Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

A Man of Double Deed

By: Daventry, Leonard

Price: $7.25

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1965

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 003281

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Minor shelfwear, spotting on pp.28-9. DJ shows very minor edgewear w/ a few tiny chips and one tiny tear. A bright, attractive copy. "A cataclysm greater than the shattering Atomic Disaster of 1990 threatens the citizens of the 21st century. The world is living in fear of the wanton bands of youths roaming the vast cities and terrorizing without purpose. There is no protection from the malicious homicide, the savage violence, or the senseless suicide that is being committed. The World Government Committee is being pressed to immediate action by the corrupt and the honest. But it is ...
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A Study in Boss Politics: William Lorimer of Chicago

By: Tarr, Joel A.

Price: $19.75

Publisher: Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press : 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 005318

ISBN-13: 9780252001390

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

xi + 376 pp, Black cloth with gold lettering, index, bibliography, a number of tables and charts, 16 pp. of b/w photos. Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, a little edge wear, a little foxing to top and leading edges, top corner of front end paper (1/3") torn off. Jacket shows a little edge wear, some rubbing and soiling. A nice copy. "Government was meant to be exploited, to advance the individual and aid the machine. The machine offered its followers material success without insisting upon middle-class morality. It accepted the immigrant as he was, asking only that in return for...
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African Trio (Talatala, Tropic Moon, Aboard the Aquitaine)

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1979

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 9478

ISBN-13: 9780151039555

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

As a May Morning

By: Hogarth, Grace Allen

Price: $9.75

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company : 1958

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003048

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, 2 tiny spots on front board, minor shelfwear, PO's name on free endpaper. DJ has 2 small closed tears, tiny chips at top and bottom of spine & flaps. Text is bright and attractive. "To 17-year-old Jenny MacArthur, life seemed full of difficulties and disappointments that could only be borne because in her secret heart she was deeply in love--for the first time--with Ben Adams, an American exchange student whom her brother John had brought home for a visit. Though Ben had now returned to America and sent only an occasional post card or breezy note, Jenny was not d...
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Bolt

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $9.75

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

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 005480

ISBN-13: 9780399132261

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine a bit slanted, backstrip curved in slightly, corners bumped, slight edge wear, a little foxing to leading and bottom edges (not affecting text), binding tight. Jacket has minor edge wear especially at top of spine, a little rubbing and soiling, a bit of creasing along bottom and top edges. An attractive copy. 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 ever...
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Boy’s Choice: A New Book of Stories

Price: $6.75

Publisher: London, Golden Pleasure Books Ltd. : 1967

Seller ID: 002824

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Pp. 221-252 are bound in upside down w/ paperclip indentation on these pages. DJ has considerable edgewear w/ chips and small tears, 1 1/2" crease on back. A bright, unmarked copy.

A collection of exciting stories for boys including sea stories, spy stories and other adventure stories in settings close to home as well as in faraway exotic places.
Age Level: Grades 4-8; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Buddy at Red Gate (Buddy Series #17)

By: Garis, Howard R.

Price: $17.75

Publisher: New York, Cupples & Leon Company : 1941

Edition: Early Reprint

Seller ID: 006553

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

209 pp., red boards with black lettering and oval picture on front board with boy with his hands in his pockets in foreground and house and boy in background. Back board slightly bowed, corners a bit bumped, minor edgewear. DJ in new Brodart protective plastic wrap. DJ has a 1" tear as well as some edgewear and a few tiny chips, and light soiling on back. Pages are starting to brown in the margins. Lists to this title (#17 in series) on copyright page and to #20 "Buddy and the G-Man Mystery" (copyright date 1944) on the front flap. A nice copy. From the front flap: "You ...
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Charity Girl

By: Heyer, Georgette

Price: $31.00

Publisher: Toronto, Bodley Head : 1970

Edition: First Canadian Edition

Seller ID: 006405

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

First Canadian edition, 254 pp, orange cloth with gold lettering on spine. Spine slightly slanted, just a bit of edge wear. Jacket in protective Brodart, minor edge wear with a little chipping at top and base of spine and a couple small, nearly closed tears. A little rubbing, spine sunned, price sticker near top of front inside flap. An attractive copy. "The Viscount thought he had seldom seen a more pathetic picture. Not only was Cherry Steane's countenance woebegone, but the shoes and the hem of the duffle cloak she wore were sadly muddied. She looked to be hot, tired and despairing. ...
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Circus

By: MacLean, Alistair

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1975

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 003727

ISBN-13: 9780449228753

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine somewhat slanted, very slight shelfwear, some foxing along edges. Pastedown has map of Lubylan Prison and laboratories. DJ has minor edgewear with three 1/4" tears. Text is clean and unmarked. "When circus aerialist and mentalist Bruno Wildermann is recruited by the CIA for a mission that only someone of his incredible talents could undertake, he is aware that he holds the key to the world's survival in his hands. His assignment is to break into the infamous Lubylan prison in Eastern Europe where a deadly secret is hidden -- a formula capable of annihilating the earth itself. ...
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Clouds of Witness & the Unpleasantness At the Bellona Club

By: Sayers, Dorothy L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row

Edition: Book Club Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 9209

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Light brown boards with dark brown lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear and chipping, spine a bit sunned. An attractive copy. ; Book Club # 9069, no publication date listed. A Dorothy Sayers duo. ; Lord Peter Wimsey; Book Club Edition; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 409 pages; Clouds of Witness: "Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thrill of the hunt -- until the game turned up human and quite dead. He lay among the chrysanthemums, wore slippers and a dinner jacket, and was ...
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Conan: The People of the Black Circle (The Authorized Edition)

By: Howard, Robert E. (edited By Karl Edward Wagner)

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York, Berkley Publishing Corporation : 1977

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 006178

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

215 pp., frontispiece and full-page illustrations. Spine slightly slanted, top corner bumped, foxing along edges. DJ shows some edgewear including 2 small chips at spine. A nice, attractive copy. Edited and with an introduction by Karl Edward Wagner, this is billed as "The Authorized Edition" -- as opposed to the series published in the 1960s by Lancer, which had a little editing done to the stories. This is the 2nd volume. "Each volume includes, from the pages of 'Weird Tales', the unaltered words of the greatest master of heroic fantasy, Robert E. Howard . . . with some of t...
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Fade to Black: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

By: Goldsborough, Robert

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books : 1990

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 9240

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Black over red cloth, gold lettering. Corners dented, a little edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, minor edge wear with a little chipping at corners. A nice copy. ; Fifth in Robert Goldsborough's continuation of the Nero Wolfe mystery series. ; Nero Wolfe; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 213 pages; "Whether it's a case of soda or a case of industrial espionage, soft drinks have never been Nero Wolfe's cup of tea. So only with great reluctance - and considerable prodding from Archie Goodwin - does the legendary sleuth agree to investigate the apparent theft of ad campaigns for Cherr-O-...
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Field of Thirteen

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $9.75

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

Edition: Large Print Edition

Seller ID: 007308

ISBN-13: 9780739401194

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Corners bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear and rubbing, small edge tears at top of spine. A nice copy of the Doubleday Direct Large Print Edition. "In this superbly crafted collection of short stories-many of them new and never before published-the settings range from a spring race meeting at Cheltenham, England, where a middle-aged owner falls hopelessly in love with her jockey, to the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, where demon drink and wilting willpower take their toll. Dick Francis's fans have a wonderful treat in store: thirteen tightly knotted ...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $325.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1940

Seller ID: 8642

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Tan cloth with black lettering, 471 pp. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing, some discoloration to pastedowns, owner's name on front end paper. Jacket in new Brodart cover, some chipping along top and bottom edges and front flap edge. Chip at bottom of back panel near spine and chips at top and base of spine, jacket a bit sunned. Overall, a nice copy. ; First edition with 'A' on copyright page and no photographer's name on back panel. ; 7 ¾" X 9 ¾"; 471 pages; "A novel of wartime Spain, in which a young American and a Spanish girl live a lifetime of love and courage in fou...
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Home is the Heart

By: Fitzwater, Lorenda Dodd

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press : 1962

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003266

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, browning to edges and margins of text - text is clean and unmarked. Jacket shows minor edge wear with small chipping along edges, folds for flaps are worn with several holes, some darkening, rubbing. A fairly tight, attractive copy in a nice jacket. Author's first novel. "World War II England, 1943. John Elliott Lawrence, of the U.S. Armed Forces, assigned to censoring the letters written by fellow servicemen, finds himself reading two letters written by a friend . . . and realizes that he is in sole possession of a secret that can change the lives of four people ...
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Injury Time

By: Aird, Catherine

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, MacMillan : 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 9172

ISBN-13: 9780333625897

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Blue cloth with gold lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear and rubbing. A bright, attractive copy. ; Anthology of 16 of Catherine Aird's short stories. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 168 pages; "Who poisoned Anna Macmillan with a deadly dose of antimony? What caused the temperature of a health club sauna to rise so dramatically that its occupant was dead withing minutes? Where are the priceless pearls which vanished during a country house weekend and how was the code to an eminent scientist's high-tech alarm system broken on the day...
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Jack of All Trades

By: Underhill, Liz

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Boston, David R. Godine, Publisher : 1985

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 004580

ISBN-13: 9780879235819

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, small dent on bottom edge. Pictorial boards with same picture as DJ. DJ has single 2" tear on back wrap. A bright, attractive copy.

The story in rhyme of young "practical pup" Jack Russell's search for a job. "A lawyer? A gardener, or perhaps a bank manager? Or what about a fisherman or teacher? The characters themselves are, of course, all animals, marvelous in their detail and expressions." Beautiful full-color illustrations by the author.
Age Level: Preschool Read Aloud through Grade 1; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Quest (1712-1758) (Vol. I): A New Interpretative Analysis of His Life and Works

By: Crocker, Lester G.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan : 1974

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 004480

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Corners & bottom of spine a little worn. DJ has a few shallow chips at spine and flap ends, two 1/2" tears. Text is clean and unmarked. "Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Quest is Part One of a proposed two-volume critical biography of the eighteenth-century French political and social philosopher whose Confessions and other personal writings have left their mark on the consciences and literature of later generations. It is the first Rousseau biography to benefit from the recent publication of the multi-volumed Rousseau correspondence, a major event in modern Rousseau scholarship.; 8vo -...
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Killer Market (A Deborah Knott Mystery)

By: Maron, Margaret

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press : 1997

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 004143

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Corners bumped, slight edge wear with a couple small dents to bottom edge. Jacket shows a little edge wear with a couple small tears to top edge, a little rubbing. An attractive copy. Fifth Deborah Knott mystery. "Arriving in High Point, NC to substitute for a vacationing colleague, Judge Deborah Knott finds there is no room at the inn, the Radisson, or anywhere else. The International Home Furnishings Market, with the largest assortment of furniture and home decorations in the world, has taken over the town and left the judge hanging. All Deborah wants is a bed for the night, not thou...
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Longshot

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1990

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 005483

ISBN-13: 9780399135811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Slight spine slant, corners bumped, a little edge wear, small dampstain on bottom edge acjacent to spine, text not affected. Binding tight. Jacket has slight edge wear, a little rubbing. A nice copy. "John Kendall is a writer whose books run the gamut from travel guides to manuals on safety in the jungle and the desert. His agent touts him as inquisitive and capable, but he knows that his client has a strong impulsive streak. When John, in the hungry interval between the acceptance and the publication of his first novel, turns to work that will at least pay the bills, the decision seems...
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Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket