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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Cash. No Jacket. **Inscribed by the author to the previous owner!** Light reader wear and rubbing to the edges, corners, covers, and pages. A few cracks in the spine throughout the book. A few pages have creases. The book is in great condition! Has a gift inscription written inside. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. Inscribed By Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Cash. No Jacket. **Inscribed by the author to the previous owner.** Light reader wear and rubbing to the edges, corners, covers, and pages. The book is in great condition! Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. Inscribed By Author.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 546 pages. 8.94x6.22x1.89 inches. In Stock.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good - Cash. Both volumes have minor surface and edgewear. Their pages show reader wear. The pages appear to be unmarked. Volume 1 has some creasing in the bottom right corner of the front cover. Volume 2 has some discoloration to the spine. Still in great condition! Bindings are tight and the pages are secure. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Catricia "Catnip" Carter grew up on a dirt road in Hardtner, Kansas, population eight hundred, racing anything with wheels and a motor. Her father Fred - Fast Fred, from his short-lived dirt track career - built her a go-kart from pipe and a lawnmower engine. By ten she was beating boys in a cow pasture. By twenty-one she was signing with a professional racing team and leaving everything she loved in the rearview. Catnip Carter: A Need for Speed is the story of a woman built for velocity learning what speed costs - the family that needs her home, the best friend she stops calling back, the boy from eighth grade who matched her stride for stride and then vanished for seven years. It's about talent and ambition and the difference between being fast and knowing where you're going.With a voice that reads like a screenplay adapted for the page, this novel moves at the speed of its protagonist - direct, physical, and impossible to put down. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Klein-8°. 17 x 10,5 cm. xxvi (ii), (2) viii, (10) 312 Seiten. [12] Blatt, 276 Seiten. [12] Blatt, 287 Seiten. [11] Blatt, 288 Seiten. [11] Blatt, 276 Seiten. [11] Blatt, 264 Seiten. [7] Blatt, 248 Seiten. [9] Blatt, 280 Seiten. Ganzlederbände der Zeit mit goldgeprägter Rückennummerierung und Fileten. Bände 2-8 in 13. Auflage, Band 1 ohne Angabe. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. Band 1 mit Frontispiz. Einbände deutlich berieben und an den oberen Kapitalen mit Fehlstellen, ein Kapitalband fehlt komplett. 3 Vorderdeckel fast komplett vom Buchblock abgelöst. Vorsätze an den Rändern gebräunt. Band 3 mit eingeprägter Wappeninsignie "Les ses dire" und großflächigen Eintragungen von alter Hand in Tinte auf vorderem Vorsatz, Namenseintrag auf hinterem Vorsatzblatt, beides von Joseph Carvill, Loughinisland, Irland. Blätter wenig fleckig, vereinzelt schwach braunfleckig, an den Kanten teils etwas gebräunt. Gute Exemplare. Volumes 2-8 in 13th edition, volume 1 without declaration. English language edition. Volume 1 with frontispiece. Full leather bindings of the times with gilt embossed number on spine and gilt decor. Covers significantly rubbed and with small missing parts at the upper spines, one head band is missing. 3 front covers almost completely loosened from the book block. Endpapers darkened at the margins. Volume 3 with embossed armorial bearing "Les ses dire" and long private notes by old hand in ink on endpaper and inner cover, in the back with name inscription, both by Joseph Carvill, Loughinisland, Ireland. Sheets only partly spotted, some margins darkened. Good copies.…

Full Leather. Condition: Rare. A beautiful set of 8 volumes bound in full brown leather. Five raised bands to spines. Decorative gilt motifs to edges (in some instances faded) and to spines. Title labels missing on 6 of the 8 volumes. Owner's name to front free end page and bookplate to front paste down (in all volumes save for vol. 5). One instance of notes in margin in vol. 8. On most volumes joints cracked but solid. Some wear and chipping to spine extremities. Vol. 2 bears (bookworm) holes towards bottom of the page from start to finish. Vol. 3 where joint is cracked leather is peeling away from spine. Corners rubbed and some corners lightly bumped. Overall in remarkable condition. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.] Price is for the complete set of 8 volumes.…

