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Schwarzkopf, H.Norman, It Doesn't Take a Hero Bantam Dell Pub Group,
(0.00)Hardcover,Very Good- Black boards with black tape binding; dj is price clipped and shows creases.
$9.00
Schweikert, H.E. (et al) Editors, Adventures in Englis Literature Harcourt, Brace and Company,
(0.00)Hardcover,Fair- Edited by H.C. Schweikert, Rewey Belle Inglis, Alice Cecilia Cooper, Marion A. Sturdevant and William Rose Benet. Maroon boards with gold/yellow lettering; title page is almost torn out; previous owner's writing on fep; spine is bumped and slightly frayed; pages are yellowing.
$10.80
Scott, Melissa, Burning Bright Tom Doherty Associates,
(0.00) First Edition, Hardcover,Fine- Tan boards with dark brown spine cover; gold lettering on spine; small ink mark on FFEP; dj has minor bumps and is protected with Brodart cover. ''Once again, Scott constructs a brilliantly complex future society and tells a story that involves the mind and the heart. This is science fiction adventure at its classic best.''
$9.00
Scott, Sir Walter, The Lady of the Lake Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.,
(0.00)Hardcover,Very Good- With notes and an appendix; From the latest Edinburgh edition. Padded brown leather boards with embossed design; title embossed in gold on front cover; edges are slightly worn; pages are slightly yellowed; 332 pages with advertisements for other Crowll books in the back. Photos available upon request.
$18.00
Sewell, Anna, Black Beauty Grosset & Dunlap,
(0.00)Hardcover,Very Good- No date; red boards with blue lettering on front and spine; pages are yellowed with age; dj has some chips along top and bottom edges; now protected with Brodart cover; green end pages have red and white diamond with a horse in the middle. ''Of all the stories of horses, this story of Black Beauty, a high-bred, gentle creature, is the most famous and best loved among children. Accustomer to kind treatment and loving care, Black Beauty meets with an accident and is disfigured so that he is sold to a keeper of a livery stable. In turn he becomes a cab-horse, a cart-horse, then a cab-horse again and finally, at the end of a life of strange adventures and contrasts, he finds a happy home among friends.'' -- from the dj
$10.80
Shaara, Jeff, The Glorious Cause Ballantine,
(0.00) First Edition, Hardcover,Like New- Red boards with blue tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; very nice, clean copy. ''It was never a war in which the outcome was obvious. Despire their spirit and stamina, the colonists were outmanned and outfought by the brazen British army. General George Washington found his troops trounced in the battles of Brooklyn and Manhattan and retreated toward Pennsylvania. With the future of the colonies at its lowest ebb, Washington made his most fateful decision: to cross the Delaware River and attack his enemy. The stunning victory at Trenton began a saga of victory and defeat that concluded with the British surrender at Yorktown, a momen that changed the history of the world.'' -- from the dj
$18.00
Shaara, Jeff, The Steel Wave Ballantine Books,
(0.00) First Edition, Hardcover,Very Good- Dark grey boards with dark grey tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated First Edition. ''Jeff Shaara, America's premier author of military historical fiction, brings us the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War. Told through the points of view of some of history's mots colorful and dynamic characters, this is the story of D-Day, the Allies' invasion of France.'' -- from the dj
$15.29
Shann, Renee, Airman's Wife Triangle Books,
(0.00)Hardcover,Good- Blue boards with black stripping on spine; two dings to front spine; tanning pages; tight spine; creases in first two pages
$4.50
Shatner, William, Tek Secret G.P. Putnam & Sons,
(0.00) First Edition, Hardcover,Very Good- Cream boards with brown tape binding; dj is not price clipped; full number line
$6.75
Shaw, Irwin, The Top of the Hill Delacorte Press,
(0.00)Hardcover,Very Good- Teal boards with gray binding; author's signature embosse in silver teal on the front cover; teal foil lettering on spine; edges are faded; dj is not price clipped ($9.95) and is protected with a Brodart cover; edges of dj are age-faded; secod printing. ''...a brilliantly written story of a man who needs to risk death to feel fully alive, a man who turns away from a comfortable, outwardly successful life towarddangerous pleasures.'' -- from the dj
$6.75
Shelby, Philip, Last Rights Simon & Schuster,
(0.00) First Edition, Hardcover,Very Good- White boards with red tape binding; gold lettering on spine; small remainder mark on bottom; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped. ''From the author of the stunning bestseller 'Days of Drums' comes a novel of Washington intrigue that thrusts the reader into a whirlwind of murder spawned by elaborately masked scandals in the corridors of power. When General Griffin North, a highly decorated African American icon, is killed in a suspicious plane crash, the special commission, led by renowned federal judge Simon Esterhaws, deems it a tragic accident caused by pilot error. But Mollie Smith of the Criminal Investigation Division vows to keep the investigation alive -- single-handedly and on her own terms, if necessary. Certain that the General was assassianted, and keenly aware that certain officials in high places would have stopped at nothing to keep a black man from a possible vice-presidential nomination, Mollie intensifies the pitch of her inquiry.
$6.75
Shephard, Katherine, Betrayed By Silence Seven Locks Press,
(0.00)Hardcover,Very Good- Signed by Author (personalized)
$5.40
Shephard, Katherine, Betrayed By Silence Seven Locks Press,
(0.00)Hardcover,Like New- Black boards with silver lettering on front boards and spine; dj is protected with Brodart cover; signed and personalized on title page: ''Becky, Happy Reading!'' ''Newlyweds Beth and Bob Larken had a quiet New Year Eve's planned at their Grand Ledge, Michigan home. A few friends and their feisty pup, B.A.D., would celebrate the end of a tumultuous year, and the beginning of a new, quieter existence. That was until Victoria, Beth's best friend, informs them her date is missing.'' -- from the dj
$13.50
Shields, Carol, The Stone Diaries Penguin Books,
(0.00)Trade Paperback,Very Good- Seventh printing; no spine creases; minor bumping to edges. ''From her calamitous birth in Manitoba in 1905 to her journey with her father to Indiana, throughout her years as a wife, mother, and widow, Daisy Stone Goodwill has struggled to understand her place in her own life. Now she listens, she observes, and, through sheer force of imagination, she becomes a witness of her own life: her birth, her death, and the troubling misconnections she discovers in between.'' - from the back cover
$6.75
Shreve, Anita, Fortune's Rocks Back Bay Books,
(0.00) First Edition, Hardcover,Very Good- 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear to DJ
$4.50
Siddons, Anne Rivers, Hill Towns HarperCollins,
(0.00) First Edition, Hardcover,Very Good- Yellow boards with green tape binding; author's initials are embossed in gold on front board; previous owner's name on ffep; dj is not price clipped and is protected with Brodart cover; stated First Edition. ''Something terrible happened to Catherine Gaillard when she was a small child -- something so traumatic that for thirty years she couldn't bring herself to leave Montview, the cloistered mountaintop college town in Tennessee where she grew up. But she has not missed the 'real' world. Cat's life on the moutain has been wonderful. She adores her husband, who buttresses her against the world outside; she cherishes her country garden and her friends from the college. Montview has served her well.'' -- from the dj
$9.00
Sigler, Scott, Contagious Crown Publishers,
(0.00) First Edition, Hardcover,Like New- Black boards with black tape binding; green lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated first edition. ''Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts, using sophisticated strategies and brilliant ruses to fool its pursuers. The only possible explantion: the epidemic is driven not by evolution but by some malevolent intelligence.'' -- from the dj
$27.00
Simmons, Dan, Fires of Eden G.P. Putnam & Sons,
(0.00) First Edition, Hardcover,Very Good- Green boards with black tape binding; gold embossed lettering on spine; dj has minor edge wear. ''Real estate mogul Byron Trumbo is the owner of the Mauna Pele, a deluxe Hawaiian resort that until recently was the playground of the rich and famous. Yet instead o fmaking money hand over fist, Trumbo has a bit of a problem: guests keep disappearing. Hoping to sell the resort to Japanese investors, he invites them to the Mauna Pele to finalize the deal - but strange and fantastic events complicate the weekend. Giant beasts capable of human speech are spotted, visitors turn up dead and dismembered, and volcanic eruptions fill the sky with smoke and flame as fast-moving lava flows dangerously close to the resort. Trumbo refuses to allow these minor inconveniences to impede his sales pitch to the Japanese.'' - from the dj flap.
$11.25
Slaughter, Karin, Fallen Delacorte Press,
(0.00) First Edition, Hardcover,Very Good- Brown boads with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; stated First Edition; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; 387pp. ''There's no police training stronger than a cop's instinct. Faith Mitchell's mother isn't answering her phone. Her front door is open. there's a bloodstain above the knob. Faith's infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations has taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother's house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room. She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn't see is her mother ...'' -- from the dj
$13.50
Slaughter, Karin, Pieces of Her William Morrow,
(0.00) First Edition, Hardcover,Very Good- Black boards with black tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj is protected in a Brodart cover and is not price-clipped; stated Frist Edition with full number line. ''Andrea Oliver knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows Laura has spent nearly her whole life in the small beachside down of Belle Isle, Georgia; she knows Laura's never wanted anything more than to lead a quiet, normal life in this conventional community; she knows Laura's a kind and beloved speech pathologist who helps others; she knows Laura's never kept a secret in her life. Andrea knows that Laura is everything she isn't -- confident, settled, sure of herself. Feeling listless, with no direction, Andrea, unlike Luara, struggles to find her way.'' -- from the dj
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