Tight, clean copy. "At eighteen, easygoing Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride as an amateur jockey in steeplechase races. His father, George, driven toward a life of public service and politics, asks his only son to enter into a pact that neither of them will commit any act that could destroy the father's growing reputation and burgeoning political career. Ben agrees lightheartedly, unaware of what lies ahead. Five years later, after graduating from university and experiencing the working world, Ben has abandoned his dream of life on the racecourse, and enters the pol... View More...
Slight spine slant, corners bumped except top front corner which looks chewed down to the cardboard, also a small tear at top of spine, binding fairly tight. Jacket naturally has 3/4" chip gone from the same corner plus a little chipping at top of spine, otherwise slight edge wear. "At eighteen, easygoing Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride as an amateur jockey in steeplechase races. His father, George, driven toward a life of public service and politics, asks his only son to enter into a pact that neither of them will commit any act that could destroy the father's... View More...
Smal indent on top edge, bottom front corner bumped. A bright, attractive copy. "In the darkness of a December morning in lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market a mob rip-off is under way: Thousands of pounds of fish are calmly 'tapped' - stolen - from wholesalers on the street. It's the price of doing business. But detectives Joe Gregory and Anthony Ryan have not come to Peck Slip to stop fish tapping. They've come to watch a fifty-gallon drum being dumped into the East River by a mobster in a Mets hat. Convinced they're seeing a burial, Gregory and Ryan call in police divers and get... View More...
Blue cloth over blue boards, gold lettering. Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, remainder stripe on bottom edge. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy. ; First book in the popular and ever-expanding 1632 shared universe. ; 1632; Remainder; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 504 pages; "The Ultimate Y2K Glitch ... "In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn't get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protesta... View More...
Blue cloth over blue boards, gold lettering. Corners a bit worn, slight edge wear and rubbing. Front board cracked at title page, exposing webbing. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy, signed by author on title page. ; First book in the popular and ever-expanding 1632 shared universe. ; 1632; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 504 pages; "The Ultimate Y2K Glitch ... "In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn't get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land... View More...
Whitman Publishing Nr 5049, 381 pp, green quarter cloth with pictorial boards. Spine slightly cocked, corners chipped, some edge wear and chipping, 3/4" tear near center of rear board, a few other nicks and scuffs to boards. Diamond patterned end papers with drawings of a toy or pet inside each diamond. Jacket in new Brodart with moderate edge wear and chipping especially along alap edges, some rubbing, a number of small holes from insect damage, an old price in crayon at top of front panel and '1952' written in white on back panel, 1 1/4" chip near center of back panel. Overall, a nic... View More...
Corners bumped, slight scuffing. Jacket has some edge wear/chipping. Michael Crichton writing as Jeffery Hudson. "Was it murder? Was it horribly botched surgery -- accidental malpractice? Was someone in the great Boston medical center violating the Hippocratic oath? No one knows exactly why the beautiful young daughter of an important medical family bled to death on the operating table. But the doctor she helplessly trusted -- a brilliant, compassionate physician -- is accused of murdering her. And as passions and protests volcanically erupt, only one other doctor is willing to push his ... View More...
Corners bumped, slight shelf wear. Jacket shows slight edge wear. A clean, tight, attractive copy. "It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed-and she does. But now murder is in the air. The next victim will be Aldridge herself, stabbed to death at her desk in her Chambers in the Middle Temple, a bloodstained wig on her head. Enter Commander Adam Dalglies... View More...
Corners slightly bumped, slightly shelf-cocked. End papers inside front board have split at the hinge. Cover shows minor edge wear/chipping. "Jenny is a divorced mother of two girls -- atractive, poor, charming and resourceful, skilled at making ends meet and hardly even daring to hope the right man will come along for her . . . A city girl, Jenny suupports herself and her children by working in a fashinable Manhattan art gallery. It is there that she first becomes aware of the paintings of Erich Krueger . . . when she meets Krueger, a handsome, powerful and elegant man, Jenny in swept of... View More...
Dove gray cloth over dove gray boards with gold lettering. Gold embossed heraldic crest on front board and dust jacket by Virginia Norey. Endpaper and interior maps by Jeffrey L. Ward. Dust jacket protected in new Brodart. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 1016 pages; Book 5: Song of Ice and Fire series. "In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance--beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Da... View More...
