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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 257 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Another chapter in the Victorian Age adventure of no-nonsense Sergeant Bragg and his aristocratic partner Constable Morton, as the two maneuver the hazards of London's police bureaucracy while trying to solve the stabbing murder of industrialist Andrew Livesey. There's evidence that Livesey, in collusion with other businessmen-engineers, was trying to steal the patent on Alfred Nobel's new gunpowder--as well as evidence that Livesey consorted with child prostitutes and had not lived with his wife Sarah for most of their ten-year-marriage. The discovery that Mary Tompkins, a 12-year-old prostitute, was killed with the same distinctive weapon as Livesey leads Bragg and Morton through some sordid byways of London society, their burden increased by two more murders, until the tangled motives behind Livesey's death come clear. Literate and informative, as always with this series, but too disjointed and discursive to rank with the author's best. Condition: Back heal edge bumped, remainder mark at heal end pages. Jacket closed tear at back heal corner and hinge else a near fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 289 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with white lettering to cloth over blue boards and white lettering to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. A hooker dressed in a nun's habit is shot dead at the shrine of her sister's convent. No clues, no motive and scant leads present the police with a parish puzzler. Father Robert Koesler attends the woman's wake, and soon finds himself swept into a bizarre and chilling case of multiple murder that begins with a nun under the gun and ends with Koesler under a cardinal's cassock . . . Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 359 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. An idyllic vacation cruise aboard a sleek yacht turns into a nightmare of murder and betrayal, in the new novel by the author of Toy Soldiers and Guard of Honor. Set against the steamy sensuality of the Caribbean, Dark Tide is a powerful tale of violence, of agonizing choices, and, finally, of courage and redemption. Condition: Some pages crimped at heal corner else a better than very good copy in a near fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 531 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with silver lettering to spine over blue boards in original jacket. First American edition. Christopher Unborn is the tenth novel by the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. Originally published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica in 1987. It is 1992 and the sky over Makesicko City is black with oily, carboniferous rain. Here there are 28 million people and 128 million rats. Gangs of homeless youths speaking Spanglish - or Anglatl - roam the chaotic, violent streets. Observing all this, commenting and reflecting, is Christopher, still unborn in his mother's womb. His parents have conceived him so that he can be entered for the great Christopher Columbus prize, being the first child born on 12 October 1992, 500 years after the discovery of the New World. Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xii+258 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. Describes the strategies and analyzes the plays used by the great chess players in recent tournaments. Condition: Light edge wear else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 292 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The Shaft successes behind him, Tidyman has written a somewhat more seriously intentioned novel of Cleveland detectives during an all too body-filled period of two or three days -- hard rain, black sky, a cold wind coming down off Lake Erie, and a killer cop as a hit man for the local Mafia. The reader is swept from scene to bleak scene of violence, sinister pizza parlors, bars, hijackings, gunnings, rapes with plenty of police procedure. Detective James Dempsey, aging, balding, divorced by a frigid wife who boils like a screaming kettle whenever he tries to visit his kids, is an empty man who sells his soul to the big hoods and plans to start over in South America when his nest egg outweighs his leaden heart. But the department has finally started looking into the six deaths for which he's responsible. While the Mafia steps up its truck heists, Dempsey gets paid to rub out a driver-stoolie. He's also into some mad athletics with a throaty singer. His demise brings fair irony -- strong enough for a flick -- but Tidyman's fake grim humor never rises above the crime entertainment level even if he has something more ambitious in mind. Still it might do well. Condition: Corners gently bumped, small tape stain to front paste down. Jacket lightly soiled, 2 inch by 1 inch jagged tear to spine head extending to back else very good in like jacket.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $16.00, near fine. CHOMSKY, NOAM. Failed states: the abuse of power and the assault on democracy. New York: Holt, 2007, 311pp., . ISBN 9780805082845 10.20.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, original price $14.00, near fine. TREVOR, WILLIAM. A bit on the side. New York: Penguin Books, 2005, 244pp., . ISBN 9780143035916 6.40.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 258 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine over beige boards with gilt lettering to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. In "Deathbed," the eighth book in a series by acclaimed mystery writer William X. Kienzle, Father Robert Koesler takes on a temporary tour of duty as chaplain in a Detroit hospital whose dark passageways lead eventually to murder. But along the way, the antics of a security guard, a few nurse's aides, and a bumbling volunteer lead to madcap mayhem in a deft (and daft) counterpoint to the unfolding mystery. "Deathbed" follows the tracks of at least four people in St. Vincent's Hospital in Detroit whose rancor toward a single individual is so great it could translate into violence. The object of their wrath is an indomitable, unsinkable nun in her late sixties who almost single-handedly keeps the inner-city Detroit hospital open. As Father Koesler begins to learn what really goes on in a hospital, he discovers that St. Vincent's beds are used for more than convalescence. And in the Keystone Kop-like gropings in dim corridors, the real question becomes, Who's doing what to whom? Condition: Jacket corners and spine ends chipped and rubbed, back heal corner with tear and chip light edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. CHARACH, Hartley (illustrator). May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. CHARACH, Hartley (illustrator). May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. CHARACH, Hartley (illustrator). May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Illus (illustrator). The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, near fine. BROOKNER, ANITA. Visitors. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1999, , . 9780385258531 ISBN 0385258534 7.60.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Condition: Very Good. 1753699261. 7/28/2025 10:41:01 AM.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $7.95, attractive copy, near fine, appears unused. OZICK, CYNTHIA. The shawl. New York: Vintage Books, 1990, later printing number line 6, 69pp., . Series: Vintage international A short story and a novella which, together, tell an exquisitely powerful and moving tale of the Holocaust. Both The Shawl and Rosa won first prize in the O. Henry Prize Stories and were chosen for Best American Short Stories. 9780679729266 ISBN 0679729267.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $17.95, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. TONKS, ROSEMARY. The halt during the chase. New York: New Directions Books, 2023, 1st printing number line of this paperback edition, 218pp., . Previously published in 1972. ISBN 9780811237451 8.50.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 155 pages with map and Photographs by Tom Kelly. Square Quarto (10" x 10 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped title to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Legendary Ireland combines the skills of the acclaimed and bestselling team, Tom Kelly and Peter Somerville-Large, to reveal a world filled with magical echoes of historic tradition and ancient legend. Tom Kelly's mastery of photography creates the light, colour and mood required to produce the most breathtaking pictures of Ireland yet, which Peter Somerville-Large weaves the threads of Irish fact and folklore to create a textured tapestry of language that evokes the essence of Ireland. Condition: Front head corner gently bumped else near fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xiv+273 pages with plates, maps and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter maroon cloth with black lettering to spine over beige boards blind-stamped with title in original pictorial jacket. First edition. "The Red King's Rebellion," fought more than three hundred years ago between the Algonquian peoples and New England settlers, was in per-capita terms the bloodiest war in our nation's history. Before the conflict ended, over 9,000 people were dead (two-thirds of them Native Americans), and homelessness, starvation, and economic hardship plagued the descendents of both races for generations to come. In this fascinating book, Russell Bourne examines the epic struggle from both sides, seeking to explain how the biracial harmony that once reigned--when the Plymouth Colony's neighboring Wampanoags, under the stately Massasoit (King Philip's father), shared their corn with desperate settlers--could degenerate into such mistrust and hatred. More than just a war, Bourne shows how it was a simultaneous rebellion on many fronts against inequalities practiced by white settlers, and demonstrates how it constituted a massive and tragic breakdown of colonial civilization. Condition: Remainder mark on heal end pages. Jacket edges and spine lightly sunned else better than very good in like jacket.