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Previous Owner Markings (Yellow Highlighting Throughout); Repaired; Moderately Scuffed on Rear Cover; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. North American Showing 1977. Nelson Gallery of Art--Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri. SUB-TITLE: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art. EXHIBITION ORGANIZED BY: Ralph T. Coe in cooperation with the Arts Council of Great Britain with the support of the British-American Associates. SUPPORTED BY: American Can Company Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; National Endowment for the Humanities; Missouri Arts Council. PARTIAL FUNDING FOR THIS CATALOGUE GRATEFULLY RECEIVED FROM: The Helen G. Bonfils Charitable Trust, Kansas City, Missouri. EXHIBITION DESIGNED IN LONDON BY: Barry Mazur and Brian Griggs. EXHIBITION DESIGNED IN KANSAS CITY BY: Michael Hagler. EDITED IN ENGLAND BY:… Read More

Fontana/Collins, 1975. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: Ian MacHorton, a young officer in the first long-range penetration raid of Wingate's Chindits into Japanese-dominated Burma, was wounded in the leg and left to die in the jungle or surrender to the Japanese. He decided to walk to the Allied lines. Starving, wounded again and taken prisoner, raving, involved in violent jungle fighting, and embarking on perilous river crossings in leaky boats under fire, he somehow survived and reached India. - and - The first long-range penetration of Wingate's Chindits into Japanese-dominated Burma in 1943 is, in itself, a story of incredible fortitude, courage and determination. Ian MacHorton, as a young officer in that raid, faced every privation that that most vicious of campaigns could offer. Wounded in the leg, and so left to die or surrender to the Japanese, he decided to confront… Read More

Toronto: Ballantine Books, Ltd., 1975. Previous Dealer Markings; Upper Edges Lightly Gouged; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. THE LONG-AWAITED NEW NOVEL. SYNOPSIS: CUCKOO WAS COMING. No one knew what it was--but everyone knew it was trouble. Designated Object Lambda when it first appeared on the fringes of the galaxy, 20,000 light-years away, it was traveling at one sixth the speed of light. The astrophysicists said that it was vast...light...and had the potential for utter destruction. So an existing space probe was reoriented to intercept, and staffed with replicates of both humans and aliens. Then the space probe began to leak radiation... - and - Tachyon transmission was a marvelous invention. A man could send infinite replicates of himself anywhere in the galaxy--wherever duty called. If one of the copies got killed, so what? The original would still be… Read More

New York: A Del Rey Book Published By Ballantine Books - Random House, Inc., 1980. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. At midnight on a strange and distant planet, they would remake the Universe - or destroy it! SYNOPSIS: WHO WAS NATHAN BRAZIL...AND WHAT WAS HE DOING ON THE WELL WORLD? Entered by a thousand unsuspected gateways - built by a race lost in the clouds of time - the planet its dwellers called the Well World turned beings of every kind into something else. There spacefarer Nathan Brazil found himself companioned by a batman, an amorous female centaur and a mermaid - all once as human as he. Yet Nathan Brazil's metamorphosis was more terrifying than any of those...and his memory was coming back, bringing with it the secret of the Well World. For at the heart of the bizarre planet lay the goal of every being that had ever lived - and Nathan Brazil and his comrades were...lucky?...enough to find it!. First… Read More

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation - G. P. Putnam's Sons BOOK: Spine Bumped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Heavily Creased; Heavily Chipped; Light Sticker Pull; Moderate Moisture Damage; Lightly Soiled; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Final Volume in the Saga of Rissa. BOOK NUMBER: 7612. SYNOPSIS: Rissa Kerguelen chronicled the furious ascent of an imprisoned orphan girl to the position of galactic oligarch and commander of an awesome fleet of space pirates. The Long View is the brilliant finale to F. M. Busby's Saga of Rissa. Now she and her husband, Bran Tregare, launch their armada against the UET - the totalitarian government that rules earth. Rissa has emerged radiant from her horrible trials - her confidence, maturity, and emotional depth have caught up with her innate power. The grueling battle for the earth is her greatest test, and in The Long View Rissa's fire, cunning, and at times… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1967. Previous Dealer Markings; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 1708. ALSO KNOWN AS: Thieves' Picnic. MOVIE/TV TIE-IN: This series of novels was the basis for the 1962 TV series and the 1997 feature film of the same name. SYNOPSIS: It was astonishing, almost incredible. The tale of an adventure in Tenerife in which Simon Templar and Hoppy Uniatz rescue a beautiful lady only to see her burst into tears as she soothes her assailant; in which the assailant breaks down over the loss of a piece of paper; in which Hoppy tries to think and fails; while the Saint contrives to recover the boodle, restore a reputation and repatriate a heroine.. First Thus 3rd Impression. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Coronet Books Hodder and Stoughton Paperbacks - Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1976. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: Simon Templar / The Saint "You're what they call the Robin Hood of modern crime . . . You're always on the side of the guy who's up against it, and you're always busting up some graft or dirty work, and all the gals are nuts about you, and you can jump through windows like Doug Fairbanks used to and knock guys cold like Joe Louis and shoot like Annie Oakley and figure things out like Sherlock Holmes and - and . . . " From Arizona and Palm Springs to Hollywood, once again the amazing Saint lands right in the thick of some very nasty goings on indeed.. First Thus 5th Impression. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Coronet Books Hodder Paperbacks Ltd., 1971. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: The Saint takes a holiday in Europe and the Common Market's commonest villains take fright; In Paris he falls upon a curious murder; In Amsterdam he hoists a crook with his own petard; By the Rhine he metes out justice to a swindler; In Rome he is grabbed by the long arm of the Mafia - at their peril.. First Thus 2nd Impression. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Hodder Paperbacks - Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1970. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: Simon Templar / The Saint. Description: Age 31. Height 6ft. 2ins. Weight 175lbs. Eyes blue. Hair black, brushed straight back. Complexion tanned. Special Characteristics: Immaculately dressed, always. Luxurious tastes. Carries firearms, expert knife-thrower. Licensed air pilot. Speaks several languages fluently. Once again Simon Templar eases his way effortlessly through another series of saintly crimes and knightly misdemeanours, giving all hell to the tough boys of the world and highest heaven to the lovely ladies. And that's just for starters . . . . First Thus 4th Impression. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1964. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Heavy Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. EXCERPT: From the Forward "This book is an almost immediate sequel to The Saint Closes the Case, and was in fact written only a year later. Unfortunately for its vulnerability to some radical and justifiable criticisms from modern readers, that was still only 1930, and a lot of notions were then current, which I shared with many of my contemporaries, which seem rather naïve and outmoded today. The belief that unscrupulously ambitious rulers were manipulated like chessmen by shadowy international billionaires to wage wars that would only enrich the armaments industry was held by not a few reasonably intelligent people; nor was it, perhaps, without some interesting facets of truth. But in the context of… Read More

London: Coronet Books Hodder and Stoughton Paperbacks - Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1981. Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Heavy Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: In his campaign against crime you can always Count on The Saint. The Pastor's Problem - In an ingenious scheme concocted to help out his penniless friend, Father Bernardo, Simon Templar "steals" an invaluable silver chalice, but soon confronts the real crooks of the art world . . . The Unsaintly Santa - Even professors at Cambridge have to call on the Saint when a series of cold-blooded murders reveals a vicious campus plot . . . . First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 1983. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Bernard Samson had been behind a desk in Whitehall for five years when his bosses decided that he was the right man to slip into East Berlin and talk Brahms Four out of doing something disastrous. Berlin was the city he grew up in, the place he still loved like a mistress, and some of the members of the Berlin Network were men he'd known since they were streetwise Berlin schoolboys. But Samson knew there were few people he could trust, either in Berlin or at home. Too many missions had gone wrong; too many secrets had leaked. Somewhere - somewhere nearer to the heart of things than he'd like to believe - there was the stink of betrayal. As the shadows of treachery lengthen around him, and a false trail of suspicion leads to murder, Samson makes his dangerous… Read More

London: Hutchinson Ltd - Random Century Group, 1990. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings; Spine Boards, Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: What kind of woman would leave her husband, her children and her home to live behind the Iron Curtain and work for the KGB? From the brilliant Oxford graduate who understands the espionage game better than most of her male colleagues, to the beguiling woman who uses her charm and brains to deceive everyone around her, Fiona Samson presents a fascinating puzzle. In her relationship with her father, who wanted her to be a boy, and taught her the lifetime habits of secrecy, in her love for Bernard and her children, in the illicit affair with a mystery lover, or in her work for the KGB, we see her torn by conflicting and complex needs: driven by an ambition she cannot assuage, haunted by passions she dare not express. Spy Sinker is a novel of many interlocking puzzles,… Read More

New York: A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book - HarperCollinsPublishers, 1990. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings; Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Spy Sinker is the crescendo climax of the six previous bestselling novels by Len Deighton - and it ties them all together. Why, really, did Bernard Samson's wife, Fiona, disappear into East Berlin, leaving him with two young children and a wrecked career as a spy? How did it happen? This, at last, is Fiona's story. We see how she was recruited by the KGB as a young Oxford student. But we also see her rise through the hierarchy of the British intelligence system until she is their superspy for East Germany. Her mission: the shady, dangerous dealings that will help bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989. Beautiful, brilliant Fiona is thus caught in the double world of two espionage systems. But there is still… Read More

