Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

A Severed Wasp

By: L'Engle, Madeleine

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux : 1982

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 006606

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

388 pp. Beige boards with purple spine and gold lettering. A little sunned along top edge. DJ price-clipped with 1/4" chip and a few very small tears. Text is bright and clean. An attractive copy. "Katherine Forrester Vigneras is a concert pianist who has returned to her house on Tenth Street in New York to come to terms with her memories, until she can look at them with acceptance. But when she agrees to give a benefit concert for an old friend, Felix Bodeway, the retired 15th bishop of New York, she is drawn into the life of 'his 'Cathedral, and that of the people on the Cathe...
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Caverns of Danger

By: Holton, Frances

Price: $22.95

Publisher: New York, Avalon Books : 1979

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003652

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

DJ in Plasti-Kleer Jacket Cover as issued, inside corners of flaps creased. A bright, attractive copy. "Megan James, a young journalist, is thrilled when she's asked to write a biography of Nicole Abbott, her glamorous movie-star aunt. But trouble starts before she begins chapter one. First, Megan and her aunt are both warned not to publish the book. Then Megan's boyfriend - who's been invited to the Abbott ranch along with Megan - becomes seriously jealous of Reid Parker, the handsome young sheriff who is quite taken with the pretty writer. Meanwhile, Megan's rich, magnetic Uncle Jul...
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Eleven on Top (Stephanie Plum Mystery Series #11)

By: Evanovich, Janet

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press : 2005

Seller ID: 8338

ISBN-13: 9780312306267

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. A bright, attractive copy. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 310 pages; "She’s had enough. Stephanie Plum has finally quit bounty hunting and is in the market for a new job. Preferably one which doesn’t involve being shot at, blown up or kidnapped. The trouble is, she can’t stop wondering about the missing men who all disappeared, without a trace, on the same day. And her super-hot mentor Ranger is making her an offer she can’t refuse. And someone is trying to kill her. It’s starting to seem like it’s not th...
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Ground Zero (X-Files Ser.)

By: Anderson, Kevin

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York, Harper Prism : 1995

Seller ID: 000127

ISBN-13: 9780061052231

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Back inside flap of jacket is foled back.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Ilse Witch [signed] (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book I)

By: Brooks, Terry

Price: $28.00

Publisher: New York, Del Rey : 2000

Edition: 1st Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 008107

ISBN-13: 9780345396549

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Pictorial boards with a semi-transparent dust jacket through which the picture shows. Corners slightly bumped. Jacket has a little edge wear and chipping, primarily at corners and base of spine. A bright, attractive copy, signed by author on title page. "When the mutilated body of a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery surfaces. Thirty years ago, the elven prince Kael Elessedil, brother to the current king, led an expedition in search of a legendary magic said to be more ancient, more powerful, than any in the world. Of all those who set ou...
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Isle of Dogs (Large Print)

By: Cornwell, Patricia

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 2001

Edition: Large Print Edition

Seller ID: 003320

ISBN-13: 9780739420706

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

DJ has minor shelfwear including 3 tiny tears. "This Large Print Book carries the Seal of Approval of N.A.V.H." A bright, attractive copy. "An irreverent portrait of politically driven law enforcement run amok. Chaos breaks loose when the governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be painted on all streets and highways, and warns that speeders will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric island of Tangier, 14 miles off the coast of Virginia in Chesapeake Bay, responds by declaring war on its own state. Judy Hammer, newly installed as the superinte...
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Mystery Reader's Walking Guide: England

By: Dale, Alzina Stone; Hendershott, Barbara S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Lincolnwood, Illinois, Passport Books : 1988

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 005521

ISBN-13: 9780844295510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

416 pp., 15 maps; "Special Helps" section of authors, books, and sleuths by walk; Bibliography, Index. Beige boards with gold lettering on a brown spine. PO name on front pastdown. DJ has a little shelfwear along top. A bright, attractive copy. "If you are a mystery lover - or fond of unusual travel experiences - this book if for you. Through 14 wondrous walks in southern England, you will encounter the sights, sounds, sleuths, and characters of many of the world's greatest mystery stories. As you follow the authors' step-by-step 'mystery tours,' you will experience England t...
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Original Sin

By: James, P. D.

Price: $8.90

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated : 1995

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 000767

ISBN-13: 9780679438892

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Owner's name on front FEP. Jacket shows some creases at the corners, slight shelf wear. "Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of baffling complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm's fortunes. Etienne was clearly a man with enemies -- a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues, one of ...
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Reconstruction Bonds & Twentieth-Century Politics - South Dakota v. North Carolina (1904)

By: Durden, Robert F.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Durham, NC, Duke University Press : 1962

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 007657

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Black cloth with gold lettering, xi + 274 pp, index. Corners bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket has a little edge wear, spine a bit sunned, price clipped. An attractive copy. "An old trunk harbored for nearly half a century the intimate details of one of the most fantastic chapters in the history of any state, revealed here for the first time. At the center of this story is an ingenious plan engineered by a man whose dedication to self-enrichment and political revenge caused him to pit one state against another in legal and personal conflicts which made constitutional history and riled Nort...
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Storm Track (A Deborah Knott Mystery)

By: Maron, Margaret

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press : 2000

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 008201

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

0892966564 Black boards with gold lettering, 260 pp. Slight edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy. Seventh in the Judge Deborah Knott mystery series. "Hurricanes rarely make it inland as far as Colleton County, North Carolina. When they do, people remember them as events that mark an entire generation. Domestic storms, on the other hand, hit with regularity. But when the scantily clad body of a promiscuous wife is found in a motel, the killing resounds like a thunderclap through the community. "With her handsome cousin a suspect in the murder, Judge Deborah Knott gets personally...
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Tanequil [signed] (High Druid of Shannara, Book Two)

By: Brooks, Terry

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Simon & Schuster : 2004

Edition: First UK Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 008109

ISBN-13: 9780743256742

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Black cloth, gold lettering, 357 pp., end papers have maps of the Four Lands and the Forbidding. Corners slightly bumped. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear and rubbing. A bright, attractive copy, signed by author on the title page. "Grianne Ohmsford, rightful High Druid of Shannara, has been banished to the harsh mirror-world of the Forbidding. Her only hope for rescue is her nephew Penderrin - but Pen is under siege as well. Both he and his parents are sought by the treacherous druid who took Grianne's place and who wants to make sure their magic will never help her return. "...
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Temptation

By: Deveraux, Jude

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Pocket Books

Edition: Large Print Edition

Seller ID: 004760

ISBN-13: 9780739413463

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

DJ has minor edgewearalong top; bottom has a wedge tear at spine end mended with clear tape. A bright, attractive copy. "This Large Print Book carries the Seal of Approval of N.A.V.H." "If it were up to Temperance O'Neil, she would never leave New York. A passionate women's rights activist, she is devoted to keeping single mothers safe on the city's rough streets - a critical need in the harsh year of 1909. But Temperance's independence is threatened when her old-fashioned Scottish stepfather, Angus, demands that she move into his Edinburgh household or lose her inheritance. A...
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Tending to Virginia

By: McCorkle, Jill

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, G K Hall & Co : 1989

Edition: Large Print Edition

Seller ID: 006326

ISBN-13: 9780816146987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

J in new Brodart protective plastic wrap. DJ has edgewear and 1/4" tear. A bright, attractive copy. "Virginia Turner Ballard, known to her North Carolina relatives as Ginny Sue, has come home at the end of her difficult pregnancy. There, she is surrounded by three generations of her family's women - her mother, grandmother, great aunts and favorite cousin - who have come to her aid to help her prepare for the arrival of the fourth generation. As these women tend to Virginia, the bond that holds them together - their family history - is revealed as memories and emotions are shared a...
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The Cat Who Saw Stars

By: Braun, Lilian Jackson

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1998

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 001994

ISBN-13: 9780399144318

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Jacket shows slight edge wear. A clean, tight, attractive copy. "Qwilleran, Koko, and Yum Yum are hoping for a peaceful month of July spent sitting on the porch of their cabin by a lake in Mooseville. It's not so far from home-but far enough away from the hustle and bustle of Pickax that Qwill figures he might actually find some peace and quiet. When rumors begin to circulate that UFOs are responsible for the disappearance of a stray backpacker . . . . as the inexplicable goings-on get stranger and stranger, Qwill starts to wonder who or what is in fact responsible, if not extraterrestri...
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The City Who Fought

By: McCaffrey, Anne; Stirling, S. M.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Riverdale, NY, Baen Books : 1993

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 002402

ISBN-13: 9780671721664

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Jacket shows a little rubbing and minor edge wear.

Set in the same universe as Helva, "The Ship Who Sang" Simeon, the shellperson in charge of station SSS-900-C, faces the biggest challenge of his life as he tries to outwit the vicious Kolnari bent on pillaging and destroying the station.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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The Cosmic Battle of the Ages: Armageddon

By: LaHaye, Tim; Jenkins, Jerry B.

Price: $14.75

Publisher: Wheaton, IL, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. : 2003

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002505

ISBN-13: 9780842332347

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Very slight wear at base of spine. DJ has 3/8 in. tear at top of back cover edge & tiny tear at bottom of spine, some creasing along lower edge. A bright, unmarked, attractive copy.

The time of the Great Tribulation nears its close on the Plains of Israel in the Valley of Armageddon at Megiddo where the final cosmic battle is to commence between the forces of good and evil, light and darkness.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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The Shiva Option [Signed]

By: Weber, David; White, Steve

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Baen Books : 2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 008206

ISBN-13: 9780671318482

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Blace cloth with dark blue lettering, 674 pp. Corners slightly bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear and rubbing. Signed on title page by both David Weber and Steve White. An attractive copy. Fourth of the Starfire universe books by White and Weber and the long awaited direct sequel to 'In Death Ground.' "The war wasn't going well. "The mind-numbingly alien Arachnids were an enemy whose like no civilized race had ever confronted. Like some carnivorous cancer, the 'Bugs' had overrun planet after planet . . . and they regarded any competing sentient spec...
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The Talbot Boys

By: Reed, Harrison & Mathilda

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Maplewood, NJ, C. S. Hammond & Company : 1961

Edition: Possible first Edition

Seller ID: 000391

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Jacket shows darkening on the spine, plus a coffee cup ring on the front cover. This seems likely to be a first edition -- only the copyright date is listed on the title page -- no evidence of other printings.

Est. Level: Teenagers.
Their summer fishing business leads teenagers Joe and Fred Talbot into a search for sunken treasure, an attempted murder and similar "routine adventures." But it's when they go to visit their cousins on Big Talbot Island that things really start getting dangerous.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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When Pigs Fly

By: Wood, June Rae

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1995

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 002309

ISBN-13: 9780399229114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Spine very slightly slanted, jacket shows minor edge wear. Inscribed and dated 11-3-95 by the author on title page. Also inscribed on the dedication page by Peggy Heil to whom the book is dedicated. Also laid in is a bookmark featuring this and two prior books by June Rae Wood.

"Thirteen-year-old Buddy Rae and her best friend Jiniwin do everything together-taking care of Buddy's slow younger sister, 'parenting' egg babies, talking about boys, and dealing with Buddy's family move to a farm outside Turnback, Missouri."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author
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Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket