a pocket book edition simon schuster of canada ltd richmond hill (3 Ergebnisse)

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Thus 2nd Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: Dr. Wentik, a research scientist who has been taking small experimental doses of a mind-affecting drug in a laboratory beneath the Antarctic ice, suddenly finds himself trapped on a vast, barren plain in 22nd-century Brazil. Imprisoned, harried, tortured, he is terrified by the small colony of madmen who surround him. Pushed to the limits of his endurance, Dr. Wentik asserts himself and finds, to his surprise, that he is accepted as the equal of his jailers. But his joy is short lived, for he soon discovers that they are all prisoners! Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Good. Stuart Kaufman (illustrator). First Edition 2nd Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Moderate Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: Four girls from a posh and proper boarding school, hungry for love and ripe for excitement, ready for anything that could happen and totally unprepared for what did . . . Four girls on their own, living their lies in too many beds, paying for their happiness with flesh and tears . . . selling their souls in a strange house of pleasure . . . WORLDLY INNOCENTS Barbara: she wanted to be loved by everyone, young or old, rich or poor, male or female - and she was, in every way . . . Baby: pale, haunted, desperate for a man who would make her feel like a woman and in love with someone who could not . . . Laurel: she went from boarding school to brothels, from man to man, took the best that life offered whenever - and however - she could get it . . . Amy: rich and rebellious, she sought revenge in degradation and drenched herself in the joys of depravity . . . They were young, desperate and driven into a world that was Not for Beginners. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition 1st Printing. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The author of this book is William Thomas who was born in Vancouver in 1943. His father was J. Alan Thomas, who was a principal and inspector in the British Columbia school system. At the age of 41 the elder Thomas went back to school and became a professor and then dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Education. William Thomas's mother was born Ester Watt and raised on a farm in Saskatchewan. During the depression her family moved to Vancouver where she became a teacher. Her younger brother, Frank Watt, was a Rhodes Scholar and is now a professor of English at the University of Toronto. William Thomas attended schools in British Columbia, California and Chicago, graduating from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in English in 1966. He has travelled widely in Canada and the United States and supported himself by working at various jobs, such as tax assessor, railroad labourer, mail handler and telephone solicitor. Since childhood he has written plays and short stories. Daddy's Darling Daughter is his first published novel. He is now living in Toronto and working on a second book. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.