One of the Bestseller Mystery series (#B40) published during World Warr II using wartime paper restrictions. This is a complete and unabridged reprint of Dashiell Hammet's 1927 book, with a cover price of 25 cents. This edition appears to be its first appearance in book form. Spine is somewhat curved, text was bound in upside down. Covers show some edgewear and scuffing. Text is browned, with watermarks on corners.
When a million dollars is stolen from two banks in an afternoon, the Continental Detective Agency must solve the crime.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
Very minor edgewear, bottom corners bumped, PO's name stamped inside. DJ shows some edgewear and minor chipping at ends of spine and flaps. Text is clean and unmarked. 2 glossy photos of Norris Dam (by day and at night) are laid in. "This is the saga of Homer Zigler, who wanted more than anything else in the world to write "The Great American Novel." Originality, humor, pathos, mark this second novel by the author of The Anointed. It has depth, warmth and a fresh observation of people-this story of a man and his inner and outer life- this chronicle of dreams and hopes framed by... View More...
Blue cloth over blue boards, gold lettering. Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, remainder stripe on bottom edge. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy. ; First book in the popular and ever-expanding 1632 shared universe. ; 1632; Remainder; 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 and the people. Catholic and Protesta... View More...
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... View More...
Corners very slightly bumped, gift inscription on end paper. DJ has 1 3/4" tear, minor edgewear. Text is clean and bright.
"In his latest book Nathan A. Scott turns to three writers - the novelists Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow, and the critic Lionel Trilling - whom he considers to be close to the center of what is most deeply animating in American literature of the present time. And he proposes that each now requires to be thought of as enacting, in a large and brilliant way, the role of moralist."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
Whitman Publishing Nr 5049, 381 pp, green quarter cloth with pictorial boards. Spine slightly cocked, corners chipped, some edge wear and chipping, 3/4" tear near center of rear board, a few other nicks and scuffs to boards. Diamond patterned end papers with drawings of a toy or pet inside each diamond. Jacket in new Brodart with moderate edge wear and chipping especially along alap edges, some rubbing, a number of small holes from insect damage, an old price in crayon at top of front panel and '1952' written in white on back panel, 1 1/4" chip near center of back panel. Overall, a nic... View More...
Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, slight tanning. An attractive copy. ; Insert tipped in for the Zebra Regency romance book club. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 352 pages; " Kissing boughs and Yule logs, holly and hot cider, horsedrawn sleighs and carols sung by candlelight - Christmas time comes once a year and with it all the love and romance one could wish for. " Three of Zebra's favorite Regency authors have penned wonderfully heart-warming stories of Christmas cheer to put some spice in your holiday season. Impish twins take delight in reuniting their parents in 'A Christ... View More...
"Did the son murder his father? That's what the southern country sheriff can't find out, and that's what brought two city cops off the pavement and into the swamplands. Detectives Parrish and Recks bushwhack their way through the backwoods, a southern plantation, and more suspects than they can handle -- mentally or physically. Soon they uncover blackmail, two wanted criminals, and become involved it -- as if they needed it -- a young couple with shaky marriage plans."; Remainder; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall View More...
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 View More...
Spine slightly slanted, bottom corner of front board crimped, slight edge wear. A tight, attractive copy. "Commitment, togetherness, another person's needs? Babies? These were the last things on Chris Gray's mind when he came to the rescue of Lori Lynn Conner after she dropped a soft drink bottle and gashed her foot at the supermarket. A quick trip to the hospital, then a date, more dates, an engagement, a wedding - and Chris and Lori begin a marriage that soon has both of them on the defensive. It isn't that they aren't in love, for indeed they are. And it certainly isn't sexual inco... View More...
Navy cloth over blue boards, gold lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear. An attractive copy. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 191 pages; "This new collection of short fiction by one of America's most honored authors celebrates her understanding that narrative is the shining thread with which we create our common humanity. "In A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Le Guin has assembled a far-reaching catalog of wonders, and she uses them to illuminate the earth on which ordinary women and men live. Astonishing in their diversity and power, ... View More...
Winner of the 1980 Newberry Medal. Ex-library with a few stamps. Three words marked through on p. 117 but legible. DJ in protective wrap taped to boards. "The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend. Joan Blos's moving novel captures the hardship as well as the tranquility of early American farm life and the sturdiness, the tenderness, of the people whose way of life it was." Age Level: Grades 5-8; Ex-Library; 7¾" - 9¾" ... View More...
vii-xvi, 299 pp., abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, maps, tables, drawings, figures. Very slight wear on bottom corners. A bright, attractive copy. "Combining the latest archeological findings with information from traditional literary sources, Thomas S. Burns presents the first modern portrait of the Ostrogoths from their initial contacts with the Roman world in the third century through the dissolution of their kingdom in Italy in 554. Placing the Ostrogoths in a European social and historical perspective, Burns begins his story in the centuries before the final invasions of... View More...
x + 461 pp., bibliography, 13 color plates. Small dent along top back edge, tiny spot on spine. DJ has very minor edgewear, two closed 1/4" tears.
The groundbreaking treatise by the great authority on child development and disorder, Dr. Bruno Bettelheim, of the theory and implementation of his philosophy of "total milieu therapy" at the Orthogenic School of the University of Chicago and its transformative effect on the lives of so-called "incurable" schizophrenic and autistic children and youths.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
First time in print. Spine slightly slanted/creased, very minor edgewear. A bright, attractive copy. This volume contains three of Nora Roberts’ favorite tales of love and magic: "In ‘The Witching Hour,’ a kingdom is plagued by tragedy until a wizard-god’s spell brings forth a courageous and beautiful young woman who must follow her heart in love and follow her destiny in battle. . . On a remote island cursed with eternal winter, a young queen heals a wounded soldier - and warms her heart with the joys of true love in ‘Winter Rose’ . . . In ‘A World Apart,’ a ravishing medieval Demon Sl... View More...
Library of Congress surplus with stamp on front end paper and copyright page. Red cloth with gilt lettering, 204 pp. Slight spine slant, corners bumped, slight edge wear, light dampstain to front board with it bowing out a bit. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear. A nice copy. "Peter Somerville-Large turns to the more relaxed world of black comedy. In particular to the world on the fringe of the antiques trade, where, he suggests, the antiques may just possibly be genuine but everything else is faked, and murder is as casually regarded by his characters as is short-changing a client. ... View More...
Corners bumped, coffee ring on front board. Jacket shows minor edge wear. "As Adam listens to the final bequest of his father's will, he knows he will at last learn the unspoken secret that shadowed the peaceful retirement of Colonel Scott and turned him from a WWI hero into a disgraced and broken man. But inside the yellowed envelope Adam finds a far more important secret. The path Adam has to follow leads him first to the innermost vault of a Swiss bank where his real inheritance lies-a priceless work of Russian art, a 14th-century icon, smuggled out of Russia by the last Czar and sub... View More...
Slightly shelf-cocked, corners bumped. Jacket shows some edge wear and a 1/2" tear on bottom front edge.
"No bare-bones summary can do justice to the excitement, complexity and resonance of this powerful novel, to its many strong characters and their intricate relationships with each other, or to its unifying narrative drive, which never falters."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
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