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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Some marking in pencil Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xii++246 pages with diagrams, illustrations, figures, photographs, appendix and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. Traces the development of computer chess programs, looks at recent programs that have challenged human chess champions, and describes commercially available software. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 368 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper with gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Family therapist Kate Sinclair repairs other people's troubled lives, all the while seeming to revel in her picture-perfect marriage and handsome home. But a closer look reveals that things are not as they seem. When her half-sister JoLynn announces plans to marry a man on trial for the murder of 13 women who have gone missing in the Palm Beach area, Kate's house of cards begins tumbling down. To say that nothing will ever be the same again is an understatement of the highest order. Condition: Previous owner's name to front end paper else a very good to fine copy in fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 352 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with silver lettering to spine over black boards in original jacket. First edition. Jess Koster spends her days putting criminals behind bars. Then she meets Rick Ferguson, a man about to be tried for rape. That is, until the victim disappears before giving evidence. Fearing for the woman's safety, and positive that this is Rick's plan to stop her from testifying, Jess is determined to prove that Rick had something to do with her disappearance. But now somebody wants to make Jess disappear too . . . Condition: Jacket hinges sunned else a near fine copy in like jacket.

Hard cover. Condition: Good in good dust jacket. book is clean and tight, there is a chew mark on the back edge and in the jacket, there is a tear at the top edge of the jacket at the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 292 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When a student at Massasoit College is murdered, Mellingham's chief of police Joe Silva investigates and discovers some surprising secrets about the local art world and small-town life. Condition: Fine in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xiv+271 pages with maps, tables, illustrations, bibliography, appendices and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. This work presents an in-depth description of the cult of the saints as practiced in Chignautla, an Indian community in the central highlands of Mexico. Data gathered over twenty years of field research and the rich interpretations offered allow the reader to explore Chignauteco cosmology as it is revealed in the elaborate rituals held to honor the saints. The primacy the author assigns to the perception the Indians have of their world and the place of the saints within it reveals the vitality of an indigenous world-view that has endured since the time of the conquest. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 281 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in quarter yellow cloth with red gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial wrappers. First edition. When private eye Nicky Rachmaninoff investigates the murder of Hollywood video jockey Jay Jackson, he uncovers a plot to kill the members of the rock band Jackson once belonged to and follows a bizarre trail back to the accidental death of the band's leader. Condition: Heal edge gently bumped else near fine in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 324 pages. Octavo (8 1/4' x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's beige boards with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The fifth book featuring U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent Venus Diamond (after 1999's Habitat) wraps an exhilarating mystery around the wistful history of the Columbia River, its dams and its beautiful salmon. In order to track down the terrorists responsible for dam bombings along the river, Venus and a male colleague travel to the town of Kettle Falls, Wash., posing as Juneau and Kay Lynn Jones. The two set up housekeeping in a mobile home and circulate rumors about their demolitions expertise. Meanwhile, the enigmatic mastermind behind the bombings, a man known only as Gerald, has fixed his attention on the Grand Coulee Dam. His companion, Darla Denny, is by turns otherworldly and sharp as a tack. It was she who placed the anonymous phone call that brought Venus onto the scene. Eventually, Juneau and Kay Lynn hook up with Gerald and are able to learn somebut only someof his plans. Gaining the full trust of Gerald is only one of their problems; they can't convince their boss at Fish and Wildlife that the dams are in imminent danger. The stakes are raised when Venus learns that two major presidential candidates are each scheduled to give a speech at the Grand Coulee Dam. There's plenty of suspense here, punctuated with lyrical passages on the plight of the salmon, a drowned waterfall, a lost Indian tribe and other ruminations. And while Moody winds up the story nicely, she has the confidence to leave some questions unanswered. Condition: Fine in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 189 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Winner, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Prize and the Multicultural Publishers Exchange 1992 Book Award of Excellence in Adult Fiction A Chicano Civil Rights march has been disrupted by the Los Angeles police, resulting in the grue-some death of a prominent reporter. The tear gas has barely settled when a small, defiled body is left on a street in Los Angeles. Gloria Damasco, a feisty political activist, finds the murdered child and begins an investigation that will lead her on a trail of international conspiracy and bloody vengeance. Before long, two other people are dead, and Gloria is determined to piece the mystery together, no matter how long the search may last. Condition: Jacket spine sunned. A fine copy in a near fine jacket.

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paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $9.95, attractive copy, appears little used if at all. JONES, THOM. The pugilist at rest: stories. Boston: Little, Brown / Back Bay Books, 1993, stated First Paperback edition, with 1st printing number line ending in 1, 230pp., . Cover design by Steve Snider. 14 stories grouped into four parts: the horrors of Vietnam; men at war with women; the difficulties of divorce, mental defects, and the ravages of cancer; and battling epilepsy and alcoholism. 9780316473040 ISBN 0316473049 9.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 375 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter grey cloth with silver lettering to spine over grey boards. First edition. Hollywood, 1947. When Jim St. Clair, L.A.'s first TV newscaster is shot, Jim's junior colleague Paris Chandler, gossip- mongering Etta Rice's assistant on the L.A. Examiner, has a special reason to dig into the crime: She knowsas the police only suspectthat the attractive blond seen leaving Jim's house 20 minutes before he was shot was her. Before Paris and a telltale negligee can get hauled in by starstruck Chief Harry Gladstone, who dreams of his own TV show, she's got to: find Jim's records of an ingenious real-estate scam involving the right-of-way for the new freeway; foil the killers who keep kidnapping her, as well as Ursula Martens, a treacherous blond who happens to be Paris's double; continue to dish the dirt on Hollywood notables (``FLASH! Cary Grant Fires His Housekeeper''); and catfight Ursula for the embraces of Etta's other assistant, Nick. Chauffeured, Schiaparelli'd working-stiff Paris (the paperback As Crime Goes By, 1990) is only half as cute as she thinks, and here she overstays her welcome, the twists of Shah's promising plot, and the fey period cameos by a hundred pages or so. Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 240 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition. Jenny Cain, last seen in Dead Crazy , finds herself far from home when the Port Frederick, Mass., Civic Foundation is named heir to a cattle ranch in Kansas by wealthy rancher Cat Benet. As director of the foundation, Jenny is summoned to the dying Benet's bedside in a Kansas City hospital, where he is murdered before they can meet. The only conditions that the foundation must observe to inherit are to never allow any of Benet's kin to set foot on the ranch and to provide lifetime jobs for two employees, cowboys Quentin (Slight) Harlan and Carl Everett. The rest of Benet's vast fortune is left to his three living ex-wives, four adult children he has seldom seen, his sister and her son. Suspicious of the whole setup, especially since she and the foundation had never heard of Benet before, Jenny investigates the murder and, after visits to the ranch, to Texas and to Benet's wives and offspring, uncovers long-held family secrets. Pickard writes fluidly on family ties, both good and bad, while her appealing detective displays warmth, intelligence and a social conscience as she perseveres in her search for the truth. Condition: Signed on the title page. Remainder mark to heal end pages else near fine in a fine jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 307 pages . Royal octavo (9 1/2" 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with purple gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition. A Jenny Cain Mystery.On a hot summer day, a teenaged boy with rumpled clothes and a motorcycle knocked at Jenny Cain's door and changed her life forever. Claiming to be the biological son of her husband, Geof Bushfield, David Mayer wasn't looking for an emotional reunion. According to the Port Frederick police, David's parents died in a murder / suicide. All David wanted was for Geof to investigate since he was absolutely sure his father hadn't killed his invalid mother and then himself. David felt that Geof owed it to him to prove his father's innocence. The foreboding Jenny felt when she first met David was beginning to turn into downright terror. Condition: Signed on title. Small bump to front heal edge else near fine in a fine jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 234 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter grey cloth with green gilt lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition, Pickard's sixth Jenny Cain mystery and first Pocket Books hardcover, Bum Steer, was widely acclaimed by critics and readers alike. Now, in I.O.U., Jenny explores her own family's unsettling, mysterious past, beginning with her mother's death--was it murder? Condition: Signed on title. Remainder mark to heal end pages, pages beginning to age tone else near fine in a fine jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 127 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. The Benko Counter-Gambit represents the most important and dynamic contribution to opening theory for a quarter of century. In return for a pawn Black secures the initiative for at least twenty moves and, paradoxically, Black can often stand better in the endgame even though he is a pawn down. Condition: Edge wear, corners gently bumped else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 276 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with pink lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. Signed. First edition. Award-winning author Nancy Pickard has been receiving high acclaim for her mystery series starring sleuth Jenny Cain. This time Cain finds herself following the trail of a possible paranoid schizophrenic slasher--only to uncover clues that put her squarely in the sights of a cold-blooded murderer! Condition: Signed on the title page. Front head corners bumped. Jacket fold-over flap heal corner creased else near fine in like jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 264 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher' quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition. Few killers of our time, whether real or imagined, are in the same league as Raymond Raintree. And as he stands in a Florida courtroom waiting to be convicted for the murder of Natalie Mae McCullen, Marie Lightfoot is taking it all in. Renowned for her true-crime bestsellers, Marie knows the case will make her best book yet -- because Raintree's crime, vile beyond imagining, is also impossible to turn away from. Creator of the award-winning Jenny Cain series, Pickard premieres a superb new heroine in a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Condition: Author's signature to title. Heal corners bumped else near fine in a fine jacket. Signed by Author(s).