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Brown, Sandra, Where There's Smoke Warner Books, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Good - Black boards with black tape binding; dj has minor shelf wear and some chips,, is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; previous owner's label on ffep. ''Eden Pass has a rowdy history and an uncertain future, and it inhabitants either give their unshakeable loyalty or their undying hate to Tackett Oil, the company that owns everything from the downtown stores to the sheriff. Now, as the boom days have disappeared, and the gushers have slowed to a trickle, the fuse is set for explosions that will rock the status quo and the hearts of passinate men and women...'' -- from the dj $5.40



Brown, Sandra, White Hot Simon & Schuster, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Pictorial cover with a vellum dj. not price clipped; some edge wear to dj. ''When she hears that her younger vrother has committed suicide, Sayre Lynch relents from her vow never to return to Destiny, the small Louisiana town in which she grew up. She plans to leave immediately after the funeral, but instead soon finds hereself drawn into the web cast by Huff Hoyle, her controlling and tyrannical father; the man who owns the town's sole industry, an iron foundry, and in effect runs the lives of everyone who lives there.'' -- from the dj $9.00



Brust, Stephen, The Pathes of the Dead Tor, (0.00) First Trade Edition, Trade Paperback, Very Good - First Trade Paperback Edition; some sticker residue on back cover. Book One of THe Viscount of Adrilankha. ''Two hundred years ago, Adron's Disaster destroyed Dragaera City, killed the reigning Emperor, and deprived the entir Dragaeran Empire of the ability to use even the simplest low-level sorcery.'' -- from the back cover $7.19



Buchwald, Art, Whose Rose Garden is It Anyway? G.P. Putnam & Sons, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Gray boards with red tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped. ''This is the twenty-seventh in a series of books recording the life and times of those Washingtonians who make their living by providing the country with good government at a reasonable cost.'' -- from the dj $7.20



Buck, Pearl S., Pavilion of Women The John Day Company, (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good - Tan boards with red embossed pavilion of front and spine and black lettering; previous owner's name on ffep; pages are yellowed with age; 316 pages. $7.20



Bugliosi, Vincent, And the Sea Will Tell W.W. Norton & Company Inc., (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Blue boards with black tape binding; gold foil letterineg on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated First Edition with full number line. ''Alone with her new husband on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an old aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand somthing glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched human skull: -- from the dj $11.25



Bujold, Lois McMaster, Mirror Dance Baen Books, (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with silver lettering on spine; stated second printing; pages and dj are slightly yellowed; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. ''Not everyone would envy young Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, even though he had formed his own mercenary fleet before attending the naval academy, and even though his mother is the beautiful Cordelia, the ship captain who has taught the Lords of Darrayar much about the perils of sexism. Even the fact that Miles is third in line to the throne and personally owns a major chunk of his home planet would not tempt any normal person to change places with him.'' -- from the dj $13.50



Bullock, Charles J., The Elements of Economics Silver, Burdett and Company, (0.00) Hardcover, Fair - Green boards with black lettering and scrollwork; spine is loose at back cover; chips out of some pages, but does not affect content; shelf wear and bumping to spine; writing on front and back endpapers. Copyright, 1905, 1913. From the Preface: ''This book has been written in response to a demand for a somewhat shorter and more elementary work than the ''Introduction to the Study of Economics,'' which the author brought out in 1897. In order to meet this demand, it was necessary to make a substantially new book, in which the substance of doctrine and the general groundwork remain the same, but the method of treating most subjects has been more or less radically altered.'' Pictures available upon request. $36.00



Burke, James Lee, Crusader's Cross Simon & Schuster, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with red tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; 325pp. ''For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with haunting memories of the past -- images from Vietnam, the violent streets of New Orleans, and his own troubled youth. In 'Crusader's Cross,' a deathbed confession from an old schoolmate resurrects a story of injustice, the murder of a young woman, and a time in Robicheaux's life he has tried to forget.'' -- from the dj $10.80



Burke, James Lee, Dixie City Jam Hyperion, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Blue boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj slightly yellowed on edges, now protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; stated First Edition; 367 pp. ''The search for a forgotten Nazi submarine sunk off the coast of New Orleans stirs up old hatreds submerged for just as long, in a brilliant new book by Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke. With 'Dixie City Jam,' the writer 'USA Today' called 'the Grisham Alternative' enters the front ranks of contemporary fiction writers...and mainstream bestsellers.'' -- from the dj $10.80



Burke, James Lee, Jolie Blon's Bounce Simon & Schuster, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with black tape binding; copper foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; 349 pp. ''When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, the victim of a particularly savage rape, new iberia, Louisiana, police detective Dave Robicheaux sense from the very start of the investigation that th emost likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the actual killer. Though a drug addict and general ne'er-do-well, Hulin just doesn't fit the profile for this kind of brutal crime. But when another murder occurs -- this victim a drugged-out prostitute who happens to be the daughter of one of the local mafia bigwigs -- all clues once again point to Tee Bobby Hulin, and the cries for arrest become too loud to ignore.'' -- from the dj $11.25



Burke, James Lee, Last Car to Elysian Fields Simon & Schuster, (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good - Blue boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; full number line. ''For Dave Robisheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy., will always haunt him. So to return there, as he does in 'Last Car to Elysian Fields'' -- means visiting old ghosts, expodinh old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familliar dangers.'' -- from the dj $9.86



Burke, James Lee, Pegasus Descending Simon & Schuster, (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with red tape binding; edgwear to lower spine; gold foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cove; dj not price clipped; 356 pp. ''Dectective Dave Robicheaux is facing the most painful and dangerous case of his career. A troubled young woman breezes into his hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of Robicheaux's onetime best friend -- a friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy that forever changed Robicheaux's life.'' -- from the dj $6.75



Burke, James Lee, Purple Cane Road Doubleday, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Gray boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; 341 pp. ''Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass on to the son. But what was his mother's legacy? Dead to him since his youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Robicheaux's mind. He's lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of a whiskey-driven father. But deep down, Dave still feels the loss of his mother and knows that the infinite series of disappoinments in her life could not have come to a good end.'' -- from the dj $10.80



Burke, James Lee, Swan Peak Simon & Schuster, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; 402pp. ''James Lee Burke's new novel, 'Swan Peak,' finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell have retreated to stay at an old friend's ranch, hoping to spend their days fishing and enjoying their distance from the harsh, gritty landscape of Louisiana post-Katrina. But the serenity is soon shattered when two college students are found brutally murdered in the hills behind where the Robicheauxs and Purchell are staying.'' -- from the dj $11.25



Burke, James Lee, The Tin Roof Blowdown Simon & Schuster, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with mustard yellow tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; 373pp. ''In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. this is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Roubicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, 'The Tin Roof Blowdown,' begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commerical district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. The power grid of the city has been destroyed, New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval socity. There is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the inform, the helpless, and the innocent. Bodies float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of flooded trees. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city.'' -- from the dj $9.00



Burnett, Frances Hodgson, The Shuttle Grosset & Dunlap, (0.00) Hardcover, Good - Grey boards with pictorial cover of a young woman in a cameo; copyright page lists The Century Company, 1906, 1907; previous owner's name and bookplate on ffep; 512 pages with 10 pages of ads in back. Pictures available upon request. $11.25



Burns, Olive Ann, Cold Sassy Tree Dell, (0.00) Trade Paperback, Good - Later printing; minor spine creases. ''Cold Sassy, Georgia, had never been a whirlpool of excitement. If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies could make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, thing took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson - a woman half his age and, wore yet, a Yankee! On that day Will Tweedy's adventures began and an unimpeachably pious, deliciously irreverent town came to liffe.'' -- from the back cover $3.60



Burns, Paul Clay, Teaching Reading in Today's Elementary Schools Houghton Mifflin, (0.00) Hardcover, Good - Minor Shelf Wear $4.50



Burroughs, Edgar Rice, Tarzan of the Apes A.L. Burt Company, (0.00) Hardcover, Good - Reprint edition; dark green cloth with cream printing; bumped spine and edges; title wearing off; inscription inside front board; loose gutter on front piece $58.50



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