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Dornford Yates - aka C. W. Mercer: B-Berry and I Look Back
Book Number: 54846
Ward, Lock & Co., London, 1958 8vo. Hardcover in d/w. po inscription on ffl., light foxing on page edges, otherwise very good. 285pp. Mercer wrote two books of fictionalized memoirs, As Berry and I were Saying and B-Berry and I Look Back, written as conversations between Berry and his family. They contain many anecdotes about his experiences as a lawyer, but are, in the main, an elegy for a passed upper-class way of life.
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Price: $22.00 |
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Walls, Jeannette: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Book Number: 54849
Scribner October 6, 2009 8vo hardcover 288pp very good / very good d/w. For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose megaselling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own upbringing, writes in what she recalls as Lily's plainspoken voice, whose recital provides plenty of drama and suspense as she ricochets from one challenge to another. Having been educated in fits and starts because of her parents' penury, Lily becomes a teacher at age 15 in a remote frontier town she reaches after a solo 28-day ride. Marriage to a bigamist almost saps her spirit, but later she weds a rancher with whom she shares two children and a strain of plucky resilience. (They sell bootleg liquor during Prohibition, hiding the bottles under a baby's crib.) Lily is a spirited heroine, fiercely outspoken against hypocrisy and prejudice, a rodeo rider and fearless breaker of horses, and a ruthless poker player. Assailed by flash floods, tornados and droughts, Lily never gets far from hardscrabble drudgery in several states--New Mexico, Arizona, Illinois--but hers is one of those heartwarming stories about indomitable women that will always find an audience. Originally conceived as a biography based on family interviews and historical research, Walls found herself filling in too many blanks for Half Broke Horses to remain a work of nonfiction, so she assumed Smith's indomitable voice and set out to write a novelistic recreation of Smith's unconventional life. Most critics were captivated by Smith's earthy, straightforward style, despite the steady stream of repetitive axioms intermingled with her antics.
Keywords: 1901 1968 Half Broke Horses A True Life Novel Walls Jeannette
Price: $18.00 |
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Round, Dora (Translator): Apocryphal Stories
Book Number: 54858
Penguin July 1, 1975 8vo softcover 160pp very good.
Keywords: Czechoslovakia Apocryphal Stories Round Dora (Translator)
Price: $16.00 |
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Lane (translator): THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. A Selection, for the most part from Lane's Translation.
Book Number: 54878
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1915. 8vo. green cloth hardcover. 733pp. 46 illustrations by A. B. Houghton and others. Very good.
Keywords: ARABIAN NIGHTS fiction novel
Price: $25.00 |
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Welty, Eudora: The Optimist's Daughter
Book Number: 54884
Vintage Books August 1978 8vo. softcover. 208pp. good+, lightly toned pages.
Keywords: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Price: $16.00 |
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