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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M8.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations. It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine--while the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils. SKINNY LEGS AND ALL: deals with today's most sensitive issues: race, politics, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust. It weaves lyrically through what some call the "end days" of our planet. Refusing to avert its gaze from the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood. And its mood is defiantly upbeat. In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style, here are characters, phrases, stories, and ideas that dance together on the page, wild and sexy, like Salome herself. Or was it Jezebel? As new,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} MLBS1.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Allan Mallinson's A CLOSE RUN THING andHONORABLE COMPANY stirred readers and critics with the military adventures of young Captain Matthew Hervey at the Battle of Waterloo and amid the harsh terrain and treacherous intrigues of India. Now, in 1817, Hervey returns to an England whose hard-won peace is shaken by the distress and discord of its people. And even as he is caught up in the turbulent dawn of a new era, he must combat a deliberate attempt to orchestrate his own ruin. The honors he won in India fell short of Captain Matthew Hervey's deepest desire-to return to his beloved 6th Light Dragoons. But now circumstances allow him to resume command of the unit-and to marry the beautiful Lady Henrietta Lindsay, whom he has loved since childhood. Meanwhile, however, his soldier's heart is pierced by the sight of men in British scarlet crippled in the service of king and country, now forgotten and cast off, reduced to begging and petty crime. It is no wonder that rabble-rousers clamor for reform and that lawlessness is erupting everywhere, from the cities to the countryside. A REGIMENTAL AFFAIR is a stunning tapestry of vivid characters, rousing action, and authentic historical detail that re-creates a world of polite English drawing rooms, poverty-stricken London streets, and frozen battlefields, where human passion and blind fate give birth to the destiny of a nation-and a hero. Third novel by the author of A CLOSE RUN THING and HONORABLE COMPANY, as well as LIGHT DRAGOONS, a history of British cavalry. (A REGIMENTAL AFFAIR is the third book in the Matthew Hervey series.) Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marled or price-clipped} L105.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Paris, France: September 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator's dream?he's getting paid to troll the cafés and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The American agent has a healthy appreciation for la vie de bohème, despite having worked for years at the U.S. Bureau of Investigation. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby, a twenty-two year old from Boston who has been living in Paris, modeling and acting. Her family became alarmed when she stopped all communications, and Stuyvesant agreed to track her down. He wholly expects to find her in the arms of some up-and-coming artist, perhaps experimenting with the decadent lifestyle that is suddenly available on every rue and boulevard. As Stuyvesant follows Philippa's trail through the expatriate community of artists and writers, he finds that she is known to many of its famous?and infamous?inhabitants, from Shakespeare and Company's Sylvia Beach to Ernest Hemingway to the Surrealist photographer Man Ray. But when the evidence leads Stuyvesant to the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre, his investigation takes a sharp, disturbing turn. At the Grand-Guignol, murder, insanity, and sexual perversion are all staged to shocking, brutal effect: depravity as art, savage human nature on stage. Soon it becomes clear that one missing girl is a drop in the bucket. Here, amid the glittering lights of the cabarets, hides a monster whose artistic coup de grâce is to be rendered in blood. And Stuyvesant will have to descend into the darkest depths of perversion to find a killer . . . sifting through THE BONES OF PARIS. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M37.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First U.S. Edition. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L108.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by the author on title page in black ink. Eighth in the series featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M33. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Bantam Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Bell Publishing Group, Inc., New York, N.Y., July, 1991. First printing (full number line to "1") of First Edition. Very Fine in Fine dust jacket. Text block is clean, white, tight, bright, straight, and square with bright blue endpapers and no marks except former owner's name on front free endpaper. Gently read. Binding is black quarter cloth on black boards, with no color changes, and bright gilt title, etc., to spine. Dust jacket is bright, clean and intact, with price intact, and minor lifting to laminate around raised letters on front cover. 371 pages. 6 3/8" x 9 1/4". The fourth novel in the Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley mystery series.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Signed by author on title page with fine silver sharpie, Anne Waverly is a respected university professor. Few know that, eighteen years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and seven-year-old daughter. Fewer still know that her past and her academic specialty--alternative religious movements--have made her a brilliant FBI operative. Four times she has infiltrated suspect communities, escaping her own memories of loss and carnage to find a measure of atonement. Now, as she begins to savor life once more, she has no intention of taking another assignment. Until, that is, she is given an envelope containing details of the Change group and its leaders, whose Arizona site houses over one hundred children and a school admired by even the local authorities. Outsiders have found these children, many of them rescued from abuse, healthy and content--but far too well-behaved. Soon Anne--as the eager, pliable seeker Ana Wakefield--is on her way to the red cliffs and high desert air of the Change compound. As she explores its enigmatic mixture of mysticism, hierarchy, and trickery, she grows unexpectedly close to two abandoned children fostered by Change. Fourteen-year-old Jason Delgado is a tough, sexy, wary street kid; his timid, silent little sister Dulcie reminds Anne all too much of her own lost daughter. Slowly, she comes to see that this is no ordinary community and hers is no ordinary mission. For, far from appeasing the demons of her past, this assignment is sweeping her back into their clutches. A DARKER PLACE, King masterfully reinvents the novel of psychological suspense, creating a complex and iron-willed woman who, in searching for the truth among the darker places of her past, discovers her own redemption. Autho ralso of the contemporary Kate Martinelli novels and of the great historical mystery series featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. As new ,unread, first edition, first printing in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M56. Signed by Author(s).