Search Results: Authors starting with V from Better Bindings

Ex-library book in good condition. Book with usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. DJ has very little bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Pages deckled. Cincinnati Cougars' Billy Parks was All-Pro and a hero to many...and now he’s missing. P.I. Harry Stoner's job is to find him, as hired by the Cougars who say Billy's disappearing act is part of a contract dispute. Leads in the form of Parks’ soon-to-be-cut teammate Bluerock and a pretty little number from a dance club point to some questionable influences in Parks’ life, including Cougars’ management, a reverend, agents, his mother, a pregnant stripper-turned-holly-roller girlfriend – and there seems to be something more much more deadly at hand that a contract renegotiation. 1986. U6.

New. DJ has very slight bumping on the top/spine/edges/corners. An epic, inspiring novel about one woman’s survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to protect her family throughout the Second World War—by any means possible. 2017. A12.

New. As the heir to a proud Northern Italian ice-cream dynasty, Giovanni Calamine’s family is none too happy when he decides to break with tradition and travel the world as a notable poet. So when Giovanni receives an unexpected call from his brother, he is faced with a difficult decision: return home to serve in his family’s interests or continue on his own path in life once and for all? 2017. A12.

Date and publisher is not stated in the book. Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges have tanning, browning, stains and foxing. A proud, lonely woman...a desperate, disillusioned man...a meeting packed with emotional dynamite. Were they to be friends? Enemies?...In their blinding moment of discovery, time stopped, the world stopped, night paled in the sharp flare of an unforgettable love. Bette Davis, two-time Academy Award winner, earns new laurels in Winter Meeting, a Warner Bros. motion picture. It is a performance - and story - to rank with the best. 1946. U3.

Stated First Edition. Image of actual book: Ex-library book with DJ in fair condition. Hardcover with normal card holder, stamps, stickers, markings, and writing. Pages are clean with illustrations. Tight binding. Corners with bumping. Boards with normal rubbing and bumping. Minor bumping on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with some tanning, tanning, browning. This is the history of Napoleon's first wife, the Empress Josephine, begining with her journey to France to be married to her first husband. 1956. FC3.

Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. No DJ. Very little bumping, rubbing, fading on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Seventeenth century London,this lively story of three young people, Amos and Kip Skeet who work the Fishermen's Wharf on the Thames, and Susan Stokes, scullery maid in the household of the famous diarist Samuel Pepys. Until the outbreak of the Great Fire, the story moves along easily - telling of Amos' and Susan's courtship, depicting the tribulations of the working classes and the dangers always lurking in the form of disease and crime. Though the boys survive the plague, they are intimately connected with the fire, for Kip is accused of commiting arson because of his association with a criminal gang. When it appears hopeless that Kip will get a fair trial, the three manage to get passage on a ship bound for America. Notations from the diary of Samuel Pepys add to the flavor of the times.… Read More

Published by the Junior Literary Guild and Doubleday, Doran. Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing, fading on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. A26.

Second Annual Edition. Used book may have markings, writing from the previous owner. DJ has some bumping, rubbing, tears on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges have tanning, browning, stains and foxing. An anthology of mystery and crime stories features the work of Ruth Rendell, Sue Grafton, Faye Kellerman, Marcia Muller, Robert Bernard, Sara Paretsky, Charlotte McLeod, Nancy Pickford, Bill Pronzini, and Lawrence Block. 1993. A9.

Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing, little tears on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Pages deckled. "A young Romanian diplomat makes humorous capital of his escape from his Iron Curtain Embassy in Washington -- a very funny story of an American in the making." U16.

First American Edition. Ex-library book has usual library markings, writing, stamps, stickers, card holder. DJ protected in mylar has very little bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges has some tanning, browning, stains and foxing. The author provides frank interviews and insight (the first authorized in English) the notoriously press-shy, revered and hated 77-year-old Austrian conductor, a giant of the vanishing autocratic school, which bred the unique aura of musical dictatorship and awed respect for genius that surrounds the great maestros. This book is a rather a privileged glimpse into the Karajan world, a fascinating "insiders" portrait; accomplished only with the cooperation of Karajan and his intimates, as well as the author's objective humor and critical insight, the result is a tasty, detailed, view of an unapproachable musical icon. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of… Read More

Ex-library, 1952, First Edition. Image of actual book: Hardcover book fair condition with normal card holder, stamps, stickers, markings, and writing. Pages are clean with several pictures/illustrations. Tight binding. No DJ. Normal rubbing, bumping. Minor bumping on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer pages and edges with some tanning, tanning, browning, stains and foxing. The Land and People of japan Hardcover – Portraits of the Nations Series - 1st Edition. , by Josephine Budd Vaughan. 1952. T3.

New. Red remainder mark bottom edging. Sofia is still processing the horrific truth of what happened when she and three friends performed an exorcism that spiraled horribly out of control. Ever since that night, Sofia has been haunted by bloody and demonic visions. Her therapist says they’re all in her head, but to Sofia they feel chillingly real. She just wants to get out of town, start fresh someplace else . . . until her mother dies suddenly, and Sofia gets her wish. 2016. A13.

Ex-library book in fair condition. Book with usual card holder, stamps, stickers, markings and writing. Inside leaf page removed. No DJ. Some bumping and rubbing on corners and edges. Some bumping and wear on tail. Fading on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges with slight tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Title by Author. Year. Location. Jeremy is very unhappy about having so many rules to obey until he wakes up one morning to find that all the rules are gone. 1983. T4.

Softcover book in --fragile-- condition. Book is intact but with heavy tanning on cover and pages. This is the actual image. Chipping on front and back edges. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. 1962. T16.

Ex-library book (as pictured) has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing, fading on the top, tail of spine, edges, corners. Outer edges have tanning, browning, stains and foxing. In The Case of the Missing Message, the first book of the Brains Benton Mystery series, a secret code message spells trouble for Brains Benton and Jimmy Carson and leads them down a trail that involves a circus clown, a real live performing elephant, a fortune-teller, a tight-rope walker, and a very pesky parrot. All clues seem to point toward a secret message which could bring the boys' new friend Skeets Fenton into his proper inheritance, and unmask the villains as well! 1959. A10.

Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing, fading on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Pages deckled. This book is a biographical account set during the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in the 1930's written by an Italian who was there and deeply embedded in the events that he talks about. A real life spy story, that tells unflinchingly of the horrors of this dreadful time in history. 1941. B8.

Used paperback in fair condition. May have writing, markings from the previous owner. Bumping, tears, creasing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges might have tanning, browning, stains, curling, foxing. A novel based on Viertel's adventures in Africa with director John Huston during the production of The African Queen, the screenplay for which was written jointly by Viertel and Huston. The novel was eventually made into a film starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. 1954. A19.

New. In this ambitious and wildly original debut, part social-political satire, part international mystery, a new virus turns people into something a bit more than human, upending society as we know it. 2018. T10.

Ex-library book in --above-- average condition with moderate use. Includes library card holder, stickers, stamps, markings and writing. DJ in clear Mylar cover. The overall appearance of the cover and pages are consistant with the copyright date. This image is the actual book. We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes New Turf. Vine Deloria, Jr. 1970. T14.

New. They were the New York art scene's golden couple until Amanda Oliver was found murdered, and her husband Philip confessed to shooting her. But was he a continent away when she died? Art dealer Jackson Wyeth sets out to learn the truth, and uncovers the secrets of Manhattan's galleries and wild parties, a world of beautiful girls growing up too fast and men losing their minds. But even the worst the art world can imagine will seem tame when the final sin is revealed. 2016. A13.