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Atheneum. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0333124863 . First U. S. Edition. Atheneum 1971. HC/DJ - VG/near fine. Hardcover has a rear pocket but no other indication of being an ex-library book other than number stamp on endpage and top edge of pages. Endpage also has a date stamp and old price sticker. Interior pages otherwise clean and tight, very light spotting to long outer edge of pages. Jacket excellent other than light wrinkling on front and back flap. Jacket has a white paper liner which is attached to book. "Dick Hawkins (archeologist, adventurer and amorist) has always been resented by his sober brother Mark; but when Dick vanishes and is reported dead in a climbing accident - blood tells.....Mark pursues a twisting, menacing path in search of his brother, tension mounts to the breaking point and passions explode in a climax of chilling horror. " [420]; 8vo .

Atheneum. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. HC/DJ - very good. Hardcover is clean and tight other than a green booksale stamp on top edge and a little soiling outer edge of pages. Jacket has light edgewear and a few very small edge tears, price clipped. "The author's first novel, a story of suspense and psychological revelation, about an advertising executive on vacation and a semi-literate fugitive out for revenge on the man who has taken his woman and his land. The two men meet in a duck blind on the Carolina coast. " [415-noto]; 8vo .

Charlottetown, P. E. I.: Ragweed Press. Very Good+. 1987. First Edition. Softcover. 0920304656 . First English edition 1987. Pages are clean and intact, no markings, slight soiling outer edge of pages. Cover has light age tanning, a few tiny spots and light wear to corners. "A woman lives alone in terror, depriving herself of life's smallest pleasures. Her psychoanalyst will devote years to helping her overcome her terrifying nightmares and the guilt she feels for being brutally abused as a child..." (225os,0914) ; 8vo .

New York: Walker & Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0802754333 . HC/DJ - fine/VG+. Hardcover is all intact and clean, with no markings, a little bumping to spine ends. Dustjacket has some scuffing, light soiling, light edge wear, age tanning and a few tiny edge tears. Between intervention and international blackmail, Colonel Russell threads his cool and clever way, bringing order to a horror of deviousness and violence. ; 8vo; From a Reviewer: "Intrigue In Saliya July 17 2002 By Peter Kenney - Published on Format: HardcoverColonel Charles Russell saves the life in London of a visiting head of an Arab state. The visiter is an old friend and currently the president of a country which has a threatening neighbor, Saliya, whose agents are trying to kill him. Soon after this incident, Russell himself is invited to visit a small island state by a former subordinate. It develops that the small state needs Russell's help in… Read More

Pocket Books. Good+. 1964. Third Printing. Paperback. Pocket Books 1964, 3rd printing. Cover has some creasing, light edgewear, some staining to rear cover. Pages are clean and intact, age tanning, a few tiny corner creases and a bit of discolouration to the red outer edge of pages. This is Sloan Wilson's searing indictment of a society that had just begun to lose touch with its citizens. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a classic of American literature and the basis of the award-winning film starring Gregory Peck. "A consequential novel." -- Saturday Review (148os? 4-22) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 287 pages .

Nyc: Avon Books. Very Good. 1975. Fourth Printing. Paperback. 0380003880 . Avon 1975, 1st printing. VG interior with good cover. Ex-school library, but only has a back pocket. Pages clean and intact, no markings. Cover has several creases, wear to edges and some edge rubbing. Collections of 14 suspense stories: Threshold of Horror "What always beats them in the end, " said Dr. Matthews, "is how to dispose of the body. " Slade agreed quickly although he didn't believe the old man. He had worked out a foolproof plan for getting rid of Spalding, the earnest young lawyer who knew too much for his own good. The body itself was no problem at all - or was it? Slade is just one of many macabre characters in this collection of fourteen suspense stores, some fact and some fiction. Includes: C. S. Forester, Edward H. Smith, Ray Bradbury, Celia Fremlin, H. G. Wells and others. (110os123) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

New York: Dell Books. Very Good. 1970. Paperback. Dell reprint 1970. Pages clean and intact, no markings. Page near middle has small edge chips and very corner missing on next couple of pages. Cover has light edge/corner wear, some edge rubbing, light creasing. Various authors - Ray Bradbury, Carter Dickson, Raymond Banks, Fredric Brown and others. (110os4-22) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 188 pages .

Nyc: Dell Books. Very Good. 1976. First Printing. Paperback. 0440149495 . Dell Books, Volume 1, paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked, other than small ink dot top edge, two areas with paper split at spine but no loose pages. Cover has some creasing and scuffing, light wear to edges and small chip on rear of spine. Stories by Mary Barrett, Fredric Brown, Robert Colby, Zena Collier, Ron Goulart, Roald Dahl, Harold R. Daniels, Joe Gores and several others. (140os4-24) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 256 pages .

Bradbury Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0878881697 . Hardcover is clean and intact, with no internal markings, couple tiny chips top edge, overall wear is minimal. Jacket has light edgewear, scuffing and a few small tears, light creasing to jacket edges, not price clipped. A young girl struggles with her father's nightmares of Vietnam and subsequent alcoholism. Juvenile/young adult fiction (400? ) ; 8vo .