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	1	Hutchings, Arthur (Foreword by Kingsley Amis) Mozart : The Man The Musician New York, New York, USA Schirmer Books : A Division of Macmillan Publising Co., Inc. 1975 First American Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 320 illustrations, 170 in color Laminated pictorial covers on boards. Total 244 pp. includes acknowledgements and indices. Each section is numbered individually, 113 pp. for Mozart : The Man and 131 pp. for Mozart : The Musician. Volume has light edgewear and faint rubbing. Now in protective wrap. From the foreword "... I had known for years that he [Hutchings] was my best guide to Mozart's music; to write about Mozart's life clearly called for a rather different set of abilities. Hutchings has turned out to possess those too. He shows us what the man was like by showing what he did and said, how he behaved to his family, his friends, employers, patrons, colleagues and rivals. The story tells itself without manipulation from the historian, and its principal character is, with the inevitability of truth, an amalgam, irreducible to any comprehensive description. Hutchings Mozart is all the behaviors put together. And thrown in for good measure, there is a fascinating account of what musical life was like in the later part of the 18th century: the lodgings and the coach-journeys, the courts and concert-rooms, the jobs, the money, the disappointments, the illnesses, the passing moments of glory. Arthur Hutchings has succeeded in his undertaking, which, in view of the stature of its central figure, is saying a good deal." Price: 28.00 USD
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	2	Amis, Kingsley The Green Man New York, NY, U.S.A. Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. 1969 First American Edition, 1970 Hard Cover Good Good Green paper on boards, white cloth on spine. Volume has slight edgewear. Could be called a little loose in spine, but not by me. Jacket slightly worn, mostly at head of back strip. A slight sort of wrinkle at front panel edge and the color is coming off at the spine and front folds. Now in clear cover. "Who would have predicted that Kingsley Amis might someday write a novel dealing with the supernatural? This novel deals with a number of matters - sex for instance, as well as morality and faith - but the supernatural dominates. A cunning blend of terror, suspense, satire, and metaphysical speculation." Price: 15.00 USD
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	3	Amis, Kingsley The Riverside Villas Murder New York, NY, U.S.A. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1973 First American Edition B C D E Hard Cover Very Good Good Black paper on boards, red cloth on spine. Owners name on front pastedown. Volume edges very lightly worn. Jacket is worn on the edges, small tear head of spine, other chips, head/heel of spine. rubbing makes the panels look soiled. Now in clear cover. "The Riverside Villas Murder has for its somewhat surprising hero a fourteen-year-old boy hovering hopefully on the brink between inexperience and initiation. The delicious and mind-consuming prospect of sex, turns into the hot pursuit, as yet frustrated, of those mysterious and formidable creatures, girls. Riverside Villas, a rural enclave, is the scene of his exploits-and of someone's crime. Only Peter begins to guess at the truth - a dangerous truth, which leads him to the river bank by moonlight ... The Riverside Villas Murder is, a splendid entertainment, clever, comic and chilling." Price: 20.00 USD
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	4	Wells, H.G. (Special Foreword by Kingsley Amis) The War of the Worlds : The Time Machine and Selected Short Stories New York, NY, U.S.A. Platt & Munk, Publishers 1963 Reprint Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket Grey with green paper on boards. This is an ex-private library with the library stamp on the fep. Volume has faded spine. Worn through to boards on the top front corner. Some fraying at top of spine. Light soiling to covers. Now in protective wrap. The selected short stories are: The Crystal Egg; The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham; The Red Room; The Valley of the Spiders; In the Abyss; In the Avu Observatory; The Truth About Pyecraft; and Biographical Notes about H.G. Wells. Price: 10.00 USD
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Wells, H.G. (Special Foreword By Kingsley Amis)

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