Fiction / Conspiracy and Espionage

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 243 pages, slightly yellowed but no marks or tears. Cover is good, no wear marks; it is faded on the spine and on the edges of the cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Atheneum, 1968. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 241 pages, no marks or tears noted. DJ is very good, wear at top right corner and faded on spine. Binding is fine, horizontally 1/3 yellow and 2/3 orange with lettering in silver. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Otto Penzler Books, 1993. First American Edition. Hard Bound. Fine/Fine. A story of international intrigue, with the character of Big Herbie Kruger present. Prior owner's name on ffep. 610 pages, 6.25 x 9.5. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1991. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Another in the 87th Precinct series. People magazine said of the entire 87th precinct series "Each book should be treated as a contribution to a fictionalized history of modern urban police work, a collection that has evolved into our finest procedural series." The book is covered with a library cover; the book and dust jacket are fine, the clear library jacket is rubbed. The prior owners name is written in the front. 332 pages, no marks, no tears. The spine is a bit cocked. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Pr, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Translated from the Spanish by Thomas and Carol Christensen. J. is a smuggler living on the fringes between Eastern and Western Europe, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. He has taken a commission to illegally trap a rare Russian butterfly, and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. Just over the border of Odessa she deserts him, so he goes on alone to their original destination, a small village on the Black Sea. Then she begins to send him letters, and he waits, searching for the answer that will lure the butterfly into his net and V. back into his life. 322 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. It has long been rumored in academic circles that a 16th century monk named Eisenrich took Machiavelli several steps further, writing a masterplan for world domination so dangerous the Pope had him killed to suppress it. But the text, On Supremacy, survived. This deadly document is at the heart of this novel, a chillingly authentic, compulsively readable thriller of global intrigue and political conspiracy that follows a desparate search for a fabled manuscript, one with frightening modern-day implications. The bottom right corner on the binding is bent in a bit. There is writing on the ffep in red marker (a price). The jacket has minor wear at the top, and on the inside back flap a piece, approx. 1" x 2", is torn off on the bottom. 393 pages including the document "On Supremacy." No marks or tears other than those noted. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1979. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Bound, Cloth. Very Good/Good. Sunflower, code name for the most dangerous operation ever attempted by the CIA: the kidnapping of four-year-old Anne Easton - the President's daughter. The man to act as kidnapper is Richard Owen, the CIA's top field agent. He is reluctant to take on the assignment until he finds he is acting on orders from the President himself. The almost impossible task is accomplish by Owen with dazzling inventivness. Then he learns things are not as they seem; an enemy, a man unknown to the President, is after he daughter, someone who wants Easton dead. One corner and part of the binding's bottom edge are worn. The bright jacket has a few small chips and tears, and the spine is faded. 247 pages, no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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