Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

1632

By: Flint, Eric

Price: $80.00

Publisher: New York, Baen Books : 2000

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 9243

ISBN-13: 9780671578497

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Blue cloth over blue boards, gold lettering. Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, remainder stripe on bottom edge. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy. ; First book in the popular and ever-expanding 1632 shared universe. ; 1632; Remainder; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 504 pages; "The Ultimate Y2K Glitch ... "In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn't get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protesta...
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A Case of Need

By: Crichton, Michael (Jeffery Hodson)

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Dutton : 1993

Edition: Ninth Printing

Seller ID: 001421

ISBN-13: 9780525938026

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Corners bumped, slight scuffing. Jacket has some edge wear/chipping. Michael Crichton writing as Jeffery Hudson. "Was it murder? Was it horribly botched surgery -- accidental malpractice? Was someone in the great Boston medical center violating the Hippocratic oath? No one knows exactly why the beautiful young daughter of an important medical family bled to death on the operating table. But the doctor she helplessly trusted -- a brilliant, compassionate physician -- is accused of murdering her. And as passions and protests volcanically erupt, only one other doctor is willing to push his ...
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A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

By: Le Guin, Ursula K.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: New York, Harper Prism : 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 9174

ISBN-13: 9780061052002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Navy cloth over blue boards, gold lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear. An attractive copy. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 191 pages; "This new collection of short fiction by one of America's most honored authors celebrates her understanding that narrative is the shining thread with which we create our common humanity. "In A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Le Guin has assembled a far-reaching catalog of wonders, and she uses them to illuminate the earth on which ordinary women and men live. Astonishing in their diversity and power, ...
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A Living Dog

By: Somerville-Large, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. : 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 006975

ISBN-13: 9780575029194

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Library of Congress surplus with stamp on front end paper and copyright page. Red cloth with gilt lettering, 204 pp. Slight spine slant, corners bumped, slight edge wear, light dampstain to front board with it bowing out a bit. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear. A nice copy. "Peter Somerville-Large turns to the more relaxed world of black comedy. In particular to the world on the fringe of the antiques trade, where, he suggests, the antiques may just possibly be genuine but everything else is faked, and murder is as casually regarded by his characters as is short-changing a client. ...
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A Richer Wealth

By: Melton, Claude Mark

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press : 1966

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 002310

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, some edge wear, chipping. Jacket is enclosed in protective wraps and shows a little edge wear, soiling. Signed by author on front free end paper. Author's name and address written on back pastedown. "Ophelia Von Tresco, daughter of the owner of a vast South Carolina plantation, was born to immense wealth and reared in the still-living cultural traditions of the Old South. She has many suitors, among them two of exceptional endowments-Edwin, heir to riches, and Christopher, a young man of modest means. Her choice between them brings her to understa...
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A Season on the Brink : A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers

By: Feinstein, John

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, MacMillan Company : 1986

Seller ID: 000115

ISBN-13: 9780025372306

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Price clipped. Previous owner's inscrip - tion inside front cover.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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A Travel Guide to Heaven

By: Destefano, Anthony

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company : 2003

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003538

ISBN-13: 9780385509886

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

ix + 193 pp, scripture notes, bibliography. Corners bumped, slight edge wear, back board bowed out a bit. Jacket shows slight edge wear. An attractive copy.

"A recent Newsweek poll reports that 76% of Americans believe in heaven. Yet even avid believers have difficulty conjuring up more than vague images of halos, harps, and wispy angels in flowing robes.. Anthony DeStefano knew there had to be a more complete, meaningful vision of what heaven is like, and A Travel Guide to Heaven is the entertaining and enlightening result."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Alaska Challenge

By: Clarke, Tom E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Lothrop Lee & Shepard : 1960

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 005890

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Blue cloth boards. DJ in protective wrap taped to boards. Ex-library with usual stamps. Text is clean and bright. "It had started out to be a miserable summer for Jerry Nelson - with his father in the hospital recovering from an automobile accident and his mother so worried about him - and about finances, too. And Jerry only adding to her worries! At least, that was the way it looked the night he was picked up in a car driven by a hot-rodding friend and escorted home by the police. And then the embarrassment of finding his Uncle Ed there in the living room with his mother - well, th...
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An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park

By: Roosevelt, Elliott; Brough, James

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons : 1973

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 007476

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Orange cloth with black lettering, x + 338 pp, index, 8 pp of b/w photos. Spine a bit cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. Jacket has minor edge wear, mostly at top and base of spine, and a little rubbing. A nice copy.

"An Untold Story" follows the lives of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt through their fascinating disparate lives. Written by their third son Elliott, there are familial insights and comments that put new light on these two people who have such a prominent place in our country's history.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Balance of Power

By: Patterson, Richard North

Price: $11.95

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books : 2003

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 007315

ISBN-13: 9780345450173

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Dark blue boards, 611 pp. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear primarily at top and base of spine. Jacket has a little rubbing and edge wear, also primarily at top and base of spine. A nice copy. Conclusion to the Kerry Kilcannon trilogy, which includes "No Safe Place" and "Protect and Defend." President Kerry Kilcannon and his fiancee, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a letha burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering ...
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Bear Island

By: MacLean, Alistair

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1971

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 006540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Green cloth with silver lettering, 273 pp. Spine slanted, corners bumped, a little edge wear, 1" strip of pastedown near the hinges are faded. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. Jacket in new Brodart, spine sunned, a little edge wear and small tear at upper front corner. A nice copy. "October is no time to be aboard ship in the Barents Sea, 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. But that's where the cast and crew of Olympus Productions find themselves. And even before they reach their destination, the ship's doctor has his hands full. Three men are violently murdered, and...
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Bloodhound (Beka Cooper Book Two)

By: Pierce, Tamora

Price: $14.75

Publisher: New York, Random House : 2009

Edition: Fourth Printing

Seller ID: 9397

ISBN-13: 9780375814693

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Black boards with silver lettering, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, dent to bottom edge. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear. An attractive copy. ; 7" - 9" Tall; 551 pages; "Beka Cooper is no longer a Puppy. She's a Dog now - a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, which keeps the peace in Corus's streets. Beka's natural skills of observation and tenacity are augmented by her unusual magical talents, which allow her to gather information both from pigeons and from the eddies of dirt and dust that swirl on street corners. But even her magic isn't very usefu...
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Brazen Virtue

By: Roberts, Nora

Price: $6.45

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books : 2001

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 002587

ISBN-13: 9780553802122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Spine very slightly slanted, minor shelfwear, minor rubbing on cover. DJ has minor shelfwear and two tiny tears. A bright, attractive copy. "Superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe needs to unwind after a grueling book tour, and visiting her sister, whom she hasn’t seen in months, seems the perfect solution. But Grace is surprised to find the fastidious Kathleen living in a grungy Washington, DC neighborhood. Kathleen, reeling from a bitter divorce and the loss of her son, is saving every penny of her teacher’s salary to hire a hotshot lawyer for a custody battle. Then Grace discover...
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Brother Cadfael's Penance (Brother Cadfael Mystery Series #20)

By: Peters, Ellis

Price: $15.95

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press : 1994

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 007419

ISBN-13: 9780892965991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Black over blue boards, gold lettering, 292 pp. Spine slightly cocked, front board bowed out slightly, binding tight, jacket has a little edge wear. A bright, attractive copy. Twentieth in the Brother Cadfael medieval mystery series. "A November filled with golden sunshine seemed a gentle ending to this year 1145, although England remained torn between Empress Maud and those who pledged allegiance to her cousin, Stephen. Yet for Brother Cadfael, this sweet autumn would bring a bitter harvest: a sudden, wrenching break with his life, an urgent search for a hostage of war, and a hunt for a...
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Call for the Dead

By: Le Carre, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Walker & Company : 1962

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 006808

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Blue cloth over brown boards, 128 pp., gold lettering on spine. Slight edge wear, binding tight except book opens to page 3. Jacket in new Brodart, plain blue and brown with brown and red lettering, a little edge wear, slight chipping at corners, 1/4" tear to base of back panel. An attractive copy of what appears to be an early book club printing. "John Le Carre's taut, coiled tale of cold-war espionage set in foggy London and introducing a hypnotically fascinating hero, George Smiley, short, fat, and unobtrusive-by all outward appearances a far too ordinary man to be what he really i...
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Cally's War

By: Ringo, John; Cochrane, Julie

Price: $24.50

Publisher: New York, Baen Books : 2004

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 005070

ISBN-13: 9780743488457

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, slight edge wear, a few pages with corners bumped. Jacket shows a little edge wear. An attractive copy. Sequel to the Posleen series about a future alien invasion of Earth. "For as long as Cally O'Neal could remember, she had lived in danger. While her father was fighting the invading Posteen she had been raised by her grandfather, practically on the front-lines of a war that had erased five billion humans from the earth. In the final stages she had officially 'died' and been recruited into the Bane Sidhe, a group of underground warriors dedicated to breaking th...
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Caravan to Vaccares

By: MacLean, Alistair

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company : 1970

Seller ID: 006508

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Black cloth with red and white lettering, 259 pp. Spine cocked, corners bumped, slight edge wear, some spotting to leading edge, binding fairly tight. Jacket in new Brodart, spine slightly sunned, a little soiling, slight edge wear primarily at top and base of spine. An attractive 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 c...
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Castle Light

By: McKenna, Evelyn

Price: $22.95

Publisher: New York, Avalon Books : 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003654

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Spine very slightly slanted, one corner bumped. DJ shows some minor edgewear. A bright, attractive copy. "Leslie Farlan was intrigued by her wealthy new employers, Curt and Cleo VanCampen. She was to accompany then and some friends and a young, handsome fellow employee, Ron Calvert, to the Cornish coast of England and act as nurse-companion to Cleo, a semi-invalid. What she had not been told was the purpose of the trip - to look for a treasure supposedly buried during World War II by the Nazis. . . Her first premonition of danger came when she spied the craggy, desolate coast. The wi...
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Chasing Dad

By: Flynt, Candice

Price: $11.50

Publisher: New York, The Dial Press : 1980

Edition: First Printing

Seller ID: 004390

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, board edges a little faded, PO names inside. DJ has minor edgewear. A clean, solid copy.

"A rich, deeply felt, affirmative book about a North Carolina family shattered by a son's suicide, finding its way to a new unity. It is, in particular, about the bonds between Merle Mitchell and his children, Jay and Craig; the burdens of guilt and unexpressed love; the inability of men to articulate feelings - except through actions that often come too late."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Childhood's End

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Ballantine Books : 1966

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 8388

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Pinkish red boards with black lettering, 220 pp. Corners bumped including top and base of spine, light speckling on top edge. Jacket in new Brodart, a little apparent damp staining along spine, minor chipping along edges including top and base of spine. Book club edition with a gutter code indicating printing date of May 1966. A nice copy of this science fiction classic. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 220 pages; "This is the story of the last generation of mankind on earth. In 1975 man's international armaments race is halted abruptly by ships from outer space which suddenly appear above ever...
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Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket