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New York: Popular Library, 1963. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback, Popular Library K58. The first of Buchan's suspense novels featuring British adventurer, Richard Hannay, originally published in 1915, is now considered a classic of the genre and one as readable today as it was nearly a hundred years ago. Hannay, in London only three months after growing up in South Africa, had only one clue to the cult called Black Stone, a few words --"Thirty-nine steps - I counted them." scrawled by a dead man. And not the least of Hannay's troubles was he was a fugitive, wanted for murder. Text is clean and unmarked, tight and square, with a couple of damp stains on the fore edge and lightly age-tanned margins. The pictorial wrappers, with cover art by William Teason, are worn but whole, without tears or chipping or significant creasing. A collectable copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine/No Jacket. The first volume of Roosevelt's African big-game hunting memoir, subtitled: "An Account of the African Wanderings of An American Hunter-Naturalist." One of two first editions printed at the same time by Scribner's in 1910. This edition, referred to as the "Subscriber's Edition" with the W.B. Conkey Co. logo on the copyright page, contains many more photographs and illustrations than the trade edition issued at the same time. As the title page notes, "More than two hundred illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and from drawings by Philip R. Goodwin." 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches, 583 pages, including appendices and index, in olive-green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, and gilt border framing front cover illustration of herd of elephants in a forest. Boards show only minimal… Read More

New York: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. McCleary's first novel is this well-received historical mystery featuring Nellie Bly, the leading woman journalist of the late-19th and early-20th century and considered by many to be the first female investigative reporter. Bly is sent by her newspaper to cover the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, where a mysterious killer -- The Alchemist -- is stalking the streets and a plague epidemic is striking down thousands. Bly enlists a group of historical characters to help in her search for the killer, including Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde and Louis Pasteur. This is a first rate evocation of 1890s Paris and a masterful first novel by McCleary. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a small, quarter-inch tear at the lower corner of the front panel, o/w the dj is free of tears, creasing or chipping. It is not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Dell, 1970. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Dell 0199; one of Crichton's best novels, the five-day history of a major American scientific crisis at a government laboratory in Nevada during the 1960s; text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with a slight spine lean in white pictorial wrappers showing only minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1982. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. an adventure-thriller set in the Canadian oil fields by the author of "The Guns of Navarone," and "Where Eagles Dare;" mass market paperback; First Printing of the First Fawcett Crest Edition; text is clean, tight, square; pictorial dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear; Very Good to Near Fine.

New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1982. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. An adventure-thriller from the author of "The Guns of Navarone," "Fear Is The Key," and "Where Eagles Dare." First Printing of the First Fawcett Crest Edition. Text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show only minimal surface and edgewear.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1980. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A late novel from the award-winning MacLean, the crime/war-thriller author of more than two dozen international bestsellers during the mid-20th century. "Athabasca" is set in Alaska and Canada, where a group of men commit blackmail, extortion and murder as they hold the Alaska Pipeline hostage and where an American, a former oil-well firefighter may be the last hope for stopping them. Spine ends lightly bumped, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket is slightly off-center due to a folding error in the manufacturing process, o/w there are a pair of quarter-inch tears at the top of the spine, other minor edge and corner wear. No major tears, creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A decent copy of the later work of the author of "HMS Ulysses," "The Guns of Navarone," and "Where Eagles Dare.

New York: Knopf, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. MacDonald chose the coast of Mississippi rather than his usual Florida setting for his last novel, the story a multi-million dollar land swindle in which a ruthless realtor's plans to sell the federal government an island that may disappear in the next storm is challenged by an ordinary man for whom honor is more than just a word. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some slight soiling but no significant flaws.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2002. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author of the bestselling "The Name of the Rose" returns to 12th century Europe where he is at his storytelling best with this work that mixes history and myth in the person of Baudolino, a poor Italian peasant boy who meets and charms an emperor. The emperor sends Baudolino to university in Paris where he meets a number of adventurous friends and together they set out to find Prester John, a legendary priest-king who rules over an eastern kingdom filled with fantastic creatures and lovely maidens. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket is close to perfect, perhaps a touch of edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1972. First Printing, First U.S. PB Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Crest P1766; a later novel from one of the master craftsmen of mystery-suspense features a movie company on location on a ship in the Barents Sea, hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle; text is clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers with very slight crease on front cover, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Crest Books, 1975. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. VINTAGE PAPERBACK: Fawcett Crest Q2410 -- A collection of eight science fiction stories from the 1930s, collected and edited by SciFi master Isaac Asimov in the 1970s with commentary from Asimov on how these favorite stories from his boyhood led him to become a scientist and SF author. The eight include: "The Man Who Evolved," Edmond Hamilton; "The Jameson Satellite," Neil R. Jones; "Submicroscopice," and "Awlo Of Ulm," Capt. S.P. Meek; "Tetrahedra Of Space," P. Schuyler Miller; "The World Of The Red Sun," Clifford D. Simak; "Tumithak Of The Corridors," Charles R. Tanner; and "The Moon Era," Jack Williamson. Originally published in hardcover by Doubleday & Co. in 1974, this copy is a First Printing, First Edition from the mass market paperback edition. 384 pages including four pages of ads, in pictorial wrappers with front… Read More

Garden City: The Sun Dial Press, Inc., 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. A selection of 21 short stories by one of the world's great story tellers, these stories of adventure were chosen from 14 different books by London and range in locale from Alaska to the South Sea islands. First Edition, Later Printing. 309 pages in blue paper-covered boards. Title box on spine in gold. Boards show only a touch of wear at corners and spine ends, minimal surface and edge wear, with previous owner's last name on inside front cover. Text edges slightly foxed and soiled. Text is commplete, clean and unmarked. The dustjacket is worn and tattered, chipped at spine ends and on edges, and age-toned on back panel, o/w it is 95% whole with no significant damage to graphics or pictorial illustration. DJ now in mylar protector. A decent reading copy.

