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New York: Harper/Collins, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The 21st novel in Cornwell's historical adventure series featuring British solldier, Richard Sharpe, during the Napoleonic era at the beginning of the 19th century. It is 1809 and the French are attacking Portugal with the aim of controlling the whole of the Iberian Peninsula. Lt. Sharpe and his small contingent of… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Scout Press/Simon & Schuster, 2020. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The sixth psychological suspense-thriller from the British author currently being compared to the legendary Agatha Christie features a winter storm and avalanche in the French Alps that traps the corporate brass of a new tech start-up while they try to decide on a buy-out offer. And then… Ler mais sobre este item

Blue Ash, OH: Tyrus Books, 2017. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The seventh novel from this award-winning Canadian reporter, writer and film-maker, is a tragi-comedy featuring a pair of Afghanistan war vets, Danny, a Canadian sharpshooter, and Hank, an American GI, who are currently in Los Angeles desperately trying to find the women they love. First American edition, first printing (with… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Del Rey/ Random House, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Pulitzer-Prize-winning Chabon described this fantasy novel about a pair of Jewish bandits "a swashbuckling adventure story set around the year 1000." Originally published as a 15-part serial in the New York Times from Jan. 28 to Mar 6, 2007. This copy is from the hardcover edition issued later… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. For Nelson DeMille, this is his 21st novel, while for his writing partner and son, Alex, it is his first, though he has won numerous awards for his screen plays and films. The deserter of the title is Capt. Kyle Mercer, trained assassin and keeper of classified information, serving with… Ler mais sobre este item

Chicago & Philadelphia: The Hamlyn Publishing Group, Ltd., 1932. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Fair To Good. This early 20th century, juvenile adventure story for boys features Ted Lucas and Bob Jordan, young reporters for the "Dixon Tribune." The pair are assigned to write a series of historical feature stories about early travel on the upper Mississippi River… Ler mais sobre este item

Glasgow: Fontana/Collins, 1977. First Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. The second novel in Pope's highly-praised 18-book series of historical sea warfare fiction set in the late 17th-early 18th century and featuring British Lt. Nicholas Ramage and his tiny cutter, "HMS Kathleen." The cutter is assigned as courier to British forces at Gibralter in the days before… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1990. Soft cover. Very Good to Near Fine. This is the 4th and final volume of Norton's Moon Magic/Moon Singers series which begins with "Moon of Three Rings" in 1966, followed by "Exiles of the Stars" in 1971, and "Flight in Yiktor" in 1986. The series features Krip Voreland, interplanatary free trader;… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cosmoopolis," the award-winning De Lillo's thirteenth novel, is the story of a symbolic odyssey undertaken by a very wealthy young man in a day-long journey across Manhattan. It features Eric Packer, a 28-year-old assets manager who sets out from his penthouse in his customized white stretch limo to… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus to Very Good. A late children's novel by Johanna Spyri, the Swiss author of "Heidi." Cornelli is the story of a widowed mother of four children who must weigh the needs of their futures against their current desires, particularly in terms of educations in art and music or… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Ballantine Books #30898: The fourth of Asimov's Foundation novels, the first in 30 years after the tremendous success of the original trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Founation). First printing, first paperback edition and first Ballantine edition (as stated). Mass market paperback with pictorial cover… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: HarperCollins, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An early novel (the fourth) in Rollins' science-thriller series featuring the covert SIGMA Force and its operatives, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis. This time they lead a worldwide search for the source of a deadly ancient plague, newly re-emergent and threatening the earth with a pandemic that could end all life… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. Hardcover. Good to Good Plus/No Jackets. Three mid-career novels by bestselling western genre author, Raine: "The Big-Town Round-Up," 1920; "The Black Tolts," 1932, and "Moran Beats Back," 1939. All three books are Grosset & Dunlap reprints with minor flaws and suface wear. However, all are clean, complete and in readable condition. This… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. This is the third novel in Longstreet's Pedlock family trilogy ("The Pedlocks" and "Pedlock and Sons ") and deals with the history of an American branch of this great Jewish family and its conflicts between generations, between religious hypocrisy and commitment. First edition as stated, no indication of printing.… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Random House, 1944. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Near Fine. Hudson's classic romantic story of a wealthy young man who falls in love with Rima, a young girl living in the Venezuelan rain forest. Originally published in 1904 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, then in a new edition in 1912 by Knopf with a foreword by John… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The protagonist from Beare's first novel, "The Bloody Sun at Noon," smuggler and sometime salvage operator, Victor Stallard, returns a second time to the Persian Gulf to salvage 100,000 ounces of gold lost in a plane crash in the Gulf. First edition, first printing (as stated). About 5 3/4 x… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Collins, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. MacLean's 12th novel is this military thriller set in Yugoslavia during World War II. It is also the sequel to "The Guns of Navarone," MacLean's first bestselling novel, and begins as the surviving British commandos from the first book are on their way home when they are ordered to parachute into… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1963. Mass Market Paperback. About Very Good. Vintage Paperback -- Ace F-182: Burroughs is best known today as the creator of Tarzan and of the science fiction adventure series featuring John Carter of Mars but he also wrote many other sci-fi adventure novels. "The Monster Men" is a novel about scientists on an… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Bantam Books, 1981. Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Paperback Original -- Bantam 202707: As L'Amour says in an author's note, Milo Talon's mother was a Sackett, so this novel can be considered one of the Sackett series, though L'Amour preferred to see it as the first of a new series on the Talon… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1953. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback -- Ace F-346: Three short stories from the early years of science fiction's golden age from one of the giants of the genre who is best remembered today as the editor of "Astounding Science Fiction" (later "Analog Science Fiction and Fact") where… Ler mais sobre este item