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THE CANNIBAL HEART
by Millar, Margaret
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- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
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- Good-Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1949
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$72.00
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N.Y.: Random House, 1949. First edition, so stated. Color variation to boards, very light edge wear in dust jacket, unclipped, $2.50 price intact, piece out at head of spine, a few closed tears, rubbed and soiled at rear. Millar gazes unflinchingly at the psychology of a deranged adult and their struggle to control their basest impulses. Suspenseful to the last,… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE BRIMESTONE WEDDING
by Vine , Barbara (Rendell, Ruth )
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1995
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- 9780517703397
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$19.20
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N.Y.: Harmony Books, 1995. First American Edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Once again, Ruth Rendell writing as Vine (e.g., No Night Is Too Long, Harmony, 1995) weaves a compelling tale of ordinary people facing extraordinary pressures. Two women, divided by age… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE DISTANT STRANGER
by Harcourt, Palma
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good-Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1984
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- 9780002227575
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$28.80
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London: UK: William Collins Sons & Co., 1984. First edition. A near fine copy in dust jacket, flaps have age toning spots, spine is lightly sunned, else nead fine, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Twenty-five years after an abortive and fatal attempt to escape East Germany, a letter found in a dying woman's purse… Read more about this item Item Price
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A SPY OF THE OLD SCHOOL
by Rathbone, Julian
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1983
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- 9780394517964
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$12.00
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N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1983. 1st American edition, so stated. Top of page edges dusty else about fine in dust jacket lightly sunned at spine. Sir Richard Austen, one of England's foremost archaeologists, fears that his past, as a Russian spy during World War II, may be revealed. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Item Price
$12.00
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SUMMER ROMANCE
by Hitt, Orrie
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1959
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$16.80
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NY: Midwood Books, 1959. 1st edition. Midwood Books #16 [.35 cover price]. Paperback Original. Light wear to edges, lightly soiled at rear, a few indentations on covers else vg. This very early Midwood finds Orrie Hitt exercising his Catskills Noir muscles in this story of a beautiful young wife scheming the demise of her wealthy older… Read more about this item Item Price
$16.80
CRAIG AND THE TUNISIAN TANGLE
by Benton, Kenneth
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1975
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- Hardcover
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- 9780802753045
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$11.52
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N.Y.: Walker and Company, 1975. 1st US edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Soiled along edges, page edges age spotted in dust jacket with rubbing to folds, lightly soiled. Peter Craig in Tunisia. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book. Item Price
$11.52
THE CROUCHING BEAST: Clubfoot Returns Again!
by Williams, Valentine
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- Used - Fine
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- Very Good
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- First Edition Thus
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- 1928
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$33.60
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N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. 1st thus, [n.d.] orig. 1928. (From the books listed at rear panel it would seem this was published in 1934). Blue cloth with red lettering. Neat gift inscription at front end paper. Page edges age toned, elase a fine, tight copy in dust jacket, flap corners narrowly clipped, front cover lightly soiled and rubbed,… Read more about this item Item Price
$33.60
RUN MONGOOSE
by Wilkinson, Burke
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1950
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$24.00
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Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. First edition, September 1950, so stated. Tan boards with red lettering. One very small spot on cover else fine in price-clipped dust jacket, shallow loss at spine ends and flap corners, lightly soiled rear panel. The second Geoffrey Mildmay title. [Dublin, Ireland and Jamaica] … Read more about this item Item Price
$24.00
THE WRONG BOX
by Stevenson, Robert Louis and Lloyd Osbourne
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- Used - Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1889
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- Hardcover
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$24.00
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N.Y.: Scribners, 1889. bound in original publisher's brownish cover with gilt lettering on the spine and a light yellow label on the cover with lettering in black. The ad, torn from a newspaper placed on the cover is missing. Worn along edges, rubbed, corners bumped. A hole and tear at front enpaper, with ink markings. a black comedy… Read more about this item Item Price
$24.00
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ODILE
by Simenon, Georges
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1972
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780151257201
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$14.40
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N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1972. 1st American Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, page edges lightly dusty, not price clipped, $5.95 intact, in protective mylar cover. Translated by Lyn Moir. Simenon writes about an 18 year old girl who runs away from home to Paris leaving behind a letter to her brother informing him of her intention… Read more about this item Item Price
$14.40
DRUM BEAT - BERLIN
by Marlowe, Stephen
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- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1964
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$12.00
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Greenwich: CT, US: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1964. 1st edition. Paperback Original [.40 cover price]. Vintage Paperback. Gold Medal #k1420. Cover illustration by Zuckerberg. Rear cover has small remains from another book Verygood-near fine copy. [Chester Drum; Berlin] This, the sixteenth Chester Drum novel, is an ode to freedom and to… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.00
GREEN TEA AND OTHER STORIES (Dover Thrift Edition)
by LeFanu, J. Sheridan
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- Used - Fine
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- First Printing
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- 1993
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- Paperback
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- 9780486277950
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$7.20
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N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., 1993. 1st printing, oversize paperback. Fine. Cover by Paul E. Kennedy. This is a new selection of ghost stories, reprinted from the standard texts. The selection was made and the introductory Note specially written for this edition by John Grafton. Regarded as the Victorian era's greatest writer of ghost stories, J.… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE TRAPDOOR **EDGAR AWARD FINALIST**
by Klavan, Andrew as Keith Peterson,
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1988
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- Paperback
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- 9780553270730
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$12.00
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1988. 1st edition, March 1988, with complete number line beginning with 1. Paperback Original. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE. Slight creasing to spine and front cover, reading crease. A reporter must overcome personal tragedy to cover a grisly assignment. The Dellacroce trial should be John Wells’s biggest triumph.… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.00
THE ICARUS AGENDA
by Ludlum, Robert
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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- 1988
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- ISBN
- 9780394543970
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$14.40
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N.Y.: Random House, 1988. 1st edition, so stated. . About fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 675 pages. Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of office quietly—when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick's deepest secret...that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man… Read more about this item Item Price
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TROUBLE IN BURMA: A Colonel North Intrigue
by Mason, Van Wyck
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1962
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$14.40
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Garden City, New York,: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. 1st ed, so stated, July 1962. Light wear along edges, spine slant else very good in dust jacket, light wear at head and foot of spine, couple of small nicks at reat, not price clipped, $3.95 intact. "Col. North of G-2 is with us once again in an intricately cast… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE DOOMED OASIS
by Innes, Hammond
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1960
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$19.20
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N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1960. 1st American Edition, Fine copy in dust jacket, not price clipped, ($3.95 price intact), with protective mylar cover. A sweeping adventure set in the Arabian Desert, where the shadow of British colonialism threatens to destroy a father and son. Three years ago, nineteen-year-old David Thomas beat his father to death. Actually,… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE MAN WHO WASN'T MAIGRET: A PORTRAIT OF GEORGES SIMENON
by Marnham, Patrick
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- Used - Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1992
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- Hardcover
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- 9780747508847
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$28.80
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London: UK: Bloomsbury Press , 1992. 1st ed. near fine in dj, small closed tear at rear, one wrinkle. Includes selected bibliography, 340+ pages.Georges Simenon was, during his lifetime, the bestselling writer alive. He created Chief Inspector Maigret, one of the most-loved and sanest characters in modern fiction, but was himself an alcoholic, a fantasist, a man possessed by the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bump in the Night
by Holland, Isabelle
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1988
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780385238915
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$9.60
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1988. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. The nightmare begins on November 12 when Martha Tierney faces what every mother dreads: her son Jonathan is missing. With a raging hangover, Martha must pull herself together and face a crisis of terrifiying proportions. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Item Price
$9.60
YOUR BLUE-EYED BOY
by Dunmore, Helen
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1998
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780670879137
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$16.80
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London, England: Viking Penguin, 1998. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. "An intriguing situation, seamless pacing, a rising sense of menace and a surprise ending bring Dunmore's new novel (after the well-received Talking to the Dead) into the winner's circle. British district judge Simone struggles as the family breadwinner, while her unemployed husband faces bankruptcy and takes care of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Waterman
by Hornig, Doug
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1987
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780892962563
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$14.40
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st edition, July 1987, with complete number line beginning with 1. Slightly dusty top page edges else near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "The final twist may be a tad cute but Horning (Foul Shot) has written a first-rate thriller. When taciturn… Read more about this item Item Price
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