1921 (Oltre 16.000 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 174 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When retired English Colonel plans a nostalgic walking tour in the South of France, his wife engages Kenworthy to mind him. Is this an unpardonable breach of personal privacy? Will the assignment prove a damp squib? Or is Colonel Neville's purpose as sinister as it sometimes seems? Kenworthy finds him in turn eccentric, domineering, secretive and on occasion bumblingly inefficient: then he loses him. Murder follows, and Kenworthy, helped by Monique Colin, a delectable young private eye from an agency in Nice, traces a trail back to the wartime Resistance, a world of pride, passions, jealousies and shame, in with the harshness of reality was sometimes more powerful than the heroism. Condition: Corners bumped else a very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. xii+292 pages with pictorial title, photographs, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with red and blue lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Hine's footnotes testify to an admirable breadth of scholarship, and his photographs of everyday life in the nineteenth-century West and Midwest are some of the best. Condition: Jacket hinges and spine ends rubbed, spine sunned else a very good copy in like jacket.…

Condizione: Very Good. 1St Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 180 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First British edition. The murder of schoolteacher Henry Gower brings Superintendent Kenworthy to a village jolted out of its placid ways by events leading to the killing. Keeping the reader rooted to the ramifications in Hilton's 16th novel about the urbane master detective, the question that needs answering is whether Gower was guilty of ""indecent assault,'' as charged by four adolescent girls in his classes. Kenworthy artfully engages the girls' families in sessions with Sgt. Polly Parrot and Constable Patsy Price, skilled at penetrating sham. They hope to breach the conspirators' defenses when the weakest of the quartet confesses the accusation was a hoax. But it is a long and frustrating time before startling facts reward the superintendent and his police women with the case's solid conclusion. The author's insights into fraudulent personas as well as his stinging wit are, as always, the main attraction in his stylish mysteries. Condition: Head corners gently bumped. Jacket with light edge wear else a near fine copy in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 164 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First British edition. The late author's final case for Detective Constable Brunt (The Quiet Stranger, 1985; etc.) is another of his finely crafted, psychologically acute police procedurals. In the early 1900's Walderslow village is isolated and provincial. Widower Horatio Brittlebank, local squire and landowner, shares his manor with reclusive housekeeper Charlotte Machin and spoiled, self-centered son Bernard, just home from Oxford and already the seducer of Mary Ann, daughter of Septimus and Ellen Durden, owners of run-down Slickensides farm and the old mine beneath it. Rumors of Bernard's departure for Canada, spread by a couple of strangers in the village; a reported break-in at the farm; and unexplained changes in the neighborhood's water-flow patterns lead Brunt to the discovery of Bernard's corpse in the old mine workings. The young man had a legion of enemies, so it takes all Brunt's patience and acumen to find the murderer and conjure up an unconventional justice. Believable characters, sound motivation, and solid evocation of time and place have been Hilton hallmarks. Slickensides is no exception. A fitting windup to a first-rate career in the British traditional genre. Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket.…

Soft cover. Condizione: FAIR, Reading Copy. PBO - Paperback Original (True 1st). Approx. 192 pages;** [AL JAFFEE created his trademark FOLD-INS for MAD Magazine which appeared from 1964-2014; AL JAFFEE Workd at Timely/Atlas/Marvel Comics for most of 1942-1957; AL JAFFEE became a regular contributor to MAD magazine for 65 years and is its longest-running contributor; AL JAFFE was also known for his Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions series of MAD paperbacks; In 2008, Jaffee was honored by the Reuben Awards as the Cartoonist of the Year. cartoonist Arnold Roth of The New Yorker said, Al Jaffee is one of the great cartoonists of our time; He retired in 2020 at the age of 99 with a career running from 1942 until 2020, Jaffee holds the Guinness World Record for having the longest career as a comic artist]; ** This is a reading copy. Heavy Cover creasing; spine slant; spine wear; 1" piece missing from lowe paper spine; 2" corner clipped to front cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Al Jaffee - Cover & Interior Cartoons (illustratore). Book.…

Paperback. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. New in Paperback. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Large Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). THE NEW COLLECTIBLE! This is a Limited Edition Uncorrected Proof copy, often designated as an Advance Reader's Copy/ARC (though they are usually not technically the same.) As such, this small-print-run state precedes the First Edition - hence its collectibility. This large paperback edition appears to have the same size page-block as the subsequent hardcover. It is Moore's masterful tale of a Canadian missionary on a poor Caribbean island, who rescues a child from poverty and directs him into the priesthood and his eventual revolutionary leadership of the island's people - only to encounter violent resistance from the lighter-skinned elite and the ruling military junta. 216+ pages, with the publisher's publicity bulletin laid-in. CONDITION: a bright, tight, square, unmarked, uncreased copy with negligible shelf-wear - now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag. …

Condizione: Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 232 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publishers' black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Low-rent, downtown Albuquerque lawyer Neil Hamel--who has a taste for tequila and a penchant for clients with lethal problems--is back in her newest adventure. As a favor, she travels to the desert to lend support to a campaign to protect wolves. But she ends up defending her friend on a murder charge. Condition: Signed and dated on title else near fine in a fine jacket. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 184 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Asked to speak at a conference on the topic of riot control, Inspector Kenworthy of Scotland Yard grows utterly perplexed when an obscure government agency is linked to a crime involving a gang of football hooligans. Condition: Jacket moderate extremity wear, fold over edge flap creased. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 156 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Years after the murder of Mr Fred, a beloved family friend, the secrets surrounding his death still haunt Kathy Hollinshead. Turn-of-the-century rural Derbyshire come to life as Kathy delves deeply into her family's past and discovers the schocking relationship between Mr Fred and her parents. All the Hollinsheads adored Mr Fred, even though the neighbors spread vicious rumors about him. Mr Fred couldn't be the murderer and child molester people said he was-or could he? Outwitting the formidable Inspector Brunt, Kathy stumbled on Mr Fred and glimpsed his dark mystery. Kathy stumbled on Mr Fred and glimpsed his dark mystery. Surprised and frightened by her discovery as a child, Kathy is a grown woman before she finally penetrates the intertwined lives of Mr Fred, her father and her mother, in a stunning, emotional conclusion. Condition: A near fine copy in a fine jacket.…

hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. includes dust-jacket. very good dust-jacket with a few tiny indentations and tears around edges, cover price $16.95, near fine light brown hardcover. BURROUGHS, JOHN. John James Audubon. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1987, xvii, 144pp., . Originally published: Boston : Small, Maynard, 1902 - Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. 9780879512590 ISBN 0879512598 11.20. …

paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $17.95, attractive copy, near fine. MOORE, BRIAN. The lonely passion of Judith Hearne. Afterword by Mary Gordon. New York: New York Review Books, 2010, 2d printing number line ending in 2, 230pp., . A middle-aged spinster, living in a Belfast boarding house, sees her last hopes for love and domesticity destroyed. - The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is an unflinching and deeply sympathetic portrait of a woman destroyed by self and circumstance. First published in 1955, it marked Brian Moore as a major figure in English literature (he would go on to be short-listed three times for More . the Booker Prize) and established him as an astute chronicler of the human soul. ISBN 9781590173497 8.70.…

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

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Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. For Speakers, Writers and Raconteurs Invaluable and entertaining anthology of witticisms, epigrams, sayings, bon mots, truisms, platitudes, and insights chosen for their brevity and pithiness. Wisdom from every walk of life, perfect for writers, speakers%u2014anyone who likes to punctuate their remarks with the perfect barb or quote. Includes everyone from Einstein to Barbara Streisand. Boards show some signs of bowing. Minimal shelfwear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. …

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. This is a PHOTOCOPY of the original edition (1915?). It includes: List of Illustrations, Preface, . Summary, Autobiography. Charles Peters, born in Portugal in 1825, first visited California in 1846 as a merchant seaman, returning three years later to seek gold at Columbia, Jackson Creek, and Mokelumne Hill. The autobiography of Charles Peters (n.d., ca. 1915) is the old man's brief memoir of his life through the 1850s, followed by a series of "Good Luck" stories, miscellaneous tales of the mining camps, a few of which seem to be credited to Peters although most are the work of another author, drawn from many sources. 231 pp. Illustrations. Reprint of the 1915 edition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Former library book. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Some pages are falling out. Minimal shelfwear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

paperback. Condizione: Fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Lightly read if read at all. No markings in book. Binding is tight. Bump to bottom spine edge.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Pale blue boards with red lettering on spine. Binding is tight. Content is clean, no marking. Corners are tight. Lower back cover has a bump but its not broken or frayed. DJ has the same bump. No tear. Includes: Contents, Bibliographical references (pages 157-161) and index, illustrations, map. Summary: Detroit: the formative years -- Clark College -- The making of a Tuskegee Airman -- Combat -- Captured! -- Stalag Luft III -- Stalag VIIA and liberation -- Civilian! Series: World War II: the global, human, and ethical dimension. 170 p. 8.04 x 9.06 x 0.75 inches. 1.23 lb. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 228 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Aided by his men in the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery and Homicide Division, seasoned veteran Luis Mendoza bravely meets the tough challenge of big-city crime and violence. Working with faint clues, he and his detectives systematically break their most shocking and difficult cases to date. They track down a rapist and murderer who has clean good looks and the perfect ploy; unravel the motive behind a bloody double homicide/suicide with a bizarre twist; trap the perpetrator of a series of flawless robberies; get to the root of a young woman's baffling disappearance; learn the truth about the implausibly 'natural' death of a senator; and solve still other disturbing mysteries. Condition: Fine in like jacket.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1982). Pages slightly browned as usual. Slight use but good-plus in dust-wrapper. Ex library, usual faults. Working copy in like dust-wrapper. Contains a great deal on the history of international competitive flyfishing as well as the venues and methods. "Tony Pawson, himself an international, provides advice for the practiced competitor and novice alike, reinforcing it with many amusing, and sometimes rueful, stories from his own and others' experiences. Some sixty past and present internationals from all four countries have contributed to this book describing their favourite flies, techniques and drifts for fishing all the main competitive waters from the large natural lakes such as Conn and Leven to the stocked waters of Trawsfynydd, Grafham and Chew. As well as providing all the details a fly-fisherman needs to know for entering national and international competitions, Tony Pawson also covers the whole range of competitive game fishing from catching record fish, internationals for the disabled and Welsh night sewin matches to the great individual contests like the 'world cup' on Lough Mask." .…