One of the Bestseller Mystery series (#B40) published during World Warr II using wartime paper restrictions. This is a complete and unabridged reprint of Dashiell Hammet's 1927 book, with a cover price of 25 cents. This edition appears to be its first appearance in book form. Spine is somewhat curved, text was bound in upside down. Covers show some edgewear and scuffing. Text is browned, with watermarks on corners.
When a million dollars is stolen from two banks in an afternoon, the Continental Detective Agency must solve the crime.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
Cover creasing, soiling, and scuffing, minor edge wear, last few pages have rippling, likely from moisture. Text is clean and unmarked. A decent reading copy. ; Pocket Books 50449, first U. S. Paperback printing. ; 5" - 6" Tall; 176 pages; "'Would you like to see a picture of a murderer? ' So asks a stranger of Miss Jane Marple while she is vacationing on luxurious St. Honore. Before she has a chance to answer, the mystery man vanishes, only to be found dead the following day. Now Miss Marple is asking the questions: What happened to the curious photo? Why is the hotelier prone to nightmares?... View More...
Reading copy. Spine seriously slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear and a little chipping. Page 9 detached but present, initials on front end paper. Text clean and unmarked. "The giddy social whirl was not for Serena. She'd long ago resigned herself to looking after her invalid mother instead. Quiet, hardworking Serena was only too glad to be of service. Dutch consultant Marc ter Feulen changed all that when he became Serena's new employer. Arrogant, demanding and apparently blind to the interests of anyone but himself, he was not the sort of person Serena had ever before encounte... View More...
54pp. Tan wraps with the spine repaired with tape. some edge wear, some pages dog-eared, underlining and marginalia. Back cover separated from text block. 8 page pamphlet laid in that appears to be a sample exam.
"The following are brief notes of lectures prepared and delivered at Washington College, Virginia (now Washington and Lee University), between 1866 and 1875. . . At the request of State Superintendent McMahan this abstract was first printed in 1899, for use of pupils in the Summer Normal School of South Carolina at Wimthrop College."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
Shelf-cocked, covers creased and dented, corners bumped, including pages. Some foxing, dampstain along top edge doesn't appear to affect pages. Paperback original. "James White turns his hand to the peculiar problems of man in space. Four ingenious tales explore some of the wild-and not so wild-possibilities; the pressures, dangers, boredom man will have to suffer, and the courage it will take to get homo sapiens to live in a totally hostile element. Excitement, suspense and the thread of realistic humor hold together these four fast moving tales of the future."; 6" - 7" Tal... View More...
Covers creased, ex-library with stamps, pocket and taping on covers, edgewear and corners bumped, 1/2" chip at top edge, four small tears, cover starting to separate from spine at bottom. Text is starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked. "Now that he was on the earthstar, Ben was so excited he forgot everything else. ‘Show me how you make it fly, Trudy.’ Trudy took hold of the tip of one point. She pulled it toward her. At once the earthstar flew up into the air. When Trudy moved the point to the right, the earthstar turned right. She pushed it the other way. The star turned... View More...
Covers/spine are creased and somewhat chipped. Several pages have small tears in them, but are still readable. "Quint and Miranda had no say in the matter. Senator Mason insisted his 'trouble-making' daughter remain under the protection of Quint Wilcox -- until they discovered who'd been sending her life-threatening letters. And Quint had promised his own father -- who was doing the senator a favor -- that the girl would be safe with him. Surprisingly Miranda found herself drawn to life on the Firtation River, and to Quint -- a wildlife expert, a man who knew so much about caring. She'd... View More...
Covers show some creasing, darkening. There is a 2" x 1 1/2" spot at the upper left of the front cover where the cover art is torn off. Foxing, some pages creased at upper right corner.
Jo-Beth and Mary Rose are in a pickle. They're locked in the Children's Library for the night and can't get out and a snowstorm has the power out. Then the moaning starts!" Est level: 3rd - 7th grades.; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall View More...
Reading copy. Covers detached from text block, which has neatly cracked into two pieces. All pages are present, one dog-eared, and are clean and unmarked. A little edge wear to covers. "Gwenda was beautiful and pregnant. Susan was beautiful and rich. Alan was engaged to marry both. When he decided he'd rather be rich than a father, he was faced with a dilemma. How could he get off the hook with Gwenda-who would make a fuss-without losing Susan, who would be furious if she found out. Murder was one possible solution, but it might not work. Then Alan came up with a better scheme-a perf... View More...
