Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

A Six-Letter Word for Death

By: Moyes, Patricia

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston : 1983

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 002289

ISBN-13: 9780030629785

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear, owner's name on front free end paper. Jacket shows slight edge wear, sunning to spine, a little darkening. A fairly tight, attractive copy. Stated First American Edition, but number line starts with '2'. "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 be cover for the nefarious smuggling of who knows what kind of contraband-a de...
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Basic Woodworking Techniques

By: Burrows, Dick

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Secaucus, NJ, Chartwell books, Inc. : 1993

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 006809

ISBN-13: 9781555219178

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

128 pp, index, glossary, numerous color photos and diagrams. Spine slightly slanted and a bit sunned, minor edge wear with some chipping to corners, text is bright and clean. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear and chipping at corners. An attractive copy.

An indispensable guide for the beginning woodworker, addressing which tools to buy and how to use them, as well as educating the neophyte in basic techniques. The new craftsman is given 18 beautifully illustrated joinery projects to sharpen hand and power tool skills.; 9¾" - 12" Tall
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Death in Holy Orders (an Adam Dalgliesh mystery)

By: James, P. D.

Price: $9.90

Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf : 2001

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 005708

ISBN-13: 9780345446664

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

Spine somewhat slanted and loose, corners slightly bumped. Ex-library with usual stamps, DJ in protective mylar cover taped to boards, back free endpaper removed. Cracked at half-title page. Text is clean and unmarked, "On the East Anglican seacoast a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. Then, the body of a student is found buried in the sand, and the boy's influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Adam Dalgliesh, the son of a parson, once spent happy summers at the school. A detective who loves poet...
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Killer Diller [signed]

By: Edgerton, Clyde

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books : 1991

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 007287

ISBN-13: 9780945575535

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

Dark red cloth over light red boards, 247 pp. Spine cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, small chip to bottom edge and to upper corner, binding tight, owner's name black out on front end paper. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear and rubbing. Inscribed and signed by author on title page. "Clyde Edgerton is back! With another great story, a whole new cast of character, and the return of two old favorites. Remember Wesley from 'Walking Across Egypt' - the orphan boy who'd got in trouble for 'borrowing' cars? And Mattie, who took him in, got his teeth fixed, and brou...
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Ladies Were Not Expected: Abigail Scott Duniway and Women's Rights

By: Morrison, Dorothy Nafus

Price: $5.75

Publisher: New York, Atheneum : 1977

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 005667

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

Boards worn and frayed at bottom. DJ in protective plastic wrapper tapped to boards. Ex-library with usual stamps. Light stain on p. 115. Black and white photographs throughout text. "Abigail Scott's mother wept bitterly when she was born and her father was cross - she was a girl and a girl was grievance almost too burdensome to be borne. When Abigail's father moved the family west, she saw her mother die along the way, o a trip she hadn't wanted to take. In Oregon, marriage to Ben Duniway began as a round of house and farm work and babies, just as for the other women settlers, unt...
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Memory in Death (In Death Series #22)

By: Robb, J. D. [Nora Roberts]

Price: $10.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 2006

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 007374

ISBN-13: 9780399153280

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

Red cloth over orange boards, 337 pp. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, slight edge wear, a couple pages creased along lower part of leading edge. Jacket in new Brodart with a little edge wear and arubbing. A nice copy. Number 22 in J.D. Robb's (Nora Roberts) In Death Series of a futuristic New York City. "Eve Dallas is one tough cop. It should take more than a seemingly ordinary middle-aged lady to make her fall apart. But when that lady is Trudy Lombard, all bets are off. Just seeing Trudy at the station plunges Eve back to the days when she was a bulnerable, traumatized young girl - ...
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Mind Changer: A Sector General Novel

By: White, James

Price: $11.50

Publisher: New York, Tor Books : 1998

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 005584

ISBN-13: 9780312866631

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

Spine somewhat slanted, minor edgewear, cracking at title page, ex-library with usual stamps. DJ enclosed in clear protective plastic wrapper. "In the course of practicing deep-space medicine on the Galactic Rim, the multispecies staff of Sector General Hospital - a 384 level space station catering to patients from all known worlds - has seen more than its share of challenges, from alien species that resemble plague, and plagues caused by cafeteria food, to cafeteria food that resembles some alien species. They're a tough and experienced crew. But now the staff are facing a terrifying...
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Minnie's Yom Kippur Birthday

By: Singer, Marilyn

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Harper & Row : 1989

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003847

ISBN-13: 9780060258474

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

32 pp. Blue boards, spine somewhat slanted, minor edgewear/bumping, ex-library with usual stamps, some pages have small tear at bottom near spine. DJ in protective wrap taped to boards, 1/8" nick at top of spine. Color illustrations throughout. "This year Minnie's birthday falls on Yom Kippur. Her dad says that it's the most serious Jewish holiday of all, and that her birthday celebration will be a little different. Minnie just knows it will be the best birthday she's ever had. But the day doesn't start out the way she expects. All she gets for breakfast is a bowl of cornflakes (he...
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The Bloodied Ivy

By: Goldsborough, Robert

Price: $8.25

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books : 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 001990

ISBN-13: 9780553052817

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

Corners slightly bumped, rear board has separated from book, exposing webbing. Jacket is priced clipped with slight edge wear. Robert Goldsborough brings Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin back to life as he continues the series after Rex Stout's death. This is the third of his Nero Wolfe books. He was a man a lot of people hated, even in death. He was Hale Markham, a professor at an upstart New York college, a man infamous for his poisonous jealousy, backstabbing, and character assassination. His death is graded accidental. As Archie pokes about the ivy, Nero Wolfe is ensconced within his brown...
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The House on Quai Notre Dame

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1975

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 005444

ISBN-13: 9780151421817

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

Ex-library with expected stamps, markings, and pocket. Slight spine slant, corners bumped, a little edge wear, some tape residue on boards, text is clean and unmarked, binding fairly tight. Jacket in protective wraps, with a little edge wear and sunned spine, otherwise the mylar has all the library markings. "'Uncle Antoine died on Tuesday, on Halloween, probably about eleven o'clock in the evening. That same night, Colette tried to throw herself out of the window.' This is the dramatic start of a family saga, compressed into Simenon's tight, spare shaping. The patriarch's death reveal...
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The Void Captain's Tale

By: Spinrad, Norman

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, Timescape Books : 1983

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 001778

ISBN-13: 9780671434830

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

Ex-library with usual markings, spine slanted, some edge wear, stain on lower edge of back board. Jacket is in protective wraps, glued to pastedowns, some soiling, minor edge wear. "A tale from the second star-faring age where Void Pilots are always female because the function is linked to the psychesomic function of platform orgasm and requires a voluntary addictive personality, non-orgasmic in normal sexual contact. In the normal course of things, the Void Captain and the Void Pilot never meet, but Genro meets his Void Pilot, and discovers the source of her strength and strange resolve...
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Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket