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Killer Deal: A Molly Forrester Novel
Anderson, Sheryl J. New York, New York, U.S.A. St. Martin's Minotaur 2006 0312350058 / 9780312350055 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps; 310 pages; Advance Uncorrected Proof/First Printing; Book # 3 in the Molly Forrester series; Textblock is tight with no internal markings; Bright pictorial cover with no tears, no creasing to the spine, modest shelf and edge wear; ....(In Manhattan when you make a deal you always need to see it through. On a leave of absence from her advice column, Molly Forrester is assigned to do a feature article on the murder of advertising maverick, Gordon Dean, but as the police department comes under pressure to break the case, friction mounts between Molly and her NYPD boyfriend. The third thrilling book in the Molly Forrester series.)
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6.63 USD
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Owl's Well That Ends Well: A Meg Langslow Mystery
Andrews, Donna New York, New York, U.S.A. St. Martin's Minotaur 2005 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps; 293 pages; Advance Uncorrected Proof/First printing; A Meg Langslow Mystery; Textblock is tight with no internal markings; Bright pictorial cover with no tears, no creasing to the spine and modest shelf and edge wear; . (The characters Meg and Michael have bought a dilapidated mansion and now before moving in the happy pair must first move everything out. But the barn is off limits and it appears that someone has already trespassed for there is a murdered body in an old chest - unfortunately the police suspect the professor who holds the key vote on Michael's tenure committee.)
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6.22 USD
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I Asimov: A Memoir
Asimov, Isaac New York, New York, U.S.A. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1994 0385417012 / 9780385417013 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps, 552 pages; Uncorrected Proof/First Printing; Textblock is tight with unmarked pages; Powder blue cover with title in black; Has no tears & minimal shelf & edge wear; .......(An enjoyable read for any Isaac Asimov fan, as it's the autobiography of one of the best-loved authors of our time. Isaac Asimov left behind an unparalled legacy of thought and imagination when he died in 1992 at the age of sevety-two. In addition to writing some of science fiction's most important novels, he earned the nickname of the Great Explainer for his nonfiction works on subjects ranging from the nature of the universe to Shakespeare. In 'I. Asimov', the author looked back on a long and full life, writing on topics he rarely discussed in public - religion, life after death, love and other topics of interest. A man of great humor and vision, Asimov made friends in all walks of life and traded ideas with some of the great minds of his time. This memoir shines with his personality, that of a writer who entertained and educated readers of all ages for almost fifty years.)
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12.51 USD
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Vitals
Bear, Greg New York, New York, U.S.A. Del Rey 2002 0345435281 / 9780345435286 First Edition Soft cover Near Fine Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps; 280 pages; Advance Reading Copy/First Printing; Textblock is tight and clean; Bright pictorial cover with no tears, no creasing to the spine; Has minimal shelf & edgewear; .....(Blends fierce & fast plots with vivid characters, and mind-bending ideas with suspense, science and action. Scientist Hal Cousins finds himself trapped inside an ever-twisting maze of shocking revelations as he and a handful of scientists get close to the key to stop the aging process - but those who came before him will stop at nothing to keep that secret to themselves. Now everyone on earth is at risk of being made an unsuspecting player in one man's spectacular master plan.)
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9.47 USD
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Coming Up for Air: Simple Acts to Redefine Your Life
Becker, Margaret Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A. Navpress 2006 1576839346 / 9781576839348 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps; 256 pages; Advance Reading Copy/First Printing; Textblock is tight with no internal markings; Pictorial cover is bright with no tears, no creasing to spine; Has modest shelf and edge wear; .....(For years, Dove Award winning artist, Margaret Becker allowed life to push her along, leaving dreams, aspirations, and meaningful moments in its wake. This chronicles her journey from an overall feeling of "disconnect" to a more satisfying, simplified and fruitful existence. With wisdom and humor, Margaret shares her story and challenges women to let go of outward expectation and pursue an authentic life.)
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6.91 USD
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Lightning on the Sun
Bingham, Robert New York, New York, U.S.A. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 2000 0385488564 / 9780385488563 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Lynn Amft (Cover Design)
; Wraps; 291 pages; Bound Galley/First Printing; Textblock is tight with unmarked pages. Bright pictorial cover with no tears, no creasing to spine and modest shelf wear including a couple of light small marks; ....(A beautifully plotted and written novel with fast-paced suspense, and the moral resonance and exotic setting that would happen in one of Graham Greene's classic works. An exhilirating read as you see decisions made by three young Americans that place them in mortal danger.)
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5.67 USD
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To Die in Provence
Bogner, Norman New York, New York, U.S.A. Forge 1998 0312866283 / 9780312866280 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps, 382 pages; Advance Uncorrected Proof/First Printing; Nice copy that has been read but with unmarked pages; Unfaded blue cover with no tears/no creasing to spine, modest shelf & edge wear; ....(This marked the author's triumphant return to novel writing after working in Hollywood for several years. The suspense story has Jennifer Bowen, a young professor of art history, being hired by a successful TV producer to keep an eye on his spoiled nineteen-year-old daughter, Maddie, while she studies French in Aix-en-Provence. As time goes by, Jennifer begins to realize that young Maddie, as well as her ex-con boyfriend, will not stop until they get their way in life, thus beginning a web of murder and destruction.)
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4.99 USD
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Star Dragon
Brotherton, Mike New York, New York, U.S.A. Tor Books 2003 0765307588 / 9780765307583 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps, 352 pages; Advance Uncorrected Proof/First printing; Tight copy with unmarked pages; Promotional letter from publisher inside front cover. Blue cover with no creasing to spine, no tears, modest shelf & edge wear; ......(The story of an interstellar expedition to investigate, and if possible, capture a plasma-based life form discovered in the double star system of SS Cygni. But it's a one-way journey into the future, for SS Cygni is 250 light years from Earth.)
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8.75 USD
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The Curse of Chalion: A Novel
Bujold, Lois McMaster New York, New York, U.S.A. Eos 2000 0380979012 / 9780380979011 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps, 442 pages, Advance Readers Edition/First printing; A nice tight copy with unmarked pages; Bright pictorial cover with minimal wear and uncreased spine; ......(A riveting tale, rich in atmosphere, character, intrique and romance. Cazaril has been a soldier, a slave and a courtier - and carries the scars to remind him. Now broken, he seeks menial work in the household where he once served as a page. Later he is offered the position of secretary-tutor to the Royesse Iselle, the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the heir to Chalion's throne. But the assignment will utimately carry Cazaril to the one place he fears most: the royal court at Cardegoss where the powerful adversaries who once consigned Cazaril to chains now occupy the most lofty positions in the realm. He later also discovers something far more sinister.)
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4.99 USD
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Bangkok 8
Burdett, John Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. Random House Inc 2003 1400040442 / 9781400040445 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps; 318 pages; Advance Readers Edition/First printing; Textblock is tight with no internal markings and no names; Bright pictorial cover with no tears, no creasing to the spine; Has modest shelf & edge wear; ......(An electrifying, darkly comic thriller thick with the authentic atmosphere of Bangkok. Two policemen arrive after there is a murder by a snake under a bridge, and they are the only two cops in the city not on the take. Minutes later only one of them is alive and Sonchai is doubly compelled to find the murderer. He has to maneuver through a corrupt world that he knows all too well in order to track a killer. 'Bangkok 8' is a smart, skeptical, literary and interesting novel.)
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12.48 USD
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Shadow Puppets (ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF)
Card, Orson Scott New York, New York, U.S.A. TOR-a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2002 0765300176 / 9780765300171 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps; 348 pages; Advance uncorrected proof; First Edition, First printing; Texblock is tight and bright; Cover has no fading with shelf wear including cover curl, some nicks; Small close tears, light wear to to fore-edge; (This was the sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel 'Shadow of the Hegemon'. Another superb story from Orson Scott Card.)
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10.77 USD
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Future on Ice
Card, Orson Scott (Editor) New York, New York, U.S.A. Tor Books 1998 0312866941 / 9780312866945 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps, 432 pages; Advance Uncorrected Proof/First printing; Textblock is tight, unmarked pages; Light blue cover with title in black; Has no tears, no creasing to spine, modest shelf & edge wear; ......(This was the long-awaited companion volume to 'Future on Fire'. This volume, 'Future on Ice' is an anthology that will freeze you in your tracks, perhaps changing the way you think as you read early stories from widely varied and immensely talented authors who have since this time shattered the face of science fiction.)
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6.70 USD
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Jack Maggs (Uncorrected Proof)
Carey, Peter U.S.A. Alfred a Knopf Inc 1998 0679440089 / 9780679440086 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps; 304 pages; Uncorrected Proof/First printing; Textblock is clean and tight with no internal markings and no marginalia; Bright pictorial cover with no creasing to the spine and no tears; Has modest shelf and edge wear; . (The time is the 1830's and Jack Maggs, a foundling trained in the fine art of thievery, has now reversed his fortunes. Though deported to Australia, he now returns to London, under threat of execution and finds his way into a handsome househoold in Great Queen Street, where he's quickly embroiled in various entanglements. A handful of vividly drawn characters, each with their own longings and secrets converge with Jack Maggs at the epicenter.)
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6.56 USD
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Kissing the Beehive
Carroll, Jonathan New York, New York, U.S.A. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1998 0385480113 / 9780385480116 First Edition Soft cover Near Fine Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps; 232 pages; Advance Reading Copy/First printing; Textblock is tight with no internal markings and no names; Pictorial cover with no tears and no creasing to the spine; Has modest shelf and edge wear; .......(A novel of obsession and memory - the story of a writer named Sam Bayer. He's burned out from his divorce and feels like he's fallen into a rut and is desperate for inspiration. A chance visit to his hometown of Crane's View, New York involves him in an unsolved case of murder that took place when he was a teenager and at the same time is drawn in by a beautiful woman.)
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13.47 USD
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Fleeced: A Regan Reilly Mystery
Clark, Carol Higgins New York, New York, U.S.A. Scribner 2001 0743205812 / 9780743205818 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps; 265 pages; Advance Readers Copy/First printing; A Regan Reilly Mystery; Textblock is tight with no internal markings, no names; Bright pictorial cover with no tears, no creasing to the spine; Has modest wear including three light nicks, bottom of textblock, tiny portion has bump; .....(Regan Reilly is in New York to attend a crime convention organized by her celebrity-author mother and then a friend calls her desperately pleading for help. The Settlers' Club on Gramercy Park has been the unlikely site of a mysterious death and a cache of missing diamonds.)
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8.00 USD
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The Report Card
Clements, Andrew Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A. Simon & Schuster 2004 0689845154 / 9780689845154 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps; 173 pages; Special Advance Reviewer Copy/First Printing; Textblock is tight and clean (bumped to corners); Cover is bright with no tears, no creasing to spine; Has modest shelf & edge wear; .....(Fifth grader Nora Rose Rowley is really a genius, in fact, she's smart enough to ace college-level astronomy; Finally Nora gets so fed up with all the talk about tests that she brings home a terrible report card to show the grown-ups that you can't always measure someone's intelligence by how well he or she fills in circles with a No. 2 pencil. It's time to put testing to the test. Very charming.)
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13.44 USD
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Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
Colfer, Eoin New York, New York Hyperion Books for Children 2002 0786808551 / 9780786808557 First Edition Soft cover Near Fine Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Tristan Elwell (Cover Design)
; Wraps; 277 pages; First American Uncorrected Advance Proof/First Printing; Textblock is tight and bright; Unfaded grey pictorial cover with no tears, no creasing to the spine; Has minimal shelf & edge wear; .....(The world's youngest, brightest and most dangerous criminal mastermind is back, and at the start of his second adventure Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he receives an urgent video e-mail from Russia. It is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya, a man Artemis thought he would never see again - his father. As Artemis rushes to his rescue he is stopped short by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the police. A thrilling interspecies adventure.)
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22.36 USD
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Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
Colfer, Eoin New York, New York Hyperion Books for Children 2002 0786808551 / 9780786808557 First Edition Soft cover Near Fine Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Tristan Elwell (Cover Design)
; Wraps, 277 pages; First American Uncorrected Advance Proof/First Printing; Textblock is tight & bright; Grey pictorial cover with no tears, no creasing to spine, minimal shelf & edge wear; .....(The world's youngest, brightest and most dangerous criminal mastermind is back, and at the start of his second adventure Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he receives an urgent video e-mail from Russia. It is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya, a man Artemis thought he would never see again - his father. As Artemis rushes to his rescue he is stopped short by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the police. A thrilling interspecies adventure.)
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19.70 USD
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Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
Colfer, Eoin New York, New York, U.S.A. Hyperion Books for Children 2003 0786819146 / 9780786819140 First Edition Soft cover Near Fine Book 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Alex Ferrari (Jacket Art)
; Wraps; 309 pages; Advance Reading Copy/First printing; Textblock is tight/clean with no internal markings; Fore-edge is rough trimmed as published; Bright pictorial cover with no tears, no creasing to the spine; Has modest shelf & edge wear including light bump top left of spine; ....(After being held prisonor for years, Artemis Fowl's father has finally come home. He is a new man, and asks his son to promise to give up his life of crime - but Artemis can't do this until he completes one last perfect scheme. Artemis has constructed a supercomputer from stolen technology and needs to broker a deal. The plot thickens and Artemis must contact his former rival for help.)
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31.26 USD
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The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon (w/ Unopened CD)
Collin, Ronald K. L.; Collins, Ronald K. L.; Skover, David M.; Bruce, Lenny Naperville, Illinois, U.S.A. Sourcebooks Inc 2002 1570719861 / 9781570719868 First Edition Soft cover Near Fine Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
; Wraps; 546 pages, Gift Quality; Lovely Advance Reading Copy/First Printing with two promotional cards inside front cover, UNOPENED AUDIO CD; Black & white photograph; Textblock is tight with unmarked pages; Bright pictorial clean cover with minimal shelf & edge wear including light nick bottom left of spine; ......(A revolutionary biography that gained dimension with a fusion of text and audio. A revealing and unflinching portrait of the comic icon's battles in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. Also includes audio CD of rare live performances, and interviews with George Carlin, Hugh Hefner and Margaret Cho. A well researched and documented account of his career and obscenity trials.)
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9.09 USD
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