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New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Good with no dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce Title, stated first edition, number line starts at 2. Ex-school library with a couple stamps & back pocket removed, no jacket. Good minus condition. Hardcover has moderate wear to edges and fading/scuffing to cover, bumping to corners & wear. Interior pages are tight, and clean for the most part, although there is occasional spotting. Soiling and paper residue inside back cover from pocket removal. Soiling to outer edge of pages. Numerous earmarks. A couple page edges have small tears. A good, tight copy of this scarce title, albeit showing some wear and soiling. SUMMARY: A suspenseful tale of a young drifter in Greenwich Village, a high-school drop out, who takes a bad trip on LSD and ends up being accused of murder. 126 pages (*shipping will be reduced t some locations) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall .

Carroll & Graf Publishers. Fine. 2004. First Edition. Softcover. 0786715081 . Excellent condition, clean, unmarked. 314 pages. Description: Gerald has been preparing to die. During the last of his three hospital stays, he has drawn up a last will and testament, a living will, assigned a health care proxy, and arranged his own cremation. He has thrown out hundreds of photos accrued over his twenty-five years as an actor, boxes of gay porn, all his journals, and acquired a hefty collection of barbiturates for when things got too "icky. " Then, from out of nowhere, Gerald's health is revived by the new miracle drugs. His AIDS-related death is put on hold, while, at the same moment, William Weiss reenters his life... An unexpected romance, and his love of the theater reconnect Gerald with lost joy. Even as his health fails, he finds himself transformed by the ecstasy of everyday life. Advance reader's copy. ; 8vo .

London: Rapp & Whiting. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 0853910707 . Ex-library book - no library markings to jacket. Internal libary markings - removed back pocket with paper residue, tape marks to hardcover & inside covers, few small stamps, cut across inside back flap. Light edgewear, light soiling to jacket, not price clipped. Light soiling to hardcover & outer edge of pages, and what looks like a small coffee stain bottom edge of pages which also affects bottom edge inside back cover. Interior pages have some light edge soiling on first few pages and a couple tiny corner creases. Pages are otherwise clean. 8vo (8" tall) , 190 pages. Nice, solid copy albeit with a little staining as indicated. It is the spring of 1978 and a gigantic alien spaceship has entered the solar system and taken up an orbit some 60 million miles from the Sun. The ship neither signals nor replies in any detectable fashion to signals directed towards it.… Read More

Avon Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0380974533 . Excellent condition, only minimal wear overall. Pages clean and intact, no markings. Slight soiling to outer edge of pages, a little sticker residue on front, not price clipped. 325 pages. " The year is 1963, the place Southeast Asia. Discharged early from the U. S. Navy, Sam Malloy is estranged from America and running a hotel in Bangkok. His brother, Charlie, is in Saigon covering the Vietnam War for Time magazine. Anne Sinclair, a lovely, idealistic young assistant to the director of the U. S. Information Service, is becoming tormented by the lies she must write on behalf of the U. S. Government. Charlie introduces Anne to Sam, and, to coin a phrase, the rest is history.....Reminiscent of C. J. Koch's The Year of Living Dangerously, this is a tale of love, war, and disillusionment. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Macmillan Canada. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library with mylar cover and usual stamps & stickers. Light edge & corner wear, scuffing of jacket. Interior pages clean & unmarked other than lib stamps. Jacket taped to book. 162 pages. A novel of life as seen through the eyes of a 17-year old Metis boy, straight out of the bush, moving to the big city and living in squalor in Northern Alberta (Edmonton).... Author's first novel & winner of the Beaver Award offered by the Hudson's Bay company for new Alberta novelist. . (400) ; 8vo .

Mcclelland & Stewart. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 077107882X . HC/DJ - near fine/VG. Harcover is clean and unmarked, very light edgewear and a little fading to edges, slightly cocked forward at spine. Jacket has light edgewear, scuffing and creasing to front flap, not price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; "Andy Russell was a master storyteller, and this collection of new and previously published tales evokes as if by magic the irresistible allure of the campfire. It’s not hard to imagine the starry sky above and the sound of the pack horses as they sleepily crop the grass nearby. Some of Andy’s tales are about his own youth. Others are part of western lore and the history of the west. Others concern those whose trails crossed his, or whose legends he heard over campfires long ago. Some of the stories dwell in the past, and others deal in the present. Some are about horses, grizzlies, owls, and other wildlife; some… Read More

London: Peter Davies. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 0396061737 . U. K. First edition, Peter Davies, London 1970. ISBN: 043202073X. HC/DJ - fine/near fine. Hardcover is clean and tight, edgewear minimal, one crease along spine edge. Dustjacket has slight soiling, slight edgewear, not price clipped. An attractive copy. SUMMARY: Hounded by the Russian Imperial secret Chancellery, Henryk Barinski is forced to flee the court of the Grand Duchess Catherine and is again separated from his beloved Kasia Radienska, cousin of the last king of Poland. On his way to England, Henryk is pressganged into service on the lower deck of HMS Huntress.... ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 239 pages .

London: Cassell. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. B005L8YLYM . HC/DJ - near fine/very good. Hardcover is clean with minimal wear to edges and corners. Pages are unmarked other than old price on endpage, and a small blue number stamp on last two blank pages, one says 50, one says 100. Dustjacket has light edgewear, light soiling/scuffing, not price clipped, small scribble in pen on front, crease across front flap and slight crease across first few pages. By the author of 'The End of the Running' & 'Mantrap'. "The big square house stood isolated in the swirling water of the lake. The water was there because of the dam, and the dam was there because of the people. It spelt progress, and power. But to the man who lived in the house, it spelt ruin, the loss of everything he had owned. Kelly was a stubborn old man who refused to get out, refused to be compensated by the government, and refused to sell to young Toro, who… Read More

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. New. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. 0575072067 . New book, no markings. Synopsis: After throwing a tin of pineapples at his boss's head, TV superchef Terry Whittaker runs away from London, failed love and a dying father, and arrives in the sleepy old city of Pancester to open his own restaurant. Pancester is slow to change and clings to its medieval traditions and seventies fashions. But now change is being forced on the city as the council wish to build a car park on the Dole Acre Donkey Sanctuary. Whittaker tries to stop the woman he loves, or rather stalks, from developing the site and finds that he has some strange allies: not least a field full of raving hippies, desperate to save England's finest magic mushroom field. With guest appearances from the Time Team gang, the renowned expert on the world's rarest snail, a sinister individual called Q, and the largest ancient priapic temple ever found, The Battle for Dole Acre is a dazzlingly… Read More

Harcourt Brace. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151006903 . Very nice condition, clean and unmarked, 522 pages. Only flaw is a rough edge to top of book and jacket with tiny paper losses to that edge. Review: The most playful of historical novelists, Umberto Eco has absorbed the real lesson of history: that there is no such thing as the absolute truth. In Baudolino, he hands his narrative to an Italian peasant who has managed, through good luck and a clever tongue, to become the adopted son of the Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, and a minister of his court in the closing years of the 12th century... ; 8vo .

Little, Brown & Company. Near Fine. 2005. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0316158801 . Advance Reading copy. Excellent Condition, slight edge & corner wear, one tiny peel top of spine, clean & unmarked. Synopsis: It's been four years since William "Belly" O'Leary left his beloved Saratoga Springs for the state penitentiary, but now that he's served his time on an illegal gambling charge, he's ready to reclaim his hometown. Trouble is, he's a stranger now: gone are the days when his swagger had all the girls swooning, when the bar he owned was a hot spot for hard-livers and hard drinkers, when his three surviving daughters bent over backward to please him or avoid his wrath... Soon he's settling into his old habits and creating a mess wherever he goes. It's when he finally hits rock bottom that Belly is forced to re-evaluate his old life.... (400-noto) ; 8vo .

Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart. Fine. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0771049226 . Advance reading copy. Light creasing/light wrinkling to back cover - slight soiling outer edge of pages - otherwise clean & unmarked. "Luke Gray is happy with the way things are. He’s finally settled into married life with pragmatic, level-headed Julia, free from his family’s absurdities and the chaos of his childhood. Even his mobile-bird factory seems less like a curse he can’t shake. But things change when Julia decides they should have a baby… and nothing happens.... (380? ) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 239 pages .

Time Warner. Fine. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0751536334 . Uncorrected proof (Softcover) under the original title: The Bomb Surgeon in 2005, same ISBN. Book was published under the title, 'The Operative'. Very nice condition, only light wear overall, slight soiling to outer edge of pages. No markings. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; In war torn Iraq, Stratton's closest friend is killed on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child - Stratton's godson. When the widow moves to Los Angeles, she is brutally murdered and her child placed in state custody. Stratton, rocked to his core by the killing, uncovers an FBI plot to hide the crime and sets off on a private operation of revenge that eventually pits him against one of the most powerful Eastern European crime syndicates in America...... (500+) .

London: Ronald Whiting & Wheaton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover is very clean, with very light edge/corner wear, slight soiling outer edge of pages, interior clean & tight, other than than small blue number stamp first page. DJ has plastic laminate, light edgewear, very light soiling, one small tear to rear, not price clipped. 191 pages. 8vo (8" tall). A fictional account of the trial of Arthur Jordan for rape. As the trial develops, the reader's opinion constantly changes about the innocence or guilt of the accused. The reader will even see the unfolding drama through the eyes of Jordan himself, reliving with him the imponderables which can alter the course of a person's life....A fascinating courtroom drama. (*shipping will be reduced after checkout to some locations) ; 8vo .

Victoria, B. C.: Trafford On-Demand Publication. Near Fine. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. 1552125858 . Excellent condition. Slight edge/corner wear, one corner crease seen. Interior clean and unmarked. ; 8vo; The book is historical fiction leading up to a fairy tale, although it is so well leavened with helpings of historical and archeological facts, that all may end up to be factual after all. What he calls the Celtic Domain is traced from its first appearance in the Middle Europe, follows the migration trail across Western Europe into Britain and Ireland, then deals with the apparently unstoppable spread of the Roman Empire into Celtic territory and covers the major battles that resulted. Arthur and Camelot fill the final section with a new interpretation that intrigues as it develops, and ends with an Epilogue that highlights the reasons why the Celts, known-world conquerors before the Romans, could not compete with the political and military sophistication of the Roman Empire. The… Read More

Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771043635 . HC/DJ - near fine/very good. Hardcover is clean and intact, no markings, slight wear to corners and bumping to spine ends. Dustjacket has light edgewear, light scuffing, age tanning, one small tear on front and a few tiny tears to spine ends. Not price clipped. Winner of the 1985 Seal First Novel Award. "Two sisters -- Jean and Colette -- share an obsession with their neighbor, a world renowned pianist. So obsessed are they that they learn Japanese and try imitating everything about him...." (405noto) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 206 pages .

New York: Clarion/Seabury Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0816431507 . First edition of the author's first novel. Ex-library book with usual ex-lib type markings, mylar sleeve, rear pocket. Light edgewear/cornerwear to harcover, some tape residue inside covers, light soiling outer edge of pages. Dustjacket has light scuffing, light soiling. Pages clean and intact. " A young girl living in nineteenth century New Orleans struggles between her growing familiarity with voodoo and the precepts of the church". (400noto) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 150 pages .

Toronto: The Bodley Head. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0370014316 . HC/DJ - near fine/VG+. Bodley Head, Toronto 1970, first printing in this edition. (printed and bound in Great Britain and almost identical to the British first edition). Very nice condition. Hardcover has a little scuffing on spine, slight soiling outer edge of pages. Interior clean and tight, no markings. Dustjacket has a few tiny edge tears, age tanning to edges and spine, not price clipped. (400) ; 8vo .

Outerbridge & Dienstfrey. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce title. Hardcover has bumping to spine ends, light soiling outer edge of pages and inside covers. Interior pages unmarked. Jacket has light edgewear, light scuffing/rubbing, age tanning to rear & edges, not price clipped. 298 pages. The author's first novel, set in Boston, centers around two interracial couples and climaxes in a dramatic civil rights demonstration. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Edmonton, AB: In Between Pub.. Near Fine. 2000. First Edition. Softcover. 0968642608 . Very Scarce title. Stories from the 124th Street Reading Series, signed by all authors opposite title page. Slight corner wear, a little bumping to upper spine, rubbing to back corner and along spine edge, slight soiling to cover. 102 pages. Brief bios at rear. Includes: Twelve Bar Blues by Joanne McLernon; Love and Ashes by Chris Allen; The Game by Sherry Fulton; Capte Breton 1881 by Sara Jean MacDonald; The Time in Between by T. M. Wilson; I Bought a Car by Tani Baskett; Candying Creatures by Colin Mulholland; Weighting for Jake by Daniel Cunningham and The Priest, the Peacemaker and the Postcards by Phil Mendzat. (os300? ) ; ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall .