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Image for FLASH GORDON. BOOK ONE: MASSACRE IN THE 22nd CENTURY. BOOK TWO: WAR OF THE CITADELS. BOOK THREE: CRISIS ON CITADEL II. BOOK FOUR: FORCES FROM THE FEDERATION. BOOK SIX: CITADELS ON EARTH. 5 BOOK PARTIAL SET.

FLASH GORDON. BOOK ONE: MASSACRE IN THE 22nd CENTURY. BOOK TWO: WAR OF THE CITADELS. BOOK THREE: CRISIS ON CITADEL II. BOOK FOUR: FORCES FROM THE FEDERATION. BOOK SIX: CITADELS ON EARTH. 5 BOOK PARTIAL SET.

By: (Hagberg, David.)

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Tempo / Grosset & Dunlap:

Seller ID: 29967

Binding: Mass Market Paperbacks

Condition: Very Good

Books 1,2,3,4 & 6 of this Flash Gordon series. 6 3/4" H. **Lacks Book 5: Citadels Under Attack.** Book One: Massacre in the 22nd Century - 202 pp, 1980, ISBN 0448129639 - "Sent on a mission to investigate the mysterious reappearance of the Interstellar Exploration ship GOODHOPE, Colonel Flash Gordon and his companions, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov discover much more than they had bargained for. Stranded in deep space, the trio find themselves drawn against their will into a war of the worlds which has lasted thousands of years - and which threatens the very existence of the planet...
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SHERIFFS AND OUTLAWS OF WESTERN CANADA.

By: Anderson, Frank W.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta, Frontier Publishing: 1973

Seller ID: 11693

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good+

100 pp, 10 1/2" H. B&w photographs, maps, drawings. "In response to numerous requests for a book dealing exclusively with western Canadian gunmen and law enforcement officers, we have taken 39 of the best stories from 'Sagas of the Canadian West' and reproduced them here." Contents include: The First Shootout; Town Tamers; The McLean Gang; Ernest Chashel; Bulldog Kelly; The Wood Mountain Mob; Crackerbox Bill; Vigilante Action; Cariboo Killers; Cariboo Rowlands Caper; Manitoba's Krafchenko Problem; Ben Hales, Badman; Gus Brede, Smuggler; The Last Highwayman; The Dog and Big Rib, e...
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DEATH IN THE GREENHOUSE.

By: Anderson, J.R.L.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1978

Edition: First British Edition

Seller ID: 27356

ISBN: 0575025263

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192 pp, 8"H. "Old Mr Quenenden has retired to a cottage in Berkshire, where he devotes himself to the selective breeding of tropical plants. Why, when he has lived there quietly for years, should someone shoot him dead in his greenhouse? Why should he leave his little fortune - a quarter of a million pounds - to a North of England schoolmistress whom he seem to have known only slightly? And how do these events link up with an extraordinary blackmail demand received by the new Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Meredith Boscombe: a demand for one million pounds in used notes. ...
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SHIPWRECK AT ST. PIERRE: TRAGEDY AND HEROISM IN SAIL AND STEAM.

By: Andrieux, J.P. Inscribed by author.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: W.F. Rannie, Lincoln, Ontario, 1982.:

Seller ID: 19855

144 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), soft cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE: "TO _____ _______ WITH ALL MY BEST WISHES, J. ANDRIEUX, JULY 31st 1983". Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps. Stories of shipwrecks and disasters off the islands of St. Pierre & Michelon. Contents: The islands; Murder and gold; The great storm; A crew scuttles their ship; Fear of the natives; Death on the mast; The war years; A race that didn't take place; Prohibition; Generals aground; A New Year's party is assured; An heroic rescue; A master saves his vessel; Rumrunner aground; Arrival of the...
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POETRY AND PROSE OF A. LINCOLN.

By: Angle, Paul M. and Miers, Earl Schenck, edited, with introduction by. (Abraham Lincoln.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Kingsport Press, Kingsport, Tennessee, (1956), privately printed in an edition of 1500 copies, soley for distribution among friends.:

Seller ID: 10653

45 pp, small 4to (10 1/8" H), hard cover (white spine area with gold lettering on spine and front, gray boards), clear mylar dust jacket. Top edge gilt. American Keepsake No. 1. Contents: Introduction; Poetry - My Childhood's Home I See Again; Matthew Gentry; The Bear Hunt. A Story - The Trailor Murder Case; Notes; A Postscript to the Story. (After production of the 1500 copies in this edition, the plates were destroyed.) Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light wrinkling at bottom of hinges, very light yelowing to spine, minor edge wear to...
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THE RELUCTANT GUNMAN. SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 506. 4TH SERIES.

By: Baker, W. Howard. Cover art by Stefan Barany and Bruno Elettori.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Fleetway, London, (August, 1962], Ist printing..:

Seller ID: 10876

64 pp, soft cover (stapled in wraps). "He didn't want to kill...but the pressure was overwhelming..." Interior - pages browning lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, soft wrinkling to covers, spine has light wrinkling and tiny chip at bottom. VG
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THE INVENTOR AND THE TYCOON: A GILDED AGE MURDER AND THE BIRTH OF MOVING PICTURES.

By: Ball, Edward.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2013

Seller ID: 28402

ISBN: 0385525753

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

447 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "(T)he compelling saga of an artistic genius, a ruthless railroad tycoon, and a sordid crime of passion. In frontier California 130 years ago, English immigrant Eadweard Muybridge managed to capture time and play it back on a screen, inventing stop-motion photography and moving pictures, breakthrough technologies that ushered in our age of visual media. Bankrolling his endeavor was tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, who built the west half of the transcontinental railroad and personally drove in the last golden...
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MURDER IN CAMERA. SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 522. 4TH SERIES.

By: Ballinger, W.A.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Fleetway, London, (1963], Ist printing..:

Seller ID: 16442

64 pp, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Interior - pages browning, tow pages with very small stain, light rusting to staple. Exterior - light edge wear - a little more on spine with tiny pieces missing at top/bottom and middle, spine has light wrink ling, small soft wrinkles on covers, tiny light stain on rear cover, # 6 overwrtten with # 4 in crayon on front cover. Reading copy.
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A CORPSE FOR CHRISTMAS. SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 514. 4TH SERIES.

By: Ballinger, W.A.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Fleetway: 1962

Edition: First Printing.

Seller ID: 10865

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

64 pp, 7 1/4" H. "Sexton Blake went to Dedleigh Abbey, his intention to spend a peaceful Yuletide holiday away from trouble and crime. But Blake's quiet Christmas soon gave way to a deadly, ruthless struggle to expose a criminal mastermind. Behind London's baffling wave of motiveless, mystery killings were the blood-stained hands of a compassionless team of professional killers - the cold, sadistic murderers of Lifetakers Ltd." Interior - pages browned, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edgewear - a little more on spine, minor marks...
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STUDIO ONE MURDER. SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 504. 4TH SERIES.

By: Ballinger, W.A. Cover art by Henry Fox.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Fleetway, London, (July, 1962], Ist printing..:

Seller ID: 10863

64 pp, soft cover (stapled in wraps). "Strange goings-on at a film studio...murder and mystery among the cameras, the bright lights, the glamorous girls..." Interior - pages browning lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, soft wrinkling to covers, spine has light wrinkling. VG
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SAVAGE VENTURE. SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 512. 4TH SERIES.

By: Ballinger, W.A. Cover art by Stefan Barany.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Fleetway, London, (November, 1962], Ist printing..:

Seller ID: 10864

64 pp, soft cover (stapled in wraps). "They sought out the men who conducted a vile trade in human lives...the slavers of Lubanda." Interior - pages browning lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, soft wrinkling to covers, spine has light wrinkling and small tears at top/bottom. VG-
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THIS MAN MUST DIE! SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 447. 4TH SERIES.

By: Ballinger, W.A. Cover art by Symeoni & Hugh Pratt. Sketches for novel by D.J. Gold

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Fleetway, London, (March, 1960], Ist printing..:

Seller ID: 10862

64 pp, soft cover (stapled in wraps). "He was trapped between a girl he couldn't trust and a war he couldn't fight!" Interior - pages browning lightly, staple rusting, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, soft wrinkling to covers, front cover has two large soft creases, rear cover has minor browning/soiling and a few foxing marks, spine has light wrinkling. G+
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A FRONTIER JUDGE: BRITISH JUSTICE IN THE EARLIEST DAYS OF FARTHEST WEST.

By: Banwell, Selwyn. (Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie.)

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Rous & Mann, Toronto, 1938, Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 7013

30 pp, 8vo, HC in pictorial boards - no dust jacket (as issued). B&w frontispiece portrait. Matthew Baillie Begbie was appointed the first judge of the new Colony of British Columbia during the Gold Rush. He was proved to be a tough, but even-handed adminstrator of the law, surprising many by his views that the Indian 'had the same right to life and property as the white man' - ." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear, light uneven fading, five tiny perforations to surface paper of hinges, tiny areas of surface paper loss at bottom of f...
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THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF A TERRIBLE SUPERSTITION.

By: Baring-Gould, Sabine. Introduction by Michael Lord.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Causeway Books: 1973

Seller ID: 29056

ISBN: 0883560089

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

266 pp, 9 1/4" H. "Werewolves are human beings who through magic change into animal form and lust for the flesh of other humans or animals. The tradition of werewolves goes back to the dawn of history and it is found in countries all over the world. There is even a scientific term for it - Lycanthropy - which denotes the magical transformation of man into beast or the belief that such changes take place. In this book, (first published in 1865, the author) advances as an explantion of werewolves, a theory of an innate cruelty and blood lust in mankind, dimly veiled by civilization.&...
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CLIVE BARKER'S BOOKS OF BLOOD VOLUME I and VOLUME II. (VOLUMES 1 & 2)

By: Barker, Clive. Inscribed. Ramsey Campbell, Introduction to Book I.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Warner: 1995

Edition: Reprints.

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 30579

ISBN: 0751514357

Binding: Mass Market Paperbacks

Condition: Very Good+

2 volumes, 7" H. Both volumes are inscribed in black felt tip pen on title page: "To Chris / Best Wishes / Clive Barker". Volume I - 213 pp, 1995 reprint, ISBN 0751514357. "For Simon McNeal it had all begun as a game. A simple matter of faking a few ghostly noises and scribblings on the walls of a derelict house, under the none-too-watchful eyes of a pair of psychic investigators. But soon he realised there were bigger stakes to play for. At twenty years old, his psychic trickery was about to bring him undreamed-of fame and riches - when suddenly the dead began to exact a hid...
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BABAYAGA.

By: Barlow, Toby.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2013

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27932

ISBN: 0374107874

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

383 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "Paris, 1959" The City of Light is the center of the universe. Expats flock to exercise their loftiest ambitions and most libertine fantasies, and maybe dabble in a bit of Cold War spycraft along the way. Refugees from the East - a few babayagas among them - arrive to start their lives anew. The world's greatest city is as cosmopolitan and alive as it's ever been. Will is just another young American seeking his fortune in Paris - except that the ad agency that employs him is a front for the CIA. He's been in the city a few years now and is beginning t...
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THE PUNISHER: INTRUDER. (STAN LEE PRESENTS.)

By: Baron, Mike, Reinhold, Bill and Lessmann, Linda.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: (Marvel, n.p. 1989.):

Seller ID: 10021

Unpaginated, 4to, hard cover (simulated black leather with silver lettering/decoration), in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color. "The Punisher - an obsessed killing machine - the personification of revenge. The soul of Frank Castle died w hen he and his family stumbled onto a mob rubout and fell under a rain of lead. Castle's body alone survived, possessed by a desire to visit retribution on all those who flout the law and threaten the innocent. In 'Intruder', a secret society with government connections uses murder to further their political ends. The well-equipped assassins...
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CAMERA IN COLDITZ.

By: Baybutt, Ron.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1982

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18925

ISBN: 0340248238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

128 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. "Colditz Castle is the Eiger North Wall of World War Two POW camps. It was the ultimate fortress for the bravest and the best, for the most ingenious, most determined and daredevil spirits who had already effected an exit from lesser establishments of the Third Reich. From Colditz, it was boasted, there could be no escape. The stories of those Allied officers who took up the challenge are now well known. But here for the first time a book gathers together a collection of the authentic official German photographs...
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THE ENDLESS CHAIN.

By: Bell, Neil.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London / Folkestone, Alvin Redman / Bailey Bros. & Swinfen: 1968

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 12612

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

255 pp, 8vo (8" H). "A novel of tension and suspense. In the first chapter John Ferrers is found guilty of murder, but who has been murdered is not disclosed until the end of the story. The book is the slow unravelling of all the threads which make up the fabric of the crime. Why does a man commit murder or any other crime? What are the causes leading up to that culminating moment when control gives way, when the breaking point is reached?" Previous owners name in ink on free front endpaper, tiny bump to corners of boards, very light wrinkling at top of spine, the publisher i...
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SATAN WAS A MAN. POPULAR LIBRARY EAGLE BOOK 16.

By: Bierstadt, Edward Hale.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Popular Library, Toronto, 1954.:

Seller ID: 19895

144 pp, mass market paperback. "This is the chilling story of a man who lived for evil. Carroll Lindsey inhabited a nightmare world of monstrous secrets and forbidden desires. Lucile, a pretty waitress; Anne, a pick-up from the park; his own diss olute mother - Carroll used them all to satisfy his strange lusts. Until one woman drove him too far - and nightmare dread became cold, brutal reality." Interior - light browning to pages, very small identation at fore-edge of approx. las t 2 0 p a g e s, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very light ed...
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