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Strange Tales of Peril and Adventure
London Religious Tract Society, The Hard Cover Fair
Illustrated blue boards, gilt titles. Gift Inscription to former owner dated Christmas 1907, shelf-wear, bumping to corners, staining to front board, foxing. 332pp. With twenty-three full-page illustrations.
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Aber, Linda Williams Lost Girls Alone
London Scholastic Children's Books 1992 0590550713 / 9780590550710 First Thus Trade Paperback Fair
First Impression. No Inscriptions, creasing to cover, tears to heel of spine. 160pp. Six girls are stranded on an island and are slowly coming to terms with their new life. They have made a temporary home, and are building a boat so that they can escape.
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Adam, Paul Genesis II
London Little, Brown & Company 2001 0316857483 / 9780316857482 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
First Impression, a little bump and shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little creasing and edge-wear. 426pp. An eco-thriller turns the cutting edge of science into a killer.
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Adam, Paul Shadow Chasers
London Warner Books 2001 0751531421 / 9780751531428 Mass Market Paperback Good
A little edge-wear, remnants of adhesive stickers to cover. 439pp. Four million cigarettes destined for the Italian black market intercepted in the Bay of Naples. A ship's captain taken at gunpoint from a prison van in England and murdered. Is there a link between the two events?
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Aiken, Joan Nightbirds on Nantucket
New York Doubleday 1966 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good Jacques, Robin
First Impression. Neat gift inscription to former owner, a little bumping and shelf-wear. Dustwrapper price-clipped, edge-worn with small nicks. 216pp. When Captain Casket finally stopped chasing the pink whale and sailed home to Nantucket, 11-year-old Dido Twite was delighted.
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15.00 GBP
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Andrews, Russell Icarus
London Little, Brown & Company 2001 0316857556 / 9780316857550 First British Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
No Inscriptions, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little wrinkling to edge. 402pp. Icarus, the boy who flew too close to the sun. The boy who fell to his death. It is a story that captured the imagination of ten-year-old Jack Keller, but one that is also eerily prescient. For a vicious assault resulted in the murder of Jack's mother, sending her plummeting seventeen storeys to her death - right in front of her son's eyes.
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Anthony, Evelyn Bloodstones
London Bantam Press 1994 0593036565 / 9780593036563 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
No Inscriptions, small black mark to ffep. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little wrinkling to edge. 336pp. The world's diamond industry is about to explode into anarchy. In the frozen north of Archangel, a new mine is yielding the most beautiful and rare stone in the world - the red diamond. And Karakov, the greatest and wiliest jeweller the industry has ever seen, is about to sign an exclusive agreement with Moscow.
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Archer, Geoffrey Shadow Hunter
London Arrow Books Ltd 1990 0099603802 / 9780099603801 Mass Market Paperback Good
Some creasing and edge-wear, lean to spine, promotional copy. 317pp. Shadowhunt is the codename of the desperate sonar search for HMS Truculent, last seen heading for the Kola Inlet where the cream of Soviet sea power lies unsuspecting at anchor.
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Bagley, Desmond Enemy, The
London 1978 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Good Good
No Inscriptions, slight lean. Dustwrapper wrinkled with chips and tears to edge, corners and spine ends. 285pp. Malcolm Jaggard, financial consultant, was engaged to Penelope Ashton, the daughter of a successful industrialist and employed in genetics research at a government establishment. While he was visiting the Ashtons' opulent home in Buckinghamshire, Penny's sister was viciously attacked by an unknown assailant. Why?
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Bagley, Desmond Enemy, The
London 1978 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Good Good
No Inscriptions, slight lean, a little bumping and shelf-wear. Dustwrapper wrinkled with small chips and tears to edge and corners. 285pp. Malcolm Jaggard, financial consultant, was engaged to Penelope Ashton, the daughter of a successful industrialist and employed in genetics research at a government establishment. While he was visiting the Ashtons' opulent home in Buckinghamshire, Penny's sister was viciously attacked by an unknown assailant. Why?
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Baldacci, David Hour Game
London Macmillan 2005 140500522X / 9781405005227 First British Edition Hard Cover New New
First Impression. No Inscriptions. UNREAD. 438pp. The unidentified corpse of an attractive young woman turns up in the woods; two high school kids, one shot in the back, the other in the face, are found dead in their car; a successful lawyer is discovered stabbed to death in her own home. A serial killer is on the loose. The murderer kills in the manner of famous killers of the past but takes care to leave a stopped watch at the scene. Why?
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Baldacci, David Last Man Standing
London Pocket Books 2002 0743428951 / 9780743428958 Mass Market Paperback Good
Reading creases, lean to spine, a little edge-wear. 548pp. Exploring the essence of survival itself, as a conspiracy of violence surrounds an FBI agent whose fate was to be the Last Man Standing.
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Baldacci, David Saving Faith
London Simon & Schuster Ltd 1999 068486164X / 9780684861647 First British Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
First Impression. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, slight wrinkling to edge. 451pp. The scene is set for an explosive clash between the CIA and FBI. As the lethal danger increases, so does the level of unbearable tension in this superbly compelling reading experience.
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Banks, Iain Canal Dreams
London Abacus 1998 034910171X / 9780349101712 Mass Market Paperback Very Good
A little edge-wear. 198pp. Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. By the end of her journey she has ignited one soldier with an oxy-acetylene torch, stabbed another through the chest with the spike of her cello, clobbered a guard with the butt of a rifle and raked terrorists with machine-gun fire before frazzling the survivors in an oil-covered sea.
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Bates, H. E. Purple Plain, The
Harmondsworth, Middlesex Penguin 1977 0140011528 / 9780140011524 Mass Market Paperback Fair
Creased and edge-worn, stain to edge. 233pp. The aircraft crashed miles from help in the Burmese wilderness. Assailed by heat, thirst and pain, three men set off on the long trek towards safety.
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Bear, Greg Vitals
London, United Kingdom HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2002 0007124023 / 9780007124022 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
First Impression. No Inscriptions. Dustwrapper not price-clipped. 342pp. From the New York Times bestselling author Greg Bear comes a vivid and terrifying scientific thriller.
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Benchley, Peter White Shark
London Hutchinson 1994 0091787408 / 9780091787400 First British Edition Hard Cover Good Good
First Impression. No inscriptions, a little bumping and shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little creasing and edge-wear, small nick. 324pp. From Osprey Island off the coast of Connecticut, Simon Chase runs his own institute for marine conservation. But there is one creature of the deep he has never encountered before ...
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Blake, Ken The Professionals 10 Cry Wolf.
Reading Sphere 1991 0722116594 / 9780722116593 Mass Market Paperback Good
Edge wear, corners creasing. pages beginning to tan. Fighting fire with fire are Bodie, Doyle and Cowley, the linchpins of C15. The Action Squad formed to deal with the new criminal and maintain law and order - once and for all.
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Blyton, Enid Ship of Adventure, The
London Macmillan 1950 First Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket Tresilian, Stuart
First Impression, pictorial boards, bumped to corners, worn to edge, small stain to page-ends, a little staining to boards, former owner has written to rear board, ffep missing. 328pp. The sixth book in the 'Adventure' series, continuing the adventures of Jack, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and, of course, Kiki the parrot.
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Blyton, Enid Valley of Adventure, The
London Macmillan 1951 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Tresilian, Stuart
Illustrated boards, gift inscription to former owner, dated Christmas 1951, slight lean, a little edge-wear, a little marking to boards. 341pp. The third book in the 'Adventure' series. Again we meet Jack, with his talkative parrot, Kiki, Lucy-Ann, his sister, Philip and Dinah, his friends - and their staunch admirer, Bill Smugs.
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