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Warner. Very Good+. 2000. Paperback. 0446608092 . Mass Market Paperback in Very Good++ condition, light spine creasing and age page tanning. "A female Nobel Prize-winning doctor creates a deadly virus that is aimed at killing only women in America. Ironically, the doctor is threatening the world with annihilation in order to save it from Armageddon. A humanitarian who once loved her is trapped into helping her. "; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 438 pages .

Garden City , New York: Doubleday & Company. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Red hard board / black lettering on spine. Book club ed. Previous owner's name on front free end-paper. Unmarked and tightly bound. DJ is faded but intact. Very good reading copy. "The author looks into the private lives of the men who publicly probe the mysteries of outer space, and the community, Spaceport City, Florida, that they live in." ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 284 pages .

Montreal, Quebec: Permabooks, M4130. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1960. Mass Market. Mass Market Paperback with cover, spine & edgewear. Squared, with a solid binding and a clean text. The previous owner's name is written on the front free end paper. Moisture marks on the front edge. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 307 pages .

Toronto, Ont: Bantam Books. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0553052942 . Blue / black hard boards with gilt lettering on spine. This is a book club edition in wonderful condition. Bright & clean with a solid binding. DJ has some minor edgewear and rubbing. "In his most skillfully written novel to date, Segal ( Love Story , The Class ) tackles a timeworn but engrossing theme: the grueling education of doctors, and the toll exacted by their careers. As Segal sees it, many physicians are "wounded healers" who know that "to care is to crack" in this brutally competitive, sometimes poorly self-policed profession." ; Book Club Edition; 1.8 x 9.2 x 6.1 Inches; 679 pages .

New York: Cliff Street Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0060187778 . Near Fine / Near Fine. Mustard hardcover with black spine and gilt titles; DJ not clipped. Stated First Edition. Beautiful copy. Bevelled fore-edge pages. Written by one of America's most respected public health figures, and a novelist with a genuis for the macabre. "A mad scientist threatens to destroy the world by recreating the ten Biblical plagues of Exodus. The only man with the will and intelligence to stop the onslaught is Dr. Jack Brynne, an epidemics specialist. "; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 398 pages .

Signet (MM). New. 2000. Paperback. 0451200101 . Mass Market Paperback. New. "one of the summer's scariest novels" ("New York Daily News"). A test subject in a laboratory discovers the corpse of another test subject with its heart removed. In New York City, a journalist investigates a homicide victim with its face and fingerprints removed. These two men are about to discover a shocking fact: they share the same face. " ; 6.70 X 4.30 X 1.40 inches; 481 pages .

Cormorant Books. Very Good+. 1996. Paperback. 0920953956 . Trade Paperback in Very Good condition, tight, bright & unmarked. Water markings to the top corner of the lst 30 pages." Set in an Irish Catholic parish on the coast of Newfoundland, most of the events take place on June 24th, 1948, on the Feast of Saint John the Baprist. The Bringer of Light. ; 8.5 X 5.5 X 1.5 inches; 431 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1970. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Book Club Edition. Book in very good condition, only mark is the previous owner's stamp in middle of front free-endpaper, No other marks, no tearing. DJ is faded, some writng on cover, one small tear on spine. Flaps clean and bright. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 288 pages .

Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hard Cover. Gray boards / green spine covering / gilt lettering on spine. This is a book club edition with a couple of smudges on front cover (fingers) and some minor spine bumping, Clean and tightly bound. The DJ is sitll glossy bur has some scvffing and edgewear. "This is a novel about doctors: what they do to each other and to their patients. And what their patients do to them." ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 372 pages .

Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good+. 1972. Hardcover. Blue Hardcovers, black titles to the spine. In Very Good+ condition, the binding is tight and the pages are clean & bright. Light spine end bumping. A Book Of The Month Club. The DJ is Very Good, some cover scuffing with edgewear and a small tear to the back cover bottom edge. Set in a veteran's hospital in California, Sea Nymphs is a funny, sharp and visionary novel. It's people, like all characters in really good novels are bigger than life. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 176 pages .