Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

1632 [Signed]

By: Flint, Eric

Price: $130.00

Publisher: New York, Baen Books : 2000

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 9242

ISBN-13: 9780671578497

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Blue cloth over blue boards, gold lettering. Corners a bit worn, slight edge wear and rubbing. Front board cracked at title page, exposing webbing. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy, signed by author on title page. ; First book in the popular and ever-expanding 1632 shared universe. ; 1632; 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...
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American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold

By: Turtledove, Harry

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Del Rey : 2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 007116

ISBN-13: 9780345444219

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Black over navy boards, silver lettering, 503 pp. Spine a bit cocked, corners bumped, slight edge wear, a little rubbing. Interior clean and unmarked. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy. "It is 1924 - a time of rebuilding, from the slow reconstruction of Washington's most honored monuments to the reclamation of devastated cities in Europe and Canada. In the United States, the Socialist Party, led by Hosea Blackford, battles Calvin Coolidge to hold on to the Powell House in Philadelphia. And it seems as if the Socialists can do no wrong, for the stock market s...
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Cirque

By: Carr, Terry

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company : 1977

Edition: First Printing

Seller ID: 003296

ISBN-13: 9780672520143

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slanted, edgewear. Ex-library with one stamp and pocket residue. DJ in protective wrap. A bright, attractive copy. "Several millennia in the future, Earth has become a backwater planet, ignored by others in its galaxy. Its one jewel is Cirque, the City on the Abyss, into which the River Fundament falls in magnificent cataracts. It is a city of love and harmony, with inspiring religious rites. But in the Abyss there lives the Beast, loathsome to imagine, frightening to confront, for it was formed from castoff hates of the Cirquians: a Beast whose body is refuse, whose mind is bl...
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Cryes of Londontown: Being a Recreation of the Fantasia By Orlando Gibbons

By: Gibbons, Orlando

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1968

Seller ID: 004860

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, front free endpaper removed, ex-library with usual stamps. DJ in protective wraps taped to boards.

Orlando Gibbons lived between 1583 and 1625. Primarily a composer of church music, Gibbons also produced many secular fantasies and madrigals including this collection of the cries of London pedlars "selling everything from cakes and dolls to swords and mousetraps. This book is suitable for children, but enjoyable for adults as well. Extensively illustrated with the drawings of Erwin Schachner.; Ex-Library; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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Docker

By: Patterson, Gardner

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum : 1980

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004763

ISBN-13: 9780689501821

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Slight edgewear/bumping, ex-library with usual stamps. DJ in protective wraps taped to boards. Text has a few small spots but generally clean and bright. "Docker, whose real name is Jonathan Bradley Coe II, arrives in Chesport, Connecticut fresh from St. Louis and finds that life in the East isn't quite what he's been used to. But he soon adjusts and is quickly mixed up in one escapade after another with his friends in Burfield Junior High. Docker is fond of practical jokes, and some of his more elaborate ones end in near-disaster for him, such as the time he gets a local eccentric, d...
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Four Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels: Whose Body? / Clouds of Witness / Murder Must Advertise / Gaudy Night

By: Sayers, Dorothy L.

Price: $27.00

Publisher: New York, Avenel Books : 1982

Edition: Third Printing

Seller ID: 9185

ISBN-13: 9780517395752

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Pale blue boards, gold lettering. Spine a bit cocked, corners chipped, a little edge wear and rubbing, writing by owner on front FEP. Jacket in new Brodart, minor edge wear. An attractive copy. ; Lord Peter Wimsey; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 736 pages; "The elegant and urbane Lord Peter Wimsey, rare book expert, stunning cricketer, well-known London and Parisian bon vivant, shows his true personality - master detective - in these four delightful Dorothy L. Sayers novels." Whose Body? : "The unidentified body in the bathtub wore only a pince-nez. . . And was unabashedly dead. Whose b...
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Live Wire

By: Coben, Harlan

Price: $14.25

Publisher: New York, Dutton : 2011

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 9316

ISBN-13: 9780525952060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Black cloth over burnt orange boards, copper lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear, a couple pages with nicks to leading edge. Jacket has a little edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy. ; Myron Bolitar; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 375 pages; "Harlan Coben published his first Myron Bolitar thriller, Deal Breaker, in 1995, introducing a hero who would captivate millions. Over the years we have watched Myron walk a tightrope between sports agent, friend, problem solver, and private eye, his big heart quick to defend his clients' interests so fiercely that he can't help but jump in to sa...
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Lord Demon

By: Zelazny, Roger; Lindskold, Jane

Price: $28.00

Publisher: New York, Avon : 1999

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 8665

ISBN-13: 9780380973330

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Purple over cream boards with copper lettering, 276 pp. Corners worn, a little edge wear and rubbing. Acket in plastic protector, slight edge wear and rubbing. Signed by Lindskold on title page. A nice copy. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 276 pages; " The great wars between gods and demons began five millenia ago - and ended with the demons' crushing defeat and banishment from their homeland. The demon race would have surely perished in the empty dimension of their exile had they not found a secret conduit to a safe and hidden plane . . . Called Earth. "Greatest among the demons was Kai Wre...
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Murder at the Opera (Capital Crimes Mystery Series)

By: Truman, Margaret

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books : 2006

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 007489

ISBN-13: 9780345478214

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Blue over black boards, 319 pp. Spine a bit cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, some scratches to back board. Jacket shows minor edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy. "It ain't over till the fat lady sings . . . but the show hasn't even started yet when a diva is found dead. The soprano in question, a petite young Asian Canadian named Charise Lee, was scarcely a star at the Washington National Opera. But when the aspiring singer is stabbed in the heart backstage during rehearsals, she suddenly takes center stage. "Georgetown law professor Mac Smith thought he'd just...
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Sharing Sean

By: Pye, Frances

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company : 2004

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004244

ISBN-13: 9780060545567

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Two shallow indentations on bottom boards, bottom corners slightly bumped. DJ has 1/4" tear. A bright, attractive copy. "Not all women read bridal magazines, shop for dates on the Internet, and covet the letters M, R, and S in front of their names. Some women aren't looking for love or even fidelity - just for a man who'll play by her rules. In this smart, wry, and entertaining debut novel, Frances Pye introduces four such women in their late thirties - with no time, or desire, for an exclusively committed relationship - and the unintended consequences that result when they hatch a...
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Shooting at Loons (signed) (A Deborah Knott Mystery)

By: Maron, Margaret

Price: $22.00

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press : 1994

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 007771

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

0892964472 Black over gray boards, 229 pp. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear plus a couple dents to bottom edge, black marker line across bottom edge. Jacket in new Brodart with a little edge wear and rubbing. Signed by author on title page. A nice copy. Third novel in Maron's Deborah Knott series. "In Shooting at Loons we follow Judge Deborah Knott to the state's lush Crystal Coast, where expensive yachts ride at anchor. . . and murders wash in on the 'Down East' tide. Asked to sit in for a hospitalized judge in gracious old Beaufort, Deborah hopes to spend a r...
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Shooting at Loons [signed] (A Deborah Knott Mystery)

By: Maron, Margaret

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press : 1994

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 006461

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

0892964472 Spine a bit slanted, very minor wear at spine end. DJ in new Brodart protective plastic wrap. DJ has 1/2" tear at flap and very slight edgewear. Text has 1" tear at p, 36, otherwise tight and clean. Signed by the author on the title page. A bright, attractive copy. Third novel in Maron's Deborah Knott series. "In Shooting at Loons we follow Judge Deborah Knott to the state's lush Crystal Coast, where expensive yachts ride at anchor. . . and murders wash in on the 'Down East' tide. Asked to sit in for a hospitalized judge in gracious old Beaufort, Deborah hopes to s...
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Slow Dollar (A Deborah Knott Mystery)

By: Maron, Margaret

Price: $10.95

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press : 2002

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 8529

ISBN-13: 9780892967643

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Black boards with gold lettering, 276 pp, Book Club edition. Corners bumped, slight edge wear, spine separated at back end paper. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear. Overall a nice copy. ; Ninth in Margaret Maron's Deborah Knott mystery series. ; Deborah Knott Mystery; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 276 pages; "A moonlit autumn night brings out half the county to fill the Tilt-O-Whirl with squealing riders and the dirt around Polly's Pitch Plate with losers' quarters. But in an air nostalgically sweet with caramel apple and spun sugar, one crooked game ends with a brutal death. . . And Jud...
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Sole Survivor

By: Koontz, Dean

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated : 1997

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 000045

ISBN-13: 9780679425267

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Spine is a bit creased, slightly slanted, corners a little bumped, slight rubbing. Small stain on first page inside cover. DJ has a little edgewear, minor chipping at top of spine and a couple of very small scuffs on front. "The story begins with a catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash - 330 dead, no survivors. Among the victims, the wife and two young daughters of Los Angeles Post crime reporter Joe Carpenter. "A year later, still gripped by an almost paralysing grief, unable to work, unable to imagine any relief but his own death, Joe encounters a woman named Rose. She claims ...
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The Call-Girls: A Tragi-Comedy

By: Koestler, Arthur

Price: $10.95

Publisher: New York, Random House Inc : 1973

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 003699

ISBN-13: 9780394484358

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Spine very slightly slanted. water spot along top of back board and DJ. DJ has 1/4" tear at bottom of front flap, price-clipped. A bright, attractive copy. "Off they go, the distinguished members of the international academic call-girl circuit, to yet another cultural congress, scientific congress or interdisciplinary symposium. The hothouse milieu of this stimulating novel of ideas is the Alpine village where these discussions on Approaches to Survival take place, and the author has filled his stage set with a motley band of eccentric geniuses The time is the present, and the task...
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The Copper Peacock and Other Stories

By: Rendell, Ruth

Price: $6.25

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press : 1991

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 002573

ISBN-13: 9780892964659

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slanted, ex-lib with usual stamps, back endpaper removed. DJ in protective wrap taped to boards, 1/4" spot on front cover, minor bumping. A bright, attractive copy.

"The Copper Peacock and Other Stories gathers together nine new short stories—eight tales featuring the psychological suspense that has made Ruth Rendell the darling of critics and discerning fans, and one classic detective story featuring Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford, Rendell’s phenomenally popular series hero."; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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The Family Lie

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1978

Edition: Reprint Edition

Seller ID: 8522

ISBN-13: 9780151562473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Red boards with gold lettering, 146 pp. Corners bumped, slight edge wear, spine cracked at page 20. Jacket in new Brodart, spine a bit sunned, slight edge wear. A nice copy. ; Jacket states that this was translated by Caroline Hillier, but the title page shows the translator as Isabel Quigly. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 146 pages; "A physician watches by the bedside of his son, who is stricken with diphtheria. Ordinarily he is too busy for introspection, but now the isolation forced upon him releases to the surface of his mind a traumatic experience from his own childhood, linked also to...
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The Horse You Came In On (A Richard Jury Mystery)

By: Grimes, Martha

Price: $6.50

Publisher: New York, Alfred a Knopf Inc : 1993

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 006721

ISBN-13: 9780679425236

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Black boards with red spine and gold lettering. Spine somewhat slanted, text has some moisture waffling on upper edge. DJ has minor edgewear at spine and flap ends. A nice copy. "Richard Jury is supposed to be on holiday when the telephone call comes. And in any case, what has sudden death on American soil to do with an English police superintendent? But when the victim turns out to be British by birth, and the have a distant connection with Jury's old acquaintance Lady Cray, he reluctantly pries himself loose from his pint at the Jack and Hammer. Enlisting the aid of aristocratic ...
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The Last Coincidence (A Nero Wolfe Mystery)

By: Goldsborough, Robert

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books : 1989

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 003316

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Free endpaper removed. DJ shows very minor shelfwear. A bright, attractive copy. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 183 pages; Goldsborough's fourth Nero Wolfe novel. "Playboy Sparky Linville has a nasty notion of fun and games. But when he picks popular Noreen James as his unwilling playmate, the result is murder - and a case that will rock Manhattan’s trendy Upper East Side and divide the family of Lily Rowan, Noreen’s aunt. " As furor rages in the local press and the police fix their attention on her relatives, Lily turns to her old friend and confidant Archie Goodwin for help, hoping he ...
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The Little Tiny Rooster

By: Will and Nicolas

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. : 1960

Edition: Library Edition

Seller ID: 004327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Edgewear, chipping at corners and bottom spine, ex-library with usual marks. DJ price clipped, in protective wrap taped to boards, a little wear at corners and bottom of spine. Text is bright and attractive.

It's hard for the little tiny rooster to find a place in the barnyard pecking order because he's so. . . well . . . little and tiny. Then an opportunity comes up for him to be the barnyard hero.
Age Level: Grades K-2; Ex-Library; 9 ¾" - 11" Tall
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Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket