Search Results: Titles starting with B from Trolls Treasure

New York: Forge Books, 2002. First Mass Market Edition. Paperback. Fine. Voted the Greatest Western Writer of all time by the Western Writers of America. This is the 2nd book in the Texas Rangers series. The Texas Frontier, 1865. The Civil War is over and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. David "Rusty" Shannon, proud member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Indian depredations, finds that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his land on the Red River, hoping to take up the life of a farmer and the hand of the beloved girl he left behind, Geneva Monahan. But Geneva has married in Rusty's long absence and the country is filled with hostiles—not just Indians, but hate-filled Confederates, overbearing Union soldiers, and army renegades. Rusty's youth as a captive of the Comanches returns to haunt him when, in pursuit of Indian raiders, he takes as… Read More

New York: Tor Fantasy, 2005. First Mass Market Edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Cover art by Donato. If all that is good thinks you're evil...are you? Once upon a time the seven Shapers dwelled in accord and Shaped the world to their will, but Satoris, the youngest among them, was deemed too generous in his gifts to Men, and so began the Shapers War which Sundered the world. -- from the cover of the book. Book is in very good condition, would have been Fine except for a small tear on the front cover at the bottom, carefully taped from the inside. Otherwise, the book doesn't appear to have been read.

London: Headline Book Publishing / Review, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Former library book but very clean-looking, no stickers on the front of the jacket. Neat Spine and back stickers and label with stamp on the each of the flyleaf. There is a library stamp on the top page block, unfortunately x'd out with pen. Otherwise, the book is near fine. The dust jacket, not clipped, has little edge wear and is protected in plastic cover.

Camden, ME: International Marine/ MacGraw-Hill, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/good. White boards with blue cloth binding and gilt spine lettering. "In October 1776, four years before Benedict Arnold’s treasonous attempt to hand control of the Hudson River to the British, his patch-work fleet on Lake Champlain was all that stood between British forces and a swift end to the American rebellion. Benedict Arnold’s Navy is the dramatic chronicle of that desperate battle and of the extraordinary events that occurred on the American Revolution’s critical northern front. Written with captivating narrative vitality, this landmark book shows how Benedict Arnold’s fearless leadership against staggering odds in a northern wilderness secured for America the independence that he would later try to betray." - from the back cover of the book"James Nelson is a master both of his period and of the English language." - -Patrick O'Brian, author of Master and Commander Book is fine, appears unread.… Read More

Daimon, 1988. Soft Cover. Very Good. The Tenth International Congress of Analytical Psychology was held in Berlin, 2-9 September 1986. Its theme, "The Archetype of Shadow in a Split World", was the focus of 25 major papers, with prepared responses to 14 of them. Congress participants were s Book is in very good condition with moderate edge wear, bumped and rubbed corners and spine, especially back lower spine corner which is worn through to paper. Cover has surface smudging and scuff marks. First third of the book's upper corner has a light bend. The inside covers are toning and the page block has mild foxing. Interior pages are clean, no underlining.

New York: Berkley, 1999. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. These 19 stories by the masters of Western fiction--including Louis L'Amour, John Jakes, and Elmer Kelton--recreate the hardships and heartbreaks of settling and surviving on the American frontier in the 19th century. Book is in very good condition with mild edge wear and rubbing along the edges and at the ends of the spines, and the corners bumped. The inside of the covers and the pages are starting to tan. A name and date on the inside of the front cover have been erased.

New York: Berkley, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Outstanding Western fiction by Louis L'Amour, Loren D Estleman, Richard Matheson, Luke Short and many others. Book is in very good condition with mild edge wear and rubbing along the edges and at the ends of the spines, corners bumped and two mild creases. Very light toning to inside front cover and end page.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1996. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A fascinating glimpse into the life of a woman on the frontier. Readers follow Abigail Conklin as she and her husband leave the post-Civil War South in 1867 in search of land and economic opportunity in the West. Through letters written to her sister, she describes the hardships women faced, not only on the long journey, but also in trying to build a life on the plains. She writes of the difficulties of everyday life on the wagon-train, from the monotony of traveling all day in a cramped wagon, keeping her children happy despite the heat and dust, to cooking meals and doing laundry. She also describes the loneliness of leaving her family, fear of Indians, and the heartache of losing a child. She describes her growing appreciation for the beauty of the desert and acceptance of the life she has chosen. The story continues into the 1930s and nicely integrates historical details as the frontier disappears.… Read More

New York: Crown, 1998. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Both the book and jacket are fine with little edge wear.

