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Thursday Next In FIRST AMONG SEQUELS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in the Thursday Night series - - each of these books are an incredible blend of crime fiction, fantasy, word play and literary entertainment. Illustrations by Bill Mudron and Dylan Meconis; dustjacket art by Viktor Koen. SIGNED in red on the title page. 363 pp plus 2 pages of graphic "ads.". ISBN: 978-0670038718.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82062More details Price: $30.00 -
THE FOURTH BEAR: An Investigation with the Nursery Crime Division.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in this series featuring Jack Spratt, investigator, family man, and head of the nursery crime division. SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp. plus 3 "ads.". ISBN: 0-340835710.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81257More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BIG OVER EASY: A Nursery Crime.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in a new series featuring Jack Spratt, investigator, family man, and head of the nursery crime division. SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-670-034231.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 82063More details Price: $30.00 -
Thursday Next in LOST IN A GOOD BOOK.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking Penguin, (2003.) 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." SIGNED on the title page, Color plate. Winner of the Dilys Award. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-670-031909.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82061More details Price: $35.00 -
LOST IN A GOOD BOOK.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages).
Book ID: 77411More details Price: $40.00 -
THE EYRE AFFAIR.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An eccentric and clever bibliomystery - the first 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." SIGNED on the title page. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-670030643.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 60921More details Price: $45.00 -
LOST IN A GOOD BOOK.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new) A promotional postcard laid in.
Book ID: 74412More details Price: $50.00 -
THE MURDER LEAGUE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Humorous mystery novel: 3 old duffers, ex-mystery writers who have fallen on sad days, decide to put their talents to use by hiring themselves out to murder people.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall good condition in a good dj (spine label on dj.)
Book ID: 28355More details Price: $12.50 -
WIT'S END.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "sly and clever novel of mystery, intrigue and virtual reality. . . a highly original take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books." INSCRIBED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780399154751.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57748More details Price: $30.00 -
WIT'S END.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "sly and clever novel of mystery, intrigue and virtual reality. . . a highly original take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books." SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780399154751.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58445More details Price: $30.00 -
WIT'S END.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "sly and clever novel of mystery, intrigue and virtual reality. . . a highly original take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books." SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780399154751.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit of toning to the edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 59039More details Price: $25.00 -
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Harper Collins, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 14th mystery in the series featuring Detective Chief Inspector David Webb. The discovery of a body in a pub car-park is strikingly similar to an unsolved murder 6 years earlier. A criminologist who is writing a book focusing on that case complicates the issue. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-002326329.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (the usual toning to the pages, else fine).
Book ID: 78178More details Price: $17.50 -
MURDER IN MIDTOWN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85324More details Price: $24.50 -
A MYSTERY FOR NINEPENCE.
Edition: First edition.
London: Collins, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Over fire, through water. Press on, for right will prevail. . . These words, faded and almost illegible and an ancient key are found when Robert buys a bundle of old books for ninepence. They herald the beginning of a summer of mystery and excitement for the 'Quartet', a club formed by Robin, his two sisters, Ann and Fiona and his friend Hugh. THe answer to the puzzle lies somewhere in Farnleigh Manor, ancestral home of the Mourton family. But the manor is shut up and deserted. . . 156 pp. "
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (usual toning to the pages, some edgewear to the dj, but the binding is tight and straight, the cover of the dj bright and appealing)
Book ID: 66891More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SONNET LOVER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ballantine, (2007). SIGNED first edition - Her fifth novel, set in Italy where an American professor of literature finds herself enmeshed in a web of secrets and intrigue. A folio containing what might be a lost sonnet by Shakespeare has disappeared. SIGNED on the title page. 350 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (toning to the pages, some wear to the covers).
Book ID: 69628More details Price: $25.00 -
BOOK CASE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A John Marshall Tanner mystery - and one of his best. Winner of Japan's Falcon Prize for best hard-boiled mystery novel. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-688-076696.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64647More details Price: $18.50 -
ELLIPSIS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2000 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring San Francisco private investigator John Marshall Tanner novel - a bestselling novelist is receiving death threats. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-684-815834.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 61795More details Price: $30.00 -
SKELETON KEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Gregor Demarkian, retired chief of the FBI's Behavorial Sciences Unit, and author Bennis Hannaford. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-312-209096.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60333More details Price: $18.00 -
A STILLNESS IN BETHLEHEM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Gregor Demarkian Holiday Mystery, set in the small Vermont town of Bethlehem. Also features best-selling author Bennis Hannaford. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-553-090240.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60334More details Price: $18.00 -
AND ONE TO DIE ON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Gregor Demarkian Holiday Mystery, set on a remote island off the Maine coast. Also features best-selling author Bennis Hannaford. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-553-099752.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60335More details Price: $18.00 -
EMMA CHIZZIT AND THE NAPA NEMESIS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring senior citizen Emma Chizzit, owner of a salvage company. Bibliomystery involving lost Robert Louis Stevenson manuscript. ISBN: 0-8027-32119.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 18830More details Price: $16.50 -
THREE BEDROOMS, ONE CORPSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring former librarian, Aurora Teagarden, set in a small town in Georgia. INSCRIBED on the title page "To -- Mystery readers are the best!" . 217 pp. ISBN: 0-684-196433.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 73881More details Price: $40.00 -
REAL MURDERS.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Walker, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Her third novel, and the first in her series featuring Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, librarian in the small town of Lawrenceton, Georgia, and a member of the 'Real Murders' club. SIGNED on the title page. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-57693.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Even though this original Walker edition went into multiple printings, it is difficult to find in any printing, and especially so signed and in this condition.
Book ID: 59730More details Price: $40.00 -
A BONE TO PICK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The true first edition of her fourth novel, and the second in her series featuring Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, librarian in the small town of Lawrenceton, Georgia, and a member of the 'Real Murders' club. SIGNED on the title page. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-57693.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59734More details Price: $100.00 -
DEAD OVER HEELS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring part-time librarian, Aurora Teagarden, set in a small Georgia town. SIGNED on the title page. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-7862-09852.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 60278More details Price: $35.00 -
A FOOL AND HIS HONEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring part-time librarian, Aurora Teagarden, set in a small Georgia town. SIGNED on the title page. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203063.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61864More details Price: $50.00 -
MINT JULEP MURDER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore - this one is set at the Dixie Book Festival. ISBN: 0-553-094637.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 9454More details Price: $17.50 -
SOUTHERN GHOST
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in South Carolina and featuring Annie Darling , the owner of the Death on Demand Bookstore. ISBN: 0-553-073923.
Condition: Very good+ in a very good+ dustjacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 9455More details Price: $12.50 -
SOUTHERN GHOST
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Putnam, (1992.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery set in South Carolina and featuring Annie Darling , the owner of the Death on Demand Bookstore. ISBN: 0-553-073923.
Condition: Very good+ in a very good- dustjacket (some edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 48476More details Price: $12.50 -
A LITTLE CLASS ON MURDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Annie and Max Darling. Annie is the proprietor of the Death on Demand bookstore. In this book she agrees to teach a class at a nearby college on the three grande dames of the mystery - Christie, Sayers and Rinehart, 215 pp,. ISBN: 0-385-264526.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63504More details Price: $16.50
