- Keyword = Bibliomystery and crime fiction
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THE REVENGE OF KALI-RA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Super-bankable, way-hot movie star Nadia Wentworth has found her dream role: the all-powerful, eternally beautiful Kali-Ra, Queen of Doom-one of pulp fiction's most famous characters. Even better, no one stands between Nadia owning all the rights to the Kali-Ra novels. As far as Nadia's assistant, Melanie, can tell, Kali-Ra's creator, dissolute 1920 s novelist Valerian Ricardo, left no heirs. So, it seems that no power on earth can stop the return of Kali-Ra-or prevent Nadia from gaining untold profits and worldwide mega-stardom...That is, until a cast of mysterious characters descend on Nadia's exotic Beverly Hills mansion." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated 3-13-99, in the month of publication. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-89296670X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 68553More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Dutton, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The fifth Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery originally published in 1983. SIGNED on the title page. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-525-94382x.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (binding somewhat over-opened title page.)
Book ID: 46257More details Price: $21.50 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (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: 0-525-945008.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 46255More details Price: $27.50 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (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. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- Cheers!" and dated in the month of publication. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-525-945008.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (spine slightly cocked)
Book ID: 59127More details Price: $28.50 -
THE BURGLAR WHO THOUGHT HE WAS BOGART.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, full-time bookseller and part-time thief. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-525-940162.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 49528More details Price: $27.50 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE LIBRARY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Enjoyable bibliomystery featuring bookstore owner Bernie Rhodenbarr - who has left New York City for an English-style inn in the Berkshires. SIGNED on the title page. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-525-943013.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46258More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featurning bookstore owner, and thief, Bernie Rhodenbarr - about a reclusive author whose career is very loosely based on Salinger. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-525-945008.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49529More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BURGLAR ON THE PROWL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featurning Bernie Rhodenbarr, antiquarian book dealer by day, burglar by night. SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0198303.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74590More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BURGLAR WHO TRADED TED WILLIAMS.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Dutton, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover - After 10 years, burglar and bookstore owner Bernie Rhodenbarr is back. SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-525-93807-9.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (remainder line.)
Book ID: 17277More details Price: $18.50 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featurning bookstore owner Bernie Rhodenbarr - SIGNED on a special bookplate affixed to the half title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-525-945008.
Condition: Very near fine in like dust jacket ( remainder mark.)
Book ID: 18524More details Price: $28.50 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE LIBRARY.
Edition: First printing.
London: No Exit Press, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featuring bookstore owner Bernie Rhodenbarr - who has left New York City for an English-style inn in the Berkshires - and revolving around a rare inscribed first edition of Raymond Chandler's 'The Big Sleep'. SIGNED on the title page. This is the first state first issue (with error on the first page - the UK edition preceded the US edition). 342 pp. Ribbon bookmarker bound in. ISBN: 1-874061815.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 74688More details Price: $40.00 -
THE BURGLAR WHO THOUGHT HE WAS BOGART.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, full-time bookseller and part-time thief. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-525-940162.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59579More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BURGLAR WHO TRADED TED WILLIAMS.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dutton, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover - After 10 years, burglar and bookstore owner Bernie Rhodenbarr is back. SIGNED by author on title page. ISBN: 0-525-93807-9.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket. (corners somewhat bumped, dj rubbed.)
Book ID: 4319More details Price: $16.50 -
THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN.
Edition: Early book club edition.
New York: Arbor House, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 187 pp,
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51815More details Price: $18.50 -
THE BURGLAR WHO STUDIED SPINOZA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1980.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, full-time bookseller and part-time thief.. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-394-510658.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74592More details Price: $60.00 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (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. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- Cheers!". 280 pp. ISBN: 0-525-945008.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74349More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery: "A deliciously wicked tale of a gentleman crook in the glamorous New York art world." SIGNED on the title page. 253 pp.
Condition: Good only in a good dust jacket (a "tartan" with glue discoloration on the endpapers and under the flaps of the dj, spine slant)
Book ID: 61580More details Price: $24.50 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE.
Edition: First UK printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual light toning to the pages).
Book ID: 77246More details Price: $50.00 -
THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery: "A deliciously wicked tale of a gentleman crook in the glamorous New York art world." INSCRIBED on the title page. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-877955174.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74695More details Price: $45.00 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE CLOSET.
Edition: First thus (full number line).
New York: Dutton, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery, originally published in 1978. SIGNED on the title page. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-525-939938.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74587More details Price: $35.00 -
TAHOE ICE GRAVE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original,
South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Third mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot. Bibliomystery involving a long-lost manuscript by Mark Twain, reportedly hidden on the Hawaiian island of Kauia in 1866. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's letter. 288 pp. ISBN: 1931296146.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 58376More details Price: $25.00 -
THE PENNY FERRY.
Edition: First printing (first issue with error on p 101.)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second "Doc Adams" mystery (the first won the Edgar Award) and one of the best - A bibliomystery, dealing with missing documents related to the Sacco and Vanzetti case. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-395-352886.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, price-clipped).
Book ID: 2501More details Price: $28.00 -
OSCAR WILDE AND A DEATH OF NO IMPORTANCE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. First edition - "One of Britain's premiere royal biographers pens the first in a series of a fiendishly clever historical murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as the detective." A young artist's model has been murdered and Wilde enlists his friends, Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Sherrard to help him investigate. Published in the UK in 2007 under the title "Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders." 343 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59628More details Price: $17.50 -
TOUCH OF THE PAST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel featuring Los Angeles bookstore owner Rachel Henning (although this is set in the mountains in Idylwild) "On the morning of the garage sale in which he hopes to unload the entire trove of genuine 1937 articles, Wilbur DeMarco is murdered." An author of classic detective stories, he had published in last novel in 1937, so the roots of his death was hidden deep in the past. INSCRIBED on the title page "For Stan, who may have a copy of one of Wilbur deMarco's books in his library" and dated in the year of publication. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-802757049.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79518More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LUXURY OF EXILE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1997). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, winner of the 1996 Betty Trask Award. Charlies Wooldridge, a "mildly shady antique dealer" has acquired an antiquarian book shop, and finds his life changed drastically when he discovered it contained a cache of letters which describe an encounter with Lord Byron. SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-22404317X.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (usual toning to the pages).
Book ID: 74111More details Price: $30.00 -
THE RULE OF FOUR.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Dell, (2005,). 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.'. ISBN: 0-385-337116.
Condition: Near fine - no creasing or marks.
Book ID: 33898More details Price: $8.50 -
THE RULE OF FOUR.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dial Press, (2004,) dj. Hardcover - 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.'. ISBN: 0-385-337116.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (initials on corners of front endpaper.)
Book ID: 32584More details Price: $13.50 -
THE RULE OF FOUR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, (2004,) dj. 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. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-385-337116.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 31577More details Price: $25.00 -
THE RULE OF FOUR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, (2004,) dj. 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. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-385-337116.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. (slight spine slant.)
Book ID: 36129More details Price: $17.50 -
THE RULE OF FOUR.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77512More details Price: $40.00
