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Johannesburg, SA: Macmillan. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0333133943 . Hardcover is clean, tight & unmarked, light foxing outer edge of pages, light age tanning inside covers. Hardcover light edgewear, couple tiny tears, small peel on front, light soiling, not price clipped. 8vo (8" tall). The author's third novel, a chilling story of a local African viral epidemic becoming a pandemic, and how the deterioration and decline of order and social services following the departure of the colonial powers from their former colonies in East Africa contributed to its destructiveness. (*Shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 8vo .

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] .

Grove Press. Fine. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 080211802X . Like new condition other than slight wear to one edge & corner back cover. Review sticker on rear. Clean, no markings. Description: Nick McDonell's Twelve created a sensation around the world, establishing its seventeen-year-old author as one of the new and important voices of his generation. The Third Brother is his highly anticipated second novel. Mike is a journalist interning in Hong Kong when his editor gives him the assignment: find Christopher Dorr, a brilliant journalist gone AWOL. So begins a propulsive journey that will take a young man headlong through fast nights in Thailand, into the grip of family tragedy, and into the heart of September 11, 2001. Along the way he encounters a kaleidoscope of characters -- the Flying Circus, a hard-living band of journalists trying to expose the Thai government’s murderous repression of drug dealers; Tweety, an inexplicably alluring prostitute hungry… Leer más

Harper Flamingo Canada. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 0002005085 . Excellent condition, only very light wear overall, small remainder marking bottom edge of pages. Pages clean, tight and unmarked other than stated above. ; 8vo; Translator Elizabeth Crossman is working for two young Internet millionaires when they go on an eco-tour of the rainforest and are abducted. "The Trade Mission" is a gripping, ingeniously plotted thriller with an underlying literary interest in social criticism that echoes both "Heart of Darkness" and "Deliverance. " (550) .

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 .

New American Library. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover is clean & tight, some fading to top edge of book & spine, very light wear to spine ends/corners. Jacket has edgewear and a few small tears/chips; light scuffing/soiling, rubbing to edges, price clipped. 309 pages. The violence of a raging river and the explosive forces of human guilt, vengeance, and desire combine to set the tempo of this powerful novel. Charged with intense suspense, imbued with the stark beauty of the American Southwest, it is the story of men and women joined in a desperate voyage.....; 8vo .

New York Fiction Publishing. Good. 1967. Softcover. Cover has moderate edge wear and a few creases, fading to spine. 50c price is crossed out and 55c written in pen below. Interior clean & tight, couple small spots inside cover. A small cut about center of cover extends to the first section of pages, about 1/4" long. Numerous b/w illustrations. Contents: The Frightened Innkeeper, by Leslie Charteris; Sydelle, by Brad Steiger; The Third Brother, by Wenzell Brown; Stirred Ashes, by Emile Petaja; Witches! By W. O. G. Lofts; The Lighted Window, by Dorothea Goldfinger; Death of an Asteroid, by Sam Moskowitz; Margie, by Stefan Santesson. Keywords: Fiction Crime Science Fiction Short Stories Magazines Saint (*Shipping will be reduced to all locations) ; 8vo; 160 pages .

London: Collins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. B0000COC34 . HC/DJ - near fine. Hardcover is clean with slight soiling to outer edge of pages. Interior of pages clean and intact, with no markings. Jacket has slight wear to edges, not price clipped. 156 pages. Fifth novel by this Rumanian novelist. Against the backdrop of the scorched and barren landscape of Sardinia, the author examines the fraught and at times violent relationship between archaeologist Enquist and his wife, Freya and son, Michael... (400noto) ; 8vo .

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 .

London: Arthur Barker Ltd.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 0213165155 . Bill Reade is the pseudonym of a well known writer of adventure and suspense novels. This is his first for Arthur Barker. Wear to HC is minimal, very clean, light soiling to outer edge of pages. Interior clean & tight, price on endpage, light stain to last page. DJ not clipped, very light edgewear, one small tear on back and light soiling, slight wrinkling of front. 172 pages. 8 vo. Ex-civil servant Tony Wilson unwittingly uncovers the Ibiza Syndicate whilst collecting a package from a local farmhouse for his boss and embarks upon a fantastic treasure hunt to locate works of art which went missing in the 1940's. (*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

Warner Books. Near Fine. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. 0446527378 . Excellent condition, overall wear very light, slight soiling outer edge of pages, no markings. Author is a master of the legal thriller. First a powerful and infamous judge is gruesomely murdered. Then another judge is killed in the same manner. Attorney Joseph Antonelli delves into the heart of these mysterious events when he agrees to defend the man accused of the 2nd homicide. What he uncovers is a relentless conspiracy that threatens the very foundation of the judicial system....even as it traps him in "the perfect crime. " ; 8vo; 418 pages .

London: Pan Books. Near Fine. 1964. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Softcover. Very light corner wear, tiny tears spine bottom, slight rubbing along spine edges. Interior pages clean & unmarked, back 2 pages have a tiny edge tear. Age tanning to spine, back cover and pages.....A gripping thriller of London's River Police, whose swift launches patrol the Thames and guard the ships that lie in port. Inspector John Wade is given the toughest job of his life when he is assigned the task of running to earth a gang of gunmen in rubber gas-masks, rubber gloves and crepe rubber shoes, who rob banks and jewelers, and even commit murder under the very eyes of the police, and get away with it..... (*Shipping will be reduced to all locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" 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

Little Brown & Co. Fine. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0316608211 . Advance Reading Copy. Excellent condition. A few tiny corner creases to cover and a few pages, a little corner curling, otherwise clean & unmarked. Publisher's promotional material set-in. 293 pages. "Lorenzo Brown just wants to stay straight. After eight years in prison on a drug charge, he's come "uptown"-back to the Washington, DC neighborhood where he grew up, where his old cohorts still work their corners and their angles, trying to get ahead and stay alive. But Lorenzo's had enough of the life: Now he has a job as a Humane Society officer, policing animal abusers and protecting the abused. In the dangerous streets he used to menace, Lorenzo plays a part in maintaining order-and it's a role reversal some of his former friends don't appreciate. Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo's parole officer, tries to help him, even as she battles her own demons and excesses.... "; 8vo .

Edmonton, AB: Macbee Publishing. Very Good. 2003. First Edition. Softcover. 0968798632 . Light wear to edges/corners, small peeled area on front, light scuffing to rear, interior pages clean & tight, 167 pages. Book Two in the Molly O'Connor Series: Molly O'Connor decides to take a leave of absence following the murders connected with Driftwood school. A Friend at a university in Arizona offers her lodgings, so she enrolls as a special student for the fall term. Soon after classes and rehearsals begin, she discovers that she has traded one set of problems for another.... Friends and acquaintances in the music department start having strange accidents. Certain that all these events are linked in some way, she asks Brian Donegan, the detective who led the investigation into the murders at Driftwood school, to help convince the police in Tucson that she isn't just another middle-aged meddler.... (os) ; 8vo; Signed by Author .

London: Cassell. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. B005L8YLYM . HC/DJ - near fine/very good. Hardcover is clean with minimal wear to edges and corners. Pages are unmarked other than old price on endpage, and a small blue number stamp on last two blank pages, one says 50, one says 100. Dustjacket has light edgewear, light soiling/scuffing, not price clipped, small scribble in pen on front, crease across front flap and slight crease across first few pages. By the author of 'The End of the Running' & 'Mantrap'. "The big square house stood isolated in the swirling water of the lake. The water was there because of the dam, and the dam was there because of the people. It spelt progress, and power. But to the man who lived in the house, it spelt ruin, the loss of everything he had owned. Kelly was a stubborn old man who refused to get out, refused to be compensated by the government, and refused to sell to young Toro, who… Leer más

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 .

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 .

Warner Books. As New. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0446529656 . Advance Reading Copy. Excellent condition, one tiny tear to bottom back cover which also affects last couple pages. clean, no markings. "The Mafia and the FBI compete to be the first to find a missing Columbia professor of Russian literature who may have Russian mob connections. Set in 1985, this crime novel is the product of a unique (and impeccably qualified) collaboration between the two headline authors: Bill Bonanno was a senior member of the Bonnano crime family, and former FBI agent Joe Pistone, better known as Donnie Brasco, went undercover to bust the mob in the 1980s. " (510); 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .