New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring former deputy and now Posadas County, New Mexico, Undersherriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman. The former sheriff, Bill Gastner, is still "prominently in the background" as a state livestock inspector. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-312-25203x.

New York: Harper Collins, (2019). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fifth novel featuring Chee and Manuelito, but in this one Joe Leaphorn returns as a private investigator, as he he continues to recover from a gunshot to the head. "Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the tribal police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifacta reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joes been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional weaving that had been donated to the Navajo Nation." SIGNED on title page. 302 pp. ISBN: 978-0062391957.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A humorous tale covering 31 days in October, one which combines the bizarre imagination of this Hugo and Nebula award winning writer with the macabre artistic talent of Gahan Wilson. In the late nineteenth century, good dog Snuff lovally accompanies his knife-wielding master, Jack, on his midnight rounds through the murky streets of London. Dracula, Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, and others make an appearance here. The Publisher's Weekly review commented that "Zelazny handles this material with a charm few can match, and while this novel does not approach the depth of his best work like 'Lord of Light,' its deft, understated good humor and spare, poetic prose reaffirm Zelazny as one of fantasy's most skilled practitioners." 280 pp. ISBN: 0-688125085.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in the W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures series, based on a series of lectures given at Harvard in 1982. Among the controversial topics discussed is the effect of race on federalism, dual labor markets, multinational corporations, entreprenuership and more. Lewis, born in Santa Lucia in the Caribbean, was the first black person to attend the London School of Economics, and in 1979 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Suggested readings, index. vi, 134 pp. ISBN: 0-674745795.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1843 and 1844 the colonial government of Cuba in response to rumor of a slave conspiracy and revolttortured suspects, executed and murdered many, banished or imprisoned thousands of slaves, free people of color and even some whites. The British consul was expelled from Cuba and convicted in absentia of "inculcating ideas of libery." But was there actually a conspiracy or revolt, or was this something contrived by the governmentto rid itself of those who agitated against the continued existence of a slave society in Cuba? This book answers those questions, and vividly describes slave life in 19th-century Cuba, and the movement towards abolition. Photographs, notes, index. xvi, 346 pp. ISBN: 0-819551929.

New York: Pocket Books, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third mystery in this award winning series featuring private investigator Kat Colorado and set in Sacramento. Warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in March 1992, the month of publication. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-385420951.

New York: Random House, (1944) dj. Hardcover first edition - Although written during World War II, this novel is set in the years immediately after the first World War - a man finds himself falling in love with a woman who has amnesia, but who is probably responsible for killing his soldier friend. Basis for the 1945 film of the same title, with a screenplay adapted by Ayn Rand and starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, and Ann Richards, and nominated for four Academy Awards, including a Best Actress in a Leading Role for Jones. 289 pp.

Boston: W. A. Butterfield, 1917. Hardcover first edition - Edith Cavell was a British nurse who had established a training school for nurses in Belgium; after the War broke out, she saved the lives of those from both sides without discrimination, but she also helped 200 allied soldiers escape from Belgium - and for that she was convicted of treason and executed by the Germans in 1915. Massachusetts established a fund to recruit a nurse to serve in the War in the memory of Cavell - the nurse selected was Alice Fitzgerald, and this little book includes both some comments from her on her service and an account of Cavell's imprisonment. Illustrated with photographs. xv, 95 pp.

London: Doubleday, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, the story of a writer, stalled in his career, who purchases an old farmhouse in a remote French village, hoping to recapture the magic that enabled him to write his first and best book. SIGNED on the title page. Small chunky format. 415 pp.

London: Macmillan, (1973) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Sargeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray mystery and Lovesey's fourth novel, set in Brighton in 1882. SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-333144090.

London: Little Brown, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring the 'extra-large irascible British detective' Peter Diamond, who is called back to Bath when a man he was responsible for convicting escapes from prison and kidnaps the daughter of the Assistant Chief Constable. The convict is demanding that his name be cleared, and Diamond has to face the possiblity that he made a mistake years ago. SIGNED on the title page. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-5517.

