Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Barrier Island

By: MacDonald, John D.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated : 1986

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 004354

ISBN-13: 9780394554273

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine very slightly slanted, bookplate on free endpaper. DJ price-clipped, some edgewear, 3 small tears. Text is clean and bright.

"A gripping story about a multimillion-dollar land swindle-and the brave, stubborn man who uncovers it-in the fragile barrier islands off the Mississippi coast."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Cold Flat Junction

By: Grimes, Martha

Price: $8.25

Publisher: New York, Viking Press : 2001

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 006719

ISBN-13: 9780670894918

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted. DJ has edgewear and creasing at spine and flap ends and edgewear along flap edges. A bright, attractive copy. "Twelve-year-old Emma Graham, the heroine of Hotel Paradise, continues her compelling inquiry into the suspicious drowning 40 years ago of another twelve-year-old in Spirit Lake, near the Hotel Paradise, the once-fashionable resort belonging to the Graham family. Emma Graham's quirky, mysterious story is spun out of old secrets and varnished truths. She is determined to find answers to the questions that surround not only the 'accidental' drowning, but a...
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Conversations with Stalin

By: Djilas, Milovan

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. : 1962

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 005664

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

DJ has minor shelfwear at spine and flap ends. A very nice copy. "Conversations with Stalin is a unique book, at once an historical document and a personal drama. Milovan Djilas in his own character combines the roles of a famous participant and a profoundly literary observer of some of the most important events of our time [to] tell the story of Stalin seen by Communists as he wielded his power over men and nations. Djilas went to Moscow in 1944, 1945, and 1948 on missions from the Yugoslav Government, of which he was a leader second only to Tito. Each time he met with Stalin in the e...
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Costumes for Plays and Playing

By: Haley, Gail E.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Methuen : 1978

Seller ID: 004845

ISBN-13: 9780458935208

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

134 pp., bibliography, index, extensive illustrations. Spine slightly slanted, remainder mark on bottom, PO name inside. DJ has some small tears at spine and flap ends. Text is bright and attractive. This book "shows readers of varying abilities and ages how to improvise believable costumes from materials at hand in the home or at school. Besides Gail Haley's own simple step-by-step instructions and illustrations, the book contains old line drawings of authentic period costumes, as well as an extensive bibiolgraphy of source material to suggest to the reader where and how to authenticate...
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Draw Batons! (A Thane and Moss Mystery)

By: Knox, Bill

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1973

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002568

ISBN-13: 9780385036009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, corners slightly bumped, some darkening at edge of endpapers. DJ shows some bumping/edgewear along top with 1/4" tears at edge & spine. A bright, attractive copy. "Project Community was supposed to be an occasion for good will: a police-sponsored exhibition of the handiworks of Glasgow’s hobby clubs. But as Sergeant Francey Lang discovered when he was "inspecting" the vast model train layout, someone had used it as an occasion for murder. The victim was a used-car dealer, of considerably less than savory reputation, who seemed to devote most of his ...
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Last Things

By: Snow, C. P.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1970

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 006091

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Pale green cloth boards with gold lettering on a black background. A litle wear at corners. DJ spine sunned. Text is clean and bright. A nice copy. Last Things represents the completion of Snow's famous Strangers and Brothers sequence, carrying the life story of Lewis Eliot into the present and bringing together the major themes from the ten preceding novels, the first of which appeared in 1940. "In a chapter of extraordinary power, Lewis Eliot, lying near death, mercilessly examines himself and his past. [Last Things centers] on the relationship between Eliot and his son Charles, w...
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Life Is What Happens When You're Making Other Plans

By: Bloomingdale, Teresa

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1984

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 005954

ISBN-13: 9780385180641

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

214 pp. Red boards with gold lettering on spine. Front board has shallow indent. DJ has a few small tears. Text is bright, tight and clean. An attractive copy.

