Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family

By: Haley, Alex; Stevens, David

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company : 1993

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 005981

ISBN-13: 9780688063313

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

670 pp. DJ has 1/4" tear. A bright, attractive copy. "Now, from the author of Roots, comes Alex Haley's Queen - the saga of his father's family. Lovers of sweeping generational epics will find much to rejoice in here. Once again, this is a personal saga, but one played out against the broad canvas of American history. The story begins in Ireland, where Haley's white great-great-grandfather, James Jackson, Sr., is born. From there we travel with Jackson to Nashville, where he meets Andrew Jackson, the future president of the United States. The two men become business partners, an...
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Astrological Secrets for the New Millennium

By: Baum, Laurie A.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Gramercy Publishing Company : 1997

Edition: Reprint Edition

Seller ID: 004387

ISBN-13: 9780517206553

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

v-xiv, 396 pp., index. bottom corners bumped. DJ has tiny nick at top of spine. A bright, attractive copy. "Like the moon tugging at the tides, celestial forces wield tremendous influence over daily life. These celestial forces are especially powerful now, when the world is embarking on a vibrant new age. You can harness these energies and turn them to your advantage - today, tomorrow, and beyond. This amazing book holds the key, and prepares you to take charge of your destiny. Here is information on what the new millennium has to offer each of the twelve sign of the Zodiac regardin...
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Autumn Bridge

By: Matsuoka, Takashi

Price: $17.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press : 2004

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004338

ISBN-13: 9780385336413

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

DJ has small nick near top of front flap - else near fine. Map of Japan on pastedowns/feps. A bright, attractive copy. "In the year 1311, in the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows Castle, a beautiful woman sits by the window, watching as enemies gather below and fires spread through the night. As she calmly awaits her fate, she begins to write, carefully setting down on a scroll the secret history of the Okumichi clan. . . of the gift of prophecy they share and the extraordinary destiny that awaits them. For six centuries, these remarkable writings lay hidden - until they are uncovered...
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Before I Say Good-Bye

By: Clark, Mary Higgins

Price: $6.25

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : 2000

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004389

ISBN-13: 9780671004576

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Remainder mark on bottom edge. DJ has slight shelfwear. A bright, attractive copy. "When Nell MacDermott learns that her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, and three of his business associates have died in an explosion of his new cabin cruiser, she is not only devastated but wracked with guilt. The last time she saw Adam, they had a bitter quarrel over her plan to run for the congressional seat long held by her grandfather; she had told him not to come home. As the investigation into the boat's explosion proceeds, Nell learns that it was not an accident but a bomb. Despite her skeptici...
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Caravan to Vaccares

By: MacLean, Alistair

Price: $6.25

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1970

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 002750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped, spine slightly slanted. Jacket shows minor edge wear, a little rubbing. A bright, clean copy.

"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 are hiding. They know, too, that discovery may cost them their lives."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Clover (Large Print)

By: Sanders, Dori

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Boston, MA, G. K. Hall & Co. : 1990

Edition: Large Print Edition

Seller ID: 003223

ISBN-13: 9780816150489

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

DJ has minor edgewear and a 1/2" tear on back edge. A bright, tight, attractive copy. "The newest in a long line of brilliant African-American female authors, Dori Sanders enters the literary scene with Clover, the story of a ten-year-old girl living on her family’s South Carolina farm. Written from the child’s perspective, this engaging novel offers the upbeat and precocious narrator’s wealth of innocence, and her moments of wisdom beyond her years. Clover centers upon the relationship between young Clover and her new stepmother, Sara Kate, the white woman who married Clover’s fat...
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Come to Grief

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $9.95

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

Seller ID: 001436

ISBN-13: 9780399140822

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Jacket shows slight edge wear. "Still in his mid-thirties, Sid Halley remains troubled, courageous, unwilling to admit defeat to disabling injury or corruption. Now, though, Sid faces nineties dilemmas and hazards even more serious than those he once faced in horse racing, the passion that cost him his hand, and "the only sport so dangerous that ambulances follow the athletes from start to finish." "I had this friend that everyone loved," Halley says, "and I put him on trial. . . . I grieved for the loss of a friendship, for a man who still looked the same but was dif...
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Driving Force

