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New York: St. Martin's Press, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. Tall 8vo, brown cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with heraldic gold dragon by Ervin Serrano, 420 pages. A Dark-Hunter Novel<br /> <br /> Sherrilyn Woodward (formerly Kenyon: born 1965) is a #1 NYTimes bestselling US author. Under her former married name, she wrote urban fantasy and paranormal romance. She is best known for her Dark Hunter series.<br /> <br /> SUPERIOR COPY: Tight, bright, clean in comparable unclipped dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder marks.

London Boston: Faber and Faber, 1984. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine/None. 12mo, pictorial wrappers depicting a comedic set of glasses-red nose-moustache, 383 pages. An well-edited and Excellent collection of parodies. Rather Scarce.<br /> <br /> Simon Brett OBE FRSL (born 1945) is a prolific and highly respected British writer of detective fiction, children's literature, humor writings, as well as a radio producer.

Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1980. Seventh Printing. Decorated boards. Very Good +/Fine. 8vo, light yellow boards with Shogi pieces in black, illustrated with numerous clear examples of play, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), 99 pages + [1] Afterword by Yasuharu Oyama, Sogi Meijin (Japanese Champion) & punch-out card. If you haven't tried Japanese chess, may I recommend it! This is a very handy way to learn about the game. The pieces have been punched out of their coated board and all are present along with a paper board.

New York Toronto London Sydney Aukland: Bantam Books, 1993. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Good +/Good +. 8vo, black cloth with gold spine lettering over powder blue boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Michael Dudash, 424 pages. Tight, bright, unmarked copy. Two scratches on the front of the dj and a couple of bubbles of waterstaining along the lower page margins from pp.411 to the end.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, N.D.. Reprint. Decorated cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Color & B/W glossy photos. Oblong quarto (10 5/8" x 11 3/4" x 1 1/8"), tan cloth with gilt lettering and Indian shield on front cover, Introduction by Dr. Harold McCracken, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with Rosa Bonheur's painting of Col. William F. Cody [aka "Buffalo Bill"] mounted on a gray, profusely illustrated with 248 glossy images (photos, apparel, clothing, gear, paintings, sculptures)--119 in full color; a few folding plates--of the splendid Western & Indian memorabilia from The Buffalo Bill Museum, The Plains Indian Museum, The Whitney Gallery of Western Artl Show, beige endpapers; 290 pages. Weight: 4 lbs. 1 oz. Solid, clean copy with superb color & B/W photos of Buffalo Bill's Western / Plains Indian world that have been drawn from three museums.<br /> <br /> Bright, clean, unclipped dust jacket with faint impression of a paperclip… Leer más

New York London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo, red quarter cloth over charcoal gray boards with "PG" on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a portrait of a woman bearing "The Sword" by Agache, Index, 192 pages. Peter Joachim Gay was a German-American historian, educator, and author. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. This volume contains three very insightful essays by Gay on the powerful emotional distortions used by Dickens, Flaubert, and Mann in three of their important books.<br /> <br /> FINE tight, bright, clean copy. Dust jacket is unclipped with traces of edgewear. Previous owner's name blacked out on ffe. No other marks or remaindering.

New York London Toronto Sydney Singapore: A Lisa Drew Book / Scribner, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. B&W Photos. INSCRIBED by the Author on the front free endpaper, 8vo, blue quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over white boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with colored photo of HT by Fred B. Conrad,Index, 239 pages. Helen Thomas (1920 - 2013) was an American reporter and author best known for her longtime membership in the White House press corps. She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S. presidents—from the start of the Kennedy administration to the second year of the Obama administration.--Wiki <br /> <br /> SUPERIOR CONDITION with INSCRIPTION on free front endpaper. No remainder marks or internal markings of any kind. Clean, bright, tight copy.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Small 8vo, black quarter cloth over black boards with red "PC" square seal, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) with shattered glass and blood stain, [x] + 212 pages. Patricia Cornwell originally created At Risk as a serial for The New York Times Magazine. Exceptional condition!

New Milford, Connecticut: Roaring Brook Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Mordecai Gerstein. 8vo, yellow quarter cloth with red lettering on spine over black boards, illustrated throughout by the author-artist, red endpapers,130 pages with deckled edges + [2] blanks + [2] Reflections by the Author. Mordecai Gerstein (1935 - 2019) was an American artist, writer, and film director, best known for illustrating and writing more than 40 children's and YA books. He became a Caldecott winner (2004) for The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (2003), about French aerialist, Philippe Petit, which became a movie in 2005 starring Jake Gyllenhaal.<br/><br/>The Old Country is a beautifully crafted original fairytale about shape-changing by the author. Gerstein did the evocative dust jacket cover art of a fox-over-girl in silhouette. But, frustratingly, he didn't illustrate the rest of his marvellously evocative… Leer más

Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 2007. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, black cloth with red spine lettering over charcoal boards with blind-stamped elephant logo, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) with photograph of mountain mists and Nazca condor, profusely illustrated with B&W photographs on glossy stock by the author plus 3 maps & chronological chart, [xxii] + 330 pages. Hugh Thomson is a writer, explorer, and author of The White Rock. "Hugh Thompson has made a career exploring the mysterious pre-Columbian cultures of ancient Peru, providing unforgettable accounts of South America"s most strange--but enduring--culture. In A Sacred Landscape, he takes us from the great Moche pyramids to remote sites in the Central highlands that date back to the first millennium BCE--ancient Incan sites of the Andes that remain cloaked in mystery. He elegantly interweaves his account of the rise, decline, and fall of pre-Inca civilization with the… Leer más

New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. Tall 8vo, dark green quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over matching green boards, archival polyester-protecrted pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), dark green endpapers, 389 pages + [3] Acknowledgements.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, black quarter cloth over yellow boards, Mylar-protected pictorial yellow dust jacket with an impressionistic fragmenting jockey riding (unclipped), [x] + 289 pages. Bestselling Author, three-time Edgar Award winner, and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America! Exceptional Condition!

New York: The Overlook Press, 2011. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, black quarter cloth over brown boards with thin vertical ribs and elephant seal, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of a hooded woman, 320 pages. Francis Hill has written several books on the Salem Witch Trials. "Salem, Massachusetts, Winter 1692: In the parsonage of Reverend Samuel Parris, two young girls are seated by the fire and play at fortune-telling as snow falls softly outside. What starts as a game sends one of the girls into a hysterical trance, and Salem begins its descent into madness. Accusations of witchcraft will destroy lives, and old scores were settled. Over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused by their neighbors of consorting with the Devil."--jacket. Exceptional Condition!

Boston New York Toronto London: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. Tall & thick 8vo (9 5/8" x 6 1/4"), brown quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over gold boards with facsimile signature of author on front covr, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) realistic painting of a gathering of Israeli armored infantry by Tim O'Brien, illustrated with double-spread map of the Middle Eastern setting for the Yom Kippur War, 685 pages. Overall: tight, clean, with bright dust jacket with slight rubbing and a few minute dents on its rear panel. <br/> <br/> Herman Wouk (1915-2019) was an American author whose 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II. The Glory is third in his series on the Israeli struggles during the 20th century; more specifically, the Yom… Leer más

New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997. First Barnes & Noble Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, black quarter cloth with irridescent blue lettering on spine over black boards, Introduction by Peter Haining, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped), 331 pages + [3] Acknowledgements. Peter Alexander Haining (1940 - 2007) was a British journalist, author and anthologist In the 1970s he wrote three novels, including The Hero (1973), which was optioned for filming. He also wrote several reference books on the BBC TV programme Doctor Who, and the definitive study of Sherlock Holmes on the screen, The Television Sherlock Holmes (1991). Book features stories by leaders of hardboiled fiction: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hamett, Elmore Leonard, Mickey Spillane, Quentin Tarentino and 15 more. An appealing anthology for Pulp fans that's in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: cloth, contents, and jacket (unclipped).

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, black quarter cloth over mauve boards, map endpaper of Isle Royale, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket of wintry spruce forest with wolves (unclipped), [xiv] + 370 pages. New York Times Bestselling Author! Her fourteenth Anna Pigeon mystery. Exceptional condition!

Boston New York London: Little, Brown and Company, 2002. First U.S. Edition. Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, black vertically-ribbed textured boards, Mylar-protected blurred photographic dust jacket, [x] + 436 pages. The #1 Bestselling mystery writer in the U.K. Inspector Rebus tracks down the murderer of an Edinburgh art dealer. "Britain's finest detective novelist."--Scotland on Sunday. Exceptional Condition!

Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2020. First Edition. Glossy pictorial boards. As New/As New. Tall 8vo, (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") glossy aqua boards with black lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket with four people silhouetted against a night sky; xviii + 462 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. Laurence B. Siegel is the Gary P. Brinson director of research at the CFA Institute Research Foundation, senior advisor to OCP Capital LLC, and an independent consultant, writer, and speaker specializing in investment management.<br/> <br/> In Fewer, Richer, Greener, author Laurence B. Siegel reveals that the world has improved-and will continue to improve-in almost every dimension imaginable.This practical yet lighthearted book makes a convincing case for having gratitude for today's world and optimism about the bountiful world of tomorrow. Life has actually improved tremendously. We live in the safest, most prosperous time in all human history. Whatever the metric-food,… Leer más

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Co, 1985. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, brown buckram with gilt stamped spiine & small device on cover, Mylar-protected dust jacket with image of a young woman, [vi] + 455 pages. Exceptional Condition! Gothic novel set in 18th Century England, and the mysterious events that occur during their journey.

Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Near Fine. Tall 8vo, black vertically ribbed cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a rocket launching, red endpapers, 490 pages + [4] Ads for publications. Joel C. Rosenberg (born 1967) is an American-Israeli communications strategist, author, and non-profit executive. He has written five novels about terrorism and Bible prophecy, including the Gold Medallion Book Award-winner The Ezekiel Option. <br/><br/>David Shirazi series which features him as a CIA agent of Persian descent, who must stop Iran from developing nuclear weaponry.<br/><br/>VF/NF Condition: Tight, bright, clean copy without any previous owner or remainder marks. Minute edgewear to dj (unclipped) and a faint 1/4" waterstain (?) mid-foreedge of the pages.