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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Fine hardcover copy 478 pp.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Simon & Schuster 02/07/2003, 2003

    0743230884 / 9780743230889

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    Zustand: Very Good. 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. .…

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980

    0671243160 / 9780671243166

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Lower corners bumped. Top edge of page block lightly spotted. Cover and dustjacket have minor edge wear. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 478 pages.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Scribner, 2002

    0743230884 / 9780743230889

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    Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Scribner, 2002

    0743230884 / 9780743230889

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    Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 2003

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    paperback. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Warner Books, Inc./ Published by Arrangement with Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, 1986

    0446323861 / 9780446323864

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    Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Warner Bks Printing:Oct, 1986. 519 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear. Clean text with moderate foxing on pages.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Simon & Schuster 02/07/2003, 2003

    0743230884 / 9780743230889

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    Zustand: 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.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Castle Books, 2000

    0785812466 / 9780785812463

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    Hardcover. Zustand: As new. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: as new. Castle Books, c2000. 376pp., index, bibliography, black and white photographs. 8vo. As new hardcover, as new d/j.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1985

    0385189524 / 9780385189521

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good Dust Jacket. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 464 pages; Clear Plastic Jacket of Mylar Protecting the dust jacket. Dust Jacket lightly rubbed Book Tight. Text is clean no markings seen.

  • Sprache: Spanisch

    Verlag: Plaza & Janés Editores, 1980, Barcelona, 1980., 1980

    8401370507 / 9788401370502

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    Zustand: Normal. Plaza & Janes. Barcelona, 1980 21,5 x 15 cm., 413 pag. Tapa blanda con solapas con leve perdida de papel, aceptable estado de conservacion. NOVELA . Ejemplares disponibles: 1 Normal.

  • Sprache: Französisch

    229801289X / 9782298012897

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    Couverture souple. Zustand: Très bon. Fort in-8° broché,format moyen,épais,couverture illustré d'un portrait,rempliée,Editions Robert Laffont,Paris,1975.Photographies hors-texte en noir,555 pages,très bon état.

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    Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: SIMON & SCHUSTER INC, 2003

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    Soft cover. Zustand: Good. London: SIMON & SCHUSTER INC, 2003 LARGE SIZE SOFT COVER EDITION-WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGEUsed Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster is a book by Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro based on the 1984 Bhopal disaster It was first published in 1997 and the English edition was published in 2001.…

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Reader's Digest, 1989

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. FREE U.K. Shipping. FAMILY Business. FIRST Class Service. Full refund if not totally satisfied. 1989 Hardback edition, no dust jacket.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Warner Books, New York, 1991

    0446516287 / 9780446516280

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. [8], 472 pages. Illustrations (color). DJ has slight wear and soiling and is price clipped. Dominique Lapierre (born 30 July 1931 in Châtelaillon, Charente-Maritime, France) is a French author. The City of Joy is about the unsung heroes of the Pilkhana slum in Kolkata. Lapierre donated half the royalties he earned from this book to support several humanitarian projects in Kolkata, including refuge centres for leper and polio children, dispensaries, schools, rehabilitation workshops, education programs, sanitary actions, and hospital boats. To process and channel the charitable funds he founded an association called Action aid for Calcutta lepers' children. Aware of the corruption in India, he organizes all his fund transfers to India in such a way as to ensure that the money reaches the right person for the right purpose. His wife since 1980, Dominique Conchon-Lapierre is his partner in the City of Joy Foundation. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award in the 2008 Republic Day honours list. Derived from a review posted on-line: Dominique Lapierre has now moved his gaze towards Calcutta, The City of Joy. What Lapierre has presented is not a collage from the scrap-books of history but a subtle ground-level view of the human situation, done with great compassion. It is at this asphyxiating inferno that Lapierre unfolds his epic on the life and times of the Bengali peasant, Hasari Pal, who is uprooted from his village and its primitive agriculture and takes his residence in the urban slum to join the army of men who slide under the shaft of the hand-drawn rickshaw and pull for a pittance the passengers in what may be one of the most degrading rides in the world. The City of Joy is seen through the eyes of Stephan Kovalski. the Polish missionary who settles down in the slum one day in a pair of jeans and a kurta, without the obligatory cassock of the priest. To join him later in the strange crusade is the American doctor, Max Loeb, who is struggling against public apathy to set up a leprosy hospital in the slum. First Warner Books Hardcover Printing [Stated].…

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    Verlag: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Very good with bumping and dampstaining to the rear board along with a touch of soiling to the text block in about very good dustwrapper with general wear, the laminate starting, and offsetting to the inside of the jacket. Inscribed to Bill Boggs, four-time Emmy Award-winning New York television talk show host, who interviewed both authors on his show: "To Bill Boggs The First Horseman of Channel 5. Best Regards Larry Collins [and in another hand] Dominique Lapierre." Copies signed by both authors is uncommon.…

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    Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Simon and Schuster, 1972

    0671211633 / 9780671211639

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed First Edition, First Printing of this narrative history of the 1948 war over the establishment of modern Israel and the governance of Jerusalem. Signed by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre on the title page. 637 pages, illustrated. Has some tanning of the page edges. The dust jacket has edge wear including small chips at the top and bottom of the spine. Signed by Author(s).…

