Search Results: Titles starting with R from Second-handSOME BOOKS

VERY GOOD — Firm bindings. Crisp exteriors. Clean, unmarked pages. NOTE: VOLUME I: Very slight area of discoloration, front board. Slight gilt loss to page edges on textblock, primarily head. VOLUME II: Slight gilt loss to page edges on textblock; a few faint scratches to same. VOLUME III: Ditto gilt loss to textblock. VOLUME IV: Ditto gilt loss to textblock and a few scratches to same. VOLUME V: Ditto gilt loss and a couple of faint stains to foredge. All volumes show textblock/spine separation at head. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.
This 5 volume set, The Race to Space, was published by Easton Press in 1999 and issued in Collector Editions. Bound in handsome Emerald Green leather, and illustrated with stirring period photographs, these works chronicle the fierce competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to acheive superior spaceflight capability. Featured, in alphabetical order, are: A Man on the Moon: The Voyage of the Apollo Astronauts… Read More

VERY GOOD — DUST JACKET: Very good. Minor wear & tear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Minor soiling to panels, primarily front. Foxing to top and bottom edges of jacket, primarily back panel. BOARDS: Very good. BOOK: Very good. Light foxing to textblock head and foredge. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.
Here on offer is a very nice copy of investigative journalist Scott Carney's, The Red Market, a shocking expose of the global underground trade in body parts. This copy is a 1st American trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by William Morrow in 2011.
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"A shocking tour through a macabre global underworld where organs, bones, and live people are bought and sold on the red market. Investigative journalist Scott Carney has spent five years tracing the lucrative and deeply secretive trade in human bodies and body parts. The Red Market reveals the rise, fall, and resurgence of this… Read More