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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good.

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1st printing of 1st edition. Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 431 pp.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Brown boards show no wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Prior owner notation on title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris.

Hard cover. Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. dj has tear HC 274.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing (Nap). No Ownership Marks Or Writing. Light Edge Wear. The Jacket Has A Few Tiny Chips And Tears.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing of the Collection of 12 Short Stories. Featured are No Sanity Clause by Ian Rankin, Valhalla by Doug Allyn, Brass Monkey by Reginald Hill, Farber and the Errant Nun by Gordon Cotler, The Wonders of Technology by Kate Ellis, The Hand of God by Edward D Hoch, Silent End by Nancy Springer, Fruitcake by Steve Hockensmith, If At First. by Robin Hathaway, Rumpole and the New Year's Resolutions by John Mortimer, The Grafton Girls by Dennis Murphy and The Ballad of Sweet Lucy by Harry R Hopkinson. In Fine Condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing of this Collection of 13 Short Stories. Featured are Caspian's Game by Edward D Hoch, Computer Seance by Ruth Rendell, A Killing Mood by Clark Howard, Motormouth by SJ Rozan, The Final Trick by Raymond Steiber, Catamount by Ruth Rendell, Lucrezia and the Thief by Henry Slesar, The Return of Eddie Leaper by Peter Turnbull, Honeydew Wine by James Powell, The Project Death of Tickety-Boo by John Mortimer, The Helpful Stranger by Janice Law, The Missing Afro-Germanic Lawn Gnomes of Sweetbreads, PA by RW Kerrigan and Dream On, Martlowe by Jason Hardy. In Fine Condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 12 short stories. Featured are The Silence by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Rumpole and the Actor Laddie by John Mortimer, The Confession by Ian Rankin, Pigeons by Joseph Monninger, The Allotment by Peter Crowther, A Wall Too High by Edward D Hoch, The End of the Pier by Alison White, The Siesta by Edgar Brau, Blood Paths by Clark Howard, Cleaning Up by Peggy Wysong, Net Results by Katherine H Brooks and The Mystey Crossword by Leigh Woznick. A 1/2-inch semi-closed tear to the top and bottom corner of the front cover. In very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust Jacket shows very minor shelving wear, otherwise an unblemished copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. An amusing and entertaining anthology of bad guys in history, literature, legend and myth. Chapters on master crooks, minor crooks, murderers, seducers and cads, con men, traitors and spies and tyrants, among others. Makes you realize sometimes the devil really does have the best lines. Introduction by Mortimer of "Rumpole" fame. Pictorial wrappers show reading creases on spine, other minor surface and edgewear, no tears or chipping. Text is clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. A lot of good reading here.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing (Nap). No Chips, Tears Or Writing. Light Edge Wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Publisher: Norton, New York, 1992.First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. As new. Unread. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Paperback Original. First Edition mass market paperback, 256 pages; just a hint of spine creasing, otherwise very gently used, very clean and unmarked. For even more mystery short stories, and who can get enough?, see also our listings for Malice Domestic 3 : An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (No. 3), edited by Nancy Pickard, and for Cat Crimes 2 [Two, II]: Nineteen tales of mystery from today's Masters, also edited by Martin H. Greenberg, and this, just in, Eyes Still Have It : The Shamus Award-Winning Stories, edited by Robert J. Randisi.

Hardcover. Condition: New. New hardcover with no dust jacket. An unread/unopened copy. May have very minor rubbing and scuffing from shelf.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine condition. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Signet Books, 1992. Near Fine condition. Bright, clean, tight, square, and unmarked. No store stamp, ink name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Anthology of Christmas mysteries including: The Santa Claus Club by Julian Symons; Rumpole and the Spirit of Christmas by John Mortimer; Santa's Way by James Powell; Carmine and the Christmas Presecet by Charles Ardai; The Shape of the Nightmare by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.; Christmas Party by Martin Werner; Supper with Miss Shivers by Peter Lovesey; Noel Noel by Barry Perowne; The Embezzler's Christmas Present by Ennis Duling; The Christmas Spirit by Thomasina Weber; The Spy and the Christmas Cipher by Edward D. Hoch; But Once a Year. Thank God by Joyce Porter; The Carol Singers by Josephine Bell; Murder under the Mistletoe by Margery Allingham; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; etc. . First Printing of the First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine condition. viii, 250pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Book is like new.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 369 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No. 35 in series; 509 p., clean and unmarked anywhere; binding firm; russet board rubbed at edges; gilt lettering on brown patch on spine.Contents: "A Letter Concerning Toleration; Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke/The Principles of Human Knowledg - George Berkely/An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume.Faint old-book aroma gratis.

Condition: Very good. - Small quarto 10 inches high by 7-3/8 inches wide. Softcover bound in printed red & blue wraps. The covers are slightly rubbed. 131 & [1] pages, with black-and-white illustrations. Very good. This issue is devoted to television and its effect on performance in other media. Much of the material is from The Network Project, "a collective research-and-action group formed to investigate the operation of American telecommunications, and the extent of television's social influence and control over people's lives." Among the other articles are Donald M. Kaplan on the pyschopathology of TV watching; Stanley Kauffmann and David W. Rintels on censorship; Hans Ehrmann on the media in Marxist Chile; and John Mortimer on British Television.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. AS NEW, navy blue cloth over boards with gilt font on cover and gilt laurel boarder, Oxford seal and title on spine.xii + 431 pps. Unmarked, clean, binding tight. Dust jacket clipped, back cover shows minimal shelf wear, no other tears, marks, etc and now under plastic protective wrap. First edtn/printing.They are everywhere, down narrow streets and in brightly lit office buildings and parliaments, dominating family life, crowding prisons and law courts, and providing plots for most of the works of fiction that have been composed since the dawn of history." Billy the Kid, written by Jorge Luis Borges, and another of the tax evasion trial of Al Capone, by Damon Runyon. Mortimer has in fact ranged high and low, taking excerpts from the greats of literature--from the Bible, Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton (where Lucifer has all the best lines, such as "Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n"), Moliere, Dostoevsky, Dickens, Hardy, Trollope, Mark Twain, and many others--and from the leading detective and mystery writers--including Eric Ambler, Dick Francis, Wilkie Collins, James M. Cain, Patricia Highsmith, Ian Fleming, Angela Carter, and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 247 pages; some gentle bumping along DJ edges.

Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED - Octavo. Navy blue cloth boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine and front board, and a decorative gilt trim around the outside edges of the spine. Light bumping at the tail of the spine. White endpapers. Signed by John Mortimer on a book plate that has been fixed onto the half title page. Binding is straight and tight; pages all clean, white and crisp. 431 pages. Dust Jacket - has a very faint trace of rubbing at the rear corner of the tail of the spine and in a couple isolated places along the upper edge of the front cover. Tight and clean. Mortimer is probably best known for his Rumpole series of mysteries. Signed by the Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fine in navy boards with gilt lettering on front board and gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Attractive scoundrels and incompetent rogues, calculating murderers and unscrupulous swinders pack these pages.An anthology of the most infamous representatives, real and imagined, of the criminal world. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. xii + 431 pp Both book and dust jacket are in very good condition. The red on the jacket spine is a little faded.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 148 pages. Illustrated. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ursula Le Guin, Penguin Specials, Robert Gibbings, bibliographer W.O.G Lofts, Cowboy comics library & annuals, John Mortimer .

Hardcover. Condition: Book fine, Dust jacket fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. 1st. Bound in navy blue cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 148 pages. Illustrated. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ursula Le Guin, Penguin Specials, Robert Gibbings, bibliographer W.O.G Lofts, Cowboy comics library & annuals, John Mortimer .