"What Teresa Bloomingdale says about the entertaining side of motherhood has tickled the funny bones of mothers (fathers, too!) all over the country. After ten children, it could be said that she knows a thing or two about raising a family. . . Now, the irrepressible Mrs. B. trades a mid-life crisis for a mid-life career [and] life's unexpected twists are no match for this lady."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Message from Malaga

By: MacInnes, Helen

Price: $10.95

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1971

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 006660

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

367 pp. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering. A little foxing along outer edges. DJ in new Brodart protective plactic wrap. DJ has very minor edgewear, and a little soiling on spine and flap edges. A nice copy.

"Sunny Spain and sudden death! Ian Ferrier was on vacation. For him Spain meant dancing girls, guitars, lazy days in the sun and most of all the reunion with his old friend Jeff Reid. It all looked so innocent. But it wasn't!"; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Mr. England: The Story of Winston Churchill the Fighting Briton

By: Manning, Paul; Bronner, Milton

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, John C. Winston Company : 1941

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004086

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

250 pp., index, 15 full-page black and white photographs. Spine very slightly slanted, very minor edgewear. Boards are red with black line drawing of family crest with words "Dieu, Defend, Le Droit." Calligraphic gift inscription inside dated Oct 22, 1941. DJ price-clipped, some edgewear including a few tiny chips at ends. Copy is clean and attractive. A biography of Winston Churchill written in the depths of World War II. The book is divided into four parts: a portrait of the man, his first period from childhood to the aftermath of World War I, his time "in the wilderness&...
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Mystery of the Limping Stranger

By: Faulkner, Nancy

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1967

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Very slight edgewear along bottom, bookplate on pastedown. DJ spine is sunned, with some small tears and chips at spine ends. Text is bright and clean. "Marny first befriended Cephas Hoffman because she was bored; he was certainly a diverting curiosity, what with his old-fashioned clothes, his uncut hair, and his absolutely outrageous-sounding father. But to Marny's delighted surprise he was more than a curiosity; she found she liked him very much. With a new and interested friend on hand, the rest of the summer would not be nearly so lonely - nor so boring. It was so nice to have a c...
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Proof

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $12.75

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1985

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 005482

ISBN-13: 9780399130366

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Slight spine slant, corners bumped, slight edge wear, binding tight. Jacket has a little edge wear with some chipping at top of spine, some rubbing, faint outline of a price sticker on front above author's name. A nice copy. "Wine merchant Tony Beach is no stranger to personal tragedy -- or to the world of fine vintage wines. But when hidden hit men literally -- and brutally -- crash a society party he has, as usual, expertly catered, Tony finds himself caught in the terrifying midst of a mystery that begins with sham scotch and counterfeit claret and escalates to hijacking and murder. St...
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Teen-Age Football Stories

By: Owen, Frank (Editor)

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : 1948

Seller ID: 006139

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

252 pp., orange boards with brown lettering. Spine very slightly slanted, very minor edgewear. DJ in protective Brodart plastic wrap. DJ has slight edgewear along bottom and a closed 1 1/2" tear, two very small chips in flap. A very well preserved, attractive copy.

A vintage collection published in 1948 of selected football stories targeted towards teenagers by H.C. McFadden, B.J. Chute, John Gartner, Russell Gordon Carter, Bob Eddy, William F. Strube, H.W. Sandberg, and John Everett Dodge.
Age Level: Young Adult; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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The Doorbell Rang

By: Stout, Rex

Price: $9.75

Publisher: New York, Viking Press : 1965

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 007027

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Red boards with black lettering, 186 pp. Slight spine slant, corners bumped, slight edge wear, binding fairly tight. Jacket in new Brodart, spine sunned, a little edge wear especially to top and base of spine, a couple small tears at top of front panel, a little rubbing. A nice copy. "A very rich woman comes to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, claiming that she is being harrassed by the FBI. She reports that agents are following her and members of her family, her wires are being tapped, and her privacy is being otherwise invaded. She demands that Wolfe help her to find relief and offers him...
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The Firebrand

By: Bradley, Marion Zimmer

Price: $9.90

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004826

ISBN-13: 9780671641771

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Corners slightly bumped. DJ has long tear in back repaired with tape, 1/4" tear at bottom of spine. Remainder mark. A bright, attractive copy.

