Action Adventure - Anthologies

New York: Forge Books, 2001. (xii, xii, xii) 404, 340, 367 pp. All three books have edge and corner wear with uncreased spines; not store stamps. These anthologies contain: Lash Up by Larry Bond; Leadership Material by Dale Brown; Breaking Point by David Hagberg; Al Jihad by Stephen Coonts; Inside Job by Dean Ing; Skyhawks Forever by Barrett Tillman; Cybernights by Harold Coyle; There is No War in Melnica by Ralph Peters; Cav by James Cobb; and Flight of Endeavour by R. J. Pineiro. Scans are available for all books.. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. action; collectible; collectable;. more information

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New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1948. 255 pp. Violet weave boards decorated with black. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Leap Before You Look; Tale of Two Horses; The Play's the Limit; and A Nose for News by B. J. Chute; Mannikin Talk by William Byron Mowery; My Brother Bill by C. Lyn Fox; His Name on the Cup by David Lorraine; The Long Tradition by Walter Havighurst; Peculiar Pooch by Ruth Gilbert Cochrane; Flood Bound; and Barton's Coldest Fire by C. W. Whittemore; A Fool on Skis by Owen Grant; Pioneer Man by Jack Anderson; Love of Horses; and A Rooster for Thanksgiving by Russell Gordon Carter. Scans are available for all books.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Frank Wright;. 8vo. action; collectible; collectable;. more information

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New York: Curtis Books with Doubleday, 1967. 368 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; yellow endpapers; headband. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; previous owner's name on the front pastedown; price clipped. Laminated dj. This anthology contains: Run from the Hangman by Geoffred Household; Reunion with Terror by Martha Albrand; The Dream by Agatha Christie; Set Up for Murder; and Motive for Murder by Richard Stern; The Mystery of the Master Safe Cracker by Robert Standish; Dead Man in the Water by Philip Wylie; One of the Dead by William Wood; Hand Upon the Waters by William Faulkner; The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson; The Woman Who Wouldn't Stay Dead by Gerald Kersh; and The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. Scans are available for all books.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo. saturday evening post; action; collectible; collectable;. more information

Offered by W. Fraser Sandercombe (Canada)

New York: Curtis Books with Doubleday, 1967. 368 pp. Red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; yellow endpapers; headband. Some discolouration on the dustjacket with wear at the corners and at the head and foot of the spine; clipped on the upper right corner of the front flap. This anthology contains: Run from the Hangman by Geoffred Household; Reunion with Terror by Martha Albrand; The Dream by Agatha Christie; Set Up for Murder; and Motive for Murder by Richard Stern; The Mystery of the Master Safe Cracker by Robert Standish; Dead Man in the Water by Philip Wylie; One of the Dead by William Wood; Hand Upon the Waters by William Faulkner; The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson; The Woman Who Wouldn't Stay Dead by Gerald Kersh; and The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. Scans are available for all books.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo. saturday evening post; action; collectible; collectable;. more information

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New York: A. S. Barnes, 1952. (vii) 311 pp. Green boards with yellow and white lettering on the spine. Light rubbing on the edges of both the dustjacket and the book; price clipped. This anthology contains: Water is for Washing by Robert A. Heinlein; Flame on the Frontier by Dorothy M. Johnson; Pickles and Pearls by Desmond Hall; Run for Your Life by Rui Chestor [Sidney Hobson Courtier;] The Madman by Pat Frank [Arthur Frank Ebert;] Calculated Risk by George C. Appell; Murder Tavern by Howard Bloomfield; The Sharks Were Hungry by Dorothy Cottrell; A Long Way from Home by Vern Sneider; Passage to Kentucky by Everett M. Webber; Danger Wears Two Faces by John Wells; The Lady and the Tumblers by Merle Constiner; One Guy One Gal One Island by William Holder; The Skipper Played it Safe by Davis Lott; and Burn Him Out by Frank Bonham. Scans are available for all books.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo. supernatural literature; gga; good girl art; collectible; collectable; weird tales;. more information

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New York: Galahad Books, 1986. 431 pp. First Thus. Blue boards lettered in silver on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact. No interior markings. Dj art by N. C. Wyeth. Illustrated with 18 drawings by Peter Hurd. This collection contains: Foreword by N. C. Wyeth; The Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson; The Fight in the Foretop by James Boyd; Collision at Sea by Frank T. Bullen; The Voyage of 1492 by Christopher Columbus; The Wreck of the Royal Caroline by James Fenimore Cooper; Death at Sea; and North Wester by Richard Henry Dana; Three Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe; Dante's Escape from the Chateau D'If by Alexander (Alexandre) Dumas; The Specksioneer by Elizabeth Gaskell; How Captain John Ribault Planted a Colony in Florida by Richard Hakluyt; The Raft of Odysseus by Homer; The Devil Fish; and An Imprisoned Thunderstorm by Victor Hugo; The Phantom Island by Washington Irving; The Iron Clads by Mary Johnston; How Amyas Threw His Sword Into the Sea by Charles Kingsley; Fog by Jack London; Iceland Fisherman by Pierre Loti; Mr Midshipman Easy Makes a Bet by Captain Marryat; The Flight of the Smugglers by John Masefield; The Great White Whale; and Rounding Cape Horn by Herman Melville; The Mutiny on the Bounty by Guy Murchie; A Descent into the Maelstrom by Edgar Allan Poe; Sir Richard Grenville and the Spanish Armada by Sir Walter Raleigh; Attacked by Pirates by Charles Reade; The Derelict Neptune by Morgan Robertson; The Cruise of the Torch by Michael Scott; Trafalgar by Robert Southey; The Man with the Belt of Gold by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Rescue of a Castaway; and An Unknown Species of Whale by Jules Verne; and The Ballad of Clampherdown by Rudyard Kipling. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0883657074. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by Peter Hurd;. 8vo. seafaring maritime marine naval seagoing nautical adventure; collectible; collectable;. more information

Offered by W. Fraser Sandercombe (Canada)