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Rice, Anne, Servant of the Bones Alfred A. Knopf, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with black tape binding; gold embossed lettering on spine; dj shows minor shelf wear. ''A new saga begins, a major departure for the incomparable Anne Rice...a dark and luminous new hero: the powerful, witty, smling Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, demon, angel - in love with the good, in thrall to the evil. He pours out his heart to us, telling his astonishing story when he finds himself - in our own time, in New York City - a dazed witness to the murder of a young girl called Esther and inexplicably obsessed by the desire to avenge her.'' from the dj $11.70



Rice, Anne, Servant of the Bones Knopf, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Fine - Black boards with gold foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. ''A new saga begins, a major departure for the incomparable Anne Rice. Having created fantastic universes of vampires and witches, having chronicled the exploits of Lestate and the Mayfairs, she cecarries us now into new realms of the occult, the mystical, and the magical, and into the presence--nor and through the centuries--of a dark and luminous new hero: the powerful, witty, smiling Azriel, Servant of the Bones.'' -- from the dj. $13.50



Rice, Anne, The Vampire Armand Alfred A. Knopf, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with silver embossed lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. ''In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand -- eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic 'Interview with the Vampire,' the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms.'' - from the dj. $13.50



Rice, Anne, Violin Alfred A. Knopf, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Fine - First Trade Edition; black boards with black tape binding; copper foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped. ''In the grand manner of 'Interview with the Vampire,' Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival manion in present-day New Orleans to the dzzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.'' -- from the dj $13.50



Rice, Anne, Vittorio the Vampire Knopf, (0.00) First Trade Edition, Hardcover, Fine - Black boards with silver foil lettering on spine; dj has some sticker residue on the front, but is now protected with a Brodart cover; pages are clean and spine is tight. ''With 'Pandora,' Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.'' -- from the dj $10.80



Ridley, John, A Conversation With the Mann Warner Books, (0.00) Soft cover, Very Good - Advanced Reading Copy; Minor Shelf Wear $4.50



Riggs, Ransom, Library of Souarl (The Third Novel of Miss Peregrin's Peculiar Children) Quirk Books, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Light green boards with silver embossed signatures of the Peculiar Children on front; silver letter on spine; dj is protected with a Brodart cover; full number line. ''The adventure that began with 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' and contineud in 'Hollow City' comes to a thrilling conclusion with 'Library of Souls.' As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he's diving through history to resuce his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children.'' -- from the dj $13.95



Riggs, Ransom, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Quirk Books, (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good - Red boards with ''Alma LeFay Peregine'' embossed with gold foil on front; gold lettering on spine; dj is protected with a Brodart cover; 20th printing. ''...As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow -- impossible though it seems -- they may still be alive.'' -- from the dj $6.29



Rising, Clara, In the Season of the Wild Rose Villard, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Near Fine - Burgandy boards with blue tape binding; burgandy lettering on spine; inscription on ffep from prevous owner; dj has a few dings and shows some shelf wear; priotected with a Brodart cover; price is blacked out. ''For young Johnny Morgan, heaven was 'a Kentucky kind of place.' Only the war that would divide his country could keep him from his land and his family. And while history has told of Confederate Genearl John Hunt Mmorgan's fearless cavalry Raiders and the battles and skirmishes wonm and lost on the great Civil War battlefields and behind the lines on back roads and across deep rivers, 'In the Seaon of the Wild Rose' tells the story of one man's Civil War, of the grace and loveliness of the way of life he fought for, and of Henrietta Morgan, Johnny's mother -- widowed, her sons off to war, her plantatio in tatters, running her family like a Roman matron, holding things together, and hoping.'' -- from the dj $18.00



Rives, Hallie Erminie, Satan Sanderson The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good - Red boards with pictorial cover; some bumping to spine edges; wonderful color illustrations throughout; previous owner's initials and date (12/25/07) on ffep; 400 pages. Pictures available upon request. $13.05



Rives, Hallie Erminie, The Kingdom of Slender Swords The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (0.00) Hardcover, Good - Red boards with pictorial cover; spine sohows wear; 436 pages; back cover shows repair. ''In the chapters of this novel the author seems always to have had such high ideals before her, and the result is that, besides being an exciting and agreeable reading, the book contains elemtns of serious and instructive considerationn, which can not but contribute toward establishing better and healthier knowledge between the East and West of the pacific.'' from the Foreward by His Excellency Baron Makina. Pictures available upon request. $16.20



Robards, Karen, Bait Putnam Adult, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with red foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; 372 pps. ''It's a business trip that takes advertising agecnyowner Maddie Fitzgerald down to New Orleans, but it's hardly business as uaul when a man breaks into her hotel room and tries to killher. Barely escaping with her life, the sexy, stylish twenty-nine-year-old brunette soon finds herself face-to-face with FBI agent Sam McCabe. Unnerved by his questions -- and his good looks -- Maddie is told she's been targeted by an elusive killer whom McCabe has been tracking for weeks. Apparently, she's been mistaken for a woman of the same name who was also staying at the hotel that night. McCabe grills her, and then disappears.'' -- from the dj $7.20



Robards, Karen, Paradise County Atria Books, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear to DJ $3.60



Roberts, Kenneth, Lydia Bailey Doubleday & Company, Inc., (0.00) Hardcover, Good - Black boards with author's crest embossedon front; spine edges are slightly bumped; spine okay, but not tight; pictorial end papers; previous owner's name on ffep; pages yellow with age. Good reading copy. $4.50



Robinson, Kim Stanley, Antarctica Bantam Books, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Good - Blue boards with grey tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj has minor edgewear; not price clipped and protected with a Brodart cover. Signed by author (personalized: ''For Becky, w.best from Stan.'' ''It is a stark and inhopitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. Explorers have crossed this vast, frozen terrain for many reasons: to stand in awe before the volcanic Mount Erebus or Antaractica's other natural wonders, to fathom the mysteries of ages past, to exploit its great stores of untapped mineral wealth, or to pit themselves against this cold, unforgiving continent.'' -- from the dj $18.00



Roe, E.P., Barriers Burned Away Grosset & Dunlap, (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good - Gray-blue boards with pictorial cover; some bumping to top and bottom of spine; some marks on the lower edge of back board. See pictures for details $13.50



Rollins, James and Rebecca Cantrell, Innocent Blood William Morrow, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Like New - Blue boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated first edition. ''A vicious attack at a ranch in California thrusts archaeologist Erin Granger back into the fold of the Sanguines, an immortal order founded on the blood of Christ and tasked with protecting the world from the beasts haunting its shadows and waiting to break free into the sunlight. Following the prophetic words found in the 'Blood Gospel' -- a tome written by Christ and lost for centuries -- Erin must again join forces with Army Sergeant Jordan Stone and the dark mystery that is Father Rhun Korza to discover and protect a boy believed to be an angel given flesh.'' -- from the dj $13.50



Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor, Buried Evidence Hyperion, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Red boards with black tape binding; dj is not price clipped, but shows minor shelf wear $6.75



Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor, Interest of Justice E P Dutton, (0.00) Hardcover, Good - Shelf Wear to DJ $4.50



Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor, Trial By Fire Dutton, (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good - Red boards with black tape binding; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; spine is tight and pages are clean. ''The labyrinth of the law, the dark secrets of the human heart, and the forces of lust, greed, ambition, and power fuel the explosive chemistry of this new thriller by the bestselling author of 'Mitigating Circumstances' and 'First Offense.' Once again Nacy Taylor Rosenberg presents a breathless, page-turning drama of a brave and beautiful prosecuting attorney forced to defent herself against deadly odds.'' -- from the dj $7.65



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