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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 313 pages. Octavo (8 1/2 x5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Eddie Franks--a smart, savvy hotel tycoon--never overcame his childhood rivalry with Nicky Scargo, even after he married Nicky's sister. Then Nicky persuades Eddie to accept private financing from friends of the family, and Eddie becomes caught up in a twisted web of money laundering, Mob activities, and murder! Condition: Light rubbing to spine ends with gently bumped corners else a near fine copy in a fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 295 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine over red boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Overweight and down on her luck, South Florida real estate agent, Barbara Chessner stumbles outside in the midst of a thunderstorm and beseeches heaven to help her. She is unaware that someone more diabolical might be listening until everything Barbara wished for comes true. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 284 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with green lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. From his jail cell in a troubled Central American republic, Martin Springer, a U.S. volunteer doctor, faces execution. His "crime" - having witnessed a bloody massacre. His beautiful wife, Katherine, tries to save him, but she too is arrested. Her crime? Resisting the advances of Senor Vaca, the sadistic head of the secret police. Her sentence is to serve in his private brothel - and to satisfy the lusts of his perverted colleagues. Springer must escape from his dungeon cell, rescue his wife and kill her tormentors. But to do that he needs the help of a very special woman - Vaca's gorgeous young daughter. Condition: Abrasion where sticker removed from front end paper else a very good copy in a fine jacket.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 244 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black with gilt lettering to spine over Orange boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Bertie (the future King Edward VII) has a princely appetite for tasty morsels of all kinds. With glorious food and glamorous women equally appealing, it's not surprising that he visits Paris every year, with a modest retinue of some 30 faithful servants. The year 1889, however, marks his most eventful trip. Condition: Previous owner's blind-stamp to front end paper else a very good to fine copy in a fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 207 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over white boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. A collection of sixteen short stories featuring such diverse characters as a butcher, a belly-dancer, and an aging columnist. Condition: Previous owner's blind-stamp to front end paper else a very good copy in a fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 212 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Introducing Victorian England's most illustrious amateur sleuth (if not necessarily its most adept): Bertie, Prince of Wales, who can't help but poke his royal nose into a suspicious-sounding circumstance. Condition: Previous owner's embossed imprint on front end paper else very good to fine in a fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 312 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Frist edition. On her first day, the newest member of the United States Senate witnesses a brutal murder on the Senate subway. But by whom, and why does someone now seem determined to put a permanent end to her political career? As she stakes out her claim on an important issue, she begins to see a link between her cause and the murdered man. It's a connection leading down a trail of dark secrets that people will mercilessly kill again to keep! Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 256 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with silver lettering to spine over red boards in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. Hill, author of the popular British series featuring detectives Dalziel and Pascoe, has written a first-rate espionage thriller. Lemuel Swift, sixth Viscount Bessacarr, living in Venezuela as a fugitive from British justice, is told he has terminal cancer. Desperate to see his only child, Swift fakes his own kidnapping and tries to slip back into England incognito. To his surprise, he is immediately arrested by British Intelligence, in the persons of Commander Hunnicut and his female assistant, Reilly. The British promise to let Swift contact his daughter if he does just one thing for them: namely, kill his father, a notorious traitor who fled to Russia years earlier. Swift half-heartedly agrees. However, things are not what they seem. He runs into double-cross on top of double-cross until it is hard to separate friend from foe from family member. Hill demonstrates his mastery by keeping a tight rein on a plot that, with its nonstop action, could have become chaotic. The narrative is a perfect mixture of tension and mordant humor, and ultimately all loose ends are tied up in a way that should satisfy the most demanding reader. Condition: Jacket lightly spine else a near fine copy in like jacket.…

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

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

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Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. So compelling in its exploration of the human psyche, it's as hard to put down as a thriller.such a force of energy, intensity, and straightforwarness. Moderate shelf wear. Large crease(s) in the cover. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 311 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition. Racism, murder and the deep friendship that exists between a black man and a white boy drives this compelling tale set in post-World War II Louisiana. Not since C.C. Risenhoover's triumphant and uplifting novel WHITE HEAT has there been a more beautifully spun story of racial relationships in such a tumultuous era. Twelve-year-old Johnny Tobin, who marches to a different drummer and whose intellect, sense of humor and idealism drive some townspeople and the local Baptist preacher up the wall is seemingly the only person interested in finding out who is responsible for the murders of an entire black family. When he enlists the help of his black friend, Ben Jim Cade, a man with a mysterious past, things get hotter than Hades. Condition: Inscribed on front end paper else fine in like jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 256 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with silver lettering to spine over yellow boards in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. The third adventure in the classic Cody series of espionage thrillers. Ex-spy Cody is hired to find a pilot who disappeared with his plane somewhere in North Africa. Her search pits her against Skorpion, a terrorist group plotting to establish radical Islamist caliphates across the Arab world, a discovery that forces her into a brutal, agonizing death-march for survival across Tunisia's scorching, desert hell-scape. Condition: Remainder mark to heal end pages, corners bumped. Jacket spine sunned else very good in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 249 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's green boards with white lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. All is not well in the life of Greenwich Village lesbian P.I. Lauren Laurano. She and her lover are drifting apart. There's a psychopath watching her every move. Her friend Elissa's rich aunt has just been brutally murdered--and the police suspect that Elissa is the killer. Lauren knows better. So, using her unique combination of street-savvy detecting and on-line know-how, Lauren sets out to prove Elissa's innocence. But exonerating her friend rapidly turns into a perilous assignment. Stalking and being stalked, Lauren Laurano is forced to use resources she never knew she had--just to stay alive. Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 281 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with rex gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When policemen remove their hats, they do not bring good news. The bare-headed policeman on Trudi Adamson's doorstep brought the worst news possible -- her husband Trent has been burned to death in a freak car accident. Suddenly a widow after years of marriage, Trudi finds herself alone, unprovided for and increasingly aware of her ignorance of her late husband's world. Why had he resigned from his job without telling her? Were was all his money? And more terrifying still: is he really dead? As shock piles upon shock, Trudi is forced to re-examine her belief in Trent, and ultimately in herself. Compelled to leave the cozy nest of her old life, she is out in the open and fighting for her very survival. Condition: Previous owner's name to front end paper, remainder mark to heal end pages else very good to fine in a near fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 275 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue paper with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed by author. First edition. A Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter and journalism teacher at ivy-covered Thorndyke University, Henrietta "Henrie O" Collins demands of her students the same steadfast dedication to the truth that was the cornerstone of her own illustrious career. So when beautiful, ambitious Maggie Winslow decides to investigate a trio of hitherto unresolved local crimes, Henrie O urges her to pursue the story with uncommon vigor. But the gifted future journalist's zeal may have cost her her life. The next day Maggie's corpse is discovered in Lovers' Lane--. Condition: Inscription to title, slight stain at back head edge. Jacket with stain at back head edge else a very good copy in like jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 196 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The eldest son of Queen Victoria, Bertie will one day be King Edward VII. For the moment, though, his primary responsibility is to enjoy himself, a task at which he excels - bedding society beauties, tormenting his long-suffering wife, and taking his royal bulk off to other people's country estates, there to shoot things, eat enormous meals, and pinch the serving maids. It is at just such an estate that the story unfolds, though this is no ordinary shooting-party, and with a killer afoot, the glittering guest-list is dwindling rapidly. Bertie greets the murders with some delight, as they allow him to exercise his passion for amateur sleuthing (a task at which he doesn't particularly excel). Lovesey wrote Seven Bodies as an homage to Agatha Christie, but he laced his classically structured puzzle with his own sly wit, gleefully poking fun at the pomposities of privilege. Utterly charming .what a delight! - New York Times A delicious option for fans of Agatha Christie and Anne Perry. Condition: Previous owner's embossed imprint on front end paper. Jacket front fold over flap creased else better than very good in a near fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 277 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4 x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over light green boards in original pictorial jacket. Every year, Annie Laurence Darling, owner of the Death on Demand Bookstore, attends the Dixie Book Festival. But this year, she'll be the author liaison to five writers with deadly egos honored with the coveted Dixie Book Festival Medallions. When a publisher, who arrives with a tell-all book proposal, turns up dead, the evidence points to Annie and her husband. Condition: Very good to fine in a near fine dust jacket.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

, xiii, 235pp. 24 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, but with neat but heavy pencil underlining in first 50 pages, a few notes in margins, previous owner's name, Introduction - Analogy, Homology, Equivocation - Truth and Time - Value - Endurance - Elitism - Extrinsicality - Some Conclusions. ISBN 0253335647 .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Item may have minor to moderate cosmetic defects (marks, wears, cuts, bends, crushes) on the cover, spine, pages or dust cover. Shrink wrap or dust cover, may be missing. Item may contain remainder marks on outside edges. Pages may contain limited notes or highlighting. Good reading copy.…

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hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Grade 3 out 5 points. Book has wear on cover and pages. May have personalized notes/names, stickers/labels. Has no markings on pages. May not include extra materials like access codes, CDs, accessories, etc. All orders ship by next business day! We are a small company and very thankful for your business.…

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, HEAVY pencil annotations almost entirely in margins of chapter 16 on the television audience, book otherwise very good, marginal notes by American history professor might actually be a useful guide to a reader. previous owner's name. SKLAR, ROBERT. Movie-made America: a cultural history of American movies. New York: Vintage Books, 1994, later printing of the Revised and updated edition, xi, 417pp., . This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly Stallone; auteurs from D. W. Griffith to Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee; and genres from the screwball comedy of the 1930s to the "hard body" movies of the 1980s to the independent films of the 1990s. Combining panoramic sweep with detailed commentaries on hundreds of individual films, Movie-Made America is a must for any motion picture enthusiast. - CONTENTS: Pt. 1: The rise of movie culture -- The birth of a mass medium -- Nickel madness -- Edison's trust and how it got busted -- D. W. Griffith and the forging of motion-picture art -- Pt. 2: The movies in the age of mass culture -- Hollywood and the dawning of the Aquarian age -- The silent film and the passionate life -- Chaos, magic, physical genius and the art of silent comedy -- Movie-made children -- The house that Adolph Zukor built -- Pt. 3: Mass culture in the age of movies -- The moguls at bay and the censors' triumph -- The golden age at turbulence and the golden age of order -- The making of cultural myths: Walt Disney and Frank Capra -- Selling movies overseas -- The Hollywood gold rush -- Pt. 4: The decline of movie culture -- Hollywood at war for America and at war with itself -- The disappearing audience and the television crisis -- Hollywood's collapse -- The promise of personal film -- Nadir and revival -- Hollywood and the age of Reagan -- From myth to memory -- Independent images. ISBN 9780679755494. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.