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MURDER & OTHER ACTS OF LITERATURE
por Slung, Michele, Editor
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Near Fine
- Edição
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Published
- 1997
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 13,19
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New York: Book Of The Month Club, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A selection of two dozen short stories about murder and crime by mainstream writers including Alcott, Allende, Cheever, Dinesen, Gilbert, Gordimer, Kipling, Milne, Theroux, Thurber, Walker, Waugh, and Wharton; collected and edited for, and published by, Book-Of-The-Month-Club; boards and text are… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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MR. CAT
por Freedley, George
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- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 1960
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 7,54
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New York: Grammercy Publishing Co., 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. Freedley was an actor, writer and best-known as curator of the New York Public Library's theater collection. He was also a cat lover and, in 1943, met Mr. Cat in a Manhattan pet shop, beginning the 16-year relationship described in this short, but delightful memoir. First edition, later printing.… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE STATEMENT
por Moore, Brian
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- Usado - Fine
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- Fine
- Published
- 1996
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780525941286
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- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 19,79
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New York: Dutton/Penguin, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This late novel from the highly-acclaimed Northern Irish-Canadian Moore features Pierre Brossard, who, during World War II massacred 14 Jews in Vichy France, and who, with the end of the war, became a fugitive, sentenced to death in absentia. Protected by friends in high offices in the French government and the Church,… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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A MULTITUDE OF SINS
por Ford, Richard
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- Usado - Near Fine
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- Very Good
- Published
- 2002
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780375412127
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- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 14,14
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New York: Knopf, 2002. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The third of Ford's six collections of short fiction. Ford has won the Pen/Malamud Award for his short stories as well as the Pulitzer Prize for his 1996 novel, "Independence Day." First printing, first U.S. edition (as stated). About 6 x 9 1/2 inches, 286 pages in pale green paper-covered… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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MUSIC FOR LOVE OR WAR
por Burke, Martyn
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- Usado - Fine
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Fine
- Published
- 2017
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781507200919
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- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 18,85
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Blue Ash, OH: Tyrus Books, 2017. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The seventh novel from this award-winning Canadian reporter, writer and film-maker, is a tragi-comedy featuring a pair of Afghanistan war vets, Danny, a Canadian sharpshooter, and Hank, an American GI, who are currently in Los Angeles desperately trying to find the women they love. First American edition, first printing (with… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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KING, QUEEN, KNAVE
por Nabokov, Vladimir
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- Usado - Good Plus to Very Good
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Good Plus
- Edição
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC).
- Published
- 1968
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 12,02
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1968. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Good Plus. Nabokov, considered today one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, wrote this, his second novel, in Russian in 1928 while living in Berlin. It is a classic story of adultery, featuring Franz, a young man from a small town… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE HARDER THEY COME
por Boyle, T. C.
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- Usado - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 2015
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- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 11,78
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New York: HarperCollins, 2015. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The award-winning Boyle's 15th novel is loosely based on a California man who touched off a massive, 36-day manhunt after murdering two people in 2011. The novel revolves around Adam Stenson, a paranoid shizophrenic spiraling out of control and into increasingly violent confrontations, Sara, his much older lover who is… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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EAST OF EDEN
por Steinbeck, John
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- Usado - Very Good
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- Issued Without Jacket
- Published
- 2002
- Encadernação
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780142004234
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- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 18,85
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New York: Penguin Books, 2002. Trade Paperback. Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. This is the Steinbeck Centennial Edition of the novel its Nobel Prize-winning author considered his greatest work. Set primarily in the Salinas valley in central California at the beginning of the 20th century, this is the interwoven story of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, over… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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GOODBYE, COLUMBUS
por Roth, Philip
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- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 1963
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- Mass Market Paperback
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- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 9,42
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New York: Bantam Books, 1963. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage Paperback, Bantam S2600: "Goodbye, Columbus," a collection of a novella and five short stories, is the late Roth's first book. It was the National Book Award winner in 1960. The title work is the story of a pair of passionate young lovers whose summer affair ends in… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE WHITE PEACOCK
por Lawrence, D. H.
