- Keyword = Bibliomystery and crime fiction
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THE DEVIL FINDS WORK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery featuring Dave Cannon, a young American rare book dealer. Set in a small English village, the story begins with the theft of a silver chalice and involves a 'notorious Satanist', Tristram Vail. 210 pp.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (crease to corner of dj flap - overall, a tight and clean book.)
Book ID: 87739More details Price: $35.00 -
BORED TO DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
London: Collins Crime Club , (1975.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Dave Cannon, an American rare book and antiques dealer, who after a fruitless buying trip in Wales finds himself stranded in a border town where he is offered a bowl the owner claimed was the Holy Grail. The seller is found dead - hanged - the next day and Cannon finds himself in danger. 192 pp. Dust jacket art by B. H. Payne. ISBN: 0-002311763.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74654More details Price: $20.00 -
BAD THINGS HAPPEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First David Loogan novel. An engrossing bibliomystery, SIGNED on the title page and dated 8-1-09, in the year of publication. 338 pp.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 62609More details Price: $45.00 -
CATNAP: A Midnight Louie Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Ms Temple Barr, a 29 year old public relations freelancer in Las Vegas and the 18 lb jet black tomcat called Midnight Louie, who gets to tell his side of the story. This opens with a murder at the ABA. INSCRIBED on the title page with the words "The first Louie! Very best fishes! with Louie's paw print drawn under the signature. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-312852177.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77123More details Price: $35.00 -
CAT IN A SAPPHIRE SLIPPER: A Midnight Louie Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The twentieth title in the Midnight Louie mystery series, featuring a tough-talking,twenty-pound,tomcat PI. "Temple Barr's romance novelist aunt Kit has wound up in a romantic plot of her own. She's snagged one of the most eligible bachelors on the Strip, one of the elder Fontana brothers, a silver-tongued reputed ex-mobster with a heart of gold. Things go disastrously wrong when the entire party is hijacked and taken to a remote ranch out in the Nevada desert, a place where the women are wild and the sex is legal." SIGNED on the title page by both Douglas and Midnight Louie. 396 pp. ISBN: 978-0765318619.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78743More details Price: $25.00 -
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 -
GONE WEST: A Daisy Dalyrmple Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery set in 1926 - Daisy is asked by an old friend, widowed by the war, who is acting as the confidential secretary to an author to untangle events in that household - but murder soon follows. SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 9780312675486.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62273More details Price: $28.50 -
BOOKED TO DIE.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Scribner's, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A mystery introducing Cliff Janeway - perhaps the most popular bibliomystery of all time. From the opening description of Bobby the Bookscout, this story presents an entertaining look at modern book collecting and selling - wrapped up in a good murder mystery. SIGNED by Dunning on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-684-193833.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 74342More details Price: $75.00 -
THE SIGN OF THE BOOK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth bibliomystery featuring former Denver cop and current bookman, Cliff Janeway. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-743255054.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 37282More details Price: $21.50 -
THE BOOKWOMAN'S LAST FLING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth bibliomystery featuring former Denver cop and current bookman, Cliff Janeway, and the world of horse racing. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-89455.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69700More details Price: $18.50 -
THE BOOKMAN'S WAKE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, 1995. First edition - Second in the series featuring former Denver cop turned rare book dealear Cliff Janeway. One of only 600 copies sent out by Scribner, according to Dunning. 351 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in the first state wraparound illustrated wrappers (light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 66971More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BOOKMAN'S PROMISE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Scribner, (2004.) dj. Hardcover - Third bibliomystery featuring former Denver cop and current bookman, Cliff Janeway. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-49925.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40407More details Price: $12.50 -
THE BOOKMAN'S WAKE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Scribner's, 1995. dj. Hardcover - Cliff Janeway's back in the sequel to everybody's favorite rare-book mystery, 'Booked to Die.' 350 pp,. ISBN: 0-684-800039.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 42993More details Price: $12.50 -
THE BOOKMAN'S WAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Cliff Janeway's back in the sequel to everybody's favorite rare-book mystery, 'Booked to Die.' 350 pp,. ISBN: 0-684-800039.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 44239More details Price: $18.50 -
THE BOOKMAN'S WAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Cliff Janeway's back in the sequel to everybody's favorite rare-book mystery, 'Booked to Die.' 350 pp,. ISBN: 0-684-800039.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49218More details Price: $21.50 -
THE BOOKMAN'S PROMISE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third bibliomystery featuring former Denver cop and current bookman, Cliff Janeway. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-49925.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53449More details Price: $21.50 -
THE BOOKMAN'S WAKE.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Scribner's, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - Cliff Janeway's back in the sequel to everybody's favorite rare-book mystery, 'Booked to Die.' 350 pp,. ISBN: 0-684-800039.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63601More details Price: $15.00 -
BOOKED TO DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery introducing Cliff Janeway - perhaps the most popular bibliomystery of all time. From the opening description of Bobby the Bookscout, this story presents an entertaining look at modern book collecting and selling - wrapped up in a good murder mystery. SIGNED by Dunning on a bookplate on the front endpaper. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-684-193833.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (discoloration from glue under dj flaps, but otherwise a tight and clean copy) .
Book ID: 65196More details Price: $200.00 -
BOOKED TO DIE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Scribner's, (1992) dj. Hardcover - A mystery introducing Cliff Janeway - perhaps the most popular bibliomystery of all time. From the opening description of Bobby the Bookscout, this story presents an entertaining look at modern book collecting and selling - wrapped up in a good murder mystery. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-684-193833.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61085More details Price: $17.50 -
MURDER BY THE BOOK: Mysteries for Bibliophiles.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88450More details Price: $21.50 -
DEATH OF A BOOKSELLER.
Edition: First thus, a trade paperback.
Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press in association with the British Library, (2023). SIGNED - A reprint of this bibliomystery originally published in 1956, the 100th volume in the British Library Crime Classics series. Sergeant Wiggin has become friends with an antiquarian bookseller - a "runner" who picks up whatever he can find - and at the same time becomes interested in learning about book collecting himself. But then one night when he goes over to show him the Lord Dunsany book he had found, Wiggin finds Fisk dead - stabbed in the chest. This edition includes a new introduction by award-winning crime fiction writer Martin Edwards. SIGNED by Edwards on the title page. 265 pp plus 10 pp of publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-1728267722.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88284More details Price: $24.50 -
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 and dated in the year of publication on the title page. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-670030643.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 77110More details Price: $50.00 -
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 -
THE EYRE AFFAIR.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin, (2003.). 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." 374 pp. ISBN: 0-14-2001805.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 42382More details Price: $10.00 -
LOST IN A GOOD BOOK.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin, (2004.). 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." 399 pp. plus a 13 pp installment from the next book in the series - "The Well of Lost Plots.". ISBN: 0-14-2004030.
Condition: Very good+ (prev owner's name, bookstore stamp.)
Book ID: 42383More details Price: $10.00 -
Thursday Next In FIRST AMONG SEQUELS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2006.) dj. 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. 363 pp plus 2 pages of graphic "ads.". ISBN: 9780670038718.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50657More details Price: $15.00 -
Thursday Next In THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel in the Thursday Night series - Britain's Prose Resource Operative who is "literally and literaturally at her wit's end - not to mention pregnant" - each of these books are an incredible blend of crime fiction, fantasy, word play and literary entertainment. Color plate by Maggie Roberts; dustjacket art by Viktor Koen. SIGNED on the title page. 375 pp plus 3 pages of "ads" for Jurisfiction. ISBN: 0-670032891.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52470More details Price: $30.00 -
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 -
THE BIG OVER EASY: A Nursery Crime.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in a new series featuring Jack Spratt, investigator, family man, and head of the nursery crime division. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-670-034231.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 57292More details Price: $17.50 -
THE BIG OVER EASY: An Investigation with the Nursery Crime Division.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2005.) dj. 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. 398 pp. plus 3 "ads.". ISBN: 0-340835664.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74575More details Price: $35.00
