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NAKED MOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in this award-winning writer's North Beach series, a noir novel set in San Francisco featuring private investigator Dante Mancuso. SIGNED on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 978-0312364540.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88347More details Price: $35.00 -
UNDERTOW.
Edition: First printing.
Dallas: Baskerville, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young woman's struggle for life and love against the undertow of a loveless childhood and sexual abuse and imposed silence. Set on California's central coast, where Anne McBain is an aspiring marine biologist. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp. . ISBN: 1880909022.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67555More details Price: $30.00 -
UNDERTOW.
Edition: First printing.
Dallas: Baskerville, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young woman's struggle for life and love against the undertow of a loveless childhood and sexual abuse and imposed silence. Set on California's central coast, where Anne McBain is an aspiring marine biologist. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp. . ISBN: 1880909022.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket. (short closed tear on upper edge of back cover)
Book ID: 70422More details Price: $18.00 -
A SHOOTING STAR.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Viking, (1961.) dj. Hardcover - The story of a wealthy and attractive California woman whose marriage no longer brings her satisfaction - 411 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 19757More details Price: $13.50 -
A SHOOTING STAR.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Viking, (1961.) dj. Hardcover - The story of a wealthy and attractive California woman whose marriage no longer brings her satisfaction - 411 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (previous owner's name, wear to dj at ends of spine and rubbing along folds).
Book ID: 55837More details Price: $12.50 -
IN THE SHADOW OF THE CYPRUS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Gallery Books - Simon & Schuster, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by the son of John Steinbeck, part historical novel, part adventure story, which moves from the Chinese community in the Monterey area in 1906 to an account of a search a century later for some valuable historical artificacts which went missing back in 1906. 246 pp. ISBN: 9781439168257.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark, some light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 67403More details Price: $15.00 -
LIBRARY: NO MURDER ALOUD.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Fawcett Gold Medal / Ballantine, (1993). First edition - At a famous old California library, private investigator Alex Winter investigates the murder of Perry Webb, a powerful right-winger who was one of the library's most formidable enemies - along with several other mysterious deaths. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-44914822X.
Condition: Very good (usual light toning to the pages, crease to back cover)
Book ID: 81864More details Price: $8.50 -
WHEN MY HEART WAS WICKED.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 62968More details Price: $25.00 -
THE FALL LINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a thriller involving an investment banker in California who blinds himself to what he is really doing - laundering money for a powerful drug cartel - until it is too late. SIGNED on the title page. In addition to writing highly praised suspense novels, Sullivan has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer for investigative journalism. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-8217-4710X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 61927More details Price: $30.00 -
HARD NEWS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, a thriller involving a serial killer and a disgraced reporter trying to work his way off the night beat. SIGNED on the title page, In addition to writing highly praised suspense novels, Sullivan has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer for investigative journalism. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-8217-51255.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (a few small spots on the front endpaper)
Book ID: 61928More details Price: $30.00 -
THE FIRE TRAIL.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Little Elm, TX: eLectio Publishing, (2016_. SIGNED first edition - After U.C. Berkeley grad student Jessica Thierry witnesses a rapist-murderer leave the scene as she is walking on the the Fire Trail in the hills, she fears for her life, but still tries to focus on completing her doctorate about Christianitys role in Berkeley's history. SIGNED on the title page. 259 pp. ISBN: 978-1632132840.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79577More details Price: $13.50 -
IN CONSTANT FLIGHT: Stories
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, several of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, "framed by the outposts of the new American West - Berkeley, Santa Fe, Boulder." 59 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj, very short closed tear)
Book ID: 35854More details Price: $15.00 -
THE GUILTY ONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1961.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel: "a small California town is rocked by a series of scandals" involving the town's teenagers. 317 pp. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Condition: Very good in a fair only dust jacket. (bookplate mostly hidden by dj flap, chipping and edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 48116More details Price: $15.00 -
OCEAN WAVES.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, (2009.). Third in the series of quilting mysteries featuring San Jose quilt store owner Dewey Pelicano. Set at Asilomar on the California coast. 255 pp. ISBN: 9780738712178.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new.)
Book ID: 51544More details Price: $10.00 -
OLD MAID'S PUZZLE.
Edition: 3rd printing, a trade paperback.
Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, (2008.). Another in the series of quilting mysteries featuring San Jose quilt store owner Dewey Pelicano. 279 pp. ISBN: 9780738712178.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new.)
Book ID: 69301More details Price: $10.00 -
THE FOURTH DURANGO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Offbeat thriller set in a small California coastal town which has gone into the hideout business, selling sanctuary to those on the run. SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2135.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59997More details Price: $30.00 -
THE FOURTH DURANGO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Offbeat thriller set in a small California coastal town which has gone into the hideout business, selling sanctuary to those on the run. INSCRIBED on the title page "to John, Best wishes." 312 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2135.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74950More details Price: $28.50 -
IRONSIDE.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Popular Library, (1967.). First edition - Popular Library # 60-2244. Novel based on the television series of the same name starring Raymond Burr as Robert Ironside, a wheelchair-bound special consultant to the San Francisco Police Department. 144 pp. Photograph of Burr and other cast members on the front cover.
Condition: Very good (small peeled spot on the front cover, usual toning to the pages, but otherwise tight and straight.)
Book ID: 47989More details Price: $20.00 -
THE BARBARIAN NURSERIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd book (2nd novel) by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist, son of Guatemalan immigrants, set in Los Angeles, in the world of gated communities and Mexican help. SIGNED on the title page. Selected as one of the best 100 books of 2011 by the NY Times, winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction. 422 pp. ISBN: 9780374108991.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot bottom edge)
Book ID: 63314More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BARBARIAN NURSERIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd book (2nd novel) by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist, son of Guatemalan immigrants, set in Los Angeles, in the world of gated communities and Mexican help. SIGNED on the title page. Selected as one of the best 100 books of 2011 by the NY Times, winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction. 422 pp. ISBN: 9780374108991.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63961More details Price: $35.00 -
PURSUED BY THE CROOKED MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A witty and informal novel of a woman 'lying low but living high in Marin County' but the humorous tone belies the fact that her life is being threatened. Warmly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To J... On the occasion of our meeting & the feeling of being with an old friend" dated in Mill Valley, California in the year of publication. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0158530.
Condition: Good only in near fine dust jacket - notations on the endpapers, scattered ink underlining, marginal comments.
Book ID: 39584More details Price: $20.00 -
TAINTED MILLION.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Russian Hill Press, (1998.). First edition - A rather uncommon and decidedly offbeat novel by the author of "The Holy Man" and others. Jenny only wants the simple things in life, but when her former lover takes a dive off the Golden Gate bridge and leaves her an ill-gotten million dollars, things get very complicated. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-9653524-12.
Condition: Good overall - some minor wear to covers, small stain to the upper margin of several pages at the end.
Book ID: 45395More details Price: $15.00 -
THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE ASSASSIN.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1987.). The author's first novel, set in Marin County, California - both appealing and humorous and very much Marin County! 264 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0971185.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (usual light toning to the pages).
Book ID: 54328More details Price: $12.00 -
THE VALLEY-WESTSIDE WAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in a post-nuclear Los Angeles, where the battle for survival is between neighborhoods. A Crosstime Traffic novel. SIGNED on the title page. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-14878.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 51553More details Price: $30.00 -
GUNPOWDER EMPIRE: Crosstime Traffic, Book One.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first Crosstime Traffic novel, set in an alternate time where the states never united into a single country. SIGNED on the title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-765-314851.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57743More details Price: $28.50 -
REBEL WITHOUT A CLUE.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Crown, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a coming of age novel set in contemporary Marin County in Northern California.. ISBN: 0-517-571706.
Condition: Very good+ in a near fine dustjacket. (corners slightly bumped, a hint of a spine slant.)
Book ID: 15068More details Price: $12.50 -
REBEL WITHOUT A CLUE.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Crown, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a coming of age novel set in contemporary Marin County in Northern California.. ISBN: 0-517-571706.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 24032More details Price: $15.00 -
PLAYING WITH BOYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, the story of three friends, trying to make it in Los Angeles. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-312-332343.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45083More details Price: $13.50 -
PLAYING WITH BOYS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (2004.). First edition - Author's second novel, the story of three friends, trying to make it in Los Angeles. 359 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54409More details Price: $18.00 -
FOGGY WITH A CHANCE OF MURDER.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, (2011). First edition - "What should have been a peaceful walk on the beach turns tragic when suspense author Chloe Green tries unsuccessfully to save a ten-year-old boy from drowning. For Chloe, the boy's death is evidence that God does not exist - that anyone or anything can be taken by random force, just as her own father was. But Rob Stevens, the boy's grieving father and a recent widower, appears to be the target in a chain of mysterious attacks that are anything but random." 273 pp. ISBN: 97-1609080143.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped)
Book ID: 66729More details Price: $15.00
