Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

A Texas Sky (Yellow Rose Trilogy - Large Print)

By: Wick, Lori

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Eugene, Oregon, Bookspan : 2000

Edition: Large Print Edition

Seller ID: 003257

ISBN-13: 9780739414200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped, small dampstain at base of spine inside jacket and to rear pastedown. Text not affected. A bright, attractive copy. Large print edition of the second book in the Yellow Rose trilogy. "Injured Texas Ranger Dakota Rawlings is eager to return to his dangerous profession, but his boss won't hear of it. Instead, he wants Dakota to escort his niece, Darvi, on a trip to visit a friend. Dakota is not pleased-but he and Darvi take an instant liking to one another and sparks begin to fly. However, events take an unexpected turn when Darvi is kidnapped in a case of mistaken ident...
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Bertie and the Seven Bodies

By: Lovesey, Peter

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press : 1990

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 002572

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Ex-library with usual stamps. DJ in protective cover taped to spine. DJ has 1/2" tear on top edge. A bright attractive copy. "Albert Edward, Prince of Wales—bon viveur, playboy, sportsman, "Bertie" to his uppercrust pals—who made his detective debut in Bertie and the Tinman—is off and running with a new and baffling adventure. The prince is pleased to accept the invitation of Lady Amelia Drummond to an October shooting party at her country home. Desborough Hall is one of the great houses of England, the guest list is to his liking—and Lady Amelia herself is a fun-loving y...
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Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

By: Monette, Paul

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Orlando, Florida, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004388

ISBN-13: 9780151135981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted. DJ has thin sun line across top edge. A bright, atractive copy. "Roger Horwitz and Paul Monnette met in the mid-70s in Boston and moved together to Los Angeles, where, a decade later, Roger was diagnosed with AIDS, For almost two years, day and night, Paul helped his 'beloved friend' fight the disease. From the quiet onset of the illness, through the terrifying battery of ailments, hospitalizations, and experimental treatments, up until Roger's final blindness and death, the story is told without sentimentality or sensationalism. 'We never lost the will to win...
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Choosers of the Slain

By: Cobb, James H.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 006936

ISBN-13: 9780399141973

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Quarter blue cloth over purple boards, 339 pp. Corners slightly bumped, a little edge wear. Jacket in new Brodart with slight edge wear. An attractive copy of author's first novel. "A powerful scenario on the cutting edge of technology, Choosers of the Slain is set in the near future, in the icy waters of the desolate Antarctic. A lone British outpost is taken over by Argentinian forces. The world's only immediate defense is the USS Cunningham, America's first stealth warship. Its female commander is untested in battle. So begins the ultimate showdown -- a white-knuckled adventure of new ...
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Clear and Present Danger

By: Clancy, Tom

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, NY, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1989

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 000689

ISBN-13: 9780399134401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Jacket shows some ordinary shelf wear. Book Club edition. A few pages with minor dents at top or bottom edges. "At what point does criminal activity threaten national security? When can a nation respond to it as to an enemy? These are the questions Jack Ryan must consider when he hears the awful news: Columbian drug lords, tired of being harassed by U.S. law enforcement agents, have assassinated three high American officials, and that is just the beginning. The message is clear: Leave us alone. But they have pushed too far. Someone steps quietly over the line they have drawn, deploying c...
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Come to Grief

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $9.75

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

Seller ID: 005484

ISBN-13: 9780399140822

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Slight spine slant, slight edge wear, binding tight. Jacket shows slight edge wear and rubbing. A bright, attractive copy. "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. ...
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Daddy Boy

By: Cameron, Carey

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books : 1989

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003566

ISBN-13: 9780912697840

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Corners slightly bumped, jacket shows very slight edge wear. A clean, tight copy. "Daddy Boy is that rare thing - a lyrical first novel that rocks with laughter. . . The novel's beguiling voice belongs to Robin D., who tells the story of growing up between her warring eccentric parents. Robin's early perceptions are vivid and detailed - and hilariously innocent of interpretation. There was the inevitable divorce and the custody battle. Now there are two houses to call home. . . Carey Cameron's is an unusual literary gift that combines a light touch with deep insight. She has used these...
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Deadly Pursuit

By: Miller, Marcia

Price: $22.95

Publisher: New York, Avalon Books : 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003656

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Small spot at top edge. DJ in Plasti-Kleer Jacket Cover as issued, small crease at bottom corner of front flap. A bright, attractive copy.

