Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Bolt

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $7.75

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

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 001439

ISBN-13: 9780399132261

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Spine is somewhat shaken, shelf-cocked, corners bumped. jacket shows some edge wear, chipping, and a couple small (1/2") tears along the top. 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 arm...
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Brothers of Earth

By: Cherryh, C. J.

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New Haven, Conn., Doubleday & Company : 1976

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 001283

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped, slightly shelf-cocked, some signatures detaching from spine at top. Jacket shows edgewear, some scuffing/darkening. "The sole survivor of a spaceship battle, Kurt Morgan's survival capsule finds an Earth-type planet in this unknown system. Stranded for life, he must adapt quickly to the strange terrain and even stranger inhabitants. . . or face extinction. But would it be possible for him to learn the ways of this totally alien culture. . . to entirely adapt his human reactions to their fabulous civilization and complex mores? Kurt didn't know it yet, but before long he...
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Caravan to Vaccares

By: MacLean, Alistair

Price: $7.25

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company : 1970

Seller ID: 002009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Ex-library with usual markings. Spine slanted, corners bumped, some edge wear. Owner's bookplate inside cover, plus several reader's comments on ffep. Jacket is in protective wraps, taped to boards, showing a little edge wear and darkening. "Every year, for centuries, the gypsies have gathered in a small French tourist town to honor their patron saint. This time, however, the pilgrimage is not so innocent. This time the caravan is a cover for a sinister conspiracy. Terror, murder, and violence lie in wait for the unwary trespasser. Only a chosen few know of the grim secret the gypsies a...
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Corpus Christmas (Sigrid Harald Mystery)

By: Maron, Margaret

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Crime Club : 1989

Seller ID: 8515

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

0385266138 Black cloth with white lettering, 182 pp. Spine cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear. Likely glue stains on pastedowns and rear end paper, but no other markings or stamps. Jacket in new Brodart, corners bumped, slight edge wear, glue stains on flaps. ; Sigrid Harald; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 182 pages; "A relic of Manhattan's Gilded Age, the Erich Breul House contains three floors of nineteenth-century art . . . And one Christmas corpse. While dozens deck the halls with antique ornaments, someone permanently decks art historian Dr. Roger Shambley, and this less-than-merr...
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Dr. Wilson's Dilemma (An Avalon Nurse Story)

By: Nelson, Marguerite

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Avalon Books : 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004087

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, corners somewhat bumped, DJ in Plasti-Kleer Jacket Cover taped to peach boards leaving tape residue. Black soil line along top and bottom edges of boards and DJ, Ex-library with usual stamps. Two pen marks on pastedown. DJ a bit wrinkled. Text is clean and unmarked. "For Gail Wilson, just-graduated Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, everything was new - her hard-won title, her assignment to a California veterinary hospital, and the life she would lead there. A girl who loved animals, she soon put her training busily to work., While caught up in the ru...
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Folk Songs of Many Lands

By: Van Loon, Hendrik Willem; Castagnetta, Grace

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : 1938

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003238

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

96 pp, numerous color and b/w illustrations, white boards with color sketch of a mountain village gathered in the town square for a winter celebration. Title page has authors names in script, giving the impression of being their signatures. Spine has 1" tear down the back hinge, corners bumped and chipped, some edge wear esp. to top of spine. Jacket has a 1/2" tear at top of spine leaving a small flap across the spine, some edge wear and several small tears and chips along edges, a little darkening, price-clipped, sticker remains at top of front cover. Overall a quite attractive copy i...
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How to Make War : A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare

By: Dunnigan, James F.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company : 1982

Edition: Fifth Printing

Seller ID: 002808

ISBN-13: 9780688007805

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Apparent water damage to top of spine/front board/DJ, but text undamaged, corners bumped. DJ somewhat creased, esp. to flaps, moderate edgewear & chipping. Text is clean & unmarked. "Informative, fascinating, shocking, How to Make War cuts through the myths and complexities of modern warfare. Neither pro-war nor anti-war, this primer makes no statements—except of the facts. Succinct, non-technical explanations and unique statistical charts cover every aspect of modern warfare on land and sea, in air and space. James F. Dunnigan, a leading expert on military history and simulations, u...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Modren Abridged Edition)

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Racine, WI, Whitman Publishing : 1951

Edition: Reprint Edition

Seller ID: 003023

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Spine a little weak, slight shelfwear/bumping, top and bottom of pastedown/ free endpaper juncture beginning to separate, exposing webbing. DJ has chipping at ends of spine and flap edges, some edgewear, closed 1" tears on spine and front cover. Text is yellowing, but clean and unmarked. Paul Frame's black and white line drawings on pastedowns and through the book enliven this beloved children's classic.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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The Fever Tree

By: Mason, Richard

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, World Publishing Company : 1962

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003520

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Slight spine slant, corners bumped, slight edge wear, boards bowed out a little, little rubbing. Jacket has 1" flap where top of spine is torn, some rubbing, moderate edge wear, 1 1/2" nearly closed tear in bottom front edge. A nice copy. "He thought of himself as a cheetah he once saw sitting alone under a fever tree on an African plain - self sufficient and self-contained, the animal whose strength lies in its independence, the animal machine, the King of the Plain. About to embark on yet another assignment, Ronald Birkett, an English soldier of fortune, calmly sipped his drink...
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The Snare of the Hunter

By: MacInnes, Helen

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1974

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 001747

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped, minor edge wear. Owner's name on ffep. Jacket shows some edge wear/darkening, small water stain in upper right corner. Text is clean and tight. ; ; 7" - 9" Tall; "It does not take Irina Kusak long to realize she is a fugitive, prey of ruthless hunters. From the moment she flees across the Czechoslovakian border into Austria to find her father, a Nobel Prize nominee now in hiding, suspicion becomes her constant companion. Is she the bait in a trap to snare her father? Or is she playing a part in an even more insidious scheme with incredibly high stakes?" "David Mennery, a musi...
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The United States and India and Pakistan

By: Brown, W. Norman

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press : 1953

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 003490

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

x + 308pp, index, appendices, three demographic maps, color maps on front end papers. Corners bumped, slight edge wear, price pencilled on front end paper. Jacket shows moderate edge wear and chipping esp. along the fold of the flaps. A little darkening and rubbing. A number of pages have vertical lines neatly drawn in margins, text otherwise clean and unmarked. Co-winner of the 1954 Watumull Prize for the best book on the History of India. "There are few countries in the world today which are as widely separated by sheer lack of mutual understanding as the United States and India and Pa...
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Theft of Magna Carta, the

By: Creasey, John

Price: $9.75

Publisher: New York, NY, Charles Scibner's Sons : 1973

Edition: Likely First Edition

Seller ID: 000787

ISBN-13: 9780684132655

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Bottom front edge (board/jacket) is a bit chewed up. Otherwise in very good condition. "This is a story of a daring plot to steal one of England's greatest treasures. The Sarum Magna Carta is zealously guarded at Salisbury Cathedral. In this new Roger West novel a band of international art thieves -- English and American -- work out a brilliant and ruthless scheme for penetrating the security measures protecting the priceless document. They succeed in removing Magna Carta from the Cathedral Library; but in a high-tension climax Superintendent West rescues the treasure and solves one of th...
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Triple Zeck : A Nero Wolfe Omnibus (And Be a Villain; The Second Confession; In the Best Families)

By: Stout, Rex

Price: $23.75

Publisher: New York, Viking Press : 1974

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 9029

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

0670731307 Black boards with gold lettering, 502 pp. Corners bent, a little edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, some edge wear, a little chipping, some scuffing. A solid copy. ; Nero Wolfe; 7 ¾" X 9 ¾"; 502 pages; Omnibus edition of the three novels where Nero Wolfe encounters an arch nemesis: Arnold Zeck. "In And Be a Villain, the first of these three full-length novels of the late 1940s, Nero Wolfe came up against his most fearsome opponent, a powerful mystery man of crime name Arnold Zeck. Almost certainly a blackmailer, Zeck also appeared to be one of the most pote...
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Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket