- Keyword = Bibliomystery and crime fiction
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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 -
SOMETHING ROTTEN.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the Thursday Next series - Britain's Prose Resource Operative who is now the mother of a two-year old son. Each of these books are an incredible blend of crime fiction, fantasy, word play and literary entertainment. Frontispiece drawing. SIGNED on the title page. 393 pp plus 4 pages of tongue-in-cheek "ads.". ISBN: 0-340-825960.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75661More 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: 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 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 -
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 -
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 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 -
THE FOURTH BEAR: An Investigation with the Nursery Crime Division.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (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 and dated in the year of publication. 378 pp. plus 3 "ads." Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 0-340835710.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82065More details Price: $35.00 -
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 -
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 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 -
BLIND SUBMISSION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Shaye Areheart Books / Crown, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (3rd book) "Angel Robinson loves books, loves reading, but the Bay Area bookstore where she works is squeezed out of business, she has to find a new job. She lucks into a position as the assistant to the world-renowned literary agent Lucy Fiamma, but soon learns that working for Lucy is no picnic. But Angel soon becomes indispensible to the agency and develops a keen understanding of big projects and the writers who create them. What she doesnt realize is just how far one of them will go to get published." SIGNED on the title page. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0307346049.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88022More details Price: $30.00 -
A MATTER OF RECORD.
Edition: First US printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Alan Craig, an ex-Scotland Yard detective, now a private investigator, who is the "expert crime solver" on a mystery junket from Venice aboard the Orient Express - but what starts out as fun turns out to all too real a case of murder. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-38524309X.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (minor edgewear to the dj).
Book ID: 78017More details Price: $16.50 -
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 -
THE JULIUS HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Before there was Sookie, there was Roe - Fourth mystery featuring former librarian, Aurora Teagarden, set in a small Georgia town. SIGNED on the title page. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-684-196409.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59732More details Price: $50.00 -
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 -
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 -
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