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New York: Pocket, 1963. first thus. Mass Paperback. Fair. First paperback printing. Fair to poor condition. Cover has crease. Spine is creased and canted. Prior owner's initials inside cover; old bookstore stamp on advertisement page. Closed tear on pages 59 - 74. Pages are clean and unmarked, aging. Dampstain on bottom edge of last 20 pages. Pocket mass paperback, first printing June 1963 (stated), Pocket #4604, 185 pages. 12mo (6.5"" x 4.25"") The 21st Bertha Cool - Donald Lam mystery. Industrial espionage, a Peeping Tom, little is what it seems. More than one woman falls for Lam in the course of this investigation, due to his habit of playing square and treating them like human beings. Sgt. Sellers is a little dense at first, taking Lam for the Peeping Tom. The investigation moves to Arizona at one point.

New York: Worldwide Library, 1996. mass paperback. very good. First paperback edition, very good condition. No creases to cover or spine; tiny corner ding. Pages are clean and unmarked; inside covers are tanning. Worldwide Library mass paperback, 1996 first printing, ISBN: 9780373262014, 253 pages. 12mo (4.25"" x 6.75"") Reprint of St. Martin's hard cover first edition. The second Anna Peters mystery, preceded by A Safe Place to DIe, and followed by Time Lapse and others.

New York: DAW, 1986. first. Mass Paperback. Fine. Vincent Di Fate. SIGNED First edition. Like new. SIGNED and inscribed on title page by author to named recipient. Cover stock wrinkled when glued to spine. No creases or folds, appears unread. DAW mass paperback, DAW collectors #683, ISBN: 9780886771508, 1st printing Sept. 1986 (stated), complete number line. 288 pages, cover art by Vincent Di Fate. 12mo (7"" x 4.25"") 2nd in series, preceded by The Blackcollar, and followed by The Judas Solution.

New York: Pyramid, 1968. Mass Paperback. Very Good. Very good condition. Minor ding on front at top, faint corner creases on back. Spine is straight, not creased. Pages are clean and unmarked. Pyramid mass paperback, 3rd printing Sept. 1968, Pyramid # R-1785. 172 pages. 12mo (4.25"" x 7"") Second in the Tecumseh Fox detective series, preceded by Double for Death and followed by The Broken Vase. This story was re-worked into the Nero Wolfe story Bitter End, published in book form in the collection Death Times Three, with Archie and Nero splitting up Fox's activities.

London: The Reprint Society, 1956. 1st thus. Hardcover. good/missing. Ralph Thompson. Dust jacket missing. Bound in yellow cloth, with gold print in black label on the spine. Prior owner's name on front free end paper; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. The Reprint Society hard cover, missing dust jacket; 1956. 254 pages, many illustrations by Ralph Thompson. 12mo (7.5"" x 5"") The Bafut Beagles by British naturalist Gerald Durrell tells the story of Durrell's collecting expedition to the Cameroons, made in 1949, with Kenneth Smith. Originally published in 1954, it was Durrell's third book for popular audiences.

New York: Doubleday, 1984. first. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Al Nagy. First edition. Very good book in good dust jacket. Jacket has small closed cut at spine and tiny rub on hinge, now in new removable protective cover. Blue boards, with navy cloth covered spine with gilt printing. Pages are clean and unmarked. Doubleday hardcover with dust jacket, 1st edition, 1st printing (stated), August 1984, ISBN: 9780385195416, 212 pages. Cover art by Al Nagy. 8vo (8.5"" x 5.5"") 4th in series. 12 more Black Widower stories, 3 printed here for the first time. In the introduction, Asimov makes a passing reference to the illness which will eventually take his life. Stories: Neither Brute Nor Human, Sixty Million Trillion Combinations, The Woman in the Bar, The Driver, The Good Samaritan, The Year of the Action, Can You Prove It?, The Phoenician Bauble, A Monday in April, The Redhead, The Wrong House, The Intrusion. Asimov includes an introduction to the book, and an afterword to each story.

Average good condition. Cover and spine have creases and wear. Spine is straight, but print is fading. Pages are clean and unmarked, tanning. Berkley mass paperback, Oct. 1983. ISBN 9780425062746, 294 pages, cover art by Don Ivan Punchatz. 12mo (4.25" x 6.75") There was a prior limited edition hardcover published by Fantasia Press – followed by a trade (large) paperback edition. This is the mass paperback edition. Dorothy Gale's son, Hank Stover, accidentally flies his biplane to Oz.

Riverdale, NY: Baen, 1991. first. Mass Paperback. very good. Stephen Hickman. First edition. Cover has raised print, embossed image. Almost like new. Inside of covers are tanning; pages clean and unmarked, off white. Baen mass paperback, first edition (stated), first printing Oct 1991. ISBN: 9780671720834, 389 pages, cover art by Stephen Hickman. 12mo (6.75"" x 4.25"") Paperback original. Winner, 1991 HOMer Award, 1992 Hugo Award, 1992 Locus Poll Award. Nominated, 1991 Nebula Award. #2 in Vorkosigan series, preceded by Shards of Honor, and followed by The Warrior's Apprentice, The Vor Game, and others.

First printing of this edition. Like new. Dust jacket is in excellent condition, bright and shiny with no chips, tears, or noticeable wear; now in new removable protective cover. Blue boards, with silver print on navy spine. Pages are light, clean, and unmarked. Baen Books / Science Fiction Book Club hardcover with dust jacket, August 1993, SFBC # 00998, 277 pages, cover art by Bob Eggleton. 8vo (8.5" x 5.75") Previously published in mass paperback, and in a limited leather bound edition. Winner, 1991 HOMer Award, 1992 Hugo Award, 1992 Locus Poll Award. Nominated, 1991 Nebula Award. #2 in Vorkosigan series, preceded by Shards of Honor, and followed by The Warrior's Apprentice, The Vor Game, and others.

Riverdale, NY: Baen, 1991. first. Mass Paperback. very good. Stephen Hickman. First edition. Cover has raised print, embossed image. Cover has tiny corner ding, but no creases; spine is straight, not creased. Inside of covers are tanning; pages clean and unmarked, off white. Baen mass paperback, first edition (stated), first printing Oct 1991. ISBN: 9780671720834, 389 pages, cover art by Stephen Hickman. 12mo (6.75"" x 4.25"") Paperback original. Winner, 1991 HOMer Award, 1992 Hugo Award, 1992 Locus Poll Award. Nominated, 1991 Nebula Award. #2 in Vorkosigan series, preceded by Shards of Honor, and followed by The Warrior's Apprentice, The Vor Game, and others.

Garden City: Baen, 1993. first thus. Hardcover. fine/fine. Bob Eggleton. First printing of this edition. Like new. Dust jacket is in excellent condition, bright and shiny with no chips, tears, or noticeable wear; now in new removable protective cover. Blue boards, with silver print on navy spine. Pages are light, clean, and unmarked. Baen Books / Science Fiction Book Club hardcover with dust jacket, August 1993, SFBC # 00998, 277 pages, cover art by Bob Eggleton. 8vo (8.5"" x 5.75"") Previously published in mass paperback, and in a limited leather bound edition. Winner, 1991 HOMer Award, 1992 Hugo Award, 1992 Locus Poll Award. Nominated, 1991 Nebula Award. #2 in Vorkosigan series, preceded by Shards of Honor, and followed by The Warrior's Apprentice, The Vor Game, and others.

Dust jacket is in excellent condition with light wear at spine; now in new removable protective cover. Quarter bound in black, with gray boards, with gilt print on spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Doubleday / Science Fiction Book Club hard cover with dust jacket, May 1992, SFBC #17907, ISBN: 9780385420785, 635 pages, cover art by Barclay Shaw. 8vo (5.75" x 8.5") 40 stories by the master, including: The Bicentennial Man (winner, 1976 Nebula Award, 1977 Hugo Award; basis of film); Founding Father (nominated, 1965 Nebula Award); 4 Susan Calvin Robot stories (Evidence, Galley Slave, Lenny, and Feminine Intuition); an Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw story (Mirror Image); 3 Wendell Urth sf mystery stories (The Singing Bell, The Talking Stone, and The Key); and 30 others dating from 1941 to 1976.

New York: DAW, 2018. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Jody A. Lee. First edition. Like new. Dust jacket now in new removable protective cover. Red boards with silver print on burgundy spine. DAW hard cover with dust jacket, first edition, first printing Oct. 2018 (stated), complete number line. ISBN: 9780756408749, DAW Collectors #1800. 314 pages. Cover art by Jody A. Lee. 8vo (6.25"" x 9.25"") 13th in The Elemental Masters series, preceded by A Scandal in Battersea and followed by The Case of the Spellbound Child.

Good book with flaws as noted, complete with dust jacket. Jacket is in poor condition with many chips and tears, not price clipped ($7.95); now in new removable protective cover. Sturdy beige cloth covered boards, gilt print in red box on spine. Boards show light scuffs and edge wear. Slight darkening at bottom of spine. Underlines and tiny margin notes in Categories, On Interpretation, Metaphysics, On the Soul, and Nichomachean Ethics. Other works clean and unmarked. Random House hard cover, with dust jacket. 1941 edition, 19th printing, date not stated. 1487 pages. 8vo (9.25"" x 6.25"") Edited with an introduction by Richard McKeon. Licensed from the Complete Works of Aristotle as published by Oxford University Press. Major works, complete: Physics, Metaphysics, Nichomachean Ethics, Politics, Poetics. Minor works, complete: Categories, On Interpretation, Posterior Analytics, On Generation and Corruption, On the Soul, On Memory and Reminiscence, On Dreams, On Prophesying by Dreams. Major excerpts… Read More

New York: Modern Library, 1977. hardcover. Good/Good. Dust jacket has some soiling and a small closed tear on the rear hinge; is not price clipped; now in new removable protective cover. Some highlighting and underlining throughout, mostly in the section, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex.

New York: Bantam, 1968. Mass Paperback. fair. Cover is creased. Spine is creased, canted. Bookstore stamp inside front cover and brief note in pencil on advertisement page. Pages clean and unmarked, light tanning at edges. Bantam mass paperback, 2nd printing May 1968, Bantam #F3719, 156 pages. 12mo (7" x 4.25") The 13th Nero Wolfe book, preceded by Too Many Women, and followed by The Second Confession. First in Arnold Zeck series, followed by The Second Confession, and In the Best Families.

New York: Tor, 1992. Trade paperback. Like new.. Ron Miller. Like new. Red paper cover with black print. This is an advance uncorrected proof, a trade paper copy produced prior to the first edition of the hard cover. Tor, July 1992 (stated), complete number line. ISBN 9780312851545, 368 pages, cover art by Ron Miller. 8vo (8.5"" x 5.5"") . A

New York: Tor, 1992. first. hard cover. Very Good/good. Ron Miller. First edition. Slight edge wear to dust jacket, now in new removable protective cover. Red boards, silver print on spine. Light bumps to boards and corners. Pages clean, light, unmarked. Tor hardback with dust jacket, first edition, first printing July 1992 (stated), complete number line. ISBN 9780312851545, 368 pages, cover art by Ron Miller. 8vo (8.5"" x 5.5"") A

New York: Del Rey, 2010. First. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Steve Stone. First edition. Good book in very good dust jacket, now in new removable protective cover. Gray boards with gilt letters on the spine; boards are slightly soiled. Pages are clean and unmarked, deckle edges. Del Rey hardcover with dust jacket, first edition (stated) August 2010, first printing (complete number line). ISBN: 9780345484178, 353 pages. Cover art by Steve Stone. 8vo (6.5"" x 9.5"") Bearers of the Black Staff is the first volume in the Legends of Shannara story arc, followed by The Measure of the Magic .

Garden City: Doubleday, 1963. first thus. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Howard Burns. First printing of this book club edition. Good book in fair dust jacket. Jacket is tanning, with chips and closed tears; now in new removable protective cover. Gray boards with silver print on the spine. Top edge is orange; remainder mark. Pages are clean and unmarked; old book smell. Doubleday / Science Fiction Book Club hard cover with dust jacket, first printing May 1963 (code #17); 207 pages. 8vo (5.75"" x 8.5"") Internet sources say: According to Peter Nicholls this is a fix-up of ""The Great Engine"", ""The Wonderful Man"" (under the title ""The Changeling""), and ""The Beast"" originally published in ''Astounding Science Fiction'' 1943, 1944. Each story has undergone substantial revision, but ""The Changeling"" was thoroughly re-written. Chapters 12 and 13 are original to this book.