Bridget Jones’s Diary
Posted on: June 6, 2009
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Book Description: Picador, London 1996, 1996. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, first impression. 310pp. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. A fine copy in virtually fine, non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very gently rubbed at head and foot of spine panel. “130 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds overnight? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier (repulsive, horrifying notion)); alcohol units 2 (excellent) cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow); number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)” This laugh-out-loud chronicle charts a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single girl on a permanent, doomed quest for self-improvem ent–in which she resolves to: visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and not fall for any of the following: misogynists, megalomaniacs, adulterers, workaholics, chauvinists or perverts. And learn to program the VCR. Caught between her Singleton friends, who are all convinced they will end up dying alone and found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian, and the Smug Marrieds, whose dinner parties offer ever-new opportunities for humiliation, Bridget struggles to keep her life on an even keel (or at least afloat). Through it all, she will have her readers helpless with laughter and shouting, “BRIDGET JONES IS ME!”
Price: £64.99
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Rites of Passage
Posted on: June 6, 2009
- In: William Golding
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Book Description: Faber, London, 1980. Cloth. Book Condition: V. Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. Green cloth binding with gold gilt title. Not price clipped.
Price: £24.99
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- In: J P Donleavy
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Book Description: Allen Lane 1978. 1st UK edition. Very good plus in very good plus d/w. His future is disastrous, his present indecent, his past divine. He is Darcy Dancer, scion of the gentry, youthful squire of Andromeda Park and rider of horses and housekeepers to hounds and to bed. His adventures as a vagabond across country and in bohemian Dublin in search of the lost glories of his youth are ferociously comic, hilariously sad.”
Price: £7.99
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NIGHT TRAIN
Posted on: June 3, 2009
- In: Martin Amis
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Book Description: London: Jonathan Cape, (1997)., 1997. First edition. Fine in Very good dust jacket. Story is told from the perspective of Detective Mike Hoolihan, a hulking, chain-smoking, deep-voiced policewoman. This case is about the apparent suicide of Jennifer Rockwell, Mike’s mentor’s daughter . a beautiful young woman who had everything to live for. Contrary to the evidence, Mike questions the suicide and begins to investigate. Author’s ninth novel and a fine mystery story that will linger in your mind long after Mike Hoolihan closes the case.
Price: £19.99
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A Sketchbook of Birds
Posted on: June 3, 2009
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Book Description: Victor Gollancz, London, 1979. Tunnicliffe (illustrator). 2nd Impression. Intro by Ian Niall. Landscape format, about 9.5 x 10″, 123 pages of wonderful coloured bird drawings, covering seabirds, waders, geese, ducks and swans, and birds of prey, plus some miscellaneous birds. Bound in brown cloth with brown lettering and Tunnicliffe’s emblem, very good in very good wrapper.
Price: £19.99
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Mind Benders, The
Posted on: June 3, 2009
- In: James Kennaway
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Book Description: Pan, 1963. Paperback. Book Condition: Good edition. “tanned” (photo on front cover & film credits on back cover) (Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements).
Price: £9.99
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The Stabbing in the Stables
Posted on: June 2, 2009
- In: Simon Brett
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