Condition: Very Good-

A Descriptive Model for Determining Optimal Human Performance in Systems, Volume I (NASA CR-976)

By: Wulff, J. Jepson; Leonard, Jon N.; Pixley, Alden F.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Aeronautics and Space Administration : 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004020

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

159 pp., mathematical formulae, 9 figures, references. A NASA Contractor Report in green wraps. Some edgewear, 1/4" tear along edge, bottom edge sunned.

Part A: "A Simple Model of a Man-Machine Development Cycle."
Part B: "A Simple Calculus for Discrete Systems."; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories

By: Butler, Robert Olen

Price: $6.50

Publisher: E Rutherford, New Jersey, Penguin Books : 1993

Seller ID: 005539

ISBN-13: 9780140176643

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize. Minor edgewear/bumping, spots on p. 103. A nice copy. "The unspoken legacy of the Vietnam War - the ordeals of the Vietnamese - is powerfully evoked in these fifteen stories, each narrated in a different voice. Old or young, humble or arrogant, puzzled or proud, these are characters for whom the absurdities of contemporary American popular culture and searing memories of war uneasily coexist. Blending Vietnamese folklore and American realities, lyric, dreamlike passages and comic turns, Butler creates a panoramic tapestry of a people struggling to fi...
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A Holiday for Murder

By: Christie, Agatha

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books : 1962

Edition: Fourth Printing

Seller ID: 8973

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine slanted, somewhat creased, light reading crease, a little edge wear and rubbing. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ; Bantam J2423, 167 pp. ; Hercule Poirot; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 167 pages; "It started when wealthy Simeon Lee called his sons and their wives together on Christmas Eve and told them he was drawing up a new will. It ended horribly a few hours later as his children sat around the dinner table-their meal interrupted by a blood-chilling scream coming from the old man's bedroom. . . For the visiting Hercule Poirot, it would be no holiday from murd...
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A Stranger's Glance (Harlequin Romance #2986 06/89)

By: Marchant, Jessica

Price: $2.35

Publisher: New York, Harlequin Books : 1989

Seller ID: 000381

ISBN-13: 9780373029860

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine/covers show a little creasing. Slight shelf wear.

"Gemma didn't want a husband . . . but she did want a child. And Bart Rule, Gemma decided, was the perfect candidate for the father.
It was going to be tricky, though. Bart was a wealthy man, frequently pursued by fortune hunters. Gemma would have to make it very clear she was not after his money or his name. She would pretend to be an experienced woman of the world . . . Bart would be just another in the string.
Then her devious little plan began to backfire . . ."; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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A Suitable Match (Harlequin Romance #3131 06/91)

By: Neels, Betty

Price: $2.95

Publisher: New York, Harlequin Books : 1991

Edition: 27th Edition; 1st Harlequin printing

Seller ID: 007904

ISBN-13: 9780373031313

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine a bit creased, slanted, a little edge wear, names inked inside cover, binding fairly tight. A little tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "'Don't worry,' Colin said. 'It will work out perfectly.' Eustacia wasn't sure whether he meant the wedding arrangements or their future life together. She didn't know him well enough to even guess. it was a marriage of convenience, after all, not a love match. Colin had made it clear that he wanted a down-to-earth partner to help him care for his brother's orphaned children - not a dreamy girl with her head full of romance. ...
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet Series # 3)

By: L'Engle, Madeleine

Price: $5.75

Publisher: New York, Yearling : 1990

Edition: Thirtieth Printing

Seller ID: 9362

ISBN-13: 9780440401582

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Corners bumped, slight edge wear, a little cover creasing. A nice copy. ; Winner of the National Book Award in 1980. ; Time Quintet; 6" - 7" Tall; 278 pages; "In this companion volume to A Wrinkle in Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind in the Door, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg - grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother...
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A Wind in the Door

By: L'Engle, Madeline

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, A Yearling Book : 1997

Edition: Forty-Third Printing

Seller ID: 9268

ISBN-13: 9780440487616

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. An attractive copy. ; Commemorative edition with an introduction by Madeline L'Engle and a "L'Engle Family Tree", which lists major characters in many of her novels, grouped by series. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 211 pages; An encounter with "An entity, a being stranger by far than dragons. . . Is only the first step that leads Meg Murry, Calvin Murry, and Mr. Jenkins [their principal] out into galactic space, and then into the unimaginably small world of a mitochondrion. And, at last, safe...
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Adventures of the Greek Heroes

By: McLean, Mollie; Wilseman, Anne

Price: $5.75

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1961

Edition: Seventh Printing

Seller ID: 003341

ISBN-13: 9780395137147

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine slightly slanted, reading crease along spine, some edgewear, corners bumped/creased. A clean, unmarked copy. A pronouncing index is included.

Tales of Greek heroes from mythology: Hercules, Perseus, Theseus, Orpheus, Meleager, and the Argonauts. Black & white illustrations by Witold T. Mars.
Age Level: Grades 3-7; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Agent of Vega

By: Schmitz, James H.

Price: $4.35

Publisher: New York, Permabook : 1962

Edition: First Paperback Edition

Seller ID: 8735

Binding: Mass Market paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine a bit slanted and creased, reading crease, minor edge wear, crease across bottom corners, some darkening and soiling to covers, store stamp on front end paper. Some tanning but text is clean and unmarked. Overall a solid copy. ; Permabooks M-4242, first paperback printing. The title story originally appeared in Astounding in 1949. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 185 pages; "'Having a Daya-Bal as a Zone Agent makes me extremely uneasy,' the Executive Scientist said. 'Especially when she's given one of your ultimate space ships. ' "'I can vouch for her,' the Galactic Co-ordinator said c...
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Alfred Hitchcock's 14 Suspense Stories to Play Russian Roulette By

By: Hitchcock, Alfred (editor)

Price: $5.95

Publisher: New York, Dell Publishing : 1964

Edition: New Dell Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 9298

Binding: Mass Market paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, a little cover creasing and scuffing. A nice copy. ;
Dell 3632, 1st New Dell printing. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 208 pages;

"Here, there and everywhere. Alfred Hitchcock is forever prowling about, sneaking up when you least expect him. With just a few well-chosen tales, he slyly creates delicious agonies of suspense. "
Fourteen stories by authors including James M. Cain, Ambrose Bierce, Steven Vincent Benet, Margery Sharp and more.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Murders on the Half-Skull

By: Hitchcock, Alfred (editor)

Price: $5.95

Publisher: New York, Dell Publishing : 1970

Edition: First Printing

Seller ID: 9461

ISBN-13: 9780440060932

Binding: Mass Market paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine slightly rolled, slightly creased, a little edge wear and rubbing, light reading crease. A nice copy. ; Dell 6093, appears to be a paperback original, first printing. ; 6" - 7" Tall; 208 pages; Alfie's Complaint. "When Alfred Hitchcock was a child, his mother forbade him to read about Jack the Ripper at night, in his little trundle bed, and she yanked the bats he was dissecting right out of his tiny hands. We all now know the results of that cruel repression. Alfie just can't get his fill of the world's ghoulish goodies - and here that lovable master of the macabre serves up his greatest...
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An Excellent Mystery (Brother Cadfael Mystery Series #11)

By: Peters, Ellis

Price: $6.30

Publisher: New York, Fawcett Crest : 1987

Edition: First Printing

Seller ID: 9214

ISBN-13: 9780449212240

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine very slightly creased, a little edge wear and rubbing. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. An attractive copy. ; Eleventh in the Brother Cadfael medieval mystery series. ; Brother Cadfael; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 219 pages; "Their own abbey in Winchester burned to the ground, Brothers Humilis and Fidelis come to Brother Cadfael's abbey seeking refuge. Before his tonsure, Humilis was a brave Crusader, and received a dreadful wound fighting to save Jerusalem. His long ride has caused the wound to open anew. Meanwhile Nicholas Harnage, Humilis's former lieutenant, comes to b...
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An Infamous Army

By: Heyer, Georgette

Price: $12.75

Publisher: New York, Sourcebooks Landmark : 2007

Edition: 27th Edition

Seller ID: 8640

ISBN-13: 9781402210075

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine slightly slanted, a bit creased. Corners a bit worn, slight edge wear and rubbing, text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ; 7 ¾" X 9 ¾"; 492 pages; "It is remarkable that a woman should write one of the clearest and most balanced accounts of the hundred days which culminated in the Battle of Waterloo . . . A brilliant achievement." - The Daily Mail. "In the summer of 1815, with Napoleon Bonaparte marching down from the north, Brussels is a whirlwind of parties, balls and soirees. In the swirling social scene surrounding the Duke of Wellington and his noble aides d...
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And Then There Were None (also published as Ten Little Indians)

By: Christie, Agatha

Price: $3.95

Publisher: New York, Berkley Books : 1991

Edition: Twenty-Fourth Printing

Seller ID: 8606

ISBN-13: 9780425129586

Condition: Very Good-

Spine a bit slanted, corners chipped, minor edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy. ;
Also published as Ten Little Indians. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 204 pages;

"Perhaps the greatest mystery novel of all time, 'And Then There Were None' is Agatha Christie's acclaimed masterpiece of murder and suspense. Ten strangers are gathered together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die. . . "
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Anti-Social Register

By: Hitchcock, Alfred (editor)

Price: $5.95

Publisher: New York, Dell Publishing : 1978

Edition: New Dell Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 9304

ISBN-13: 9780440102168

Binding: Mass Market paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine slightly slanted, some edge wear, some cover creasing and scuffing, interior very good. Overall a nice copy. ; Dell 10216. Fourteen stories by authors such as James Holding, Helen Nielsen, Richard Hardwick and more. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 206 pages; "Hitchcock had been hunting for the best in blue-blooded beastliness and your blood will turn ice-cold when you discover what he has found. Here are 14 superb stories of shock and suspense that confirm Alfred Hitchcock's position as the world's greatest connoisseur of evil. Here are 14 spellbinding writers who can proudly take their pl...
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Artemis Awakening [Signed]

By: Lindskold, Jane

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, Tor : 2015

Edition: 27th Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 8624

ISBN-13: 9780765370822

Binding: Mass Market paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine a bit creased, corners bumped, slight edge wear. Signed by author on title page. A nice copy. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 356 pages; " Artemis is a pleasure planet created by a technologically advanced human empire that provided its richest citizens with a veritable Eden to play in. All tech was concealed, and the animals (and humans brought to live there) were bioengineered to help the guests enjoy their stay. " But the Empire was shattered in a horrific war; centuries later humanity has lost much of the advanced technology, and Artemis is a fable told to children. Until young arc...
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Assignment in Eternity

By: Heinlein, Robert A.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Signet : 1975

Edition: 27th Edition; Twelfth Printing

Seller ID: 8548

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, light reading crease, price sticker on back cover, owner's name inside front and back covers. A little tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ; Signet Y6808, 192 pp. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 192 pages; "This is a fascinating collection of four unusual science fiction short stories, written by the outstanding author of stories of the future. Robert Heinlein gives free rein to his stimulating imagination in the superb stories about the unexplored realms of the mind and the fascinating possibilities of new...
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Avon Books Presents: Night Magic

By: Brandewyne, Rebecca; Gregory, Jill; Drake, Shannon; Weyrich, Becky Lee

Price: $4.25

Publisher: New York, Avon Books : 1993

Seller ID: 006044

ISBN-13: 9780380768127

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine slightly slanted and creased, remainder stamp. Text is bright and clean. "In Moonstruck by Rebecca Brandewyne A stunning Irish beauty is irresistibly drawn to the noble, tormented leader of a rival clan ; in Shannon Drakes' Lovers and Demons Fleeing the unholy attentions of a creature of the night, a ravishing Confederate smuggler joins forces with a brave Yankee officer-and discovers ecstasy in the arms of her handsome, virile enemy. While Jill Gregory's Moonstone Magic tells of a bewitching medieval enchantress and her torn loyalties, and Becky Lee Weyrichs' Stars in Her Eyes fo...
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Babybug (July/August 2000)

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Peru, IL, Carus Publishing Company : 2000

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002877

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

Small light tape mark on front cover, minor edgewer, shallow crease at bottom corner. A very nice copy.

Further adventures of Kim and Carrots. Also "If You Were A Bug," "Jingle Bugs," "In My Family’s Arms," "One Step, Two Steps," and "Rickety, Rickety." Ample color illustrations on every page.
Age Level: Toddler; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Babybug (October 2000)

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Peru, IL, Carus Publishing Company : 2000

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002875

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

A few small light creases on front cover w/ two 1/8" tears. A bright, attractive copy.

Further adventures of Kim and Carrots. Also "Jeremiah," "Magic Words," "Getting Dressed," "Too Big," "The Kissing Rhyme," and "Zippity Zappity." Ample color illustrations on every page.
Age Level: Toddler; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Condition: Very Good-