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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 260 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt letting to spine over grey boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Isolation and boredom can do strange things to people. After years and years of too much time on her hands, lonely housewife Margaret Tucker's mundane routine becomes smattered with odd behavior. Her husband, Bernard, is cold and distant. Spending most of his time in London with only infrequent visits back to the marital home, Margaret knows nothing about her husband's other life and has been all but discarded by the man she once loved. When Margaret starts losing periods of time and cannot recall her actions she knows things have got to change. But just as she is beginning to rediscover herself, her husband's mysterious life once again collides with hers . . . 'Compulsive Canning' "Yorkshire Post" Condition: Jacket spine heal and corners lightly rubbed, spine head small chip, price clipped else a very good copy in like jacket.

paperback. Condition: Good. DETAILS: small PAPERBACK, cover price 95c, good copy of this old small paperback, probably not used but worn by age, especially along spine. FERGUSSON, FRANCIS. The human image in dramatic literature : essays. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday & Company, 1957, A Doubleday Anchor Original, xx, 217pp., . Cover designed by Leonard Baskin. Typography by Edward Gorey. Series: Doubleday anchor books, A124 CONTENTS: pt. I The Modern Theater: Reflections on the life of the American theater : prolegomena. -- The American theater between the wars -- Broadway -- The mysterious present -- Note on the Academic theater -- Five contemporary playwrights -- Three allegorists : Brecht, Wilder, Eliot -- Joyce's Exiles -- Don Perlimplín : Lorca's theater-poetry -- T.S. Eliot's Poetry and drama -- Boleslavsky's The first six lessons -- pt. II Shakespeare. Macbeth as the imitation of an action -- Measure for measure -- Two comedies -- pt. III Critical attitudes. "Myth" and the literary scruple -- The Golden Bowl revisited -- Kenneth Burke's Grammar of motives -- Two perspectives on European literature.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $15.95, near fine. ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. A single man. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001, later printing, 186pp., . "After the sudden death of his longtime lover, George must adjust to life on his own as a professor in Southern California in the early 1960s. During the course of an ordinary day, George is haunted by memories as he seeks connections with the world around him". ISBN 9780816638628 8.00.

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

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 121 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. In this bizarre and entirely absorbing story, Stephen Coulter dissents, with great subtlety, wit and delight in the macabre, a sinister sibling relationship and reveals the dangerously deceptive sanity of a pathological mind. Condition: Pages age toned, remainder stamp to heal end pages else better than very good in a fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $9.95, attractive copy, near fine, appears unused. BORGES, JORGE LUIS. Labyrinths: selected stories & other writings. Edited by Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby ; preface by André Maurois. New York: New Directions, 1964, 23d printing, Augmented edition., xxiii, 260pp., . Series: New Directions paperbook, 186 Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives. 9780811200127 ISBN 0811200124.

Hardcover_pictorial boards. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 6.5"x9.5". 374 pages. Thumb indexed. Still in original cellophane. The materials of Scientology comprise the greatest accumulation of knowledge ever assembled on the mind, spirit and life. Through more than a hundred books and publications, thousands more articles and essays, and over 3,000 recorded lectures, the works of L. Ron Hubbard embrace virtually every aspect of living. Here, then, is Scientology: A New Slant on Life, containing a timeless selection of Ron's discoveries drawn from the full wealth of his writings and each one presenting a broad, yet comprehensive overview of Scientology applied to a specific aspect of existence -- and, in combination, providing the panoramic overview of life itself. Here are the answers to questions Man has sought through the ages; here are practical answers you hoped could be found somewhere; Source: Publisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: VeryGood. Abe Echevarria (illustrator). 6.25"x9.25" 445 pgs. Midnight blue boards. Dk. blue cloth spine w/silver letters. Great author photo on back of DJ. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (w/price). PON on half-title page and title page. Ink scribble on top edge. Bleed through from book to backside of DJ. Minimal shelf & edge wear. Secure ship w/tracking number. What if women were an endangered species? It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout the entire world: a virulent new disease expressly designed to target only women. As fully half of the human race dies off at a frightening pace and life on Earth faces extinction, panicked people and governments struggle to cope with the global crisis. Infected areas are quarantined or burned to the ground. The few surviving women are locked away in hidden reserves, while frantic doctors and scientists race to find a cure. Anarchy and violence consume the planet. The plague is the work of a solitary individual who calls himself the Madman. As government security forces feverishly hunt for the renegade scientist, he wanders incognito through a world that will never be the same. Society, religion, and morality are all irrevocably transformed by the White Plague. Source: Publisher.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, no covers; owner's catalog number; o/w in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, no covers; owner's catalog number; o/w in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, no covers; in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article; no covers, owner's catalog number, o/w good. Magazine/Periodical.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article; no covers; creasing of edges of pages; o/w in good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 635 Pages, Text Clean Book Tight, Front cover near bottom a light crease, Condition of Book Fine.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

paperback. Condition: Fine.