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Zenosbooks - Zeno's Picks
Sep 1, 2019 | 04:03 am
Ice by Anna Kavan. Garden City. 1970. Doubleday. Introduction by Brian W. Aldiss.. 176 pages. hardcover. Jacket by Alan Peckolick.
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Earth was doomed. Slowly and inexorably the world was entering a new and cataclysmic ice age.[…]
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Zenosbooks - Zeno's Picks
Sep 1, 2019 | 03:56 am
The Wings of Atalanta: Essays Written along the Color Line by Mark Richardson. Rochester. 2018. June 2018. Camden House. 9781571132390. Studies in American Literature and Culture. 2 black and white. 400 pages. hardcover.
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This[…]
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Zenosbooks - Zeno's Picks
Sep 1, 2019 | 03:49 am
An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor by Danell Jones. London. 2018. September 2018. Hurst. 9781849049603. 320 pages. hardcover.
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In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time[…]
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Zenosbooks - Zeno's Picks
Aug 31, 2019 | 18:00 pm
Caviar and Cabbage: Selected Columns by Melvin B. Tolson from the Washington Tribune, 1937-1944. Columbia. 1982. April 1982. University of Missouri Press. 9780826203489. Edited and with an introduction by Robert M. Farnsworth. 288 pages. hardcover.
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Jun 12, 2018 | 16:17 pm
Memoirs Of A Polyglot: The Autobiography of William Gerhardie by William Gerhardie. New York. 1973. St Martin's Press. hardcover. 408 pages. Preface by Michael Holroyd. 0356031470.
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Written with a rare candour, this enchanting[…]
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Mar 15, 2015 | 16:23 pm
Starchild by Frederik Pohl. Middlesex. 1970. Penguin Books. 148 pages. paperback. Cover design by Franco Grignani. 0140031030
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Steve Ryland knew more about his future than he did about his past. His[…]
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Mar 14, 2015 | 20:53 pm
Swedish Cops: From Sjöwall & Wahlöö to Steigh Larsson by Michael Tapper. Bristol and Chicago. 2014. Intellect. 377 pages. paperback. Cover design by Stephanie Sarlos. 9781783201884
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SWEDISH COPS is a history of Swedish[…]
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Dec 13, 2014 | 01:50 am
Joyce's Dublin: A Walking Guide To Ulysses by Jack McCarthy (with Danis Rose). New York. 1991. St Martin's Press. hardcover. 93 pages. Jacket photograph courtesy of The Bettman Archive. Jacket design by Doris Borowsky. keywords: Ireland Joyce Ireland Literature Reference.[…]
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Dec 9, 2014 | 01:49 am
(12/08/2014) The Memoirs Of Satan by William Gerhardi and Brian Lunn. London. 1932. Cassell & Company. hardcover. 382 pages.
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SATAN narrates the epic of mankind and the part he has played therein. From[…]
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Nov 30, 2014 | 16:36 pm
Pretty Creatures by William Gerhardi. New York. 1927. Duffield & Company. hardcover. 194 pages.
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Written between 1924 and 1925, in a wonderfully spare prose in which not a word is[…]
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