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New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1998. First American Edition, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. A beautiful, mysterious and highly-skilled stranger approaches fencing maestro Don Jaimes and requests that he teach her the art of the unstoppable thrust. By the author of The Club Dumas and The Seville Communion. ISBN 0151001812. #2508.. First American Edition. Hard… Read more about this item

New York: Delacorte Press, 1994. 344 pgs. Sept. 1994 First Edition, first printing. Debut novel of James Elliott, pseudonym for author and screenwriter J.C. Pollock. Intricate procedural and psychological suspense novel starring former CIA agent Mike Culley reenlisted by the CIA to capture serial killer on a Virginia campus. Other titles written by Pollock under this pseudonym include: Nowhere… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1993. 377pgs. Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean, tight, unmarked. Jacket has a trace of shelfwear along upper corners, no chips, tears or rubs. Detective Harry Lyon and his partner Connie Gulliver enter a nightmare of horror after killing in the line of duty. ISBN 0399137734. #2500. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1970. x. 228 pgs. Near Fine condition green cloth hardcover, clean and unmarked, binding tight, very slight wear to cloth at edges and corners. Illustrated plates. Author was former Regius professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow and Fison Memorial lecturer. Contents: Preface, The Earth or Sun as Center of the Universe?,… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Dell, 2007. 340 pgs. Near Fine condition trade paperback, clean and unmarked with minimal edge and corner wear. A reporter and novel author investigates the violent onstage murder of a sixties rock star, confronting his own demons while the music bridges and weaves the past and present, underground counterculture, mysticism and touches of the supernatural. ISBN… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. 221 pgs. Good to Very Good, binding sound, clean and unmarked. One closed tear at margin of pg 10, text not affected. Frontis illustration plate tipped in. Original age-toned paper boards, cloth spine with faded titlepiece, no jacket.This is a vintage printing, not a modern reproduction. By the author of Earlham and The… Read more about this item

New York: Putnam, 2005. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, pristine condition. First prining of first edition. Kinsey Milhone helps Violet Sullivan unravel the mysterious disappearance of her mother thirty-four years ago after a Fourth of July fireworks display. ISBN 0399152970. #2437.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Lisa Amoroso. 8vo.

New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1960. 61 pgs. Very Good+ condition hardcover, no jacket. Light rubbing to corners, clean, sound and unmarked. Selections from the writings of Thoreau as compiled by Arthur G. Volkman are arranged in sections: 1. Alma Natura, 2. Of Aspiration, 3. Orientation, 4. Generation, 5. Mind Prints, 6. Of Courage, 7. Of Health, 8. Relaxation,… Read more about this item

USA: Endangered Species Coalition No place, no date. About 25 pgs. Very good condition staple-bound report, light staining and smudging to green covers. Published circa 1994 by the Endangered Species Coalition presumably to fight the backlash against and scapegoating of the Endangered Species Act reauthorization efforts, in light of challenges asserted by proponents of The Private Property Protection Act, Proposition… Read more about this item

Chicago and New York: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1900. 165pgs. Very Good condition small blue cloth hardcover. Light rubbing to cloth along edges and corners, slight fading to spine. Owner name and date on front endpaper, else clean and unmarked with sound binding. Contents: Preface; Introduction: I. England in Milton's Youth, II. The Life of Milton, III. L'Allegro and Il… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library xii.250pgs. Very Good condition. Dark Green leatherette binding no. 4, Bernhard endpapers [circa 1925-1929] with gilt to spine. Light wear to edges, bottom spine edge frayed, spine slightly crinkled. Owner names on front blank. List of Modern Library titles after text. #1937.. Leatherette. Very Good. 16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall.… Read more about this item

New York: Thompson, Brown & Co, 1915. ix.156pgs. Very Good little green cloth hardcover, light shelf wear and rubbing to cloth at corners, gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Internally clean, sound, unmarked. Frontis portrait engraving of Charles Lamb, tissue intact. Contents: Editor's Introduction; Essays: The Two Races of Men, New Year's Eve, Imperfect Sympathies, Dream-Children: A… Read more about this item

Emmaus, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Rodale Press/St. Martin's Press, 1991. vii.344 pgs. Very Good+ in glossy pictorial boards as issued, clean and unmarked with a very slight bump to the lower left corner of back board. Illustrated with color photos, drawings and diagrams. Sections include learning from nature, elements of natural garden design, providing food, cover and water for wildlife and natural… Read more about this item

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999. 593 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine dustjacket, clean and unmarked. First English Language Edition. Translated from the French by Steve Cox and Ros Schwartz. A story of healing as an ill little boy explores the many forms of religious faith while travelling with his aunt. He learns the tenets and philosophies of Christianity, Judaism, Islam,… Read more about this item

Knapp Press, 1983. xii.209 pgs. Near Fine hardcover, tan cloth, clean and unmarked, in Very Good jacket and Very Good+ cloth-covered slipcase. Jacket has light edge wear and a closed tear to top edge of rear panel. Slipcase has minimal discernable shelfwear, no wear to edges and corners. Color photos throughout illustrate gardens of all types from several continents. Contents:… Read more about this item

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 2000. 311 pgs. Fine hardcover, clean and crisp, in Near Fine jacket. Tiny pinhead perforation to bottom left corner of jacket near spine edge, else fine. Set in Vienna in 1910, the murder of Freud's famous patient Dora is being investigated by the Inspector, newly trained in rationalist criminology. The author presents turn-of-the-century… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 2003. 8vo. 390 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, no chips, no tears, clean and unmarked. Alex Cross is back, with his first case as an FBI agent, investigating a rash of kidnappings and disappearances. Victims are being bought and sold, with evidence pointing to "The Wolf", a shadowy and much-feared enigma… Read more about this item

William Heinemann Ltd., London. 2nd impression, 1928., 1928. 12mo. 347 pgs. Very Good hardbound. Green cloth, gilt lettering, light edgewear. Owner name and foxing to front free endpaper, crinkle/chip (printer imperfection) to rear endpaper. 1/2" closed tear to bottom margin pg 45. Clean and sound copy. #456. Second Impression.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1923. 8vo. x.310 pgs. Good to Very Good condition hardcover. Green cloth, light external shelfwear, light foxing to endpapers, frontis and title page, otherwise internally clean and unmarked. Frontis illustration by A.D. Rahn. Vintage shipwreck tale. August 1923 Printing. #2116.. No Additional Printings Indicated. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good. Illus. by A.D. Rahn. 8vo… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1998. 8vo. 375 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Clean and unmarked. Faint trace of wear to bottom spine edge, else fine. Translated from the Spanish by Sonia Soto. Mystery thriller set in a Catholic parish in Seville. ISBN 0151002835. #2105.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over… Read more about this item