Velie Lester (48 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ 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: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ 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. very clean hardcover with jacket. clean text. solid binding. very light wear. preowner name inside cover ISBN matches listing Fast service with confirmation, no international or priority orders over 4lbs.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket is slightly chipped, faded, and rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Reader's Digest Press, 1977. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with light spotting to the page ends. Dust jacket is very good with a few small nicks and tears to the edges.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN 0883491567. Hardback. First Printing as signified by descending number line on the copyright page going down to the number 1. Book is a tight sound unmarked copy in Good condition. Dustjacket is in Very Good condition with slight edgewear. The dustjacket has been placed in a Brodart protective cover by us to protect it and it looks much better than described. . This does not affect the dustjacket in any way, as all taping is done on the outside of the protector. No Signature.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. 2nd ptg.; inscribed by the author to Abraham H. Levin on title page; xii + 224pp including index; 2-color map endpages; yellow dust jacket is in new clear protective mylar; very slight wear to extrems of cover & dj. Signed by author. Hardcover (dj).

224pp. 8vo Endpaper maps. Black cloth. Bottom edges rubbed else NF/in faded VG dj.

Cloth. Condition: Gut. 228 p. ; 22 cm. Guter Zustand. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Stempeln und Signatur auf Einband. Sonst Seiten sauber. / Good. Ex-library with usual markings. Clean pages. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 460.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 22, No. 1. Bedsheet sized. Cover is Calender for 1945 designed by Frayser Childrey. Includes Articles: "What Do You Remember about 1945?" by Ted Shane; "Race Hate - the Enemy Bullets Can't Stop" by Frank Murphy; "What an Interesting Life!" by Sara Hamilton; "Russia's Postwar Plan for Germany" by Maurice Hindus; "Our Navy's Flying Weapons" by Morris Markey; "Sea-Water Prospector" by Lester Velie. Fiction: "We Shall have Music" by Lenora Mattingly Weber; "The Tale Maximo Told" by Donald Barr Chidsey; "Girl Without Glamour" by Virginia Perdue; "Home Is the Hunter" by Jason Lucas; "Green Dolphin Street" (Book Condensation) by Elizabeth Goudge. Other features. Minor edge tears and losses. Book.

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New York:Funk and Wagnalls. (1969). 224pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is worn at the edges with several chips and tears and a few small pieces missing along the top edge. Spine is lightly sun-faded. Jacket also shows some mild soiling. Book itself, however, is only lightly shelf-worn. Interior is clean and free of stray markings, save for a brief inscription from the author inked onto the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed by the author, a presentation copy to journalist I.L. Kenen. COLLECT SIGNED BOOKS. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 2243pp. Gift inscription from noted attorney Leopold Friedberg, a bit of rubbing on the boards, near fine in lightly soiled near fine dust jacket with light general wear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good (with wear to covers). Dust Jacket Condition: Worn. Stated First Edition. 318pp A candid look from Gompers to Lewis, Meany, Reuther, Hoffa and others, and on the other side - the workers. (Loc 927/1).

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. In 1980, Eleanor Prouty's first born bent over the battered and violated body of his mother. "Good-bye, Ellie," he said. "I love you." So begins the story of a murder. Eleanor Prouty, elegant magazine editor, is found brutally bludgeoned and strangled. Her bedridden husband lies bloodied but breathing in an upstairs bedroom. their "big house" in the Prouty family compound is ransacked, but nothing, seemingly has been taken. Who killed Eleanor Prouty? A jealous lover? A member of the family? Police search for the killer or killers for weeks while, only a mile down the road, several dozen reform school inmates share a guilty secret: The plot against the Prouty home was hatched in the reform school. The author takes you behind the scenes of life in a reform school where the reform cure worsens the disease. You shuttle between 13 foster homes and institutions with a killer who has never known his "real people". You witness the wrenching drama of courtroom and jury room scenes as adults agonise over the fate of the youngest murder defendants in their county's history. And you listen to the intimate details of life in a maximum security prison - from the lips of two teenage lifers, Terrence Losicco and David Hollis. Here is a tragedy of the time - random violence by the young. Illus. + Epilogue. 289pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Vg+ in Vg. sl. faded dw. Review copy which also includes a photograph of the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969. First edition, 1969. A book about when nuclear world war came perilously close to reality. Includes a detailed explanation of Russian proxies in Arab lands, who urged the attack on Israel now known as the Six-Day War. Charcoal black cloth with red and silver gilt spine lettering, 224 pages with index, color dustjacket. The book is in fine condition, looks and feels new, with sound text block, good hinges, clean pages with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and is in very good condition, with background-faded spine, and a very mildly chipped spine tip. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First Edition. Near fine in the original title-blocked cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 318 pages; Description: 318 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliography. Subjects: Labor unions --United States. 2 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 224 pages; Description: xii, 224 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Israel-Arab War, 1967 --Soviet Union --Foreign relations --Middle East --Egypt. 2 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

XV, 318 S. OLwd.

First Edition. Near fine in the original title-blocked cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 318 pages; Description: 318 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliography. Subjects: Labor unions --United States. 2 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 224 pages; Description: xii, 224 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Israel-Arab War, 1967 --Soviet Union --Foreign relations --Middle East --Egypt. 2 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Used: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood hardcover with dust jacket, size 8vo, 224 pages, written by Roving Editor for the Reader's Digest, Lester Velie has won two awards for Public Service in Magazine Journalism. dust jacket has chips, fading, tanning, book beneath is clean, stickers on front cover and front free end page, tanning present, else clean pages, prompt shipping and tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. dark grey & brown 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean with a little sunfading along the top edge. text block edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. with sunfaded spine, not price clipped. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). xi+258p. acknowl. index. biography. american history. true crime. politics. conspiracy theory. organized crime. history of the teamsters union. history of las vegas. michigan history. new jersey history. ohio history. richard nixon. bobby kennedy. frank fitzsimmons. jackie presser. tony jack. tony pro. chucky o'brien. charles colson."~For the first time it is revealed how Hoffa~the late president of the Teamsters Union~was tried for murder by the Mafia when he was barely out of his teens. Here for the first time you'll read how Hoffa made a Faustian bargain with the underworld; how the bargain catapulted him to power and riches; and how, like Faust, the bargain ultimately corrupted and destroyed him. The book also reveals: ~how the Watergate White House stole the country's biggest union. ~how Hoffa built the underworld's biggest bank. ~how the mobs used this bank to capture Las Vegas. The author, Lester Velie, first met Hoffa in 1955 when Hoffa was a young 9th vice president of the Teamsters and Velie a young reporter. ".

HC with DJ. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDClean hardcover with dj, there may be slight markings and the tips are also lightly bumped, prompt shipping wityh tracking.

Hardcover. First Edition; Third Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light shelf wear on rear panel.