CLARKE, MARCUS

For the Term of His Natural Life

London: Angus & Robertson, 1982. Deluxe Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0207144524. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Gift notation and previous owner's bookplate on illustrated front free end paper. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Colour and B&W illustrations based on set and costume designs for the TV production based on the book ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 379 pages; This is the deluxe but condensed illustrated edition of this classic Australian novel. "For the Term of His Natural Life is a fantastic tale, which sometimes depends on false lucks. The tale details the affluences of Rufus Dawes, a youthful lad accused for the crime of stealing that he never did, from the fatality of a robbery to whom he was really offering his help. The cruel and degrading behavior imposed on the prisoners, most of whom were incarcerated for moderately slight offenses, are apparently taken. The situations undergone by the felons are explicitly pronounced. The book was grounded on a study by the writer and a duty call to the penitentiary of Port Arthur." The book was originally published in book form in 1874 and has been condensed to make it more readable for the modern reader.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 20523

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: 0207144524 penal colony Fiction::Historical

CLARKE, ARTHUR C.

Tales from the White Hart

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1970. 1st Hardcover. Hardcover. Price clipped dust jacket shows some chipping, scuffing, short tears and creasing, book shows only slight wear. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar. ; Fifteen stories, all copyrighted in 1956 and 1957 and previously published in pocketbook form. This is the first hardcover edition.. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 15412

Catalogue: Fiction::Science Fiction

Keywords: Science Fiction White hart Short Stories Fiction::Science Fiction & Fantasy

CLAVELL, JAMES

Whirlwind

Toronto: MacMillan of Canada, 1986. First Canadian Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771595891. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, some bruising head and tail of spine. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Full number line on copyright page. Map endpapers ; The Asian Saga # 6; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1147 pages; "The sixth book in James Clavell's epic Asian Saga tells the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979 - three weeks of passion, self-sacrifice, and heartbreak. When the shah is thrown out of Iran, the nation's turmoil becomes world headlines. Caught in this shifting world of fanaticism, ambition, duplicity, and violent death are the foreign helicopter pilots who have been servicing the oil fields up and down the country. Their one objective is to make a bold, concerted escape to safety across the Gulf.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 20838

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Series

Keywords: 0771595891 Iran FICTION

CLAVELL, JAMES

Whirlwind

Toronto: MacMillan of Canada, 1986. First Canadian Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771595891. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, some yellowing of the white DJ. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Full number line on copyright page. Map endpapers ; The Asian Saga # 6; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1147 pages; "The sixth book in James Clavell's epic Asian Saga tells the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979 - three weeks of passion, self-sacrifice, and heartbreak. When the shah is thrown out of Iran, the nation's turmoil becomes world headlines. Caught in this shifting world of fanaticism, ambition, duplicity, and violent death are the foreign helicopter pilots who have been servicing the oil fields up and down the country. Their one objective is to make a bold, concerted escape to safety across the Gulf.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21939

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Series

Keywords: 0771595891 Iran pahlavi khomeini FICTION

CLEARY, JON

A Very Private War

London: Collins, 1980. 1st. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002220547. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages; This is a fictionalized representation of the activities of the Coastwatchers who were active during World War II, keeping an eye on the Japanese movements and feeding the information to the Allied forces in the Pacific theater.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 16180

Catalogue: Fiction::Military

Keywords: 0002220547 coastwatchers Pacific theater Solomon Islands WWII

CLEEVE, BRIAN

The Dark Side of the Sun

London: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0304292893. tear top front panel of DJ, some scuffing and edge wear ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 288 pages. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 12209

Catalogue: Fiction::UK

Keywords: 0304292893 Central Africa Fiction British Fiction

CLEUGH, SOPHIA

Ernestine Sophie

New York: Macmillan, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author; SIGNED and DATED by Cleugh. ; 451 pages; Wear to spine & worn to boards on corners, missing back FEP. Some thinning on FFEP.. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 906

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: FICTION Fiction::Historical

COATES, TA-NEHISI

The Water Dancer: A Novel

New York: One World, 2019. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399590595. A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 403 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 21539

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0399590595 Slavery underground railroad FICTION

COBB F.R.G.S., JAMES F.

