Tears autumn charles

As soon as he began publishing fiction more than three decades ago, Charles McCarry was recognized as a spy novelist of uncommon gifts" wrote Charles Trueheart in The Washington Post. Tears of Autumn, McCarry's riveting novel of espionage and foreign affairs, was a major best seller upon its first publication in 1975. Spun with unsettling plausibility from the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and featuring secret agent Paul Christopher, it's a tour de force of action and enigma. Christopher, at the height of his powers, believes he knows who arranged the assassination, and why. His theory is so destructive of the legend of the dead president, though, and so dangerous to the survival of foreign policy that he is ordered to desist from investigating. But he is a man who lives by, and for, the truth, and his internal compunctions force him to the heart of the matter. Christopher resigns from the Agency and embarks on a tour of investigation that takes him from Paris to Rome, Zurich, the Congo, and Saigon. Threatened by Kennedy's assassins and by his own government, Christopher follows the scent of his suspicion, one breath behind the truth, one step ahead of discovery and death. Slight surface scratching on cover and very faint yellowish spots on first page.  Slight browning on thickness of pages. Book never read and in excellent condition!      

Subtitle: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath Author: Charles Van Onselen Publisher: Jonathan Cape (2007) ISBN-10: 0224079298 ISBN-13: 9780224079297 Condition: Very Good. Minor Shelf-ware. Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket Pages: 646 Dimensions: 24 x 16 x 4.3 cm +++ by Charles Van Onselen +++ A disturbed adolescent, youthful predator and adult misogynist driven by dark medival and biblical obsessions, Silver's mental universe remained largely hidden from his family, other gangsters and police handlers.  In this first reconstruction of the life of a dangerous psychopath, Charles van Onselen casts a brilliant light on the most infamous serial killer of all time - for Joseph Silver's darkest secret of all lay in London, in Whitechapel, in the autumn of 1888.

Published: Tafelberg - UitgewersYear: 1963Cover: hardcover with dust jacket intactCondition to an average observer: Good. Some foxing and browning of the front endpapers. Small tears at the top of the dust jacket has been repaired.Pages: 275Any time was a hell of a time to die. Thus, laconically, open this unusual and thought-provoking novel.

"Shot" Bowls Cartoons by Charles Playfair A scarce first edition hardcover published by Howard Timmins in 1954 Green cover boards with red writing to the front cover, binding is tight & strong, pages have agecoloured slightly, the scarce dustjacket is complete, with a closed tear to top of back cover & tears to spine & book ends, still a nice scarce copy. Postage within South Africa will be R30-00 Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote. Abe #06623

THE SPECIALIST by Charles Sale Hard cover with d/w – 174x115mm – Putnam & Company 1949 34th Impression 30 pages – true story. V/Good cond:  u/l/spine bumped; back board has some of surface material missing. D/W: Fair: tears; held together by tape.  

KHAMA THE GREAT AFRICAN CHIEF by JOHN CHARLES HARRIS; Softcover published by Wesleyan Methodist Missionart Society 1922 ;No. of Pages; 112 Good condition   (considering age) good tight binding, no tears but some light shelfwear and light browning of the paper. For postage within SA and via SA PO please add R45.00. alternatively via Postnet to Postnet for a combined weight of up to 5kg  then please add R105.00. Buyers from outside of SA can contact me for a postal quote.        

FORM STALLION REGISTER ; CHARLES FAULL  (for Race horse Owners,  Breeders and Trainers ) Publisher; The Form Organisation (PTY) Limited  1992; ISBN 0 620 16748 3; No. of Pages; 353 including the Index. (weight of this book 2.2kg ) Condition; very good ; Dust jacket  hardly any damage at all; Book; Very good ; very good binding; no tears and no writing added; a very nice copy. POSTAGE  / Shipping (within S A) PREFERABLY via Postnet to Postnet for a total weight not exceeding 5kg then add R100.00. (Note with the P/Net option addit books may be included up to 5kg) or via PAXI  which is via the PEP Store branch network  - delivery around 9 days  Please add R55.00  under Option 1 and also add "  via Pep " in the Notes.   Buyers from outside of SA   can request a Postal quotation.  STUD BREEDING HORSE RACING HORSERACING

Hardcover with d/j. Binding is tight and clean inside. First published in Great Britain in 1981 by Cassell LTD. with 743 pages. Foxing on page ends. The d/j is unclipped, but has tears along the edges. It is now covered with a removable plastic film. This book fills an important gap in the literature on Charles Darwin. The whole world knows Darwin's name, but hardly anything about the man. Now at last the reader can meet him and his word in the proper perspective. Postage in RSA = R67.00.  

First Edition, Second Impression. Elek Books Limited, London. 1957. Hard Cover, Red Cloth Boards, gilt title, author and publisher to spine, Head of front board is bumped, head and tail of spine bumped, slightest of fading to spine. Front free end paper has a blind stamped former owners name and address, another former owner has also written in their name. binding is tight and pages clean, head of book block is a little dust stained. Pictorial Dust Jacket is price clipped and chipped and torn with a few long tears, bumped, scuffed and creased. Numerous black and white photographic plates.

Hardback. English. Publisher: Human & Rousseau. 1974. 2nd edition. In fair condition. Dust jacket has signs of wear and some tears.

Who Killed Marilyn Monroe? Or Cage Catch Our Dreams by Charles Hamblett A first edition hardcover published by Leslie Frewin in 1966 Yellow cover boards with black writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, pages yellowed, dustjacket is complete, but has nicks & tears & crease to back cover, a good reading copy. Postage cost within South Africa will be R30.00 Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote

THE ILLUSTRATED BOSMAN; FIRST EDITION:1993.Southern Book Publishers                                                                                        An illustrated selection of Herman Charles Bosmam's works (24 of his short stories) including Mafeking Road;   Willem Prinsloo’s Peach Brandy; Mampoer; Marico Moon; etc. together with Peter Babcocks finely worked drawings.   ISBN 1 86812 404 5 No. Of pages; 286 Clean and tightly bound. Please note that on the first free page there is a message written to the previous owner when this book was given as a gift. This same page has some minor damage by fish moths. (please see the photos) The dust jacket is in very good condition and has no tears.   The bottom of this hardcover book (underneath the dust jacket) does show a little damage by fish moths – the attached photo does show this,  no damage to the dust jacket and the damage is limited to a very  small area at the bottom of the cover. Please note that all photos have been " pasted " below. For postage within South Africa please add R60.00 or Postnet to Postnet (combined weight up to 5kg) at R105.00 .  Thank you.  

Subtitle: A Literary Quiz Book Author: James Walton Publisher: Faber & Faber (2008) ISBN-10: 0571239374 ISBN-13: 9780571239375 Condition: Very Good. General wear to DJ with some light creasing, scratching and a few small closed tears. Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket Pages: 293 Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.2 x 2.8 cm +++ by James Walton +++ With questions ranging from the deliciously unexpected (Who's the only person in literary history both to have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and to have played a girlfriend of Ken Barlow's in "Coronation Street"?) to the reassuringly canonical (Dickens's fourth novel was the first he'd published not to have the main character's name in the title. What was it?), this fabulous compendium of literary knowledge is the perfect gift for all book lovers. With ten separate quizzes, each containing a variety of rounds, and subjects that range from literary feuds to inadvertant double entendres in classic literature, Sonnets, Bonnets & Bennetts takes you from Charles Dickens to Jilly Cooper and back again. It also provides plenty of extra and often astounding information in the answers. Use it to host or play your own quizzes or read it cover to cover to impress your friends and family with your literary knowledge.

  Dias and His Successors (Editor: E Axelson) Published by Saayman & Weber Pty Ltd, Cape Town, South Africa (1988) Some foxing, age toning. Dustwrapper loose and moved on spine. Dustwrapper has some shelfwear small tears, boards a bit chipped. Some insect damage. Contributions by Eric Axelson, Charles Boxer, Graham Bell-Cross & Colin Martin. 159 pages, 32 charts in colour and black & white, brown cloth. /'Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 rounded Africa and entered the Indian Ocean, with vital consequences for both Europe and Asia. The voyage was epoch-making. This volume, published on the fifth centenary of the voyage, contains information about the Dias voyage and subsequent Portuguese maritime activities in South African waters; it includes a section on the development of Portuguese nautical science, especially of maritime cartography, during the period of the Discoveries and into the seventeenth century/'. Editor/'s note. Follow Eleven O'Clock on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ElevenOClockAfricanaBooks/ Conditions: Please read conditions before bidding. NON PAYING WINNING BIDDERS - Please do not bid on an item unless you intend on completing the transaction. NEGATIVE feedback will be posted for non paying winning bidder Postage will be quoted according to the size of the item. Please do not make a cash deposit at the bank. If you must, please add on R50 for the deposit fee. If more than one item has been ordered, postage may be reduced. Books will be posted after payment has cleared in my bank account. Once an item is posted I will not be held accountable for the item, but will help where I can. Items sent and not collected at the Post Office and that are sent back to me will have to pay postage again. if this is not done with 1 month the item will be relisted. Overseas buyers to have postage quoted. Please note I do not have PayPal or credit card facilities.   Save Save