Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

10 Lb. Penalty

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $6.75

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1997

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 005486

ISBN-13: 9780399143021

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

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...
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A Guide to Great Orchestral Music (A Modern Library Giant #G61)

By: Spaeth, Sigmund

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library : 1943

Seller ID: 006158

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

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...
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A Heinlein Trio: the Puppet Masters, Double Star, the Door Into Summer

By: Heinlein, Robert A

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, Nelson Doubleday : 1976

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 9430

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

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...
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Angel Death

By: Moyes, Patricia

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston : 1980

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 002292

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Slight spine slant, slight edge wear. Owner's name and store stamp on front free end paper. Jacket shows some edge wear, chipping, esp. along spine, rubbing. Text is clean and unmarked. "Returning to the Caribbean island of St. Matthew's for a holiday, Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard Henry Tibbett and his wife, Emmy, looked forward to a relaxing time in the sun. But beneath the calm surface is the menace of a vicious drug ring and a conspiracy to gain a stranglehold on island life. . . When an elderly English spinster vanishes on what should have been the first lap of her homeward ...
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Anna and the Bagpiper

By: Locker, Thomas

Price: $16.50

Publisher: New York, NY, Philomel Books : 1994

Seller ID: 000728

ISBN-13: 9780399225468

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Boards show some chipping at top and bottom edges, corners bumped. Jacket protected by mylar cover. Some pages a bit creased. Ex-library with usual markings.

Rich jewel-toned illustrations grace this lovely tale.
"When Anna hears a faint, faraway sound coming from over the hilltop, she doesn't know her life soon will be changed forever. All she knows is that she must follow the song that seems to call her."
Est Level: Read aloud, 1st - 2nd grades; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Aye, Aye, Sir!

By: Du Bose, La Rocque

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. : 1958

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004692

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Edgewear, corners somewhat bumped, ex-library with usual stamps. DJ in protective wraps taped to boards with expectable tape residue. DJ has 1" tear and two tiny tears at top of spine. Black and white line drawing illustrations by Millard McGee. Text is unmarked and not yellowed. "When, on the night before sailing, one of the midshipmen on the Antelope died of small pox, Henry Wilson, the Captain's son, unexpectedly went along to fill the gap. Henry had always longed to accompany his father on a voyage but when the excitement of sailing was past and he was alone on deck, standing ...
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Barrier Island

By: MacDonald, John D.

Price: $6.25

Publisher: New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated : 1986

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 001838

ISBN-13: 9780394554273

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Ex-library with usual markings plus front and back feps torn out. Spine slanted, corners bumped, some edge wear. Jacket enclosed in protective wraps, taped to boards, and shows minor edge wear and soiling. Text block clean and unmarked.

"A gripping story about a multimillion-dollar land swindle-and the brave, stubborn man who uncovers it-in the fragile barrier islands off the Mississippi coast."; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Bolt

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $8.25

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1987

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 001546

ISBN-13: 9780399132261

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Spine is somewhat shaken, shelf-cocked, corners bumped. jacket shows some edge wear and a couple small tears at top and bottom of spine. Sequel to "Break In", featuring jockey Kit Fielding. "In Kit Fielding's breakneck world of steeplechase racing, the ultimate catastrophe strikes: someone is shooting horses with a weapon fiendishly called a 'humane killer.' Kit must stop the murdering madness, and everyone in his upper-crust circle becomes a suspect -- the princely rival who's trying to woo his woman, the personal enemy bent on ruining Kit's family, the black-market arms dealer ...
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Capitalism and Its Culture

By: Davis, Jerome

Price: $42.75

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart : 1941

Edition: Third Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 005019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

xxviii + 556 pp, index, bibliography, 10 charts including 3 fold-out, numerous tables. Black cloth with gold lettering, a little rubbed on spine. Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, a little edge wear esp. at top and base of spine. Owner's name on front end paper, title page has 'died Oct 19, 1979' under author's name. Darkening to half-title and facing page caused by newspaper clipping (NY Times Feb 15, 1948) laid in. The clipping is a book review of "One Thousand Americans" by George Seldes entitled 'Behind the Facade of Democracy'. Jacket has 2" chunk missing from top of spi...
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Curiosities of Animal Life

By: Burton, Maurice D.Sc.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd. : 1952

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

224 pages w/ Table of Contents & Index. Spine very slightly slanted, 3 dents on top edge of back board, previous owner's name blacked out on free end paper, spine cracked at pp. 48, 96 & 208. DJ is chipped in several places along top & bottom edges, 1 1/2" closed tear at bottom edge. Text is clean, bright, & unmarked.

A book which draws on the "striking, unusual, and extraordinary" to present natural history in an engaging way.
Age Level: Grades 5-8; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Free Fall in Crimson

By: MacDonald, John D.

Price: $6.25

Publisher: New York, NY, Harper & Row : 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 001837

ISBN-13: 9780060148331

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Ex-library with usual markings plus rear fep torn out. Spine slanted and cracked through in a couple places, although all pages still firmly attached. Corners bumped, some edge wear, some darkening. Jacket shows edge wear/chipping and some soiling. Enclosed in protective wraps and taped to boards. "'Girl in Coma Inherits Fortune'-that is how the headlines read when terminally ill tycoon Ellis Esterland was beaten to death at a stop on the Florida Turnpike two years ago-murdered as his daughter lay unconscious, never to recover from a road accident. When she died a few weeks later, the bu...
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I Is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone Mystery Ser.)