Martin the Skipper; a Tale for Boys and Seafaring Folk

London: Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co, circa 1880. Hardcover. Green cloth covered decorative boards with gilt stamped designs front and spine show light wear, one quarter inch tear head of spine. Foxing to page edges, front hinge started but solid, Initials in ink on FFEP ; A bright solid, book ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 403 + ads pages; The book is undated but appears to be pre-1900. Very Good- with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 10778

Catalogue: Fiction::Maritime

Keywords: MARITIME FICTION Marine

COHEN, MATT

Too Bad Galahad

Toronto: Coach House Press, 1972. Later Printing. Paperback. Illustrated by Margaret Hathaway. Light edge wear to extremities of this book, short split top back spine edge ; French flaps over card covers, humourous illustrations throughout. ; A humorous homage to the legend of the knight, Sir Galahad. This is an early short story by Matt Cohen, one of Canada's most beloved modern fiction writers who was first published in 1969 and continued with many novels, collections of poetry, short stories. After his death in 1999 it came out that he has wrote children's books under the name Teddy Jam. This is not from the limited edition first printing.. Very Good .

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Book number: 16233

Catalogue: Short Fiction

Keywords: POETRY King Arthur Sir galahad Canada Fiction::Short Stories

COLFER, EOIN

And Another Thing Douglas Adam's Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Six of Three

New York: Viking, 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670063908. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, light chipping top edge.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 340 pages; ""I have decided to embark on a very different project. Something unique that I hope will interest you as much as it does me. I have written the official 6th book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series. Most of you have probably already read Douglas Adams' insanely brilliant space series. If you haven't then you don't know funny. Take it from me, the Hitchhiker books are bar none the funniest sci-fi books ever written. People have laughed so much reading Hitchhikers that they have had to have organs removed. One guy in France popped an eyeball. I kid you not. So, what's it all about, this Hitchhikers, I hear you cry. Actually I don't hear you, if I did I would be sitting outside in your driveway, which would be a bit freaky and show how few friends I have. What's it all about, this Hitchhikers, I imagine you cry. It's about Arthur Dent, one of the last humans left alive after the Earth has been destroyed by the remorseless Vogons. Arthur manages to hitch a ride on a spaceship and go planet hopping with his friends Ford Prefect, the Betelgeusean journalist. Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two headed president of the galaxy, pirate and worst dressed man in the universe. And Marvin, the paranoid android. All this hitching and adventuring went on for five books and then Douglas Adams passed away before he could write book six. Hitchhiker has been heard on radio, seen on tv and enjoyed on the cinema screen, there was even a musical version. But the story could never end, until now. I am going to continue on where Douglas left off. Unfortunately for me, he left off on rather a large cliffhanger. Everyone was dead. Which means I have rather a large challenge ahead of me, but it is one I am looking forward to. I really hope you will board the spaceship with me so we can travel through Douglas Adams' hilarious galaxy together, which will save me having to hang around in your driveway. See you at Barnard's Star."". Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 18905

Catalogue: Fiction::Science Fiction::Series

Keywords: 0670063908 arthur dent zaphod beeblebrox hitchhiker vogons

COLIN, GALEN C.

Storm King Rides

London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co, circa 1933. Hardcover. DJ is torn, tape-repaired, binding is bumped in corners. DJ in Mylar. Light foxing of page edges. ; Not dated but circa mid 1930's. A tight solid book, hinges intact; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 314 pages; A volume from the early series of children's fiction published in England.. Very Good in Poor dust jacket .

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Book number: 446

Catalogue: Fiction::Westerns

Keywords: Children's Fiction Western - Westerns Fiction::Westerns

COLLINS, MICHAEL

The Resurrectionists

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1861591950. Signed by Author; Light wear to base of DJ ; Signed by author on title page. DJ in Mylar, unclipped. A bright solid, book ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 360 pages; North America is truly Michael Collins's heart of darkness. And it is a territory mapped with infinite precision in this new novel of murder and menace set in the frozen wastes of a winter town on the shores of Lake Michigan. Twenty years ago, when Frank was five, his parents burned to death in this former mining town. Now his uncle is dead too, shot by a mysterious stranger. When Frank hears that the stranger bears the name of a man who died twenty years before, he decides to head North. To dig up the dead.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 11111

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: 1861591950 Michigan Fiction::Mystery

O'CONNELL, CAROL

Killing Critics

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399141685. 309 pages; Slight wear top of DJ. DJ unclipped. A tight bright book. Dust jacket in Mylar. Mallory is back in this tense thriller.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 6770

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: 0399141685 Fiction Mallory

CONNELLY, MICHAEL

The Night Fire

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316485616. Only slight wear, shallow crease top fore edge of spine. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch # 22; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 416 pages; "Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, and his widow gives Bosch a murder book, one that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD twenty years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man. Bosch takes the murder book to Detective Renée Ballard and asks her to help him discover what about this crime lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. As she begins her inquiries -- while still working her own cases on the midnight shift -- Ballad finds aspects of the initial investigation that just don't add up.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 21757

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Keywords: 0316485616 harry bosch Mystery Fiction::Mystery