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New York: Knopf, 1987. The historic story of the nine-day flight of Voyager, the first plane to circumnavigate the globe nonstop without refueling, told by the man and woman who made their dream become reality; boards and text show very minor edgewear, o/w clean and tight; dustjacket is slightly soiled, lightly edgeworn, corner of back flap creased.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. ... more information

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Garden City: Crime Club/Doubleday & Co., 1977. The first book in York's mystery series featuring Colonel James Munroe Tallant, police commissioner on a small West Indies island; boards slightly edgeworn, top edge of text lightly foxed, inside covers and dustjacket flaps each have two small pieces of clear tape; jacket is edgeworn and slightly chipped at top and bottom of spine, lower front panel slightly wrinkled from water stain (not particularly noticeable). A decent reading copy. . First Edition... more information

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London: Arrow Books Ltd., 1976. Vintage paperback, Arrow 33105; the third novel in York's spy-thriller series featuring British government's licensed assassin, Jonas Wilde, codename: Eliminator, this time attempting the rescue of a princess kidnapped from a yacht in the North Sea; text shows pair of faint ink lines across top and bottom edges, o/w text is clean, tight, square, very lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers featuring a very scantily-clad blonde and showing a reading crease, other mino... more information

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New York: McKay-Washburn, 1976. The fifth book in the award-winning Creasey's crime-thriller series featuring Scotland Yard's Superintendent Folly. (Creasey used 28 different pseudonyms while publishing 562 books over a 40-year career.) Originally published in 1948, the book was revised by Creasey in 1973. This copy is the First Printing of the First U.S. Revised Edition; boards and text are clean, tight, square; price-clipped dust jacket shows minor wear at top end of spine, o/w minimal surface ... more information

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New York: Mysterious Press, 1995. one of the masters of domestic crime and suspense, Yorke's "Almost The Truth" reveals how an ordinary man, Derek Jarvis, and his family are destroyed by a home invasion in which his daughter is raped and how Derek plans a revenge for the rapist far beyond his British prison sentence; hardcover; First Printing of the First U.S. Edition; text is clean, tight, square, appears unread in a dustjacket showing almost no surface or edgewear; Very Fine/Fine. Scarce. ... more information

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New York: Mysterious Press, 1996. one of England's masters of psychological suspense, Yorke presents a study of two families full of conflict and tension close to the point of explosion and murder; hardcover; First Printing of the First U.S. Edition; Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Scarce.. ... more information

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