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Yerby, Frank - The Devil's Laughter. Foyle's book club reprint, 1955. Jean Paul Martin is the tall and handsome son of a rich merchant. But he and his father quarrel over Jean's hot-headed revolutionary writings, and still more bitterly over his sister's coming marriage to the Comte de Gravereau. For, Jean's face bears a scar - a souvenir of the Comte's private prison. Caught up in the Revolution, Jean, the whilom country lawyer, becomes the intimate of Danton himself. And into his live, already passionate and complicated, three women bring their tangled skein of treachery, jealousy - and love. (Prelim). 7½" x 5", 300pp, yellow cloth, hardback. The back board has some quite heavy water damage; page edge browning, good, solid reading copy only, NO wrapper.
[Order code:2529 / Price £1.00]

Yerby, Frank - The Devil's Laughter. The Book Club (Foyle's), 1955. ...is as turbulent and unpredictable, as strange a mixture of idelaism and hetred, as the French Revolution itself, in the thick of which he lives and loves and pursues hes feuds. ... (wrapper flap). 7½" x 5", 300pp, yellow cloth, hardback. Top-front corners and gatherings bumped, page edge browning, very good complete with very good wrapper.
[Order code:2996 / Price £1.00]

Yorke, Curtis - Wayward Anne. John Long. Yorke, Curtis - Wayward Anne. John Long, Popular Edition, not dated, 1930s? 6½" x 4", 318pp, red cloth, black printed illustration on front-board, hardback. Case virtually detached, edge-wear, 'dusty', lacks free endpapers and, probably, half-title, pages browned and delicate, 2 pages loose, poor but text complete, no wrapper. Delicate, scarce.
[Order code:13218 / Price £5.00]

Young, Jill - Just Matty's Luck. Pan Heartlines series, 1987. Matty was totally scatterbrained - what she didn't break she lost. She even lost Ned, the 4-year-old in her charge, when she took him to the park. It would be just Matty's luck to lose her exciting new job as a nanny in London. But Marry's luck is about to change. As she manages to cause yet another domestic crisis, a stranger comes to her rescue. He's not particularly tall, or dark, or handsome, but there's something about his shy, warm smile that she finds irresistible. In the time it takes hime to het her out of another scrape, shi is overwhelmed by feelings she has never experienced before - can this be love? (back cover). 7" x 4½", 142pp, paperback. Corner creases/edge-wear; no spine creases; page-edge browning; very good.
[Order code:4741 / Price £2.00]

Young, Francis Brett - Black Roses. William heinemann, 1929, October 2nd impression. 7½" x 5", 274pp, black cloth, gold blocking, hardback. Printed on laid paper. Good only, but sound, no wrapper.
[Order code:11457 / Price £2.00]

Yull, P. B. - Hazell and the Three Card Trick. Macmillan. 1975,1st. 8" x 5", 224pp, red cloth. Hardback. Ex-library, usual stamps, good plus, complete with wrapper in the usual library protective cover. Average.
[Order code:10424 / Price £5.00]

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