Search Results: Authors starting with R from The Book Closet

Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1992 Minor Shelf Wear to DJ

New York: Pocket Books, 1948 Edge wear to spine; yellowing pages; otherwise a nice, clean copy. "A pack of trouble awaited Gordon Elliot. Sent by the government to investigate the coal claims of Colby Macdonald, he soon found he was tangling with the biggest man in Alaska. Colby Macdonald had always taken what he wanted. But Gordon was there to see that the natural resources of the Yukon were protected from this unscrupulous, tight-fisted man. The hatred of the two men deepens. Both fall in love with the dark-haired beauty, Sheba O'Neill. Set against a background of rugged mountains, wide spaces, and untamed nature, this tale of strong wills and romance is full of the fiery spirit of life on the last frontier." - from the back cover

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921 Black boards with chip out of lower spine; previous owner's name written on ffep; spine is starting to loosen; a good reading copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939 Buckram colored boards with illustrated front; illustrated end papers; front and back boards starting to pull away from spine; some minor soiling to cover; Scribner "A" on copyright page; a good reading copy.

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2017 Black boards with blue foil lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped; "Touchstone has reached the highest levels of influence and popularity in the Kingdom of Alberyn. Their performances are always sold out, in Gallantrybanks or on the Road Cicuit." -- from the dj

New York: Doubleday, 1989 Blue boards with blue tape binding; blue foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; some yellowing to edges of dj. "As the sun sets on a lonely Connecticut farmhouse, the shadows come, gliding through windows, sliding up walls, enveloping Sarah Gilmour as she searches frantically for her missing child. Then the shadows, with their dark, inhuman eyes, are everywhere, surrounding her as she sobs silently, realizing with horror that they have taken her daughter, once again. And somehow Sarah knows that now they have come back -- for her." -- from the dj

New York: DAW Books, 1998 The Renshai Chronicles: Volume Three. Cream boards with maroon tape binding; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; First printing, June 1998. "In this final volume of 'The Renahsi Chronicle,' Mickey Zucker Reichert returns us to Midgard at a time when an uneasy peace has been attained between the mortal kingdoms because all are now caught up in a shared catastrophe, cursed with sterility by the magic of the dark elves. Yet this disaster may well plunge the kingdoms into renewed warfare. For children are humanity's most precious commodity, and the King of Pudar, convinced that his son is the father of the soon-to-be-born child the Renahsi Kevral is carrying, is threatening to make war on Bearn unless she surrends the babe to become the prince's heir." -- from the dj

New York: DAW Books, 1996 The Renshai Chronicles Volume Two. Green boards with green tape binding; copper lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; First printing, November 1996. "As 'Beyond Ragnarok, The Renshai Chronicles Volume One' proved, sometimes the end of the universe only signals a new beginning. For in the final battle that should have seen the fiery destruction of humankind, Colbey Calistinson - son of the god Thor, and raised to become the ultimate Renshair warrior -- did not play by Odin's rules, choosing to save Midgard even at the cost of Odin's life. Colbey's triumph was not, however, without its price, and now, nearly three hundred years after the time of Ragnarok, humankind has been drawn into a new and possibly inescapably fatal trial." -- from the dj

Simon & Schuster, 1990 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear to DJ

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 First Trade Edition; black boards with black tape binding; copper foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped. "In the grand manner of 'Interview with the Vampire,' Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival manion in present-day New Orleans to the dzzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation." -- from the dj

New York: Knopf, 1996 Black boards with gold foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. "A new saga begins, a major departure for the incomparable Anne Rice. Having created fantastic universes of vampires and witches, having chronicled the exploits of Lestate and the Mayfairs, she cecarries us now into new realms of the occult, the mystical, and the magical, and into the presence--nor and through the centuries--of a dark and luminous new hero: the powerful, witty, smiling Azriel, Servant of the Bones." -- from the dj.

New York: Knopf, 1999 Black boards with silver foil lettering on spine; dj has some sticker residue on the front, but is now protected with a Brodart cover; pages are clean and spine is tight. "With 'Pandora,' Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold." -- from the dj

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001 Black boards with gold foil lettering on spine; previous owner's name on ffep; dj protected with Brodart cover; first edition. "The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel, in which the great vampire Marius returns. The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet intimate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence." -- from the dj

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 Stated First Edition; black boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj not price clipped; dj protected with Brodart cover. "In Anne Rice's extraordinary new novel, the Vampire Lestat - outsider, canny monster, heor-wanderer - is ta last offered the chance to be redeemed. He is brough into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death." -- from the dj

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 Black boards with silver embossed lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. "In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand -- eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic 'Interview with the Vampire,' the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms." - from the dj.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 Black boards with black tape binding; gold embossed lettering on spine; dj shows minor shelf wear. "A new saga begins, a major departure for the incomparable Anne Rice...a dark and luminous new hero: the powerful, witty, smling Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, demon, angel - in love with the good, in thrall to the evil. He pours out his heart to us, telling his astonishing story when he finds himself - in our own time, in New York City - a dazed witness to the murder of a young girl called Esther and inexplicably obsessed by the desire to avenge her." from the dj

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 Black boards with black tape binding; copper foil lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "The novel opens in present day Paris in a crowded care, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marrius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life." -- from the dj

Warner Books, 2002 Advanced Reading Copy; Minor Shelf Wear

Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2011 Red boards with "Alma LeFay Peregine" embossed with gold foil on front; gold lettering on spine; dj is protected with a Brodart cover; 20th printing. "...As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow -- impossible though it seems -- they may still be alive." -- from the dj

Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2015 Light green boards with silver embossed signatures of the Peculiar Children on front; silver letter on spine; dj is protected with a Brodart cover; full number line. "The adventure that began with 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' and contineud in 'Hollow City' comes to a thrilling conclusion with 'Library of Souls.' As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he's diving through history to resuce his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children." -- from the dj