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Heyliger, William, Detectives Inc. The Goldsmith Publishing Company, (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good - Faded orange boards with black lettering; inscription for previous owner on ffep; pages are yellowing; spine is tight; minor bumps to spine edges. $6.75



Higgins, Jack, Eye of the Storm Putnam Pub Group, (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good - Third printing; blue boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is proteccted with Brodart cover. ''Sean Dillon is a master terrorist, an elusive, mysterious figure whose skills surpass even those of the famed international fugitive Carlos the Jackal. For years Dillon has slipped through the hands of authorities on every continent, hiding in the anonymity of the underworld. But it is during the Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein is feeling the grip of the British and American forces closing in on him, that Dillon once again emerges -- right in the eye of Saddam's storm.'' -- from the dj $4.50



Hillerman, Tony, The Wailing Wind HarperCollins, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Brown boards with blue tape binding; dj is not price clipped, but shows minor shelf wear; stated First Edition with full number line. ''To Officer Bernadette Manuelito, the man curled up on the truck seat was just another drunk, which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a crime scene, which got Sergeant Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI, which drew Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and back into the old ''Golden Calf'' homicide, a case he had hoped to forget.'' -- from the dj $9.00



Hilton, James, So Well Remembered Little, Brown and Company, (0.00) Hardcover, Good - Green boards with gold embossed lettering on front cover; a few faded spots on front board; previous owner's name on ffep; spine is slightly loose; a good reading copy. $4.50



Hilton, James, So Well Remembered Little, Brown and Company, (0.00) Book Club (BCE/BOMC), Hardcover, Good - Blue boards with embossed title and author's name on front; slight warp to boards; pages are yellowed; a nice reading copy. $4.50



Hoag, Tami, Ashes to Ashes Bantam Books, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with black tape binding; dj is not price clipped, but has minor shelf wear; full number line. $9.00



Hoag, Tami, Dark Horse Bantam Books, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Like New - 1st Edition; DJ in Good Shape; No Tears or Nicks $4.50



Hoag, Tami, Deeper Than the Dead Dutton, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Yellow boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with Brodart cover. ''California, 1985. Four children, running through the woods after school, stumble upon a partially buried female body, eyes and mouth glued shut. Close behind the children is their teacher, Anne Navarre, shocked by this discovery and heartbroken as she witnesses the end of their innocence. What she doesn't yet realize is tha tthis will mark the end of innocence for an entire community, as the ties that bind families and friends are tested by secrets uncovered in the wake of a serial killer's escalating pattern of destruction.'' -- from the dj $9.00



Holland, Jack, Druid Time Dodd, Mead and Company, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Cream boards with peach tape binding and brown lettering on spine; dj edges are yellowed, but protected with a Brodart cover; not price clipped; full number line. ''From the back streets of Nero's Rome to the vast, haunting fenlands of Celtic Britian, 'Druid Time' takes the reader on a quest for a fabled treasure, a quest that begins in a maze of intrigue, love, and lust.'' -- from the dj $12.60



Holland, William E., Moscow Twilight Pocket Books, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Black binding with grey quarter boards; silver lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. ''Moscow, January 1989: In the cold of the Russian winter, the Soviet Union burns with the heat of political change. Muscovites worry more about bartering for Western goods than about the secret police; throughout the country, long-suppressed national rivalries threaten to overwhelm the fading power of the state. Fear still chokes the Soviet people, but, as KGB captain Sergo Chanturia realizes to his astonishment, 'There is someone they fear more than they fear us.''' -- from the dj $9.00



Holman, Russell, The Cheat Grosset & Dunlap, (0.00) Hardcover, Good - Based upon the story by Hector Turnbull; Pola Negri Edition; illustrated with scenes from the paramount Picture; red boards with faded gold embossing of the title and author's name on front; spine is slightly slanted and edges show shelf wear; 310pps with advertising at the back. $18.00



Hoskisson, Tompkins, Language Arts Merrill Pub Co, (0.00) Hardcover, Good - Minor Shelf Wear $4.50



Hosseini, Khaled, A Thousand Splendid Suns Riverhead Books, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Fine - Black boards with green overlay and gold embossed symbol on front board; gold lettering on spine; full number line with 1 present; dj is not price clipped and is protected with Brodart cover. ''A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years -- from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding -- that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives -- the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness -- are inextricable from the history playing out around them.'' -- from the dj $11.25



Howatch, Susan, Sins of the Fathers Simon & Schuster, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Good - Red boards with red tape binding; some tape residue on top an bottom of front boards; gold lettering on spine; some tearing on ffep; dj yellowed with age; protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; 608 pps. ''At the center of the novel if Cornelius Van Zale, a powerful, ruthless investment banker at the zenith of a successful career, a man who has grown used to dominating and controlling everthing and everyone around him, but whose power over his own family -- especially Alicia, his beautiful, elegant wife, and Vicky, their tormented, rebellious daughter -- is disintegrating under the weight of his own mistakes and the inevitable complacency of a man who has almost everything he wants.'' -- from the dj $4.50



Howatch, Susan, Sins of the Fathers Simon and Schuster, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Red boards with red tape binding; gold lettering on spine; previous owner's book plate on ffep; dj yellowed with age; protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; 608 pps. ''At the center of the novel if Cornelius Van Zale, a powerful, ruthless investment banker at the zenith of a successful career, a man who has grown used to dominating and controlling everthing and everyone around him, but whose power over his own family -- especially Alicia, his beautiful, elegant wife, and Vicky, their tormented, rebellious daughter -- is disintegrating under the weight of his own mistakes and the inevitable complacency of a man who has almost everything he wants.'' -- from the dj $11.25



Howatch, Susan, The Shrouded Walls and the Dark Shore Stein and Day, (0.00) Book Club Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Tan boards with purple lettering on spine; pages are slightly yellowed due to age; dj shows signs of shelf wear and is protected with a Brodart cover. Book Club Edition. ''When Marianne Fleury agreed to marry Axel Brandson, she thought she knew what to expect. He needed a wife to qualify for a large inheritance; she needed a wealthy husband to escape her impoverished existence. Taking up residence in shte Brandson famiy estate, they agreed it was to be a marriage of convenience.'' -- from the dj $6.75



Howatch, Susan, Wheel of Fortune Simon and Schuster, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Blue boards with dark blue tape binding; gold lettering on spine; previous owner's address sitcker on ffeb; another previous owner's name written on back of front board; remainder stamp on bottom edge; pages are slightly yellowed with age; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. ''This is Susan Howatch's finest, most ambitious, and most absorbing novel to date...At its center is Oxmoon, the family manor of the Godwins, which for four generations, from the glittering years before the First World War to the present time, obsesses and haunts every member of the family, turning brother against brother, son against father, its changing fortunes inexorably linked to theirs, its decine mirroring the family's descent from Edwardiain prosperity and social position to the straitened circumstances of middle-class life.'' -- from the dj $11.25



Hubbard, L. Ron, Disaster Bridge Publications, Inc., (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Chips and dings to dj, dj now protected with Brodart cover; some water damage to lower right corner. Volume 8 in the Mission Earth series. ''A shotgun blasted at the door. Heller grabbed his satchels and three himself on the spacetrooper sled as the shotgun roared. heller hit the controls. Another shotgun blast! THEN THE FIRST EXPLOSION WENT!'' -- from the dj $4.50



Hubbard, L. Ron, Writers of the Future Volume V Bridge Publications, Inc., (0.00) First Edition, Paperback, Very Good - Minor spine creases and edgeweare. $5.40



Hunt, David, The Magician's Tale Putnam Adult, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear to DJ $4.50



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