Search Results: Titles starting with E from Better Bindings

Paperback in acceptable condition with yellowing on pages and cover do to aging. Image of actual book: slight tear on cover in upper right corner. Previous owner's name inscribed on inside cover. Gold inside cover page. Other than aging, this book is in good condition. In the early morning hours of 6 November 1943, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler receives the coded message he has been waiting for 'The Eagle has landed'. It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: Operation Eagle, Himmler's audacious plan to kidnap Winston Churchill on British soil. But, despite spectacular secrecy, there was to be no surrender without a fight ...For in that remote corner of Norfolk, an elite unit is gathered together. Ready to do battle for a nation against the most ruthless task force ever assembled. U7.

Book in --good-- condition. Some signs of use from previous owner. Some rubbing and wearing on DJ. A Los Angeles drug squad crosses the line separating justice from crime in an attempt to break the backs of the city's notorious Chicano gangs. 1989. A1.

Hardcover book in fair condition. Fading on spine. Spine tight. Pages clean but fading due to age. Spine tight. Deckled edges. Some foxing. Earth and High Heaven by Graham Gwethalyn. 1945. T2.

Used hardcover book in fair condition. Would be condsidered good condition but is bumped on tail pages 513-578 near spine. stain is also on tail near spine. Page 133 has been dog-eared. An exploration of the very essence of power centers on two men who represent different types of earthly power--one an eminent novelist and well-known homosexual, the other a man of God who rises through the Vatican hierarchy. 1980. A5.

Used book may have markings, writing from the previous owner. DJ has very little bumping, rubbing on the top, tail of spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. It is mid-October, 1997, harvest time in the Columbia Basin of central Washington state, a rich apple- and pear-growing region. Ben Givens, recently widowed, is a retired heart surgeon, once admired for his steadiness of hand, his precision, his endurance. He has terminal colon cancer. While Ben does not readily accept defeat, he is determined to avoid suffering rather than engage it. And so, accompanied by his two hunting dogs, he sets out through the mythic American West-sage deserts, yawning canyons, dusty ranches, vast orchards-on his last hunt. 1999. U15.

New. First Mariner Books Edition. Ned Ayres has never wanted anything but a newspaper career. His defining moment comes early, when Ned is city editor of his hometown paper. One of his beat reporters fields a tip: William Grant, the town haberdasher, married to the bank president's daughter and the father of two children, once served six years in Joliet. The story runs--Ned offers no resistance to his publisher's argument that the public has a right to know. The consequences, swift and shocking, haunt him throughout a long career until eventually, as the editor of a major newspaper in post-Kennedy-era Washington, DC, Ned has reason to return to the question of privacy and its many violations--the gorgeously limned themes running through Ward Just's elegiac and masterly new novel. 2017. B6.

New."You scuttering little bastard! What d'you think you're doing?" Norma Snape knew damn well what her youngest was doing. Caught with her purse in his hand, the last of her money clutched between his fingers, Nicky Snape was adding to a long list of petty crimes and misdemeanors. But before she could reach him, Nicky was out the door, quickstepping across the rubble-strewn yard, waving the bills as he disappeared down the alley and into the street. Doris Netherfield was cradling her husband, still trying to shield him as the intruder brought the iron bar down like a club, smashing Doris's skull as if it were a piece of overripe fruit, turning a simple job of breaking and entering into a question of murder. A29.

Hardcover book in acceptable condition. Bumping, rubbing, and small tears on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges have browning, yellowing, stains. foxing. The rear hinge is weak, with offsetting to the endpapers. Deckled edges. Guttering in between pages 24-25, 40-41 and 56-57. The glue on the spine has come apart from the binding but pages are still intact and no loose pages. Front, back boards do have rubbing and some stains (Image of actual book). Will send extra pictures upon request. Pages 54-59 has a stain in upper corners but do not interfer with reading material. A true crime memoir focused on how Hill became involved in petty crime as a child, and committed more serious offenses as an adult. Hill also details his drug addiction, and life in an opium den. The memoir charts Hill's rises and falls into and out of pickpocketing, burglary, shoplifting, drug abuse, and time in prison, until his final redemption. Al Hill is remembered as an actor, who had numerous bit parts in several… Read More

Book in above average condition with moderate use. Library card holder, stamps, stickers, markings and writing. DJ in clear Mylar cover and has moderate bumping, rubbing and smuding. Pages clean. Binding tight. Eavesdropping on Space: The Quest of Radio Astronomy. Book by Knight, David C. 1975. T13.

Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. DJ has some bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Pages deckled. A collection of five short stories- a visit to an aging artist; a retelling of a Celtic love story, a burglary, the mysterious disappearance of an MP and a picnic in the French countryside are all used to explore societies values, the friction of the old and new and the burden they all impose and the constant pressure to conform to either radicalism or conservatism or a mixture of both. A17.

Used book may have markings, writing from the previous owner. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. In Wales a young girl helps her father win a song contest and the grand prize that goes with it. 1962. A28.

Book in above average condition with moderate use. Library card holder, stamps, stickers, markings and writing. Pages clean. Binding tight. Discusses the basic principles of ecology with emphasis on the way man has changed his environment. 1971. T12.

DJ has some bumping/tears on the top/tail of the spine and edges. Top stain of black in on the top edges. The outer edges are deckled. Slight yellowing/foxing on the tail edges. Thick anthology has stories by Lewis Padgett, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie and others. 1967. A10.

Used paperback in acceptable condition. Sticker on front cover. Pages clean except for stamp from previous bookstore on page 3. Tanning of pages from aging. Smudging, spots and foxing on outer page edges. Slight bumping on corners and edges. Rubbing and smudging on cover. In the world overflowing with people, a world of standing room only, THE EDICT has handed down: For the next thirty years, there would be no children born. The penalty for violating this law was death for the parents and the child. But whenever there is a law, there is a law-braker. 1972. A25.

Image of actual book: Hardcover in good condition. Inside (blank) cover page clipped on top 1/3. Does include copyright page. No DJ. Pages clean. Spine tight. Very slight bumping on corners. Cover with normal rubbing and bumping. Effective Speech Including Public Speaking, Mental Training and the Development of Personality, Vol. 3: Manual V and VI by Dwight E. Watkins. In All This Rain by Stone, John. 1948. T2.

Used book may have writing, markings from the previous owner. No DJ. Slight bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges might have tanning, browning, stains and foxing. 1932. A21.

Used - Fair. Paperback. Signs of previous ownership. Some creasing to the spine and or minor damage to the cover. Damaged cover. The cover is slightly damaged for instance is torn or bent corner. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages. 1963. T7.

Used paperback in acceptable condition. Pen mark on cover. Pages clean with no writing. Curling of spine. Tanning of pages from aging. Smudging and foxing on outer page edges. Slight bumping on corners and edges. Rubbing and smudging on cover. When Elena de Ortega escaped the Spanish convent that had been her prison, she swiftly found that her incredible beauty made her a tempting target for every man, and her innocence offered no protection. One man she killed before he could master her, but the second time there was no defining her fate. Captive of a lover she should have hated yet could not resist, Elena was plunged into a torrent of adventure that swept her from the luxury and license of 17th century Spain to the unknown perils of the New World. 1st Jove/HBJ edition November 1977 stated in book. 1977. A20.

Softcover in good condition with slight bumping on corners and edges. Slight rubbing on cover. Slight smudging on outside edges. Satirical stories deal with superstition, bureaucracy, propaganda, appearance and reality, courtship, marriage, class structure, and education. 1984. A18.

Level: Ages 9-12. Ninth Printing. Ex-library book has usual marking, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing, little tears on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Two men take what they think is an elevator which in reality is a well equipped spacecraft and end up on the moon and encounter ribbon like aliens and have other adventures. 1955. B6.