few American writers have wielded a...

The book titled The H.L. Mencken Murder Case: A Literary Thriller by the author Don Swaim. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: H.L. MenckenBinding: HardbackPublished: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London , 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded cloth. Light stains on book block. Clean text. H.L. Mencken's...

The book titled My Life as Author and Editor by the author H. L. Mencken. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

Author: H. L. MenckenBinding: HardbackPublished: Knopf, 1945Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThe American Language and Supplement One present a commanding philological study...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated journalists and broadcasters comes an intimate collection of portraits that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBefore there was Babe Ruth's legend or Field of Dreams' romanticism, there was Jack Keefe — the swaggering, semi-literate rookie...

Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. A landmark work of American literary memoir, The Twenties...

Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the...

Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013...

Read the international sensation already translated into 10 languages! Unearthing the network that hid the 'Angel of Death', the infamous Nazi doctor who escaped justice for more than three decades....

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If opera had existed in Elizabethan London, the world's Top Bard, as W.H. Auden called him, might have become the world's Top Librettist. As Gary Schmidgall shows in this illuminating...

An unforgettable novel of two extraordinary women set amidst the raw beauty and timelessness of the Cornish landscape Cornwall 1886. In a turbulent new marriage, Claira - a talented violinist...

The world's most famous work of horror fiction reissued in ORIGINALS - Penguin's iconic teen fiction series Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, has a great ambition: to create intelligent life....

Four very different teenagers must overcome their prejudices and differences in order to escape a brand-new escape room for prize money. Locked In Escape Rooms has a new owner. He's...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, a madman's erotic obsession is twisted into fairytale in Nabokov's precursor to Lolita Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published...

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'Reads like an instant fairytale classic' - 5* Reader Review 'An elegant, dreamy tale steeped in folklore' - Irish Times 'Dark and enticing; an atmospheric, folklore-infused fantasy' - Kirkus Reviews...

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A landmark book that offers a holistic counseling approach that joins career planning and the life path of an individual. The author details the concept of integrative life planning (ILP),...

Secondhand Vintage Lilliput Magazine Box SP3045 Eighteen issues of Lilliput — the beloved British pocket magazine of the 1940s — featuring Walter Trier's iconic cover illustrations, sharp short fiction, cartoons,...

Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP3009 Eighteen books of history, politics, science, and current affairs — George Megalogenis, Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Paul Hasluck, David Suzuki,...

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The New York Times bestseller The stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction. With extraordinary honesty and...

New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron is back with a Frankenstein -tinged horror romance. Meka is used to death. After all, it's the family business. As a mortician's assistant...

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The exhilarating new novel from the author of Leave the World Behind - 'the book of an era' (Independent) 'Expertly observed' GUARDIAN 'A slow-burn tale of connivance and deceit with...

Secondhand Classic Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP3012 Twenty-four classic science fiction novels — Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Anne McCaffrey, E.E. 'Doc' Smith, and Gordon R. Dickson....

From the bestselling author of Leave the World Behind - 'the book of an era' (Independent) - a biting tale for our new gilded age 'A slow-burn tale of connivance...

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In 1989 Anglia Television joined with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, NBC and the Tokyo Broadcasting System to announce production of a 90-minute feature on the life of Stephen Hawking and...

The exhilarating sequel to The Clockwork Conspiracy , Isaac Turner is back for another action-packed mystery adventure. 'An ingenious mystery' - A. F. Steadman, author of Skandar and the Unicorn...

New selection of the best science fiction stories of the last sixty years This new edition of Brian Aldiss's classic anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning...