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Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Powell graduated from Princeton University in 1930 then worked at the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger newspaper.
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy
(Hardcover: 378 pages Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons; ...)
Hardcover: 378 pages Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons; 1st edition (1970) Language: English
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Lay that Pistol Down
(Bantam #70, 1946. A VG copy. Rubbing to the spine edges. ...)
Bantam #70, 1946. A VG copy. Rubbing to the spine edges. Faint crease along the front spine seam. Diagonal, 1" crease at the upper right corner of the front wrapper. Mild dust soiling at the rear wrapper.
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Second Growth/To Catch an Angel: Adventures in the World I Cannot See/I Take This Land/America America/"Hell Creek Crossing"/Two Hours to Darkness (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 1: 1963)
(RD Condensed Book 1963)
RD Condensed Book 1963
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Pioneer, Go Home! by Richard Powell (2009) Paperback
(50th Anniversary Edi)
50th Anniversary Edi
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books (Vol 1, 1963) (Second Growth)(To Catch An Angel)(I Take This Land)(America America)(Hell Creek Crossing)(Two Hours To Darkness)
(RD Condensed Books Vol.1, 1963, Winter Hardcover w/o dust...)
RD Condensed Books Vol.1, 1963, Winter Hardcover w/o dust jacket. From Private Collection. Pristine Condition.
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Tickets to the Devil
(Jacket has some wear and tear. Book in overall good condi...)
Jacket has some wear and tear. Book in overall good condition. RAB | 174 Should read: "A glimpse into the world of duplicate bridge in the late 1960s. The story features characters loosely based on great players of those days, along with some fictional characters. All of them are competing or involved in a National bridge event set in the fictional Xanadu hotel in Miami Beach."
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I Take This Land
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False colors (An Inner sanctum mystery)
(This time the publisher asked me, the author, to write th...)
This time the publisher asked me, the author, to write the blurb...This is a mystery novel. The hero is a young Philadelphia art dealer who gets mixed up in dirty work in the field of art collecting. Maybe I shouldn't call him a hero. If he ever did have the usual mystery story hero's nerves of steel and muscles of iron, they certainly got badly rusted. He's slow and cautious. This story took a lot of research. I read stacks of art books, and talked to artists and dealers. I prowled through museums peering at famous paintings through a magnifying glass. My new knowledge even impresses my artist friends, and it's mighty hard for a writer to impress an artist. I've tried to get some of the flavor of Philadelphia into the book. That's an elusive thing to pin down in words, but here's an example of what Philadelphia is like. In most cities, if you owned a valuable old Chippendale chair, you would call everybody's attention to your prize. In Philadelphia, you would sit in it. (Richard Powell - False Colors, Simon and Schuster, 1955 BCE - jacket blurb)
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False Colors, 1955
(A young Philadelphian art dealer who gets mixed up in dir...)
A young Philadelphian art dealer who gets mixed up in dirty work in the field of art collecting ... He's slow and cautious. In fact, the guy admits that, in the great race of life, he's just along for the walk ... I felt sorry about shoving him into so much trouble, even though I did give him a jet-propelled blond heroine as sort of workmen's compensation for his injuries.'
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Smith and Jones; The Tilsit Inheritance; To Catch an Angel; I Take This Land (4-in-1) (Readers Digest Condensed Books)
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Say It With Bullets, An Inner Sanctum Mystery
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Say It With Bullets (Hard Case Crime)
(Ever Wonder Why They Call It The Wild West? Bill Wayne...)
Ever Wonder Why They Call It The Wild West? Bill Wayne told his beautiful tour guide that he took the bus trip through the West to relax. But who can relax with dead bodies turning up at every stop? From Cheyenne to Salt Lake City, from Reno to Yosemite, Bill’s secretly on a mission to discover which of his former army buddies shot him and left him for dead four years earlier. But with all the lead that’s flying around, Bill will be lucky to make it to the end of the tour in one piece…
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THE D. A. BREAKS AND EGG + HANGOVER HOUSE + SHARK RIVER
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Tickets to the Devil
(According to The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge, the Pur...)
According to The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge, the Puritans of New England used the term "Devil's Tickets" or "Devil's Picture Book" when talking about decks of playing cards. They may have been right. A novel taking a glimpse into the world of duplicate bridge in the late 1960s. The story features characters loosely based on great players of those days, along with some fictional characters. All of them are competing or involved in a National bridge event set in the fictional Xanadu hotel in Miami Beach, while their stories intersect and interact in a Grand Hotel fashion.
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Daily and Sunday
(His first novel. Dust jacket art by Tony Dinucci. The sto...)
His first novel. Dust jacket art by Tony Dinucci. The story of newspaper power and politics.
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Pioneer, Go Home!
(This 50th anniversary edition restores Richard Powell s u...)
This 50th anniversary edition restores Richard Powell s uproarious 1959 New York Times bestselling novel and includes a new preface by the author. Pioneer, Go Home! ranks among the most entertaining of Powell s 19 published novels. Originally released by Scribner s in 1959, it was the immediate follow-up to the author s best-known novel, The Philadelphian. Like its predecessor, Pioneer received rave reviews, spent weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and was made into a popular movie (1962 s Follow That Dream starring Elvis Presley). The similarities end there, for with the new novel Powell chose satirical comedy over high drama with frequently sidesplitting results. Pioneer, Go Home! relates the adventures of the Kwimpers, a motley clan of New Jersey Pineys who break down on the side of a southern highway project and decide to claim squatter s rights. Call them hicks or bumpkins, if you like, but these Kwimpers are a heap more resourceful than most folks give them credit for and at least ten times as stubborn! When the government orders them to vacate, Pop Kwimper gets his dander up and the die is cast. Hilarity ensues as the family defends its humble homestead against a massed onslaught of conniving bureaucrats, Mother Nature, and the mob. This warm and witty satire of little man versus Big Gummint features a fast-paced story, a wonderful cast of characters, and dozens of memorable, laugh-out-loud moments. You can t help but cheer for the heroic Kwimpers as they thumb their noses at the authorities, make a living off the land, and stand up to gun-happy gamblers. Meantime, young Toby Kwimper ( he has the strength of a giant because his heart is pure ) and the babysitter, the remarkable Holly Jones, find the time to fall in love though it takes Toby some time to realize that Holly is real growed up. Fish and fishing are recurring themes in many of Richard Powell s novels, and there s plenty of both to go around in Pioneer, Go Home!