New York: Feiwel & Friends, 2007. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Soft Cover. Near Fine. First novel by this Irish born-writer. Cover is not the same as the hard cover edition that came out in October of 2007. The title page is a black & white illustration that may have been intended as the original art work for the hard back edition. "A boy arrives at a remote village in the dead of night. His name is Ludlow Fitch, and he is running from a most terrible past. In this village is the life he has dreamed of: a safe place to live and a job, as the assistant to a mysterious pawnbroker who buys people’s deepest, darkest secrets. Ludlow transcribes the confessions in an ancient leather-bound tome: the Black Book of Secrets. He yearns to trust his mentor, who refuses to disclose any information on his past experiences or future intentions. But what the pawnbroker does not know is, in a town brimming with secrets, the most troubling may be… Read More

New York: Centaur Books, 1980. First Centaur Books edition. Soft Cover. Good +. On the 1/2 title page is the following "...written with the care and concepts...of a Lovecraft...the record of weird events and monstrous worship from colonial times to the present...events which culminate in strikingly vivid action and great horror." From the back cover : "...just as formidable as was your first encounter with Poe, Machen, Robert Chambers, or H P Lovecroft." Terrific black & white illustrations by Randy Broecker. Book is in good condition with moderate edge wear, bumped spine ends and soft corners. There is a remainder mark on the upper page block and some surface scuffing to the back cover which has a mild crease and light sepia-colored soiling, perhaps age -related, for this same sepia-coloring runs faintly down the spine. There is a name written on the back fly leaf.

New York: Orbit, 2010. Stated First Edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they're armed with pesto. Book is in very good condition with light edge… Read More

New York: Signet, 2000. First printing. Paperback. Good. In the first book in this gripping historical mystery series, Boston police reporter Michael Merrick investigates a series of fires--one of which led to murder--within a local Shaker community."Though there are fewer than ten Shakers extant today, this communal sect, officially named the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, once numbered some six thousand at their peak around 1830, spread among several villages in the eastern United States. In Mary Jo Adamson's riveting mystery, "The Blazing Tree," a structural fire--the latest and most frightening in a series of unexplained blazes in the Shaker community of Hancock Village, Massachusetts--has resulted in the death of an elderly man. Boston newspaperman Michael Merrick, on orders from his publisher, is propelled into impromptu undercover detective work at the village in the hope of unmasking the arsonist. Merrick's assignment quickly becomes a race against a clever… Read More

Santa Barbara, CA: Perserverance Press, 2001. First edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Book is near fine with very little edgewear. It doesn't appear to have been read.

Chronicle Books, 2009. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 9 x 7.5 inches, heavy book. "Drawing on botanical, mythological and astrological sources, A Blloom a Day is both an insightful divinity book and breathtaking gallery of 366 brilliant blossoms." "Renowned photographer Ron von Dongen matches these 366 blooms with their corresponding days of the year. A fortune based on the meaning of the flower, astrology, mythology reveals the distinct personality and destiny of those born on that particular day--making this book a delight for flower lovers and fortune seekers alike." Book is near fine, would be fine except for 2 impressions on the front cover and minor rubbing on back cover.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. 7.5 x 9.5 inches; 168 p. Illustrated with Color and Black & White photographs. Book is in very good condition with edge wear and bumping. There is a red remainder line (1.5 inches) on upper page block. Pages clean and bright. The dust jacket is fair with considerable edge wear, especially at the corners and the spine.

New York: New American Library, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. From the Bible, the Iliad, and the Republic to Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring, this revised and greatly expanded edition is a monument to the power of the printed word-an informative discussion of many of the most important works ever created. "I bought this book used from a library, along with a dozen others, a decade ago without much thought of what I was buying. Wow! I ended up with a lifetime of excellent reading. I've since had this book at my bedside, off and on, for the last ten years. So much excellent information is packed into this book that you can keep coming back to it and learning the most important writings of civilization. This book summarizes the works for you. With just a little reading you can say something like, "What Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity did was radically change our perspective of time and space, and matter and energy. He showed that all… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Another memoir by the author of The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams. Book and jacket are near fine with little edge wear, but the leading edge of the book was knocked hard by something thin that left a tiny ding on each board as well as the jacket. The dust jacket is not clipped.

Wilmington, Delaware: Middle Atlantic Press, 1993. Second printing. Hardcover. New/New. This is the author's limited edition of 250 copies of his book originally published in 1949 and long out-of-print. Illustrated history of this resort area from its beginning history as part of Letitia Manor in William Penn's days. 21 illustrations. New book.  The picture is a scan of the actual book.

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1971. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/fair. Black and white photographs and Bill Maudlin's black & white illustrations.  "This book can serve a multitude of uses to a multitude of readers: A "sort of" history of WWII; the story of how a young man from humble and poor beginings won a pulitzer prize for editorial cartooning, how an aspiring cartoonist gained national recognition and how other aspiring cartoonists may go about becoming recognized themselves. Highly entertaining with one of the most humorous and climactic endings I have ever had the pleasure to read." - review by B Seymour"If you want a worms eye view of the grim reality of the WWII Italian campaign then here you go. Bill Mauldin is one of my all time favorite Writers and more importantly Cartoonist. This gritty, humorous book about one of Americas toughest campaigns is one of the best books I have ever read. His story about Patton is worth the price… Read More