Protocol Kidnapping by Thomas Ross (23 results)

paperback. Condition: 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!

Paperback. Condition: 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!

paperback. Condition: 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!

paperback. Condition: 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!

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

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

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine to Fine. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. Vintage Paperback, Pocket Books 77549; the second novel featuring Philip St. Ives, professional international "go-between," this time negotiating the swap of a U.S. ambassador for $1 million plus the release of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; the text is clean, tight, square, appears unread; there is an interesting message to the previous owner on the inside front cover: "Remember when these were our whole Christmas to each other. 'Those were the days my friend.' I love you. Richard. 12/24/72." Other than the inscription -- thought provoking in our current economic times nearly 50 years later -- the pictorial wrappers show only very minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy of a hard-to-find early Thomas novel.

paperback. Condition: 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!

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Very Good condition. Free of any markings and no writings inside. Clear text. Minor shelf-wear. One page is dog-eared. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, clean dj - from a private collection -.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Bound in red cloth over yellow boards, stamped in white. Only flaws are a sticker removal mark on each panel of the book and a glue residue on the back, black endsheet, but overall, a very acceptable first edition which features the antics of Philip St. Ives. Bleeck is a pseudonym of the popular mystery writer Ross Thomas. Philip St. Ives was played on the silver screen by Charles Bronson. 254 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This appears to be a First Edition of this book as the year on the title page matches the year on the copyright page and there are no other printings mentioned. The author's name for this title is a pseudonym for the author Ross Thomas, and it appears to be the second book written under this pen name. The boards have tan paper covering and a pinkish cloth spine cover with with black lettering for the author's name and white lettering for the title. There is some light soiling to the covers and edge wear, but the corners remain sharp. Internally, the 254 pages of text are bright, clean, without underlining or highlighting, and there is no marginalia. The leaf edges are lightly toned. The dust wrapper is without rips or tears, is not price clipped, but does seem to have some light soiling to the back panel. There also seems to have been some production difficulties with the gloss finish as there appear to be some vertical rises to the finish. The dust jacket is currently protected by a clear removable cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo. Fine and unmarked book in Fine unclipped DJ, now in clear protective cover. 254pp. The second Philip St. Ives novel. Book.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Minimal wear and creases to the jacket. Pages are tanning but clean.

1/4 Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A bright first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with lightly foxed edges in alike, lightly sunned dust-jacket; Philip St. Ives makes his second appearance in print, after being introduced in Oliver Bleeck's The Brass Go-Between. In this novel, St. Ives is sent on a mission to rescue the US Ambassador to Yugoslavia who has been kidnapped and is now being held for ransom ; 8vo; [6], 7-254, [2] pages.

Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in cream paper and rouge cloth with white and black lettering to spine; 254pp. Jacket lightly shelfworn with bumping at spine ends, a bit of fading to spine, and some dust soiling to rear panel. Boards nudged at corners; spine cocked and bumped at ends. Scattered foxing to textblock edges, with some toning to half title and final blank. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Thomas's second Philip St. Ives novel, written under his Bleeck pseudonym.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 254 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is light gray with white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$5.95" on front flap, has mild creasing along spine tail. Boards have mild shelving and rubbing wear along extremities. moderate strips of foxing along front and rear covers, likely due to non-archival tape (now removed); spine mildly cocked. Textblock edges have mild age-toning. Inscribed "To Lorna, Best wishes, Oliver Bleeck A.K.A. Ross Thomas" by author on title page. Shelved Case 6. 1399710. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st British Edition. Light Foxing to foreedge. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mystery.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7. Beautiful 1st U.K. Edition. (Ahearn, NAP) Charcoal grey cloth. Square Tight Binding. Clean interior. Jacket Fine. Presents handsomely in archival mylar. A superior edition.

F/NF. THERE IS SLIGHT COLOR FADE OF THE GRAY ON THE SPINE PANEL BUT IT IS OTHERWISE A FINE DUST JACKET. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (Barely discernible damp stain at bottom edge of cloth at spine & cloth covers. Hardly noticeable from outside of jacket. Reverse stained at spine ends. Faint hint of a stain at top edge. ) Despite defects this title is remarkably attractive. The SECOND of the Bleeck novels.