Condition: Fair. Fifth (Quinta) edition. No author's name apparent. Small Hardcover book . dark cloth. 168pp, H: 14cm. A Latin - English phrasebook for use in schools, divided into sections such as school, in the house, at play, walking, saluting (!) etc. Fair condition : two pages have been torn out, otherwise text complete. Split to spine cloth; pages have various marks, title page soiled, and old ink annotations to margins. Pictures available.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. This is three volumes of the set, Vols. IV, VII and VIII. They are 12 mos measuring 4? x 7?, bound in what appears to be the original leather with five raised bands to the spine. The are in fair condition. Boards detached or detaching, leather quite scuffed and some rubbing to the corners, spine tips chipped, spines cracking. Interior end papers have been detached with the boards and are chipped as a result, otherwise the contents are clean and unmarked. Fragile but readable as is, a good candidate for rebinding, and a fascinating look at Europe and the French Court during the last half of the 17th century from someone ? Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy was an eight-volume collection of fictional letters claiming to have been written by an Ottoman spy named "Mahmut the Arabian",in the French court of Louis XIV. The letters cover the period of 1637 to 1682 in France, from the last years of the Regency of Anne of Austria and Cardinal Richelieu through the long reign of Louis XIV and his minister Cardinal Mazarin. The letters form a rambling journal of gossip on current politics and satire on society.Mahmut sends reports from Paris to Constantinople on politics and current events in France, but corresponds privately on other subjects including religion, and adds stories and anecdotes for diversion. His observations range from those on political figures such as Richelieu and Mazarin to speculations on the status of women, advice about state policy, and major interventions in controversies about religious doctrine and their consequences. His political position in the letters changes from that of liberal Catholic to that of a rationalistic Deist.It is agreed that the first volume of this work was written by Giovanni Paolo Marana (1642-1693), a Genoese political refugee to the French court of Louis XIV. The remaining seven volumes appeared first in English between 1691 and 1694, prefaced with a letter claiming that they were translated from a discovered Italian manuscript. There has long been a controversy as to the authorship of the volumes subsequent to Marana's first. They have been attributed to many writers, most notably Robert Midgley and William Bradshaw who produced the English translation. However, given the similarities between the letters, and the stylistic coherence of the whole series, the likeliest author is Marana himself.…

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Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. 24mo (5 3/4 x 3 1/2"). [4], 178, [6]pp (Publisher's advertisement). Modern 3/4 blue morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Manuscript note on fly leaf: a premium awarded to Miss Eliza Dudley for her studiousness and good behaviour in School by the Sabbath School Society, Brighton, Dec. 16th, 1827. Engraved frontispiece by Frederick Hendrik van Hove. Published two years after the king's death, "The Life and Memorable Actions of King William III" is a panegyric biography of William III (1650 -1702), sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death. A Protestant, William participated in several wars against the powerful Catholic king of France, Louis XIV, in coalition with Protestant and Catholic powers in Europe. Many Protestants heralded him as a champion of their faith. In 1685, his Catholic father-in-law, James, Duke of York, became king of England, Ireland and Scotland. James's reign was unpopular with the Protestant majority in Britain. William, supported by a group of influential British political and religious leaders, invaded England in what became known as the "Glorious Revolution." Manuscript note on fly leaf age-toned and partly water-stained at lower margin. Lower corner of frontispiece slightly chipped (not affecting text or image). Minor and sporadic age-toning throughout. The last two leaves of the publisher's advertisement age-toned and slightly brittled along edges. Binding in very good, interior in good to very good condition.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. An expanded edition of this essay collection, which was first published in 1724 as one volume. A very scarce work, with essays on various subjects. First thus, the first edition in two volumes. This work is very scarce in any edition. Rebound in full cloth bindings, and bound without the original endpapers. The topics of these essays span from friendship, love, gallantry, marriage and morality to history, poetry and mercantile affairs. ESTC no. T135939. The works have been published anonymously, but are knowingly attributed to Aaron Hill and William Bond. Printed the same year as the Dublin imprint. Pages 481-2 of volume I have the incorrect running title as called for, 'no.117'. With a frontispiece to volume I. Volume I contains 57 essays whereas volume II contains 40. Aaron Hill was an English dramatist who was a perfectionist when it came to his writings. Some believed that his polished nature lead to a lack in spontaneity with his dramatic works. He famously had some controversy with Alexander Pope after he wrote several satiric lines on him. This then meant that Hill was referenced in Pope's 'Dunciad' which fuelled the controversy. Hill managed the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane when he was 24 years old. Whilst doing so he staged the premier of George Frideric Handel's 'Rinaldo'. This was the first Italian opera designed for a London audience. These essays contain critical views on a variety of literature, art and society. Rebound, in full cloth bindings. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear. Stamps to the title pages of both volumes, 'New York Historical Society'. Internally, both volumes are firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned to edges with occasional scattered spots. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. A smart set of this curious epistolary novel about a Turkish spy who lived for forty years in the court of Louis XIV. Complete in eight volumes.Illustrated with a frontispiece to Volume I.The twenty-sixth edition.'Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy' is an eight volume collection of fictional letters claiming the authorship to be an Ottoman spy named 'Mahmut' in the French court of Louis XIV.The letters cover the period of 1637 to 1683, from the final years of the Regency of Anne of Austria, to the long reign of Louis XIV.As a narrator, Mahmut gossips about contemporary politics and the society of the court. These observations include looks at the Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin.This was a very popular work when first published, admirers including Daniel Defoe, who wrote his own 'Continuation of Turkish Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy in Paris' in 1718, which covered the period of 1687 to 1693.Volume I was written by Giovanni Paolo Marana, a political refugee to the French court of Louis XIV. The subsequent seven volumes were first written in English and appeared between 1691 and 1694. There has been controversy regarding the authorship of the seven later volumes; the most notable of those attributed to the text are William Bradshaw and Robert Midgely who produced the original English translation. Bookplate of Henry Stokes to the front paste downs.Collated, complete. In a full tree calf binding. externally, smart. Light rubbing to the spines and extremities. A few light marks to the boards, a little heavier to the rear board of Volume IV. Minor bumping to the extremities. Light marks to the boards of Volume II, including a small damp stain to the rear board. Small crack to the head of the joints of Volume I, and to the front joint of Volume V. Small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spine of Volumes I, VI, VII, and VIII, and to the head of the spine of Volume IV. Marks to the rear board of Volume VIII. Bookplate to the front paste downs. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots. Small tear to leaf A8 of Volume IV. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Full Calf. Condition: Fine. Eleventh Edition, complete in eight volumes, of this espionage saga admired by Defoe, who published Continuation of Turkish Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy in 1718. 12mo(162 x 96mm): xxvi,[6],viii,[10],312; [24],276; [22],287,[1]; [22],288; [22],276; [22],264; [14],248; [18],280pp, with copper-engraved frontispiece of "Mahmut the Turkish spy" to volume one. Full speckled English calf, spines in six compartments divided by raised bands, covers framed with gilt rules and floral roll in blind, red morocco letter-pieces gilt, edges speckled red. A superb set, in a handsome contemporary binding, securely bound and clean throughout. ESTC citation no. T91588. Blackmer 210. Moore 406. Volume One, by Marana, a Genoese political refugee to the French court of Louis XIV, is a translation of a manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, in Paris, and originally published in parts in 1684, in French as l'Espin du Grand Seigneur and in Italian as L'esploratore Turco. Translated into English by William Bradshaw in 1687 under the supervision of Robert Midgley, who held the copyright. The remaining seven volumes appeared first in English, between 1691 and 1694, prefaced with a letter claiming their translation from a discovered Italian manuscript. Their authorship has been attributed to various writers, most notably Midgley and Bradshaw. The letters, written by one "Mahmut the Arabian," cover the period of 1637 to 1682 in France, from the last years of the Regency of Anne of Austria and Cardinal Richelieu through the long reign of Louis XIV and his minister Cardinal Mazarin. Taken together, they form a rambling journal of gossip on politics and society. Mahmut's observations range from those on political figures such as Richelieu and Mazarin to speculations on the status of women, advice about state policy, and major interventions in controversies about religious doctrine and their consequences. The series launched a literary genre, the pseudo-foreign letter, of which Montesquieu's Lettres persanes and Goldsmith's Chinese Letters are examples. Daniel Defoe admired the spy's deist rationalist sympathies, and extended the narrator's account from 1682 to 1693 in his Continuation of Turkish Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy in Paris (but see Furbank & Owens, p. 8). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Volume I: viii, [6], 484 pp., [2], (one large map of Yemen hand coloured in outline), tables / Volume II: [12], 455 pp., [1], engraved vignettes on title pages, illustrated with 94 engraved plates and 31 engraved plans and maps (many folding), modern half-calf with marbled boards, new endpapers,some browning in places, Untrimmed, with remnants of stitching, S.J. Baalde / J. van Schoonhoven & Comp., / Bartholome Wilde, Amsterdam / Utrecht, first Dutch edition, 1776-1780. This first Dutch edition of Niebuhr's travels to the East. Carston Niebuhr (1733-1815), a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark, is renowned for his participation in the Royal Danish Arabia Expedition. The famous account of the Royal Danish expedition (1761-67) to Constantinople, Egypt, Sinai, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Persia. It was the first scientific expedition to that areas sponsored by King Frederick V of Denmark, and from which Niebuhr returned as the only survivor. The expedition faced continuous physical hardship and danger from the moment it failed to leave Danish waters against winter storms, until the loss of all its members, except Niebuhr, as a result of malaria in Yemen. Nonetheless, the scientific discoveries that were made and the array of manuscripts that were recovered, aroused lasting interest among Europeans, curious to hear about a part of Arabia that had previously been closed off. The plates include illustrations of food, shoes, clothing, inscriptions, coins, agriculture, military exercises in the Yemen, the mosques of Mecca and Medina, and maps of Oman, the Arab Gulf, Suez and the Red Sea. Niebuhr was famous for his map of the Yemen (55 x 35 cm) which he calculated by traversing the country and measuring the distances mile by mile. It was the map of the Red Sea that contributed to the British in India re-routing their cargoes via the Suez instead of around Africa. For the next century this map served further European explorers of Arabia. His map of the Arab Gulf is the earliest map to mention Kuwait. Niebuhr is also one of the first to call the country Yemen instead of Arabia Felix. His work still forms one of the most authoritative descriptions of Arabia and in particular Yemen. The first edition appeared in German in Copenhagen in 1772, and then this Edition in Dutch, soon after, the French Edition - The second French version is by an anonymous translator. "He was the first European to mention the spread of the Wahhabi revolution, an Islamic fundamentalist movement which had a tremendous influence on the history of Arabia" (Waldman, 1992). Bibliographic references: Brunet IV, 74; Cox I, 237; Gay 3389; Lipperheide Lc 6. #34881.…

Full Leather. Condition: Rare. A beautiful set of 8 volumes bound in full brown leather. Five raised bands to spines. Decorative gilt motifs to edges (in some instances faded) and to spines. Title labels missing on 6 of the 8 volumes. Owner's name to front free end page and bookplate to front paste down (in all volumes save for vol. 5). One instance of notes in margin in vol. 8. On most volumes joints cracked but solid. Some wear and chipping to spine extremities. Vol. 2 bears (bookworm) holes towards bottom of the page from start to finish. Vol. 3 where joint is cracked leather is peeling away from spine. Corners rubbed and some corners lightly bumped. Overall in remarkable condition. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.] Price is for the complete set of 8 volumes. Book.…

Hardcover. Octavo, unpaginated. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in modern full black goat with gilt tooling to boards and spine. Light plus rubbing to lower edges of boards. Light marking to boards and spine overall. Text block edges stained red, now faded. Text block shows light plus age toning and light scattered staining. Tightly trimmed, particularly at lower margin, in some cases resulting in loss of catchword or even partial loss of last line of text. "The Book of Common Prayer" is fully rubricated and contains 50 engraved plates, including frontispiece. Frontispiece and first subsequent plate cut and remounted to new leaves; multiple archival repairs, most notably to title page and to several pages in signature C. Title page with several additional unprepared short closed tears to upper and lower edges; subsequent two leaves with short closed tears to fore edges. Scattered ink annotations. Not paginated; ESCT pagination: [394] pages. ESTC: R39936. "The Whole Book of Psalms" is fully rubricated. Pagination: 64, 63-119, [15] pages. ESTC: R33018. EH Consignment. Shelved in Room X. 1381140. Special Collections - Downstairs.…

First French edition, translated from the German first of 1774. Two volumes. Quarto, pp., viii, [6], 409, [1]; [14], 389, [1]. Sig., *4 (-1 = *2) 2*2 (+1 =*2), A-H4 I-K2 L-3B4 3C-3G2 3H4 3I4 (-1); *4 2*4, A-3B4 3C4 (-1). Etched and engraved title-pages; large, folding map of Yemen to vol. 1 and 124 etched and engraved plates across both volumes. No terminal blanks (as issued?), otherwise complete. Temoin to leaf 2M of vol. 1. Uniform contemporary diced half-calf over marbled paper-covered boards; titled in gilt to spines; gilt fillets to corners; all edges sprinkled red; both bindings sympathetically re-cased. Remnant of bookplates to front paste-down of both volumes. Small, unobtrusive later ownership inscription in ink to front free end-paper of vol. 2. Rubbing to boards; corners a touch bumped;; bindings otherwise square and solid. Occasional nicks and closed tears to plates, particularly those which are folding; occasional finger-marks and soiling to margins. A rather bright set. A well presented account of the travels of Danish scientist and explorer Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815). Niebuhr participated in an expedition on behalf of Denmark-Norway. The expedition embarked in 1761 to Alexandria via Marseille, Malta, and Istanbul, before going on to Alexandria, Cairo, Sinai, Jiddah and their destination, Yemen. In Yemen, Niebuhr adopted local dress and ate native food. He then continued on to Bombay, and returned to Denmark via Muscat, Bushire, Shiraz, and Perspolis. The journey was ultimately perilous, as Niebuhr was the only member of the expedition to return home alive. This book was the result of the productions he made while abroad, and includes accurate transcriptions of cunieform at Persepolis, which would lead Orientalists to decipher Persian cunieform. Niebuhr distinguishes between knowledge gleaned from indirect sources, and that which he experienced first-hand. The illustrations throughout are striking accompaniment's to the narrative including scenes from daily life, architectural views, maps, and reproductions of archaeological features. Ibrahim-Hilmy, 'Literature of Egypt and the Soudan', vol. 2, p. 62.…

Second edition, "corrected and enlarged," of the first abridged English dictionary; 8vo, pp. [696]; lexicon in double column; light browning of the text, corners bumped, else a very good copy in full contemporary paneled calf, nicely rebacked, gilt-ruled spine in 6 compartments, red gilt spine label. Contemporary ownership signature "Margt. Cuffe" on title page. First published in 1708, Kersey's dictionary "deserves recognition as the first abridged dictionary." Actually, the Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum is an abridgement of Kersey's 1706 edition of Phillips' New World of Words, and "for its size the work is unprecedented in flexibility and usefulness." See Starnes & Noyes who devote the whole of chapter XIII to this work. Alston V, 92: "The dictionary contains additional lists of terms used in law, and proper names. It is an unconfessed abridgement of Kersey's revision of Phillips' dictionary, though it contains much dialectal material not found in that work." Kennedy 6213; Vancil, p. 138.…

First Edition. First edition of the first abridged English dictionary, 8vo, unpaginated, collating A B-Z? 2a-2h? 2A-3N? 4A-4O? 4P 4Q-4X?; contemporary paneled calf, neat 20th-century rebacking, gilt-lettered direct on spine; endpapers renewed but old endpapers laid down preserving provenance (see below); title page loosening at the bottom and browned, front hinge cracked after the second leaf, otherwise, a good, sound copy. On the restored endpapers is the ownership signature of "John Milburn his book December 6th anno dom 1782. Swear not at all, swear not by heaven for it is God's throne nor by the earth for it is his toadstool. Nor by thy head for thou canst not make one hair black or white. Fear God and fear his Commandments for this is the whole duty of man." Furthermore, on the front free endpaper are these quips: "Keep good company if you'd keep a good name. January 6, 1782. You'll find this little maxim true, fools are the games that knaves persue." Alston V, 91 ("an unconfessed abridgement of Kersey's revision of Phillip's dictionary" - the New World of English Words, 1706 - "although it contains much dialectal material not found in that work"); Starnes & Noyes, pp. 95-97 ("Kersey's vocabulary, estimated at 35,000 words, far surpasses that of any preceding dictionary, with the single exception of the folio Kersey-Phillips, which, amazingly enough considering its difference in physical size, it almost equals"). Kennedy 6203; Vancil, p. 138.…

First Edition. First edition of the first abridged English dictionary, 8vo, unpaginated, collating: A2 B-Z4 2a-2h4 2A-3N4 4A-4O4 4P2 4Q-4X4; contemporary paneled calf, neat 20th century rebacking, red leather label on spine; front free endpaper and title page guarded; else very good and sound. With the ownership signature of Eliza Beale 1708 on both the front and rear pastedown, and Eliza Alston 1726 (same hand) on front free endpaper. Later ownerships signature of Vincent Novello, Bayswater, on front pastedown. Novello (1781-1861) was a noted English musician and music publisher. Alston V, 91 ("an unconfessed abridgement of Kersey's revision of Phillip's dictionary" - the New World of English Words, 1706 - "although it contains much dialectal material not found in that work"); Starnes & Noyes, pp. 95-97 ("Kersey's vocabulary, estimated at 35,000 words, far surpasses that of any preceding dictionary, with the single exception of the folio Kersey-Phillips, which, amazingly enough considering its difference in physical size, it almost equals"). Kennedy 6203; Vancil, p. 138.…

First Edition. First edition of the first abridged English dictionary, 8vo, unpaginated (collated and complete); 20th-century half mottled brown morcoco over marbled boards, black gilt-lettered spine label, supplied endpapers; occasional spotting throughout, else textblock very good and sound. Alston V, 91 ("an unconfessed abridgement of Kersey's revision of Phillip's dictionary" - the New World of English Words, 1706 - "although it contains much dialectal material not found in that work"); Starnes & Noyes, pp. 95-97 ("Kersey's vocabulary, estimated at 35,000 words, far surpasses that of any preceding dictionary, with the single exception of the folio Kersey-Phillips, which, amazingly enough considering its difference in physical size, it almost equals"). Kennedy 6203; Vancil, p. 138. …

First Edition. First edition of the first abridged dictionary, 8vo, unpaginated (collated and complete); later full tree calf, rebacked, old gilt spine and red morocco label laid down; title page soiled, else very good and sound. Alston V, 91 ("an unconfessed abridgement of Kersey's revision of Phillip's dictionary" - the New World of English Words, 1706 - "although it contains much dialectal material not found in that work"); Starnes & Noyes, pp. 95-97 ("Kersey's vocabulary, estimated at 35,000 words, far surpasses that of any preceding dictionary, with the single exception of the folio Kersey-Phillips, which, amazingly enough considering its difference in physical size, it almost equals"). Kennedy 6203; Vancil, p. 138.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Catricia "Catnip" Carter grew up on a dirt road in Hardtner, Kansas, population eight hundred, racing anything with wheels and a motor. Her father Fred - Fast Fred, from his short-lived dirt track career - built her a go-kart from pipe and a lawnmower engine. By ten she was beating boys in a cow pasture. By twenty-one she was signing with a professional racing team and leaving everything she loved in the rearview. Catnip Carter: A Need for Speed is the story of a woman built for velocity learning what speed costs - the family that needs her home, the best friend she stops calling back, the boy from eighth grade who matched her stride for stride and then vanished for seven years. It's about talent and ambition and the difference between being fast and knowing where you're going.With a voice that reads like a screenplay adapted for the page, this novel moves at the speed of its protagonist - direct, physical, and impossible to put down. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…