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New York: TOR A Tom Doherty Associates Book Distributed by Pinnacle Books, 1982. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A True History Of Mankind's Battle With The Forces Of Ultimate Evil. ISBN: 0-523-48520-4/523-48520-4 (Spine); 48-520-4 (Copyright Page). SYNOPSIS: "LIFE AND DEATH IN DREADFUL CONFLICT STROVE..." It happened long ago and far away. Perhaps in this galaxy, perhaps in one close by. Two war-maddened races fought--and though both are gone, their legacy abides: the Frankenstein weapon that destroyed not only the enemy, but the creator. The Berserkers, robotic, asteroid-sized killers programmed to one purpose: to seek out and end life. The death machines have harried their way across our galaxy. Now they have come for us. Here at last is the essence of the Berserker Saga in a single volume: The Berserker Wars.. First Edition 2nd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very… Read More

New York: Ace Books - A Grosset & Dunlap Company, 1978. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A BRILLIANTLY ORIGINAL NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE RENOWNED BERSERKER SAGA... ALSO KNOWN AS: A portion of this book appeared in substantially different form in Science Fiction Discoveries, ed. Carol and Frederik Pohl. SYNOPSIS: AZLAROC...a planet to fire the imagination, where shimmering veils of pure energy fall at yearly intervals, sealing in everything--and everyone--on its surface at that moment into a time "pocket". IMAGINE...yourself as a settler, living in a translucent "pocket" that makes your life an almost ageless state, as time in each pocket passes so slowly that senility and death are meaningless concepts. Your immortality has a price; you have free interaction only with those of your "generation"; you see… Read More

DAW Books, Inc. - The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1975. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A special selection of the best stories by the most innovative writer in the sf world. BOOK NUMBER: 136. CONTENTS: The Long Way Home; Planeteer; Volume Paa-Pyx; Seven Doors to Education; Deep Space; Pressure; Starsong; Calendars; Young Girl at an Open Half-Door; What Do You Want Me To Do To Prove I'm Human Stop. SYNOPSIS: No one who has ever read one of Fred Saberhagen's Berserker stories will forget the premise: a robotic culture with but one overriding directive--to destroy all organic sentient life wherever it is encountered. How do you counter such an enemy, who cannot be compromised, asks no favors, gives no quarter, and is not afraid of death because it is not alive? Saberhagen has shown many of the astonishing turns such a… Read More

Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 5139. COVER ART BY: Howard Chaykin. SYNOPSIS: Don BelPatris knows that his hometown will have changed in the years he's been away. But in the hamlet of Baghdad, Michigan, the changes are too great. Even the main street is not the main street he recalls. Where is the red brick school? And the church and the movie theatre have disappeared. The existing houses--all totally unfamiliar to Don--are old, too old to have been constructed during his absence. When Cora, his lover, asks if there couldn't be two towns with the same name, Don denies it. "No. What I remember fits, right to the edge of town. Then...it's as if something else has been--grafted in." Back on his houseboat in the Florida Keys, Cora, disturbed by the incident, begins to… Read More

New York: Bonanza Books, distributed by Outlet Book Company, Inc., a Random House Company, 1990. BOOK:: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. Illustrated with more than 250 black-and-white photographs. BOOK DESIGN BY: Jean Krulis. JACKET DESIGN BY: Melissa Ring. CONTENTS: The History of the Ten Most Wanted List; Before the Ten Most Wanted List; The 1950s; The 1950s Rogues' Gallery; The 1960s; The 1960s Rogues' Gallery; The 1970s; The 1970s Rogues' Gallery; The 1980s; The 1980s Rogues' Gallery; The Current Ten Most Wanted List; Afterword; A Chronological Listing of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives"; How to Contact the FBI. SYNOPSIS: The FBI's Most Wanted Program officially began on March 14, 1950, when Director J. Edgar Hoover named "Tough Tommy" Holden, a convicted train robber and prison escapee, number one on the first Ten most… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Corners Bumped; Heavy Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Front Matter, Boards, Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Repaired By Previous Owner (Library); Heavily Pulled From Removal of Sticker (Spine); Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: A Provencal Carol. BOOK NUMBER: 408. ALSO KNOWN AS: The words and music of the song "Un Flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle" from Christmas Carols From Many Countries by Satis N. Coleman and Elin K. Jorgensen. ATTRIBUTED TO: Nicholas Saboly, 17th Century. SEASONAL ASSOCIATION: Christmas. SYNOPSIS: The children of Provence, France, like children everywhere, look forward to Christmas with great excitement. The young members of each family set up the Christmas crèche in the home and… Read More

Lachine: Record Tools Ltd. Previous Owner Modifications (Hole-Punched in Left Margin, No Impact to Text); Lightly Creased; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. EDITION: Loose Leaf Instruction Booklet. Typewritten Sheets Joined with Staple in Upper Left Corner. # OF PAGES: 3.. Loose Leaf. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Due to the weight of this volume, it can only be shipped to delivery addresses located within Canada and the United States. Previous Owner Markings (Minor Notes Neatly Inked to Front and Rear Endpapers); Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled. CONTENTS: Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Limits and Continuity; Chapter 3 Differentiation; Chapter 4 The Mean-Value Theorem and Applications; Chapter 5 Integration; Chapter 6 The Logarithm and Exponential Functions; Chapter 7 The Trigonometric and Hyperbolic Functions; Chapter 8 The Technique of Integration; Chapter 9 The Conic Sections; Chapter 10 Volume, Work, and Other Applications of the Integral; Chapter 11 Polar Coordinates; Parametric Equations; Chapter 12 Sequences; Indeterminate Forms; Improper Integrals; Chapter 13 Infinite Series; Chapter 14 Vectors; Chapter 15 Vector Calculus; Chapter 16 Functions of Several Variables; Chapter 17 Gradients; Extreme… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Spine Slightly Cocked. SUB-TITLE: An Introduction. ALSO KNOWN AS: This Dover edition, first published in 1979, s an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published in 1968 by W. H. Freeman and Company. CONTENTS: Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Linear Equation: General Discussion; Chapter 3 The Linear Equation with Constant Coefficients; Chapter 4 Autonomous Systems and Phase Space; Chapter 5 Stability for Nonautonomous Equations; Chapter 6 Existence, Uniqueness, and Related Topics; Appendix A Series Solutions of Second-Order Linear Equations; Appendix B Linear Systems with Periodic Coefficients; References; Index. PUBLISHER: Dover Publications, Inc. New York. A DOVER EDITION DESIGNED FOR YEARS OF USE! We have made every effort to make this the best book possible. Our paper is opaque, with minimal show-through; it will not discolor or become brittle with age. Pages are sewn in signatures, in the method traditionally used for… Read More

New York: Pocket Star Books published by Pocket Books - Simon & Schuster Inc., 1997. Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY: Greg Gorman. CONTENTS: Introduction: Rock Bottom 1 The Pot Hunter 2 Green Socks and Mockery 3 Fine Art and Kedgeree 4 "Just Keep Smiling" 5 Through the Looking Glass 6 Reality Bites 7 Higher Callings 8 Fat and Appalling 9 Slamming the Window 10 The Plot Thickens 11 Making a Break 12 On the Outs 13 Seeking to Understand 14 Peaks and Valleys 15 The Duchess of Cork 16 The End of the Beginning; Epilogue: Into the Light; A Note to My Friends; Index. SYNOPSIS: WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A PRINCESS? With remarkable frankness, The Duchess of York writes about what it was like to be a member of the most famous and most scrutinized family in the world: The British Royal Family. When Sarah Ferguson first surfaced as the woman Prince Andrew would marry, she was… Read More

New York: Pocket Star Books published by Pocket Books - Simon & Schuster Inc., 1997. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY: Greg Gorman. CONTENTS: Introduction: Rock Bottom 1 The Pot Hunter 2 Green Socks and Mockery 3 Fine Art and Kedgeree 4 "Just Keep Smiling" 5 Through the Looking Glass 6 Reality Bites 7 Higher Callings 8 Fat and Appalling 9 Slamming the Window 10 The Plot Thickens 11 Making a Break 12 On the Outs 13 Seeking to Understand 14 Peaks and Valleys 15 The Duchess of Cork 16 The End of the Beginning; Epilogue: Into the Light; A Note to My Friends; Index. SYNOPSIS: WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A PRINCESS? With remarkable frankness, The Duchess of York writes about what it was like to be a member of the most famous and most scrutinized family in the world: The British Royal Family. When Sarah Ferguson first surfaced as the woman… Read More

New York: Pocket Star Books published by Pocket Books - Simon & Schuster Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Heavy Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY: Greg Gorman. CONTENTS: Introduction: Rock Bottom 1 The Pot Hunter 2 Green Socks and Mockery 3 Fine Art and Kedgeree 4 "Just Keep Smiling" 5 Through the Looking Glass 6 Reality Bites 7 Higher Callings 8 Fat and Appalling 9 Slamming the Window 10 The Plot Thickens 11 Making a Break 12 On the Outs 13 Seeking to Understand 14 Peaks and Valleys 15 The Duchess of Cork 16 The End of the Beginning; Epilogue: Into the Light; A Note to My Friends; Index. SYNOPSIS: WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A PRINCESS? With remarkable frankness, The Duchess of York writes about what it was like to be a member of the most famous and most scrutinized family in the world: The British Royal Family. When Sarah Ferguson first… Read More

Winnipeg: Turnstone Press Lower Right Corner of Both Front and Back Covers and Pages Between Have Light Bend Creases; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. DESIGN: Manuela Dias. ORIGINAL COVER PHOTOGRAPHS BY: Ray Fennelly (Saglek Fjord, Torngat Mountains, northern Labrador). CONTENTS: RUNNING WITH THE CARIBOU - Running with the Caribou; Games Night; One Skidoo Coming Back Just Before Dark; Spiritual Fog; Spindrift' A House for Nobody; The Opposite of Maybe; Old Hat; GOOD INTENTIONS - Good Intentions; Necessary Evils; Opening Day; Weekend; Gambit; A Friend Who Happened to Be a Doctor; The Same; A MOVING PART - Anybody Can Laugh; Victor Delta Mike; Salt Water Wind; Several Unhurried, Decidedly Nonaerobic Movements; Flamboyant Is a Tree; A Moving Part; OPPOSITE TRUTHS #1 - Tracing the Complete Inside Line of a Circle; Back against the Glass; Wind Toys; Learning to Count; White Fox Meets Professional; Opposite Truths #1; WHERE YOU BELONG TO - Seawall; Rowing through… Read More

New York: Zebra Books Kensington Publishing Corp., 1992. Remainder Mark; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; Line of "49" Stamped to Upper Edge. HE PROMISED HIS FOLLOWERS SALVATION, THEN ORDERED THEM TO SLAUGHTER ANINNOCENT FAMILY! The Shocking True Story of the Bizarre Ohio Cult Murders! 14 Pages of Dramatic Photos! CONTENTS: 1 The Deed--"Blood Atonement" 2 In the Beginning 3 City of Faith and Beauty 4 Coming Together 5 Prophet, Seer, and Revelator 6 Cleansing the Vineyard 7 In the Prophet's House 8 The Army of the Lord 9 The Time is at Hand 10 The Sword of Laban 11 Fuel for the Furnace 12 The Second Seal 13 By Haste and by Flight 14 The Wilderness 15 Intercession 16 Bathsheba 17 Exodus 18 The Parting of the Red Sea 19 Sign of the False Prophet 20 An Eye for an Eye 21 The Wages of Sin 22 Ye Liars and Hypocrites, Ye Lawyers 23 Whatsoever Ye… Read More

Toronto: An M&S Paperback - McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1989. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. ALSO KNOWN AS: Previous ed. published under title: The insiders: government, business, and the lobbyists. COVER DESIGN BY: Richard Miller. ADAPTED BY: Kong Njo. COVER PHOTO BY: Bill Brooks/Masterfile. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements 1 The Secret Rendezvous 2 The Best of the Backroom Boys 3 Establishing ECL 4 The Political Itch 5 Starting PAI 6 The Need to Be a Player 7 Enter MacNaughton 8 The Punk Pollster 9 The Stumble from Power 10 A Matter of Energy 11 The Decima Point 12 The Mulroney Factor 13 Battle for Supremacy 14 Turner for Leader 15 Prime Minister Turner 16 The Election of '84 17 Mulroney in Power 18 The Blacklisting 19 The New Lobbyists 20 The Cooper Committee; Epilogue. SYNOPSIS: If you think that writing to your MP is the way to get things done, welcome to the… Read More

TOR A Tom Doherty Associates Book - Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. New York Distributed in Canada by H. B. Fenn and Company, Ltd. This item cannot be shipped to any delivery address located in the state of California. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; 1st Page of Front Matter Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Scratched; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Robert J. Sawyer is the hottest writer of the science fiction thriller today. His last novel, The Terminal Experiment, was a finalist for the Hugo Award as well as the winner of the Nebula Award. Orson Scott Card has said that Sawyer writes "with near-Asimovian clarity, with energy and drive, with such grace that his writing becomes invisible as the story comes to life in your mind." Now he has brought his powerful storytelling talents and his keen insight into the ramifications of the latest scientific breakthroughs to Frameshift. Pierre Tardivel is a scientist working on the Human Genome… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc. BOOK: 0.8 cm by 0.8 cm Shallow Gouge to Front Board; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. SUB-TITLE: An Autobiography. DESIGNED BY: Edith Fowler. CONTENTS: 1. Meeting My First Card Cheats 2. A Postgraduate Course in Marked Cards and Crooked Dice 3. Fire Eaters, Sword Swallowers, and Carnival Gyps 4. Meeting the Racket Bosses of the Roaring Twenties 5. Fooling America's Greatest Magicians 6. My Psychic Experiences with Harry Houdini 7. A Bet with the Secret Service and a Performance for President Roosevelt 8. My $5,000 Challenge to the Magicians of the World 9. Gambling in the Army in World War II and What I Did About It 10. Beating the Black Jack and Baccarat Tables: My $100,000 Challenge 11. Adviser to Conrad Hilton on Gambling at the Caribe Hilton Casino in Puerto Rico 12. Gambling in More Ways Than One in… Read More

Garden City: A Dolphin Book Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1987. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Women Behind the Evangelists Reveal Their Faith in Modern Marriage. BOOK NUMBER: 0587. PHOTOGRAPHS IN CHRISTIAN WIVES ARE COMPLIMENTS OF: the respective ministries. JACKET BY: Richard Rossiter. CONTENTS: Preface; Tammy Faye Bakker; Macel Falwell; Ruth Bell Graham; Maude Aimee Humbard; Evelyn Roberts; Arvella Schuller; Frances Swaggart. SYNOPSIS: Today's evangelists--whether speaking from the pulpit or via satellite--are playing an increasing role in the moral conduct of the United States. Now, in positive, uplifting interviews, seven wives of famous… Read More

New York: Pocket Books a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. The Shocking True Story of ED GEIN, the Original "Psycho". HIS CRIMES WENT BEYOND YOUR VERY WORST DREAMS, by Harold Schechter, Author of Deranged. SUB-TITLE: The Shocking True Story of the Original "Psycho". COVER ART: Wide World Photos. MOVIE TIE-IN: This book was the inspiration for the 1960 feature film Psycho. SYNOPSIS: MURDER WAS THE LEAST OF HIS CRIMES...DEVIANT. The Shocking True Story of the Original "Psycho". The year was 1957. Photographs would show him across the country: a slight, Wisconsin man with a twisted little smile, a man who had lived for ten years in his own secret world of murder and depravity. Here is the grisly true story of Ed Gein, the killer whose fiendish fantasies inspired Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho"--the mild-mannered farmhand bound… Read More

New York: Bantam Books Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Heavy Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Heavily Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. . . . and Videocassette. The Million-Copy Bestseller. The Biggest Edition Ever. Complete Ratings and Reviews for Movies on TV, Cable TV and Videocassette! SYNOPSIS: THE GIGANTIC NEW EXPANDED EDITION 1988-89 MOVIES ON TV. It's a great era to be watching movies. Now, you have access to more films than ever before, and you can view them virtually anywhere you choose - in the theater, on regular TV, PBS TV, Cable TV or on videocassette. But how can you be certain you are making the right and best choice for you and your family? THIS IS THE ONLY GUIDE YOU NEED TO HOLLYWOOD'S BEST MOVIES. They're all here: the stars, directors, ratings, reviews and fascinating inside information. PLUS - A special reference key tells you which movies are currently available on… Read More