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NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Author's first book. Demoralized by the arrest of his candidate for the Senate, brilliant political tactician Greer Whitaker gets involved in a sensitive national security operation with the CIA, an operation with deadly implications.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Pyramid G425, 1959. 1st edition, July 1959. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Cover by Richard Powers. Reading crease, light edgewear else a near fine copy. Masochism and Sadism / seething with hatred / driven by desire / blind with jealousy / ridden by fear. Driven by forces stronger than themselves they find fulfillment in the climax of violence. Here are their stories--twelve electryfing experiences probed by some of the finest writers of our time--twelve revelations that strip bare the dark reaches of human passion. Includes : William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Robert M. Coates, Flannery O'Connor, Paul bowles, Katherine Mansfield, Charles Beaumont, Shirley Ann Grau, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Moore, Villiers De I'Isle-Adam and Ellis St. Joseph.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by Powers, Richard. Paperback Original.

NY: Dutton, 1995. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. The author combines fictional and real-life characters in a thriller about two American agents who lock horns in Manuel Noriega's Panama.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Grove Press, 1993. 1st ed., fine in decorated wraps, uncorrected proof. "In transposing to an Iranian setting the conventions of the thriller--the hard-drinking detective, the threatened heroine, the frantic escape from a brutal adversary--Koenig invests his story with unusual resonance. Here the familiar figure of the honest cop plays his role in the unfamiliar milieu of Teheran's fundamentalist Islamic society, as he becomes a threat to the government itself. Conducting a routine murder investigation to solve the death of a sexually mutilated young woman, chief homicide detective Darius Bakhtiar discovers the existence of a state-sponsored terrorist group, the Brides of Blood. This secret sorority of virgins, fanatical in their religious devotion, are trained to martyr themselves in terrorist aggression. After Bakhtiar uncovers evidence of sanctioned efforts to arm Iran with biological weapons, he and Maryam Lejavardi, the beautiful former Bride he has begun to protect and love, are… Read More

N.Y.: Harmony Books, 1995. First American Edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Once again, Ruth Rendell writing as Vine (e.g., No Night Is Too Long, Harmony, 1995) weaves a compelling tale of ordinary people facing extraordinary pressures. Two women, divided by age and class, share their deepest secrets in an English nursing home in which one cares for the other. There is a sense of secrecy from the start, as Jenny Warner tells dying Stella Newland about her love affair and Stella shares with Jenny the location of her secret house. Secrecy gives way to foreboding, and tension builds as details are masterfully revealed. Vine is an extraordinary storyteller, able to enthrall a reader right from the start, as she does here. Additionally, she provides a satisfying symmetry in the construction of this book, with the two women's alternating voices and the inextricable linking of their lives, as… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1988. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. The nightmare begins on November 12 when Martha Tierney faces what every mother dreads: her son Jonathan is missing. With a raging hangover, Martha must pull herself together and face a crisis of terrifiying proportions. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Random House, 1949. First edition, so stated. Color variation to boards, very light edge wear in dust jacket, unclipped, $2.50 price intact, piece out at head of spine, a few closed tears, rubbed and soiled at rear. Millar gazes unflinchingly at the psychology of a deranged adult and their struggle to control their basest impulses. Suspenseful to the last, The Cannibal Heart could only be written by an author that was unafraid of asking the most unsettling of questions and peering into the darkest cravings of the human soul. This story covers three days in the lives of a young New York family who become lodgers at the country house of a mysterious widow who is in possession of "The Cannibal Heart." The widow will stop at nothing, even murder, to get what the heart desires. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine/Good-Very Good. Book.

Shingletown: CA : Mark Ziesing , 1991. First edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket and slipcase. . 25 stories, all new. 1 of 500 copies [this being #194] SIGNED BY ALL 26 CONTRIBUTORS on a special limitation page where each author has signed next to his printed name along with editor Chizmar. Original anthology collecting twenty-five stories by F. Paul Wilson, Chet Williamson, Joe R. Lansdale, Rex Miller, Nancy A. Collins, William F. Nolan, Richard Laymon, Ramsey Campbell, Andrew Vachss, Ed Gorman, Rex Miller et al...401 pages. Signed by All Contributors. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

London: UK: Century Books, 1997. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Imperial Rome. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. With three maps. In ancient Rome, ambitious citizens who aspired to political power, to become one of the ruling elite—a senator, had to follow what was known as "The Course of Honor." This course had only one unbreakable rule: a senator is forbidden to marry a slave, even a freed slave. When the soldier Vespasian meets an interesting girl in the imperial palace, he doesn't know she is a slave in the household of the imperial family. But he is inexorably drawn in by her intelligence and charisma. Yet as Vespasian slowly rises from near-obscurity and as emperor after emperor plays out their own deadly, seductive games of lust and conquest, the future is something no one could imagine. No one could believe that a country-born army man might win… Read More