By: Grafton, Sue

Price: $5.95

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Company : 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002411

ISBN-13: 9780805010855

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Reading copy. Ex-library with usual markings and free end papers torn out. Rebound. Spine slanted, slight edge wear, some pages with corners bumped. Jacket enclosed in protective wraps taped to boards, some edge wear, small tear near top of spine. A solid reading copy. "Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack, In a matter of weeks the court's statute of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acqu...
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If This be Forgetting

By: Silvers, Earl Reed

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Westminster Press : 1943

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 006179

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Spine slanted, corners a bit bumped, spine spotted. DJ has chipping at spine and flap ends, including a chip extending 4" along the bottom. Text is clean and light.

"'Whenever I see sunlight on clean snow, I shall think of you.' Thus begins the poignantly beautiful love story of Red Wyckoff and Dusty Gray - poles apart in their backgrounds and ways of living, but drawn together irresistibly by their abiding love for each other."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Innocent Blood

By: James, P. D.

Price: $6.50

Publisher: New York, Charles Scibner's Sons : 1980

Seller ID: 001310

ISBN-13: 9780684165912

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Ex-library with usual markings, plus back FEP torn out when retired. Some edgewear/chipping to boards and jacket. Jacket in protective wraps and taped to the boards. Shelf-cocked. Some darkening. "Innocent Blood is a novel that goes far beyond the bounds of the mystery story to explore the themes of the growth of love and the search for identity. Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, exercises her legal right to apply for a copy of her birth certificate when she becomes eighteen. Although she has always had a fantasy of being the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father and now d...
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Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue

By: Packard, Frank L.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, A. L. Burt Company : 1922

Edition: Reprint Edition

Seller ID: 006848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

301 pp. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering. Spine a bit slanted and slightly sunned, corners bumped, a little edge wear, some soiling along edges. Store sticker pasted on front end paper and inside back board, owner's name on front end paper, covered with white out but still quite legible. Jacket is in new Brodart, moderate soiling and darkening, some edge wear and small tears, 3/4" chip at top of spine, smaller chipping mostly at corners and along the flap folds. Overall a solid copy with the uncommon jacket. "Jimmie Dale, the gentleman adventurer, is back on the scent with the King...
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Let Me Have Wings

By: Widdemer, Margaret

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Triangle Books : 1944

Edition: Reprint Edition

Seller ID: 002853

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Spine slanted, sunned, corners bumped, moderate edge wear, chipping, boards starting to pull away from text block. Some darkening to edges but text is clean and unmarked. Jacket shows some rubbing and has a number of tears and chipping, 1" chip missing from top and bottom of spine. Text is clean and unmarked. "Rosemary Oliver's parents died in an automobile accident when she was only six years old. Happiness and freedom and friendship and love ceased for her then. She was taken to live with her grandmother in a little up-state New York town, and she came to understand why her mother...
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Maigret Goes Home

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1989

Edition: 1st American Edition

Seller ID: 8885

ISBN-13: 9780151551507

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Ex Library with the usual stamps, stickers and pocket. Spine cocked, slight edge wear. Jacket in plastic protective sleeve, glued to pastedowns, a little edge wear and rubbing. A good reading copy. ; Translated by Robert Baldick. ; Inspector Maigret; Ex-Library; 7 ¾" X 9 ¾"; 139 pages; "At the crack of dawn on a raw morning, Chief Inspector Maigret finds himself in the church of Saint-Fiacre in the village where he was raised. He's there as a result of an anonymous note threatening that someone would die in the church at the first Mass of All Souls' Day. The arrival of the Countess...
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McBroom the Rainmaker (The Adventures of McBroom Ser.)

By: Fleischman, Sid

Price: $7.49

Publisher: New York, NY, Little, Brown & Company : 1982

Seller ID: 000721

ISBN-13: 9780316285414

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Ex-Library with usual markings. Spine is shelf-cocked, corners bumped. Jacket is a bit chipped, somewhat creased and scuffed.

An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, this is part of a series of McBroom books.
"Dry? Merciful powers! Why, it's been so long since the last rain, McBroom's young'uns have to teach the tadpoles to swim!"
And the black-and-white line drawings are as funny as this tall tale.
Est Level: 3rd - 6th grades.; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Moreta : Dragonlady of Pern

By: McCaffrey, Anne

Price: $7.45

Publisher: New York, NY, Del Ray / Ballantine : 1983

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 001315

ISBN-13: 9780345298744

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Ex-library with usual markings plus front/back FEP torn out when retired. Shelf-cocked, significant edge wear/chipping. Jacket is in protective wraps, taped to boards, with some chipping/edge wear, some darkening. "An air of pleasant anticipation hung so thickly over the Halls, Holds, and Weyrs of Pern that it had affected even the businesslike ways of Moreta, the Weyrwoman of Fort Weyr, where her dragon, Queen Orlith, would soon clutch. "Then without warning, a runnerbeast fell ill. Soon myriads of holders, craftsmen, and dragonriders were dying; and the mysterious ailment had spread...
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Murder a La Mode

By: Moyes, Patricia

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston : 1963

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 002290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Spine slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear, hinges a little weak, owner's name on front free end paper. Jacket has some edge wear, tears, chipping. One tear, starting from the bottom edge near the spine extends two thirds of the way up the front cover and has been taped. 3" tear to back cover, starting at base of spine. "What could be more pleasant, or indeed more healthy, than a skiing vacation high in the Alps at a delightfully secluded and quiet resort: or so thought Chief Inspector Tibbett and his wife, Emmy. Not so. Not when that exclusive little resort . . . may in fact ...
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Condition: Good in Good dust jacket