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Paperback. Condición: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Reprint of this early stand-alone thriller by Chase. Published in 1946 under the "Ambrose Grant" name. Age toning to the pages. Light wave to the dustjacket. Earlier owner's initials on the first free end-page. Remainder dot otherwise in very good / near fine condition.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good to Fine. PHOTO Cover Ilustrador. Second Edition By Publisher. 159 pages. "Mike Girland had worked for the CIA before. But only for the money. His sole intrests were cool cash and hot women. When Dorey, head of the CIA's Western European department, offered him a bucket of blood money to rub out an agent in Prague, he accepted the mission. He didn't know then he was being set up as a fall guy. Once he tumbled he started playing real mean, rough and dirty. The only way he knew how." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

paperback. Condición: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized. PAPERBACK.

paperback. Condición: Good. Clean Pages. Dog ear bends to pages / cover. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Slight edge wear and bumping.

Hardcover. Condición: Good.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good to Fine. Barye Phillips GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover Ilustrador. PBO - Paperback Original (True 1st). 126 pages. "When Jack Sheppey ends up dead in a beach hut in a wealthy town on the coast of the Pacific, his former partner in their detective agency starts a desperate quest to find his killer. But as private investigator Lew Brandon soon learns, this becomes a non-stop, terrifying and deadly hunt that will take him right to the heart of gangster territory">> Minor wear at spine. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. GGA {Good Girl Art} Swimsuit Girl PHOTO Cover. Ilustrador. First Edition By This Publisher. 190 pages. RARE IN HIGH GRADE. >> "Kidnapping had becoe a national pastime in Italy - but was there another reason why billionaire Carlo Grandi put his beautiful dauther behind an electric fence, guarded by killer dogs and two fast shooting guards?" >> Minor shelf wear. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: GOOD+. PHOTO Front & Back Covers Ilustrador. Second Edition By Publisher. 144 pages. "He wasrich and bored and he craved excitment. He got it - with murder." >>>Cover creasing; spine slant; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover Ilustrador. First Edition By This Publisher. #267 - I'LL BURY MY DEAD by James Hadley Chase (pseudonym of Rene Brabazon Raymond; Also Writes as; Raymond Marshall & Ambrose Grant) (1/1954; Mystery; First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing; GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover"Nick English meant every word, and with his efforts to find his brother's killer, started a chain reaction of murder and violence that nearly ended his own life. Here is a story of organized blackmail, punctuated by sudden and gruesome murder." (January/1954; Printed in Canada; Uncommon Edition; >> We have A GIANT selection of Harlequin books in stock, in many difference grades. (If you prefer a different grade ask we might just have it.) > This is a reading copy. Cover scuffing & creasing; corners clipped to lower right edge of covers; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Good to Very Good. GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover Ilustrador. PBO - Paperback Original (True 1st). 224 pages. (12/1952; Mystery; 1st paperback; Nice GGA = Good Girl Art cover! "Beautiful stripper Susan Gellert, was insured for 1,000,000 against every recognized cause of death. The premiums were low, the risks were high. In fact, it was a perfect set-up for murder. Steve Harmas, investigator for National Fidelity, runs into trouble from the moment the policy is sold. He is stuck in an elevator shaft with a bloody corpse; and meets a blonde nude who caresses cobras and an alcoholic movie queen, an d a freak who kills for laughs. Finally fired for handling a corpse, he has only his life to lose, so Steve gets tough. The bizarre solution is revealed when he brings the murders to a crashing culmination, in a welter of blood and lust that makes the hair stand on end." Stripper/ Strip-Tease Dancer & Snake Cover >>> Minor wear & creasing on front & back covers. Indent on front cover., Pen on front cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good to Fine. GGA - Good Girl Art LINGERIE PHOTO Cover. Ilustrador. Second British UK Edition. 160 pages."Chase is the only one to have succeeded in expressing romanticism, purity - not to say puritanism - through violence, hardness and the willhul realism of the American tough shcool." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: GOOD+. GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover Ilustrador. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 224 pages. Harlequin book #267; (1/1954; Mystery; First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing); "Nick English meant every word, and with his efforts to find his brother's killer, started a chain reaction of murder and violence that nearly ended his own life. Here is a story of organized blackmail, punctuated by sudden and gruesome murder." *** SCARCE book Number in the Highly Collectible Original Vintage HARLEQUIN Paperback Series;>> Cover creasing; pen to front end page; heavy scuffing & staining to backcover; heavy indents to backcover; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Good to Very Good. GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover Ilustrador. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 224 pages. Harlequin book #267; (1/1954; Mystery; First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing); "Nick English meant every word, and with his efforts to find his brother's killer, started a chain reaction of murder and violence that nearly ended his own life. Here is a story of organized blackmail, punctuated by sudden and gruesome murder." *** SCARCE book Number in the Highly Collectible Original Vintage HARLEQUIN Paperback Series; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: VERY GOOD Minus. GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover Ilustrador. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 224 pages. Harlequin book #267; (1/1954; Mystery; First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing); "Nick English meant every word, and with his efforts to find his brother's killer, started a chain reaction of murder and violence that nearly ended his own life. Here is a story of organized blackmail, punctuated by sudden and gruesome murder." *** SCARCE book Number in the Highly Collectible Original Vintage HARLEQUIN Paperback Series; *** Nice example, with Small 1/2" piece chipped off lower right corner of cover, thus VG minus; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Condición: fine/fine. vg++ to fine book & vg++ to fine dw 1st edition Robert Hale 1981 hardcover, In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 258 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.65 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. No Jacket. J. Ambrose Walton / H M Paget / G P Jacomb-Hood / Stanley L Wood Ilustrador. 2nd Edition. Four Stories Bound In One Cover , "Windsor Magazine Supplement". Green Cloth, Gilt Titles, Decorated Spine & Front Cover, 127 + 156 + 150 + 80 Pages, Plus Plates. A Bright And Soundly Bound Book, Unmarked. Some Shelf-Wear . A Heavy Book, Overseas Shipping Charge Will Exceed The Abebooks Default Rate - Please Email The Bookseller For An Overseas Shipping Quote.

Paperback. Condición: Good +. First paperback printing. White Circle Pocket Edition. 192 p. 18 cm. Pictorial paperback, all edges red. No. 355. Spine tail chipped, slight spine lean. Signature inside front cover. Tear in half title. Red pen mark on front. Pseudonym of René Brabazon Raymond aka James Hadley.

Soft cover. Condición: Good to Very Good. GGA {Good Girl Art} PHOTO Cover. Ilustrador. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 176 pages. >>> Dated " APRL 1951", First Harlequin Edition; *** Hardboiled sequel to No Orchids For Miss Blandish; "The Flesh of the Orchid is the story of Carol Blandish, daughter of Miss Blandish by the homicidal maniac, Slim Grisson. Committed to a sanitorium for the insane as a suspected homicidal lunatic, Carol inherits the vast fortune left her by her grandfather, John Blandish. She escapes and while endeavouring to prove her sanity falls victim to two professional murderers, the Sullivan brothers. " >> Superb early GGA / Good Girl Art Photo cover, retouched to look like Art; >>> RARE Number in the Vintage Harlequin Series; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. PHOTO Front & Back Covers Ilustrador. Second Edition. 144 pages. "He wasrich and bored and he craved excitment. He got it - with murder." >> Different than other copies, This book cover depicts Blonde lady laying on floor with eyes closed. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, scarlet lettering to spine. 8vo 7½" x 5¼" 250, 1 [pages]. Age darkened page edges, light rubbing to spine tips and corners and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. xiii, 573 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780760703533, 0760703531 OCLC 41973682 ; blue and black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Ghosts / Anon -- Schalken the painter/ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- M. Anastasius / Dinah Maria Mulock -- The lost room / Fitz-James O'Brien -- No. 1 Branch Line : the signalman / Charles Dickens -- Haunted / Anon -- The romance of certain old clothes / Henry James -- John Granger / Mary E. Braddon -- The ghost in the mill and The ghost in the Cap'n Brown House / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Poor pretty Bobby / Rhoda Broughton -- The new pass / Amelia B. Edwards -- The white and the black / Erckmann-Chatrian -- The underground ghost / J.B. Harwood -- Christmas Eve on a haunted hulk / Frank Cowper -- Dog or demon? / Theo Gift -- A ghost from the sea / J.E.P. Muddock -- A set of chessmen / Richard Marsh -- The judge's house / Bram Stoker. Pallinghurst Barrow / Grant Allen -- The mystery of the semi-detached / E. Nesbit -- Sister Maddelena / Ralph Adams Cram -- The trainer's ghost / Lettice Galbraith -- An original revenge / W.C. Morrow -- Caulfield's crime / Alice Perrin -- The bridal pair / Robert W. Chambers -- The watcher / Robert Benson -- The spectre in the cart / Thomas Nelson Page -- H.P. / S. Baring-Gould -- Yuki-Onna / Lafcadio Hearn -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The story of the Green House, Wallington / Allen Upward -- The Slype House / A.C. Benson -- A ghost-child / Bernard Capes. The bead necklace / Alice Perrin -- A dead man's bargain / Clive Pemberton -- The house that was lost / Tom Gallon -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- The doll's ghost / F. Marion Crawford -- The moonlit road / Ambrose Bierce -- The forbidden floor / Alexander Harvey -- The shadow / E. Nesbit -- The gateway of the monster / William Hope Hodgson ; "This collection first published in the UK by Robinson Publishing and in the United States by Carol & Graf Publishers, as The mammoth book of Victorian & Edwardian ghost stories."--Title page verso ; collects 40 of the best ghost stories ever written from the genre's golden age--1839 to 1910. Readers will find traditional 19th-century English and American supernatural yarns, chilling fireside tales, and well-crafted eerie stories from such notables as Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: VERY GOOD Minus. Painted Cover Art. Ilustrador. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 191 pages. >>> First Printing of the First Paperback Edition; Preceded by the rare UK Jarrolds hardcover edition; First Harlequin Printing, dated as "January/1954"; >>> "Greed and lust led lovely Julie Holland down the dark road to murder. Being in love with a cheap crook promised to be exciting, but she found he already had a jealous mistress. He also had a friend called Theo, who specialized in disfiguring beautiful women with an acid bath in the face. Suddenly Julie found she was a partner in the most sensational robbery London had seen for a decade. She had agreed to work as a ladies' maid, but had not counted on the woman being mad, nor on a blind husband who sometimes appeared to see extremely well. Still, Julie might have escaped from it all, if only she could have resisted the fabulous furs. death was no warmer in a mink coat." >>> RARE Number in the Vintage Harlequin Series; EXTRA TOUGH in Nice Condition. >> Name in pen on front endpage; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: VERY GOOD Minus. Painted Cover Art. Ilustrador. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 191 pages. >>> First Printing of the First Paperback Edition; Preceded by the rare UK Jarrolds hardcover edition; First Harlequin Printing, dated as "January/1954"; >>> "Greed and lust led lovely Julie Holland down the dark road to murder. Being in love with a cheap crook promised to be exciting, but she found he already had a jealous mistress. He also had a friend called Theo, who specialized in disfiguring beautiful women with an acid bath in the face. Suddenly Julie found she was a partner in the most sensational robbery London had seen for a decade. She had agreed to work as a ladies' maid, but had not counted on the woman being mad, nor on a blind husband who sometimes appeared to see extremely well. Still, Julie might have escaped from it all, if only she could have resisted the fabulous furs. death was no warmer in a mink coat." >>> RARE Number in the Vintage Harlequin Series; EXTRA TOUGH in Nice Condition. >> Name in pen on front endpage; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Revised edition, 1st printing ; xvii, 430 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. ; ISBN: 0397510624; 9780397510627; National Library: 9204525 LCCN: 92-13416 ; LC: QM551; Dewey: 611/.018 ; OCLC: 25631355 ; "The Second Edition presents a compact and concise alternative to the larger histology texts on the market today. Great for students with a limited amount of time to devote to the subject. Improvements to the art program--adding more color and new illustrations--have been made to this edition." ; Rev. ed. of: Introduction to histology. c1984. ; Contents: Histology and How It Is Studied -- The Cell Nucleus -- The Cell Cytoplasm -- Epithelial Tissue -- Loose Connective Tissue and Adipose Tissue -- Blood Cells -- Myeloid Tissue, Lymphoid Tissue, and the Immune System -- Dense Connective Tissue, Cartilage, Bone, and Joints -- Nervous Tissue and the Nervous System -- Muscle Tissue -- The Circulatory System -- The Integumentary System -- The Digestive System -- The Respiratory System -- The Urinary System -- The Endocrine System -- The Female Reproductive System -- The Male Reproductive System -- The Eye and the Ear. ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; name on top and bottom of textblock, mark on inside front cover ; crease on front cover ; front ep corner clipped ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No jacket. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. Hardback, 8vo, 271pp. Loose pages, some spotting, no d/j, cloth a little bumped and marked. A fair reading copy. /0.3uk.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good +. GGA {Good Girl Art} PHOTO Cover. Ilustrador. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 176 pages. >>> Dated " APRL 1951", First Harlequin Edition; "The Flesh of the Orchid is the story of Carol Blandish, daughter of Miss Blandish by the homicidal maniac, Slim Grisson. Committed to a sanitorium for the insane as a suspected homicidal lunatic, Carol inherits the vast fortune left her by her grandfather, John Blandish. She escapes and while endeavouring to prove her sanity falls victim to two professional murderers, the Sullivan brothers. " >> Superb early GGA / Good Girl Art Photo cover, retouched to look like Art; >>> RARE Number in the Vintage Harlequin Series; >> EXTRA TOUGH in Nice Condition, as with this example; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good to Fine. GGA {Good Girl Art} PHOTO Cover. Ilustrador. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 192 pages. (Collins White Circle Pocket Edition. Book #355) "From the moment that Cora Brant stepped into the smoky atmosphere of 'Joe's Club', flaunting a figure that slacks and a too-thin sweater did nothing to conceal, George Fraser was lost. George, in spite of his imposing appearance, was timid and lonely, living in a dream world of racketeers, gunfights and fascinating women: bolstering up his inferiority complex by imagining himself the toughest gangster of them all. Through Cora, all these fantasies were to come true. George was to become ensnared in a net of intrigue, and a vicious killer hunted, not only by the police, but by the gang he had doubled-crossed. Ambrose grant has a gift for describing violent and brutal characters, and for action that rips along like a bullet."; >>> *** Extremely RARE number in the White Circle Paperback series; VERY RARE Title by this Author using this Original Pseudonym; >>> Scarce in VG or better condition, RARE in FINE or better ; Classic book title; Fantastic Early Paperback with PHOTO GGA Good Girl Art-cover of beautiful Blonde standing in doorway of a bar with Cigarette in hand! HOT! "Greed & Savage passions", "Violent & brutal characters"; only time author used this pseudonym & the only Ambrose Grant book for Collins; Preceded by the 1946 UK Eyre & Spottiswoode Hardcover; > Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Paperback. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fine unmarked copy of this famous mystery novel by Grant. This copy is clean throughout but does show some age toning. The wraps are in overall very good condition, again showing some age toning and a small crease to the lower quarter of the rear panel. Overall a nice copy and hard to find.