  • Verlag: World Books, London England, 1970

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    Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st World Book Edition. Hardbac. very good book good with foxing with age and browning to edges light wear to jacket He is the idol of Spain: matador, movie-star, multi-millionaire, international celebrity. His fortune was so vast that his accountant could not calculate its exact value. Mass hysteria and frenzied adulation followed him wherever he went. He was 'El Cordobes', the Man from Cordoba. This book is a story of indomitable courage, of triumphs over insurperable odds, that embodies the dreams of every Spaniard and the aspirations of a restless nation. It is also a dramtatic history of twentieth-century Spain - from the Spain of yesterday, of the Civil War and the Nationalist Repressions, introspective, wounded and poverty-stricken, to the Spain of today, finally roused from her long stupor, a Spain of tourists and television, democracy and the Common Market - the new Spain of which El Cordobes was both the precursor and the symbol. Illustrated with B/W photos.381 pp. Plastic protective cover. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in sci fi fantasy and horror, The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London England, 1988

    029776456X / 9780297764564

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    Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition First Print. First Edition. First Printing. Signed and dated by Larry Collins (London, June 26, 1967) to previous owner to title page. Wear to D/J. Protective mylar covering. He became the idol of Spain: matador, movie-star, multi-millionaire, international celebrity. His fortune was so vast that his accountant could not calculate its exact value. Mass hysteria and frenzied adulation followed him wherever he went. He was 'El Cordobes', the Man from Cordoba. This book is a story of indomitable courage, of triumphs over insurperable odds, that embodies the dreams of every Spaniard and the aspirations of a restless nation. It is also a dramtatic history of twentieth-century Spain - from the Spain of yesterday, of the Civil War and the Nationalist Repressions, introspective, wounded and poverty-stricken, to the Spain of today, finally roused from her long stupor, a Spain of tourists and television, democracy and the Common Market - the new Spain of which El Cordobes was both the precursor and the symbol. Illustrated with B/W photos.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.). By Author. …

  • Verlag: Circulo de Lectores, 1968

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    Tapa dura. Zustand: Bien.

  • Verlag: Castle, Edison

    0785812466 / 9780785812463

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    [0-7858-1246-6] 2000. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 376pp. Map endpapers, bibliography, index. Locale: France; Paris. (World War 2, Resistance Movement--France, World War 2).

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    Verlag: Penguin, 1966

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    Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1966 Penguin Paperback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good clean tight binding with wonderful cover design & illustrations as shown.

  • Verlag: Signet Books

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    Mass Market. Zustand: Acceptable. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo, 332 tanned pgs, b&w photos, tag on front.

  • Sprache: Französisch

    Verlag: Robert Laffont, 1986

    2221044223 / 9782221044223

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    Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. R320145582: 1986. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 500 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.091-XX ème siècle.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, 1965

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 376 pages. First Edition. Illustrated with photos. Best-selling account of the liberation of Paris in August, 1944. The screenplay for the 1966 epic film version was written, among others, by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola. I recall the 1967 Mad Magazine parody of the film, "Is Paris Boring?" Fine in dustjacket with light crease to lower corner of rear flap, else fine. A really nice copy.…

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Simon and Schuster

    0671387278 / 9780671387273

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    Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Doubleday & Company, Inc, New York, 1985

    0385189524 / 9780385189521

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. xii, [2], 464, [2 pages. Illustrations (color). DJ has some wear. tears, soiling and chips. Inscribed on the half-title page by the author. The inscription reads To Joseph, This epic in faith, hope and love With warmest good wishes D. Lapierre. Dominique Lapierre (born 30 July 1931 in Châtelaillon, France) is an author. On several occasions, Collins and Lapierre met while on assignment. They had to compete with each other for stories. But they decided to join forces to tell a big story which would appeal to both French and anglophone audiences. Their first bestseller Is Paris Burning? sold close to ten million copies in thirty languages. In this book they mixed the modern technique of investigation journalism with the classical methods of historical research. Two of Lapierre's books Is Paris Burning? (co-written with Larry Collins) and City of Joy have been made into films. His wife is Dominique Conchon-Lapierre. Kathryn Spink is the author of prize-winning biographies, which have sold worldwide in over fifteen languages. She is the authorized biographer of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, chronicler of the South African women's human rights organization, the Black Sash, and translator of City of Joy and other books by Dominique Lapierre. The City of Joy is about the unsung heroes of the Pilkhana slum in Kolkata. Lapierre donated half the royalties he earned from this book to support several humanitarian projects in Kolkata, including refuge centers for leper and polio children, dispensaries, schools, rehabilitation workshops, education programs, sanitary actions, and hospital boats. To process and channel the charitable funds he founded an association called Action aid for Calcutta lepers' children. Aware of the corruption in India, he organizes all his fund transfers to India in such a way as to ensure that the money reaches the right person for the right purpose. Derived from a review posted on-line: Dominique Lapierre has now moved his gaze towards Calcutta, The City of Joy. What Lapierre has presented is not a collage from the scrap-books of history but a subtle ground-level view of the human situation, done with great compassion. It is at this asphyxiating inferno that Lapierre unfolds his epic on the life and times of the Bengali peasant, Hasari Pal, who is uprooted from his village and its primitive agriculture and takes his residence in the urban slum to join the army of men who slide under the shaft of the hand-drawn rickshaw and pull for a pittance the passengers in what may be one of the most degrading rides in the world. The City of Joy is seen through the eyes of Stephan Kovalski. the Polish missionary who settles down in the slum one day in a pair of jeans and a kurta, without the obligatory cassock of the priest. To join him later in the strange crusade is the American doctor, Max Loeb, who is struggling against public apathy to set up a leprosy hospital in the slum. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Dominique Conchon (Author photograph) (illustrator). …

  • Verlag: Warner Books New York 1991, 1991

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    1st ed. thus hardback with dust jacket As New octavo 472pp., colour plates, Signed by Dominique Lapierre 'To Rex Riley with Warm Greetings' on owner's Library Bookplate on the free front end paper. This is the first Warner edition released to coincide with the film & illustrated with stills. PHOTO available.…