Dark green boards with title in gold lettering and embossed design of birds and flowers. Spine slanted, edgewear, corners bumped/chipped, cracking at pp. 38 & 70. Ex-library with minimal stamps & light number on spine. Text is clean and unmarked. Pages at end contain synopses from L.C.Page and Co.'s List of Fiction.
A young actress has conflicted feelings about her ex-fiancé and her career.; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
Spine slightly slanted, bottom corner of front board crimped, slight edge wear. A tight, attractive copy. "Commitment, togetherness, another person's needs? Babies? These were the last things on Chris Gray's mind when he came to the rescue of Lori Lynn Conner after she dropped a soft drink bottle and gashed her foot at the supermarket. A quick trip to the hospital, then a date, more dates, an engagement, a wedding - and Chris and Lori begin a marriage that soon has both of them on the defensive. It isn't that they aren't in love, for indeed they are. And it certainly isn't sexual inco... View More...
Navy cloth over blue boards, gold lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear. An attractive copy. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 191 pages; "This new collection of short fiction by one of America's most honored authors celebrates her understanding that narrative is the shining thread with which we create our common humanity. "In A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Le Guin has assembled a far-reaching catalog of wonders, and she uses them to illuminate the earth on which ordinary women and men live. Astonishing in their diversity and power, ... View More...
Winner of the 1980 Newberry Medal. Ex-library with a few stamps. Three words marked through on p. 117 but legible. DJ in protective wrap taped to boards. "The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend. Joan Blos's moving novel captures the hardship as well as the tranquility of early American farm life and the sturdiness, the tenderness, of the people whose way of life it was." Age Level: Grades 5-8; Ex-Library; 7¾" - 9¾" ... View More...
532 pp., catalogues of Columbia Records and Victor Records, index. Green cloth boards with rubbed gold lettering on black background. Some edgewear, a few pages have short margin notes and underlining. DJ somewhat foxed, edgewear, ssmall chips at spine and flap ends, scuff mark on front repaired with tape. "A comprehensive volume on all the great symphonic compositions and many other instrumental works heard in concert and on the radio, from the classics to the works of the youngest contemporaries. It provides concise biographies of the composers, with evaluations of their significan... View More...
Ex-library with the usual stamps and stickers. Tan over red boards. Spine cocked, some edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in protective plastic covering, some wear and sunning. Overall a solid reading copy. ; SFBC 02193, a trio of Heinlein novels from the 1950s that have stood the test of time and remain quite readable today. ; Ex-Library; 7 " - 9 " Tall; 502 pages; The Puppet Masters: Heinlein's classic tale of alien invasion and possession. "Attack from space! Lock your doors. Never enter a dark place. Be wary of crowds. A man wearing a coat is an enemy. Shoot! "This is a state of... View More...
vii-xvi, 299 pp., abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, maps, tables, drawings, figures. Very slight wear on bottom corners. A bright, attractive copy. "Combining the latest archeological findings with information from traditional literary sources, Thomas S. Burns presents the first modern portrait of the Ostrogoths from their initial contacts with the Roman world in the third century through the dissolution of their kingdom in Italy in 554. Placing the Ostrogoths in a European social and historical perspective, Burns begins his story in the centuries before the final invasions of... View More...
Spine slanted, corners bumped, some edge wear, chipping. Some rubbing, darkening, soiling to boards, spine darkened and loose. A little browning but text appears unmarked.
The central characters in this plot are a psychologist and an apparent madman, who claims to be the king of a country no one has ever heard of. The madman's niece attempts to find him, and she and her chums uncover a complicated case of fraud, impersonation, and murder.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
Library of Congress surplus with stamp on front end paper and copyright page. Red cloth with gilt lettering, 204 pp. Slight spine slant, corners bumped, slight edge wear, light dampstain to front board with it bowing out a bit. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear. A nice copy. "Peter Somerville-Large turns to the more relaxed world of black comedy. In particular to the world on the fringe of the antiques trade, where, he suggests, the antiques may just possibly be genuine but everything else is faked, and murder is as casually regarded by his characters as is short-changing a client. ... View More...
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