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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Stated First edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. Clean beige cloth boards with gold and red decoration on cover, red title box with gold lettering and decoration on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 266 pgs. + index. Clean unfaded dustjacket with photo of author on front inside flap; small neat cross-out to price at top corner of front flap; very shallow tiny chips at top and bottom spine edge, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. True Crime mystery, the intriguing story of the four-weeks disappearance of Elizabeth Canning in the fifteenth century London; she now lies buried near Hartford, Connecticut..

New York: Free Press, 2004. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Free Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing, SIGNED by author. Very clean beige boards with clean red spine, bright gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Signed on front free endpaper by David Tripp. 363 pgs. with index. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, small price clip at upper corner of front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. It is one of America's treasures--the most valuable ounce of gold in the world, the celebrated, fabled and infamous 1933 double eagle. It shouldn't even exist, but it does, and its astonishing, true adventures read like "a composite of The Lord of the Rings and The Maltese Falcon (The New York Times)..

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine . Stated First Printing in clean original dust jacket. Clean beige boards with black spine, bright gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, no cracking; pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean blank endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs. 464 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, small price clip at upper corner of front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

New York: Coward-McCann, 1951. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York: Coward-McCann, 1951. First edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition. Clean unfaded black cloth boards with green lettering on spine. Slight surface wear to corners, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Tasteful previous owner bookplate on front fixed endpaper; no other marks. 255 pgs. Clean unfaded dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped (2.75 on front inside flap), has very slight edge wear, with a few tiny closed edge tears at top and bottom spine edges. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A novel of thievery, murder, and the borders of reality..

New York: Pantheon, 1984. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition.. New York: Pantheon, 1984. Stated First American Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated First American Edition. Clean purple boards with clean white cloth spine, silver lettering on spine. Tiny bump to one corner tip; no fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 190 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, slight wear at top spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Paris, 1911. The impossible has occurred: somehow, someone has stolen the Mona Lisa. The theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre remains one of the century's most extraordinary crimes. Martin Page has written a captivating thriller about the theft as ingenious as the crime itself..

New York: Random House, 1994. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Random House , 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing with correct number line and all correct first edition points, in clean dust jacket. Clean unfaded dark green boards with black cloth spine, metallic lettering on cover (author's initials) and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 388 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, small price clip at upper corner of front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. To assist in determining the first edition, first printing these are the identifying points: Dustjacket price of $23.00 on front inside flap. On page eleven, line thirty-two contains the spelling error "fmr" instead of "for." The Random House correct number line of (2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3) above first… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1964. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition.. New York: Atheneum, 1964. Stated First American Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated First American Edition. Clean brown boards with blind-stamped lettering on cover, clean purple spine with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading, or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean red endpapers, with small previous owner label (return address label) on front free endpaper. No other marks. 237 pgs. Unfaded dustjacket is not price clipped, a few short closed edge tears, very small spot of browning from sticker (carefully removed) at lower corner of front panel. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. True crime story of the handsome George Manolesco, son of an impoverished ex-army officer who fled his native Rumania in the 1880's. Duringthe twenty years of his heyday he stole nearly ten million dollars (most of it in jewels), lived in outrageous… Read More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Coles Publishing Company, 1973. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. This is a reprint edition (1973) of a book originally published in 1906 by The Mortimer Press. It is a large format paperback (approx. size is 8-1/2" x 11") in it's original slipcase, which is clean but has cracking along upper edge. Book is cover is clean and bright, no tears or chipping, light creasing to spine. Pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 160 pages with Appendix, plus pages and pages of interesting advertising at rear of book for everything from horses and farm implements to lumber, rifles and hotels..

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Stated First edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated First Edition, with full number line on copyright page. Clean black cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. Very light surface wear to top and bottom spine edge, no fraying, no fading. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 391 pgs. Clean dustjackeet is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. At the center of this powerful novel is a cruel, senseless incident that spreads out its ripples like a pebble in the water.ever wider. The death of two students in a junior high school in the Bronx revererates through the "blackboard jungle", through the police department and on to the shake up city hall..