London: Hutchinson Ltd - Century Hutchinson Ltd, 1988. BOOK: Front Free Endpaper Shows Soiling From Previously Adhered Tape (Not Sticky); Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Bernard Samson plods through a snow blizzard in Washington DC, and he's not enjoying it. Old pals are not as friendly, colleagues not so confiding as they used to be. Or so it seems to him. Things have not gone really well for Bernard Samson since his wife, Fiona, defected three years ago. It was a rejection on several levels, and Samson - tough, cynical and macho - finds rejection difficult to contend with. Now, after his trip to Washington, his life becomes even more precarious. Here are the intriguing characters from the Game, Set and Match trilogy. But things have changed in the intervening three years. The supercilious Dicky Cruyer has undergone a change of style in his endless quest for more promotion. Frank Harrington,… Read More

London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 1983. BOOK: Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Bernard Samson had been behind a desk in Whitehall for five years when his bosses decided that he was the right man to slip into East Berlin and talk Brahms Four out of doing something disastrous. Berlin was the city he grew up in, the place he still loved like a mistress, and some of the members of the Berlin Network were men he'd known since they were streetwise Berlin schoolboys. But Samson knew there were few people he could trust, either in Berlin or at home. Too many missions had gone wrong; too many secrets had leaked. Somewhere - somewhere nearer to the heart of things than he'd like to believe - there was the stink of betrayal. As the shadows of treachery lengthen around him, and a false trail of suspicion leads to murder, Samson makes his dangerous rendezvous with Brahms Four. He will bring… Read More

London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 1983. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Bernard Samson had been behind a desk in Whitehall for five years when his bosses decided that he was the right man to slip into East Berlin and talk Brahms Four out of doing something disastrous. Berlin was the city he grew up in, the place he still loved like a mistress, and some of the members of the Berlin Network were men he'd known since they were streetwise Berlin schoolboys. But Samson knew there were few people he could trust, either in Berlin or at home. Too many missions had gone wrong; too many secrets had leaked. Somewhere - somewhere nearer to the heart of things than he'd like to believe - there was the stink of betrayal. As the shadows of treachery lengthen around him, and a false trail of suspicion leads to murder, Samson makes his… Read More

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: January 1988. The Moscow-Paris express train rattles through the Russian night carrying Bernard Samson and his grievously sick companion, Jim Prettyman, home. But for Samson this is just the beginning of another long and dangerous journey. Anger and suspicion sparkle like snowflakes on the cold night air. Communists still rule Russia; Polish soldiers have taken control of the Warsaw palaces. The Eastern Bloc is crumbling like hard clay, and everyone's fighting for their own turf. In Charity, the concluding volume of Len Deighton's superb trilogy that began with Faith and Hope, Samson continues to peel away the mystery surrounding his sister-in-law Tessa Kosinski's murder in Berlin on the crucial night his wife, Fiona, came back West from the cold. With no one he can trust, nowhere to run, few leads, and… Read More

All of the books in the lots are used (some moreso than others). Most are in good to very good condition, while some may be a little better, or a little worse. Lots may contain some ex-library books (with the usual stickers and markings) and some of the books may have store price stickers on their covers. This lot contains the following: 1. Sheldon, Sidney: Sands of Time, The (0446356832) Spain. A land of eternal passion and unceasing bloodshed. From the vengeance of a pitiless tyrant, four women flee the sacred, once-safe walls of a convent: Lucia, the proud survivor harboring a murderous secret from the savage clan wars of Sicily...Graciella, the beauty still unpurged of guilt from one reckless, youthful sin...Megan, the orphan seeking perilous refuge in the arms of a defiant Basque rebel...and Teresa, the believer haunted by a faith that mocks her with silence. Leaving innocence but not hope behind, they venture into an alien, dazzling world, where each will encounter an unexpected… Read More

All of the books in the lots are used (some moreso than others). Most are in good to very good condition, while some may be a little better, or a little worse. Lots may contain some ex-library books (with the usual stickers and markings) and some of the books may have store price stickers on their covers. This lot contains the following: 1. Sheldon, Sidney: Sands of Time, The (0446356832) Spain. A land of eternal passion and unceasing bloodshed. From the vengeance of a pitiless tyrant, four women flee the sacred, once-safe walls of a convent: Lucia, the proud survivor harboring a murderous secret from the savage clan wars of Sicily...Graciella, the beauty still unpurged of guilt from one reckless, youthful sin...Megan, the orphan seeking perilous refuge in the arms of a defiant Basque rebel...and Teresa, the believer haunted by a faith that mocks her with silence. Leaving innocence but not hope behind, they venture into an alien, dazzling world, where each will encounter an unexpected… Read More