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Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. The Private Life of Rocket Science.

paperback. Etat : Very Good. 000-653: Trade Size Paperback. 205 pages including Index. A very nice, clean copy. Light corner bends on cover. Binding Tight. No reading creases. No creases or defects on pages. Excellent Reading Copy. This Edition Published 2001 by Walker and Co.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. The Life and Times of the Famous 18th Century Chess-Playing Machine.

Etat : Good. paperback 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st US Ed. 392 pages. Illustrated. American Turncoats.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. From Marie Curie to Hiroshima.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. A couple page edges creased.; A child has been critically injured in Jake HInes's front yard and something approaching a gang rumble has broken out in the parking lot of Central High. As the department mobilizes to deal with these two events, Jake is told that the little boy has died of a gunshot wound. Which is odd considering the witnesses all state there was no gun at the scene. ; 8.5 X 5.8 X 0.9 inches; 224 pages. …

Pictorial Wrappers. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy. Trade size Paperback . As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he's just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes fully to, Griffin discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. What happened? Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the sniper? There are too many pieces missing, too few facts, and a powerful need to know why a year has been stolen from his life. Weaving Griffin's search for identity-one of the recurring themes in this magnificent series of novels-with a sensuous portrait of the people and places the define New Orleans, Sallis continues not only to unravel Griffin's past but to map his future.and our own. Somewhere in the Crescent City-and in the white supremacist movement crawling through it-there's an answer to the questions left by the shot that echoed through the night. But to get it, Griffin is going to have to work with the only people offering help, people he knows he should allies if he can trust them, and worse trouble for him if he can't. "Bluebottle" continues the mysterious journey begun in Sallis's "The Long-Legged Fly" and continues, too, to show the growth and mastery of one of America's finest crime fiction stylists. Book.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 2nd Printing. 2nd edition with complete number line beginning with 2. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "It's the Depression, and young widow Belle Appleman is grateful for her new job tacking belt loops on men's pants in a Boston factory. Then she discovers a co-worker's body in the Charles River and, feeling personally involved, begins trading theories with the detective in charge of the case. In the midst of her sleuthing, she's elected shop steward and becomes involved with union politics, as well as with a dashing union leader on whom she tries out her Bette Davis voice and Garbo look. But when one of the factory owners is also murdered and a friend is accused, Belle must make serious efforts to find the killer, for her heart's sake as well as for her friend's. Feisty, impulsive and chatty, Belle Appleman is a welcome addition to Boston's growing population of female amateur detectives." -- Publishers Weekly. Book.…

Hard Cover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A skillful blend of environmental issues and gripping suspense is again in evidence as the two amateur detectives Wallingford introduced in Cold Tracks collaborate on another case. This time, forest service employee Ginny Trask and her boss, former police detective Frank Carver, are faced with the death of environmentalist professor Ward Tomasovic, shot after he returns home from a speech in Washington, D.C., in which he implied that loggers and environmentalists should work together in addressing the issue of clear cutting, i.e., cutting back and setting fire to an overgrown area of trees to produce new wildlife habitats. Book.…

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The fourth mystery featuring jazz pianist Evan Horne. "Jazz pianist Evan Horne improvises with the FBI in his latest after-hours murder investigation (following The Sound of the Trumpet). When a popular "smooth jazz" saxophone player is fatally stabbed in Horne's Southern Californian town, the piano man is called in by his best pal, Santa Monica homicide detective Danny Cooper, to decipher the clues left at the concert-hall crime scene, including the phrase "Bird Lives!" scrawled in blood on the dead man's dressing-room mirror. Soon it's revealed that two other fusion jazz musicians--a guitarist and a piano player--have recently been murdered in New York City, and Horne helps move the case forward by figuring out the significance of the dates on which the three deaths occurred and of the music playing at each death scene. But his increasing involvement in the investigation begins to undermine both his new recording contract and his relationship with a long-time girlfriend, while opening up romantic possibilities with FBI Special Agent Andrea Lawrence." -- Publishers Weekly. Book.…

Hard Cover. Etat : Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, lightly soiled, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Paper beginning to age tone. ENGLAND, a Harry Sommers adventure. After his boss dies, Harry Sommers, a gentle former prizefighter and amiable ex-con inadvertently inherits the private-eye trade when he investigates the blackmailing and murdering of the crooks who pulled off a successful wage heist eight years earlier. Book. …

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition, First Printing. The sixth and last novel of the Edgar Award-winning Lynds (writing as Mark Sadler, one of several pseudonyms) in this mystery-crime series featuring New York-based private detective Paul Shaw, called this time to Los Angeles to investigate the murder of a client; a Fine copy in like dustjacket of a first-rate novel by a badly under-appreciated writer. Collectable.…

red hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. couple of tiny scratches, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). xx+459p. 3 b&w double~page maps. 10 glossy full color photo plates. chronology. notes. bibliography. index. world history. medieval history. middle east history. history of the crusades. biography. ~ JUST BEFORE THE YEAR 1000, a young Viking named Thorvald turned his back on the pagan gods of his fathers to preach the Christian gospel. But his Icelandic countrymen mocked him as a homosexual and outlawed him. Abandoning his homeland, Thorvald embarked on an epic journey to the heart of all medieval world maps~Jerusalem. A thousand years later, Victoria Clark embarked on the same journey to discover to what extent the dramatic changes and conflicts sweeping western Europe a millennium ago still resonate today. The Far~Farers is both the story of this twenty~first~century journey and a history of extraordinary eleventh~century western Christendom. In this remarkable book Clark illuminates a group of influential eleventh~century characters ~ Thorvald, emperors of eastern and western Christendom, abbots, saints, princesses, Crusaders ~ who form links in a historical chain extending down the century and all the way from Iceland to the Holy Land. Western Europe was struggling to unite, expanding rapidly, and changing utterly. Warfare, peacekeeping, multinational monasticism, institutional power~struggles, mass pilgrim travel, and rising religious fundamentalism were a few of its salient characteristics~closely paralleling those of our world today. The twenty~first century people Clark encountered as she traveled through Iceland, central and western Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, and the Middle East cast fresh light on both worlds. A Swedish violinist she meets on a Turkish train reclaims the religion of his pagan Viking ancestors. In the ancient capital of Poland, a young Catholic priest scorns the idea of Europe uniting in the name of human rights instead of Christ. A Greek Jewess in Thessaloniki makes her peace with a thousand years of her people's persecution, while at the Crusader stronghold of Krak les Chevaliers a Syrian playboy highlights the deep and widening gulf between the West and Islam. A richly evocative and beautifully written work, The Far~Farers is neither conventional history nor travel writing; it is a powerful and authoritative demonstration of our enduring connection with the distant past. …

Hard Cover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 2nd P.I.McCauley title. An innocent romance with the wife of Foxport Police Chief Eddie Carver leads private investigator Quint McCauley into a mystery involving the police chief's kinky extramarital affairs, the supposed suicide of a circuit judge, and an unidentified body. Book.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing with complete number line beginning with 1. An ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. Fourth novel in the mystery series featuring New Orleans private eye Lew Griffin. Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son.and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men. Book.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Near Fine. THis book is set in France. It is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no previous owner names and no dust jacket. The dust jacket in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings. Copyright page states: "First Publishe in the United States in 1980" and the number line begins with "2". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 185 pages.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition, First Printing. The town cop in Mustard, South Dakota, is murdered and handyman/private detective Carl Wilcox begins looking for the killer in this addition to Adams' Shamus Award-winning mystery series set in the Depression Era midwest. Boards and text are clean, tight, with a very slight spine lean; dustjacket shows minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.…

Hardcover. Etat : VG. Etat de la jaquette : VG+. 1st Am. ed. 8vo. 192pp. White & yellow wraps feat. silhouette of soldier. Grey/white bds. color-stamped in black on spine. Dust jacket: lightly scuffed at folds; edgewear to extremities. Boards: bumping to extremities; general grubbiness. Bound material: foxing to endpp.; cockling to front paste-down. In archival plastic.…

Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. brown hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing ( FPu2004 & #1 in # line). vintage endpaper maps. decorative title pg. ix+372p. b&w illustrations. notes & sources. bibliography. index. world history. biography. geography. cartography. natural science. history of science. nautical history. elizabethan england. british empire. ~ THE FIRST MODERN BIOGRAPHY OF THE PIRATE GENIUS WHO INSPIRED DARWIN, DEFOE, AND COOK. Charles Darwin called his books "a mine of information" and took them aboard the Beagle. Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe used his experiences as inspiration in writing Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe. Captain James Cook depended on his observations while voyaging around the world, and Admiral Nelson urged all his officers to study his books. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him a genius and "a man of exquisite mind." In the history of exploration, few have ventured farther or achieved more than Englishman William Dampier (1651~1715). Yet, whereas the exploits of Magellan, Cook, Shackleton, and a host of legendary explorers have been widely chronicled, those of Dampier have been virtually invisible for more than a century~an omission that Diana and Michael Preston have redressed in this vivid, compelling life story. At a time when surviving a voyage across the Pacific was cause for celebration, Dampier journeyed three times around the world, sailing more than 200,000 miles in his lifetime and witnessing people, places, and phenomena no European had seen. As a young man he spent several years in the swashbuckling company of buccaneers in the Caribbean and Pacific, learning to survive in their bloodthirsty uncertain world, before setting off on his first journey around the globe~a many~year odyssey, much of it spent in the theretofore mysterious Pacific and Southeast Asia. Later, his best~selling books about his experiences were a sensation; the vividness of his prose and accuracy of his descriptions put armchair readers in the midst of unknown worlds and introduced many words into the English language, including barbecue, chopsticks, and kumquat. Over time, Dampier's observations and insights influenced generations of scientists, explorers, and writers. Dampier's powers of observation were astonishing. He was the first to deduce that winds cause currents and the first to produce wind maps across the world, surpassing even the work of Edmund Halley. His insights on land were equally astute: For example, he introduced the concept of the "sub~species" that Darwin later built into his theory of evolution, and his description of the breadfruit was the impetus for Captain Bligh's voyage on the Bounty. Dampier reached Australia eighty years before Cook, and he later led the first formal expedition of science and discovery back to Australia. So influential was Dampier that today he has more than one thousand entries in the Oxford English Dictionary. To trace Dampier's colorful life, the Prestons followed his footsteps around the world; interweaving Dampier's colorful prose into their narrative, they bring the same immediacy of his life and times as Dampier brought to his own reading public. A Pirate of Exquisite Mind restores William Dampier to his rightful place in history, as one of the pioneers who shaped our understanding of the natural world.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. First U.S. edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Publisher's tan boards with black lettering. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publishers letter laid in. "An elderly scientist wishes to defect from East Berlin and Mark Farrow is assigned to the operation, accompanied by a raw recruit from the Section. Almost from the outset, things go wrong, but after a brutal series of events, Farrow defies all the odds to claw the old professor across from East to West. Several unknown factions are out to grab the scientist for their own ends, but Farrow stubbornly refuses to accept as inevitable the devious betrayal which snatches his prize away." -- Publisher. Book.…

Hard Cover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. An ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. Fourth novel in the mystery series featuring New Orleans private eye Lew Griffin. Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son.and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men. Book.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. the 2nd Emma Chizzit title. A women's group receiving hate mail turns to Emma Chizzit for advice, a situation that leads Emma into a problem involving rape, murder, and a dishonest ultra-right-wing couple who are influencing one of Emma's friends. Book.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Top of pages lightly dusty else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first book. Eastern Kentucky. "Berkley Jordon, deputy sheriff of Buxton, Ky., wants to win the 1933 election for high sheriff more than anything else--except for finding the murderer of Bitsy Trotter. An autopsy reveals that the horribly butchered victim was pregnant, and Bitsy's hot-tempered beau, Sal Manochio, believes he's the father. But there's another candidate, Harry Buxton Jr., Bitsy's secret lover and scion of the owner of virtually every enterprise in the small mining town. Jordon considers both men suspects in the slaying, but community pressure leads to a bitter choice: he can arrest Manochio and lay off Harry Jr., or he can forfeit the election. Doubting Manochio's guilt and Harry's innocence, the deputy sheriff continues his investigation. When another death proves that neither of the two is the killer, Jordon risks everything--his position, his career, even his life--to bring the murderer to justice, and discovers that keeping his integrity is the most important job he can ever have. Strunk's atmospheric, evenly paced debut pays fitting tribute to the strength and unique traditions of the people of Appalachia." -- Publishers Weekly. Book.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Original covers, single issue, softcover tabloid, 11x15 inches, 20 pp, illustrated with black and white photographs + ads. Very good. Folded in half, age yellowed, 1/2 inch chipping off upper corner and lower edge of last leaf, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Agriculture; farming; ephemera. …

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good +. No Jacket. Very good + copy. (see picture) 310 pages including index. All clean,tight and bright.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. This is the 30th stand-alone mystery thriller by Pronzini who stands among the most prolific mystery writers of this or any time. This is the story of Jack Hollis, who has finally decided the only way to stop the violent man who is threatening his daughter and grandson is to kill him. He plans and prepares and initiates his plan only to discover someone else got there first. First Edition, first printing, with a complete numberline ending in 1. Signed by Pronzini on the title page. About 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, in light red paper-covered boards with darker red lettering on spine. Boards' lower corners are bumped and a single page of text is dog-earred, o/w no other noticeable damage or flaws. Dustjacket also shows bumped lower corners but no tears or scratches, and not price-clipped. Overall, VG/VG. Pronzini is prolific. He ia also very, very good. He is best known for his Nameless Detective series. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/pub.1996/Gd. condition/211 pages - A comprehensive approach.What you can do about Chronic Pain Fatigue.(TA8v921z). Book.

paperback. Etat : Good.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. blue hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. as new. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing ( FPuUSA2000 & #1 in # line). endpaper maps of Languedoc decorative title pg. xiii+333p. b&w illustrations. notes. selected bibliography. index. religion.medieval history. history of christianity. history of france. theology. philosophy. theosophy. ~ At the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians, thrived across what is now the Languedoc in southern France but was then a patchwork of city~states and principalities beholden to neither king nor bishop. The Cathars held revolutionary beliefs that threatened the authority of the Catholic Church as well as the legitimacy of feudal law: They thought the idea of Hell to be a sham; they rejected all sacraments, including marriage; they thought private property an absurd notion and that all things worldly were corrupt; and they gave women religious status equal to men. Supported by the leading nobility of the region, the Cathars' growing influence enraged the Church and its powerful pope, Innocent III, determined to flex its muscle after decades of weakness. Innocent resolved to eradicate what is now known as the Great Heresy. He recruited the forces of France, eager to expand her territory to the south, and they systematically exterminated the Cathars and their supporters in a series of crusades between 1209 and 1229. By the time the wars were over, the ancient social fabric of the Languedoc had been destroyed, the map of France redrawn, and a terrifying new force that would torment Europe for centuries~the Inquisition~unleashed across southern France. The Perfect Heresy eloquently chronicles the life and death of the Cathar movement~one of Western civilization's most mind~boggling tales. Full of colorful and passionate personalities, it brings long~ago events to life and sheds new light on the thirteenth century and on the timelessness of religious intolerance.…