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The Carpetbaggers
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR004274966
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The Carpetbaggers
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: 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. Seller Inventory # rev7798861718
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Seller: Phatpocket Limited, Waltham Abbey, HERTS, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. Seller Inventory # Z1-S-023-03779
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Seller: Sell Books, Elland, YORKS, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Seller Inventory # SBAB-mon0000148077
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Seller: Crappy Old Books, Barry, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. There are novels that aspire to literary subtlety, and then there are Harold Robbins novels, which generally prefer to kick the door off its hinges, stride into the room wearing an expensive suit, acquire a private airline, start three scandals, and seduce half the cast before chapter five. The Carpet Baggers is one of Robbins? most famous creations, a vast, unapologetic blockbuster first published in the 1960s and presented here in a 1978 New English Library edition. If subtle character studies are delicate chamber music, The Carpet Baggers is a brass band mounted on a runaway locomotive. The novel follows Jonas Cord, a man with wealth, ambition, determination, and approximately the same regard for limits as a charging rhinoceros. Inspired in part by the life of aviation and film tycoon Howard Hughes, Cord proceeds through the twentieth century accumulating power, influence, enemies, businesses, lovers, and complications at a rate that would exhaust most ordinary people before breakfast. What makes Robbins such an enduring guilty pleasure is his complete refusal to apologise for being entertaining. There is no sense that he is trying to win academic awards or impress a committee of literary critics. He wants readers to turn the page. Then turn another. Then stay up far later than intended because somebody has just launched an airline, started a feud, inherited a fortune, lost a fortune, or become involved in a scandal of industrial proportions. The title itself is magnificent. The Carpet Baggers sounds like either a ruthless business empire or a travelling folk band with surprisingly aggressive management practices. In Robbins? hands it becomes a tale of money, ambition, excess, power, and the uniquely twentieth-century belief that if one simply works hard enough, dreams big enough, and ignores enough warning signs, absolutely anything is possible. Reading it today is rather like opening a time capsule from an era when popular fiction believed bigger was always better. More drama. More wealth. More glamour. More aviation. More everything. Modern thrillers often strive for realism; Robbins cheerfully aims for spectacle. This particular copy comes with an unexpected bonus feature that Crappy Old Books feels deserves special recognition. Tucked inside is a complimentary Thai Airlines Executive boarding pass for a flight somewhere, at some point, to a destination now lost to history. It is a marvellous little relic of a vanished world. We know almost nothing about the journey, but we do know one crucial detail: seat 12E was a smoking seat. For younger readers, it should perhaps be explained that there was once a time when passengers sat inside a pressurised metal tube at 35,000 feet and collectively agreed that introducing cigarette smoke into the environment was perfectly sensible. Humanity?s confidence was astonishing. The boarding pass adds a faint air of mystery to proceedings. Who was the traveller? Where were they going? Why was The Carpet Baggers accompanying them? Did they finish the book before landing? Did they swap seats? Were they themselves a ruthless tycoon? These questions remain unanswered, which somehow makes the discovery even better. Condition-wise, the book is Fair. It has clearly travelled through life with considerably more enthusiasm than caution, but remains entirely readable and full of character. Much like several of Harold Robbins? protagonists, it may show signs of wear yet still possesses plenty of life. For readers who enjoy grand-scale commercial fiction, aviation-era glamour, larger-than-life characters, and novels utterly unafraid of excess, The Carpet Baggers remains tremendous fun. Add in the mysterious Thai Airlines boarding pass and you are not merely buying a paperback. You are acquiring a tiny archaeological artefact from the age of smoking sections, executive travel, and bestselling novels that believed moderation was for other people. Exactly the sort of gloriously over-the-top survivor th. Seller Inventory # 6688
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