New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1963. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Cummings is widely regarded as one of the founders of pulp fiction sci-fi and fantasy in the early 20th century, publishing well over 700 short stories and novels between 1919 and 1950. His later novels are often re-worked versions of earlier stories. "Beyond The Stars" was originally published in serialized form in Argosy All Story Magazine in February, 1928. It is the story of a scientist's attempt to find and explore alternate universes. This copy is the Ace Books first edition, first printing. Mass Market Paperback, about 4 x 6 3/8 inches,160 pages in pictorial wrappers with cover art by Jack Gaughan. Wrappers show light reading crease, minimal other minor creasing and surface wear. No significant flaws or damage, no tears or scratches. Text is lightly age-tanned, o/w clean, complete and unmarked. Binding is firm. Not ex-library or remaindered. A collectable copy of an early sci-fi alternate universe.

New York: Paperback Library, Inc., 1965. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback; Paperback Library 52-848; a Science Fiction thriller from the Galactic Adventure series featuring Commander and Special Agent John Craig. Paperback Original; First Printing of the True First Edition. Text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing only minor surface and edgewear. Collectable. Scarce.

New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1953. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback -- Ace F-346: Three short stories from the early years of science fiction's golden age from one of the giants of the genre who is best remembered today as the editor of "Astounding Science Fiction" (later "Analog Science Fiction and Fact") where he shaped the early careers of writers such as Asimov, Heinlein, Sturgeon and Clarke as well as the genre itself. First printing, first Ace paperback edition (originally published in issues of "Amazing Stories" magazine in the 1930s, then as a hardcover book from Fantasy Press in 1953.). Mass market paperback, 224 pages including one page of publisher's ads and an introduction by the author. Cover art by Jerome Podwill. Pictorial wrappers show slight spine lean, light reading crease, very minimal surface and edge wear. No tears, no chipping or bumping. Text shows light soiling on text edges, age-tanning in margins. O/w… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The twentieth book in O'Brian's highly-praised English naval warfare series set at the beginning of the 19th century during the Napoleonic Wars and featuring British naval officers Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, this time in South America trying to help Chile break free of Spain's colonial rule; boards and text are clean, tight, with a very slight spine lean; the dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear, no tears or chips. Collectable.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The 20th novel in O'Brian's highly-praised series featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, officers in the British Navy of the late 18th-early 19th centuries, this time celebrating Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and beginning a journey to South America where everything will ride on a daring night raid against the might of the Spanish viceroy in Peru. Page 205 and the last two pages of the novel are dogeared, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows a one-inch, tape-repaired tear at the top of the fold between the front panel and front flap; the flap also has a creased lower corner, no other significant flaws, not price-clipped. Makes a very nice reading copy.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Set in the late, 19th century American West, this is Pulitzer Prize-winning McMurtry's story of the Cecil family's arduous journey from Boone's Lick, MO, to Fort Kearny, WY. Head of the family, Mary Margaret Cecil, has decided to hunt down her husband, Dick, to tell him she is leaving him. Without knowing precisely where he is, the family -- four children, an uncle, a grandfather and a half-sister, as well as a barefoot priest and an Indian, who join on the way, the family endures bears, bad weather and hostile indians and discover Dick's second and third families. Based in part on a real family of 19th century traders, the book was the basis for a 2005 film starring Tom Hanks and Julianne Moore. First Printing of the First Edition. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only a light crease at the top of the spine, no tears or chipping, not… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 1977. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Bantam 11149; L'Amour's story of Borden Chantry, marshall in a two-bit cowtown, faced with finding a mysterious killer who had, at last count, murdered five men in cold blood and was probably already thinking about number six. Paperback Original, True First Printing, First Edition. Pictorial wrappers show some wear including light reading creases, pair of creases across lower corner of front cover, some soiling on back. Text is age-tanned, with previous owner's name on front end page, and a slight spine lean. Overall, this copy is clean, unmarked, binding tight. First printings of this novel becoming hard to find.

New York: Random House, 1986. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The second of the three spy-thrillers in the Jason Bourne series written by Ludlum before his death in 2001 (later Bourne novels are by Eric Van Lustbader). Professor David Webb, still recovering mentally and physically from his first time in the role of Jason Bourne, international assassin, must assume the role again when a fake Jason Bourne commits a mass killing in Kowloon. The U.S. government forces Webb out of therapy and rehab in a quiet college town to resume his Bourne identity by kidnapping, Marie, the woman who saved him body and soul the first time around. First printing (with complete numberline ending with 2), First Trade Edition (there is also a Franklin Library limited edition). About 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, 599 pages including brief author's note, in black paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Black dustjacket shows author's name in gold and title in red on both front panel and spine;… Read More