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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. BC6 - A tight, clean, sound copy in textured red paper covered boards with very minor overall shelf wear with some very, very light bumping on the front top right corner and the bottom right front and board corners plus there is some very light yellowing on the outside paper edges plus the book is very, very slightly shelf cocked. The dust jacket show minor overall shelf wear with some edge wear and chipping along the top and bottom spine edges and at the right corners plus there is a closed tear (about 0.75") on the front at the bottom left corner and another (about 1") on the back at the top left corner plus there is a patch of surface damage (about 0.75"x0.75") on the front near the top left corner plus there is some light scattered soiling on the back. The main character is an agent of British SR(2), purely as a matter of coincidence, is booked on the same plane in Lisbon and headed to Sao Paulo as a professional assassin. He finds himself looking for the men responsible for three separate attempts to kill him as well as the death of the woman he had intended to marry and it all ties into a search for the professional assassin. By the author of "Holiday with a Vengeance" and "Your Money and Your Wife." 196p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). The twentieth novel from one of the 20th century masters of the suspense-thriller features one of MacLean's most daring plots as a terrorist gang holds the president of the U.S. hostage on the Golden Gate bridge. Page 43-44 dogeared, slight spine lean, o/w book is clean, tight; dustjacket shows minimal surface and edgewear. A nice reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Thus. This "New Edition" (alternately designated ISBN 0 00 433208 3), is clearly laid out for convenient use in study and real-time applications, with bold edge-lettering for fast location of words. CONTENTS: Introduction; Abbreviations; Pronunciation; Greek-English; English-Greek; English Verb Tables; Numbers, Time, Dates and Numbers. i - ix, 191, and 214 pages in all. CONDITION: a bright, solid, square, unmarked copy with light shelf-wear, compromised only by creasing on the spine and a couple cover corners. This attractive copy is now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag. This small item will be shipped with a complimentary upgrade to trackable First Class on domestic (US) orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A hardback book in very good condition, dated 1942, First Edition. Book contains eleven plates in colour and seventeen illustrations in the text.

Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fourth Printing. edge wear to the book and dust jacket. A part of the Britain in Pictures series. Well illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. conference.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. BH5 - A first edition (First published 1991 stated) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light tanning and shelf wear. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. A Glasgow P Division procedural. 8.75"x5.25", 158 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. The body of a young man is found in a city centre alley. He has been stabbed to death and the murder weapon is lying close by, apparently discarded in panic. The fingerprints found on the knife proved to belong to a known associate of the deceased. It appears to be a motiveless murder, the result of a drunken brawl. But the officers of Glasgow's P Division do not accept things at face value and begin to unravel a tale of premeditation and subterfuge. In doing so they follow a trail which leads via the squalid world of the frug addict to the prosperous ambience of the city's most prominent citizens. "Procedural" is an inadequate word for the squalid dramas of the naked city or the author's ability to get inside his characters' skins, the cooper on his beat, the whore on hers,' said Christopher Wordsworth in the Observer, reviewing Peter Turnbull's last novel, Condition Purple. His growing array of readers will certainly agree. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. BH5 - A first edition (First published 1989 stated) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light tanning and shelf wear. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. A Glasgow P Division procedural. 8.75"x5.25", 174 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. In Glasgow one summer evening a frightened young woman in heels is walking. Click. Click. Click. The man who will kill her when he sees her is in the city. She knows this because she has seen his car cruising in the grid system, and she knows he knows where to find her because she stands every evening in an alley off Blythswood Street. The woman is just twenty-one years old. It is her death that will trigger P'Division's latest investigation. She was found at 10:00 p.m., the knife still in her throat. She was a heroin addict and had the words 'I belong to Dino' tattooed on her groin. They were the only clues. Yet as the police interviewed anyone in any way connected with her, combed the area, collated evidence, they began to build up a picture of the dead girl, her associates, family, lifestyle, which led to the arrest of a vicious murderer who had killed and would kill again. Marked by growing tension and a chilling awareness of the evil that preys on those who inhabit the lower levels of a great city, Peter Turnbull's latest police procedural views with compassion the roles of policemen and victims alike. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint. covers have minor wear and soil, interior tight and clean, 224 pages including maps, glossary and index, development of castles in Britain with bw illustrations of actual castles Size: 6.5 x 9.25.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st printing this edition. Cloth. 368pp. Bibliography. Index. There is a depression on one spot of the front cover where something blunt fell on the book. Still a good+ copy in good dj with depression at same place.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket, brown cover with gilt lettering to spine and contents in very good clean condition. Yellowing to pages. Clean Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. BG3 - A first edition (First published March 1990 stated) hardcover book SIGNED by Michael Pearce with "With best wishes" written on the front free endpaper in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light tanning and shelf wear. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 8.75"x5.25", 224 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 'Tourists are quite safe provided they don't do anything stupidly reckless.' Owen assured the Press. 'Like having tea on the terrace at Shepheard's?' asked the man from Paris-Soir. Because that was where Monsieur Moulin had been when he was kidnapped. And it was where Mr Colthorpe Hartley was when he too, disappeared. 'About the most conspicuous place in Cairo,' Owen commented bitterly. Owen, Head of Egypt's Political CID in the heyday of British rule, was ultimately responsible for law and order in Cairo. And when they were so openly flouted he had to do something about it. But that was not so easy. To start with, nobody had actually seen the victims go And was it just an ordinary kidnapping? Or was it intended as a deliberately symbolic blow at British prestige? Or the start of a sinister campaign directed particularly at tourism? What lay behind the sudden interest of the Khedive in market gardening? And who was the missing dragoman? Owen's attempts to solve these puzzles take him into the circle of the Khedive's closest intimates. But also to the donkey-vous beneath Shepheard's famous terrace, the base of Cairo's lowly, but enterprising, donkey-boys. It is there that Owen finds his answer - thought perhaps not quite the one he expected. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 160 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased spine.

Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Mild sunning to dustjacket spine and minor rubbing on dj (commonly visible on dark-colored covers), elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy sans other flaws. "America has its own 'Royal' families, and the DeMilles are surely one of them: the flamboyant, charismatic Cecil B. DeMille, his witty, intellectual brother William C. DeMille, William's brilliant, innovative daughter, the choreographer Agnes DeMille; and a dozen other DeMilles, whose story is told here by the acclaimed biographer Anne Edwards. She charts their widely divergent lives and achievements against a panorama of American life from the Civil War to the present, from Broadway to Hollywood and back." PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in archival black-and-white and color photography with accompanying descriptive captions. 248 pages. NOTE: Due to the large size and heavy weight of the book significant additional shipping cost will be requested/required for OUT-OF-U.S. shipment in accordance with country of destination. GI1.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a fine hardcover with a green "C" within a circle stamped on the title page in a near fine dustjacket with a small blemish on the front cover at the bottom. The 3rd novel in the Charlie Salter mystery series, a police inspector operating in Toronto ON Canada, although this one is set in London England U.K. Winner of the 1986 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. VG/G, used, purple colored end papers, 126pp. Interior clean, no marks except former owners name, address on the ffep, binding tight. DJ is rubbed, wear to head and tail of the spine, small tear to bottom edge of the lower, 2 small tears to top edge of the lower, dj is not price-clipped.

Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Minor bump at top of dustjacket spine and rubbing (commonly visible on black-colored dustjackets), elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy. Through the words and experiences of war correspondent Tom Pocock: "Here indeed is the very form and pressure of the time: the awful stench of death and wholesale destruction; the casual murders and cruelties where over large tracts of territory law and order had collapsed; worst of all, far the worst and unforgettable, the concentration camps still peopled by the ghosts of human beings, starved, tortured, terrified and degraded. Once again the reader will find his imagination stimulated by the astonishing contrasts of this extraordinary period. Measureless misery co-existed cheek by jowl with pockets of comfort and wealth, luxury and beauty that seemed strange indeed after the austerity of wartime London." PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in archival black & white photography and drawings with accompanying descriptive captions. 256 pages. GM1.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Some library markings o/w in Good condition. Collins "Experiment With" series. Packed with interesting things for children to experimant with allowing them to find out more anout the world around them. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Price-clipped jacket is marked, scored and worn, with a few minor nicks. Jacket spine and front edges are sunned. Jacket is laminated to boards. Labels on jacket spine foot. Jacket and hardcover spine ends are bumped and worn. Page block is marked. Upper edge of FEP is clipped. Minor pen mark on margin of page 127. Text is clear throughout. HCW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing, First UK Edition. MacLean, one of the 20th Century masters of the suspense/thriller, set his seventeenth novel in the high stakes world of Formula One racing; text's upper edge and fore edge shows what appears to be small coffee stains, o/w clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minor edgewear.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Staple bound paperback in very good condition. Light shelf wear only. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First thus edition staple bound paperback in very good condition. Cover corners are a little bumped, and pages are slightly age discoloured. Pages are otherwise clear and binding is sound. LW. Used.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Author, Shields, Chris (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Crease to front cover, minor shelf wear. ; First printing of Collins paperback original, 1989. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; Collins Guide to Wild Habitats Series; Colour Photographs and Illustrations; 112 pages; A comprehensive field guide to heathland habitats with five colour plates by Chris Shields and sixty colour photos by the author.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Author, Shields, Chris (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Crease to front cover, minor shelf wear. ; First printing of Collins paperback original, 1989. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; Collins Guide to Wild Habitats Series; Colour Photographs and Illustrations; 128 pages; A comprehensive field guide to grassland habitats with five colour plates by Chris Shields and thirty-nine colour photos by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A hardback book with both book and jacket in near fine condition, dated 1970, First Edition. Collins Crime Club edition.

Hard Back. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Later Printing. Book is maroon paper-covered boards with gilt title on the spine. Only defects to note on the book are the previous owner embossed name on the title page and light edge wear. No defects to note on the DJ. This is a 1981 reprint of the 1980 first edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust. First Edition. Book is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends else bright, intact and whole. ARN W.09; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover first printing with dustjacket, book is clean and attractive, moderate softening to the spine-ends is the only remarkable flaw, the jacket is price-clipped, a small moisture-mark is present at bottom of spine, moderate rubbing to the surface which is common with most glossy jackets, it is clean and remains presentable and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included; 221 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Light shelf wear to the jacket, board spine ends are bumped, and spine is slightly cocked. Binding remains sound, boards are clean and pages are clear. LW. Used.