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PERIL UNDER THE PALMS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in the 1920s and featuring Standford student Iris Cooper and reporter Jack Clancy. Iris and her aunt Hermoine are on a trip to Honolulu accompanying her schoolmate who is the heir to a great fortune in the islands, but the threat of long hidden family secrets coming to light results in murder. INSCRIBED on the title page 191 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-57154.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82662More details Price: $30.00 -
THE WRONG GIRL: The Adventures of Bianca Dangereuse.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2019). First edition - The first book in a new series set in 1920s Hollywood - the era of the silent screen - by the author of the award-winning Alafair Tucker series. Author's note. 234 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed white wrappers.
Book ID: 81813More details Price: $18.50 -
SWEET LIAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pocket Books, (1992). First edition - A novel set in the 1990s in New York City, but one which reaches into the past - "It was her father's dying wish that Samantha Elliot search for her grandmother, who'd disappeared from Louisville when she was a baby. So here she was in New York City...her parents dead, her divorce final, and she was all alone.... Michael Taggert was SamanthaÕs landlord who helps her unravel her grandmotherÕs past - and the dangerous truth about a fateful spring night in 1928 and a seductive jazz singer." 380 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 87549More details Price: $18.00 -
THE CASE OF THE MURDERED MUCKRAKER: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The tenth mystery featuring Daisy Dalrymple, the daughter of a viscount, who is determined to earn her own living as a writer. It is late 1923, and Daisy and her new husband, Detective Chief Inspector Allen Fletcher of Scotland Yard come to America on a honeymoon visit. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-312-272847.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 85064More details Price: $35.00 -
THE WINTER GARDEN MYSTERY: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book, a mystery set in England in 1923, a country still recovering from the Great War, and featuring Daisy Dalrymple, the daughter of a viscount, who is determined to earn her own living as a writer. SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-312-110308.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66203More details Price: $50.00 -
THE CASE OF THE MURDERED MUCKRAKER: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The tenth mystery featuring Daisy Dalrymple, the daughter of a viscount, who is determined to earn her own living as a writer. It is late 1923, and Daisy and her new husband, Detective Chief Inspector Allen Fletcher of Scotland Yard come to America on a honeymoon visit. INSCRIBED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-312-272847.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72152More details Price: $30.00 -
UNTOLD MILLIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's twelfth book, a novel set in 1920s New York, a story of "young love, financial struggle and how an innocent and idealistic girl becomes a mature and confident woman" - an achievement which is worth "untold millions." 272 pp. ISBN: 0-0601249248.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (shelfwear to boards, a bit of soiling to the dj, but a tight and straight copy)
Book ID: 86662More details Price: $18.00 -
THE THIN MOUNTAIN AIR.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1977) dj. Hardcover - The third novel in his "Richard" series, which follows his young protaganist through the years. Set in the 1920s, Richard leaves college when his father becomes ill and is sent to Albuquerque for his tuberculosis. Meanwhile, after concern about his own health, he goes to work on a ranch to "toughen" himself up. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-374274665.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (closed tear to top edge of front cover, creasing to front flap of dj)
Book ID: 84441More details Price: $15.00 -
THE THIN MOUNTAIN AIR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in his "Richard" series, which follows his young protaganist through the years. Set in the 1920s, Richard leaves college when his father becomes ill and is sent to Albuquerque for his tuberculosis. Meanwhile, after concern about his own health, he goes to work on a ranch to "toughen" himself up. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-374274665.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (small nick at top of spine of dj, rubbed spot to fold of front flap. .
Book ID: 80568More details Price: $18.50 -
BANDBOX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the 1920s in Jazz Age New York City, where "Bandbox" - a glamorous and at one time hugely successful monthly magazine - is fighting for its survival. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-375421165.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66846More details Price: $17.50 -
LOW CHICAGO: A Wild Cards Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A time travel adventure that leads to the criminal underworld of 1920s Chicago. SIGNED on the title page by SIX authors: George R.R. Martin, Melinda Snodgrass, Saladin Ahmed, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Mary Anne Mohanraj and Marko Kloos. 429 pp. ISBN: 978-0765390561.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 74559More details Price: $85.00 -
THE BOOK BORROWER.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: William Morrow and Company, (1999) dj. Hardcover - "A novel depicting the friendship between two women set against the background of a 1920s trolley strike led by a young Jewish woman anarchist." 278 pp. ISBN: 0-688-168248.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72661More details Price: $13.50 -
THE BOOK BORROWER.