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, NY, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 001440

ISBN-13: 9780399137761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Slight edge wear. Clean, tight copy. "Young ex-jockey Freddie Croft owns a profitable fleet of horse vans that convey runners to the course. A man who has few illusions about racing's smarmier aspects, Freddie is a stickler for security. But even he is startled by the violence that erupts when a hard, fast rule is broken: Never pick up a hitchhiker. In what will be the first of many ironies, the passenger-not the driver-turns up dead. And if one corpse is bad for business, what happens next could well be fatal: Freddie is swept unknowingly into the vortex of a malign conspiracy in wh...
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Legacy

By: Michener, James A.

Price: $6.45

Publisher: New York, NY, Random House : 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 001506

ISBN-13: 9780394564326

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Corners slightly bumped, Jacket shows slight shelf wear. "Major Norman Starr, attached to the National Security Council, is told that he will shortly be called before a congressional committee. Through a tense, reflective weekend, the officer talks over the situation with his wife and a street-wise Washington lawyer-and begins to think back to the long line of Americans from whom he is descended. One was a Supreme Court justice, another figured importantly in the unofficial nightly debates about drafting a new document to unify and help guide the affairs of the young United States, anot...
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Mason & Dixon

By: Pynchon, Thomas

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Co : 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004096

ISBN-13: 9780805037586

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Gift inscription on free endpaper. DJ in protective plastic wrap, has one very tiny tear. A bright, tight, attractive copy. "Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as reimagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated 18th century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall...
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Mitla Pass

By: Uris, Leon

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company : 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003627

ISBN-13: 9780385187923

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

DJ price-clipped, very slight edgewear. A bright, attractive copy.

"The impassioned story of Gideon Zadok, a modern man trapped by his own contradictions: ambition and fear; desire and obligation; the past and his future. Woven into a tapestry of voices - Gideon's, his family's, his wife's, and friends' - Uris takes us from the pogrom-cursed Russian shtetls to the American dream; from Hollywood in its heyday to the new state of Israel in 1956."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Morning, Noon and Night

By: Sheldon, Sidney

Price: $5.25

Publisher: New York, NY, Morrow/Avon : 1995

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 001427

ISBN-13: 9780688084929

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Jacket shows slight edge wear. "When Harry Stanford, one of the wealthiest men in the world, mysteriously drowns while cruising on his yacht off the rugged coast of Corsica, it sets off a chain of events that reverberates around the globe. At the family gathering following the funeral in Boston, a strikingly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be the daughter of Harry Stanford and entitled to a share of the tycoon's estate -- is she genuine or an imposter? The Stanford family is one of the most respected in America, but behind the facade of fame and glamour is a hidden web of bla...
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Murder at the National Gallery

By: Truman, Margaret

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1996

Edition: Likely Book Club

Seller ID: 001367

ISBN-13: 9780679435303

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Slight darkening, jacket shows some minor edge wear. "What happens when a world-class art expert wants not only to exhibit a long-lost painting by Caravaggio but to own it himself? Margaret Truman takes us into a heady, exciting world of genius with this story of a senior curator at the nation's famed National Gallery of Art who plans a brilliant exhibition around the masterpiece. He also begins to make another, more personal, daring plan. His masterly scheme promises prestige, fame, a small fortune, plus a number of artful deceptions-and a disappearing act that will rival the story of...
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My Grandma Made Them--So Can You

By: Farrer, Violet G.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Carlton Press, Inc. : 1979

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 001941

ISBN-13: 9780806212388

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Jacket shows slight edge wear. Text is bright and clean. Signed by author on ffep. "is an exceptionally clear and explicit arts and crafts book. It shows you how very easy it is to make beautiful, decorative and functional gifts for friends, neighbors and relatives, as well as for yourself. Because this is a veritable treasury of arts and crafts-that practically anyone with even a modicum of ingenuity and manual dexterity can design and assemble-there are years of enjoyment packed into this handy book for all those clever enough to pick it up." Est Level: All ages; 8vo - over 7¾"...
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One Last Dance (Large Print)

By: Goudge, Eileen

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Viking Books : 1999

Edition: Large Print Edition

Seller ID: 005986

ISBN-13: 9780739404850

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Spine somewhat slanted. DJ has slight edgewear. "This Large Print Book carries the Seal of Approval of NAVH." A bright, attractive copy. "On the eve of their fortieth wedding anniversary, the Seagraves are among the most enviable couples in Miramonte, California, and still deeply in love - until the moment Lydia Seagrave picks up a gun and shoots her husband. Novelist daughter Daphne returns home and is forced to contend with her father's murder and with her undeniable feelings for the only man she has ever loved, the D.A. who is prosecuting her mother. Youngest daughter Alex ...
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Roscoe

By: Kennedy, William

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Viking Press : 2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004094

ISBN-13: 9780670030293

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

DJ has very slight shelfwear at top edge. A bright, tight, attractive copy. "You've never met a politician like Roscoe Conway (or have you?): a suave Falstaffian in a double-breasted white Palm Beach suit, unscrupulous, brilliant, exploding with courtly romance. It's V-J Day, the war's over, and Roscoe, after twenty-six years as chief brain truster of Albany's notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever. But there's no exit, only new political wars and scandalous threats to his beloved and her family. Roscoe, the chivalrous warrior, finds fraudulence an extremely eff...
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Skipping Christmas

By: Grisham, John

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company : 2001

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 003317

ISBN-13: 9780385505833

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

DJ shows very minor shelfwear. A bright, attractive copy. "Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty; they won’t be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren’t even going to have a tree. They won’t need one, because come December 25 they’re setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is ab...
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Stone Dancer

By: Smith, Murray

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Pocket Books : 1994

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 007136

ISBN-13: 9780671784850

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Red cloth over black boards, white lettering, 370 pp. Corners slightly bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket in new Brodart with a bit of edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy. "Pomegranate. For British spymaster David Jardine, the mention of his beautiful Lebanese double agent's code name conjures up a wealth of memories: days . . . and nights with her . . . priceless information about Arab terrorist groups. Now, from the Middle East, Pomegranate has sent a distress signal. Jardine willingly abandons a dreary Washington D.C. conference to race to Beirut - straight into an ambush by the Mo...
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The Bookman's Wake: A Mystery With Cliff Janeway

By: Dunning, John

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Scribner : 1995

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 006173

ISBN-13: 9780684800035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

DJ has very slight edgewear. A bright, fairly tight, attractive copy. Fans of Cliff Janeway of Booked To Die will rejoice at this opportunity to become reacquainted with him: "The story starts and ends, aptly, with a book, a very special book: a 1969 edition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, published by the tiny prestigious Grayson Press of Northbend, Washington. No bibliography mentions the 1969 edition. If it indeed exists, it could be worth a fortune to the right collector. It's the kind of book somebody might kill for. In fact, somebody probably already has."; 7¾" - 9¾&#...
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The Flint Lord (The Pagans Ser., Bk. 2)

By: Herley, Richard

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, NY, William Morrow & Company : 1981

Seller ID: 001314

ISBN-13: 9780688048525

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Corners slightly bumped, slight edge wear to jacket. Second in the "Pagans" series, sequel to "The Stone Arrow." "In the land that was southern England five thousand years ago, Brennis Gehan Fifth, Lord of Valdoe, driven by the sinister forces of his own heritage, is planning the genocide of the nomadic tribes who impede the spread of his empire. With his army swelled by foreign mercenaries, he prepares to march through the snows to annihilate the nomads in their winter camp. Spurring the Flint Lord's drive for conquest is his passion for his beautiful, decadent sister...
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Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket