Fiction - Action/Adv

Gold Medal Books. Good. 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Internal pages clean & tight, age tanning. Cover has light edgewear, creasing & small tears to spine ends. "The plane was doomed; his choice was grim. He could take his chances on Communist torture - or go down slowly in the deep Black Sea. " (*shipping will be reduced on this lighter book) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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Random House. As New with no dust jacket. 2005. Softcover. 0812968794 . Review copy. Clean & unmarked, very slight corner wear. Cover differs from the stock photo - see my photo below. Book Description: Paris, 1878: Eccentric antiquarian Lord Littleby and his ten servants are found murdered in Littleby's mansion on the rue de Grenelle, and a priceless Indian shawl is missing. Police commissioner Papa Gauche recovers only one piece of evidence from the crime scene: a golden key shaped like a whale. Gauche soon deduces that the key is in fact a ticket of passage for the Leviathan, a gigantic steamship soon to depart Southampton on its maiden voyage to Calcutta. The murderer must be among its passengers. (*Shipping will be reduced to all locations). ; 8vo . more information

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Raven Stone/Turnstone Press. New. 2002. First Edition. Softcover. 0888012675 . Softcover is new and unread, no markings. 349 pages. "When Canadian Forces soldier Jen Blaylock’s father–an investigative journalist–and the rest of her family are murdered in an attempt to cover up illegal arms sales, Blaylock abandons military life to exact vengeance on the multi-national conglomerate she deems responsible. But bitter revenge soon becomes entwined with uncommon valour as Blaylock and her man on the inside, Mike Flanagan, struggle to uncover Integrated Security’s conspiracy to destabilize the world’s economy and arms trade...." ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . more information

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Paperjacks. Very Good. 1974. First Printing. Softcover. 0773770623 . Light edge & corner wear, light soiling, age tanning to covers. Internal pages are clean and tight other than a very light stain which affects top corner of first few pages. 234 pages. This Canadian author's second novel. Agent Charlie Sparrow races against time to track down suitcases containing nuclear bombs that have been placed in every major city.... (*Shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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Ace Books. Very Good. 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Light edge & corner wear, light creasing, light soiling, small tear upper edge.. Interior clean & tight, age tanning to inside covers & page edges. Based on the MGM television series The Man from U. N. C. L. E . In Utangaville, Africa, it took two days. In Spayerwood, Scotland, it happened overnight. In a small German Town, it worked immediately, in each place, people suddenly turned into mindless, babbling creatures, and then died a hideous death. Doctors and scientists were baffled as to the cause. Was it a sudden epidemic, an unknown virus? ... THRUSH has discovered a deadly new weapon for world conquest . (*Shipping will be reduced to all locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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Popular Library. Very Good. 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Age tanning to cover and pages, light edge & corner wear, light creasing, small tear to rear. Internal pages are clean and tight other than bookseller stamp inside front cover. "Iris Alexandria Foley - wealthy, gorgeous - Is she what she seems: a beautiful, rich jetsetter....or is she the most lethal Red Chinese agents operating in the United States? Joe Mannix is on the case..." From the hit CBS-TV series. (*Shipping will be reduced on this lighter book) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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Popular Library. Good. 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Age tanning to cover and pages, light edge & corner wear, some creasing on covers, small rubbed are on rear. Name written inside cover. Pages are clean & tight other than 1 or 2 tiny spots, couple tiny edge tears seen. "Iris Alexandria Foley - wealthy, gorgeous - Is she what she seems: a beautiful, rich jetsetter....or is she the most lethal Red Chinese agents operating in the United States? Joe Mannix is on the case..." From the hit CBS-TV series. (*Shipping will be reduced on this lighter book) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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Gold Eagle. Very Good+. 1988. First Edition. Softcover. 0373625081 . Ulight edge & corner wear, slight crease spine, date stamp bottom edge of pages. Internal pages tight & unmarked. 349 pages plus booklists. Out of the ashes and into the future.... Knakefish, California, is rich in currency of post-holocaust America-Gasoline. Almost leveled by the Soviet missiles that annihilated most of the West Coast, Snakefish is in the midst of a reconstruction, financed by a commodity far more valuable than the usual Deathlands jack. But greed and man's lust for power threaten to shatter the hard won peace and tracquiollity of this fledging community as disparate factions fight for control of the substance that will give the wealth beyong their wildest dreams. Ryan Cawdor and his companions emerge from a gateway and step into the path of a smoldering war for power... (*lower shipping avail to US & Int'l locations - noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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Ontario: Paperjacks. Very Good. 1974. First Edition. Softcover. 0773770674 . Signed/Inscribed by author on title page. Interior pages clean, tight & unmarked, light age tanning to edges. Cover has light edgewear and a little rubbing around edges. 237 pages plus booklists. "Once it was gold -- the b*tch-goddess men would kill for. Now it is oil - black gold - and it draws men even to the barren Arctic wastes where one false move means death....A chilling, fast-paced action novel of men who pit their lives against hopeless odds, praying and cursing as a well blows wild and the Devil's Lighter shoots its flames against the northern skies. " (*Shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Signed by Author . more information

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Harper Collins. New. 2003. First Edition. Softcover. 006000603X . New & unread. It has slight shelf wear (a little rubbing around edges) which is very minor. No markings. B/w photos. Book Description. . . . Sonny Barger is the number-one spokesman for the motorcycle experience. His New York Times bestseller, Hell's Angel, was an exhilarating history of his adventures with the world's most notorious motorcycle club. Now he brings us rousing, moving, and wildly entertaining true stories of his renegade brothers and sisters in the relentless pursuit of liberty, individuality, and the "ultimate ride. " .... (*Shipping will be reduced to most locations). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . more information

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Warner Books. Very Good. 1982. First Edition. Softcover. 0446301779 . Pages clean and unmarked, light age tanning to page edges and inside covers. Cover has light soiling, light corner wear and a small tear/light stain to upper spine. "There's blood on the sidewalk at Atlantic city - gambling's back and the ganglords are loading their guns. The stakes : complete control of organized crime. The question: which godfather will be number one..." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; (*lower shipping avail to all locations) [92-osl] . more information

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Johannesburg, SA: Macmillan. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0333133943 . Hardcover is clean, tight & unmarked, light foxing outer edge of pages, light age tanning inside covers. Hardcover light edgewear, couple tiny tears, small peel on front, light soiling, not price clipped. 8vo (8" tall). The author's third novel, a chilling story of a local African viral epidemic becoming a pandemic, and how the deterioration and decline of order and social services following the departure of the colonial powers from their former colonies in East Africa contributed to its destructiveness. (*Shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 8vo . more information

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Charles Scribner. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0684159104 . Hardcover is clean & tight, very slight war spine ends/corners, no markings. Jacket has very light edgewear & a couple small tears, not price clipped. A young junkie is found dead in the gutter, at the door of a social worker that he visited one week earlier. Now the social worker must prove that she has no connection with the death. Her inquiries put her life in danger, for someone wanted her dead, and it looks like it must be the one whom she trusted most. (*shipping will be reduced to some locations) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . more information

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St. Andrews, UK: Crinan Books. New. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0955017106 . New & unread, no markings, slight corner/shelf wear. 212 pages. A fictional account of a military action by the Gleneagles Task Force during the Falklands War. "How Argentina tried to blow up the Rock....At the height of the Falklands war, a well-equipped Argentine underwater sabotage team slipped secretly into Spain and made its way towards Gibralter. It's aim was to blow up vital ammunition and fuel dumps in the colony and sink any British warships in the harbour...." (*Shipping will be reduced to some locations). [osl]; 8vo . more information

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Canada: Random House. Fine. 1997. Softcover. 0394224663 . As New softcover. Out-of-print title. Bolen writes in a tough streetwise dialogue, not unlike Elmore Leonard in style.The hero of the novel, Barry Delta, operates out of a Vancouver, Canada parole office, not unlike the author himself.While he's a womanizer with a cynical slant on his job, Delta genuinely believes in good and evil, although sometimes he blurs the lines. ; 000326; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . more information

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Warner Books. As New. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0446529656 . Advance Reading Copy, 358 pages. As new condition other than one tiny tear to bottom back cover which also affects last couple pages. No markings. "The Mafia and the FBI compete to be the first to find a missing Columbia professor of Russian literature who may have Russian mob connections. Set in 1985, this crime novel is the product of a unique (and impeccably qualified) collaboration between the two headline authors: Bill Bonanno was a senior member of the Bonnano crime family, and former FBI agent Joe Pistone, better known as Donnie Brasco, went undercover to bust the mob in the 1980s. "; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . more information

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London: Hutchinson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library book in very good condition - mylar cover and a few stamps & stickers. Only lib marking to outside of book is a green dot on spine. Jacket is attached to book and there is a front pocket on endpage with several library stamps. Some tape markings inside covers and light soiling to outer edge of pages. A little light soiling was seen in the interior pages but they are clean & tight for the most part. An exciting historical novel set in Paris at the time of Napoleonic wars, with spies, agent-provocateurs, and the legendary French Detective, Vidocq. Peter Bourne is the pseudonym of Graham Montague Jeffries. (*Shipping will be reduced to most locations). ; 8vo . more information

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London: Harpercollins. Near Fine. 1993. First Edition. Softcover. 0586217223 . Only light wear overall, interior clean & tight. 190 pages. "When the skeletons of a woman and her unborn child are uneathed at the bottom of her newly acquired country garden, Sarah Arnott wants to know how they came to be there...She begins to peer beneath the summer surface of village life and discovers it to be a good deal less idyllic than she had imagined. " (**Shipping will be reduced on this lighter book) ; 12mo . more information

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Signet Books. Very Good. 1980. First Edition. Softcover. 0772300437 . light edge & corner wear, slight edge rubbing, a little soiling to rear. Internal pages tight and unmarked. 218 pages. A thriller of politics and nuclear power, the second book featuring Adrian Dumas. Super-Agent Adrian Dumas stars in a grisly game of nuclear power and peril - with all of Canada as a pawn...Dumas plunges into a maze of venomous evil and sadistic violence...while deadly nuclear pollution draws doomsday nearer and nearer... (*Shipping will be reduced on this lighter book) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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Signet Books. Very Good+. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Pages are clean and tight, age tanning to page edges. Cover has spine creasing and light edge & corner wear. Larry Baker was sure he was dreaming, and he didn't want to wake up. An English castle full of willing maidens, a big fat advence, all expense paid. All he had to do is write a grade-B movie starring Desiree Dawn, the lord of the manor's luscious wife and use the home as his setting. But his dream job turns into a nightmare... (*shipping will be reduced after checkout) [90-osl]; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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Signet Books. Very Good. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Internal pages clean & unmarked, other than bookstore stamp inside front cover. Age tanning to pages. Cover has light creasing & scuffing, some wear & rubbing to edges & corners. "Danny Boyd was a born sucker for beautiful blondes with lots of bucks, so when luscious Louise D'Avenzi waved a fat check under his nose and sent him off to Santo Bahia to play a peculiar private joke, Boyd was only too happy to humor her...." (*shipping will be reduced to all locations) [95-osl] ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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Signet Books. Good+. 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Moderate edge & corner wear, creasing to covers, a little edge rubbing. Internal pages are clean & tight other than 2 bookseller stamps inside cover. Age tanning to pages & inside covers. "Vampires, werewolves and a delectable doll named Chastity were the only tenants in the spine-chilling mansion of old man Chase....and when Rick Holman cam to call, all of them seemed to be out for his neck..." (*shipping will be reduced to all locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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St. Martin's Paperbacks. Very Good+. 2004. Softcover. 0312995423 . Clean, tight condition - light corner & edge wear, interior clean & tight, light crease on spine. Description: When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage--not by guns or bombs -- but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U. S. Intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves. (*shipping will be reduced after checkout to most locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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Victoria, B. C.: Trafford On-Demand Publication. Near Fine. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. 1552125858 . Excellent condition. Slight edge/corner wear, one corner crease seen. Interior clean and unmarked. ; 8vo; The book is historical fiction leading up to a fairy tale, although it is so well leavened with helpings of historical and archeological facts, that all may end up to be factual after all. What he calls the Celtic Domain is traced from its first appearance in the Middle Europe, follows the migration trail across Western Europe into Britain and Ireland, then deals with the apparently unstoppable spread of the Roman Empire into Celtic territory and covers the major battles that resulted. Arthur and Camelot fill the final section with a new interpretation that intrigues as it develops, and ends with an Epilogue that highlights the reasons why the Celts, known-world conquerors before the Romans, could not compete with the political and military sophistication of the Roman Empire. The Appendix, with its numbered sections referred to in the text, contains tidbits of little-known information and history that add to the enjoyment of the read. [295-osl] . more information

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Warner Books. Near Fine. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. 0446527378 . Excellent condition, only very light wear overall, slight soiling outer edge of pages, no markings. Author is a master of the legal thriller. First a powerful and infamous judge is gruesomely murdered. Then another judge is killed in the same manner. Attorney Joseph Antonelli delves into the heart of these mysterious events when he agrees to defend the man accused of the 2nd homicide. What he uncovers is a relentless conspiracy that threatens the very foundation of the judicial system....even as it traps him in "the perfect crime. " ; 8vo; 418 pages . more information

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Ballantine Books. 1975. Sixth Printing. Softcover. 0345241614 . Moderate edge/corner wear, creasing to covers. Internal pages tight & unmarked, age tanning to pages. Now that he was the rich Lord Greystoke, Tarzan became the target of greedy and evil men. His son was kidnapped, his wife abducted, and Tarzan was stranded on a desert island where he seemed helpless. But with the help of Sheeta, the vicious panther, , and Akut, the great ape, Tarzan planned his escape.. (*shipping will be reduced to all locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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Ballantine Books. Very Good. 1975. Ninth Printing. Softcover. 0345241592 . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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London: Harwood-Smart. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 0904507084 . Scarce title. Hardcover & jacket very good plus, ex-library with mylar cover and usual markings. DJ attached to book. Interior clean & tight, very light edgewear to book. Introducing England's first private detective in a dashing new historical series. From the grandeur of Stukeley Hall to the squalid underworld of Georgian London, the gallant Captain Nash pursues the clues in his first case. Blackmail, black magic and horrible murders spike the rakehell trail tha leads to the vast Wroth inheritance. 156 pages. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . more information

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Harper Collins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 0002240017 . Jacket & hardcover have moderate edgewear, light soiling outer edge of pages, interior clean & tight. Light soiling/scuffing to jacket, not clipped. Anne Cameron takes us into a world that is as raucous and as full of injustice as the wild west. Filled with a galaxy of extraordinary characters and twists of lust, violence and murder, this novel shows us the many forms the quest for love can take. ; 8vo . more information

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London: Peter Davies. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 043202073X . Scarce Title. HC is clean & tight, edgewear minimal, one crease along spine edge. DJ has slight soiling, slight edgewear, not price clipped. An excellent copy. 8vo. 239 pages. SUMMARY: Hounded by the Russian Imperial secret Chancellery, Henryk Barinski is forced to flee thecourt of the Grand Duchess Catherine and is again separated from his beloved Kasia Radienska, cousin of the last king of Poland. On his way to England, Henryk is pressganged into service on the lower deck of HMS Huntress.... ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall . more information

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Warner Books. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 0446531421 . Clean, solid condition. Ex-library book with usual type markings. Pages are clean, a little soiling outer edge of pages. Two pages at rear affected by split at spine have been neatly taped. Pages otherwise unmarked. Jacket has light scuffing, light edgewear. "Medicine Creek, Kansas, has been slowly dying for the last century. A small, quiet place, the primary occupation is still farming, Main Street is astretch of old and dusty businesses, and the nearest mall is 200 miles away. In a town where nothing changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place. Even more alarming, the bodies are displayed in bizarre tableaus. With the entire town in shock, FBI Agent Pendergast arrives from New Orleans to investigate..." [691]; Pendergast, Book 4; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 480 pages; Medicine Creek, Kansas, has been slowly dying for the last century. A small, quiet place, the primary occupation is still farming, Main Street is astretch of old and dusty businesses, and the nearest mall is 200 miles away. In a town where nothing changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place. Even more alarming, the bodies are displayed in bizarre tableaus. With the entire town in shock, FBIAgent Pendergast arrives from New Orleans to investigate. From the fields to the local caves, Pendergast discovers the remnants of a Prohibition-era moonshine operation and the truth behind one of the town's greatest mysteries: who was behind the Medicine Creek Massacre of 1865. Now, Pendergast must discover the twisted secret hiding within a four-generation Kansas family-before someone else is murdered. . more information

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Charles Scribner's. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library with mylar cover and usual stamps & stickers - light edge/corner wear, light soiling. Interior pages clean & tight other than a few earmarks and light wrinkling to a few pages.The pursuit of an English gunrunner by an Indian political agent through the high mountain ranges behind Kashmire provides the framework for this sensitive and unusual portrayal of an Anglo-Indian from youth to manhood. Through the long journey over the mountains, through storm & snow, we learn the strange story of their pasts - the pursuer and the pursued....; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . more information

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Ivy Books. Very Good. 1995. First Edition. Softcover. 0804114323 . Light wear to extremities, light soiling, sticker residue on front, light creasing. Interior clean & unmarked. 404 pages. Description: At a Catholic Mission in Yambuku, an oasis of peace and efficiency in northern Congo's vast jungle forests, Mabalo Lokela, a teacher, receives an anti-malarial shot for a raging fever and headache. Sister Lucie, a Flemish nursing sister, swishes out a syringe with a weak disinfectant. The next patients are injected with the same syringe and the sick man's virus spreads. Lokela was the first Congolese victim of a new African hemorrhagic disease that became known as Ebola fever. When Sister Lucie dies a few days later, panic erupts and hospitalized patients flee into the forest. With the convent connected to the outside world by a single primitive radio, the mission nuns can only pray and wonder if anyone will act on their cries for help. Dr. Close was part of the team helping define and contain the first outbreak of Ebola in 1976. He tells this story of death and heroism through the eyes of the people who died and survived this time of agony and terror.... (*lower shipping avail to int'l locations) [205-noto]; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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Little, Brown & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Cover is clean, light soiling to outer edge of pages, very light edge/corner wear, interior clean & tight, name written on title page. DJ has light edgewear and a few tiny tears/chips, light fading to spine, light soiling/scuffing to rear, not price clipped. 316 pages. "They had come to Capetown in the early years of the 19th century from the Netherlands, to escape the rule of the French. And now the British had occupied the old Dutch settlements to keep the Colony from the clutches of Napoleon. History has no more inspiring tale to tell than the saga of these town-bred Dutch people who left their homes and businesses to escape the unwelcome British administration and trekked up into the Interior of South Africa to become backveld Boers, or farmers..." ; 8vo . more information

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Lester & Orpen Dennys. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 0886190207 . Scarce title. Edition not stated, assumed to be first. Hardcover has slight wear & soiling bottom edge, green dot on top edge of pages from book sale. Interior clean & unmarked. Jacket has moderate edgewear, scuffing & several small tears/chips, not clipped, no price on jacket. Title is #16 in the International Fiction List."Murder, sacrifice, and love. It takes the dead as well as the living for a land to achieve itself, earn a history, and so become a place where man's life is fixed and real...."Author's first novel. A mesmerizing story of an already familiar future - of 1999 if not 1984 - so shockingly possible that it brings to mind the worlds of A Clockwork Orange & Straw Dogs, in which human life and value is at stake in a ruleless, violent game. A Novel of outraged idealism.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . more information

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London: Penguin. Near Fine. 1986. Softcover. 0140180974 . Clean, tight condition - only light wear overall, a few pages have a corner crease, light soiling to rear, no internal markings. 157 pages. ; 8vo; In many ways an autobiographical narrative, written at the start of the Great War when his son was at the Western Front, this is Conrad`s supreme effort to open humanity`s eyes to the meaning of war. It is the story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him with a ship becalmed in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever.... (*lower shipping avail to all locations) [180-osl) . more information

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Macmillan. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1969. Third Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover has light wear & rubbing to edges & corners, very clean. Interior clean & unmarked other than about 4 pages with a crease. Jacket has heavy edgewear and numerous small tears and chips, light soiling, rubbing to edges, not clipped. Juvenile/Young Adult reading. Synopsis: This is the story of young Deborah Cartwright and her brother David, and the part they played helping William Lyon Mackenzie escape afer the failure of the Rebellion of 1837 in what is now Ontario. ; 8vo . more information

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New York: Aqua Quest. Near Fine. 1999. First Edition. Softcover. 1881652157 . Signed by author on title page. Softcover is new and unread. It has light shelf wear involving some scuffing of the cover, a tiny tear to upper rear spine and a little wear/curling to corners. 437 pages plus booklists. Autographed sticker on front. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Book DescriptionLurking beneath an ocean crevasse near the edge of the abyss, Blackwolf, a deadly high-tech submarine waits to launch an attack of unimaginable horror. Can it be stopped before thousands die? In this sequel to Thief of the Deep, Ex-Navy Seal, Doc Holiday, vows to destroy Blackwolf and her evil crew..... [460? ]; Signed by Author . more information

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Putnam's. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. Not First Edition. Hardcover. Book club edition. Excellent, near new condition, clean & unmarked. 278 pages. "FBI agents Savich and Sherlock face two baffling cases in Catherine Coulter's electrifying new thriller. When six-year-old Sam Kettering is kidnapped and then manages to save himself, Savich and Sherlock join his father-former FBI agent Miles Kettering-to determine why Sam would be abducted and brought to eastern Tennessee. Although the local sheriff, Katie Benedict, kills the kidnappers, the attempts do not stop. The investigation leads them to charismatic, intense evangelist Reverend Sooner McCamy and his enigmatic wife. At the same time, Savich and Sherlock are desperate to locate the killer of five Washington, D. C. , teachers. And meet Valerie Rapper, a woman on a mission: she wants Savich in the worst way. . . " (400) ; 8vo . more information

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Doubleday. Good in Good dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385495838 . Ex-library book with usual type markings. Internal pages are clean, light soiling outer edge of pages. Jacket has scuffing & small edge tears to laminate, a little cocked forward at spine. "At the core of L. A. Requiem is Joe Pike, a former cop with a past as dark and foreboding as his demeanor. His only stable relationship is with his partner of twelve years, Elvis Cole, a talented and quick-witted PI with skeletons in his own past. When Pike's former lover is found dead at a reservoir in the Hollywood Hills, the duo is brought in by the woman's father to monitor the police investigation. But Pike's no stranger to the men and women in the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division, at least one of whom has been harboring a long-buried desire for revenge...." [707]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pages . more information

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Warner Books. Very Good+. 1988. First Edition. Softcover. 0446352780 . Very nice. Interior of pages clean, tight and unmarked, very light age tanning. Cover has light scuffing and very light edgewear. Matt Hawke, dedicated U. S. Narcotics agent, goes big-time in a war against New York's newest drug mob! ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; (*shipping will be reduced after checkout) [95-osl] . more information

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Middlesex: Kestrel Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 0722653042 . Ex-library book, but still in very nice condition, only light wear overall.. Light soiling outer edge of pages and a blue ink dot from a book sale on top edge which has seeped into top edge of pages a small amount. Interior pages clean & tight, back pocket. Set in 1787 Bristol, this is the story of Midnight, a brutalised, runaway slave, who takes refuge with a young woman, Jess, who herself is trapped in her own form of captivity. The couple become friends and lovers and seek their own independence from their keepers. (400-noto) ; 8vo . more information

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London: Hart-Davis, Macgibbon. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0246107421 . Scarce edition. Hardcover is clean & tight, has a small inscription on first endpage and slight soiling outer edge of pages. Jacket has light edgewear, a few tiny edge tears, light scuffing, not price clipped. The unexpurgated memoirs of the authors (fictional??) distinguished ancestor, the swashbuckling & charming Court Anaxagoras Gramont, and his rise in the world from the provincial second son , to courtier in the court of Louis XV, to a slave trader, to a prisoner in the Bastille, to eventually Marshal of France. Told in a racy, ironic style by the author of THE FRENCH and EPITAPH FOR KINGS. This is his very entertaining second novel with many fascinateing oblique references to 1 8th century French court manners and slang.; 001112; 8vo . more information

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New York: Harper & Bros.. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition 1952. Hardcover has light corner/spine wear/bumping. Small booksellers plate inside cover, pencilled price erased. Pages clean & tight. Jacket illustration by Robert J. Lee. DJ has light age tanning, light edgewear and a few small tears, lightly scuffed on back. Price clipped. 309 pages. SUMMARY: "The skipper knew and loved two women. One he almost destroyed and the other he married. The third and most dangerous love of his life was the sea, whose surface he sailed and whose depths he explored in fantastic diving expeditions. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall . more information

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Permabook. Very Good. 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Light edge and corner wear, a little edge rubbing, light scuffing. Internal page are clean other than 2 bookseller stamps inside cover (which are crossed out with black marker) and a little ink residue from one of the stamps on opposite page. Appears some sort of promotional card was removed prior to first page. Pages are otherwise unmarked. Psychological thriller. "It was like a nightmare - only she was very wide awake!" (*shipping will be reduced on this lighter book. ) ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall . more information

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St. Martin's Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0312192169 . Excellent, near new condition, only very light wear overall, no markings. ; 8vo . more information

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London: Granada. Good+. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. 0586056386 . Moderate edge & corner wear, some creasing. Light rubbing/peeling of a small area top corner where stickers were removed. Internal pages are clean and tight. "They called it the triangle - the triangle of lust, brutality and degradation that was the slave trade.... The story of Tom Derker, who lost his parents one horrible winter, and had to go out into the world to make his own way. He joins his Uncle William's ship - and finds himself bound for Africa on board a slaver. " (*shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 480 pages pages . more information

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Harper. Very Good+. 1993. First Edition. Softcover. 1561444669 . Light edge/corner wear, slight creasing, slight age tanning. Internal pages tight and unmarked other than small ink marking inside front cover. "The Team: AFRIKORPS, The time: 2177. The Job: Purge the Mountains.....The terrible cataclysm razed the earth. Now, many decades later, the bold survivors struggle to reclaim the world from the mutants and marauders who threaten them all..." (*Shipping will be reduced on this lighter book0; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . more information

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Dell Books. Very Good+. 1987. First Edition. Softcover. 0440128412 . Traveler #13. Internal pages clean & tight, no markings. Cover has light edge & corner wear, scuffing to rear. "At the end of the road, the lone warrior of the wasteland faced his deadliest enemy..." ; Traveler, No 13; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; (*shipping will be reduced after checkout) [95-osl] . more information

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Del Rey. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0345424026 . An attractive copy. First printing. HC/DJ - near fine. Hardcover has a little bumping to spine ends & slight soiling outer edge of pages - otherwise clean & tight. Jacket has light scuffing & a little edge wrinkling/wear, not clipped. "The Rivan Codex was published to answer the many letters David and Leigh Eddings have received from students, teachers, and aspiring writers. It's a companion to the 12-book fantasy series comprised of The Belgariad (five books) , The Malloreon (five books) , Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress...." [630]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 394 pages . more information

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