Spine slightly slanted. DJ has thin sun line across top edge. A bright, atractive copy. "Roger Horwitz and Paul Monnette met in the mid-70s in Boston and moved together to Los Angeles, where, a decade later, Roger was diagnosed with AIDS, For almost two years, day and night, Paul helped his 'beloved friend' fight the disease. From the quiet onset of the illness, through the terrifying battery of ailments, hospitalizations, and experimental treatments, up until Roger's final blindness and death, the story is told without sentimentality or sensationalism. 'We never lost the will to win... View More...
Spine very slightly slanted/creased, minor bumping/edgewear, cracking at p 113. A clean, unmarked text. "Brett’s notions made Lisa furious. She’d been sent by her publisher employer to Lynton to edit Catherine Arlington’s book. Why should Catherine’s stepson, Brett, imagine some other reason? His first ridiculous accusation--that she’d come to renew an old relationship with the owner of the next farm--took time to dispel. It was followed by the equally ridiculous one that Catherine was matchmaking. Lisa tried to concentrate on finishing her job and leaving. Only she didn’t really want... View More...
Spine/covers show a little creasing. Slight shelf wear, a few pages with the upper left corner creased. "Tony Villiers was the hardest, most ruthless man Gabrielle had ever fallen in love with. That is why she had married him. Why she had divorced him. And why she was horrified to learn that she would be working with him again by order of British Intelligence. Raul Montera was the handsomest, most gallant man Gabrielle had ever mete. That was why she would have gone to bed with him even had she not been under orders to do so. Why she was filled with joy at his all-consuming love for her.... View More...
Stories: Stars Seen Through Stone (cover) (Shepard); Daughters of Prime (Connolly); Car 17 (Cunningham); Cold Comfort (Vukcevich); Powersuit (Hobson).; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall View More...
Spine somewhat creased, corners chipped, minor edge wear and chipping, a couple creases to back cover, binding fairly tight. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Volume 3 of the Chronicles of the Deryni trilogy. "With young King Kelson on the throne of Gwynedd, the priesthood of the Eleven Kingdoms felt its control deeply threatened. For Kelson was half Deryni - part of that race of humans gifted with extrasensory powers . . . a race that had ruled two centuries earlier, but was dethroned and driven underground. Now, the final battle for ultimate power was about to... View More...
"Reporter Jack McMorrow befriends a runaway teen, but no sooner do his mother and stepfather try to retrieve him than the terrified stray vanishes again. When the boy's mother is murdered, Jack has no choice but to investigate the heart of a dark and deadly family secret . . . "; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View More...
Originally published in 1748, this edition of Les Bijoux Indiscrets was published in Amsterdam in 1772 by Chez Marc-Michel Rey, probably a pirated edition. A scarce edition: OCLC lists only two libraries with copies. Contemporary mottled calf binding with worn gold edging, gold flower pattern on spine. Octavo, 389 pp (plus a 3 page preface to Zima), two parts published together in one volume with Table des Chapitres at end. Marbled paper pastedowns and free end papers (front end paper missing). Four copper plate illustrations - frontispiece, title vignette, and full-page plates tipped in opp... View More...
xvii + 888 pp, bibliography, credits, index. Fifth edition, reprinted with corrections. Corners bumped, slight spine slant, back board pulling away at page 865, exposing the webbing. Owner's name written on leading edge. A couple pages have margin notes, otherwise text appears clean and bright.
"This book is intended as a text for an introductory course in operating systems at the junior or senior undergraduate level, or at the first-year graduate level. It provides a clear description of the concepts that underlie operating systems. "; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View More...
Spine slightly slanted, a bit creased, light reading crease, a little edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 202 pages; A collection of 11 short stories, romance fiction set in Regency England by the mistress of regency romance. "An enchanted world of debutante balls, moonlit meetings and stolen kisses. A vanished world of great country houses and scandalous elopements. A frivolous world of sprightly schoolgirls, bored dandies, pretty widows and masquerading peers. An elegant world where duels at dawn and marriages of convenience threaten - but love always reigns s... View More...
covers show a little creasing, slight shelf wear. One page creased. "The nation is stunned silent when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon is shot dead, point-blank, while sharing the stage at a benefit concert with his rock-star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant. Fiercely independent attorney Tony Lord defends the assassin in a sensational trial that erupts into the media event of the decade. But the most shocking gambit ever witnessed in the history of television has yet to unfold. As America watches, a mysterious and ruthless figure known only as Phoenix takes to the airwaves in the ultimate ... View More...
Corners bumped, dent in lower edge, price sticker residue in top corner, previous owner's name on end papers. A bright, attractive copy.
"Convinced that she doesn’t have any of the things that matter, i.e. trendy clothes and a house in the country, Rosy Cole decides to form a club which will allow her rich friends to give her their surplus clothes, sports gear, and jewelry." Pen and ink illustrations. Age Level: Grades 4-8; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
Covers are creased and chipped. Page corners from the first half of the book are creased, and the last 10-20 pages have a small (up to 1/2 inch) scissors cut at the lower right corner. Owner's name on title page, underlining on last page (about the author). "Games, rides, popcorn, cotton candy, snow cones! Scooby and the gang can't get enough of Pop's Big Top Carnival. Until the mysterious Carnival Creeper shows up. Now the rides are empty and the games are closed. It's up to Scooby and the gang to catch this Carnival Creeper and save Pop's Big Top before it has to close forever." Co... View More...
Very slight shelfwear on bottom edge. DJ lightly sunned along spine. Signed by the author on half-title page. A bright, tight, attractive copy. "A novel of family life [which] tells the story of a young couple and their parents, of a family so wrapped up in the barbed wire of their blood relations that the movement of one tears into the other. The daughter is in flight to leave behind her childhood and her crazy parents. The crazy parents are trying to get away from each other, but after thirty years of creating their own particular brand of family madness they don't know how. In the ... View More...
Paperback original, first printing. Spine creased and a bit rolled, a little edge wear and rubbing. Some tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Third in the Sister (Dame) Frevisse Medieval Mystery series. "On her way to a baptism, Sister Frevisse finds blood is thicker than water . . . and as easily spilled. Waylaid by a band of outlaws, she learns that their leader is her long-lost cousin Nicholas. He asks Frevisse's help to get him pardoned for his crimes. But while Frevisse is lodging at the home of Nicholas's business companion, someone commits an unpardonable act: murd... View More...
Very slight shelfwear at top. A pristine coloring book with all your favorite Sesame Street characters featuring numbers, colors, all the letters of the alphabet, and more. Age Level: Preschool through Grade 1; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall View More...
Spine slightly slanted. A bright, tight, attractive copy. "The body of a student has been found hanged in Venice's elite, highly cloistered military academy. The young man is the son of a doctor and former politician, a member of Parliament who had an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. Dr. Moro is clearly devastated by his son's death, but while both he and his apparently estranged wife seen convinced that the boy's death could not have been suicide, neither appears eager to help in the investigation of the mysterious circumstances in which he died. Bolstered by th... View More...
Spine slightly creased, a little edge wear. A number of pages have some light damp-staining and a little rippling. Overall a nice copy. ; Omnibus edition featuring three of Le Guin's Hamish novels. ; 7 " - 9 " Tall; 370 pages; Rocannon's World: "Rocannon, a Terran scientist from the League of All Worlds, leads an ethnographic survey tothe half-known world of Fomalhaut II. But, only moments after his expedition arrives, it is viciously attacked by invaders from Faraday and Rocannon is the sole survivor. " Marooned for at least eight years among the humanoids of this alien planet - the cave-dwel... View More...
