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A Sense of Shadow: Available Copies
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Seller: -OnTimeBooks- (Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $7.76
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $7.76
A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail
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Seller: HPB-Diamond (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $4.77
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $8.52
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A Sense of Shadow by Wilhelm, Kate
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395305454
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston (1981)
Seller: Gyre & Gimble (Holden, ME, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $6.00
Shipping: $6.50
TOTAL Cost: $12.50
Black cloth w/metallic blue lettering. Ex lib. w/label scar front endpaper, lib stamp title page, glue remnant rear endpaper, DJ adhered to pastedowns, remainder marks top and bottom outside edge. Text clean and tight, no marks. Mild wave to DJ due to ill fitting mylar cover, small closed tear head of front cover. "One of the masters of psychological fiction in America" so says the San Francisco Chronicle
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Seller: Uncle Hugo's SF/Uncle Edgar's Mystery (Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $10.00
Shipping: $8.00
TOTAL Cost: $18.00
Light foxing on the top of the book. Jacket lightly soiled with light edgewear.
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Seller: Fantastic Literature Limited (Rayleigh, ESSEX, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $13.88
Shipping: $6.77
TOTAL Cost: $20.65
1st printing. John Daniel Culbertson attempts to retain his despotic control over his family--even after death--by employing a research psychologist to choose the heir to his rich Oregon estate.
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A Sense Of Shadow by Wilhelm, Kate
Paperback
ISBN: 9780671441166
Publisher: Pocket Books, New York (1982)
Seller: Darkwood Online T/A BooksinBulgaria (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $5.51
Shipping: $16.63
TOTAL Cost: $22.14
Light reading creases, some edge and shelf wear. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover artwork uncredited. ; 176 pages; Four dutiful children came to his deathbed, each the child of a different mother. Each mother the victim of a tragic accident, unsolved murder, or mysterious disappearance. As he slipped away he saw their expected hatred and knew his revenge had been well planned. He had left a multimillion-dollar legacy but to get their inheritance they would have to take part in an experiment, something to do with brain waves. It would be a great service to science they were told, but it held a ghoulish price. Mass Market PB
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A Sense of Shadow by Wilhelm, Kate
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company (1981)
Seller: Dearly Departed Books (Alliance, OH, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $20.00
Shipping: $4.00
TOTAL Cost: $24.00
First edition with the full number line present. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Mild dust soiling to the jacket's panels. Tiny chip at the base of the jacket's spine and a closed, 3/4" tear at the rear panel's upper edge. Jacket art by Rudy Gutierrez.
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A SENSE OF SHADOW. by Wilhelm, Kate.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston (1981)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams) (Ione, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $19.50
Shipping: $4.95
TOTAL Cost: $24.45
First printing. "John Daniel Culbertson attempts to retain his despotic control over his family - even after death - by employing a research psychologist to choose the heir to his rich Oregon estate." 215 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979 (ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $16.24
Shipping: $12.50
TOTAL Cost: $28.74
A SENSE OF SHADOW, H-M, 1981, first edition, fine in like dust-wrapper.
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A Sense of Shadow by Wilhelm, Kate
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395305454
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston (1981)
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare (Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $30.00
Shipping: $6.50
TOTAL Cost: $36.50
A fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; Octavo.
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A SENSE OF SHADOW. by Wilhelm, Kate.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston (1981)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams) (Ione, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $34.50
Shipping: $4.95
TOTAL Cost: $39.45
First printing. "John Daniel Culbertson attempts to retain his despotic control over his family - even after death - by employing a research psychologist to choose the heir to his rich Oregon estate." SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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A Sense of Shadow by Wilhelm, Kate
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston (1981)
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB (Madison, WI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $33.00
Shipping: $6.50
TOTAL Cost: $39.50
8vo. [9], 4-215, [3] pp. Black cloth with blue lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $9.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page.
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A SENSE OF SHADOW. by WILHELM, KATE.
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981., New York: Boston (1981)
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $35.00
Shipping: $15.50
TOTAL Cost: $50.50
First edition. Uncorrected proofs. Fine in printed wrappers. John Culbertson, ruler over thousands of acres of land, over his many wives, and over his four children, is dying. His children are summoned to him in order for Culbertson to reveal the ominous method he has worked out for choosing his heir. His plans involve a research psychologist who has some original theories about brain waves!
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