Bantam Skylark edition, October 1976. 
*Multiple condition issues (see photos for examples): page tanning due to age, cover is torn in places, and there are remnants of drawings on the edges of some pages (up to pg. 13). 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

Dragon, Dragon and Other Tales 

Railton, the master spy is dead. But his Legend was on in a shock and reamer, he was a traitor, a double agent working for the soviets. His heirs a family spies will do anything to stop the Scandal and clear the family name but the secrets of the past are often to deal with

Virginia

Continue in the Sega of the secret generations and the secret houses

The secret families

Washington

The Resurrection

John Gardner

The secret Generations is a giant work of fiction drawn from the dramatic history of Britain's intelligence and security services. Do the story of one family whose lives become caught up in the greatest struggles of the 20th century they trace the birth in early Clash of, the successes and failures of organizations now known as MI5, MI6 and gchq.

The Secret Generations

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New Jersey

The Beowulf story retold from the monster's point of view reveals the darker side of human nature and values

Grendel

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Tennessee

1989 Vintage Books edition, 174 pages. The cover is still shiny, though there is corner and edge wear and a few light scratches. Spine creases. Inside the pages are clean but the outer edges are slightly soiled. 

North Carolina

James Bond has never been on a mission like the one described in Icebreaker, not in the best-selling License Renewed, not even in For Special Services. Posted by M to the freezing forests of north Finland in win-ter, the indomitable 007 is obliged against his better judgment to collaborate with fellow agents of the KGB, the CIA and Mossad (the Israeli Secret Service).

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

Icebreaker

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Book Club Edition 

James Bond is back— in his deadliest assignment ever! Brutal murders are occurring with alarming similarity in the English countryside: After two strangled bodies with severed tongues are found near London, James Bond learns from a hasty briefing with "M" that the victims were once members of Operation Cream Cake— double agents against SMERSH, whom he had helped smuggle out of East Germany five years before. But something has gone badly wrong. To save the survivors, who are clearly earmarked for ritual killings, Bond must smoke out the traitor among them. As always there is a catch hut thia to t

No Deals Mr. Bond 

Paperback copy of Grendel by John Gardner

Oklahoma

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. New Directions is excited to reissue the Gardner classics, beginning with October Light, a complex relationship rendered in a down-to-earth narrative.



October Light is one of John Gardner's masterworks. The penniless widow of a once-wealthy dentist, Sally Abbot now lives in the Vermont farmhouse of her older brother, 72-year-old James Page. Polar opposites in nearly every way, their clash of values turns a bitter corner when the exacting and resolute James takes a shotgun to his sister's color television set. After he locks Sally up in her room with the trashy "blockbuster" novel that has consumed her (and only apples to eat), the novel-within-the-novel becomes an echo chamber providing glimpses into the history of the family that spawned these bizarre, sad, and stubborn people. Gardner uses the turbulent siblings as a stepping-off point from which he expands upon the lives of their extended families, and the rural community that surrounds them. He also engages larger issues of how liberals and conservatives define themselves, and considers those moments when life transcends all their arguments.

October Light

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Pennsylvania

Not even James Bond's most desperate adversaries, not even all the global resources of a SMERSH or a SPECTRE under the diabolical leadership of Ernst Stavro Blofeld or, in more recent days, Colonel Tamil Rahani, have managed to defeat 007. But is it because no one has discovered 007's soft spot? It all starts innocently enough: The suave James Bond is on leave in Europe, motoring across France in his Bentley Mulsanne Turbo on his way to visit friends in Italy, then to a

Nobody Lives Forever

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Win, Lose or Die

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Drawing on an intensive five-year field study of organizations and hundreds of interviews with contemporary leaders, the author of Excellence presents a brilliant examination of leadership as it is practiced--or malpracticed--in America today. Gardner has served seven presidents in various leadership capacities.

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