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Garden City, New York: Doubleday Publishing, 1987. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1125 pages. Dust jacket front top left corner bumped..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1981. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Author's scarce third book. Winner of the National Book Award! Book Two of the Beulah Quintet. On the eve of America's independence, a brave young man blazes a trail deep into the Virginia mountain wilderness, struggling for land and the freedom to build a new settlement, called Beulah.342 pages. 1/8" x 1/4" bottom of spine lamination rubbed off. A 1/4" streak of small dots near upper right corner of rear cover. Inside of both covers a little tanning of the outside edges. Book is solid. Nice collectible paperback..

New York, NY: Dell Publishing Co. 1967. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Slashing his way across the teeming, violent world of the 13th century, Pietro di Donati carved out his destiny with the fury of a man possessed - by God or Satan, none knew which. He was a man born to battle who mocked at death, a man for whom no danger was too great if it brought him nearer the power he craved or the women he lusted for.400 pages. Some rubbing on top & bottom & edges of spine and some places on outside edges. Spine and spine edge is creased. Some discoloration of the white background of the cover around the spine and outside edges..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1992. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. From the wide-open prairie of frontier Illinois to the war-torn fields of the Civil War, this majestic epic of 19th-century America sweeps across decades of conflict and change. Dr. Rob Cole comes to the Great Plains to pursue his destiny, but it's an Indian Shaman called "The Bear Woman" who profoundly changes his life. 519 pages. Top & bottom of spine slightly bumped. Second page corner had intials and dates in pencil, erased but can still see a little. Ffep has like dirt scuffs. Dust jacket top & bottom of spine is slightly bumped. 4 outside corners tips are slightly rubbed. Spine is a whiter color than the rest of the cover, faded?.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group, 2002. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jean Auel's fifth novel about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon cavewoman raised by Neanderthals. In The Shelters of Stone, Ayla meets the Zelandonii tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon hunk she rescued from Baby, her pet lion. Ayla is pregnant. How will Jondalar's mom react? Or his fiancée? Ayla wows her future in-laws by striking fire from flint and taming a wild wolf. But most regard her Neanderthal adoptive Clan as subhuman "flatheads." Clan larynxes can't quite manage language, and Ayla must convince the Zelandonii that Clan sign language isn't just arm-flapping. Zelandonii and Clan are skirmishing, and those who interbreed are deemed "abominations." What would Jondalar's tribe think if they knew Ayla had to abandon her half-breed son in Clan country? The plot is slow to unfold, because Auel's first goal is to pack the tale with period Pleistocene detail,… Read More