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Caravan to Xanadu
by Marshall, Edison
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Published
- 1953
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Olympia, Washington, USA
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$5.00
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No dust jacket. Green textured paper covered boards with red print on the spine and wear at the corners and spine. Map on endpapers. Owner's bookplate on the ffep. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. A scarce book. Item Price
$5.00
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A Many-Splendored Thing
by Suyin, Han
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Published
- 1952
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Olympia, Washington, USA
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$12.75
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No dust jacket. Black front cover has a couple of white spots in the lower right quadrant. Gilt print on the spine. Impact mark on the upper right corner (see photo #2). One owner's name on the ffep, other's bookplate on the front pastedown. The deckle-edged pages are clean, tight and unmarked, lightly age toned. Set during the Chinese Civil… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.75
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A Prologue to Love
by Caldwell, Taylor
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Published
- 1961
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Olympia, Washington, USA
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$7.75
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No dust jacket. Gray textured paper covered boards, with minor wear mainly at the corners. Deckle-edged pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with red-dyed top edges. A scarce book. Item Price
$7.75
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Kinfolk
by Buck, Pearl S.
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Published
- 1949
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
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$12.50
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No dust jacket. Reddish-brown fabric covered boards show light wear, with gilt print on the front and spine. Spine is a little faded and has a drop of paint. The deckle-edged pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Owner's bookplate inside the front cover. A split after the front endpaper shows the binding fabric (see photo #4.) A scarce book. Item Price
$12.50
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The Christ Commission
by Mandino, Og
- Condition
- Used - Good-
- Published
- 1981
- ISBN
- 9780553145151
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
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$2.75
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The book is slightly bent. It is currently undergoing pressure therapy to try and cure this. The cover shows a few chips around the edges and is discolored in places. There is a crease across the upper front right corner, and the spine is slightly skewed. The pages are clean, tight and somewhat yellowed. Item Price
$2.75
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The Mystery of Dead Lovers
by Collis, Maurice
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Published
- 1951
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
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$14.25
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First edition. No dust jacket. A romance of ancient India, mystical and magical. Illustrated, some in color. The exterior shows some mild wear. The interior is clean, tight and unmarked, with the owner's bookplate sticker inside the front cover. Item Price
$14.25
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Lonesome Dove
by McMurtry, Larry
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Edition
- Second printing
- Published
- 1985
- ISBN
- 9780671504205
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$68.75
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Book shows very little wear. A minor amount of shelf wear along the lower edge. The spine is a bit concave. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked, other than two small stains on the lower lateral page edges, as shown in photo #3, each smaller than a dime. The stains do not impact the interior… Read more about this item Item Price
$68.75
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The Last of the Mohicans
by Cooper, James Fenimore
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- ca 1920-50
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Olympia, Washington, USA
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$9.25
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No dust jacket. No date given, as is so often the case with Grosset and Dunlap. Likely published some time between 1920 and 1950. (Or not.) Probably the most famous and popular of the five Leatherstocking Tales. Set in 1757, during the French and Indian War. This edition has illustrated endpapaers, but no illustrations… Read more about this item Item Price
$9.25
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The Imposter
by Gerson, Noel B.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Published
- 1954
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Olympia, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$9.75
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No dust jacket. Book club edition. A rare book that follows Jeremy Stone as he assumes the identity of an English nobleman and takes an adventurous trip to the Caribbean. The book has red fabric covered boards showing some wear at the corners. The deckle-edged pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with little tanning. Item Price
$9.75
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The White Witch
by Goudge, Elizabeth
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- Possible first.
- Published
- 1958
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$26.50
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Probably a first edition. No other editions mentioned, and my research indicates that there were no hardcover reprints until 1974. The book shows moderate shelf wear on the lower edge. The deckle-edged pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The dust jacket shows wear in all the places you'd expect after over 65 years, with chips and tears at all the… Read more about this item Item Price
$26.50
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Days of Gold
by Deveraux, Jude
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 2009
- ISBN
- 9781439107942
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$10.75
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First edition, first printing. Vary little wear to the book or dust jacket. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked, other than a 5 cm black mark on the top page edges. The second of nine novels in Deveraux's Edilean series. Item Price
$10.75
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The Big Sky
by Guthrie, A. B., Jr.
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Published
- 1947
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$25.75
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No dust jacket. Red fabric covered boards with pale blue decoration and print on the front and spine. The fabric is worn at the corners and the top and bottom of the spine. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Might be a first edition, no additional edition information given. A classic western. Item Price
$25.75
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The Complete Molesworth
by Willans, Geoffrey and Ronald Searle
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1985
- ISBN
- 9781851450015
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$22.50
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Little wear. The spine has a pair of creases, but remains square. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Observations from the consummate blockhead, Nigel Molesworth, on life in the English boarding school of the 1950s. Magnificently illustrated by the brilliantly comic artist Richard Searle. Item Price
$22.50
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West from Singapore
by L'Amour, Louis
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 1987
- ISBN
- 9781581650846
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$25.00
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A collection of short stories set in East Asia, with a western feel. Faux leather covers, showing just the tiniest of shelf wear on the lower edge. No other wear that I can find. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Somewhat rare. Item Price
$25.00
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Dyin's Easy
by Prisk, Gary
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- 2023
- ISBN
- 9781957013510
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$29.00
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Signed by the author on the acknowledgements page. Very little wear. A novel of British spy operations in 1939. Includes maps of the areas involved, at the end of the book. A fairly scarce book and perhaps the only on the market with the author's signature. Owner's name inside front cover. The spine is… Read more about this item Item Price
$29.00
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The Emblem
by Weis, Alisa
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 2020
- ISBN
- 9781945062148
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$19.75
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First edition. Signed by the author on the title page, with a very brief inscription. Set in Roslyn, WA in the 1930s, based in part on actual events. No significant wear. The spine is square and uncreased, the pages are clean and tight. Item Price
$19.75
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Swift Water
by Weis, Alisa
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- 2017
- ISBN
- 9781945062063
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$10.00
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Stated first edition. Signed by the author on the title page, with a very brief inscription. Also includes the author's business card. Very little wear. The spine is square and uncreased; the pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Set in Roslyn, WA (the town where they shot Northern Exposure) in the 1930s. Romance, murder, unionism and religious themes. A fairly… Read more about this item Item Price
$10.00
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A Bend of Light
by Jordan-Lake, Joy
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9781542037891
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$9.00
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Stated first edition. Trade paperback. Very little wear. The spine is square and uncreased; the pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Cozy mystery, set in Maine in the early 1950s. Item Price
$9.00
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The Yearling
by Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1938
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$21.50
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First edition. Date on the cover page and the letter A on the copyright page. No dust jacket. Tan fabric covered boards with green print and decoration on the front and spine. The fabric is darkened over the spine and shows very little edge wear. Binding is solid with no hinge splits. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with… Read more about this item Item Price
$21.50
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Village Christmas
by Read, Miss
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1966
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, USA
- Item Price
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$50.00
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First edition. Very rare book. Dust jacket has wear at the edges, corners and the head and tail of the spine, has some discoloration on the rear and shows some sign of exposure to moisture. The cover has off-white fabric with seasonally appropriate red and green decoration and print. The fabric is soiled/stained but shows no significant edge wear. The… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00