San Diego & Del Mar, CA: University of California/ The Mystery Library. (1978). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Originally published in 1944, this is the second of Brand's mysteries featuring Inspector Cockrill, set at a secluded hospital in war-torn London. A classic of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, one of the Keating 100 Best Crime and Mystery books, and the basis of the excellent 1946 film of the same name. Includes an introduction and annotated biblography by Otto Penzler and a sketch of Inspector Cockrill by Brand. SIGNED by BOTH Christianna Brand on the half title page and by Penzler at his introduction. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and drawings by Karl Nicholason. A title in the Mystery Library series, edited by John Ball. xv, 271 pp. ISBN: -891630465.

London: Michael Joseph, (1974) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Uncommon collection of short fiction by this crime writer, one of the most important writers of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Many have her trademark plot twists, others will sadden or shock the reader - and two are romantic adventures, another is a recollection of a night in London during the blitz. A presentation copy, warmly and boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to the Danish author Tage La Cour - "Signed for Tage La Cour with kindest regards" and dated in 1975. ISBN: 0-7181-12725.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects eleven stories written throughout her career from the 1904 "The Ladies' Maid" to "All Souls" in 1937. Includes a preface by Wharton in which she comments that the teller of supernatural tales should be "well-frightened in the telling." Also includes two previously unpublished pages from her autobiography in which she talks about her childhood fears. Each story is illustrated by a full page drawing by Laszlo Kubinyi. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-684148293.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1969) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A series of interconnected stories which continue the story of Jess and Eliza Birdwell as their growing family moves Westward, encounters the bitterness of the Civil War, and guide their children in the aftermath. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 309 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.

New York: Dial Press, (2004,) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The authors' first book, a literate mystery and a coming-of-age story set at Princeton - like Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code', this involves a secret which has been protected by the deaths of many over the centuries. Nelson DeMille said 'if Scott Fitzgerald, Umberto Eco and Dan Brown teamed up to write a novel, the result would be 'The Rule of Four' - an extraordinary and brilliant accomplishment - a must-read.' Went quickly into later printings. SIGNED by both authors on the title page. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-385-337116.

New York: Harper & Row, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - His sixth mystery and the third featuring Navajo tribal policeman Jim Chee. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-380-700247.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The highly praised first novel (second book) from the first woman director of Britain's MI5. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 367 pp. ISBN: 1-400043700.

New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Pearson's fifth book, a murder story set in Carmel, California, where James DeWitt, former forensics scientist, is the town's only detective. SIGNED on the title page. 286 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-312-03914x.

New York: Walker, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel, a mystery involving the death of an environmental activist in the redwoods of Northern California's Humboldt County. SIGNED on the title page. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32046.

London: Headline (Hodder), (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel featuring San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy. SIGNED by the author on the title page. True first edition, preceding the US edition, and much more uncommon. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-747221677.

Minneapolis: Fedogan & Bremer, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects thirty-nine stories including those first published between 1935 and 1958 and collected in "The Opener of The Way" (1945) & "Pleasant Dreams-Nightmares" (1960) as well as three previously uncollected stories first published in 1991. Among the stories is the Hugo-award winning "That Hell-Bound Train." One of only 2300 copies. 514 pp. ISBN: 1-878252127.

London: Bodley Head, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of seven stories selected and introduced by Ambler (whose story "Belgrade 1926" is included. Other stories by John Buchan, Ian Fleming (from the novella "A View to Kill"), Michael Gilbert, Graham Greene, Compton Mackenzie and Somerset Maugham. 224 pp. Dustjacket by Michael Harvey.

London: Heinemann, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel featuring Arthur Abdul Simpson, "British to the core" (although he was born in Egypt and is half-Egyption) but without a passport to prove it. He "lives by his rather inadequate wits" as a guide, tout, chaffeur and journalist - but he stumbles into a situationof increasing danger in Turkey. Winner of the Edgar Award for best novel and basis for the 1964 Academy award winning film "Topaki" featuring Peter Ustinov and Melina Mercouri. 247 pp. Map endpapers, dust jacket by Leslie Needham.

Gladestry, UK: Scorpion Press, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Numbered 62 out of 99 and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Includes an essay of appreciation by Ted Allbeury. The second novel in the Bernard Samson trilogy of Faith, Hope, and Charity. Bound in marbled boards and quarter leather, gilt lettering on spine. 296 pp. ISBN: 1-873567197.

New York: Harper Collins, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, once again featuring Naomi, an investigator with an "uncanny ability for finding missing children." She returns to the gritty streets of Portland in a the search for her long missing sister where she encounters Celia, the "butterfly girl," a 12 year old on the run from an abusive stepfather and an addict mother, and discovers that other young, homeless girls have been turning up dead there. SIGNED on the title page. Margaret Atwood described this as a "heartbreaking, finger-gnawing, and yet ultimately hopeful novel." 267 pp. ISBN: 978-0062698162.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and a NY Times Notable book selection. A powerful coming-of-age memoir by this award-winning poet. It "tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. . . Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another and to one another as we fight to become ourselves." SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 978-1501132735.

New York: Random House, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Massive novel of the history of islands of the Caribbean. Suggestions for further reading. SIGNED by Michener on a special bookplate on the first blank page - "commenorating the North American inaguaral cruise of Crown Princess." 672 pp plus 1 p on the facts of the islands. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-565614.

New York: Dutton, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a mystery introducing tough Texas lawyer Bino - fast-paced and suspenseful. Recommended. ISBN: 0-525245901.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, and the first novel featuring Irene Adler, the beautiful opera singer who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes. Winner of the American Mystery Award for Best Romantic Suspense Novel. INSCRIBED on the title page - "To - - - My perfect reader!' . 408 pp. ISBN: 0-312-932103.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - Secret File No. 1. Author's first novel, a landmark in the espionage genre, introducing Harry Palmer (although he remains anonymous in this book), a man whose loyalty no one can claim with certainty. Basis for the 1965 film of the same name, featuring Michael Caine. 224 pp. Bound in orange boards with gilt lettering on the spine, in the first issue dustjacket (without reviews) by Raymond Hawkey.

London: Arrow, (1996). SIGNED first edition - An uncommon early novel by Winslow (his first after the Neal Carey mysteries) - set in 1958, the story of an ex-CIA agent now working as a private investigator in New York City, only to find himself the prime suspect in a murder. Published in the US a year after this as 'A Winter Spy; under the pseudonym MacDonald Lloyd. SIGNED on the title page by Winslow and very uncommon thus. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-099706415.

Little Rock, ArkansasL Pioneer Press (1959). First edition - A book based on speeches delivered by Dale Alford in his successful eight-day campaign for Congress as a Democratic write-in candidate from the Fifth District of Arkansas. Alford was a segregationist and a member of the Little Rock school board, who opposed the forced racial integration of the schools. Errata slip laid in. xvii, 142 pp.

London: Little Brown, (1995). dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bertie, the Prince of Wales, is in Paris, where Sarah Bernhardt tells him of a murder on the dance floor of the Moulin Rouge. SIGNED on the title page. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-316-906859.

New York (Ontario): Pocket Books (distributed in Canada by PaperJack), (1982). SIGNED first edition - Third novel written by Koontz under this pseudonym. SIGNED as Dean Koontz on the title page. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-671-432664.

New York: Warner, (1989). SIGNED first edition - The second book in the Xenogenesis trilogy. SIGNED on title page and dated in 1995. 277 pp plus ads and a brief excerpt from Imago. ISBN: 0-445-209038.

New York: St Martin's, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - the mystery that introduced Sacramento PI Kat Colorado. Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Mystery Novel. ISBN: 0-312-029691.

New York: Random House, (1986.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspenseful novel about the testing of the first atomic weapons at Los Alamos, a site hidden on a mesa and surrounded by a vast Indian reservation. INSCRIBED on the title page.Map. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-394-530063.

New York: St Martin's, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Stephanie Plum, who works for her bail bondsman cousin in New Jersey - two books in the series won the Dilys award (given by independent booksellers for the mystery that is the most fun to sell - and the later ones in the series continue the fun), and Evanovich has also received the Silver Dagger and John Creasey awards, among others. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-312-265840.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An eccentric and clever bibliomystery - the second featuring Special Operative Thursday Next, a literary detective, whose job is to keep characters in books from being stolen. Set in "1985 Great Britain where time travel is routine, cloning is reality and literature is taken very, very seriously." This begins with the disturbing news that Thursday's husband of only a month drowned 38 years ago. SIGNED on the title page. Frontispiece illustration. Winner of the Dilys Award. 372 pp. plus 3 pages with tongue-in-cheek ads,. ISBN: 0-340-82283x.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller that ranges from Northern California to the Louisiana bayous. When Eddie Dain's life is blown up, he returns as a "dead man" - dead to joy, dead to his past, as he hires himself out as a hitman. SIGNED on the title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-541x.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel featuring Runyan, who has just gotten out of San Quention after doing eight years for a diamond heist. Now everyone is after the diamonds - SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for the Edgar for best novel. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2437.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery set in the Pacific Northwest by the author of the marvelous "Piano Man." This one introduces Seattle police detective Kate MacLean. SIGNED on the title page 369 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-5142.

New York: Random House, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Espionage novel set during the early years of World War II, as the British Secret Service attempts to block the exportation of oil from Roumania to Germany. The title refers to a 1918 speech by a French senator who said, "Oil, the blood of the earth, has become, in time of war, the blood of victory." INSCRIBED on the title page. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-375-505741.

London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - True first (preceding the US edition) of this espionage novel set in Paris in 1938, as Europe edges its way to war, by this master of the historical spy novel. INSCRIBED on the title page. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-57506837X.

New York Ballantine, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel set in Victorian England - the title refers to a breach of promise suit when a young woman's fiance refuses to marry her. Mystery featuring investigator William Monk and his nurse Hester Latterly. SIGNED on the title page by the author. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-449-908496.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 7th mystery in the highly praised (and award winning) series featuring Inspector John Rebus, set in Edinburgh, Scotland, during the annual festival. SIGNED on the title page with his drawing of 'knots and crosses.' 278 pp. ISBN: 0-684814978.

London: Doubleday, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A taut suspenseful novel by the author of 'Chocolat ' - set at an English prep school (not unlike the one Harris used to teach at), and told in the alternating voices of two teachers, one a symbol of the school's long tradition, the other a newcomer. Nominated for the 2006 Edgar. SIGNED on the title page. Small format. 509 pp. ISBN: 0-385603665.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1991_ dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring "diffident art historian" Jonathan Argyll and Flavia di Stefano of the Rome Art Theft Squad, combining murder and the art world, set in Venice. Pears is an art historian and his knowledge of that world adds a great deal to this series. 189 pp. Striking dust jacket art by Michael Chung. ISBN: 0-15-1904723.

New York: Morrow, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set at Luxor during World War I. One of the copies with a page which states that this is a "signed and limited first edition, specially bound by the publisher" and SIGNED by Peters on this additional page. 429 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-380-978857.

Longboat Key, FL: Oceanview Publishing, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth thriller in the award-winning series featuring private investigator Rick Cahill, set in La Jolla, California. Cahill has been hired to protect a sexy radio host from her stalker, but finds good intentions are not enough. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 978-1608093168.

