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Click to view full description | 1. | Parkinson Keyes, Frances Blue Camellia
London Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Good Very Good
Not dated, circa mid to late 1950's. No Inscriptions, bumps to corners and edging, shelf-worn. Dustwrapper has small chips to spine ends, a little wrinkling to edge. 319pp. This dramatic and colourful story uses an actual setting, and gives much information about the successful experiments in rice breeding which had a revolutionary effect on world agriculture. The protagonists of the story are, like all Mrs Keyes's characters, strongly and vividly drawn; once again the reader has the feeling of being plunged into a living world.
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| 2. | Parkinson Keyes, Frances Chess Players, The
London Eyre & Spottiswoode 1961 First British Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
No Inscriptions, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little sun-tanning to spine, wear to edge. 542pp. The story of the world famous chess player, Paul Morphy, who was famous in his native town of New Orleans at the age of 10, and who during the next twelve years became and remained the world's greatest master of the game, and his involvement in the American civil war.
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| 3. | Parkinson Keyes, Frances Gold Slippers, The
London 1958 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
No Inscriptions, very slight lean, bump to corners. Dustwrapper has tear to edge of spine, some wrinkling and chipping to edge, small nicks to corners. 280pp. The story of Anne Marie and Prosper Villac, children of Lavinia, the heroine of Blue Camellia. Prosper in the twenties is a young man who works hard and plays easy; like most of the young men of Crowley he is attracted to Titine, the Cajun girl who sings in the local dance-hall. Then he meets Victorine LaBranche, and Titine recedes into the past. Prosper and Victorine are about to announce their engagement when Titine's dead body is found in one of the bins in the Villac rice mill. The last person to leave the mill before it closed that night had been Prosper.
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| 4. | Parkinson Keyes, Frances Letter From Spain, The
London 1959 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
No Inscriptions, a little bumping to corners and spine ends. Dustwrapper has very slight wrinkling to edges. 248pp. This is the story of what Allan Lambert found in Spain and how he became involved in a chain of fraud that might have ended ill for him.
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| 5. | Parkinson Keyes, Frances Royal Box, The
London Eyre & Spottiswoode 1954 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good
First Impression, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, wear to edges and corners, staining to inside of jacket. 317pp. Lady Laura Whitford, a widow with important connections but very small means, disliked Americans, and therefore favoured the suit of Jacques de Valcourt, a wealthy young Frenchman, for her lovely but browbeaten daughter Althea, against that of the almost equally wealthy Hilary Thorpe, Counsellor of the American Embassy, whom Althea loved.
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