Barbara Pym

Pages are yellowed with age, otherwise great condition 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

'.an incisive and wry portrait of life in an Engish village in Oxfordshire.'

A Few Green Leaves

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Colorado

A Novel

Some Tame Gazelle

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Michigan

Despite her husband's aging, Wilmet Forsyth would like to believe she has changed very little. She cultivates a friendship with three unmarried priests and Piers Longridges, a man of unfathomly different character altogether.

A Glass of Blessings

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Paperback. Very good condition. Has a remainder mark on bottom of text block. 

North Carolina

Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.

Excellent Women

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No notes or highlighting. From a smoke- and pet-free home. See photos for cover/spine condition.

Please look at the pictures for the condition of the book.

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Jane and Prudence 

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Arizona

Jane and Prudence

There is writing in pencil on the back page. Please see pictures.

Ohio

Excellent Women (Large Print Edition)

New York

Torn corners and ragged top edge, plus some writing on front. Interior pages solid 

The Sweet Dove Died

California


Good condition. Wear is designated to dust jacket with small crease me and tears. Book itself is excellent condition: clean, unmarked, with bright, crisp pages.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Wear to dust jacket. Book itself is in excellent condition, clean, bright, and unmarked.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters

A Very Private Eye

Paul Binding

Illinois

No Fond Return of Love

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Mary Sarah

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

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Less Than Angels

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Life has a certain reassuring if not terribly exciting rhythm for the residents of North Oxford. Miss Morrow is content in her position as spinster companion to Miss Doggett, even if her employer and the woman s social circle regard her as a piece of furniture. Stephen Latimer, the new cleric and Miss Doggett s dashing new tenant, upsets the balance for Miss Morrow by proposing the long discounted possibility of marriage. Miss Doggett s nephew, Mr. Francis Cleveland, is a handsome, middle-aged professor not destined for greatness in his field. He has a complaisant wife and an adoring pupil, a dangerous midlife combination. The town gossips witness an impulsive declaration of love between Francis Cleveland and Miss Bird and conclude that Mr. Cleveland is willing to sacrifice marriage and respectability for the sake of passion. Caught in a potentially compromising situation with Miss Morrow, Mr. Latimer clumsily refers to a nonexistent town: Crampton Hodnet. His lie is harmless. In this town appearances are much more deceiving. Barbara Pym began writing Crampton Hodnet in 1939. It was first published posthumously in 1987, thanks to her friend and biographer, Hazel Holt.

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