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Yates, Bart. The Brothers Bishop. New York, New York, U.S.A.: Kensington Press, 2005. ISBN: 0758209118

Book Club BOOK CLUB EDITION (INSIGHT OUT) 292 pages. The book and dust jacket are FINE. NOT remaindered. NOT price-clipped. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treausres related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Dust jacket notes read: "With his stunning debut novel, Leave Myself Behind, Bart Yates announced his arrival as a major new talent in fiction. Now, with that same searing wit and heartbreaking lyricism, he explores the explosive, unshakable bond between two brothers and the one summer that changes their lives forever. TOMMY AND NATHAN BISHOP ARE AS DIFFERENT as two brothers can be. Carefree and careless, Tommy is the golden boy who takes men into his bed with a seductive smile and turns them out just as quickly. No one can resist him-and no one can control him, either. That salient point certainly isn't lost on his brother. Nathan is all about control. At thirty-one, he is as dark and complicated as Tommy is light and easy, and he is bitter beyond his years. While Tommy left for the excitement of New York City, Nathan has stayed behind, teaching high school English in their provincial hometown, surrounded by the reminders of the legacy of anger that runs through him like a scar. Now, Tommy has come home to the family cottage by the sea for the summer, bringing his unstable, sexual powder keg of an entourage and the distant echoes of his family's tumultuous past-with him. Tommy and his lover Philip are teetering on the brink of disaster, while their married friends, Camille and Kyle, perfect their steps in a dance of denial, each partner pulling Nathan deeper into the fray. And when one of Nathan's troubled students, Simon, begins visiting the house, the slow fuse is lit on a highly combustible mix. During a heady two-week party filled with drunken revelations, bitter jealousies, caustic jabs, and tender reconciliations, Tommy and Nathan will confront the legacy of their twisted family history-an angry, abusive father and the tragic death of their mother-and finally, to the one secret that has shaped their entire lives. It is a summer that will challenge everything Nathan remembers and unravel Tommy's carefully constructed facade, drawing them both unwittingly into a drama with echoes of the past ... one with unforeseen and very dangerous consequences. At once both brutally honest and beautifully tender, The Brothers Bishop is a riveting story about the war we wage on those we love best, the cost of forgiveness, and the necessary pain of becoming fully human. " Hard Back condition: Fine in Fine DJ

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Edited by John Dunkin, Member of the Committee of the Worcester Congress: A Report of the Proceedings of the British Archaeological Association at the Fifth General Meeting holden in "The Faithful City" of Worcester in the month of August 1848, J Russell Smith for the British Archaeological Association, London, 1851 ISBN: No ISBN

Good No Jacket. Hardcover 1st Edition 464 pages plus advertisements. Articles included are: On the Antiquities of Northfield; Antiquities of the site of Worcester Castle; On Early Monumental Effigies - with plates, the Romantic Materials of History; Details of a visit to the Crypt of Worcester Cathedral; Worcester Cathedral, its History and Antiquities; the Interrnment of Prince Arthur; the Marriage and Death of Prince Arthur; the Refounding of Worcester Cathedral; The Bishop's Palace; Queen Elizabeth's Visit to Worcester in 1575; On the Worcestershire Custom of Catherning; the Sepulchral Character of Cromlechs in the Channel Isles; the Cromlech at L'Ancresse, Cromlech in Jersey; Cromlechs of Alderney; Cromlech in the Isle of Anglesea (Anglesey); the Kentish Cromlech, Kit's Coty House; Cromlechs at Addington & Trottescliffe; On the Horn Shaped Head-Dresses of the 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries; Excursion to Sudeley - with folded plates (one at rear) and folded plan; The Clothier's Company of Worcester; an Account of a Roman Inscription at Kempsey; Some Notes on the Study of Monumental Brasses and on Rubbings - with plate; Account of a discovery of Sepulchral Remains at Abergavenny; Excursion to Wollershill, Bredon Church and Camp, Elmley and Comberton; Pershore, Evesham, Hampton etc, Vale of Evesham; Holt Castle and Church; the Herefordshire Beacon; the White Ladies, Worcester - with folded plate; St John's Church at Bedwardine - with folded plate; a Soiree where items were shown; A Mummy obtained from a tomb at Thebes; the Dinner; the Passages of Shakespeare's First Love (Sonnets); the Carvings of the Stalls in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches; the Dineley Manuscripts; the Glazed tile Pavements in Worcester Cathedral, Heraldic Decorations of Encaustic Pavings (with plate). Appendix: Etymology of Worcester; Account of Worcester from Leland's Itinerary; Variations in the Accounts of our Historians of King John's Last Moments; Relative Proportions of the Cathedral; the Clothium or Leaden Steeple; Monumental Statistics; Saxon Architecture at Worcester; the Temporary Museum; Lettres sur la Communication entre les Deux Bretagnes. Black/dark green covers are rubbed with bumped corners, cloth is split on front external hinge but cover and spine are attached to each other, internal front hinge is broken, rear internal hinge is broken but holding to text block, internal binding is sound, pages are clean but a little darkened, plates and front pages have light freckling. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Inventory No: 10540-106021.

[SW: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire NOISBN, Worcester, Worcestershire, archaeology Archaeology; Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire; England; 19th century; NOISBN]

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WISEMAN NICHOLAS PATRICK STEPHEN (CARDINAL). Fabiola ou l'eglise des catacombes. (Order #348383)
* The author was Catholic bishop of Westminster. The novel is a colourful and vivid description of life (and death!) among early Christians.<br>** The illustrations were done by the Danish artist Lorenz Frölich (1820- 1908). From 1857 to 1876, he lived in Paris nurturing a fine career as illustrator of books and as a designer. In Denmark and the rest of the world he is known as the successor illustrator for Hans Christian Andersen after the death of Vilhelm Pedersen, Andersen's favourite for the job. However, Frölich, who had been the first Dane to get an Andersen illustration published (in 1845), filled Andersen's last 3 volumes of fairy tales (from 1870 to 1874)with splendid images. Frölich was eminent to create narrative, dramatic images. Having quite a faible for medieval scenery and figures, the publisher of this quite magnificent book certainly made a good choice of illustrator.

Nouvelle edition illustree de 21 grandes eaux-fortes. P. Lethielleux, Paris 1867. Large 4to. 455+(4) pages. Engraved frontispiece + 20 plates with original etchings by the Danish artist Lorenz Frölich. All plates with protective tissue paper. Publisher's dark purple morocco-backed boards. Spine with 4 raised bands and richly gilt decorations. Boards of purple cloth with blindtooled decorations. All edges gilt. Sunning to top-end of front board and spine. Slight shelf-wear; front board somewhat soiled. lnside clean.

[SW: Illustratorer/Lorenz Frölich< br> Skönlitteratur/Fransk V25/Skönlitteratur< br> Illustration/Katalog 25]

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