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By: Amis, Martin
Price: $6.32
Publisher: New York, Vintage: 2008
Edition: 1st Vintage International Edition
Our Product Number: 603597
ISBN: 1400096014
Condition: Near Fine
Slight amount of edgewear to tail of spine and corners. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 256 pages. Vintage International. A sober tale of love and cynicism set against the grim curtain of Stalin's Russia, "House of Meetings" is an extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel from a literary master. View more info
Price: $6.84
Publisher: Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books: 1991
Edition: Book Club Edition
Our Product Number: 604346
ISBN: 0945575564
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
184 pages. In the seventeenth-century records of what is now Exeter, New Hampshire, is the account of an unsolved murder. A woman's body, brutally mangled, was found in the Piscataqua River. Robert J. Begiebing happened upon the mystery, began reading everything he could find about it, and became fascinated with what might have happened and with what his research revealed about that long-ago time. The more he read, the less valid seemed the customary stereotypes of iron, austere men and dour, straitlaced women that have come down to us as the people of Puritan New England. So he wrote a novel ... View more info
By: Bowen, Rhys
Price: $11.95
Publisher: Seattle, WA, Lake Union Publishing: 2007
Edition: First Trade Edition
Our Product Number: 608498
ISBN: 1503941353
Condition: Fine
378 pages. World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham’s middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility. As Ben follows a trail of s... View more info
By: Brooks, Bill
Price: $12.45
Publisher: New York, Forge Books: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 605664
ISBN: 0765304732
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Full number line.. 352 pages. "As I lay dying, I see Daddy Walter sitting on the porch reading a Bible sold to him by a man wearing spats." Thus begins the novel of Charles Arthur Floyd, best known to depression-era America as Pretty Boy Floyd. "I was the dreamer, the seeker of all things beyond my reach, the dandy, the dancer, the lover of countless woman, the bank robber, the husband, the father, the son, the brother. I was the most wanted man in America." Rising out of the harvests and oil fields of the Oklahoma dustbowl that John Steinbeck so poignantly captu... View more info
Price: $5.79
Publisher: New York, Penquin: 2005
Our Product Number: 606686
ISBN: 0143036661
Condition: Fine
Appears unread; no spine crease. . 280 pages View more info
By: Byron, Betty; Mullen, Cassius
Price: $13.49
Publisher: Mustang, OK, Tate Publishing & Enterprises: 2011
Our Product Number: 608114
ISBN: 1617773743
Condition: Fine
Inscribed and SIGNED by Betty Byron, one of the AUTHORs . 372 pages. Signed by One Author View more info
By: Carey, Peter
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1998
Edition: First American Edition
Our Product Number: 603933
ISBN: 0679440089
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Protected in a removable archival cover. . 306 pages. The time, the 1830s. Jack Maggs, a foundling trained in the fine arts of thievery, cruelly betrayed and deported to Australia, has now reversed his fortunes--and seeks to fulfill his well-concealed, innermost desire. Returning "home" under threat of execution, he inveigles his way into a household in Great Queen Street, where he's quickly embroiled in various emotional entanglements--and where he falls under the hypnotic scrutiny of Tobias Oates, a celebrated young writer fascinated by the process of mesmerism and obsessed with the ... View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1994
Our Product Number: 609038
ISBN: 0345389719
Condition: Very Good
Toning to pages. No spine crease. Genealogical table. 360 pages. One of the greatest love stories in Amercian history is also one of the least known -- and most controversial. Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, had a mistress for thirty-eight years, whom he loved and lived with until he died -- the beautiful and elusive quadroon slave, Sally Hemings.In this brilliant novel, spanning two continents, sixty years, and seven presidencies, Barbara Chase-Riboud re-creates a love story based on the documents and the evidence of the d... View more info
Price: $13.50
Publisher: New York, Dutton: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 608198
ISBN: 0525953620
Condition: As New in As New dust jacket
Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Light tan boards quarter-bound in dark red with gold title and author on spine. Parchment end papers. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 354 pages. Synopsis: Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, Virginia, and educated by Northern Quakers, Elizabeth Van Lew was a paradox of her time. When her native state seceded in April 1861, Van Lew’s convictions compelled her to defy the new Confederate regime. Pledging her loyalty to the Lincoln White House, her courage would never waver, even as her wartime actions threatened not only her r... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 500172
ISBN: 0743229878
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
A fresh, bright unread copy in a removable Brodart cover. Cream boards with navy spine imprinted with title and author in gold. Deckle-edged pages. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 223 pages. Charming, insightful and immensely entertaining in its unique presentation of one of America's legendary figures, Mount Vernon Love Story, by famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark, shows the reader the man behind the legend, a man of flesh, blood and passion, and in the author's skilled hands, the story and the man come fully and dramatically alive. M... View more info
Price: $4.75
Publisher: New York, Harper: 2009
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Our Product Number: 604595
ISBN: 0061239569
Condition: Fine
No spine crease. 384 pages. An Ethan Gage Adventure, No. 2. American adventurer Ethan Gage barely escaped with his life from murderous thieves, survived a nerve-racking sea voyage and the deadly Egyptian sands when attached to Napoleon's army, and solved a five-thousand-year-old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion. But that was child's play . . . The year is 1799. As Bonaparte's army descends upon Israel, intent upon conquest, Ethan Gage finds himself embroiled in an ancient mystery in the Holy Land, searching for a legendary Egyptian scroll imbued with awesome powers. The courage... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Harper Collins Publishers: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 607318
ISBN: 0060848324
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Remainder mark on bottom of text block. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards with black spine imprinted in gold with title and author. . 376 pages. William Dietrich's books have been hailed for their vivid imagery, evocative atmospheres, impeccable historical accuracy, and ambitious plots. Now, in the breakout novel of his career, he delivers an enthralling story of intrigue, greed, and danger. Ethan Gage, assistant to Ben Franklin and expatriate American in post-revolutionary France, wins an ancient—and possibly cursed—medallion in a card game one night. It turns... View more info
By: Dunant, Sarah
Price: $13.50
Publisher: New York, Random House: 2013
Edition: First US Edition
Our Product Number: 608112
ISBN: 1400069297
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Remainder dot on bottom of text block. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Pale turquoise boards and pale turquoise spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Deckle-edged pages. Full number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 . Genealogical table. Map of Italy.. 506 pages. By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimat... View more info
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Austin, TX, Nortex Press: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Our Product Number: 605920
ISBN: 1571688374
Condition: Near Fine
Inscribed " To Sharon", dated (year only) and SIGNED by the AUTHOR . 139 pages. Signed by Author. "By an act of Congress in 1991, permission was granted to fly a period United States flag at half-staff in perpetuity at the Treue Der Union monument in Comfort, Texas. It is the only monument to the Union outside of National Cemeteries in what was Confederate territory during the Civil War. Son of Defiance is a fictinal story that is based upon what this monument honors and how the lives of families are changed and affected by man's constant determination to fight for greedom. This n... View more info
By: Edwards, Selden
Price: $5.61
Publisher: New York, Plume: 2009
Edition: First Edition Thus
Our Product Number: 607980
ISBN: 0452295513
Condition: Fine
Debut novel .Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 405 pages. The exiled scion of a prominent Boston banking family, forty-seven-year-old Wheeler Burden is living in 1988 San Francisco until he is mysteriously transported to fin de siècle Vienna, a city that he finds strangely familiar, where he finds a mentor in Sigmund Freud, falls in love with a young American woman, and gains insight into the war-hero father he never knew View more info
By: Falco, Ed
Price: $13.99
Publisher: New York, Grand Central Publishing: 2012
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 606330
ISBN: 0446574627
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 448 pages. New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future. While his youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation, and his adopted son Tom Hagen is a college student, he worries most about ... View more info
Price: $6.95
Publisher: San Francisco, Macadam/Cage Publishing: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 602390
ISBN: 0967370108
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Genealogical table . . 391 pages. With the confidence of a master storyteller and the precision of a trained historian, David Falconieri weaves together an intricate tale of honor, treachery, power, and intrigue in The Beggars Throne. Recounting the dynastic struggle between the Lancasterians and the Yorkists during the 15th-century War of the Roses, The Beggars Throne will delight both historians and general audiences. View more info
By: Gingrich, Newt; Forstchen, William
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Thomas Dunne Books: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 602045
ISBN: 0312309376
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
1.3 x 9.2 x 6.4 Inches. 400 pages. ollowing the South's decisive victory at Gettysburg, Baltimore is now in the hands of the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Robert E. Lee. Shattered remnants of the Army of the Potomac have fallen back into Washington, digging in, preparing to make a desperate stand. Six days earlier General Ulysses S. Grant and his army of 60,000 had taken Vicksburg. The last telegram out of Washington before the rebels cut the line called for drastic measures. Grant and his men were to come East and save the Union. Now two of America's greatest generals will fa... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Walker & Co.: 2010.
Edition: First US Edition
Our Product Number: 608027
ISBN: 0802719864
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
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By: Gorman, Ed
Price: $7.50
Publisher: New York, Forge Books: 2002
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Our Product Number: 604640
ISBN: 0312875371
Condition: Near Fine
320 pages. Battles were won with bullets and sabers on the battlefields of the War Between the States, for sure. But often, the outcome of those battles was affected by the heroic acts of spies--both Union and Confederate. Such heroes, unsung while they did their vital work, included those whose true stories are told in the pages of this book: • Elizabeth Van Lew: Her Richmond, Virginia, neighbors thought her eccentric--or crazy--but her odd behavior covered her activities as a spy for the Union army. • Belle Boyd: A daring Confederate spy whose charm and beauty were exceeded only by her b... View more info