Richmond, Virginia: Jeffery Historical Society, 1973. First edition - Reprint of a series of newspaper accounts of the people and the times in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas from 1800-1877 by A.C. Jeffery. Edited and with a brief biographical introduction by Dale Hanks. Includes an index to family names. ii, 70 p

New York: Harmony Books, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-517-545357.

London: Orion, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Harry Bosch novel, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Anthony Award. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-752821407.

New York: The Viking Press, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Imaginative novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author, which alternates between the present - 1996 where "a rare book expert is offered the job of analysis and conservation of a mysterious, beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain and recently saved from destruction during the shelling of Sarajevo's libraries" - and through the past as the lives of all those who handled the book are revealed. SIGNED on the title page. Afterword. 372 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-670-01821X.

Boston: Little Brown, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth Harry Bosch novel, set in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. INSCRIBED on the title page. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-316-152447.

London: Macmillan, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th title in the Inspector Morse series, and increasingly hard to find. SIGNED on the title page.

London: Doubleday, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Romantic novel set on a small island off the coast of France, by the author of 'Chocolat.' SIGNED on the title page.Map frontispiece. Small format. 477 pp. ISBN: 0-385601727.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in the award-winning series featuring Inspector Shan Tao Yun, who lost his position in Beijing and his family and freedom, when he ran afoul of a powerful figure in the Chinese government. Now released after four years in the gulag and living in Tibet, he is still trying to find justice - "Set against the astonishing landscape of this beleaguered Himalayan country and the epic struggle of the Tibetan people, [these novels become] a passage through the many layers of tragedy inflicted by China on Tibet and its people." SIGNED on the half title page. Author's note. Glossary of foreign language terms. 419 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-312-206127.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which "opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized - and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France." SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography. 450 pp. ISBN: 0-679444815.

London: Hutchinson, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story of Cicero (106-43 BC) and his struggle fror power in Rome, in the words of his secretary (and slave) Marcus Tullius Tiro. SIGNED on the title page. 403 pp. plus author's note. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-091800951.

London: Harper Collins, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Seventh mystery featuring newly married art historian Jonathan Argyll and Flavia di Stefano of the Rome Art Theft Squad, combining murder and the art world. Pears is an art historian and his knowledge of that world adds a great deal to this series. SIGNED on the title page. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-002326604.

New York: HarperCollins, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery involving Navajo police officer Jim Chee and the now retired 'legendary Lieutenant' Joe Leaphorn. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-06-019443x.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of Le Carre's best and most suspenseful novels: "a profoundly moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates. Justin Quayle, amateur gardener and ineffectual bureaucrat, seemingly oblivious to his wife's cause, discovers his own resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love." Basis for the excellent film of the same title. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 508 pp. Ribbon marker bound in. ISBN: 0-743215052.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel in the award-winning series featuring Inspector Shan Tao Yun, who lost his position in Beijing and his family and freedom, when he ran afoul of a powerful figure in the Chinese government. Now released after four years in the gulag and living in Tibet, he is still trying to find justice - "Set against the astonishing landscape of this beleaguered Himalayan country and the epic struggle of the Tibetan people, [these novels become] a passage through the many layers of tragedy inflicted by China on Tibet and its people." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Author's note. Glossary of foreign language terms. 424 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-312-206127.

New York: Otto Penzler Books/ Macmillan, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novella and short stories. SIGNED with his large scrawled initials and the word "Slash" on the half title page. ISBN: 1-883402549.

New York: Grove Press, (1967) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 16 short pieces - mostly prose, but some a combination of prose and poetry. INSCRIBED on the title page by Jones as Amiri Baraka. 132 pp.

New York: Random House, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone thriller, the 12th suspense novel by this Edgar-award winning writer; features Daniel Millikan, criminology professor. SIGNED on title page and dated in January 2002. 378 pp. ISBN: 0-679-453067.

New York: Bantam, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller debut in which only one woman can stop the deadly countdown to global terror. The author brings her experience as a former CIA analyst to her realistic work of fiction. SIGNED on the title page and dated in Feb 2001, in the month of publication. 400 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-553-10893x.

New York: Berkley, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A China Bayles herbal mystery, set in the small Texas town of Pecan Springs. One of 500 copies individually SIGNED and numbered by the author on a special preliminary title page. Recipes. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-425-200175.

New York: Delacorte, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Sister Mary Helen mystery - she and two friends have returned to San Francisco from an OWL (Older Women's League) convention in New York City, when her friend Emma goes missing. A presentation copy, warmly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated Christmas, 1988, in the month of publication. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-385-302266.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The longest and most complex mystery in George's highly praised series of British murder myateries featuring Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partners Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata. INSCRIBED on the title page "To -- with best wishes from the author." 664 pp. Musical notation on endpapers. ISBN: 0-340-797073.

New York: Bantam, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel featuring Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, but this one is set in a period preceding the others. INSCRIBED on the title page. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-535-074075.

New York: Putnam, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first collaboration between these two authors - a thriller set against the backdrop of Britain's 2000 Guineas Stakes. SIGNED on the title page by Felix Francis. 342 pp. ISBN: 978-0399154768.

London: Collins, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery - set in London and Venice. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-684-172941.

New York: Delacorte, (2009.). First edition - Uncommon advance edition of the first novel in the Flavia series, set in the English countryside in the 1950s. A remarkable, debut, winner of just about every award out there - the Ellis, Agatha, Debut Dagger, Barry, Dilys and Macavity - for best first mystery novel = "Meet Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, a taste for homicide, an obsession with delving into the forbidden past of her taciturn, widowed father. . . and did we mention she's eleven years old?" 373 pp.

London: Little Brown, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Bath and featuring Peter Diamond. The vault was once part of the house where Frankenstein was written, and when a severed hand found there winds up on Diamond's desk, the bones are not recent and the investigation starts out slowly - until they are followed by another murder and an attack on a police officer. SIGNED on the title page. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-316-646466.

Philadelphia: Intrigue Press, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon anthology of original mystery stories; the authors have donated their royalties to charities benefit Romanian orphans. SIGNED by THREE authors: Anne Perry and Carolyn Wheat at their stories and twice by Serita Stevens - at her story and on the title page.. In addition to those authors who signed this copy, other contributors include Rhys Bowen, Rochelle Krich, Ralph McInerny, Nancy Pickard, Joyce Christmas, John Lutz, George Chesbro, Kate Charles, Margaret Frazer, Dianne Day, Jacqueline Fiedler, Terence Faherty, and Mary Monica Pulver Includes a brief biographical paragraph about each author. Bound in glossy illustrated boards with the same illustration as the dust jacket. 285 pp. ISBN: 1890768286.

New York: ORB / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008). SIGNED first edition - A walk through Hell for the 20th century with a science fiction writer as Dante, and Mussolini as Virgil. Originally published in " a substantially different form" in 1976, this is described at the authors preferred edition. SIGNED on the title page by BOTH Niven and Pournelle. Notes. 237 pp. ISBN: 978-0765316769.

New York: Atria Books, (Simon & Schuster), (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thirteenth novel by this Caribbean author, winner of the 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, 'a deft exploration of post-apartheid South Africa and a smart, gripping thriller .. both contemporary and international, following the lives of an interracial, intercultural couple in New York City, Tokyo, and Capetown. SIGNED on the title page by both Conde and Richard Philcox, her husband and translator. Philcox has translated most of Conde's books (beginning with her first novel) and Conde has both expressed her confidence in him and said that she considers him "responsible" for the book in English - that is, for the flow and rhythm and music of the language. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-743271289.

New York: Berkley, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Introduction by Jon L. Lellenberg. SIGNED by THREE authors at their stories: Anne Perry at "A Christmas Gift", Peter Lovesey at "The Four Wise Men" and Carolyn Wheat at "The Case of the Rajah's Emerald." Also includes The Christmas Conspiracy by Edward D. Hoch; The Music of Christmas by L. B. Greenwood; The Adventure of the Christmas Bear by Bill Crider; The adventure of the Naturalist's Stock Pin by Jon L. Breen; The Adventure of the Second Violet by Daniel Stashower; and The Human Mystery by Tanith Lee. Authorized by the Jean Conan Doyle Estate. ix, 262 pp. Dust jacket art by Guy Deel. ISBN: 0-425170330.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Lawrence Passmore is a writer whose TV sitcom has become a popular success in England. He is married, a father, lives in a grand house in a swank suburb, and he seeks every flavor of therapy from aroma to massage to psycho - but none of these bring him contentment, and when he becomes obsessed by the idea of "angst" his life begins to spiral out of control. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0436203340.

New York: Bantam, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel in this delightful series with Jane Austen putting her keen powers of observation to the task of solving puzzles. As Christmas 1804 is approaching, Jane is finding herself bored at Bath, and so she accepts a curious assignment. . SIGNED on the title page. Editor's foreword. viii, 262 pp. Dust jacket art by Carol Inouye. ISBN: 0-553-102044.

New York: Bantam, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second thriller written under her own name, by this former CIA analyst, a novel inspired by the mystery of Jim Thompson, a "legendary American" who settled in Thailand in 1945, and disappeared in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia in 1967. SIGNED on the title page. Map. Afterword by the author. 405 pp. ISBN: 0-553-109138.

Hoboken, NJ: Polis Books, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel featuring Judah Cannon, the middle son of the notorious Cannon clan. When he returns to his rural hometown of Silas, Florida after a 3 year stint in prison, he is determined to move forward - but a phone call from his father Sherwood ensnares Judah and Ramey in a web of thievery, brutality and betrayal. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-1943818303.

London: No Exit Press, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featurning bookstore owner, and thief, Bernie Rhodenbarr - about a reclusive author who's career is very loosely based on Salinger. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 1-901982602.

London: Orion, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel featuring anti-hero hitman Keller. SIGNED on the title page, 296 pp. ISBN: 75283-838506-0198338.

New York: Ace Books, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The second Sookie Stackhouse novel originally published as a paperback original . SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 978-0441015979.

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Twelve original strories inspired by the art of Dave McKean. Authors include McKean, Neil Gaiman, M. John Harrison, Maria Dahvana Headley, Joe Hill, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Joe R, Lansdale, Alastair Reynolds, Ian Sinclair and Catherynne M. Valente. Somewhat oversized square format. SIGNED by Joe Lansdale at his story "Robo Rapid." 243 pp plus 5 final illustrations. Cover art by Dave McKean. ISBN: 978-1596068254.

New York: Macmillan, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel and the first book under this pseudonym, a literate mystery introducing Professor Kate Fansler, who finds herself under suspicion when a young female student is found murdered. A Cock Robin Mystery. 187 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.

London: Collins / Crime Club, (1971) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a mystery introducing Douglas Perkins of Perkins and Tate Public Relations. SIGNED on the title page with the words "with all good wishes" and uncommon thus. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-002311240.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1940) dj. Hardcover first edition - The scarce first novel by this author and screenwriter, best known for "The Chair for Martin Rome," which was the basis for Robert Siodmak's 1948 film noir classic "Cry of the City" with Victor Mature and Richard Conte. This is set entirely within the walls of a prison. 216 pp.

Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of sixeen ingenious short stories, ranging from featuring serial killers to a Sherlock Holmes tale and an account of an investigation as the Titanic is sinking. An edition limited to 275 copies SIGNED and individually numbered on page facing the title page. Frontispiece portrait of Lovesey. Includes a checklist of the works of Lovesey. 190 pp plus the colophon and 3 pp publishers ads. The limited edition also includes a separate 9 pp pamphlet entitled "The Butler Didn't Do It.". ISBN: 1-885941633.