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ABE, KOBO / TRANSLATED FROM THE JAPANESE BY E. DALE SAUNDERS  The Ruined Map
NY, Perigee Books / Putnam Publishing Group. 1980, Perigee Printing 1st. (ISBN: 0399504702) Trade Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tight copy, light shelfwear, professionally clear archive tape reinforced cover cornertips, clean unmarked text, no stamps or labels. A Unique Psychological Drama about a Detective searching for a Missing Person in the Gritty Underworld of Tokyo. 299 pages.. Very Good.
USD 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 796] Book number: 906044
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ADAMS, DEBORAH  All the Crazy Winters
New York, NY, U.S.A. Ballantine Books. 1992, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0345370767) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal creasing; light cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy. In the appalling murder of a fellow librarian and a spectacular blaze of prominent genealogist, Delia Cannon, a library volunteer and something of a genealogist herself, suspects a connection between the crimes and begins quietly to investigate. She doesn't yet realize that she already knows too much for her own good, or that she and little Jesus Creek, Tennessee are in for trouble galore... Very Good.
USD 7.41 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 659] Book number: 778468
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ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY  Plots and Counterplots / More Unknown Thrillers of
New York, NY, U.S.A. Popular Library. 1978, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0445041749) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, notations in pencil on first free page, professionally reinforced copy. These shockers explore not only violence, madness, mind control and vengeance, but also the sinister world of drugs, a succession of thrilling plots and counterplots against exotic backdrops, with themes of deceit, sin, and death.. Very Good-.
USD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 885] Book number: 905240
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ALLINGHAM, MARGERY  The China Governess
New York, NY, U.S.A. Manor Books, Inc. 1962, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0532153147) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, minor light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy, faint old moisture staining on lower page corners. Yesterday, Timothy Kinnit had everything. Today he had lost his girl, his inheritance, even his name... Very Good-.
USD 7.41 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 659] Book number: 779821
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D'AMATO, BRIAN  Beauty
NY: Island Books, 1993. Paperback. Very Good. 1st Printing. Bright/tight copy, light spinal creases, light edgerubs. The free bookmark was removed but is still included. An ex-Yale pre-med student works with computer imaging and scientific engineering and can reimagine and reinvent you as he transforms your old, unlovely flesh into a masterpiece. How far would you go for beauty?.
USD 7.42 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 660] Book number: 571497
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D'AMATO, BRIAN  Beauty
New York, NY, U.S.A. Island Books / Dell Distributing. 1993, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0440212820) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, light endpage wear. The free bookmark was removed. An ex-Yale pre-med student works with computer imaging and scientific engineering and can reimagine and reinvent you as he transforms your old, unlovely flesh into a masterpiece. How far would you go for beauty?. Very Good-.
USD 6.95 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 | £UK 4.25 | JP¥ 618] Book number: 904839
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AMBLER, ERIC  The Intercom Conspiracy
New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1970, Later Printing. (ISBN: 055305594X) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy. A pair of middle-aged European intelligence agents, ( bored with the cold war) and greedy (for a comfortable retirement) who blackmail the Big Powers. Their plot, involving Swiss lawyers and bankers, secrets leaked in a right-wing magazine, the CIA and the KGB, are absorbing and convincing... Very Good-.
USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 748] Book number: 780382
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AMBLER, ERIC  Judgment on Deltchev
New York, NY, U.S.A. Berkley Books. 1985, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0425075915) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, slight age darkening. Nothing in Foster's career as a playwright had prepared him for covering the trial of a discredited leader charged with treason. "Papa" Deltchev was on trial for his life. But, reporting the truth in this Eastern European nation could also be a capital crime... Very Good.
USD 10.41 [Appr.: EURO 7 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 926] Book number: 779257
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ANDERSON, VIRGINIA S.  Blood Lies
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1989. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Later Printing. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, minor spinal small creases. A rebellious son returns home to his family's throughbred breeding dynasty, facing his still simmering lusts for his dying father's young wife, and murder. After running away eight years ago in disgrace he has one thing on his mind, avenging the death of his partner and best friend, famous jockey Alejandro Aloso.
USD 7.42 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 660] Book number: 576279
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ANDREWS, V.C.  If There be Thorns
NY: Pocket Books, 1981. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Pictorial Cover, no issued dj. Later Printing. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. ISBN:0671463004. Tight/Bright clean copy. An institutional pocket hardback by Covercraft, contains the original story, same covers as on the paperback.
USD 10.42 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 927] Book number: 563841
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APPEL, WILLIAM  The White Jaguar
NY, PaperJacks. 1986, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0770104932) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bright/Tight copy. Light spinal creases. Bookstore stamped inside cover. Minor age darkening. White Powder. Green Death. Black evil. There are many beasts in the jungle and one is truly evil.. Very Good.
USD 7.42 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 660] Book number: 569153
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ARCHER, JEFFREY  A Quiver Full of Arrows
New York, NY, U.S.A. Pocket Books. 1983, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0671604082) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover creases and rubs, light age darkening, covered bookstore stamp. The mystery of a priceless antique , the chance ironies of big city love, casual encounters and lifelong passions, all resonate with the timeless rhythms of life, the powerful twist of fate... Very Good-.
USD 7.41 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 659] Book number: 779253
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ARCHER, JEFFREY  A Twist in the Tale
New York, NY, U.S.A. Pocket Books. 1989, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0671671499) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover creases and rubs, light age darkening. Jeffrey Archer crowns his brilliant reputation with twelve superb short stories, each with a quite unexpected, dazzling ending... Very Good-.
USD 7.41 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 659] Book number: 779200
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ARCHER, JEFFREY  A Twist in the Tale
New York, NY, U.S.A. Pocket Books. 1989, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0671671499) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover creases and rubs, light age darkening. Jeffrey Archer crowns his brilliant reputation with twelve superb short stories, each with a quite unexpected, dazzling ending... Very Good.
USD 7.41 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 659] Book number: 779201
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ARMSTRONG, CHARLOTTE  The Black-Eyed Stranger
New York, New York, Zebra Books. 1990, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0821730487) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal creasing, bookstore stamped, professionally reinforced copy. Then she thought, it is Sam who is caught. Sam, the dark-eyed stranger whose sole motivation is my protection, it dosn't seem right. Then, wildly. Everybody's caught! Somebody's going to die!. Very Good.
USD 7.70 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 685] Book number: 100663
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ARMSTRONG, CAMPBELL, ILLUSTRATED BY COVER ART BY NEIL SHIGLEY  Mazurka
NY: HarperCollins, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. 1st Printing. Bright/tight copy. Minor spinal creases. Light edgewear. Minor inside age darkening. For Frank Pagan of Scotland Yard it begins with the daylight murder of a Russian at crowded Waverley Station, Edinburgh, Scotland. From that moment on, his life was a nightmare.
USD 7.42 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 660] Book number: 569154
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ARMSTRONG, CAMPBELL  Mazurka
New York, NY, U.S.A. HarperCollins. 1990, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0061000108) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Cover art by Neil Shigley. Bright/tight copy, minor reading wear with light edgewear, minor light spinal and cover reading creases, light inside age darkening, a professionally reinforced copy with no names or labels. For Frank Pagan of Scotland Yard it begins with the daylight murder of a Russian at crowded Waverley Station, Edinburgh, Scotland. From that moment on, his life was a nightmare. Very Good.
USD 7.37 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 655] Book number: 900763
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ARMSTRONG, CAMPBELL  Mazurka
New York, NY, U.S.A. HarperCollins. 1990, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0061000108) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Cover art by Neil Shigley. Bright/tight copy, minor reading wear with light edgewear, minor spinal reading creases, a professionally reinforced copy with no names or labels. For Frank Pagan of Scotland Yard it begins with the daylight murder of a Russian at crowded Waverley Station, Edinburgh, Scotland. From that moment on, his life was a nightmare. Very Good.
USD 8.37 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 744] Book number: 900883
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ARMSTRONG, CHARLOTTE  The Turret Room
New York, NY, U.S.A. Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp. 1991, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 082173346X) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases. Edie Thompson had always liked Harold, even if her spiteful cousin Wendy was married to him. She hadn't believed it at all when they said her clean cut in-law beat his wife, which everyone in the family claimed. And now they were saying that Harold was psychotic and that he had beat his ex-mother-in-law into a coma.... Very Good-.
USD 7.41 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 659] Book number: 780378
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ARNOLD, MARGOT, COVER ILLUSTRATION BY LESLIE FRY  The Cape Cod Caper/ A Penny Spring and SirToby Glendower Mystery
Woodstock, Vermont: Foul Play Press, 1988. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback. Very Good. 1st Printing. Bright/tight copy. Light edgewear. Light spinal creases. A Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower Mystery. (Look for Exit Actors, Dying; Death on the Dragon's Tongue; Death of a Voodoo Doll; Lament For A Lady Laird; Zadok's Treasure) A mutilated corpse is found in a cranberry bog on the wealthy Dimola estate. Penny Spring is summoned to the Cape by an old flame to investigate.
USD 8.21 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 730] Book number: 570361
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ARNOLD, CATHERINE  Class Action
New York, NY, U.S.A. Signet. 1999, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0451198697) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, slight spinal creasing, light cover reading creases. It started with a simple pro bono case: one homeless man charged with murdering another. When the victim's son surfaces with questions of medical inaccuracies that the cast a more sinister shadow on his father's death, Karen delves deeper. But her findings only fuel more questions, as the hint of a conspiracy emerges... Very Good.
USD 7.41 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 659] Book number: 778503
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ARNOLD, MARGOT, COVER ILLUSTRATION BY LESLIE FRY  Death on the Dragon's Tongue / A Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower Mystery
Woodstock, Vermont: Foul Play Press, 1990. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback. Very Good. 1st Printing. Bright/tight copy. Light spinal creases. Light edgewear. A Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower Mystery. (Look for Exit Actors, Dying; The Cape Cod Caper; Death of a Voodoo Doll; Lament For A Lady Laird; Zadok's Treasure) Sir Toby is kidnapped while investigating a prehistoric burial monument on the Brittany coast. Penny arrives to help.
USD 8.21 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 730] Book number: 570360
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ARNSTON, HARRISON  Venus Diaries
New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. 1st Printing. Bright/tight copy. Light edgewear. Bookstore stamped inside. Faint spinal creases. Minor inside age darkening. For five decades the secret was safe. He was an American hero, shot down over occupied France in the WWII. He forged a career that would carry him to the highest office in the land. She was a world-famous model who found her true calling as a skilled professional assassin. The diaries hold the secrets of both people; both who would kill if their secrets got out.
USD 7.42 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 660] Book number: 568943
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ASHCROFT, GENE  The Black Vulture
Long Beach, CA, John R. Burnett - Publisher. 1941, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Out Of Print, Tight Copy, blue cloth bindings, the cover features an illustration of a sinister black vulture roosting above a swamp in a tree, overlook a dark and dilapidated estate house, minor edgewear, no names, unmarked text. When Silas Flint, a domineering and relentless patriarch, finally realizes he is dying, he invites eight guests to spend one month at Swamp Acres, his Island Plantation. From the moment those eight guests arrive, things begin to happen. Death, sudden and mysterious strikes without warning. Terror dogs their footsteps. The Black Vulture, a sinister presence, haunts the graveyard and the old church, and wails at the rising moon - while Swamp Lake, deep and sullen, lies at the foot of the hill. Death and danger stalk beside them as they desperately search for Silas Flint’s hidden fortune. The wholly unexpected way the fortune is found and the fact that three of the quests are from the circus makes this grim story, laid in the swamps, intensely interesting from the first paragraph to the smashing climax.244 pages. Very Good/No Dust Jacket.
USD 24.95 [Appr.: EURO 17 | £UK 15 | JP¥ 2219] Book number: 908228
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PARKER. ROBERT B.  VALEDICTION: A Spenser Novel
NY, Delacorte Press. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0385293305) Hard Cover, 5 1/2" Wide x 8 3/8" Tall. Tight Copy, Black Quarter-Cloth Spine over Black Board Bindings, Silver Gilt Spinal Titles, the clear Brodart covered Dust Jacket has minor edgewear, a few closed short edgetears, and minor shelf rubbing. Spenser is hired to find a young woman possibly kidnapped by the "Bullies", Members of a fanatical Religious Sect. Paul Giacomin, his surrogate son, has brought the case to Spenser and none too soon - for Susan Silverman's departure to San Francisco has left Spenser at loose ends in Boston and estranged from the woman he loves. 228 pages. Near Fine/Very Good.
USD 29.95 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18 | JP¥ 2663] Book number: 906835
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