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  • Diehl, William

    Language: English

    Published by Ballantine Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1990

    ISBN 10: 0345312015 ISBN 13: 9780345312013

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    Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lindroth, David (Map) (illustrator). 4¼"x7"; 430 pages; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details.

  • Seller image for The Romanov Prophecy: A Novel for sale by Bargain Finders of Colorado

    Berry, Steve

    Language: English

    Published by Ballantine Books, U.S.A., 2005

    ISBN 10: 0345460065 ISBN 13: 9780345460066

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    Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good+. Lindroth, David (Map) (illustrator). Interior is tight, clean and unmarked. Paperback has reading creases in spine. Story opens in modern day Russia. The Russian people are tired of the lawlessness and economic uncertainty that have plagued their country since the fall of communism, and have decided to restore the monarchy. Miles Lord's (an African American lawyer from South Carolina who speaks fluent Russian) job is to sift through Russian archives to find anything that might affect the Soviet Mafia's hand picked heir's claim to the throne. After weeks of research, Lord finds documents (one from Lenin) that allude to the fact that several of Tsar Nicholas II's children survived the massacre in Yekaterinburg. Copyright 2004. This Ballantine Mass Market Books edition was published in 2005, following a hardcover edition 1st released in 2004. Print-line (9 - 1) indicates an early printing. ISBN-10 as above. No LCCN. MSR = $6.99.

  • Diehl, William; William Diehl

    Language: English

    Published by Ballantine Books/ A Division of Random House, Inc., New York, 1992

    ISBN 10: 0345312015 ISBN 13: 9780345312013

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    Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. David Lindroth (Map) (illustrator). 9th Printing: August 1992. 430 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear. Clean text. Creased spine.

  • Weinberg, Martin S. & Williams, Colin J.; Martin S. Weinberg & Colin J. Williams

    Language: English

    Published by Oxford Univeristy Press, New York, London, & Toronoto, 1974

    ISBN 10: 0195017587 ISBN 13: 9780195017588

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    Hardbound Clothbinding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Laure Dunne (Jacket Desiign); David Lindroth (Map Design); Bonnie DePrez (Photographs) (illustrator). 316 pp. Solidly bound copy with clean text and minimal use. Minimal external wear on dj. Relivent newspaper articles included from previous owner. Slight foxing on back page from newspaper articals.

  • McCaffrey, Anne [map by David Lindroth]

    Language: English

    Published by Ballantine Books [1988], New York, 1988

    ISBN 10: 0345356748 ISBN 13: 9780345356741

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    Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Thus. New York: Ballantine Books [1988]. Good. 1988. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. 0345356748 . First edition thus. "A novel of a fine old family and the lady who rides in and changes their lives forever". 369 pages. Good copy [spine creased and cocked, light cover creasing, check mark inside the front cover, date stamp to the bottom edge, cheap text paper starting to tan]. .

  • Jonathan D. Spence

    Language: English

    Published by Vintage Books/ A Diviosion of Random House, New York & Chichester, West Sussex, UK, 1975

    ISBN 10: 0394714113 ISBN 13: 9780394714110

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    Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Detail from a 19th Century Ch'ing Dynasty Portrait of K'ang-hsi (Jacket Painting); Earl Tidwell (Book Design); David Lindroth (Map of China by) (illustrator). 1st Vintage Bks Ed., Oct. 1975. 217 + viii pp. Nearly flawless copy with minimal external wear. Solid binding and clean text.

  • Seller image for A THIEF OF TIME : A Novel for sale by 100POCKETS

    Book 8 of 28: Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito

    Tony Hillerman

    Language: English

    Published by Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1988

    ISBN 10: 0060159383 ISBN 13: 9780060159382

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    Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: New. David Lindroth (Map) (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction to upper text block. Stated First Edition. White linen boards/VG w/red strick mark. Map to endpapers. Well crafted mystery starring the Navajo Tribal Police from Tony Hillerman (1925- 2008) in which Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, Officer Jim Chee, and a noted anthropologist are involved in the strange case of a dispoiled ancient Anasazi, pre-Navajo burial site. Fine copy despite flaws.

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    Book 8 of 28: Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito

    Tony Hillerman

    Language: English

    Published by Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1988

    ISBN 10: 0060159383 ISBN 13: 9780060159382

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    Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. David Lindroth (Endpaper Map) (illustrator). First Edition, 5th Printing. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. w/inexplicable staining to pg 45. Off-white linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; price-clipped. Red star stamp to upper text edge. Map of Anasazi County, Sacred Navajo Mountains, to endpapers. A Tony Hillerman (1925- 2008) mystery; 8th novel of 18 in the Chee/Leaphorn series. Lt. Joe Leaphorn, Officer Jim Chee, and a disappearance of a noted anthropologist, triggers this investigation, leading to a strange case of a missing ancient pots from of an ancient Anasazi, pre-Navajo, burial site. 209 pgs.

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    Book 8 of 28: Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito

    Hillerman, Tony

    Language: English

    Published by Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1988

    ISBN 10: 0060159383 ISBN 13: 9780060159382

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    Hardcover. Condition: NEW - COLLECTIBLE. Dust Jacket Condition: New. David Lindroth (Endpaper Map) (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Stated First Edition,First Printing. Beige linen boards/Fine. DJ/NEW.Map to endpapers. Well crafted mystery starring the Navajo Tribal Police from Tony Hillerman (1925- 2008) in which Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, Officer Jim Chee, and a noted anthropologist are involved in the strange case of a dispoiled ancient Anasazi, pre-Navajo burial site.

  • Book 1 of 4: Dark Biology Series

    Preston, Richard

    Language: English

    Published by Random House, New York, 1994

    ISBN 10: 0679430946 ISBN 13: 9780679430940

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    Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. David Lindroth (Map) and Jerry Bauer (Author photo (illustrator). Fifth printing. xiii, 17], 300, [4] pages. Main Characters. Glossary. Richard Preston (born August 5, 1954) is a writer for The New Yorker and bestselling author who has written books about infectious disease, bioterrorism, redwoods and other subjects, as well as fiction. His 1992 New Yorker article "Crisis in the Hot Zone" was expanded into his breakout book, The Hot Zone (1994). It is classified as a "non-fiction thriller" about ebolaviruses. He learned of Ebola through such contacts as U.S. Army researchers Drs. C.J. Peters and Nancy Jaax. His fascination began during a visit to Africa where he was an eyewitness to epidemics. The book served as the (very loose) basis of the Hollywood movie Outbreak (1995) about military machinations surrounding a fictional "Motaba virus". In November 2009, Preston was selected by Harper-Collins and the Michael Crichton estate to complete his unfinished novel Micro after Crichton's death in November 2008. The book was released on November 22, 2011. Approximately a third of Micro was completed by Crichton. Preston completed the book according to the author's remaining outline, notes, and research. In 2016, Preston served as the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program where he judged the prestigious Iowa Prize in Literary Nonfiction. A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction. The filovirusesincluding Ebola virus, Sudan virus, Marburg virus, and Ravn virusare Biosafety Level 4 agents, extremely dangerous to humans because they are very infectious, have a high fatality rate, and most have no known prophylactic measures, treatments, or cures. Along with describing the history of the devastation caused by two of these Central African diseases, Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease, Preston described a 1989 incident in which a relative of Ebola virus, Reston virus, was discovered at a primate quarantine facility in Reston, Virginia, less than 15 miles away from Washington, D.C. The book is in four sections: "The Shadow of Mount Elgon" delves into the history of filoviruses, as well as speculation about the origins of AIDS. Preston recounts the story of "Charles Monet" (a pseudonym), who might have caught Marburg virus from visiting Kitum Cave on Mount Elgon in Kenya. The author describes the progression of the disease, from the initial headache and backache, to the final stage in which Monet's internal organs fail and he hemorrhages extensively in a waiting room in a Nairobi hospital. Viruses, biosafety levels and procedures were described. Preston talks to the man who named the Ebola virus. "The Monkey House" chronicles the discovery of Reston virus among imported monkeys in Reston, Virginia, and the following actions taken by the U.S. Army and Centers for Disease Control. It starts with the monkey house receiving a shipment of 100 wild monkeys. After four weeks, 29 of these monkeys have died. This is followed by the veterinarian for the facility, Dan Dalgard, examining the dead monkeys and sending the samples to Peter Jahrling, a virologist at United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. After seeing a rope-like virus under the microscope, it is suspected that the monkeys were infected with a hot agent similar to the Marburg virus. Jahrling then conducts a blood test to find out that the hot agent is the Ebola Zaire virus. This conclusion leads to the Army Medical Research Institute deciding to euthanize all the monkeys in the same room as the infected monkeys. "Smashdown" is more on the Reston epizootic, which involved a strain of the virus that does not affect humans but which easily spreads by air, and is very similar to its cousin the Ebola virus. "Kitum Cave" tells of the author's visit to the cave that is the suspected home of the natural host animal in which Ebola lives. The Hot Zone was listed as one of around 100 books that shaped a century of science by American Scientist. Many reviews of The Hot Zone exemplify the impact the book had on the public's view of emerging viruses. A review in the British Medical Journal captures the paranoia and public panic described in this book. The reviewer was left "wondering when and where this enigmatic agent will appear next and what other disasters may await human primates". This can also be seen in a review in the Public Health Reports which highlights the "seriousness of our current situation" and "our ability to respond to a major health threat". The Hot Zone was described in an academic journal covering research in the history of science as a "romantic account of environmental transgression". Reactions to this book could be seen not only in the public's view of emerging viruses, but in the changes in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This book continued to fuel the emerging diseases campaign. By connecting international health to national security, this campaign used The Hot Zone to justify increased intervention in the global phenomena of disease. David Quammen claimed that The Hot Zone had "vivid, gruesome details" that gave an "exaggerated idea of Ebola over the years" causing "people to view this disease as though it was some sort of preternatural phenomenon".

