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659ChristiePaddington 4.50 FROM PADDINGTON, AKA "WHAT MRS. MCGILLICUDDY SAW". 1957 Ulverscroft Large Print Series, F.A. Thorpe. FIRST EDITION THUS. Exlib. Very Good Condition/ Very Good original black red and white dust jacket in a mylar wrap. MISS MARPLE . Please see our stock photo of a different title from this same series. A clean, solid copy. Summary: "Mrs. Elspeth McGillicuddy is on her way from a shopping expedition to visit her old friend Jane Marple for Christmas. Her train passes another train running parallel and in the same direction as her train. Then, a blind in one compartment flies up and she sees a man with his back to her strangling a woman.." A gripping read. HARD TO FIND IN UNITED STATES.
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4.50 From Paddington
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4.50 From Paddington
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203ChristiePaddington Agatha Christie. 4.50 From Paddington, 1957, Collins, London FIRST EDITION. USED. VG-/VG- UNCLIPPED DJ, ORIGINAL PRICE 12S 6D NET. Protected in a mylar wrap. Synopsis: "4.50 from Paddington (Miss Marple) is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in November, 1957 by Collins Crime Club. A Collins Crime Club Choice This work was published in the United States at the same time as What Mrs. Mc-Gillicuddy Saw!, by Dodd, Mead. 5 X 7 5/8. 256 pages.
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Agatha Christie: Five Complete Novels Of Murder And Detection
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Agatha Christie MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY: Five Complete Novels Of Murder And Detection: Peril At End House, The Murder At Hazelmoor, Easy To Kill, Ten Little Indians, Evil Under The Sun. Includes dust jacket. Complete and Unabridged. USED. VG/VG Dust Jacket. SCARCE. 1986, Avenel Books, NY Impression A. A very nice copy. ISBN0517618230.734 pages 6 1/4 X 9 3/8.
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Brave Irene: A Picture Book
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Steig, William Brave Irene. 1988 Sunburst Edition, 1986 Farrar, Straus and Giroux copyright. USED. VG Condition. Softcover. ISBN0374409277. Unpaginated. Large format 7 ½ X 10 ½. A story about love and courage. "Brave Irene is Irene Bobbin, the dressmaker's daughter. Her mother, Mrs. Bobbin, isn't feeling so well and can't possibly deliver the beautiful ball gown she's made for the duchess to wear that very evening. So plucky Irene volunteers to get the gown to the palace on time, in spite of the fierce snowstorm that's brewing-- quite an errand for a little girl." Written and illustrated by William Steig, Author/ Illustrator of Shrek!
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs (#75419) Tommy & Tuppence
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs ( #75419) Tommy & Tuppence Beresford FIRST POCKET BOOKS PRINTING August, 1969. Pocket Books, Inc., NY. 208 pages. USED. VG CONDITION. 4 1/8 X 7.
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A Caribbean Mystery (#50449 Miss Marple)
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A Caribbean Mystery (#50449 Miss Marple) FIRST POCKET BOOKS PRINTING October, 1966 176 pages. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION 4 ¼ x 6 ½.
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The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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Agatha Christie. The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery. 2013, Center Point Pub. Thorndike, Maine. LARGE PRINT EDITION. RARE/SCARCE THUS. ISBN 9781611737127. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. 350 pages. EXLIB. VG/VG unclipped $34.95 DJ. Synopsis: "A hired stenographer lets herself into her client's home only to realize that the body of a dead man is sprawled across the living room floor. When recounting the scene to Detective Poirot, She distinctly remembers a cuckoo clock striking three but all the living room clocks showed 4:13. Poirot determines that, even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house."
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Colonel Quaritch, V.E.
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H. Rider Haggard. Colonel Quaritch, V.E. Longmans, Green And Co. In 1 Volume. States New Edition , 1896, on the title page. USED. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Brown boards, silver titling. Titling is still bright. Plot summary: "After leaving active service, a decorated battlefield officer, Colonel Quaritch, VE. moves back to his ancestral village of Honham, where he unexpectedly finds more drama than he bargained for." 341 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 1/4. Handwritten inscription on first white front endpaper is dated 1898. By the author of SHE, PEOPLE OF THE MIST, and KING SOLOMON'S MINES.
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Comstock Commotion: The Story of The Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News
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Beebe, Lucius. Comstock Commotion: The Story of The Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News. Copyright 1954, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. Used. VG Condition/ No DJ included. A nice copy. USED. 129 pages 6 ¼ X 9 5/8. California Gold Rush, Mining, Comstock Lode, Virginia City Nevada. Journalism. History of California. 19th Century.
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The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. UKRAINIA
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UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.
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The Custer Album
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By Lawrence A. Frost. The Custer Album. BIOGRAPHY. Used - Very Good: Seattle, WA: Superior Publishing Co, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD CONDITION DJ. "A pictorial biography of George Custer - man or legend . . . hero or fool, George Armstrong Custer from boyhood to his last battlefield are all here in pictures." First edition. 192 pages, indexed. 8 3/8 X 10 ¾
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Dashiell Hammett: Five Complete Novels: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man
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Dashiell Hammett: Five Complete Novels. MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY. The Thin Man and his wire-haired terrier Asta dust jacket design. See stock photo. Unabridged. 5 Novels are: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man. 1980 Avenel First Printing Thus. Used. VG/ Good Unclipped DJ. Original price $15.95. Maroon leatherette boards with gilt titling on spine. titling is still bright. 726 pages. 6 1/8 X 9 ¼. Pages are toning at the margins.
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The Day of the Triffids
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Wyndham, John: THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, 1951. BOOK CLUB EDITION. Science Ficvtion. USED. VERY GOOD- CONDITION/ VERY GOOD WHITNEY BENDER DUST JACKET. One of the creepiest stories you will ever read. SCARCE.
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 Death Comes as the End (#55357)
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Death Comes as the End (#55357) By Agatha Christie. First Pocket Books Edition, 8th printing thus, July, 1968 USED. VG CONDITION. 179 pages 4 ¼ X 7.
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A Death of Kings
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Philip Gooden. Death of Kings. A Shakespearean Murder Mystery Featuring Nick Revill. Used. First Carrol & Graf Edition. ISBN 9780786708758 Publisher: Carroll & Graf, 2001 Used Very Good. Softcover. USED. 310 pages.
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Double Star. By Robert A. Heinlein. Doubleday & Company, Inc. BCE. 1956, Doubleday Science Fiction. CLASSIC SCI-FI. Used. VG/Good- original dust jacket. Summary: Lorenzo Smythe, an out-of-work actor, finds himself shanghaied on a spaceship bound for Mars and big trouble. 190 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ½.
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Facial Justice (1960, Doubleday Science Fiction W/ Vera Bock DJ) Please seestock photo. L.P. Hartley, 1960, Doubleday BCE. illustrated by well-known artist Vera Bock. Used. vg/g-. A nice copy. ABOUT THE ARTIST: "Vera Bock (4 April 1905 – 1973) was a Russian-born artist who spent most of her career in the United States. She is known for her book illustrations and for the posters she made for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression." Summary: Is your face making you unhappy or socially unacceptable, get a new one from the government."
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Freddy And The Dragon
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Freddy and the Dragon. Brooks, Walter R. Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Used. Very Good/ Very Good 1st Edition in the original dust jacket with $3.00 on the front flap. Wrapped in mylar. A very nice copy of a rare/scarce Item. Please see our photos, Freddy fans!
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Freddy And The Ignormus
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Freddy and the Ignormus. First Edition, Jan 1951 5th Printing thus. Brooks, Walter R. EXLIB. GOOD/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf, Copyright 1941, ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE.
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.
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