Edition: First edition
New York: William Morrow and Company, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - " A novel depicting the friendship between two women set against the background of a 1920s trolley strike led by a young Jewish woman anarchist." 278 pp. ISBN: 0-688-168248.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (corners bumped, remainder line)
Book ID: 60142More details Price: $15.00 -
THE REEK OF RED HERRINGS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A Dandy Gilver mystery set in 1930s Scotland, in winter, on the bleak Banfshire coast, where the herring catch is processed. SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp plus facts and fictions. ISBN: 978-1250090980.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87416More details Price: $24.50 -
DANDY GILVER AND AN UNSUITABLE DAY FOR A MURDER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver is caught between two feuding families who run rival department stores. Set in the 1920s. INSCRIBED on the title page. 287 pp plus postscript and note on "facts and fiction.". ISBN: 978-1250007377.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (tanning)
Book ID: 87415More details Price: $25.00 -
DANDY GILVER AND THE REEK OF RED HERRINGS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2015). SIGNED - Set in 1930s Scotland, in winter, on the bleak Banfshire coast, where the herring catch is processed. INSCRIBED on the title page. 293 pp plus facts and fictions, a recipe and 5 pp advertising this series. ISBN: 978-1473633438.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80077More details Price: $16.50 -
DANDY GILVER AND AN UNSUITABLE DAY FOR A MURDER.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2011). SIGNED - Amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver is caught between two feuding families who run rival department stores. Set in the 1920s. SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp plus postscript and author's note on 'fact or fancy.'
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72080More details Price: $17.50 -
BURY HER DEEP.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel featuring amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver, set in the 1920s. SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 978-0-340935323.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71712More details Price: $65.00 -
DANDY GILVER AND THE PROPER TREATMENT OF BLOODSTAINS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012). SIGNED - Set in Edinburgh in 1936, and featuring the wealthy and aristocratic - and sometimes amateur sleuth - Dandy Gilver. SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp. plus 2 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-1250007360.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers
Book ID: 71481More details Price: $17.50 -
DANDY GILVER AND THE PROPER TREATMENT OF BLOODSTAINS.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Set in Edinburgh in 1936, and featuring the wealthy and aristocratic - and sometimes amateur sleuth - Dandy Gilver. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-0312654184.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66471More details Price: $18.50 -
BURY HER DEEP.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2008). SIGNED - Third novel featuring amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver, set in the 1920s. SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 9780340935330.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63531More details Price: $20.00 -
DANDY GILVER AND AN UNSUITABLE DAY FOR A MURDER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver is caught between two feuding families who run rival department stores. Set in the 1920s. SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp plus postscript and note on "facts and fiction.". ISBN: 978-1250007377.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62926More details Price: $30.00 -
THE JAZZ PALACE.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (remainder dot)
Book ID: 74703More details Price: $17.50 -
TINISIMA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mexican author Elena Poniatowska''s re-imagining of the life of the beautiful Italian photographer and political activist Tina Modotti, lover of Edward Weston, who was accused of the murder of another lover, the Cuban Julio Antonio Mella. Winner of the 1998 Impac Dublin Literary Award. Translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. Photographs by Modotti, Weston and others at the head of each chapter. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-374277850.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76511More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LIBRARY OF LIGHT AND SHADOW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1925, in the post-war world of New York City and southern France. "On a snowy night in February, in a penthouse high above Fifth Avenue, Delphines mystical talent leads to a tragedy between two brothers. Devastated and disconsolate, Delphine renounces her gift and returns to her old life in the south of France where Picasso, Matisse, and the Fitzgeralds are summering." Author's note. 356 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-1476778129.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75351More details Price: $20.00 -
REQUIEM FOR HARLEM: Mercy of a Rude Stream, Volume IV.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth and final volume in the Mercy of a Rude Stream, which was begun in 1979 and completed just months before Roth's death in 1995. Glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew words and phrases. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-312169809.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (tear to back cover of dj).
Book ID: 74796More details Price: $18.50 -
A DIVING ROCK ON THE HUDSON: Mercy of a Rude Stream, Volume II.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume in the Mercy of a Rude Stream, set in 1920s literary New York. This follows adolescent Ira Stigman from 1921 to 1925 as he begins to encounter the harsh realities of life, and also awakens to the beauties of modern literature. It depicts him as a tormented teenager doomed to near madness by the violent urges he carries within. Glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew words and phrases. 418 pp. Photo illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-312143419.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (initials on front endpaper)
Book ID: 87159More details Price: $20.00 -
FROM BONDAGE: Mercy of a Rude Stream, Volume III.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third volume in the Mercy of a Rude Stream, written during the last year of Roth's life, and set in 1920s literary New York. Glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew words and phrases. 397 pp. ISBN: 0-312143419.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease on outer edge of front endpaper)
Book ID: 74797More details Price: $18.50 -
A STAR SHINES OVER MT. MORRIS PARK: Mercy of a Rude Stream, Volume II
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first volume in the Mercy of a Rude Stream, set in 1920s literary New York. This follows adolescent Ira Stigman and his extended immigrant family from the outbreak of World.War I to the 1920s. Glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew words and phrases. 290 pp. Photo illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-312104995.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89668More details Price: $20.00 -
WINDFALL AND OTHER STORIES.
Edition: First printing.
n.p. By the author, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Privately published true first edition of this collection of short stories by this Minnesota-born author, originally published in The American Mercury and The Woman's Home Companion between 1925 and 1931. Includes the author's memorable classic story of Texas oil fields "Windfall" as well as other stories of the gypsy life of the oil boom of the 1920s. Also includes some previously unpublished pieces on a family doll and her grandmother and a biographical introduction by Emerett Sanford Miles. Photograph. xi, 134 pp.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69698More details Price: $60.00