Spine curved, cover shows edgewear, rubbing and creasing. Text starting to yellow and cracked at p. 150, but clean and unmarked. "The newly promoted Commander Hornblower faces his most trying assignment in this, the third episode in the world-famous Hornblower saga. Ignoring the lure of prize money, he risks death to defend the British Atlantic Fleet from a French warship many times the size of his own sloop, Hotspur. It is 1803. War with France has resumed, and Napoleon is preparing for a naval conquest of England. Hornblower, attached to the English Channel Fleet, is commissioned wi... View More...
Ex-library with typical stamps, markings, and pocket, spine reinforced with tape, chipping and general wear to covers. A serviceable reading copy. ; Nero Wolfe; Ex-Library; 6" - 7" Tall; 156 pages; "X -- The most powerful man in the United States -- and the most dangerous. All of his operations were illegal and all of them were highly profitable. X didn't want anyone upsetting the golden applecart. He had effective -- and permanent -- ways of disposing of people who made him nervous. Nero Wolfe included. So when Wolfe realized his latest case led straight to X, it scared a good hu... View More...
32 pp, greenish pictorial wraps, numerous b/w fish illustration, index. Covers soiled and scuffed with a fair amount of edge wear. Crease across upper right corner and first 12 pages, matching smaller crease across back cover and pages. Interior is in good condition. A good reading copy.
This pamphlet was written to assist fishermen and hobbyists in identifying 82 of the most common species of salt-water fish found in North Carolina waters.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
Spine creased and scuffed along edges, shelf-cocked. Covers a bit creased, corners bumped, slight darkening. One paragraph is starting to come loose from the spine -- all pages are present. A Doc Connor, Mapback murder mystery. "What this Mystery is about -- A Percentage Operator, wanted by the police, vanishes in Penn Station . . . Eastern racetracks discover a flourishing racket in phony Pari-Mutuel Tickets . . . a smart Counterfeiter signs off with an acute hole in his head . . . and much more . . . Mayhem is added to Murder on the dark waters of Massachusetts Bay."; 16mo - over 5... View More...
Stories from the life of Jesus, from the perspective of the people he met. Extensive color and black & white illustrations. Est Level: Ages 4-8 The picture on the front cover has been neatly clipped out and is undoubtedly gracing the scrapbook of some lucky former child. Back cover has a tear and a couple scuffs. Minor shelf wear.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View More...
Reading copy. Spine/covers somewhat creased, spine sslightly slanted and cracked in a couple places, corners bumped, moderate edge wear, some darkening, soiling to covers and edges. A little yellowing but text is unmarked. Publication date not stated, but appears to be latter 1960s.
"A taut, nerve-tearing chiller of a young American who stumbles onto a vicious underworld syndicate and finds himself caught up in a sinister web of murder, espionage and international intrigue."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
Spine and covers are scuffed and chipped. Pages are starting to separate from the spine, top right corner is chipped away. Basically a reading copy. "If you saw an ant, a small, small ant, only one ant out of all the hundreds and thousands and millions of ants in the world. If you saw an ant fall from a clover with its feet in the air and its back on the ground, And it couldn't turn over and it pushed and wriggled and kicked and wiggled and it couldn't turn around, Would you turn that ant over? Or would you keep on reading?" Est level: 1st - 3rd grade.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"... View More...
This book is rather wavy -- appears to be waterstained on the top quarter of the book, which has caused the warping.
Ooh! Cute "scary" illustrations for the young reader looking for a truly "creepy" experience, whether at Halloween or any other time. Est Level: 2nd - 3rd Grades.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
Spine, covers somewhat creased, corners bumped, chipped, some edge wear. Top part of nearly half the pages appear to have suffered some water damage. Bookseller stamps inside front cover. "Camber of Culdi, master of arcane Deryni powers, should have been content. When Imre's evil reign threatened to destroy the Kingdom of Gwynedd, Camber had led the successful revolt against him and had found the last heir of the human kings to replace him. With the crowning of Cinhil, Camber's work should have been done. But now Ariella, sister of the dead Imre, was plotting war against Cinhil. Only ... View More...
Spine and cover show creasing. some shelf wear. Front cover and first few pages are pulling away from spine. "It begins with a shocking, unsolved murder. In a small town in sourthern Illinois, the butchered body of Linda Balfour -- with a cryptic code printed in blood on the back of her head -- forges a gru;esome link to the brutal murder of Bishop Rushman, the beloved Chicago clergyman who had been dismemberred years before by the angelic-looking altar boy, Aaron Stampler. The same Aaron Stampler whom defense attorney Martin Vail saved from the electric chair. . .if Stampler has been lo... View More...
