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Greenwich: A Fawcett Crest Book Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1972. Repaired; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Lightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Most explosive Mafia story of all from the publishers of The Godfather. 5 MONTHS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LIST. BOOK NUMBER: X1743. CONTENTS: Author's Glossary; Part One The Disappearance; Part Two The War; Part Three The Family; Part Four The Judgment; Author's Note; Index; Illustrations follow page 248. SYNOPSIS: It all began on a rainy night in October 1964 when the prominent Mafia Chief Joseph Bonanno was kidnapped by two gunmen on Park Avenue in New York. This is the behind-the-headlines story of that strange and sudden disappearance. But more than that it is the story of people--very real people--who live in the bizarre and gaudy world of the Mafia. How they think, fell, eat, sleep, love, hate, kill, seek vengeance. What they… Read More

Fawcett Crest Books, CBS Educational and Professional Publishing, a division of CBS Inc., 1982. Previous Dealer Markings (Store Stamp to Reverse of Front Cover); Previous Owner Markings (Two Sets of Initials Neatly Inked to First Page of Front Matter); Repaired; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Moisture Damage (Staining); Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE INCREDIBLE MANHUNT FOR THE HIT-AND-RUN KILLERS OF TWO NEW YORK CITY COPS... A TRUE STORY. SYNOPSIS: On May 21, 1971, N.Y.C. Patrolmen Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini, returning to their patrol car after having responded to a domestic disturbance call, were ambushed from behind by two gunmen. Jones was shot four times and died instantly. Piagentini was shot twelve times and perished on the way to Harlem Hospital. THE KILLERS GOT AWAY. It was only later that investigators learned the murderers were part… Read More

New York: Vintage Books - Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. A Division of Random House, Inc., 1966. Previous Owner Markings (Including Highlighting); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. An informed and searching analysis of the basic elements in Latin American history and character - essential reading for all who want to understand the crisis there today. BOOK NUMBER: V-312. ALSO KNOWN AS: The following chapters in this book appeared in slightly different form as follows: Chapters 1 through 7 as "Toward an Appreciation of Latin America" in The United States and Latin America, published in 1959 by The American Assembly; Chapter 8 as "The Political Dilemma in Latin America," published in Foreign Affairs for April, 1960; Chapter 9 as "On Political Stability" in Political Science Quarterly for June,… Read More

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Name Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. CONTENTS: CHAPTER One Introduction; CHAPTER Two Mathematical Preliminaries: Some Matrix Algebra; CHAPTER Three Analysis of Covariance with More than One Covariate; CHAPTER Four Multivariate Significance Tests of Group Differences; CHAPTER Five More Matrix Algebra: Linear Transformation, Axis Rotation, and Eigenvalue Problems; CHAPTER Six Discriminant Analysis and Canonical Correlation; CHAPTER Seven Multivariate Analysis of Variance; CHAPTER Eight Applications to Classification Problems; APPENDIX A Determinants; APPENDIX B Pivotal Condensation Method of Matrix Inversion; APPENDIX C Symbolic Differentiation by Vectors or Matrices; APPENDIX D Principal Components (or Factors) by Hotelling's Iterative Procedure for Solving Eigenvalue Problems; APPENDIX E… Read More

New York: Pocket Books a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., 1988. Remainder Mark; Repaired; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Heavy Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; Line of "8" Stamped on Lower Edge. A TRUE STORY OF GREED, CUNNING AND THE PERFECT MURDER. As gripping as Fatal Vision and In Cold Blood! COVER PHOTO: Mort Engel Studio. CONTENTS: Prologue; PART I The Scent; PART II The Hunt; PART III The Kill; Epilogue. SYNOPSIS: SHE WAS WEALTHY, BEAUTIFUL, AND LONELY. HER BODY IS SOMEWHERE IN THE SWISS ALPS. LOS ANGELES, 1970. Thomas Devins, known as The Fox, is convicted of murder in the first degree. His alleged victim: Norma Wilson, the rich, bejewelled woman he accompanied on a European investment trip. Her disappearance led to a two-year hunt for evidence--without a body. And Thomas Devins was the most elusive, brilliant suspect two dauntless investigators had ever trailed. For… Read More

San Carlos: Golden Gate Junior Books BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Name Stamped to Half Title Page); Repaired; Title Page Missing; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Missing. EXCERPT: In all the world there is nothing as big as the sea. The sea may seem as empty as the great sky above, but the fisherman who sail upon it in their small boats know that the sea is filled with life and mystery. Under the waves, down to the darkest deepest bottom of the vast waters, live all kinds of creatures. The denizens of the deep they are, and they are terrible and beautiful, small and mighty. Fisherman have always told tales about the sea. Who can say which of their tales are true or not true? One such tale is an old song called The Bold Fisherman.* The song does not tell who the bold fisherman was. It does not tell what happened to him after he fell overboard and sank beneath the waves. But this story is about who the bold fisherman might… Read More

A Gollancz Paperback Title Page Missing; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Diary of a Secret Mission to Russian Central Asia in 1918. INTRODUCTION AND EPILOGUE BY: Peter Hopkirk. CONTENTS: Introduction by Peter Hopkirk; The Land that Allah Forgot; The Holy City; Trans-Caspian Trader; Cotton Conspiracy; The Malleson Mission; Battle for Baku; From the Frying Pan into the Fire; The Committee and the Commissars; H.M. Representative in Askhabad; The Turkman Frankenstein; Predlozheniya and Izlozheniya; Alarms and Excursions; Scraping the Barrel; Turbulent Turkmans; Debacle; Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. SYNOPSIS: Seventy years ago, to escape the vengeance of the Bolshevik death squads, a British intelligence officer, Captain Reginald Teague-Jones, was forced to change his name and disappear. For, having been sent on a secret mission to Transcaucasia, h found himself accused of one of the most notorious incidents of the… Read More

New York: A Bantam Spectra Book published by Bantam Books - Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1989. Light Creasing to Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing to Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. Author of Grass. SYNOPSIS: Since the flames died three hundred years ago, human civilization has evolved into a dual society: Women's Country, where walled towns enclose what's left of past civilization, nurtured by women and a few nonviolent men; and the adjacent garrisons where warrior men live--the lost brothers, sons, and lovers of those in Women's Country. Two societies. Two competing dreams. Two ways of life, kept apart by walls stronger than stone. And yet there is a gate between them.... First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by Wilson McLean. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Moderately Creased; Moderately Scuffed; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: A Memoir of My Times. ALSO KNOWN AS: Part of this book, in slightly different form and under the titles given below, first appeared in the following publications: "You Know Who I Seen?" in The Nation; "Frank," "The Polling Place Memory," "Glasses," "Soap Opera Memories," and "Xmas Memory" in Chicago Magazine; "View From the 2nd Story: To Pros on the Break-In" in Rolling Stone Magazine. JACKET FRONT PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jess W. Brodnax III. CONTENTS: BOOK ONE 1. The Visit 2. Dreamland 3. Do You Like Bruegel? 4. The Greatest Story Ever Told 5. I Ring the Bell 6. The Dream-possessed 7. The Man Who Shook the Hand of the Man Who Shook the Hand of Napoleon 8. A Free and… Read More

New York: Viking Penguin - Penguin Books USA Inc., 1993. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Jean White, recently widowed, traveling in Europe alone for the first time in her life, feels she is blossoming in a way she hasn't since she was a young woman. Back then, she was a smart, feisty girl who landed a spot on War Stories, one of the hottest literary reviews in the nation. Her straitlaced military family didn't envision a stint as a war correspondent as the proper venue for their well-protected daughter, and much preferred that she settle down with someone reliable, like Al White. And so she does, but not before she lives just a little . . . Diane, her daughter, is a woman in the middle in every way, juggling her growing jewelry business with the demands of her husband and children with admirable aplomb . .… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Name Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Repaired; Insect Damage; Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. Illustrated CONTENTS: I. Origins and Youth II. Breaking Into Politics III. At the First Crossroads IV. Nature the Healer V. Back to the East and Literature VI. Applying Morals to Politics VII. The Rough Rider VIII. Governor of New York--Vice President IX. President X. The World Which Roosevelt Confronted XI. Roosevelt's Foreign Policy XII. The Great Crusade at Home XIII. The two Roosevelts XIV. He President and the Kaiser XV. Roosevelt and Congress XVI. The Square Deal in Action XVII. Roosevelt at Home XVIII. Hits and Misses XIX. Choosing His Successor XX. World Honors XXI. Which Was the Republican Party?XXII. The Two Conventions XXIII. The Brazilian Ordeal XXIV. Prometheus Bound XXV. Prometheus… Read More

Elgin: David C. Cook Publishing Co. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Jim Jones' onetime "daughter" tells her inside story of Peoples Temple...and why she left. BOOK NUMBER: A2707 27656. EDITED BY: Marshall Shelley. DESIGNED BY: Kurt Dietsch. CONTENTS: Preface 1 Georgetown 2 The Rainbow Family 3 An Indelible Mark 4 Another Stephan, Another Stephany 5 The Shock 6 My Way 7 God In a Body 8 The Religious Masquerade 9 Father Knows Best? 10 The End of the Sham 11 A Shelter for Marceline 12 The New Beginning 13 One Last Attempt 14 The Vigil 15 Going Home 16 Farewell to Leo; Epilogue - What We Must Do. SYNOPSIS: Here is the full, uncut, inside story, told by the person who lived in Jim Jones' home, idolized his wife, cared for his children, and toiled for his cause...until the sexual perversion, the blackmail, and the insanity of the cult forced her to… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons BOOK: Previous Owner Markings; Remainder Mark; Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Light Moisture Damage; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. SUB-TITLE: From Joseph Pulitzer to William S. Paley: Their Lives and Boisterous Times. CONTENTS: PART ONE: THE RISE OF FRONT PAGE JOURNALISM 1/Jimmy Bennett of the New York Herald Springs a Leak: From Clipper Ships to the Birth of the Associated Press 2/Bintel Briefs and Death in the Electric Chair: Captain Patterson Launches the Daily News PART TWO: THE GAMES TWENTIETH-CENTURY PRESS LORDS PLAY 3/Lady Galahad in a Wicked World: Katharine Graham and the Buried Scandals of the Washington Post 4/Gadfly to the Business World: The Extraordinary Story of the Wall Street Journal 5/"Punch" Sulzberger's New York Times and the Incorrigible Chandlers of the "Born Again" Los Angeles Times PART THREE: FROM GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK TO GUCCIONE'S PENTHOUSE: THE… Read More

Corgi Books - Transworld Publishers Ltd., 1989. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A Challenging Re-interpretation of the Crucifixion by the Author of Pontiff. SUB-TITLE: The Life and Inevitable Crucifixion of Jesus. CONTENTS: The Principal Players; IN SEARCH OF CHRIST 1. Towards Understanding; ANNO CHRISIT: THE CONTINUING PREPARATION 2. Jesus; ANNO CHRISTI: THE WORLD OF ROME 3. The Emperor; ANNO CHRISTI: THE UNHOLY TRIUMVIRATE 4. The Procurator 5. The Tetrarch 6. The High Priest; THE PASSOVER PLOT 7. With Intent to Murder 8. Hosanna 9. Pressing Matters; HOURS OF TRIAL 10. Beyond Arrest 11. Rush to Judgement 12. Roman Responses 13. To Herod and Back; BEYOND THE CROSS 14. The Place of the Skull; EXPLANATIONS 15. Attitudes; Chronology; Select Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: Moving beyond the carefully edited… Read More

Garden City: Garden City Books BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The Absorbing Life Stories of the World's Foremost Religious Leaders, and Their Teachings. JACKET DESIGN BY: Ben Feder. CONTENTS: Introduction; Moses; Isaiah; Zoroaster; Buddha; Confucius; John the Baptist; Jesus; Saint Paul; Mohammed; Francis of Assisi; John Huss; Luther; Loyola; Calvin; George Fox; Swedenborg; Wesley; Brigham Young; Mary Baker Eddy; Gandhi. SYNOPSIS: The twenty chapters of this absorbing book present the dramatic lives of twenty great founders and leading advocates of the world's foremost religions. Here are the historical facts and interesting legends associated with these forceful personalities that have inspired and influenced mankind through the centuries. In the telling of these vivid and fascinating… Read More

London: Pan Books Ltd, 1971. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; Spine Moderately Faded Due to Sun Exposure. SUB-TITLE: Unabridged. SYNOPSIS: This Time Next Week...the autobiography of a happy orphan. Father died in a torpedo attack, mother of cancer. At twelve, Leslie Thomas went to a Barnardo home. This is the story of the years he spent there. REVIEWS: "One of the funniest and also one of the most moving accounts of childhood that I have ever read."--Daily Express. "Leslie Thomas's book is all humanity, to which is added a Welshman's mastery of words... Some of his episodes are hilarious, some unbearably touching."--The Observer. "welcoming a work of rare beauty and skill"--Sunday Express. "Written with boundless enthusiasm and beauty of phrase"--The Sunday Times.. First Thus 2nd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over… Read More

Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, 1985. Repaired; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Heavy Creasing on Spine; Front Cover Moderately Chipped; Rear Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Leslie Thomas, Author of Best-Selling The Magic Army. SUB-TITLE: A Novel of 1940. SYNOPSIS: In the spring of 1940 the spectre of war turned into grim reality. And on the English home front, men, women and children found themselves swept into a maelstrom of fear and uncertainty while events abroad led inexorably from the debacles of Norway and Dunkirk to the horror and glory of the Battle of Britain. For the Lovett family--James seconded on a hush-hush assignment to work with Churchill and his brother Harry, a naval officer--for Bess Spofford, Joanne Schorner, Graham Smith and all the inhabitants of the historic villages of the New Forest, it was the beginning of the most bizarre, funny and tragic episode of their lives.… Read More

Ryerson Educational Division - McGraw-Hill Company of Canada Limited, 1974. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: Introduction; Chapter 1 The Early Civilization; Chapter 2 Opening Up to the West; Chapter 3 Imperialism and Rebellion; Chapter 4 Reform and Rebellion; Chapter 5 Revolution and Change 1910-1919; Chapter 6 Rise of the Kuomintang; Chapter 7 Life in Nationalist China; Chapter 8 Communism and Invasion 1931-1937; Chapter 9 War and Victory 1937-1945; Chapter 10 Fall of the Kuomintang; Chapter 11 China Under Mao 1949-1958; Chapter 12 The Sino-Soviet Split and The Great Leap Forward; Chapter 13 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1963-1969; Conclusion; Sources for Varying Views; Index. EXCERPT: PREFACE My aim in writing China: The Awakening Giant has been to increase the awareness of that great nation in the minds of… Read More

New York: Berkley Books, 1983. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: WHO IS THE MORDIDA MAN? mor*di*da: (mor-de-da) spanish v. 1. To nibble; to bite 2. n. slang; a bribe; v. to bribe. He is Chubb Dunjee. Former congressman. Semiretired recluse. A master at the fine art of persuasion through money. Now he's been brought in to buy back one very important hostage. But even the revolutionary kidnappers are just dupes in an elaborate scam . . . and the ransom is only the down payment.. First Thus 2nd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Richmond Hill: A Pocket Book Edition - Simon & Schuster of Canada, Ltd., 1974. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The author of this book is William Thomas who was born in Vancouver in 1943. His father was J. Alan Thomas, who was a principal and inspector in the British Columbia school system. At the age of 41 the elder Thomas went back to school and became a professor and then dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Education. William Thomas's mother was born Ester Watt and raised on a farm in Saskatchewan. During the depression her family moved to Vancouver where she became a teacher. Her younger brother, Frank Watt, was a Rhodes Scholar and is now a professor of English at the University of Toronto. William Thomas attended schools in British Columbia, California and Chicago, graduating from the University… Read More