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Florida A Picture Tour
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All Over But the Shooting
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Shark River
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A Shot in the Dark / Shell Game (Stark House Mystery Classics)
(Two wisecracking mysteries from the early 1950's from the...)
Two wisecracking mysteries from the early 1950's from the author of The Philadelphian.
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- The Philadelphian, a novel
- A Shot In The Dark
- I Take This Land (Set in the Everglades from 1895 to 1946, Richard Powell t...)
- A Shot in the Dark / Shell Game (Stark House Mystery Classics) by Richard Powell (2008-06-01)
- Jeremy Todd/"From the Farm of Bitterness"/Pioneer, Go Home!/The City That Would Not Die/King Solomon's Ring/The Triumph of Surgery (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 1: 1960) (Reader's Digest authorized condensed editions of: Je...)
- A Shot in the Dark / Shell Game (Stark House Mystery Classics) by Richard Powell (2008-06-01)
- Whom the Gods Would Destroy (We don't know when or if this item will be back in s...)
- Tickets to the Devil
- False Colors.
- Shell Game
- And hope to die (Inner sanctum mystery)
- Shell Game by Richard Powell by Richard Powell
Richard Pitts Powell
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After ten years, he joined the advertising agency North. West. Ayer & Son. Following service on General Douglas MacArthur"s staff during World World War II, he returned to North.W. Ayer, where he rose to vice president of information services in 1952.
In the 1940s, Powell began writing fiction and in 1958 was able to devote himself to writing full-time.
His first published books were Inner Sanctum Mysteries, published from 1943 to 1955. His major publishing debut, The Philadelphian (1956) spent more than six months on the bestseller list, and was filmed in 1959 as The Young Philadelphians.
Richard Powell died on December 8, 1999 in Fort Myers, Florida. The 1971 Woody Allen movie Bananas also uses elements of in its plot.
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Jeremy Todd/"From the Farm of Bitterness"/Pioneer, Go Home!/The City That Would Not Die/King Solomon's Ring/The Triumph of Surgery (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 1: 1960)
(Reader's Digest authorized condensed editions of: Jeremy ...)
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Tickets to the Devil
(According to The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge, the Pur...)
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Pioneer, Go Home!
(This 50th anniversary edition restores Richard Powell s u...)
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Say It With Bullets (Hard Case Crime)
(Ever Wonder Why They Call It The Wild West? Bill Wayne...)
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I Take This Land
(Set in the Everglades from 1895 to 1946, Richard Powell t...)
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False Colors, 1955
(A young Philadelphian art dealer who gets mixed up in dir...)
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy
(Hardcover: 378 pages Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons; ...)
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A Shot in the Dark / Shell Game (Stark House Mystery Classics)
(Two wisecracking mysteries from the early 1950's from the...)
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False colors (An Inner sanctum mystery)
(This time the publisher asked me, the author, to write th...)
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy
(We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.)
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Tickets to the Devil
(Jacket has some wear and tear. Book in overall good condi...)
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books (Vol 1, 1963) (Second Growth)(To Catch An Angel)(I Take This Land)(America America)(Hell Creek Crossing)(Two Hours To Darkness)
(RD Condensed Books Vol.1, 1963, Winter Hardcover w/o dust...)
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Second Growth/To Catch an Angel: Adventures in the World I Cannot See/I Take This Land/America America/"Hell Creek Crossing"/Two Hours to Darkness (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 1: 1963)
(RD Condensed Book 1963)
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Pioneer, Go Home! by Richard Powell (2009) Paperback
(50th Anniversary Edi)
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Lay that Pistol Down
(Bantam #70, 1946. A VG copy. Rubbing to the spine edges. ...)
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Daily and Sunday
(His first novel. Dust jacket art by Tony Dinucci. The sto...)
- The Philadelphian, a novel
- A Shot In The Dark
- A Shot in the Dark / Shell Game (Stark House Mystery Classics) by Richard Powell (2008-06-01)
- A Shot in the Dark / Shell Game (Stark House Mystery Classics) by Richard Powell (2008-06-01)
- I Take This Land
- Tickets to the Devil
- False Colors.
- Smith and Jones; The Tilsit Inheritance; To Catch an Angel; I Take This Land (4-in-1) (Readers Digest Condensed Books)
- Shell Game
- And hope to die (Inner sanctum mystery)
- Say It With Bullets, An Inner Sanctum Mystery
- Shell Game by Richard Powell by Richard Powell
- THE D. A. BREAKS AND EGG + HANGOVER HOUSE + SHARK RIVER
- Florida A Picture Tour
- All Over But the Shooting
- Shark River
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Jeremy Todd/"From the Farm of Bitterness"/Pioneer, Go Home!/The City That Would Not Die/King Solomon's Ring/The Triumph of Surgery (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 1: 1960)
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