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Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.: Bridge Publications, Incorporated, 1998. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Beiged marbled boards quarterbound in tan cloth. The spine is stamped in beige. Untrimmed fore-edge. 370pps. First Printing. There is mild bumping to the lower tips and the spine-heel. Also, a previous owner's nameplate is on the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, and bright. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price (25.00) is intact on the front flap. SIGNED on the title-page by the author, Kevin Anderson.<br><br>Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. X03-E.. SIGNED by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Textured beige boards quarterbound in blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Quarto. Map-endpapers. 624pps. First Printing. There is a faint 1/8" pen-mark near the bottom of the fore-edge, otherwise flawless: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No reading wear and no previous ownership inscriptions. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price is intact. The author's seond book.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "<i>'PrairyErth'</i> is a vigorous and exalted evocation of the American land, its people, its past, its hopes. The very word 'prairyerth,' an old geologic term for the soils of our central grasslands, captures the essence of the American tall-grass country. Only a writer of William Least Heat-Moon's gifts could find in a single Kansas county the narrative of an epic,… Leer más

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. In Good+ condition. Bound in the publisher's full brown cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt; the front board in blind. Fading brown topstain. 'Map of The Old West' endpapers. 297pps. No dustjacket. There is rubbing wear to the tips and the spine-ends. Internally, both hinges are starting -- though stable -- and a previous owner's name and address are penned on the front pastedown. Also, some page-edges are a bit ragged (from their having been opened); this does not affect the text. All in all, a nice reading copy of this old biography.<br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. X03-D.. First Edition. Cloth.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982. (1982). Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Gray boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. Octavo. "Prizzi Family" endpapers. 316pps. First Printing. There is very light dustspotting atop the textblock and a remainder mark on the bottom edge, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, is mildly rubbed and has touches of crinkling at the extremities; the original price is intact.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "No ordinary story of boy-meets-girl. Charley Partanna is a faithful lieutenant for the Prizzis, New York's most powerful Mafia family. The object of his affections is Irene Walker, a Los Angeles-based tax consultant. But it's her freelancing that pays -- she's a hit woman for the Mob. She has also cheated the Prizzis out of an unforgivably… Leer más

New York: Knopf, 1973. Very Good+ in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Red topstain. Octavo. 271pps. Stated First Edition. There is slight fading along the top edge of the cloth and a small, unobtrusive pen-line atop the textblock. Also, several pages have been dog-eared. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is rubbed and has a couple of touches of dampstaining to its interior (slightly visible to the exterior); the original price is intact.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "'In <i>Sleeping Beauty,'</i> Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands -- including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1997. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Gray paper-covered boards quarterbound in green cloth. The spine is silver-stamped. 251pps. First Printing. There is very mild bumping to the spine-ends, otherwise excellent: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light touches of crinkling at the extremities; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price is intact. This is the first novel, written under a psuedonym, of Mark Costello, recently short-listed for the National Book Award for "Big If". A very nice copy.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "New Year's Day, 1965. The body of Father George Sedgewick is discovered on a snow-covered runway of Logan Airport, brutally murdered. No leads. Missing: four thousand hosts, consecrated by Pope Paul VI, meant to be given out to the faithful at the first… Leer más

New York: Viking, 1978. (1978). Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Beige boards quarterbound in brown cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt and red. Octavo. 286pps. An excellent copy: clean, tight, square and bright. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, is mildly rubbed and has a vertical crease in its rear panel; the original price is intact. ".In this varied, provocative, and enchanting collection of public addresses Roberston Davies' voice reveals his heart, a magical realm where Professor Human Hare and Gates Ajar Honeypot live congenially with Alexander Solzhenitsyn and C. G. Jung, where a carnivorous Dickens eats his readers alive and a demon is chased through centuries of literature. Here, portraits and sketches of the people and places of literature, of insanity, of public works, of academia are drawn with the same vibrancy and care that is the hallmark of Mr. Davies' fictional creations. Whether the voice is castigating… Leer más

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994. [1994]. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Blue boards quarterbound in blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Large octavo. xii + 515pps, including numerous maps and illustrations. First Printing. A previous owner's small nameplate is affixed to the front pastedown, otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Absolutely no reading wear. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "Civil War enthusiasts will welcome this concluding volume of Peter Cozzens's highly praised trilogy on the Civil War in the West.<br> The battles around Chattanooga in the late fall of 1863 were among the most decisive of the Civil War, opening the Deep South to the Union and setting the stage for the Atlanta campaign and the March to the Sea. After Chattanooga, the principal Confederate army in the West fought without spirit or hope of victory.… Leer más

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. Very Good+ in a Good+ dust jacket. Bound in full pink cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in black. Beige endpapers. 462pps. Stated First Printing. There are light touches of dustspotting to the closed page-edges, otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. No previous ownership markings. The dust jacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has modest general chipping and creasing and a couple of closed tears; the original price (6.95) is intact. A nice copy of this early Fuentes novel.<br><br> </b></font><br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. 41-C.. First Edition. Cloth.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam, 1997. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Maroon boards with a brown, gilt-stamped backstrip. 279pps. First Printing. There is mild bumping to the spine-ends, otherwise flawless: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without an inscription or a dedication -- on the second fep.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "John Fielding was famous not only as cofounder of London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, but also as a magistrate of keen intellect, fairness and uncommon detective ability. When a crime was committed, he often took it upon himself to solve it. What made this all the more remarkable was that he was blind.<br> Now the blind magistrate and his young assistant and ward, Jeremy Proctor, face a series of crimes that hit shockingly close to home. Prostitutes are being murdered… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1985. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Gold boards quarterbound in green cloth. Both the spine and the front board are gilt-stamped. 312pps. First Printing. There is a remainder mark on the bottom of the textblock. The upper front tip is mildly bumped. Also, the page-edges are a bit yellowed. Otherwise clean, tight, and square. No previous ownership markings. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a faintly sunned spine and a touch of toning at the top of each flap; no chips or tears. The original price is intact.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "It's 1995 and William Cowling is digging a hole in his backyard. He is forty-nine, and after years and years of pent-up terror he has finally found the courage of a fighting man. And so a hole. A hole that he hopes will one day be large enough to swallow up his almost fifty years'… Leer más

New York: Scribner's, 1895. In Very Good condition. Bound in the publisher's full green cloth. Both the spine and the decorative front board are stamped in black and gilt. 404pps., plus ads. No dustjacket. There is a lean to the slightly sunned spine and browning to the endpapers. Also, the binding is a bit brittle, though sound, with all pages intact. The text is in excellent condition, clean and bright. No previous ownership markings.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "...A romance of the most adventurous kind, whose events, born of Mr. Stockton's imagination, are wholly extraordinary, and yet, through the author's ingenuity, appear altogether real. That Captain Horn's adventures are varied may be inferred from the fact that they extend from Patagonia to Maine and from San Francisco to Paris, and include the most remarkable episodes and marvelous experiences -- all of which are woven together by the pleasing thread of a love-story, and… Leer más

New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1988. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. White boards quarterbound in white cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Quarto. 448pps. Stated First Edition. A previous owner's name is neatly penned in the upper corner of the ffep., otherwise clean, tight, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no apparent reading wear. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic <i>'Interview with the Vampire'</i> . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of <i>'The Vampire Lestat.'</i> In <i>'The Queen of the Damned,'</i> Anne Rice continues her extraordinary 'Vampire Chronicles' in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. As New in a Near Fine dustjacket. Beige boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Gold endpapers. 209pps. The volume, itself, is flawless: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has faint signs of rubbing to the white panel and crinkling to the spine-ends; no chips or tears. The original price is intact. An excellent copy.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "Post-colonial Malaysia is Theroux territory and this is the story of a young American diplomat journeying to a 'bachelor post' at the uneasy frontier where civilization meets jungle." <br><br></b></font> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded.… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group, 1991. Very Good in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Blue boards quarterbound in beige cloth. The spine is stamped in red. Beige endpapers. 341pps., plus maps. First Printing. There is modest rubbing and bumping to the board-edges and a lean to the spine. Also, there is a small pencil-erasure in the top corner of the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, and bright. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light rubbing and crinkling to the extremities; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price is intact. The second Marcus Didius Falco mystery, after <i>'Silver Pigs'</i>.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "Rome. AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco, now Imperial Agent to Emperor Vespasian, is keeping busy tidying up corpses, kicking over the traces of a failed coup, making a bit on the side in stolen lead ingots. But a new plot to usurp the purple robes of power puts Falco on the back of a mule with a one-way… Leer más

Philadelphia: The Curtis Institute, 1996. As New in oversized (11" x 11") pictorial wraps, (pb). 144pps., with numerous photographs. This copy is as new and unread: still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. A beautiful, photographic essay of the history of Philadelphia's highly esteemed music school. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. . DIANA BURGWYN THE CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC PHILADELPHIA SCHOOLS MUSICIANS STUDY MUSICAL ARTS INSTRUMENTS HISTORY. Catalogs: NonFiction, Art.

Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. This is a Review Copy, with publisher's materials laid-in. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Red boards. The spine is stamped in black and white. 145pps. First Printing. There is minor bumping to the spine-ends:otherwise, flawless. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has slight touches of edgewear; it would be fine except for a spine that is vaguely faded. The original price (9.95) is intact on the front flap.<br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. X03-D.. First Edition. Hardcover.

New York: Rand McNally, 1950. In Very Good condition. No dust jacket. Bound in full brown cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. 224pps., with numerous illustrations, some in full color. First Printing (A). The extremities are mildly rubbed and bumped and there is some vague sunfading around the edges of the cloth, otherwise quite clean and soundly bound. No previous ownership markings. <br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. 41-D.. First Edition. Cloth.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1973. In Fine condition. Pebbled blue boards. The spine is stamped in white. 269pps., with numerous diagrams and a large pull-out chart. No dustjacket. A flawless copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "...Business Data Processing: A Wiley Series is intended for system analysts, programmers, and managers who desire to improve their competence in business/management applications of the computer. Treating some twenty subject areas, publications will provide a range of technical depth. The objective is to provide a series of publications that will enable readers to gain an understanding in specialized subject areas..."</b></font><br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs… Leer más

New York: Random House, 1957. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Bound in full, light gray cloth. The spine is stamped in black and gilt; the front board in gilt. Octavo. Rose-colored topstain. 341pps. Stated second printing. The perimeters of the cloth are faintly faded, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The price-clipped dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has modest toning to the rear white panel and very light rubbing wear to the spine-ends; the date-code of 11/57 is in the lower corner of the front flap. An excellent copy, nicely and colorfully jacketed.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "Now after a long silence one of the greatest and least-prolific of modern writers replies to her readers' demand for a new book. In her brilliant and ineffable style, she offers again the enchantments, the ironies, the unexpected revelations of her own created… Leer más