  • Reid, Stuart A.

    Language: English

    Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2023

    ISBN 10: 1524748811 ISBN 13: 9781524748814

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    Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. David Lindroth (Map), Mark Jaworski (Author photog (illustrator). xvi, 618, [6] pages. Illustrations. Map. Main Characters. A Note on Sources. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Stuart A. Reid is a Senior Fellow for History and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The Lumumba Plot. From 2008 to 2024, he worked as an editor at Foreign Affairs, finishing his time at the magazine as executive editor. He has written for publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Politico Magazine, and Slate. He earned a bachelor's degree in government from Dartmouth College. The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thrillerabout the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Economist, Financial Times. "This is one of the best books I have read in years . . . gripping, full of colorful characters, and strange plot twists." Fareed Zakaria, CNN host. It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgiumone of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers. At the helm as prime minister was charismatic nationalist Patrice Lumumba. Just days after the handover, however, the Congo's new army mutinied, Belgian forces intervened, and Lumumba turned to the United Nations for help in saving his newborn nation from what the press was already calling "the Congo crisis." Dag Hammarskjöld, the tidy Swede serving as UN secretary-general, quickly arranged the organization's biggest peacekeeping mission in history. But chaos was still spreading. Frustrated with the fecklessness of the UN and spurned by the United States, Lumumba then approached the Soviets for helpan appeal that set off alarm bells at the CIA. To forestall the spread of Communism in Africa, the CIA sent word to its station chief in the Congo, Larry Devlin: Lumumba had to go. Within a year, everything would unravel. The CIA plot to murder Lumumba would zzle out, but he would be deposed in a CIA-backed coup, transferred to enemy territory in a CIA-approved operation, and shot dead by Congolese assassins. Hammarskjöld, too, would die, in a mysterious plane crash en route to negotiate a cease- re with the Congo's rebellious southeast. And a young, ambitious military officer named Joseph Mobutu, who had once sworn fealty to Lumumba, would seize power with U.S. help and misrule the country for more than three decades. For the Congolese people, the events of 196061 represented the opening chapter of a long horror story. For the U.S. government, however, they provided a playbook for future interventions. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.

  • Chase, Marilyn, 1949- [design, Gabrielle Bordwin, Judith Stagnitto Abbate; photos, Patrick Wong; map, David Lindroth; blurbs, Lisa See, Jerome Groopman]

    Language: English

    Published by New York : Random House, 2003., 2003

    ISBN 10: 0375504966 ISBN 13: 9780375504969

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    Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; viii, 276 pp. : map ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0375504966; National Library: 101172134; LCCN: 2002-68102 ; OCLC: 50143626 ; LC: RC176.C2; Dewey: 362.1/969232/0979461 ; black textured cloth with gold lettering, in photographic dustjacket ; "The plague first sailed into San Francisco on the steamer Australia, on the day after New Year's in 1900. Though the ship passed inspection, some of her stowaways--infected rats--escaped detection and made their way into the city's sewer system. Two months later, the first human case of bubonic plague surfaced in Chinatown."--dustjacket ; FINE/FINE. Book.

  • Boyles, William, Jr.

    Language: English

    Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1986

    ISBN 10: 0394549112 ISBN 13: 9780394549118

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    Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. David Lindroth (Map) (illustrator). xi, [1], 284, [6] pages. Endpaper maps. Occasional Footnotes. Essay on sources. Previous owner's embossed stamp on half-title page. Recounts the author's return, fifteen years after he had served in combat as a Marine lieutenant, to the battlefields of Vietnam and his discovery of an unusual kinship with the people who had formerly been "the enemy." William Dodson Broyles Jr.[(born October 8, 1944) is an American screenwriter, who has worked on the television series China Beach, and the films Apollo 13, Cast Away, Entrapment, Planet of the Apes, Unfaithful, The Polar Express, and Jarhead. He also assisted in the screenplay of Saving Private Ryan. In 1968, Broyles's career was put on hold when he enlisted into the United States Marine Corps. Between 1969 and 1971, he rose to the rank of First Lieutenant and served in Vietnam, first as an infantry platoon commander, and later as an aide-de-camp to the Assistant Division Commander, 1st Marine Division. His assigned duties included social issues with an emphasis on the refugees in the Quang Nam Province. Broyles received the Bronze Star and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star. Broyles's experiences in Vietnam inspired two of his most critically acclaimed projects. In 1984, he was one of the first veterans to return to Vietnam, and his book Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace, recounts his visit and his impressions of the aftermath of war on himself and his fellow Marines. In 1988, Broyles co-created the award-winning television series, China Beach, a weekly drama about the doctors and nurses stationed at Danang. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: "I went back to find a man I never knew, my enemy. I went back to find pieces of myself I had left there, and to try to put the war behind me.'' Broyles, former Newsweek editor, spent four weeks in Vietnam in 1984 visiting sites familiar from his days as a combat Marine, talking with people and asking probing and provocative questions. He interviewed mountain tribesmen, fishermen, Amerasian children, Communist Party officials, academics, and former members of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. In his own reminiscences from the war, Broyles conveys the moral ambiguities in a fresh and moving way, and in his narrative of the 1984 visit he conveys the state of postwar Vietnam. Although he felt `a certain satisfying irony at my old enemy being hoist with its own petard,' he left Vietnam `with a sympathy for my old enemies I had not had before.' Few books capture the essence of the Vietnam War and its aftermath so vividly as this one. Highly recommended. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.

  • Dong, Stella

    Language: English

    Published by William Morrow [An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers], New York, 2000

    ISBN 10: 068815798X ISBN 13: 9780688157982

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    Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. David Lindroth (Map), Zev Greenfield (Author photo (illustrator). xi, [7], 318 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ. Signed by author on the fep. Stella Dong is the author of many historical books on China, most notably Shanghai 1842-1949: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City (Harpers), Peking: Heart of the Celestial Empire (Formasia) and Sun Yat-sen: Enigmatic Revolutionary (Formasia). Born in Seattle, she worked for several magazines before her first book. She is known for her perceptive articles on Chinese-American writers, and has a regular column on American-Asian cultural affairs in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. She has also written for the New York Times and Washington Post. Shanghai at the turn of the twentieth century was the place to be. Opium was all the rage, parties were wild, and decadence was a way of life. Journalist Stella Dong looks back on a city that in its heyday was a thrilling combination of Las Vegas, the Wild West, Paris in the '20s, and Chicago during Prohibition. She captures the excitement of its most notorious years -- the decades before Mao's revolution -- when the city was populated with bankers, gangsters, revolutionaries, drug traffickers, gamblers, world royalty, industrial magnates, celebrities, and heiresses. Shanghai was the one place on the globe where no restrictions were placed on immigration. As a result, political refugees and outlaws sought its sanctuary. At that time, this truly international city was free of a central government's scrutiny and quickly became a breeding ground for revolutionary activity. This lively biography describes the thrill and excitement of those years. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

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    Howard, David

    Language: English

    Published by Crown Publishing, New York, 2017

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    Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Munday, Oliver (jacket design); Miller, Dwight (jacket photograph); Wedick Jr., James J. (title page photograph); David Lindroth, Inc. (map illustration) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition black boards with white spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic and color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Book(s) by David Howard; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote; Cast of Characters; Prologue; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates and a double-page black-and-white map frontispiece. "In the genre of truth-is-stranger-than-fiction, Chasing Phil is a standout. What a wild, wonderful story of cons and crooks, told with great style and swagger." - Susan Orlean, Author. "Here is an infectiously good tale about the art of the con. In David Howard's capable hands, a lost world of sharks in tailored suits and their bodacious scams comes to crackling life on the page. I could feel the trickles of sweat from the high-stakes lies, could hear the muffled voices over primitaive FBI surveillance gear. And as I read along, I kept checking my back pocket to make sure my wallet was still there." - Hampton SIdes, Author. "I can't recall the last time I had so much fun with a true-crime book. The plot bobs and weaves, the '70s underworld jet-set scene is rendered with groovy precision, the main characters are big, vibrant, and complex, and the supporting cast seems snatched from a John D. MacDonald caper. Chasing Phil is superb reportage mixes with edge-of-your-seat storytelling." - Jonathan Miles, author. "David Howard takes you so deep inside the FBI's high-stakes, high testosterone pursuit of one of the great con artists, you can practically taste the Camels and the Cutty Sark. A terrific true-crime tale, masterfully told." - Mark Adams, author. ".a world-class swindler, two FBI agents on his tail, and all the high drama and bad hair the late '70s had to offer. story of the FBI's first body-wire undercover mission crackles with sharp dialogue and hairpin plot turns. Strap in. This is a true-crime thrill ride." - Bruce Barcott, author. "A thrilling true-crime caper, bursting with colorful characters and awash in '70s glamour, that spotlights the FBI's first white-collar undercover sting. The Thunderbird motel, 1977. J.J. Wedick and Jack Brennan -- two fresh-faced, maverick FBI agents -- were about to embark on one of their agency's first wire-wearing undercover missions. Their target? Charismatic, globe-trotting con man Phil Kitzer, whom some called the world's greatest swindler. From the Thuderbird, the three men took off to Cleveland, to Miami, to Hawaii, to Franfurt, to the Bahamas -- meeting other members of Phil's crime syndicate and the bankers and businessmen he fooled at each stop. But as the young agents, playing the role of proteges and co-conspirators, became further entangled in Phil's outrageous schemes over their months on the road, they also grew to respect him -- even care for him. Meanwhile, Phil began to think of Jack and J.J. as best friends, sharing hotel rooms and inside jokes and roping them in for wild late-night forays to the likes of New York City's legendary Studio 54. Phil Kitzer was at the center of dozens of scams, through which he swindled millions of dollars, but the FBI was mired in a post-Watergate malaise and slow to pivot toward a new type of financial crime that is now all too familiar. Plunging into the field with no undercover training, the agents battled a creaky bureaucracy on their adventures with Phil, hoping the FBI would recognize the importance of their mission. Even as they grew closer to Phil, they recognized that their endgame - the con man's arrest was drawing near . Anchored by larger-than-life characters, framed by exotic locales and an irresistible era, Chasing Phil is high drama and propulsive reading, delivered by an effortless storyteller." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

  • Hersey, John

    Published by The Franklin Library ; Signed First Edition Society, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1987

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    Leather. Condition: Mint. No Jacket. Stermer, Dugald {Frontispiece}/ Baker, James {Illustrations}/Lindroth, David {map} (illustrator). Signed, First Edition. Bound in a medium blue leather, gilt lettering and framing. Paste-down illustratation upper third of front cover. All edges bright gilt, ribbon place marker. Very nice marbled endpapers. Publisher's promotional letter included. Author has signed the ffep, blue ink. Appears as never read. A beautiful copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Collector's Edition.