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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Just a Bowl of Cherries This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Patrick Gierth (illustratore). 1st Edition. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth boards with silver gilt titles on spine. Un-price-clipped dust jacket designed by Patrick Gierth in fair condition with part missing to lower spine, some chipping. 158pp. Inner book in excellent clean condition. A classic adventure novel from the author of Rogue Male. A respectable family man with a distinguished war record gets embroiled in a series of dangerous intrigues, when he takes a pot shot at a couple of suspected poachers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Jacket by Patrick Gierth (illustratore). 1st Edition. First published in 1951, this is a seventh impression of 1957. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, but jacket bright and unsunned. Not price clipped (15s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 381pp. New Year's Eve, 1856. As Captain Rodney Savage of the 13th Rifles, Bengal Native Infantry, celebrates the start of 1857 with his wife and friends in the isolated cantonment of Bhowani, news comes of a crisis that will have terrifying and widespread repercussions. The Rajah of the neighbouring native state of Kishanpur has been assassinated, and the Rani has had thirty five of the culprits garrotted. With unrest mounting, the British have no option but to send troops to protect her and her young son. In the following months, as tension erupts into violence and the British begin to wonder whether even their closest servants are trustworthy, Rodney has good cause to remember the quiet comment of Caroline Langford, a visitor from England, 'India is your palace, but you live shut up in little rooms like the Bhowani Cantonment, and the next English room is always away at the other end of the palace somewhere.' Combining the flare of a true story teller with an intuitive sense of history born of his own deep knowledge and love of India, John Masters recreates the horror of the Indian Mutiny that was to mark the end of British complacency in the huge sub continent which they had thought their own. Never again would they feel so secure amid a native population that vastly outnumbered them. The seeds of discontent had been sown, to bear fruit ninety years later in India's painfully won independence. Lieutenant Colonel John Masters, DSO (1914-83), was a long serving officer in the British Indian Army and novelist. A classic.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Jacket by Patrick Gierth (illustratore). 1st Edition. First published in 1951, this is a third impression of 1958, a tribute to the author's popularity. Jacket sadly tatty, with edge wear, chipping, old tape repairs to folds, some closed tears and 2" loss to top of spine, corners and folds rubbed with some loss, some overall browning and time staining, lean, some dust staining to page block, not price clipped (12s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a reasonable copy for its age 302pp. A post apocalyptic sci fi novel. After most people in the world are blinded by an apparent meteor shower, an aggressive, venomous, alien species of plant starts killing the survivors. Although Wyndham had already published other novels using other pen name combinations drawn from his real name, this was the first novel published as 'John Wyndham'. The story has been made into the 1962 feature film of the same name, three radio drama series (in 1957, 1968 and 2001) and two TV series (in 1981 and 2009). It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952, and in 2003 the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. By classic English sci fi novelist John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (1903-69). Scarce even in this somewhat compromised condition, with fab retro jacket by artist Patrick Gierth (1910-94).