Amazing never-before-published stories of the golden age --a shining, living legend of heroes, of great quests, of loves gained and lost, of steadfast courage and splendid deeds. A "must" book for all fans ......
FIRST EDITION hardcover published by Doubleday in 1976. This is a rather scarce book in nice condition, not to be mistaken for the common book club edition issued the following year. This is Crowley's second novel, describing a world in which genetic...
2276 WelcomeTo Earth For America's Quincentennial! The Time of Troubles is over. War and Poverty are dead. And Duncan Makenzie, benign ruler of the distant world of Titan has returned to the planet of his forefathers to solve a mystery and ...
The death of a pet fish signals an ominous threat of wordwide tragedy... Delta Company "plays" out a war light years away... A running back for the Cleveland Browns gives his all to relive a night from his past... In IRRATIONAL NUMBERS, as with much ...
f you dismiss this because it's an old book or only by women, you're cheating yourself. This book contains only seven stories, yet two of them are among my all-time favourites. - "Tin Soldier," by Joan D. Vinge, tells of a star-travelling poet and he...
Anthology. Contributor Olaf Baker (Shasta of the Wolves); George Bruce (Scream of the Condor); Edgar Rice Burroughs (God of Tarzan); William L. Chester (One Against a Wilderness (Part 1)); Philip Jose Farmer (Extracts from the Memoirs of Lord Greystr...
TERROR IN TRIPLICATE It began with the discovery of a murdered man in a back alley behind the President's hotel in Boston...a man whose body had to be deposited in an anonymous grave for reasons not even Meric Albano, the President's Press Secreta...
The combined mind-force of a telepathic race, Patternist thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. For the strongest mind commands the entire Pattern and all within it. Now the son of the Patternmaster craves this ultimate power. He has murdered or enslaved ...
A human space traveler trapped on a remote planet must somehow unravel a confounding alien technology -- or else surrender himself to a host of incomprehensible horrors For thousands of years, Carter Horton has been traveling across the galaxy toward...
NOT WITH A BANG OR A WHIMPER... ...but with a wail of outraged despair. That was how it ended. For those infected with Carson's Syndrome virtually every artifact of technological society carries an odor that is utterly maddening. When the strange...
THE PRINCE WAS A HALFWIT... Oh, he was intelligent enough, no doubt about that. But he couldn't teleport --in fact, he couldn't even seng. Maybe that's why he took such a liking to the two shipwrecked travelers from Earth. Imagine: a whole planet ...
Original Title: Secret in the Old House...
This large contemporary novel tells the story of an ordinary electrical engineer who, at age 94 and dabbling in the earth sciences as an avocation, discovers an amazing and shocking truth -- that time after time since the beginnings of the earth, lif...
A lawyer agrees to defend an ex-baseball prospect accused of murder In 1964, nineteen-year-old Billy Dupaul was on his way to stardom. A modest farm boy with a lightning fastball, he had just signed a record contract with the New York Mets when a sin...
Jeffrey Archer is at his captivating best in this, his first novel, an intricate tale of deceit, dishonor, and sweet revenge. What can an Oxford don, a respected society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord have in common?...
First Edition. A VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket. Dust soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Small rubs to its spine tips and corners. The dust jacket has small rubs to the spine tips and corners. Tanning and some dust soiling to the rea...
THE THIRD BLOCKBUSTER THRILLER IN THE KRUG & KELLOG SERIES...WHICH BECAME THE HIT TV SHOW THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO It's the socially turbulent 1970s. A controversial therapist secretly records his sessions...until he's brutally murdered. Homicid...
On the eve of World War II, the Saint is in Vienna, where his attentions are divided between a sensuous countess and some legendary diamonds - both of which he is trying to keep out of Nazi hands.
Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore and ...
With vital Cold War talks at risk Roger West of Scotland Yard, its finest detective, must stay one step ahead and out-think the FBI if he is to save Ricky Shawn’s life. A frightened ten year old child, Ricky has been kidnapped as a mere pawn in a r...
MALICIOUS GOSSIP AND DRIVING GREEN SEND AN INNOCENT OLD WOMAN TO THE BRINK Trouble begins for old Mrs. Mellanby when she decides to sell her too-large house. A neighbor whose aid she enlists dies mysteriously after their meeting. Gossips accuse M...
From 1972 to 1975, Susan Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for smalltown carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. As she followed the girl shows from town to town, she portrayed...
Many men had pursued Loveday Fairchild, the headstrong and beautiful daughter of the dissolute Lord Fairchild. Now he had wagered the girl's virtue at the gaming tables and lost. Loveday was forced to flee and the enraged winner, Theo Tierney, balked...
LORD ALEXANDER RIVINGTON WAS THE MOST HATEFUL MAN GEORGINA HAD EVER KNOWN Lord Rivington began by virtually assaulting Georgina at their first chance meeting. Then this incredibly wealthy and handsome aristocrat publicly mocked Georgina's vie...
When Daphne left her family's country estate at Verchamp Park for the season in London, it was certainly with no anitcipation of romance. She soon found, however, that she had no difficulty in finding suitors-- only in choosing among them. All w...
The Marquis had never met a female worthy of his steel -- until Dianthe arrived A shock awaited London's most independent bachelor, the Marquis of Dartford, when he returned to find his London townhouse occupied by a most unlikely invader. His...
REGINA KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT FROM A MAN LIKE LORD WREXAM Though barely twenty-three, lovely, elegant Regina had learned how cruel it was to be wed to a handsome, faithless rake- -- a captivity ended only by her husband's fortuitous demise. No...
She was the joy and despair of every eligible London gentleman. Nicole Beaumont's first social season was a smashing success. The high-spirited beauty enchanted every young man who met her. She was the talk of the town and had a string of ardent ...
For gay, young Deborah Randall, a sun-swept vacation is darkened by a mystery Three men and a girl Beautiful, carefree Deborah Randall was enjoying a glorious vacation. Tim Grant, brilliant but ambitious atomic scientist -- Professor Burke Romney...
SHE WAS A DEB WHO MADE HEADLINES WHEREVER SHE WENT! Lovely, red-haired Nancy Barton put glamour behind her to serve her country. From the lap of New England luxury, she plunged into the danger and intrigue and electric excitement of Washington at w...
Her friends in Massachusetts had warned her against driving alone to Mexico, and she could just hear the "I-told-you-so's". A flat tire on a lonely detour in Texas brings Kay Chesney to a seedy bar looking for help. Instead, she is swept into the a...
Lieutenant Kramer and Sergeant Zondi have their hands full. On the same day that an adult entertainer known as Eve is found accidentally strangled to death in her dressing room, her pet python wrapped dead around her neck, a beloved candy shop owner ...
Charlie Bradshaw is spending his 41st birthday in New York, trying to track down Sam, the son of his great high school love. Sam has gotten himself involved in a big-time drug deal, and everyone - from Sam to the New York cop on the case - wishes Cha...
The author describes some of the small wild animals she has cared for in emergencies. Includes directions for emergency care, including recipes for appropriate foods and instructions on preparing the animal for a return to the wild....
FATHERS AND GODFATHERS Father Quelloni ha a talent for playing at Robin Hood. Until he got murdered. Then the Vatican hired Peter Reno and the sharp-shooting ex-cop soon found himself up to his neck in brutal slaughter and multi-million dollar th...
Corpses make good copy, so it's a headline jackpot for Josh Krales, crime reporter for the New York Event, when he lurches onto a multiple hit in a Greenwich Village brownstone... The star deceased, skewered to the front door, is a long-stemmed lo...
John Raven - the ex-cop with a taste for exotic adventures and voluptuous adventurers - is unexpectedly thrust into the thick of the action. His Andalusian holiday turns out to be no picnic when he finds himself at the crossroads of the snow-white ...
"WARN....WATCH....TAKE CARE OF PATRICK." Her mother's last words implored Meg to go to Ireland and protect her brother. But she was too late. When she arrived, Patrick was already dead - shot down by an unknown killer. Now Meg was part owner ...
A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars.Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with he...
"What I am suggesting to you, Miss Floyd, is purely a business arrangement. If you go through a marriage ceremony with me to quiet the gossips, that is all that will be required of you." Charles Pitborough needed a housekeeper and he thought Cecil...
She was homeless... alone and penniless It was the end of an era. Queen Victoria's reign was over and the Edwardian age had begun. Attitudes were changing. But the attitude toward women with blemished pasts remained rigidly the same. Thus t...
She married a dream of perfect happiness and woke up to a nightmare of ruthless deceit. From whirlwind courtship, through impetuous elopement, to a passionate honeymoon - it had been a fairytale romance. Then came the accident and Anna, so recently w...
The Ravishing Rebel Fiery, sensuous, and very determined, Ann Eaton was totally her own woman. And although she loved her husband, governor of the colony of New Haven, she could not fit herself into the ideal mold of Puritan womanhood. She had str...
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One of the finest and best-selling horror novels of the 1970s returns at last to chill a new generation of readers
In the isolated farming community of Harlowe, New Hampshire, where life has changed little over the past several decades, Joh...
It had been months since Brazos and Benedict had started their search for Bo Rangle, the outlaw who'd killed most of their comrades in the War and stolen a fortune in gold while they were at it. But the west was a big place and Rangle could have gone...
Cuchillo Oro saved Linda Daughton from a fate worse than death at the hands of a band of renegade Apaches. When he was in danger himself, she returned the favour by shooting his attacker in the groin. Though the fight is over - the trouble is just be...
Suppose that George Armstrong Custer did not die at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Suppose that, instead, he was found close to death at the scene of the defeat and was brought to trial for his actions. With a masterful blend of fact and fiction, The ...
Apache renegade Cuchillo Oro, in search of his hated enemy Captain Piner, becomes involved with a gang of Mexican bandits. They are holding captive the daughter of a rich Sonoran. Their plan is to ransom her and Cuchillo now becomes tangled up in the...
DRIFTER'S DREAM Canavan drifted down the valley and into a shooting war. The big ranchers were rustlers turned respectable. Now they were fighting each other. In the middle was a small spread and a woman. Canavan had a mind to stay so he staked a ...
Susan Durrell got a call from her friend Jane Prall, she wanted Susan to visit her on Martha's Vineyard. Susan impulsively agreed to Jane's suggestion. While Susan is waiting to board a ferry, a twisted game begins. After Susan arrives at Jan...
Some slight spine creasing and edge wear. Front cover has a couple top corner creases, one is rather large. Some smugging on covers and edges. Top edge has a faint roller stamp. Inside front page has a small edge tear. Age tanning, but in good c...
A SINISTER MALEVOLENCE WAS SPREADING ACROSS THE GRENELLE CAMPUS .. . AND SOME ONE OR SOME THING WAS DRAGGING SUSAN GRENELLE INTO IT. Susan had run away from Grenelle and spent the last eleven years trying to forget the hurt and pain she had suffer...
THE DOOR OF FEAR SWUNG OPEN Lovely young Saunielle Hunter was three thousand miles from her Virginia plantation home when she knocked on the door of the magnificent San Francisco Victorian mansion on Fell Street. She had traveled across the con...
From the day she turned sixteen and discovered the secret of her mother's past, Nicole Rainard's life was inextricably bound to a country and a house. The country was England. The house --Lynmara. Almost against her will, life seemed to draw Nicol...
In the menacing wings of a Victorian mansion actress Jennifer Randall plays her most terrifying role. When the advances of her employer force her to abandon her promising acting career and leave her penniless, Jennifer Randall agrees to pose as Ed...
Scorpio pride struggles against Scorpio passion as Josefo battles an unknown evil....
I awoke from an alarming dream with pounding heart and a dry mouth. Instantly I became aware that I was not alone. A shadow loomed over me, but before I could focus my eyes upon it, my lamp went out. “The shadow feel upon me. “Black folds e...
FINAL AFFAIR Nora Blaine was vibrant and young and thrilled about her new job as governess to Victor and Stacey Palmer's baby daughter. Nora was a dreamer, and she was already dreaming of a summer of romantic excitement. But two days after Nora...
CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND VIOLENCE. Amy Cooper had come home to Beckford to perform at the opening of the Concert Hall. She would be the soloist, playing the piano in the tradition of her world-famous parents. It promised to be a gala occasion. Ex...
STARS OF FEAR Pretty, compassionate Neva Prescott had come to Providence to comfort her recently widowed sister who had inexplicably become a recluse, locking the doors of her luxurious mansion to everyone - except the handsome Gemini stranger who...
Ishbel Stewart assured herself that she knew all about the past of the dashing and successful businessman, Henry Davis, who had claimed her as his bride. But with each passing day the man she thought she knew grew more like a stranger to her as she s...
Stars of Suspicion Lissa Drexel, a young university instructor, was leading a busy academic life until her cousin came to town. Suddenly, her routine collapsed and Lissa was linked with a mysterious accident. Her intense, inquiring Scorpio nature ...
Original title: When I Say Goodbye, I'm Clary Brown. An actress who has risen from humble beginnings returns to her home village to find many of her friends dead and a malevolence that seems to be directed at her. THE RIGHT TO LOVE… Mi...
"I'm falling in love with you." With those astonishing and unexpected words, Jeff strode away. Carolyn wanted to call him back, wanted to give way to the love that flooded her heart. But this wasn't the time. Before she could think of her own f...
In 1949 a special Valentine’s Day dance in small-town Nebraska teaches thirteen-year-old Addie about real love Kids in Addie’s seventh-grade class are starting to exchange rings and go steady, but Addie hates all that mush. When she grows...
His name is Martin Dobecker…by day a lawyer, by night a student of the ancient forgotten lore of alchecmy. Together with seductive Anita Tockbridge, a high government official, he is plunged into a web of sexual intrigue, dark occult pastimes, blac...
An alien spaceman stranded on Earth, who wakes up in different times, after long periods of suspended animation, to try to find help to repair his ship. He thus experiences some adventures, being mistook for a god, a Chinese spy, then a god again....
First published in France in 1985, The Bathroom was Jean-Philippe Toussaint's debut novel, and it heralded a new generation of innovative French literature. In this playful and perplexing book, we meet a young Parisian researcher who lives inside his...
A new season brings changes -- and hope -- to the little English village of Thrush Green, from the beloved author of the Fairacre series. Nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, Thrush Green is normally a peaceful place. But as autumn turns to ...
Reanimating a classic, Joan Walsh Anglund adds her beautiful line drawings to the timeless story of a young cowboy--a perfect gift for children."Once there was a cowboy. He was strong and brave. He was not afraid of coyotes. He was not afraid of...
Very good hardcover with DJ. COLLECTIBLE FIRST EDITION. FORMER COLLECTOR'S COPY. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows light edge wear. Presented with clear mylar ARCHIVAL ...
BERLIN...where in the hell of war two brothers made a devil's pact - and thirty years later were faced with their infernal legacy. PARIS...where a breathtakingly lovely girl in flight from a prison of perversion found haven in the arms of a handsome ...
"Among Howard Fast''s historical fiction, Citizen Tom Paine-one of America''s all-time best-sellers-occupies a special place, for it restored to a generation of readers the vision of Paine''s revolutionary passion as the authentic roots of our nation...
Warner Books, 1976. Paperback original, second printing 1979. The author's second novel. "Toyon was a Terran, powerful in his own sector of the galaxy, but here on the planet of Hoep-Hanninah he was a tourist who did not speak the language. Toyon was...
Two men kill each other over a secret cache of gold... and their sons pick up their still smoking six-guns....
Eight extraordinary stories of heartbreak, growing up, and the importance of finding your voice Everything changes eventually. Jessie Granatstein doesn’t think she’ll have anything to say in the journal her teacher asks her to write -- unti...
From the author of THE FIRST TO LAND, a novel set during the Second World War. They called them the Scrapyard Flotilla, after a quarter of a century of service, the eight destroyers had seen all kinds of action. Now they were to be used in raids to o...
The classic novel by "Irish master" (New Yorker) and Booker Prizeâ€"winner John Banville brings to life the dramatic and surprising world of sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and the theory that would shatter the medieval view of the un...
Stated first edition. A VG+ copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Rubs to the book's corners and light wear along the head of its spine. Soiling to the edges of the upper page block. Small frays to the dust jacket's spine tips. Rubs to its ...
Lieutenant Colonel James Fitzroy Lodd is a modern day soldier of fortune whose misinterpreted Arab leanings have cost him his Army career yet earned him the protection of Shaikh Rashid, ruler of the tiny oil shaikhdom of Dubai. From the back room of ...
An underachieving engineer building a fighter plane faces a life-changing decision in this Vietnam-era novel perfect for fans of Kurt Vonnegut, Joshua Ferris, and Joseph Heller. This furious, slapstick tale has been praised by the New York Times...
When an Egg meets a Bean and they are bought a round of cocktails by a Crumpet, the stories fly fast and furious...there's a bit of luck for Mabel, Bingo Little manages to survive A Pekinese Crisis, and a spot of Romance at Droitwich Spa. Eggs Beans ...
To residents of Manhattan, it was just another blistering hot day in August. No one suspected that death, in the form of a ghastly band of vermin-infested rats, had moved silently into the city's streets. The Black Death was loose in Manhattan! Behin...
Imprisoned for the bizarre murder of her lover, Eva Medina Canada recalls a life tormented by sexual abuse and emotional violence. Eva's Man is Gayl Jones's second novel....
Stated first edition bound in black boards. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Rubs to the spine tips and corners. Remainder spray along the bottom page block. The dust jacket is frayed and worn at its spine tips and corners. The rear panel...
Edgar Allen Poe in Fiction, Drama and Poetry; Vividly evoking the glitter and squalor of the 1840's New York where "the country" starts north of 14th St. This novel traces the last fivce years of Poe's life- from the $10 sale of his famous poem, "The...
San Francisco's as far-out as you can go in America without falling off. THE FRISCO KID is Jerry Kamstra's far-out novel of Edge City and the reckless, creative, insane bunch of artists, writers and hangers-on who spilled out their energies in tender...
Stated First Edition. Bound in green cloth and boards. A Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Soiling to the rear panel of the DJ. Book has some mild dust spotting to the upper page block. First American Edition....
Stranded in another universe, two mortals face a slow wasting - or a quick death from the gryb. A scale-armored, blood-sucker gryb glinted off the incredibly small and gem-like disk of sun, which rose higher and higher from the fantastic horizon of E...
In 1793, the terror of the French Revolution is at its ultimate height. It is a moment when Britain’s financial resources are strained to the limit. At this worst of all possible times, Nick Minnett (hero of Tricolour) finds himself in charge of th...
Speed Danger Death These words were splashed across the cover of Hot Rod, warning readers. Written in 1950, this book gives an historical look at the dangers of teens and reckless driving. After WWII, cars became more accessible, and teens were no...
He was Karn, the savage of the sky-high trees. He was protector and defender of the princess Niamh, whose very city was lost in the mapless jungles of the world under the Green Star. But he was also an Earthling, whose helpless body lay in suspended ...
Here is your chance to discover the amazing, channeled story of lovers separated by a gulf so vast it defies imagination, yet they persevere and succeed. Read their story in The Jupiter Experiment by Margaret and Maurine Moon.
The Moon siste...
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is virtually an informal history of the movies. This volume deals with over 300 of them, some essay length, some in short sharp paragraphs. From Bonnie and Clyde to Blow Up, Miss Kael praises, damns and displays her extraordinary ...
Living in Camelot isn't all it’s cracked up to be. At least to Abby. It was hard to leave all her friends behind when her family moved to a new development called Camelot, a place so weird that the houses actually have names like Lancelot and Excal...
A rich, magical gothic mystery from the legendary John BellairsRose Rita wishes she could go to camp like her bets friend, Lewis. She's sure that boys get to have all the fun.--until Mrs. Zimmermann offers her an adveture of her own. Mrs. Zimmermann'...