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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 2001. 1st ed. PBO. Very good, tight copy, showing some creasing to spine. A Location Scout Mystery. Jeffrey Deaver writing as William Jefferies. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1984. The second Hunter titlefinds him entangled with killers from Russia, whose souls are as cold as their winters. 1st Ed. PBO . Book store stamps to front page, covers rubbed and soiled, slight spine lean. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Random House, 1988. 1st edition, so stated. . About fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 675 pages. Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of office quietly—when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick's deepest secret...that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man who courageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silently disappeared. Now, suddenly, Kendrick is a living target pursued by the terrorists he outwitted. Together with the beautiful woman who once saved his life, Kendrick enters a deadly arena where the only currency is blood, where frightened whispers speak of violence yet to come and where Kendrick's life—and the fate of the free world—may ultimately rest in the powerful hands of a mysterious and deadly figure known only as the Mahdi. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near… Leer más

Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.: Dennis Mcmillan, 1997. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket and slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, one of 350 numbered copies, still in shrinkwrap and SIGNED by Browne who turned ninety on April 15, 1997. Introduced by noted Hollywood screen-. writer Roy Huggins, this volume is an autobiographical memoir plus 16 short stories most of wich were published in pulps and having their first book publication here. Beautifully designed, in slipcase and full color DJ. . Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

NY: Pocket Books, 1994. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Sequel to Coonts' " Flight of the Intruder".. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harmony Books, 1992. 1st US ed. Fine in dust jacket , a few light scratches at rear. WINNER of the CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD for Best Novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

NY: D. Appleton & Co., 1907. 1st edituon, September 1907, so stated. Frontis. and 3 illus. in the style of Charles Dana Gibson. Cover green cloth with silver lettering.; edges rubbed, lower corner of pages dampstained, overall very good copy. 451 pages with 4 pages of ads. This this was a pot-boiler from 1907, a real eye opener that starts with an uncomfortable couple meeting in a park and discussing how they should get a divorce (which really would have stunned a reader back then). The story shifts to a retirement party for outgoing insurance company president Shotwell organized by one Fosdick, who is counting up how much everything cost (paid for by the shareholders and policyholders, of course), and how he reflects on the magnificence as glory(-just as, when he bought for a large sum a picture with a famous name to it, he showed himself to be greater than the painter). Yes, Fosdick is a true bastard, one who has made himself rich as a financier, the kingmaker behind the massive institution… Leer más

London: UK: Bloomsbury Press, 1992. 1st ed. near fine in dj, small closed tear at rear, one wrinkle. Includes selected bibliography, 340+ pages. Georges Simenon was, during his lifetime, the bestselling writer alive. He created Chief Inspector Maigret, one of the most-loved and sanest characters in modern fiction, but was himself an alcoholic, a fantasist, a man possessed by the demon of sexual jealousy, a crime writer whose own life was haunted by the possibility of crime. His stated ideal was family life, but he conducted a quarrel with his widowed mother that lasted for 50 years, and his own family life ended in catastrophe with the suicide of his daughter. He married twice and seduced hundreds of women, including Josephine Baker. Simenon's writing life was in itself quite a story. He wrote 193 novels under his own name and 200 under 17 pseudonyms. His sales were over 500 million in 55 languages. His admirers ranged from Celine and Colette to T.S.Eliot, Somerset Maugham, Fellini and George… Leer más

London: UK: Bloomsbury Press , 1992. 1st ed. near fine in dj, small closed tear at rear, one wrinkle. Includes selected bibliography, 340+ pages.Georges Simenon was, during his lifetime, the bestselling writer alive. He created Chief Inspector Maigret, one of the most-loved and sanest characters in modern fiction, but was himself an alcoholic, a fantasist, a man possessed by the demon of sexual jealousy, a crime writer whose own life was haunted by the possibility of crime. His stated ideal was family life, but he conducted a quarrel with his widowed mother that lasted for 50 years, and his own family life ended in catastrophe with the suicide of his daughter. He married twice and seduced hundreds of women, including Josephine Baker. Simenon's writing life was in itself quite a story. He wrote 193 novels under his own name and 200 under 17 pseudonyms. His sales were over 500 million in 55 languages. His admirers ranged from Celine and Colette to T.S.Eliot, Somerset Maugham, Fellini and George… Leer más

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. First edition, September 1950, so stated. Tan boards with red lettering. One very small spot on cover else fine in price-clipped dust jacket, shallow loss at spine ends and flap corners, lightly soiled rear panel. The second Geoffrey Mildmay title. [Dublin, Ireland and Jamaica] An upstart Jamaican rebellion, some key international interests in bauxite, an Englishman who follows trouble like a terrier, and an American engineer, Bill Stacy, who reluctantly runs him a close second.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Lofgren, Charles. Book.

N.Y.: Signet, 2003. Author's 1st book. AGATHA AWARD NOMINEE. 1st Ed. PBO. Fine. Appears unread. A Dead -End Job mystery Fort Lauderdale is the fashion scene and also a scene for murder and mayhem.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1983. 1st American edition, so stated. Top of page edges dusty else about fine in dust jacket lightly sunned at spine. Sir Richard Austen, one of England's foremost archaeologists, fears that his past, as a Russian spy during World War II, may be revealed. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Midwood Books, 1959. 1st edition. Midwood Books #16 [.35 cover price]. Paperback Original. Light wear to edges, lightly soiled at rear, a few indentations on covers else vg. This very early Midwood finds Orrie Hitt exercising his Catskills Noir muscles in this story of a beautiful young wife scheming the demise of her wealthy older husband all set in a Summer resort hotel. -- Goodreads. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good. Vintage Paperback.

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1997. 1st US edition, February 1997. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, with a couple of creases, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Plumbing the troubled waters of the relations between men and women in her fifth Francesca Wilson story (after Death Among the Dons), Neel delivers a clear-eyed view of both domestic conflict, which hovers over Francesca's marriage, and domestic violence, which haunts the crime she solves.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1988. 1st edition, March 1988, with complete number line beginning with 1. Paperback Original. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE. Slight creasing to spine and front cover, reading crease. A reporter must overcome personal tragedy to cover a grisly assignment. The Dellacroce trial should be John Wells’s biggest triumph. After years of hounding the mob boss, the New York Star reporter has finally brought enough evidence to light that the city can’t help but prosecute. Just when Wells is about to dive into courtroom reporting, his editor pulls him off the story, dumping him on a human-interest fluff piece. The young girls of Grant County are killing themselves in droves, and Wells’s editor wants to know why these teenagers keep putting their necks in nooses. It’s a tedious assignment, but the normally combative reporter doesn’t protest. He knows how it feels to lose a child to suicide. Wells chases the story in Grant County even as the hanging… Leer más

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1988. 1st edition, March 1988, with complete number line beginning with 1. Paperback Original. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE. Slight creasing to spine and front cover, reading crease. A reporter must overcome personal tragedy to cover a grisly assignment. The Dellacroce trial should be John Wells’s biggest triumph. After years of hounding the mob boss, the New York Star reporter has finally brought enough evidence to light that the city can’t help but prosecute. Just when Wells is about to dive into courtroom reporting, his editor pulls him off the story, dumping him on a human-interest fluff piece. The young girls of Grant County are killing themselves in droves, and Wells’s editor wants to know why these teenagers keep putting their necks in nooses. It’s a tedious assignment, but the normally combative reporter doesn’t protest. He knows how it feels to lose a child to suicide. Wells chases the story in Grant County even as the hanging… Leer más

Garden City, New York,: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. 1st ed, so stated, July 1962. Light wear along edges, spine slant else very good in dust jacket, light wear at head and foot of spine, couple of small nicks at reat, not price clipped, $3.95 intact. "Col. North of G-2 is with us once again in an intricately cast tale of espionage and counter-espionage in the unstable territory of southeast Asia. Instructed in two things- he must recover the valuable small box concealed in the nose cone of a fallen satellite in the Burmese jungles- and he must not upset the balance of international relations in Burma, where one group is pro-Chinese, another pro-Moscow, and most of the nation anti-white. His job is complicated by a series of disasters- all suspect- and by intervention on the part of every antagonistic element. But perhaps the most difficult of the complications arises from the identity of three women- a Burmese, a red-headed American, and a tart with aspirations far higher. And all of… Leer más

NY: Pocket Books, 1990. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Jake Grafton title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1889. bound in original publisher's brownish cover with gilt lettering on the spine and a light yellow label on the cover with lettering in black. The ad, torn from a newspaper placed on the cover is missing. Worn along edges, rubbed, corners bumped. A hole and tear at front enpaper, with ink markings. a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson. It was made into a 1966 British comedy film produced and directed by Bryan Forbes from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove. The cast includes a number of Britain's leading actors and comic actors of the time, including Sir John Mills, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers, Irene Handl, Nanette Newman, Wilfrid Lawson, and Tony Hancock.. 1st… Leer más

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st edition, July 1987, with complete number line beginning with 1. Slightly dusty top page edges else near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "The final twist may be a tad cute but Horning (Foul Shot) has written a first-rate thriller. When taciturn stranger Scott Craik appears in tiny Brawlton, Va., things start to happen. Although Craik wants only to be left alone to work crabbing in Chesapeake Bay, he soon must deal with a crooked sheriff, a couple of vicious deputies, a knife-crazy local, teenage toughs and an infatuated girl. The girl's uncle, "the Judge," is boss of the small county and is smuggling guns, but only for the "right people." Colombian drug dealers are planning to take over the Judge's operation for their more lucrative trade. Craik is caught up in this whirlpool, which is roiled further by the fact that the CIA is looking for him. Under another identity he was a… Leer más