"The nightmare began on the night of Amanda Hill's party in honor of Griff Baxter, a well-known writer. But neither Blair Conover nor her friend Susie Vincent was aware of the shadow of danger hovering over them. For poor Susie, that signal of danger foreshadowed her death, and for Blair it plunged her into a series of incidents that showed plainly that someone was in deadly pursuit of her."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Deathstar Voyage

By: Wallace, Ian

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1969

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 003308

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Spine somewhat slanted, minor shelfwear. DJ shows very slight edgewear. A bright, attractive copy. "Welcome to Frolic Street, the bizarre thoroughfare atop the kilometer-long spaceship on which the entire action of this book takes place. It is a futuristic combination of Carnaby Street, a flea market, and Coney Island. Among its incredible shops is a watch-maker’s where time runs backward, and among its picturesque, milling crowds is a would-be- assassin. Join King Shavar, ruler of the distant planet Ligeria, to which the spaceship is headed, as he strolls along Frolic Street. With hi...
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Favorite Sons

By: Russell, John

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books : 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004361

ISBN-13: 9780945575368

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Gift inscription inside from a childhood friend of the author. DJ price-clipped. A bright atractive copy. "At the center of Favorite Sons are two men, friends and rivals --- industrialist Roger Albright, the last hope of a famous but impoverished old family, and Senator Worth Patterson, heir to a railroad fortune, to the manner born. This is their story, but it is also the story of the woman they both want, of the South they hope to change, and of the sons and daughters who seek to succeed where the parents failed. Set against them is the forbidding figure of Joe Crain, a media genius...
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Flying to Valhalla

By: Pellegrino, Charles R.

Price: $11.75

Publisher: New York, Morrow/Avon : 1993

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002931

ISBN-13: 9780688125066

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped. Jacket shows slight edge wear. A bright, attractive copy. "At the midpoint of the 21st century, as the relativistic spacecraft Valkyrie approaches the inhabited fourth world of Alpha Centauri A, the masters on Earth harbor grave fears about the mission's outcome. Transmissions from Chris Wayville, the male half of the husband and wife team manning Valkyrie, have revealed that the man who may control the destiny of an alien planet, and perhaps his homeworld's as well, is quite possible insane. In a moment of weakness, the Wayvilles will bring crisi...
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Grievance : A Rugs Carlucci Novel

By: Constantine, K. C.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Mysterious Press : 2000

Edition: Likely Book Club

Seller ID: 001974

ISBN-13: 9780892966486

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Spine a bit slanted, jacket shows slight edge wear. A clean, attractive copy.

"Class war writ in blood colors the Rocksburg streets. . . A brutal regimen of down-sizing had shut down steel production and eliminated 2/3 of the factory's workforce-a policy enforced by steel magnate J.D. Lyons. If Lyons accomplished his business objectives, he has since paid the ultimate price. For J.D. Lyons has just been found in the trunk of his Jaguar, bent over a bag of golf clubs and sporting a small-caliber bullet wound at the base of his skull."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

By: Rowling, J. K.

Price: $290.00

Publisher: New York, Arthur A. Levine Books : 1998

Edition: Third Printing

Seller ID: 9241

ISBN-13: 9780590353403

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Red cloth over purple boards (with diamond pattern). No 'No. 1' or 'J K' on spine or jacket, 3rd printing. Corners bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear and rubbing. A bright attractive copy of this early printing. ; First in the immensely popular series. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 309 pages; "Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon. . . ...
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Harvard Med: The Story Behind America's Premier Medical School and the Making of America's Doctors

By: Langone, John

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers : 1995

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003335

ISBN-13: 9780517593066

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Very minor edgewear. A bright, attractive copy. "The great white marble quadrangle of buildings that comprise the physical heart of the Harvard School of Medicine is perfectly emblematic of a secular temple of medical science. But behind its gleaming facade, a richly complex human drama is played out year after year, little of which is seen by the world that regards Harvard Med as the greatest center of medical education and research in this country. John Langone, who has had a lifelong interest in and familial and journalistic ties to the school, has done a revealing, unauthorized (...
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Her Own Place

By: Sanders, Dori

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books : 1993

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003570

ISBN-13: 9781565120273

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Corners slightly bumped, jack shows some minor edge wear. Text block is square but front board is wider than the back, giving the appearance of a spine slant. Errata sheet for page 218 laid in. A tight, attractive copy. "The only child of South Carolina tenant farmers and still in her teens when she marries, Mae Lee Barnes saves her wages from a job at a munitions plant, buys farmland of her own, and waits for her husband's return from WW II. He returns. Then he departs, returns, departs. Eventually he is gone for good, but not until Mae Lee is left with five children to raise and a far...
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L Is for Lawless (Kinsey Millhone Mystery Ser.)

By: Grafton, Sue

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company, Inc. : 1995

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002412

ISBN-13: 9780805019377

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, jacket shows slight edge wear. A bright, attractive copy. "Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack, In a matter of weeks the court's statute of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acquitted him of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now Kingman, acting as attorney for the dead woman's ex-husband and their child (and sure that the jury made a serious m...
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Last Lessons of Summer (signed)

By: Maron, Margaret

Price: $23.50

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press : 2003

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 005298

ISBN-13: 9780892967803

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Purchased new, never read. A little edge wear along top edge. Signed by author on title page. "In the suffocating heat of a Southern August, Amy Steadman, heir to a merchandising and publishing empire, has come to clean out the house of her murdered grandmother - and perhaps find some answers. Beneath her quiet, accommodating manner, a storm is brewing. "For here in this gracious home, Amy's own mother had committed suicide when her daughter was barely three years old. The tragedy put an end to her mother's turbulent marriage to Amy's father. But the secrets surrounding her mother's ...
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Leviathan

By: Davis, John Gordon

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co : 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004914

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Review Copy. Faint foxing along edges. DJ in protective wraps NOT taped to boards. Pastedowns have diagram of the Soviet ship "Slave." A bright, attractive copy.

Story of one man's quest to save the great whales from extinction by sinking the Soviet factory ship Slava on which the whales are butchered.; Review Copy; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Liberty in Expansion, 1760-1850

By: Handlin, Lilian; Handlin, Oscar

Price: $9.75

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited : 1989

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002969

ISBN-13: 9780060390921

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

xiv + 481 pp., notes, index. Ex-library w/ usual marks. DJ in protective wrap taped to boards, very minor shelfwear. A bright, attractive copy. This second volume of 'Liberty in Expansion' encompases "the ground-breaking decades between 1760 and 1850, a time when the expanding new nation began probing its relationship to liberty. Such momentous events as the American Revolution and the formation of republican governments, economic growth and humanitarian reform, and changes in family life and personal character are viewed in the context of their time, rather than how they appear in re...
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M Is for Malice

By: Grafton, Sue

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Co : 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003718

ISBN-13: 9780805036374

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Corners very slightly bumped, minor shelfwear. DJ shows very slight shelfwear at ends of spine. A bright, attractive copy. "M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands. "M" is for the Malek family: four sons now nearing middle age who stand to inherit a fortune-four men with very different outlooks, temperaments, and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them-angry, trouble...
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Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket