Canada: Avon Books, 1982. Reprint. Paperback. A dying man is murdered. A rich man's wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. A series of odd, inexplicable events is haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone..... More
New York: Warner Books, 1972. First Printing. Paperback. Patrolman Bob Black's beat was a jungle; a world of switch-blade knife, cheap hookers, junkies, and smart kids who were tired old men at fifteen. When Black is murdered it becomes apparent that he was much more than part of this..... More
New York: Warner Books, 1977. Reprint. Paperback. Murder usually begins at home, and Colleton County, North Carolina, proves no exception. When truck driver and childhood neighbor Dallas Stancil is shot and killed in his own backyard, Judge Deborah Knott figures she owes his memory at least the respectful ritual of..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1969. Reprint. Paperback. This text provides the mathematics background that is essential to the learning of introductory applied statistics. It is addressed to students who need to study statistical procedures but feeli/ nscure concerning their mathematical preparation. More
London: Progress Publishers, 1977. Reprint. Appears to be a Taiwanese pirated edition. Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an international audience..... More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. First Impression (stated). Hardcover. Leap of Faith is the dramatic and inspiring story of an American woman's remarkable journey into the heart of a man and his nation. Born into a distinguished Arab-American family and raised amid privilege, Lisa Halaby joined the first freshman..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Heavy item, additional handling fees for local delivery. In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account of..... More
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Heavy item, additional handling fees for local delivery applies. The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and..... More
London: Phoenix, 1996. Lalla Ward (illustrations). Reprint. Paperback. The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION, Richard Dawkins. The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth..... More
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1997. Reprint. Paperback. "Getting advice from Ann Landers is like chatting with a neighbor across the back fence." --Los Angeles Times In a career spanning nearly half a century, Ann Landers has counseled millions of people with her comforting words, wise advice, and..... More
Norwich: Galley Beggar Press, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. The dazzling, fearless debut novel that won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the book the New York Times hails as “a future classic”. In scathing, furious, unforgettable prose, Eimear McBride tells the story of a young girl’s devastating adolescence..... More
New York: DC Comics, 2004. Fourth Printing. Softcover. Bill Willingham's runaway hit series FABLES continues its success in this fourth trade paperback, collecting issues #19-21 and #23-27 (issue #22 will appear in a future collection) and featuring the rise of a new threat to Fabletown. Also included is the Prestige..... More
New York: DC Comics, 2004. First Printing. Softcover. A new Softcover collecting the acclaimed FABLES #11-18, including the 4-part "Storybook Love." Also included are the 2-part "A Sharp Operator" and the single-issue tales "Bag o' Bones" and "Barleycorn Brides." Don't miss this amazing third collection, topped off with a stunning..... More
London: Virago Press, 2012. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author with inscription to previous owner on title page. London 1897 and a young girl, Valentine Grey, arrives in England. She's been brought up in the remote and sunny climes of India and finds being forced into corsets and skirts..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. First Edition. Mass-market Paperback. On medical leave from the Boston Police Department, the eccentric Police Inspector and offbeat operative, Francis Xavier Flynn might have his most perplexing assignment yet. Someone is giving away hundreds of millions of dollars, and Flynn has to find..... More
New York: Free Press, 2019. First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. An eye-opening report from an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug—facts the media have ignored as the United..... More
New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2017. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. SIgned by author on title page. Fans of Star Wars and Divergent will revel in internationally bestselling author Veronica Roth's first title in a stunning new science-fiction fantasy series. Cyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules..... More
New York: William Morrow, 2014. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Signed by author on title page. New York Times bestselling author Wilbur Smith—hailed by Stephen King as the “best historical novelist” and one of the world’s biggest-selling authors—returns to Ancient Egypt in this breathtaking epic that conjures the magic, mystery, romance..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. In this book you will be led to a place you haven't been, from where few stories come. You will be led by King, a dog--or is he a dog?--to a wasteland beside the highway called Saint Valéry. Here, at the end of..... More
New York: Random House, 1975. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. For the sake of his lover, Hastings risks his career and chases a stalker For the past few weeks, Lieutenant Frank Hastings’s girlfriend has sensed that she was being watched. They are on their way home from a too-chic party..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. Hardcover. More
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001. Hardcover. More
UK: Empreinte Cordiale, 2015. Michael Burdett (photography). Reprint. Paperback. Nick Drake is hailed as one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the last 50 years, yet his is one of the most mysterious and intriguing stories of 20th century popular music. Before his death in 1974 aged just..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover in slipcase. Stock photo. Multimedia DVD enclosed. Heavy item, additional handling fees for local delivery. As one of Lyndon B. Johnson's first presidential acts following the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy, he ordered a secret taping system installed in..... More
Berkeley, Califronia: Transform Press, 2011. First Edition, First Printing (stated). Hardcover. Heavy item; please note additional handling charge. A structure-oriented survey of psychedelic phenethylamines, amphetamines, phenylpiperazines, and others.There are 126 main compounds with detailed physical properties, synthesis and analytical chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacological properties and legal status. Fully referenced with over..... More
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