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Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy. Trade size Paperback . As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he's just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes fully to, Griffin discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. What happened? Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the sniper? There are too many pieces missing, too few facts, and a powerful need to know why a year has been stolen from his life. Weaving Griffin's search for identity-one of the recurring themes in this magnificent series of novels-with a sensuous portrait of the people and places the define New Orleans, Sallis continues not only to unravel Griffin's past but to map his future.and our own. Somewhere in the Crescent City-and in the white supremacist movement crawling through it-there's an answer to the questions left by the shot that echoed through the night. But to get it, Griffin is going to have to work with the only people offering help, people he knows he should allies if he can trust them, and worse trouble for him if he can't. "Bluebottle" continues the mysterious journey begun in Sallis's "The Long-Legged Fly" and continues, too, to show the growth and mastery of one of America's finest crime fiction stylists. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 2nd Printing. 2nd edition with complete number line beginning with 2. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "It's the Depression, and young widow Belle Appleman is grateful for her new job tacking belt loops on men's pants in a Boston factory. Then she discovers a co-worker's body in the Charles River and, feeling personally involved, begins trading theories with the detective in charge of the case. In the midst of her sleuthing, she's elected shop steward and becomes involved with union politics, as well as with a dashing union leader on whom she tries out her Bette Davis voice and Garbo look. But when one of the factory owners is also murdered and a friend is accused, Belle must make serious efforts to find the killer, for her heart's sake as well as for her friend's. Feisty, impulsive and chatty, Belle Appleman is a welcome addition to Boston's growing population of female amateur detectives." -- Publishers Weekly. Book.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A skillful blend of environmental issues and gripping suspense is again in evidence as the two amateur detectives Wallingford introduced in Cold Tracks collaborate on another case. This time, forest service employee Ginny Trask and her boss, former police detective Frank Carver, are faced with the death of environmentalist professor Ward Tomasovic, shot after he returns home from a speech in Washington, D.C., in which he implied that loggers and environmentalists should work together in addressing the issue of clear cutting, i.e., cutting back and setting fire to an overgrown area of trees to produce new wildlife habitats. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The fourth mystery featuring jazz pianist Evan Horne. "Jazz pianist Evan Horne improvises with the FBI in his latest after-hours murder investigation (following The Sound of the Trumpet). When a popular "smooth jazz" saxophone player is fatally stabbed in Horne's Southern Californian town, the piano man is called in by his best pal, Santa Monica homicide detective Danny Cooper, to decipher the clues left at the concert-hall crime scene, including the phrase "Bird Lives!" scrawled in blood on the dead man's dressing-room mirror. Soon it's revealed that two other fusion jazz musicians--a guitarist and a piano player--have recently been murdered in New York City, and Horne helps move the case forward by figuring out the significance of the dates on which the three deaths occurred and of the music playing at each death scene. But his increasing involvement in the investigation begins to undermine both his new recording contract and his relationship with a long-time girlfriend, while opening up romantic possibilities with FBI Special Agent Andrea Lawrence." -- Publishers Weekly. Book.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, lightly soiled, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Paper beginning to age tone. ENGLAND, a Harry Sommers adventure. After his boss dies, Harry Sommers, a gentle former prizefighter and amiable ex-con inadvertently inherits the private-eye trade when he investigates the blackmailing and murdering of the crooks who pulled off a successful wage heist eight years earlier. Book.

red hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. couple of tiny scratches, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). xx+459p. 3 b&w double~page maps. 10 glossy full color photo plates. chronology. notes. bibliography. index. world history. medieval history. middle east history. history of the crusades. biography. ~ JUST BEFORE THE YEAR 1000, a young Viking named Thorvald turned his back on the pagan gods of his fathers to preach the Christian gospel. But his Icelandic countrymen mocked him as a homosexual and outlawed him. Abandoning his homeland, Thorvald embarked on an epic journey to the heart of all medieval world maps~Jerusalem. A thousand years later, Victoria Clark embarked on the same journey to discover to what extent the dramatic changes and conflicts sweeping western Europe a millennium ago still resonate today. The Far~Farers is both the story of this twenty~first~century journey and a history of extraordinary eleventh~century western Christendom. In this remarkable book Clark illuminates a group of influential eleventh~century characters ~ Thorvald, emperors of eastern and western Christendom, abbots, saints, princesses, Crusaders ~ who form links in a historical chain extending down the century and all the way from Iceland to the Holy Land. Western Europe was struggling to unite, expanding rapidly, and changing utterly. Warfare, peacekeeping, multinational monasticism, institutional power~struggles, mass pilgrim travel, and rising religious fundamentalism were a few of its salient characteristics~closely paralleling those of our world today. The twenty~first century people Clark encountered as she traveled through Iceland, central and western Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, and the Middle East cast fresh light on both worlds. A Swedish violinist she meets on a Turkish train reclaims the religion of his pagan Viking ancestors. In the ancient capital of Poland, a young Catholic priest scorns the idea of Europe uniting in the name of human rights instead of Christ. A Greek Jewess in Thessaloniki makes her peace with a thousand years of her people's persecution, while at the Crusader stronghold of Krak les Chevaliers a Syrian playboy highlights the deep and widening gulf between the West and Islam. A richly evocative and beautifully written work, The Far~Farers is neither conventional history nor travel writing; it is a powerful and authoritative demonstration of our enduring connection with the distant past.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 2nd P.I.McCauley title. An innocent romance with the wife of Foxport Police Chief Eddie Carver leads private investigator Quint McCauley into a mystery involving the police chief's kinky extramarital affairs, the supposed suicide of a circuit judge, and an unidentified body. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book and Dust unclipped Dust Jacket in clear plastic cover. Black cloth and red text on as new spine and inner hinges. No previous owner's marks found on clean, bright unmarked text. Definitely not ex-library. 136 pages. Black and white photos throughout. Tuskegee Airmen flew "By The Book" protecting heavy bombers and ground attack missions. On 31, March 1945, The "Red-Tails" on a mission encountered seventeen enemy aircraft and shot down thirteen without a loss to themselves. This is an excellent piece of Black History.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG+. 1st Am. ed. 8vo. 192pp. White & yellow wraps feat. silhouette of soldier. Grey/white bds. color-stamped in black on spine. Dust jacket: lightly scuffed at folds; edgewear to extremities. Boards: bumping to extremities; general grubbiness. Bound material: foxing to endpp.; cockling to front paste-down. In archival plastic.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. First U.S. edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Publisher's tan boards with black lettering. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publishers letter laid in. "An elderly scientist wishes to defect from East Berlin and Mark Farrow is assigned to the operation, accompanied by a raw recruit from the Section. Almost from the outset, things go wrong, but after a brutal series of events, Farrow defies all the odds to claw the old professor across from East to West. Several unknown factions are out to grab the scientist for their own ends, but Farrow stubbornly refuses to accept as inevitable the devious betrayal which snatches his prize away." -- Publisher. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. the 2nd Emma Chizzit title. A women's group receiving hate mail turns to Emma Chizzit for advice, a situation that leads Emma into a problem involving rape, murder, and a dishonest ultra-right-wing couple who are influencing one of Emma's friends. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Top of pages lightly dusty else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first book. Eastern Kentucky. "Berkley Jordon, deputy sheriff of Buxton, Ky., wants to win the 1933 election for high sheriff more than anything else--except for finding the murderer of Bitsy Trotter. An autopsy reveals that the horribly butchered victim was pregnant, and Bitsy's hot-tempered beau, Sal Manochio, believes he's the father. But there's another candidate, Harry Buxton Jr., Bitsy's secret lover and scion of the owner of virtually every enterprise in the small mining town. Jordon considers both men suspects in the slaying, but community pressure leads to a bitter choice: he can arrest Manochio and lay off Harry Jr., or he can forfeit the election. Doubting Manochio's guilt and Harry's innocence, the deputy sheriff continues his investigation. When another death proves that neither of the two is the killer, Jordon risks everything--his position, his career, even his life--to bring the murderer to justice, and discovers that keeping his integrity is the most important job he can ever have. Strunk's atmospheric, evenly paced debut pays fitting tribute to the strength and unique traditions of the people of Appalachia." -- Publishers Weekly. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. blue hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. as new. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing ( FPuUSA2000 & #1 in # line). endpaper maps of Languedoc decorative title pg. xiii+333p. b&w illustrations. notes. selected bibliography. index. religion.medieval history. history of christianity. history of france. theology. philosophy. theosophy. ~ At the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians, thrived across what is now the Languedoc in southern France but was then a patchwork of city~states and principalities beholden to neither king nor bishop. The Cathars held revolutionary beliefs that threatened the authority of the Catholic Church as well as the legitimacy of feudal law: They thought the idea of Hell to be a sham; they rejected all sacraments, including marriage; they thought private property an absurd notion and that all things worldly were corrupt; and they gave women religious status equal to men. Supported by the leading nobility of the region, the Cathars' growing influence enraged the Church and its powerful pope, Innocent III, determined to flex its muscle after decades of weakness. Innocent resolved to eradicate what is now known as the Great Heresy. He recruited the forces of France, eager to expand her territory to the south, and they systematically exterminated the Cathars and their supporters in a series of crusades between 1209 and 1229. By the time the wars were over, the ancient social fabric of the Languedoc had been destroyed, the map of France redrawn, and a terrifying new force that would torment Europe for centuries~the Inquisition~unleashed across southern France. The Perfect Heresy eloquently chronicles the life and death of the Cathar movement~one of Western civilization's most mind~boggling tales. Full of colorful and passionate personalities, it brings long~ago events to life and sheds new light on the thirteenth century and on the timelessness of religious intolerance.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 1916 San Francisco. "San Francisco society columnist Maude Teasdale Cavendish gets caught up in an an evil conspiracy just before World War One. German spies have infiltrated San Francisco society, and Maude is determined to stop them, and advance her newspaper career while she's at it. A beautiful German opera star; a landless baron complete with monocle and scar; Maude's flirtatious ex-husband; and an adventuresome airplane pilot round out the cast of characters in this riveting page turner." -- publisher. Book.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. 3rd Prof. Neil Kelly title. REVIEW COPY. Kelly, deflected from sabbatical research by the murder of a friend's infant son, finds he may unwittingly have what the killers are after. The story is soon deep in ominous international dealings and a journey through memory to Kelly's boyhood in prerevolutinary China. Book.

black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. bottom rear corner bumped a little. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first u.s. edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). xiii+392p. 2 b&w maps. 8 pages of glossy b&w illustrations (vintage portraits). 2 appendices. notes. bibliography. index. biography. american history. american revolution. burr conspiracy. history of spain. ~ THE FIRST MODERN BIOGRAPHY OF THE GREATEST TRAITOR~AND ONE OF THE MOST COLORFUL CHARACTERS~IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Patriot, traitor, general, spy: James Wilkinson was a consummate contradiction. Brilliant and precocious, at age twenty he was both the youngest general in the revolutionary Continental Army and privy to the Conway cabal to oust George Washington from command. He was Benedict Arnold's aide, but the first to reveal Arnold's infamous treachery. By thirty~eight, he was the senior general in the United States Army~and had turned traitor himself. Wilkinson's audacious career as Agent 13 in the Spanish secret service while in command of American forces is all the more remarkable because it was anything but hidden. Though he betrayed America's strategic secrets, sought to keep the new country from expanding beyond the Mississippi, and almost delivered Lewis and Clark's expedition into Spanish hands, four presidents~Washington, Adams,Jefferson, and Madison~all turned a blind eye to his treachery. They gambled that Wilkinson ~ by turns charming and ruthless ~ would never betray the army itself and use it to overthrow our nascent democracy, a fate endured by so many other democracies in the Western Hemisphere. The crucial test came in 1806, when at the last minute Wilkinson turned the army against Aaron Burr and foiled his conspiracy to break up the Union. Relying on documents from Spanish archives unseen by prior historians, Andro Linklater captures with brio Wilkinson's charismatic ability to live a double life in public view. His saga illuminates, as clearly as any other could, how fragile and vulnerable the young republic was in its early decades, its survival in no small measure dependent on its unpredictable senior general.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. REVIEW slip laid in. SIGNED by author on title page. The fourth mystery featuring jazz pianist Evan Horne. "Jazz pianist Evan Horne improvises with the FBI in his latest after-hours murder investigation (following The Sound of the Trumpet). When a popular "smooth jazz" saxophone player is fatally stabbed in Horne's Southern Californian town, the piano man is called in by his best pal, Santa Monica homicide detective Danny Cooper, to decipher the clues left at the concert-hall crime scene, including the phrase "Bird Lives!" scrawled in blood on the dead man's dressing-room mirror. Soon it's revealed that two other fusion jazz musicians--a guitarist and a piano player--have recently been murdered in New York City, and Horne helps move the case forward by figuring out the significance of the dates on which the three deaths occurred and of the music playing at each death scene. But his increasing involvement in the investigation begins to undermine both his new recording contract and his relationship with a long-time girlfriend, while opening up romantic possibilities with FBI Special Agent Andrea Lawrence." -- Publishers Weekly. Signed by Author. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. REVIEW COPY. Oxford don, Ambrose Usher title. Bibliomystery. In a tale of power struggles, dark secrets, and jealousy in the world of publishing, Ambrose Usher stumbles upon a conspiracy surrounding the writing of a biography that would provide a revealing look at an unscrupulous tycoon. Book.

black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. 1cm tear spine bottom, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first u.s. edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). 455p. 16 pages of glossy full color plates (mostly freud's collection). 16 pages of glossy b&w photo plates.endnotes. bibliography. index. biography. psychology. art history. psychoanalysis. european history. ~ The psychoanalyst, like the archaeologist, must uncover layer after layer of the patient's psyche, before coming to the deepest, most valuable treasures. ~Sigmund Freud. Most people don't know that Sigmund Freud was a passionate, even obsessive collector of Roman, Greek, and Egyptian antiquities. As Janine Burke shows in her penetrating new work, these possessions tell a different story about the father of psychoanalysis, one that adds a new layer to the rich legacy of the Freud canon. Sigmund Freud began collecting art and antiquities in 1896, the year his father died and Freud himself turned forty. Burke's compelling narrative reveals how the trauma of his father's death plunged Freud into his own unconscious launching an obsession with antiquity, beauty, myth, and archaeology that would lead him to amass a private museum filled with more than two thousand statues, vases, papyrus fragments, precious stones, and rings. In The Sphinx on the Table, we discover that Freud's "old and grubby gods," as he called them. were more than decorative. They were, in fact, integral to his work, serving as divine counselors for Freud, providing inspiration, cultural tradition, historical context, and visual stimuli for his investigations. As Burke reveals, the myths of recovery and healing surrounding his treasures were essential to the process of psychoanalysis. The Sphinx on the Table presents a completely new facet of a man many think they already know, from Freud's early life in rural Austria, to his years in the glittering world of fin de siècle Vienna, to his incredible escape from Vienna to London with his entire collection miraculously intact. The Sphinx on the Table will open a new discussion on psychoanalysis and its origins.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. 1st US edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Whilst taking the dog out for the last walk of a rainy day, Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard stumbles across a dead body. Recognising it as Charles Blunt, a thief he crossed paths with and admired many years before, Littlejohn is determined to solve the case. But where did the body come from? What was it doing in front of a deserted house? And why, after all these years, had Charles Blunt finally come to a sticky end? Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First printed w/number line. Send seller email to have clear mylar put on DJ. 10.25"x13.25" 303 numbered indexed pgs w/bibliography. Taupe cloth boards w/silver foil letters on spine. Author photo by Jefferson Spady. DJ & book design: Think Studio. DJ images: George Washington by Gilbert Stuart. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped ($67.50), unmarked, no bumps. Price covers extra weight and size with secure ship in cardboard box w/track #. From his teens until his death, the maps George Washington drew and purchased were always central to his work. After his death, many of the most important maps he had acquired were bound into an atlas. The atlas remained in his family for almost a century before it was sold and eventually ended up at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library. Inspired by these remarkable maps, historian Barnet Schecter has crafted a unique portrait of our first Founding Father, placing the reader at the scenes of his early career as a surveyor, his dramatic exploits in the French and Indian War (his altercation with the French is credited as the war's spark), his struggles throughout the American Revolution as he outmaneuvered the far more powerful British army, his diplomacy as president, and his shaping of the new republic. Beautifully illustrated in color, with twenty-four of the full atlas maps, dozens more detail views from those maps, and numerous additional maps (some drawn by Washington himself), portraits, and other images-and produced in an elegant large format- George Washington's America allows readers to visualize history through Washington's eyes, and sheds fresh light on the man and his times.