Red Gold by Alan Furst - April 1999

New York: Condé Nast Publications, May - August 1968. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good. Interiors unmarked but lightly tanned. All covers clean and bright; June cover has a small tear. Mild edgewear. Satan's World is one of Poul Anderson's finest science fiction novels. It first appeared in print when it was serialized in the May-August 1968 issues of Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact magazine with cover art (May) by Chesley Bonestell and eight interior illustrations by Kelly Freas. In 1984, Satan's World was nominated for the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. The story features flamboyant capitalist adventurer Nicholas van Rijn, owner of the Solar Spice and Liquors Company, and the Polesotechnic League, a mutual benefit association of interstellar merchants. Also includes Prometheus Hall of Fame Award nominated novelette "Conquest by Default" by Vernor Vinge and and Hugo finalist short novel "Hawk Among the Sparrows" by Dean McLaughlin with cover art (July) by Kelly Freas.

New York: Pantheon, November 1982. Trade Paperback. First American Edition (stated). Near Fine. Lightly tanned. Unmarked. Binding is straight, tight and uncreased. Light shelf and reading wear. Dog-ear to top front corner. See photos. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 191 pages.

An introduction to the influential economics treatise explains the concepts of commodities, exchange value, abstract labor, money, and class struggle.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875. 8vo (9 x 6 x 15 inches). Three-quarter bound in black morocco-grain cloth with marbled-paper sides. Spines in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, intricate gilt tooling in the remainder. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. First vol. has frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Armoral bookplate of Howell Wharton Bickley (1842-80) to each front pastedown. "MButler" penciled on top of three bookplates. A handsome set, particularly when shelved. All volumes unmarked, tightly bound, square and clean. No evident repairs. Interiors are in exceptional condition for books nearly 150 years old, with only slight tanning. Exteriors show a good deal of reading and shelf wear and general abrasion. Rubbing and chipping at hinges and spine ends. A 1.5 inch gouge mars the spine of Vol. 5. Dents to top and bottom edges of the rear covers of Vols. 5 and 7. Part of the marbled is missing from the rear cover of Vol. 7 and front cover of… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1947. Hardcover. Gift inscription by Author to a personal friend on FFEP. First Edition. Gray cloth over boards with blue lettering to cover and spine. Very Good book in a Poor jacket. Text block pristine. Spine straight, tail bumped. Archival tape repairs to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 203 pages. Association copy, Presentation copy.

New York: William Morrow, October 2007. Special Gift Edition designed to look like a bible. Imitation leather. Gilt edges. Bound-in red ribbon marker. Red endpapers. Flexible binding. No dust jacket as issued. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 417 pages. An irreverent, iconoclastic, and divinely funny tale of the early life of Jesus Christ as witnessed by his boyhood pal Levi bar Alphaeus (a.k.a. Biff). Find out what really happened between the manger and the Sermon on the Mount.

Tulsa, Oklahoma: Kane Miller, September 2010. Boxed Set (Hardcover). New. No remainder mark. Not damaged. Reading Level: 10-15 years. Lexile: 680-820L. The adventures of Callum Ormond, a 15-year-old who is forced to become a fugitive as he searches for the truth behind the death of a family member. Made into a 12-part television miniseries.

Set of the first four Poke Rafferty Bangkok Thriller books: #1: A Nail Through the Heart. 9780061255809, June 2007;#2: The Fourth Watcher, 9780061257254, June 2008;#3: Breathing Water, 9780061672231, August 2009;#4: The Queen of Patpong, 9780061672262, August 2010. New York: William Morrow. Hardcover. All volumes are stated First Editions. #1-3 have full number line. #4 number line ends at "2". Near Fine books in a Near Fine jackets. Spine ends bumped, remainder marks to bottom edges of #1-3. Light edgewear to jackets. Not from a library. Not clipped. Suitable for gifting. American travel writer Poke Rafferty was good at looking for trouble-so good that he made a little money writing a few offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored. But that was before Bangkok stole his heart. Now the expat American is happily playing family with his fiancée Rose, a former go-go dancer, and Miaow, the wary street child he adopts. Yet just when everything is beginning to work out, trouble comes looking… Read More

New York: Pantheon, November 1982. Trade Paperback. First American Edition (stated). Near Fine. Lightly tanned. Unmarked. Binding is straight, tight and uncreased. Light shelf and reading wear. Dog-ear to top front corner. See photos. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 191 pages.

An introduction to the influential economics treatise explains the concepts of commodities, exchange value, abstract labor, money, and class struggle.

RARE! London: Jesuit Missions, 1985. Paperback. First Edition (not stated). Very Good. Text unmarked. A few notes to penultimate (blank) page. Spine straight, but creased and wrinkled. Creases to both covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xv + 169 pages. Selections from the personal narrative of Fr Cuthbert Cary-Elwes describing his pioneer missionary effort among the aboriginal Indians of British Guiana.

Lenoir City, Tennessee: Synergy South, December 1999. Hardcover. Commemorative Edition. Originally published as Jungle Cowboy. As New book in an As New jacket. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 310 pages. For years, Stan Brock was a regular fixture in America's living rooms as co-host of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. All the Cowboys Were Indians is Brock's account of his coming-of-age on the Dadanawa, the world's largest cattle ranch, in Guyana, South America. You will meet Brock as a fugitive schoolboy from England, longing to become a cowboy. You will agonize with him as he learns bone-crushing lessons the hard way. You will share his triumph as he tames a killer horse. You will fall in love with Leemo, his pet mountain lion, and all the other four-footed and feathered friends he acquires during his days on the Dadanawa.