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- Usado - Very Good
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- Very Good
- Published
- 1966
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- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 22,62
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Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. D.H. Lawrence is certainly best-known for his erotic classic, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," but the British writer's first published novel is "The White Peacock," first published in 1911. It is written in the first person, narrated by a sensitive young man named Cyril Beardsall, who tells the story,… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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AMSTERDAM
por McEwan, Ian
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- Usado - Fine
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- Very Good
- Published
- 1999
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780385494236
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- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 11,07
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New York: Talese/Doubleday, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Amsterdam," British author McEwan's seventh novel, won England's Booker Prize in 1998. It is the story of two men, a composer and a newspaper editor, who, after attending the funeral of a woman who committed suicide before a brain disease killed her, mutually agree to help each other end his life… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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SCHOOL READING BY GRADES, FOURTH YEAR
por Baldwin, James
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- Usado - Very Good
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- No Jacket
- Published
- 1897
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 16,73
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New York: American Book Company, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an Indiana-born teacher and educator who later became a writer and editor of school textbooks, particularly of reading and for elementary school children. This book is a fourth grade text from his "Baldwin's Readers" series. It contains readings by well-known authors adapted and edited… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE LAST PURITAN
por Santayana, George
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- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 1936
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 14,14
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. The Last Puritan" is philosopher George Santayana's only novel and probably much to his surprise, it became a bestseller in 1935-36. Subtitled "A Memoir in the Form of a Novel," set in New England and in England around Oxford, it sets out the life of Oliver Alden. The book,… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE POISONWOOD BIBLE
por Kingsolver, Barbara
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- Usado - Very Good
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Good Plus to Very Good
- Published
- 1998
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780060175405
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- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 16,02
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New York: HarperCollins, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. This is the fourth and probably the best-known of Kingsolver's novels. It is the story of a Southern Baptist missionary family, the Prices, who move from Georgia to the Belgian Congo in 1959 during the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium. The story is told in turns… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE GLORY
por Wouk, Herman
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- Usado - Very Good
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Good Plus to Very Good
- Published
- 1994
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780316955256
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- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. The Glory" is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wouk's sequel to "The Hope," which was set over the first 20 years of Israel's existence. With "The Glory," Wouk continues the first 40 years of Israeli history through the Yom Kippur War, the Entebbe rescue and the Camp… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE STORY OF A WONDER MAN: BEING THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RING LARDNER
por Lardner, Ring (Ringgold Wilmer)
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- Usado - Very Good
- Edição
- First Edition.
- Published
- 1927
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 32,98
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. Ring Lardner was a legendary sports reporter and short story writer active in the first part of the 20th century. His humorous, often satirical work earned him praise from, among others, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf. This autobiography is, from the first word… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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WHEN THE KILLING'S DONE
por Boyle, T. C.
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- Usado - Fine
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- Fine
- Published
- 2011
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- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 15,08
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New York: Viking Penguin, 2011. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The award-winning Boyle's thirteenth novel is a story of environmental conflict over the future of the Channel Island's off the coast of California. Alma Takesure, a National Park Service biologist, leads the efforts to rid the island of black rats and feral pigs, invasive species that are endangering native animals. On… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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SEX WARS
por Piercy, Marge
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- Usado - Fine
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- Near Fine
- Published
- 2005
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- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 14,84
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New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Sex Wars" is the sixteenth novel from poet, novelist and social activist, Piercy. Set in New York City in the years immediately after the Civil War, the book features Freydeh, a young Jewish woman living in an NYC tenement apartment with eight others while she saves money to bring the rest… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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HOMER & LANGLEY
por Doctorow, E.L.
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- Usado - Fine
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- Near Fine
- Published
- 2009
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- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 16,96
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New York: Random House, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The eleventh and next-to-last of Doctorow's novels is this fictional account of New York City's notorious eccentrics, the Collyer brothers. Homer, a lawyer, and Langley, a professional concert pianist, sons of a wealthy NYC physician, began, after the death of their mother, to withdraw from society and eventually barricaded themselves… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER
por Lawrence, D. H.
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- Usado - Very Good
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Good
- Published
- 1960
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Canandaigua, New York, USA
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€ 18,85
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New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A copy of the first American edition of this now classic novel by British author, D.H. Lawrence. Originally published in Italy in 1928 and the following year in Australia and France, the book was banned in the U.S. until it was ruled not obscene by the U.S. Court of… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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