Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

A Very Quiet Place

By: Garve, Andrew

Price: $11.95

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row : 1967

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003841

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine very slightly slanted, PO name inside, map on front and back pastedowns. DJ price-clipped, minor edgewear with tiny tear. A bright, attractive copy. "Debbie Sheldon was twenty-five, attractive, and a free-lance commercial photographer. She lived back of her studio in a business section of London near Regent Street-which was fine, because at night, when the stores and offices were closed, everything was quiet. Then one night Debbie was awakened by the unusual noise of a car engine in the quiet street below. It was five minutes past four. Puzzled, she peered through the blinds, ...
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Agent in Place

By: MacInnes, Helen

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 9395

ISBN-13: 9780151039678

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Blue cloth over gray boards, silver lettering, corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing, back board starting at last page. Jacket in new Brodart, slight sunning, a little edge wear, small crease to back flap. Overall, a nice copy. ; 7 " - 9 " Tall; 339 pages; "Among the most dangerous pieces on the chessboard of espionage are the gullible idealist in a position of trust and the constantly vulnerable agent in place. When the idealist is duped to reveal sensitive information, when the agent in place is forced into the open, disaster strikes. "The NATO Memorandum, classified T...
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Big Beverage

By: Campbell, William T.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Atlanta, Georgia, Tupper & Love : 1952

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 004068

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine sunned/slightly slanted, some edgewear, boards spotted at bottom. DJ has moderate edgewear with a few shallow tears and chips and a 1" tear at back flap edge. Text is tight and attractive. Inscribed by the author on pastedown. "Lonnie (Pop) Butts, soda pop bottler and stick candy manufacturer in a small Southern town, was content to confection his wares from his mental formulary, then go about the town peddling what he had produced. Then, two things happened at once, an unprecedented event in his life, and for the next forty years he was never quite able to cope with either. ...
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Captain of Dragoons

By: Welch, Ronald

Price: $112.50

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press : 1957

Edition: Twentieth Edition

Seller ID: 003842

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Minor edgewear and chipping, primarily at corners and top and base of spine, date on free endpaper, front board starting to separate at half-title page with webbing exposed. Attractive DJ in protective wrap has shallow chips at spine and flap ends. Overall, a nice copy. Another of Ronald Welch's stories in historical settings featuring the members of the Carey family: "Straight from victory in (a skirmish with the French cavalry in the Duke of Marlborough's summer campaign) Captain Charles Carey of Her Majesty's Dragoons is caught up in a web of intrigue and treason when he accidentally...
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Cordelia's Honor

By: Bujold, Lois McMaster

Price: $165.00

Publisher: New York, Baen Books : 2009

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 9358

ISBN-13: 9781607519560

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Black boards with silver lettering. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear and chipping especially at base of spine. A nice copy. ; Omnibus edition including Shards of Honor, Barrayar and an afterword by Bujold. ; Vorkosigan; 7 " - 9 " Tall; 596 pages; "In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her c...
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Dragons in the Waters

By: L'Engle, Madeleine

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus Giroux : 1977

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 9176

ISBN-13: 9780374318680

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Rust cloth with silver lettering. Spine slightly cocked, a little sunned, corners worn, a little edge wear and scuffing. Jacket in new Brodart, spine sunned, minor edge wear with a little chipping at top and base of spine. A nice copy. ; Slight spine slant, corners bumped in cluding a few pages, minor edge wear , some rubbing, small tear at top of spine, binding somewhat tight. A nice copy. "A stolen heirloom painting - a shipboard murder. Can Simon and the O'Keefe clan unravel the mystery? Poly and Charles O'Keefe have no idea when they board the M.S Orion headed for Venezuela that the...
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Froomb!

By: Lymington, John

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1966

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 003306

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Minor shelfwear, cracking beginning at front pastedown. DJ spine/edges sunned, some egewear, 1/4" tear, some soiling. Text is bright and attractive. "Was it heaven, or was it hell? John Brunt wasn’t too sure, but wherever he was, he was frightened. The newspapers and the government also wanted to know where he was. They suspected that the great scientist David Packard knew where the tough and womanizing adventurer was, but no one calculated that John Brunt had been sent on the last exploration left to man-an escape into the future. Not even John Brunt could have known the implic...
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Gold Mountain

By: Paul, Charlotte

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Chicago, Peoples Book Club : 1953

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 005930

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine slanted, black boards with worn gold lettering, very slight edgewear, corners a little bumped. Pictorial pastedowns. DJ in protective Brodart plastic wrap. DJ has tiny chips near spine and flap ends. Text is light, clean and unmarked. "This lively and colorful drama of the pioneers who settled our American Northwest just a few generations ago unfolds the adventurous and romantic story of a spirited young schoolteacher who met many challenges of the frontier with humor, courage, and admirable achievement. Slender, green-eyed Katherine Duncan was inexperienced and far from confi...
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Gudgekin, the Thistle Girl, and Other Tales

By: Gardner, John Champlin; Sporn, Michael

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf : 1976

Edition: Possible first Edition

Seller ID: 003363

ISBN-13: 9780394832760

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, some edgewear, ex-library w/ usual stamps. DJ has slight edgewear. DJ enclosed in protective wrap taped to boards. Last page of text has corner torn off, otherwise very aattractive. Charming black and white line drawings by Michael Sporn. Four original fairy tales: "In the title story, a sweet tale, goodness reaps its own rewards, but evil doesn’t do so badly either. Dry and wry, ‘The Griffin and the Wise Old Philosopher’ proposes that the best solution to the most perplexing questions often lies in total ignorance. ‘The Shape-Shifters of Shorm,’ darkly ironi...
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Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill With Novak

By: O'Neill, Thomas P. Jr.; Novak, William

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Random House Inc : 1987

Seller ID: 005661

ISBN-13: 9780394552019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

387 pp., 16 pp. black and white photographs, index. Red boards with black cloth spine with gold and red lettering. Bottom of spine has 2" waterstain that has affected DJ and a few back pages. Otherwise this book is in excellent shape. Tip O'Neill, one of America's most colorful figures, is a master politician and a master storyteller, a man of wit and wisdom. The narrative stretches from O'Neill's humble background in Cambridge (where the closest he got to Harvard was a summer job mowing the lawn) to his tenure as the nation's top ranking Democrat. Never one to hold back, O'Neill is ...
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Mexico

By: Michener, James A.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Random House Inc : 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003702

ISBN-13: 9780679416494

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine curved, some chipping on corners & edges, ex-library with usual stamps, back board scuffed. DJ in protective cover taped to boards. Front pastedown has map of Mexico, back has "Environs of Toledo." Text is bright, clean, and attractive. "Moving between the past and the present - from important events in Mexico's history to the excitement of a modern-day bullfight - and ranging from the arid plains of Mexico to Inquisition Spain and Civil War Virginia, here is the stirring saga of a man and a nation searching for their identities. Norman Clay, an American journalist, arrive...
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P Is for Peril

By: Grafton, Sue

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 2001

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003752

ISBN-13: 9780399147197

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine somewhat slanted, ex-library with usual stamps & free endpapers removed. DJ in protective cover taped to boards. A bright, attractive copy. "Dr. Dowan Purcell had been missing for nine weeks when Kinsey got a call asking her to take on the case. A specialist in geriatric medicine, Purcell was a prominent member of the Santa Teresa medical community, and the police had done a thorough job. Purcell had no known enemies and seemed contented with his life. At the time of his disappearance, he was running a nursing care facility where both the staff and the patients loved him. He a...
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Pinstripes and Reds: An American Ambassador Caught Between the State Department and the Romanian Communists, 1981-1985 (revised)

By: Funderburk, David B.

Price: $18.25

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Selous Foundation Press : 1987

Edition: Third Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 003723

ISBN-13: 9780944273012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

xiii-226 pp., Foreword by Congressman Philip M. Crane, appendices, index, 3 charts, 2 groups of black and white photographs. Very minor shelfwear. DJ has a few shallow tears, small chips at top of spine. A little underlining on 3 pages, but text is not obscured. Inscribed by the author. A bright, attractive copy. "Pinstripes and Reds is the first account by an American ambassador to a Soviet Bloc country, that documents the collaboration between the leadership elite of the State Department and the Communists. Former US Ambassador to Romania David Funderburk stepped down from his post...
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Reverse Negative: A Novel of Suspense

By: Jute, Andre

Price: $8.75

Publisher: New York, W W Norton & Co Inc : 1979

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004395

ISBN-13: 9780393012163

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

DJ price-clipped, 1/2" tear. Remainder mark. A clean, unmarked copy. "Kim Philby, the spy who betrayed a generation when he defected to Russia in 1963, plots his own death in a fiery helicopter crash. This event throws British Intelligence, the CIA, the KGB, and Israeli Intelligence into a desperate search for Philby's 'insurance,' a set of documents placed with Swiss lawyers which are to be published on his death, and which will embarrass and perhaps topple high-ranking figures on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Steven Haldane, a retired Cambridge history professor, is caught up i...
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Ride a Pale Horse

By: MacInnes, Helen

Price: $10.95

Publisher: San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1984

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 006658

ISBN-13: 9780151772681

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine somewhat slanted, some bumping along edges. DJ in new Brodart protective plastic wrap. DJ shows a few tiny chips along edges and two tiny tears at bottom. Text is bright and clean. "When Karen Cornell, a beautiful journalist on assignment in Czechoslovakia, agrees to help a would-be defector by carrying top-secret documents to Washington, she is pulled into an astonishing web of terrorism, political assassination, blackmail, espionage, and treason in the highest levels of both superpowers. One false move could cost Karen her life-and throw the world into violent war."; 7¾&#...
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S is for Silence [Large Print]

By: Grafton, Sue

Price: $10.75

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons : 2005

Edition: Large Print Edition

Seller ID: 9484

ISBN-13: 9780739461242

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Black boards with gold lettering. Spine slightly cocked, a little edge wear and rubbing. Jacket shows a little edge wear and soiling. A nice copy. ; Large print edition. ; 7" - 9" Tall; 514 pages; "S is for silence: the silence of the lost, the silence of the missing, the silence of oblivion. "On July 4, 1953, in the town of Serena Station, Violet Sullivan left for the annual fireworks display and was never seen again. Some say she ran off with one of her many lovers in her new Chevrolet Bel Air; others say she was murdered by her abusive husband. But for her 6-year-old daughter, Daisy, Violet...
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Spain and Defense of the West: Ally and Liability

By: Whitaker, Arthur P.

Price: $16.50

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers : 1961

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 005935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

xviii + 408 pp, index, bibliographical notes, 8 tables plus map of Spain on end papers, map of Spain in Africa. Black boards with gold lettering on spine. Published under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations. Spine slightly slanted and just a bit sunned, corners slightly bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket shows some edge wear with a little chipping at top and base of spine and flaps, 3/4" tear to bottom of front cover near leading edge, some darkening, spine sunned. Most of the chapter numbers in the table of contents have check marks through the number, but there are no other ma...
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The Abominable Man (A Martin Beck Police Mystery #7)

By: Sjowall, Maj & Wahloo, Per

Price: $22.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon : 1972

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 9342

ISBN-13: 9780394471662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Red boards with yellow lettering. Corners bumped, a little edge wear, interior fine. Jacket in new Brodart, spine somewhat sunned, a little edge wear and rubbing. Overall, an attractive copy. ; Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal. ; Book Club Edition; 7" - 9" Tall; 186 pages; "The bloody murder of a police captain in his hospital room exposes the particularly unsavory history of a man who spent forty years practicing brutality and force. As this story unfolds, Martin Beck and his colleagues scour Stockholm for the murderer, a demented and deadly rifleman, who finally stages...
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The Christmas Spy

By: Howlett, John

Price: $17.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1975

Edition: First US Edition

Seller ID: 8697

ISBN-13: 9780151178797

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Tan cloth over olive green boards, black lettering, 192 pp. Spine slightly cocked, corners a bit worn, minor edge wear and rubbing, some speckling to leading edge. Jacket a bit sunned, a little edge wear, slight soiling. A nice copy. ; Author's first novel. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 192 pages; "Two men meeting north side of tunnel stop investigate party travelling from south stop ... "Christmas Eve. The festive season, when family men flock home, and it is easy to feel sorry for oneself - as Morgan Hunter-Brown does, stuck in a freezing-cold Alpine village, on orders from his intellige...
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The Documents in the Case

By: Sayers, Dorothy L.; Eustace, Robert

Price: $28.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd : 1958

Edition: 11th Impression

Seller ID: 9198

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Red cloth with gold lettering. Corners a bit bent, slight edge wear and rubbing, front board starting a bit. Pages tanned but text is clean and unmarked. Jacket in new Brodart, spine sunned, a little edge wear, some chipping primarily at top and base of spine, a little soiling. Overall a nice copy. ; 5/- 'Cheap edition.' ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 174 pages; Sayer's only novel written with a collaborator. "The extraordinary plant expert was poisoned--and his deadly specimens told no tales. The documents in the case seemed to be a simple collection of love notes and letters home. Yet they c...
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Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket