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London: Hutchinson. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0091514207 . Hardcover has slight soiling around edge & outer edge of pages. Interior is clean & tight, with no markings. Light wear to spine ends. Jacket has light edgewear, light soiling and a few tiny tears, not price clipped. 427 pages. Novel moves from Germany in the early 1920s through wartime Burma back to a devastated post-war Berlin and on to the agony of Vietnam. Through the story of Paul Christopher - who has appeared in previous McCarry novels - the novel traces the development of the secret American intelligence group known as "the Outfit" from buccaneering days in the struggle against the Nazis & Japanese to the bitterness and moral complexities of the present day.... ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

William Heinemann. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 0434019712 . Heinemann 1962 First Edition. HC/DJ - very good/good minus. Hardcover is clean and intact, with with no markings, a little fading and bumping to spine to spine ends. Good minus jacket is age tanned, with light soiling and several edge tears and chips, edge rubbing. . ; 8vo; "The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin’s classic film, Topkapi. When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with city and in need of a private driver. In other words, the perfect mark for Simpson’s brand of entrepreneurship. But Harper proves to be more the spider than the fly when he catches Simpson riffling his wallet for traveler’s checks. Soon Simpson finds himself blackmailed into driving a suspicious car across the Turkish border. Then, when he is caught again, this time by the police, he faces a choice: cooperate with the… Leer más

London: Headline Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0747217874 . Stated first edition. Ex-library hardcover & DJ in very good condition, usual stamps & stickers. Light cover & edgewear, pages clean & tight, a few small spots on a handful of pages. Mylar cover with paper liner. ISBN: 0747217874. 217 pages. SUMMARY: "Scientists at GCHQ, Britain's electronic spying agency, have achieved an astonishing breakthrough. Ted Lofting, a top codebreaker known for his affable manner, has solved one of the greatest conundrums of the signal intelligence world - how to tap into fibre optic cables undetected. With encouragement and millions of dollars provided by America's National Security Agency, they plan to put it to daring use, tunneling under the streets of Paris to tap into the President of France's ultra-secure communications system...."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Little, Brown & Company. Fine. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0316803928 . Excellent, near new condition, slight soiling back cover. Interior clean & unmarked. "It is a hoarse whisper over a crackling cell phone--Angel--then the connection is lost. But Angel Veronchek is convinced that the voice belongs to his mysterious and beautiful new neighbor, Angela--and that she is terrified for her life. So begins Angels dangerous and desperate quest to uncover what happened to Angela, a woman he loves and has become obsessed with, but about whom he knows nearly nothing...." ; 8vo .

Toronto: Dorset Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 088893016X . HARDCOVER edition, Dorset 1979, first edition, same ISBN. HC/DJ - fine/VG. Hardcover is clean and tight with slight bumping of spine ends. Pages clean and intact, no markings. Jacket has light edgewear and a few tiny tears/chips, light scuffing, not clipped. Mantouche: Not the white man's all powerful, all knowing God....But cherished by the Native peoples as the force that regulates and balances life. Mantouche: In trouble, Puzzled, Threatened....Because of man's destruction of the environment, because of man's unbalanced nature. Heeding the pleas of a beautiful Ojibway girl, Canadian trouble-shooter Adrian Dumas agrees to do his best to help Mantouche. His covenant with Mike Red Sky involves him in a cruel KGB plot to manipulate a uranium industrialist's secret guilt. This very nearly costs him his life.....; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 277 pages .

Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart. Good in Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover has light stain to rear & bottom edge, green dot on top edge. Light soiling outer edge of pages. Interior pages clean & unmarked. Jacket has moderate edgewear and a few tiny tears/chips, stain (watermark?) across back & spine, light scuffing/rubbing of rest of jacket, not clipped. Book Description Jackie Greenstein is a victim of the Midas Compulsion. The stock market is his obsession, and though he is pushing gold mining stocks, not everyone Jackie touches will find gold....This novel takes you where no book about buying and selling of stocks has ever gone - into the private lives of the special breed of greed merchants who manage one of the highest risk games there is.. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Tom Doherty. New. 1999. First Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. 0312876106 . Signed and Dated by author on title page. New book, small remainder marking on top edge of pages, one back corner has some light creasing - otherwise as new. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Review: "California disc-jockey (and former rock star) Kihn brings back Beau Young of the Stone Savages from Big Rock Beat (1998) The authors recipe is simple: take Nan and Ivan Lyons' deliciously droll mystery, Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe (1976) ; replace cooks with black American bluesmen. Vincent Shives, an albino guitarist as yet unfledged by playing in public, goes to New Orleans, where an ancient black zombie woman for $5,000 sells him the Mojo Hand, a mummified, severed human appendage that seems not quite dead. Beau has dropped rock 'n' roll to recover from a coke habit and play the blues with legendary harpist Oakland Slim. Suddenly Slim's buddies among the giantsRed Tunney, Art… Leer más

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0340164891 . HC/DJ - near fine/VG. Re-issue of 1958 first edition. Light edgewear and small edge tears to jacket. The newly appointed Superintendent of Scotland Yard, Roger West, must solve a mystery in which a beautiful young girl in London is murdered, her face slashed to ribbons, and an elderly art dealer in New York is killed in the same fashion... (400noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Doubleday Crime Club. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0385083297 . HC/DJ - VG+/VG. Hardcover is clean and intact, unmarked other than previous owner's name on 1st endpage. Slight corner/edge wear and bumping to spine ends. Light age tanning to interior. Jacket is age tanned with several small edge tears/chips, light soiling, not price clipped. "The author's first novel, a mystery with Russian-American intrigue and espionage. The plan sounded simple when it was first suggested to Roy Keeper in Paris, where he'd been living as a draft dodging American expatriate. However, as he quickly learns in this hard hitting novel of espionage and international doubledealing, nothing is straightforward..." (400) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 201 pages .

Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771069448 . HC/DJ - very good. Hardcover is clean, has moderate wear to edges & corners, light soiling outer edge of pages, interior clean & tight. Jacket has light edgewear and a few small tears/chips, age yellowing to edges, light soiling, sticker residue on front, not clipped. A chillingly authentic thriller set against a background of the Tchiakovsky International Music Festival in Moscow. . ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Carroll & Graf Publishers. Good. 1998. Softcover. 0786704349 . Moderate wear to edges/corners, light creasing, light soiling to outer edge of pages. Interior pages clean & tight. 440 pages. Synopsis: Hercule Poirot begins his career investigating the sudden death of a wealthy heiress, and Tommy and Tuppence stumble onto a conspiracy of espionage and murder while looking for a missing woman. These two mysteries launched Agatha Christie's career. [431]; 8vo .

New York: Mcclelland & Stewart. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0771027273 . Signed by author on title page. McClelland hardcover is in a Andre Deutsch dustjacket so price is in pounds. Hardcover & jacket - near fine/very good. Hardcover has light wear to spine ends & corners, very light soiling outer edge of pages. Interior clean & unmarked. Jacket has light edgewear, light scuffing, age tanning and a few tiny tears/chips. The author's first novel and winner of the $50,000 Seal First Novel Award. A story of a harrowing Vancouver courtroom duel between a brilliant but unstable prosecutor and the evil Dr. Au. A thrilling drama which exposes some of the most brutal aspects of the heroin trade. ; 8vo; Signed by Author .

New York: Mccall Publishing Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, jacket partially attached to book. HC has light edge & corner wear, pages clean & tight other than library markings and slight seepage of blue colour on top edge of pages, moreso to first endpage. Spotting to upper edge of pages. DJ has plastic cover, DJ & wrap quite clean. Spine sticker has been removed, there is still a little tape residue. Price sticker seen in photo has been removed, not price clipped, back pocket. 214 pages. 8 vo. A zany spoof of espionage and a British Secret Service Agent in the former Soviet Union. 'The hilarious adventures of the world's most hopeless spy'. (*Shipping will be reduced to some locations) ; 8vo .

Cormorant Books. Fine. 1993. First Edition. Softcover. 0920953883 . Signed by author on title page. Excellent condition - slight corner wear, small bookstore stamp on half title page. Pages otherwise unmarked. 211 pages. "....a memorable tale of love and love betrayed, against a backdrop of political upheaval. Part psychological thriller, part retelling of an ancient myth, this novel takes us into a labyrinth of deception and anger. " ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; (*lower shipping avail to Cdn & overseas locations) [300-osl]; Signed by Author .

London: Collins. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0002318571 . Collins, London edition. Hardcover excellent, clean and intact, slight corner wear and partial crease on spine. Jacket has some scuffing with light edgewear and two tiny peels on spine area, price clipped. The thirty-second mystery from one of the genre's Grand Masters featuring Marsh's celebrated Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, CID, Scotland Yard, investigating an opera diva's murder in New Zealand. [470]; 8vo .

Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771076096 . Excellent condition. Light soiling to one outer edge of pages and a very small area of creasing on bottom edge of pages. Otherwise clean & unmarked. 378 pages. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; " The year is 1969. Rock 'n' roll, psychedelic drugs, and peace-loving hippies are thriving in Britain. But in the aftermath of a rock music festival, cold reality strikes when a woman is found murdered in her sleeping bag, callously left among the debris in the concert's wake. Detective Inspector Stanley Chadwick is the hard-headed, straitlaced copper assigned to the case who must reluctantly enter a counterculture world to find a killer. When clues lead him to an up-and-coming rock band, the Mad Hatters, with whom the victim was connected, Chadwick experiences firsthand the dangers of this dark new world of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.... .

Edmonton, AB: Brookview Publishing. Fine. 2004. First Edition. Softcover. 155056997X . Excellent, near new condition. Clean & tight, no markings, slight edgewear. 224 pages. Wily globe-trotting entrepreneur Dr. Zoltan Szabo's latest scam promises to be his biggest score yet, involving a dozen countries - with Canada at ground zero. The Social Credit government of British Columbia has fallen in love with his scheme to develop a complex of pulp & paper mills in northern B. C. , and when Szabo finally ropes in one of Europe's richest men, the gullible feds fall nearly into line with even more public funds. Into this cozy scam walks Inspector Gregory Novak, the RCMP's lates weapon in the war against international white-collar crime. (*shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 8vo .

Toronto: Gage Publishing. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771594887 . Hardcover is clean & tight, except for some spotting bottom edge of pages. Interior unmarked. Light wear to spine ends/corners. Jacket has light edgewear, a couple small tears and one longer tear, which has been taped on the inside, not clipped, no price on jacket. "Helped by Chief Jack Pinetree, Father "Hard Rock" DuMoulins and shy Camon Templeton, Art and Ossie lead the people of Minnicog with wit and humour through the Queen's visit, when she makes a speech entirely in French, and also manage to handle the disastrous days of the Fall Fowl Fair and Turkey Tussle when the visiting German Ambassador is nearly killed. The people of Minnicog then marshall their forces to handle the riot when the young men from the Indian reserve hijack the the men's room at the Hotel Champlain , a book-burning in front of the public library, arranged by the publisher in the hope… Leer más

London: Macmillan. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0333247892 . HC/DJ - fine/VG. Hardcover is clean and unmarked, slight soiling outer edge of pages. Jacket has light edgewear and a few small tears, light scuffing, not price clipped. Chateau Laroche, the last of the Swiss finishing schools where young ladies are taught to be "ladies", is nursing several vipers in its expensive and not altogether lovely bosom. ; 8vo; Bizarre, witty and fast moving, wonderfully entertaining and finally chilling. Raspbery Reich is a vehicle in which the author takes the reader on a switchback ride through a European never-never land..... [650] .

Nyc: Signet Books / NAL. Very Good. 1975. First Edition. Paperback. 0451066375 . Cover has several light creases, light edge/corner wear, light soiling/tanning to rear. Pages are clean and intact, no marks, age tanning to pages and inside covers. Is it a space-time warp from which no one ever returns? Is it manipulations by aliens from beyond our earth? Is the working of unknown forces hidden deep in the Atlantic? Or is it stormy seas, faulty engines, human carelessness and ruthless sabotage? The mysterious saga of the "devil's sea". (110os123) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .