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Bunn, Davis The Amber Room (The Priceless Collection) Hendrickson 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1154795. ISBN #1619700670 / 9781619700673. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burdick, Eugene; Wheeler, Harvey Fail Safe paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097943. ISBN #088001654X / 9780880016544. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burdick, Eugene; Wheeler, Harvey Fail Safe paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097943. ISBN #088001654X / 9780880016544. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow. In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the secretary of defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety as the luminous blips crawl across a huge screen map. High over the Bering Strait in a large Vindicator bomber, a colonel stares in disbelief at the attack code number on his fail-safe box and wonders if it could possibly be a mistake. First published in 1962, when America was still reeling from the Cuban missle crisis, Fail-Safe reflects the apocalyptic attitude that pervaded society during the height of the Cold War, when disaster could have struck at any moment. As more countries develop nuclear capabilities and the potential for new enemies lurks on the horizon, Fail-Safe and its powerful issues continue to respond.
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Burdick, Eugene; Wheeler, Harvey Fail-Safe hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1099700. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange W. W. Norton & Company 1987 paperback. . Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1159031. ISBN #0393312836 / 9780393312836. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange W. W. Norton & Company 1987 paperback. . Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1159031. ISBN #0393312836 / 9780393312836. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The only American edition of the cult classic novel. A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, whose stark terror was captured in Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film of the same title. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him the novel asks, "At what cost?" This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resu
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Burgess, Anthony Any Old Iron Random House 1989 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Previous owners name inking. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1150300. ISBN #0394574842 / 9780394574844. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Devil's Mode, The Random House 1989 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1156205. ISBN #0394576705 / 9780394576701. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Earthly Powers Simon & Schuster 1980 hardcover. Inked note on front fly.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Previous owners name inking. Wear from use. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1144536. ISBN #0671414909 / 9780671414900. (keywords: British Literature) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony End of the World News, The: An Entertainment McGraw-Hill 1983 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1150243. ISBN #0070089655 / 9780070089655. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Honey for the Bears W. W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107804. ISBN #0393314413 / 9780393314410. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Honey for the Bears W. W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107804. ISBN #0393314413 / 9780393314410. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy. . . . Honey for the Bears is a triumph." Kingsley Amis, New York Times A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to pervade: lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar. br
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Burgess, Anthony Honey for the Bears W. W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145365. ISBN #0393314413 / 9780393314410. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Honey for the Bears W. W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145365. ISBN #0393314413 / 9780393314410. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary "There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy. . . . Honey for the Bears is a triumph." Kingsley Amis, New York Times A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to pervade: lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar. br
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Burgess, Anthony Honey for the Bears W.W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1158361. ISBN #0393314413 / 9780393314410. (keywords: FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Right To An Answer W.W. Norton & Company 1978 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1156207. ISBN #0393008878 / 9780393008876. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Right To An Answer W.W. Norton & Company 1978 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1156207. ISBN #0393008878 / 9780393008876. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Mr. Burgess has invented complex, varying people, and he has moved them well, giving them much to suffer and to do. . . .In the closing pages, Burgess has set off a wild joke in which all his themes poetry, England, race, love crackle and sparkle in a gloriously funny surprise. . . .The book is. . .a nicely controlled examination of some human predicaments that is cunningly disguised as entertainment. Naomi Bliven, New Yorker The playground of Mr. Burgess humor is a city to which his hero, Denham, J. W., businessman, forty, British, returns on leave from the Far East to find the face of England hardened into a standardized grimace. He is appalled by his observations in all quarters of cheapness, shallowness, vice. He is appalled also by monotony. But monotony reigns only briefly. Soon Everett, the broken-down poet, and Winterbottom, the printer, have involved him in affairs which put a strain on his holiday spirit. And with the appearance of Mr. Raj, Ceylonese gentleman, persistent lecher and unflagging sociologist, speed quickens and control diminishes as Denham is carried helpless down the homestretch of his grueling comic course. Mr. Burgess humor stems from the depth of life rather than from its surface. His people are so vividly alive, and the anger, laughter and melodrama of their experiences so affecting that their story takes on dimension rare in novels so thoroughly entertaining.
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Burgess, Anthony The Kingdom of the Wicked Arbor House 1985 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Previous owners name inking. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1150298. ISBN #0877957533 / 9780877957539. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Dorothy Say Uncle hardcover. First Edition. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Tears and damage to jacket. Some Chipping. Book #or1130265. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burney, Frances Evelina paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107148. ISBN #0140433473 / 9780140433470. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burr, Jane The queen is dead: A book of impertinent stories and unabashed verse (SIGNED) Elliot Pub. Co 1938 hardcover. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or724539. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burroughs, William S. Naked Lunch Grove Press 2001 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143546. ISBN #0802140181 / 9780802140180. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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