berkley books published by berkley publishing corporation new york (17 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Poor. Berkley Medallion Edition: December 1967. 159 pp. Well bound copy with heavy external and internal wear. Still a good reading copy with clean text. Heavy foxing and stains on pages.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Berkley Edition, December, 1959. 188 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear. Clean text with foxing on pages. Some shelwear. Light creasing on spine.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Berkley Medallion Edition, October 1974. 480 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Creased front and back covers. Light foxing on page edges.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Berkley Medallion Ed December 1974. 237 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Moderate foxing on page edges. Creased spine.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Berkley Ed. May 1964. 222 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear and clean text. Slight tear and crease on front cover. Light foxing on page edges. Writing on first page.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. Berkley Edition December 1963. 288 pp. A perfectly acceptable reading copy. Moderate foxing on page edges. Creased spine. Light damage to edges of spine.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition 6th Printing. Previous Owner Markings; Moderately Scuffed; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: a novel. MOVIE TIE-IN: based on a screenplay by Melissa Mathison. SYNOPSIS: What do you do when you're lost, millions of miles from home, surrounded by frightening creatures? You do what the Old Botanist did when he was accidentally left behind on Earth. First you find a friend. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg and novelist William Kotzwinkle together create a magical story about two unforgettable friends: a gentle being from another world who is stranded on Earth, hunted, afraid and alone.and a ten-year-old boy who finds him and takes him home. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Heavily Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. The Fatal Romance of Bonnie Garland and Richard Herrin. Their Endless Love Became an Unspeakable Nightmare. A TRUE STORY. CONTENTS: CHAPTER 1 The Confession; CHAPTER 2 The Barrio and the Establishment; CHAPTER 3 A Yale Romance; CHAPTER 4 The Separation; CHAPTER 5 The Rage of Richard Herrin; CHAPTER 6 The Death of Bonnie Garland; CHAPTER 7 Tears for a Killer; CHAPTER 8 The Trial; CHAPTER 9 The Verdict; CHAPTER 10 A Visit With Richard Herrin; CHAPTER 11 Epilogue: Was Justice Served? SYNOPSIS: Richard Herrin was a poverty-haunted youth from the Los Angeles ghetto who came to Yale on a scholarship. Bonnie Garland was the lovely daughter of wealth and privilege, who came to Yale as her birthright. In Yale's socially and sexually permissive atmosphere, this inwardly tormented young man and this sheltered young woman plunged into an intensely romantic affair that seemed to conquer all the odds--until the night a savage act of violence turned love's young dream into the nightmare and horror that still shocks the nation! - and - Who was to blame? Was it Richard Herrin, for whom love turned into an obsession that drove him beyond all restraint when it was threatened? Was it Bonnie Garland, for giving herself to this young man so completely, and then beginning to doubt her decision when new horizons beckoned? Was it Bonnie's parents, who rejected their daughter's lover and tried to destroy their affair? Or was it the law, that had to decide what the punishment would be? This book does not take sides. It does tell the whole intensely moving, piercingly revealing story of the fatal romance of Richard Herrin and Bonnie Garland. AWARDS: A Selection of the Literary Guild. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Young Artists (illustrator). First Edition 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Today's best new writers choose their own best stories with an introduction by A. E. Van Vogt and a special article by Algis Budrys. SUB-TITLE: Fourth Annual Volume. CONTENTS: Preface - George R. R. Martin; Introduction - A. E. Van Vogt; Blue Champagne - John Varley; Entertainment - M. A. Foster; The Pilgrimage of Ishten Telen Haragosh - Arsen Darnay; Psiren - Joan D. Vinge; M is for the Million Things - Tom Reamy; Afterword: Tom Reamy - Algis Budrys; The John W. Campbell Jr. Awards, 1973-1979. SYNOPSIS: The annual John W. Campbell Award honors the best of the new SF writers, and New Voices is their personal choice of their most forward-looking and exciting stories. - and - Every year the John W. Campbell Awards honor the most promising new writers in SF, nominated by the fans themselves. The New Voices series is the nominees' own selections of their best and most adventurous work, chosen especially for today's most eagerly-awaited SF anthology. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Thus 1st Printing. Repaired; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Heavily Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. INTRODUCTION BY: Norman Mailer. CONTENTS: Introduction by Norman Mailer; Commence Prayer; Here Comes Trouble; The Whole World's Wrong and You're Right!; Mama Tried; Family Forever; Origins of the International Jewish Conspiracy; A Teenager in the Fifties: Jewish Grease; From Bum to College Boy; Castro at Harvard Stadium; Berkeley and the Birth of the Sixties; Faulty Rubber, Failed Marriage; One Flew into the Cuckoo's Nest; Making Outrage Contagious; Duddy Meets the Avant Garde; Kindergarten for Organizers; Boston to Broadway; My Last Job; Hometown Ghetto Education; Going South; Being Right Is Not Enough: The Convention of 1964; Return to the South; The Hometown Stomp-in; The CIA Turned Me On to LSD; Out of Work--Free at Last; How to Talk Good; Festivals for Fun and Protest; Liberty House; Some Voices of Guidance; Here come the Hippies; Love and Utopia on the Lower East Side; Museum of the Streets; America Has More Television Sets Than Toilets; Cast of Characters; Rubin and the Rising of the Pentagon; Magic Foils the War Machine; 1968: The Year That Was; Chicago: The Whole World Is Watching; Living with Lawyers; Revolution for the Hell of It; So Long, HUAC, It's Been Good to Know Ya; Wrapping Yourself in the Flag; The Rise of Woodstock Nation; Looking Back on Woodstock; A Trial to End All Trials; The Road Show; Rags to Rags; Steal This Author; Bringing the War Home; Trashing in the Streets, Bombing in the Toilets; The Algerian Connection; The Last Round-up; America Is Born; The Haircut That Ended the Era; Bummed Out on the Movement; Hiding Out in the Colonies; McGovern and Miami; Sex, Women, Getting a Vasectomy, and All That Sticky Stuff; You Can't Have Your Coke and Eat It, Too; Gateway to the Underground; Epilogue; Aiding and Abetting. SYNOPSIS: THE ELECTRIFYING SHOCKER BY THE UNDEGROND SUPERSTAR Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring the greatest drop-out, cut-up, authority-hating, people-loving, hero and anti-hero of our times, Abbie Hoffman, back by popular demand after four years underground, writing the book that only he would dare to write, about the life that only he would dare to live! - and - Abbie Hoffman is the kind of guy every decent, hard-working citizen hopes his kid won't turn out to be. Now he has written a book about freedom, justice, liberation.all those disturbing, unsettling, outrageous concerns of the sixties. Relive it all. And start living again! Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Thus 1st Printing. Previous Owner Markings (Name Neatly Inked to Front Matter); Lightly Warped; Light Creasing on Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. My Life as a Decoy Cop. Don't Miss the CBS-TV Special! TV TIE-IN: This book was the basis for the 1982 Made-for-Television film entitled Muggable Mary, Street Cop. CONTENTS: 1 Combat Zone 2 The Day it Began 3 Enter to Learn 4 Precinct Life 5 Hitting the Streets 6 Rape in the Park 7 Crime in Co-op City 8 Other Days, Other Arrests 9 Cops as Friends and Lovers 10 "What Made Me Think I Wanted to be a Cop?"; Afterword. SYNOPSIS: WARNING: THIS DECOY IS DANGEROUS Her name is Mary Glatzle, but the public and her fellow officers know her as "Muggable Mary." Assigned to New York's toughest police unit this petite and attractive woman puts her life on the line nightly in the war against crime. Now she tells what it takes to hold her own in a top police unit. Now she tells what it's like to walk the city's most savage streets, hoping for trouble to find her--and praying she can handle it when it comes. Mary Glatzle, a Detective with the Street Crime Unit of the New York City Police Department, has been named as one of the Top Ten Police Officers in the entire country. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 142 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use, crisp pages and clean text. Previous owner's note written on back of first front-end page. Creased spine.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. New Berkley Medallion Ed, January 1965. 143 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Moderate foxing on page edges. Creased cover corners. Small tear on top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. G.P. Putnam/ Berkley Medallion Ed 1966. 223 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges. Creased spine.