Bradley reimagines the Trojan War story from the perspective of Kassandra, "the beautiful and tormented royal princess of Troy."; Remainder; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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The Flame Bearers

By: Chernin, Kim

Price: $6.40

Publisher: New York, Random House Inc : 1986

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003334

ISBN-13: 9780394556499

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Very minor shelfwear, faint stain at bottom edge, PO's name on free endpaper. DJ has some edgewear and a few small tears carefully repaired inside with tape. A bright, attractive copy.

"A mythic tale of madness and magical portents, of family rivalry and eternal kinship, The Flame Bearers is the story of an ancient goddess-worshipping sect and its claims on a contemporary woman."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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The Girl Inside

By: Eyerly, Jeannette

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company : 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002825

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

PO's name on pastedown. DJ has minor edgewear, three 1/2" closed tears & a 1" chip missing at top of spine. A bright, attractive copy. "Christina had not slept, although hours had passed since Miss King, the nurse on night duty, had come popping into the room and handed her a blue and white sleeping pill. Remembering, arranging and rearranging the pieces of her shattered life was what she had done every night since her father’s death so soon after that of her mother. She remembered one such night that had ended in an attempt to take her own life—the night that had brought her to...
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The Living Past of America: A Pictorial Treasury of Our Historic Houses and Villages That Have Been Preserved and Restored

By: Vanderbilt, Cornelius Jr.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers : 1955

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 004856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

234 pp. Very slight edgewear. DJ price-clipped, some edgewear including small tears at spine and flap ends. Text is clean and unmarked and extensively illustrated with hundreds of black and white photographs. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. "Here is a fascinating new kind of history, a de luxe, useful volume on the American way of life. It presents a clear view of the American past, as seen through its many landmarks that symbolize our heritage from bygone days, and are identified with our history. There are several thousand such places, and from the most important o...
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The Main Experiment

By: Hodder-Williams, Christopher

Price: $4.90

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1964

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 003305

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Back board has one tiny chip on bottom edge. DJ shows edgewear and a few very tiny chips. A bright, attractive copy. "When Martin Higgs arrives at the Hadley Plant nuclear station, he has little idea of the real reasons underlying his appointment to take charge of one of the plant’s sub-projects. Brilliant in his work but socially clumsy and romantically inept, he is faced not only by unexplained mysteries surrounding the main experiment bye also by the disturbing presence of Sally Parks, his secretary and daughter of the eccentric and powerful Lord Honiton. Very soon his immediate an...
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The Man Who Loved God (Father Koesler Mystery Ser., No. 19)

By: Kienzle, William X.

Price: $6.45

Publisher: Kansas City, MO, Andrews McMeel Publishing : 1997

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 002564

ISBN-13: 9780836227543

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, small check on front endpaper. DJ has some bumping/edgewear, small chip at bottom of spine. A bright, attractive copy. "An unplanned, unwanted pregnancy. The grand opening of a branch bank in a dangerous part of town. A vacation for Father Robert Koesler. Half-brothers who have never met, one a visiting priest, the other a hometown cop. A dinner party with unsuspecting guests. A philanthropic bank president described as a man who loves God. In The Man Who Loved God Father Koesler goes on vacation, leaving his parish and the sleuthing to the visiting Father Z...
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The Monster Makers: Creators and Creations of Fantasy and Horror

By: Haining, Peter (editor)

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Taplinger Pub Co : 1974

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 003366

ISBN-13: 9780800853242

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Minor shelfwear, small spot at top edge. DJ has small tears/chip along edges, some wear on back. A bright, attractive copy.

"Mr. Haining introduces his latest supernatural anthology devoted to the fascinating subject of monster-makers and their creations. Introduced with helpful biographical notes, the eminent contributors include Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, and Isaac Asimov."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket