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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. A SECRET FORGED IN THE HEART OF WAR A TEAM OF DISGRACED SPIES A CODE THAT SHOULDN'T EXIST . It's been three decades since Black Team disbanded in the wake of a disastrous war in Sri Lanka. Three decades since they set eyes on each other. Three decades since they decided to lock away their secret forever. The four men, now in their fifties and sixties, have moved on with their lives, and have no intention of returning to the place where it all went wrong. However, when each of them receives a mysterious message, written in a once-familiar code, they realize that their secret has followed them home. From the author of Cold Truth, comes a terrifying story of secrets that come home to roost.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. This is what Mumbai Daily reporter Avantika Pandit wants: To cover crime. To not be a feature writer. To never have to write another listicle in her life. Ever. This is what she actually has: One enraged editor. One garbage assignment (literally). And a bunch of mysterious texts that hint at deadly, hidden crimes, which she absolutely, positively shouldn't be digging into. Oh, well. Can she unearth the truth, without pissing off her boss - even more? Can she brave Dhruv Juneja's incessant flirting? Will she finally cross over to the hallowed ground of crime reporting, preferably with all her limbs intact? Or will she discover, that all it really takes to end up begging for your life, is one fatal mistake?

Soft cover. Zustand: New. What's haunting Bollywood's reigning king? Late 1990s, Mumbai. Superstar RK is traumatized by the inexplicable wails that have begun echoing through his sprawling heritage home. Is the superstar really being haunted? Or could the screams have something to do with his latest movie, a blockbuster about a haunted house? Enter former supermodel, the glamourous Akruti Rai, and the street-savvy Parvati Samant, private investigators with their own detective agency. As the plot thickens, and those around RK begin succumbing to what seems like supernatural malice, Akruti and Parvati must solve a crime set against a backdrop of suspicion and fear. After all, they wouldn't want RK's lady love, the stunning screen ingenue Alena, to become the next victim.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. It begins with a simple mystery - elderly widow Violet William's van goes missing after her granddaughter Pia forgets to lock the door when using it to cater for a wedding reception. But this is Ramsar, and soon, a simple case turns sinister when ASP Timothy Thapa finally finds the missing van, and promptly discovers a dead body inside it. Enter Colonel Acharya, Ramsar's resident amateur sleuth, with his merry band of bridge-playing Watsons. As the detective begins his investigation, he finds that things are not what they seem, and with few clues, several suspects, and no leads to go on, Colonel Acharya might be facing his most challenging case yet.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Ron Jogani, a jeweller from Mumbai, is in Belgium to buy a consignment of loose diamonds worth over 10 million Euros. Hours later he is found dead in his hotel room in Brussels - murdered. The tech-savvy killers have managed to elude the CCTV cameras in the hotel, except one - the concealed camera in the elevator that has captured one of them. When one of the stolen diamonds is sold in Mumbai, the Belgian Police reach out to their Indian counterparts, and the case is assigned to DCP Rita Ferreira. But when Rita and her team track down the man in the CCTV photograph provided by the Belgians, they realize there has to be some mix-up: the target does not even have a passport - he could not have travelled to Brussels. The inimitable Rita Ferreira returns to unravel a web of lies and deceit as she races against time in this thrilling page-turner.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. 1982. Three teenage girls planning a flight from the Soviet Union to the West end up being sold in Bombay's red-light area instead. The murders start a quarter of a century later. The victims are all men. All of them tricks, waiting for trysts with high-class escorts. DCP Rita Ferreira is quick to recognize it as the work of a serial killer; the media isn't far behind. The news sends shock waves through the city: the first serial killer in the living memory of Mumbai is out on the streets. As Rita grapples to establish the killer's pattern, the killer gives her 24 hours to stop the next murder. Can she do that before she becomes the next victim?

Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. . (illustrator). CONDITION: Very Good; extremities bumped, spine bottom frayed, browning. Juvenile hardback. The seventh of ten books about children in and around the White Mountain village of Franconia, New Hampshire. "Humorous and moralistic, these tales were extremely popular in the mid and late nineteenth century. Now, of course, these stories, despite their gentle nature and wonderfully amusing tales, are mostly forgotten like the rest of Abbott's works. " Internet bibliography jacobabbott. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. .

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Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. /Janina Domanska, illustrator. (illustrator). 1st Edition. CONDITION: Very Good Plus in Good Plus jacket; neatly deleted name under flap, straight, clean, light rubs to extrems, in jacket with three wrinkled tears to 1.5", wear to spine ends about 1/4", other wear; unclipped 4.95. Juvenile hardback. Twelve unusual stories from well known authors. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /Janina Domanska, illustrator.

Hardcover. . (illustrator). CONDITION: Good Plus; 1/8" of spine end missing; tips of bottom corners are rubbed to card 1/4" or less); spine top edge, boards and top corner tips are lightly rubbed.; old pencil price ($1.00!) written on each brown free endpaper. Otherwise, the book has essentially no flaws: gilt very bright, bindings straight, hinges perfect, pages flat and clean; no names, marks, wrinkles, or tears. Bound magazines hardback. All the magazines from 1889; sentimental "period" drawings, serialized novels and articles. Several stories by Howard Pyle; many stereotypical African American cartoons. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. .

Hardcover. . (illustrator). CONDITION: Good Plus; 1/8" of the spine bottom ends are rubbed and bumped with some small splits; tips of bottom corners are rubbed to card 1/4" or less); 1/8" spine top edge and top corner tips are lightly rubbed; front hinge starting, back hinge repaired; old pencil price ($1.00!) written on each brown free endpaper. Otherwise, the book has essentially no flaws: gilt very bright, bindings straight, pages flat and clean; no names, marks, wrinkles, or tears. Bound magazines hardback. All the magazines from 1891; sentimental "period" drawings, serialized novels and articles. Several stories by Howard Pyle. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. .

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. S. K. S (illustrator). First edition. Delightful illustrated collection of first editions on the history and artistry of silhouettes. A collection of five illustrated volumes on the history and artistry of silhouettes. All works are first editions.Collection comprised of:(1953) Silhouettes by Raymond Lister;(1960) Shadow Puppets by Olive Blackham;(1970) Women in Profile by F. Gordon Roe;(1971) Two Centuries of Silhouettes: Celebrities in Profile by Peggy Hickman;(1972) Silhouettes: A Guide to British Silhouette Portraits by Peggy Hickman.Silhouettes by Peggy Hickman is bound in the publisher's original soft covers. All other volumes are bound in the publisher's original cloth. Cloth copies, excluding Women in Profile, are accompanied by the original dust wrappers, Silhouettes by Raymond Lister and Shadow Puppets being unclipped and Two Centuries of Silhouettes being clipped.Silhouettes by Raymond Lister contains a frontispiece and twenty illustrations over six double-sided plates. Women in Profile contains forty-two illustrations over sixteen double-sided plates. Silhouettes by Peggy Hickman contains a frontispiece and a facsimile plate. All remaining copies are illustrated throughout with vignettes. Collated, complete. Silhouettes by Peggy Hickman is bound in the publisher's original soft covers. All other volumes are bound in the publisher's original cloth. Cloth copies, excluding Women in Profile, are accompanied by the original dust wrappers, Silhouettes by Raymond Lister and Shadow Puppets being unclipped and Two Centuries of Silhouettes being clipped. Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing. A few scattered marks to each volume, more so to Silhouettes by Raymond Lister and less so to Women in Profile. Dust wrappers each feature a few closed tears to edges. Two small chips to the rear of Silhouettes by Raymond Lister. Marking also more significant to wrap of this copy, as well as to rear of Shadow Puppets. Internally, firmly bound with Silhouettes by Raymond Lister being marginally more delicate, most notably to frontispiece and title page. Spotting mainly contained to first and last few pages of each text, leaving the majority very bright and clean. Again, Silhouettes by Raymond Lister suffers a little more. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 9.25 x 6", patterned cloth backed boards, 497pp, textblock is a bit toned and lightly used, but still a very nice copy. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (full number line), LIMITED TO 26 LETTERED COPIES (this is copy "D"), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON LIMITATION PAGE. SCARCE!! "Black Sparrow" on front cover, Black Sparrow logo on limitation page, Harper Collins on title and copyright page!

Third edition, reissue; Folio (33.5 x 21 cm); woodcut initials, head, and tailpieces, ff 'c3' [i.e. C1] and c2 supplied for shorter copy, small hole with slight loss to Z1, MS pen trials to verso 2B2 and 3O4-5, 3K2 ('The Translator to the Reader') bound before ff 3k3-4 in line with foliation, but incorrectly with regards to textual continuity, occasional spotting, the odd marginal tear and small hole; contemporary blind-panelled sprinkled calf, rebacked, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine, alter endpapers, corners neatly repaired, very good; [40], 177, 188-189, [5], 199-262, 265-267, [5], 267-314, 317-430, [4], '431', [1], 433-528pp. The collected works of the Niccolà Machiavelli (1469-1527) in English, following the translation of the republican politician Henry Neville (1620-1694). Including his major titles The Prince, History of Florence, Discourses on Livy, and The Art of War, together with his lesser known Life of Castruccio Castricani of Lucca, novella Marriage of Belphegor, and the spurious letter to Zenobius Buondelmontius dated a decade after Machiavelli's death in which he defends himself from the worst imputations against him. From 'an early date Neville was thought to be the author of this letter, although it may have been an earlier forgery brought back, as the preface claims, from his visit to Italy in the 1640s' (ODNB).