Search Results: Titles starting with S from W. Fraser Sandercombe

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Sleeping Bear Press, 2017. Book. Illus. by Chris Lyons;. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to. Unpaginated. Glossy pictorial boards matching the dustjacket. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Illustrated in full colour by Chris Lyons..

New York: Baen Books, 1992. Book. Illus. by Larry Elmore; Dan Frazier;. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Printing - First Thus. 380 pp. Signed on the title page by S. M. Stirling. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine and a faint sticker ghost on the upper right of the front cover; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. Cover art by Larry Elmore. In the Fifth Millennium there was no city larger, wealthier or more corrupt than Illizbuah... The intrigues of its priests and lords, wizards and merchants and thieves were ancient and inbred and formal as a dance, yet two homeless wanderers would set all their plans at naught..

Windsor, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1974. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 104 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and a map. The Contents are: The Mysterious Sable Island; Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Sable; Pioneering Canada: La Roche's Sable Settlement; The Sable Slaughterhouse of Acadians and New Englanders; The Sable Sea-Hospital of Boston's LeMercier and Company; Sable Victims: Shipwrecks of the Early English Period; A Sable Ghost Story and a Solved Mystery; Sir John Wentworth's Sable Island Humane Establishment; Life as a Sable Colonist; More Sable Victims: Shipwrecks of Sable's Humane Era; The End of Shipwrecks and the Sable Island Pony; Canada's Exploration of Sable; and Sable Now: A Question of the Meaning of Life..

New York: Tempo Books, 1976. Book. Illus. by Dik Browne;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Unpaginated. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings..

New York: Delacorte Press, 2005. Book. Illus. by Stephen Youll;. Near Fine. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 8vo. Black boards lettered in silver on the spine. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by Stephen Youll..

London: Virago Press, 2009. Book. Illus. by Trevillion;. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 471 pp. Signed by Sarah Dunant on the title page. Blue boards lettered in silver on the spine; illustrated endpapers; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. Dustjacket art by Trevillion. Santa Catarina, a convent near Venice, is home to over one hundred women in 1567. But with powerful forces for change raging outside the convent, and with the world of the women within threatened by a new arrival, passions, hysteria, and conflict will come to threaten their very survival..

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971. Book. Illus. by Carl Ray;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xii) 144 pp. Pale green boards lettered in gilt on the spine; brick red endpapers; illustrated with black and white drawings by Carl Ray. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks around the edges; price intact; no interior markings. Dj art by Carl Ray. The Contents are: Introduction; The Sandy Lake Cree; The Moons of the Cree; Legends of the Supernatural Wee-Sa-Kay-Jac; The Legend of the Rolling Head; Legends; Stories of the Thunderbirds; Legends of the Mighty Ja-Ka-Baysh; The Plight of Iyas; Stories of the Windigo; Superstitions and Customs; and The Stories of Guy-An-Way, the Man from Another World..

New York: Atheneum Books, 1992. Book. Illus. by Karen Lidbeck;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 122 pp. Quarter-bound in purple cloth on blue boards; teal endpapers. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. Dj art by Karen Lidbeck. If only life at home was as good as life on the baseball diamond....

Wellington, New Zealand: First Edition Publishers, 2008. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. 203 pp. Trade paperback format. Signed by Jo Cutler on the half-title page. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the front hinge and a flat uncreased spine; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. This is set in the mysterious countryside of Burma after the British had relinquished their ruling power and the communists were making serious attempts to take over. The area became a hotbed for espionage and bribery....

New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1983. Book. Illus. by Kevin Johnson;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 434 pp. Book Club Code N34. Brown and blue boards, lettered in black on the spine. Dj art by Kevin Johnson. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Cockoo was coming. No one knew what it was, but everyone knew it was trouble. Designated Object Lambda when it first appeared on the fringes of the galaxy, 20,000 light-years away, it was travelling at one sixth of the light speed. An existing space probe was reoriented to intercept, and staffed with replicates of both humans and aliens. Then the space probe began to leak radiation... Both titles in a single volume: Farthest Star, and Wall Around a Star..

New York: DC Comics, 1987. Book. Illus. by Stephen Bissette; John Totleben;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 4to. Unpaginated in a graphic novel format. Edge and corner wear with some rubbing on the covers; no interior markings. Illustrated in full colour by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben..

St. Catherines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 1998. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Second Printing. 12mo. 80 pp. Trade papeback format. Light rubbing on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; store stamped. Illustrated with black and white maps, diagrams, drawings and photographs. The Chapters are: Queen of the North Atlantic; Schooners; Fishing on the Grand Banks; The Competition Begins; Bluenose Is Born; The Elimination Races: October 1921; The Challengers: Elsie 1921; The Challengers: Henry Ford 1922; The Challengers: Columbia 1923; The Challengers: Haligonian 1926; The Challengers: Thebaud 1930 - 1931; World Recognition; The Last Challenge: Thebaud 1938; and Death of a Queen; followed by International Fishermen's Trophy Races: 1921 - 1938; and an index..

New York: Bantam Books, 1981. Book. Illus. by Lou Glanzman;. Very Good. Soft cover. First and Later Printings. 434, 340, 369, 417, 369, 373, 340, 356 pp. All eight books have some edge and corner wear with creasing on the spines; no interior markings. Covers by Lou Glanzman. To be clear, the books here are: 1: The Hawk and the Dove; 2: Wings of the Hawk; 3: Revenge of the Hawk; 4: Flight of the Hawk; 5: Night of the Hawk; 6: Cry of the Hawk; 7: Quest of the Hawk; and 8: Shadow of the Hawk. John Cooper Baines, an American frontiersman who has created a new home for himself and family in Texas, must defend his ranch and lifestyle when war erupts with Mexico....

Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice Hall, 1994. Book. Illus. by Danuta Mayer; Monique le Luhandre;. Very Good+. Hardcover. Second Printing. 16mo. 61 pp. Glossy pictorial boards matching the dustjacket; decorated endpapers. Illustrations by Danuta Mayer; photography by Monique le Luhandre. All the aspects of Sagittarius with the moon and the solar system..

Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 377 pp. Quarter-bound in brown cloth on beige boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; gold endpapers; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. This story collection contains: When the Old Squire Broke the Punch Bowl; When the Savings Bank Was Robbed; The Old Squire's Rozzum; Single Combat; At the Taking of Louisbourg; At the Maple Tree Camp; Uncle Dresser's Money; The Doctor and the Black Squirrel; At the Hay Meadows; Bear Tone; The Queen Amethyst Quarrel; The Bees of Gehenna; The Old Squire's Eden; Cutting Cordwood; A January Thaw; The Old Cider Mill; A Night on the Great Rock; Bethesda; The Old Squire's Clocks; The Old Squire's Tonic; The Unpardonable Sin; The Great Potato Picnic; Sailing on the Ice; A Strange Legacy; At Anticosti; Wintering in a Dugout; What the Man in the Moon Saw;… Read More

London: Panther Books, 1958. Book. Illus. by Josh Kirby;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 159 pp. Panther Book 865. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; store stamped. Cover art by Josh Kirby. From the moment when Henry Tippus, that simple and sentimental mariner, steps ashore, to when, sadder and conceivably wiser, he returns to sea, life is one damned and delirious thing after another....

New York: King Size Publications, 1958. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 12mo. Digest format. Some wear, with a small ink mark on the front cover; no interior markings. This issue contains: The Unfortunate Financier by Leslie Charteris; The Jaws of Darkness by Hal Ellson; The Bridal-Night Murder by Octavus Roy Cohen; The Vanishing Man by William MacHarg; A Sort of a Story by Ben Hecht; The Plum-Colored Corpse by Van Wyck Mason; A Perfect Natural Murder by Robert Arthur; A Pushover by Dal Stivens; and I Know You'd Do the Same for Me by Stephen Bond..

New York: Fiction Publishing Company, 1966. Book. Very Good-. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo. 160 pp. Digest format. Light edge and corner wear with some rubbing on the spine; two short tears on the front cover. This issue contains: Instead of the Saint (xiii) by Leslie Charteris; Su Chen by D. K. Findlay; Judas Kiss by Virginia Coffman; Dealer in Death by Howard Schoenfield; Extract from Proceedings, University of Altair by Gary L. Fairbairn; Fungus Soup by Libby MacCall; The Road Leading Home by Alice Scanlan Reach; The Court of the Mad King by Hilary Bailey; Wall of Illusion by Elsa Marshall; and Sexton Blake by W. O. B. Lofts. The Saint crossword puzzle is unmarked..

New York: Fiction Publishing Company, 1965. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo. 160 pp. Digest format. Light wear with a faint date stamp on the front cover. This issue contains: Instead of the Saint by Leslie Charteris; Miss Phipps Considers the Cat by Phyllis Bentley; Up on the Mountain by Hal Ellson; Bed Time Story by Robert L. Fish; The Gambler Hated Rats by J. Jefferson Farjeon; and A Lonely Lovely Lady by Rufus King; along with the usual features..

New York: Fiction Publishing Company, 1966. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo. 160 pp. Digest format. Light wear with a faint date stamp on the front cover. This issue contains: The Saint in Hollywood by Leslie Charteris; Adventure of the Innkeeper's Clerk - Solar Pons by August Derleth; The Analytic Beatnick by Robert Andrea; The Devil's Castle by Hal Ellson; Deaf Ear to Murder by Julian Symons; The Blue, Blue Depths by Virginia Coffman; Shadow in Sunlight by Morris Hershman; Case of the Comic Killer by Harry Harrison; and Occupational Hazard by Wenzell Brown..