N.Y.: Walker and Company, 1975. 1st US edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Soiled along edges, page edges age spotted in dust jacket with rubbing to folds, lightly soiled. Peter Craig in Tunisia. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. 1st thus, [n.d.] orig. 1928. (From the books listed at rear panel it would seem this was published in 1934). Blue cloth with red lettering. Neat gift inscription at front end paper. Page edges age toned, elase a fine, tight copy in dust jacket, flap corners narrowly clipped, front cover lightly soiled and rubbed, shallow loss at top spine ends and flap corners. It is 1914 Germany, and war is certainly imminent. Olivia Dunbar, a British subject, is working as secretary for judge Dr. Von Nentsch; at his home. His home, is adjacent to Schlatz Castle; which is being used as a prison for German military officers. Olivia is alone one night when she encounters a man outside her window. He enters, and identifies himself as Major Vivian Abbott, a British officer. He tells a story of being stranded and seeking money for train fare. Then they hears the cannon sound from the Castle, a signal that a prisoner has escaped - and Abbott confesses it is he. He asks a sympathetic… Read More

N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Law school dropout takes over the sheriffing of a small Oklahoma town. NERO WOLFE WINNER. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1972. 1st American Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, page edges lightly dusty, not price clipped, $5.95 intact, in protective mylar cover. Translated by Lyn Moir. Simenon writes about an 18 year old girl who runs away from home to Paris leaving behind a letter to her brother informing him of her intention to commit suicide. ( The story takes on a poignant tone if you know that five years after the book's publication Simenon's daughter Marie-Jo would attempt suicide, and two years after that, succeed.) . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: UK: William Collins Sons & Co., 1984. First edition. A near fine copy in dust jacket, flaps have age toning spots, spine is lightly sunned, else nead fine, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Twenty-five years after an abortive and fatal attempt to escape East Germany, a letter found in a dying woman's purse leads ex-soldier, and now private investigator, Hugh Merryck on a dangerous quest from Bonn, to Paris, New York, and Toronto, to find a man who could clear a past British ambassadors as a traitor.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1960. 1st American Edition, Fine copy in dust jacket, not price clipped, ($3.95 price intact), with protective mylar cover. A sweeping adventure set in the Arabian Desert, where the shadow of British colonialism threatens to destroy a father and son. Three years ago, nineteen-year-old David Thomas beat his father to death. Actually, David only punched the old man, but it was hard enough to cause him to have a fatal stroke. And the man wasn’t really David’s father at all: The fight started because David learned that his true father was Col. Charles Stanley Whitaker, a legendary figure who made his fortune in the oil fields of the Arabian Desert. With the help of George Grant, a lawyer he’d just met, David escaped the police and set out to find his real father. But like so many travelers before him, he was swallowed by the desert and never seen again . . . Now, Grant is working for Colonel Whitaker, helping him negotiate the tangled politics of the turbulent… Read More

Greenwich: CT, US: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1964. 1st edition. Paperback Original [.40 cover price]. Vintage Paperback. Gold Medal #k1420. Cover illustration by Zuckerberg. Rear cover has small remains from another book Verygood-near fine copy. [Chester Drum; Berlin] This, the sixteenth Chester Drum novel, is an ode to freedom and to those who fought the Soviets and their vassal states. All of the action takes place in the divided city of 1960's Berlin. It is a world starkly divided where people in the East were not free to leave and a city filled with countless spies and double agents, brother against brother, friend against friend. Drum flies there to effect a rescue across the Iron Curtain. -- beyond the Wall. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good-Near Fine. Illus. by Zuckerberg. Paperback Original.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1985. 1st ed. Near fine in lightly used dust jacket. Recounts the mission of Caroline, whose task it is to protect the security of the Normandy invasion by convincing the Germans that the real landing would be at Pas de Calais. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1999. 1st ed. Complete number line. Fine in fine dust jacket. A story of a family of three on a wilderness hike that results in nine year old Jessica spending the night lost in the woods listening on her transistor radio to her hero, relief pitcher, Tom Gordon. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., 1993. 1st printing, oversize paperback. Fine. Cover by Paul E. Kennedy. This is a new selection of ghost stories, reprinted from the standard texts. The selection was made and the introductory Note specially written for this edition by John Grafton. Regarded as the Victorian era's greatest writer of ghost stories, J. Sheridan LeFanu (1814-73) gave expression to the fears and dread that often haunt sensitive individuals. This collection contains four of his finest ghost stories, each crafted with remarkable ingenuity and storytelling skill. The title story offers a petrifying account of an English cleric's bouts with a malignant spectral presence; "Squire Toby's Will" recounts a sibling rivalry and disputed inheritance; "The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh" concerns a country gentleman's mysterious relationship with a sinister valet; and "Sir Dominick's Bargain" presents LeFanu's masterly variation on the theme of… Read More

TORONTO, Cnada: MIRA Books/Harlequin Enterprises, 2004. 1st Ed. ARC. FINE.ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE. Book appears unread. Dr. Morgan Snow is one of New York city's top sex therapists. Has her " halo " become tarnished.? "The mutilated body of a prostitute in a nun's habit, her pubic hair shaved into a cross, appears on page one of this suspense thriller, making it plain that Rose's latest (after Sheet Music) is not for the squeamish. The novel is the first in a new series featuring the Butterfield Institute, a Manhattan sex therapy clinic employing psychiatrist Dr. Morgan Snow. One of Morgan's patients, the clever and selective call girl Cleo Thane, has written a memoir full of thinly disguised portraits of her clients, powerful men with odd fantasies and fetishes. She leaves this potentially explosive manuscript with Dr. Snow and then misses several appointments, causing Morgan to suspect foul play. Yet NYPD Det. Noah Jordain and his team, diligently pursuing leads in… Read More