Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, United States, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 0786717572 ISBN 13: 9780786717576
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Lieutenant Charles Becker was the only New York City police officer ever executed for murder. He was convicted of orchestrating the gangland slaying of a small-time gambler named Herman (Beansie) Rosenthal in the summer of 1912. Becker was convicted twice, in showcase trials, and died in Sing Sing's electric chair in 1915. The murder and the trial were front-page news in all twelve New York City newspapers for three years. Sensational as the case was on its own, it was given impetus by the fact that Becker was found to be a central figure in a network of police graft and political corruption whose effects were felt in City Hall, the state capital, and finally throughout the nation. For added measure, there was the strong likelihood that Becker, though clearly a cop on the take, had nothing to do with the murder of Rosenthal. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004, 2004
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
James, Henry, 1843-1916. The uncollected Henry James. Newly discovered stories. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004, stated First Carrol & Graf Edition, xv, 319pp., PAPERBACK, original price $13.95, very good, slight wear, red remainder stripe on top foredge. ISBN 9780786714988.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, United States, New York, 2000
ISBN 10: 0786707380 ISBN 13: 9780786707386
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Some of the world's leading mystery writers rise to fill this collection of stories exclusively with award-winning mysteries. Contributors include Anne Perry, Ruth Rendell, Lawrence Block and Ian Rankin, among others. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, United States, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 078670859X ISBN 13: 9780786708598
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, United States, New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 0881846228 ISBN 13: 9780881846225
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Good. This startling, high-octane collection includes short novels by Clive Barker and Karl Edward Wagner, and stories by such luminaries of fear as Lisa Tuttle, David J. Schow, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, Dennis Etchison, and others. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, United States, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0786704608 ISBN 13: 9780786704606
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Zustand: Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Signed/Inscribed by author on half title page.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, United States, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 078671770X ISBN 13: 9780786717705
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In a biography woven from equal parts enchantment and mystery, master illusion designer and today's foremost magic historian, Jim Steinmeyer, unveils the astonishing secrets behind the enigmatic performer Chung Ling Soo, the "marvellous Chinese Conjurer" , a magician whose life of intrigue and daring remains unparalleled to this day. He learned his art during a revolutionary era in show business, just as minstrel, circus, and variety saloons were being stirred together and distilled into a heady new concoction: vaudeville. Soo's infamous death in 1918 astonished the world: he was killed during a performance of "Defying the Bullets," his popular act in which he caught marked bullets on a porcelain plate. After his death, the deceptions began to unravel. It was discovered that he was not Chinese, but rather a fifty-six-year-old American named William Ellsworth Robinson, a former magicians' assistant, and the husband of Olive Robinson. But even William Robinson was not who he appeared to be, and for the first time, Jim Steinmeyer has uncovered the truth behind Robinson and the magic world's most glorious deception. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005, 2005
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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dust-jacket stained on reverse with black bleed from cover, cover price $26.00, moisture stain along top 1-inch of rear cover and a bit on last few pages at very top, but the book looks quite good from the outside, and is probably unused, low price due to the damage. ATWOOD, MARGARET. Writing with intent: essays, reviews, personal prose, 1983-2005 - COPY WITH SOME DAMAGE. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005, stated First Carroll & Graf edition, and 1st printing number line ending with 1, xvii, 427pp., . "From one of our most passionately engaged global literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection ever assembled of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, spanning 1983-2005. The fifty-eight essays compiled here are written in a bracing voice that is provocative, witty, often colloquial, and always accessible. Comprised of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book and film reviews, eulogies, introductions written for great works of literature, and literary excursions that explore the writing of several of her own novels, this is Atwood's first essay collection in more than two decades, showing that whether writing fiction or nonfiction, she is one of the most probing thinkers in the world of letters today." "Compiled here are the Booker Prize-winning author's reviews of books by John Updike, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Elmore Leonard, Angela Carter, Beryl Bainbridge, Dashiell Hammett, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Alice McDermott, as well as essays in which she recalls reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse at age nineteen, and a piece that examines the influence of George Orwell's work on The Handmaid's Tale. Here is Atwood's New York Times Book Review piece that helped make Orhan Pamuk's Snow a bestseller in 2004, a look back at a family trip to Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion, and her "Letter to America," written after September 11, 2001". 9780786715350 ISBN 0786715359.
Verlag: New York : [Emeryville, CA]: Carroll & Graf ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 1992, 1992
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Karim, Benjamin. Remembering Malcolm. By Benjamin Karim with Peter Skutches & David Gallen. New York : [Emeryville, CA]: Carroll & Graf ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 1992, stated First Carroll & Graf edition, 206pp., PAPERBACK, cover price $10.95, good lightly used copy, fold mark on rear top corner, lightly scuffed edges. Cover title: The story of Malcolm X from inside the Muslim mosque by his assistant minister Benjamin Karim. 9780881848816 ISBN 0881848816.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, United States, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 0786714360 ISBN 13: 9780786714360
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In swift, witty chapters that flawlessly capture the pace and character of New York City, acclaimed diarist Edward Robb Ellis presents his masterpiece: a thorough, and thoroughly readable, history of America's largest metropolis. Ellis narrates some of the most significant events of the past three hundred years and more,the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's fatal duel, the formation of the League of Nations, the Great Depression,from the perspective of the city that experienced, and influenced, them all. Throughout, he infuses his account with the strange and delightful anecdotes that a less charming tour guide might omit, from the story of the city's first, block-long subway to that of the blizzard of 1888 that turned Macy's into one big slumber party. Playful yet authoritative, comprehensive yet intimate, The Epic of New York City confirms the words of its own epigraph, spoken by Oswald Spengler: "World history is city history," particularly when that city is the Big Apple. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, United States, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0786719567 ISBN 13: 9780786719563
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. From the first moment of his papacy Karol Wojtyla sought political influence and a role on the world stage. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, he was a leader to millions of Catholics at a time of tremendous change. Promising a renewed church, he was the first media Pope and travelled around the world to preach his message. It is said that he was central in the fall of Soviet Eastern Europe, in particular his own homeland of Poland. Now, one year after his death, there are already calls for his sainthood. But is this the whole truth? David Yallop explores the myths and half truths of John Paul II's long reign and asks some difficult questions ranging from the role of the Vatican in the momentous events in 1989, and the continued mismanagement of Vatican finance which allowed Calvi and others to continue to use the Vatican banks for money laundering to the failure to address the child sexual abuse crisis and the rise of the Opus Dei. Including explosive revelations from the CIA, the KGB, and the Vatican itself, it is a bold and unflinching look at a man who soon stands to become a saint. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, 2002
Anbieter: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) David Riedy (illustrator). 2nd printing. [remainder stripe on top edge, otherwise just minimally worn, with slight bumping to lower corners; jacket shows a bit of surface rubbing, but no tears or chips]. Yet another of the prolific Kaminsky's series of Hollywood-history-themed screwball-mystery novels, in which detective Toby Peters is hired (yet again) by some iconic Tinseltown figure -- in this instance, Cary Grant, who in real life (according to an Author's Note) "had been working as a special agent for the British Intelligence Services" since the late 1930s -- a fact (or factoid) from which the author spins a tale, set in 1944, in which Peters and Grant team up in pursuit of a murderer, which leads them to (among other things) "a nest of Nazi sympathizers.".
Verlag: Carroll and Graf, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0786719613 ISBN 13: 9780786719617
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. The author's debut.
Verlag: Carroll and Graf, New York, 2002
ISBN 10: 0786710535 ISBN 13: 9780786710539
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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First American Edition. REVIEW COPY with publisher's materials laid in. Near Fine and unread in a just about Fine dust jacket. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, affecting both book and jacket.
Verlag: New York: Carroll & Graf, 1991., 1991
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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First paperback printing. The last novel Ball wrote. Near fine.
Verlag: New York: Carroll & Graf, (2003.), 2003
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
1st trade paperback printing. A crime novel featuring Sloane, artist, forger and ex-con. 254 pp. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf, New York, 2002
ISBN 10: 0786710004 ISBN 13: 9780786710003
Anbieter: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First American edition. First American Edition. Hardcover. In fine condition with a fine dust jacket. 300 pages with index. From the dust jacket: "From scandal to celebreity, an intimate, revelatory biography of the twentieth century's most controversial sculptor - now acknowledged to be one of its greatest artists".
Verlag: Carroll & Graf, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 0786714395 ISBN 13: 9780786714391
Anbieter: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 150 pp. While the rumblings of oncoming war shook a divided Spain, the author and his brother-in-law traveled through the Spanish countryside to the family tomb in Seville. In this memoir, Lewis describes the duo's travels first to Madrid, then through the bloody insurrection of October '34, and finally via the length of Portugal to Seville.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, United States, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0786720832 ISBN 13: 9780786720835
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union collapsed two years later, liberal democracy was supposed to fill the void left by Soviet Communism. Poland and Czechoslovakia made the best of reforms, but the citizens of the Evil Empire itself saw little of the promised freedom, and more of the same old despots and corruption. Recently, a second wave of reforms Serbia in 2000, Georgia in 2003, and Ukraine in 2004, as well as Kyrgyzstan's regime change in 2005 have proven almost as monumental as those in Berlin and Moscow. The people of the Eastern bloc, aided in no small part by Western money and advice, are again rising up and demanding an end to autocracy. And once more, the Kremlin is battling the White House every step of the way. Mark MacKinnon spent these years working in Moscow, and his view of the story and access to those involved remains unparalleled. With The New Cold War, he reveals the links between these democratic revolutions and George Soros, the idealistic American billionaire behind them in a major investigation into the forces that are quietly reshaping the post-Soviet world. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, United States, New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 0786705566 ISBN 13: 9780786705566
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Set in 1935, with Mussolini''s armies marchin g to Ethiopia, we follow the separate and collective fates o f a memorable cast of characters in Cairo and East Africa. A dventurers and heiresses, political intrigue and romance com bine in A Cafe on the Nile. '. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, United States, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0881847690 ISBN 13: 9780881847697
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, United States, New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 0881848980 ISBN 13: 9780881848984
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: New York : Carroll & Graf, 2002, 2002
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
, Hackett, Joyce. Disturbance of the inner ear. New York : Carroll & Graf, 2002, 'First Carroll & Graf Edition', 277pp., very good dust-jacket, light wear at top of spine, original price $25.00, very good black and white hardcover. High praise on rear jacket panel from Bernhard Schlink, Hilary Mantel, Rebecca Goldstein. 9780786710461 ISBN 0786710462.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0786701927 ISBN 13: 9780786701926
Anbieter: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, USA
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First edition. Softcover. Advanced Reading Copy. A later novel from the author of "Enderby" and "A Clockwork Orange." A fine copy in glossy illustrated wrappers with publication information on the rear panel.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 0786711132 ISBN 13: 9780786711130
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
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hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First. 8vo, two-toned boards, d.w. New York: Carroll & Graf, (2003). Very good.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 0786711132 ISBN 13: 9780786711130
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
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hardcover. Zustand: very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First. 8vo, boards, d.w. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003. Very good.
Verlag: Carroll & Graf, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 078671719X ISBN 13: 9780786717194
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
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hardcover. Zustand: good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First. Illus. 490pp. 8vo, two-toned boards, d.w., corners of boards heavily bumped, some pages creased in upper right corner margins. New York: Carroll & Graf, (2007).
Verlag: Carroll & Graf, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0786704047 ISBN 13: 9780786704040
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. Illus. 8vo, white boards, d.w. New York: Carroll & Graf, (1997). Fine.
Verlag: New York: Carroll & Graf, (1999), 1999
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
1st trade paperback printing. Nominated for the Booker Prize (her 5th to be so honored) - British reviews called this historical novel set in 19th century Liverpool and on the horror-filled battlefields of the Crimean War as "entertaining.harrowing. haunting.devasting." 190 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (remainder line, nick to upper edge of back cover, appears unread.).