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SWITCHBACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Lt. Hastings mystery, set in San Francisco. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-31043.
Condition: Very near fine in like dustjackets (an unread copy.)
Book ID: 10043More details Price: $14.50 -
SWITCHBACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Lt. Hastings mystery, set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-31043.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52348More details Price: $28.00 -
SILENT WITNESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Alan Bernhardt mystery, a story of murder in California's wine country. 279 pp. . ISBN: 0-312-931611.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket(appears unread, but remainder dot bottom edge).
Book ID: 71100More details Price: $18.00 -
A DEATH BEFORE DYING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Lt. Hastings mystery, set in San Francisco. The day before her murder, Frank Hastings, now co-commander of the homicide squad had a chance meeting and lunch with Meredith, now a beautiful woman who seemed to have it all - but whom he remembered as a little girl who used to trail after him in the old neighborhood. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-805009795.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 76165More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WATCHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings, one in which he and his son plan a vacation in remote Northern California. ISBN: 0-394412567.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 76172More details Price: $21.50 -
DEAD CENTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings - a killer begins executing members of Rabelais, a private club for San Francisco's elite, putting pressure on Hastings to discover who is responsible quickly. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-805016155.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76358More details Price: $17.50 -
CAMBIO BAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fantasy novel set on a remote bay on the coast of California. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-312038003.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81741More details Price: $30.00 -
SACRAMENTO WALTZ.
Edition: First printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1957) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In the sleepy middle-class world of Sacramento in 1912 lived three of the most delightful and unique women ever to grace a period piece - a beautiful widow in search of a husband; a grocery-store enchantress in search of men; and a diminutive piano teacher excluded from life's exciting experiences by her abnormally small size." 212 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a fair only dust jacket with several chips and tears..
Book ID: 68761More details Price: $16.50 -
EAST BAY GREASE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Picador, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story set in the rough Oakland, California of the 1960s and 70s, from Hells Angels to schools overrun by gangs. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-312-198612.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57178More details Price: $18.00 -
DEATH BY DEGREES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery - set in the academia at a university in Monterey, California - a world the author knows well, as a former college president. Wilson was also the founder of the Clarion Writers' Workshop. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-312-134622.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (several edge tears to dj).
Book ID: 63858More details Price: $15.00 -
JUDGMENT DAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A novel of mystery and terror." When a wealthy couple decides to purchase an old Norman church, a church which had been haunted by a legend of murder and wickedness, and transport it to their California suburb, it seemed like an amusing idea at first - until the legend came to life. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-312-446764.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant, rubbing to the black background of the dj)
Book ID: 63153More details Price: $16.50 -
JUDGMENT DAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A novel of mystery and terror." When a wealthy couple decides to purchase an old Norman church, a church which had been haunted by a legend of murder and wickedness, and transport it to their California suburb, it seemed like an amusing idea at first - until the legend came to life. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-312-446764.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88684More details Price: $20.00 -
AMERICAN KNEES.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - His second novel, a funny (but also serious) take on love, race, culture and identity. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 1996. Basis for the 2006 independent film 'Americanese.' 240 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 54222More details Price: $20.00 -
STORMY WEATHER: A Charlotte Justice Novel.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2002.). SIGNED - Second in this series featuring a black female homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department SIGNED on the title page. 299 pp. ISBN: 0-345-449088.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 37989More details Price: $15.00 -
INNER CITY BLUES: A Charlotte Justice Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First in this series featuring a black female homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department Set during the LA riots - nominated for the Edgar award and winner of the Macavity award. SIGNED on the title page. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-393-04680x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44270More details Price: $28.50 -
REGRESSION: A Novel of Crime and Passion
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, set in a southern California beach town where a psychiatrist is found brutally murdered - perhaps by a patient whom he had helped to "regress" to childhood through hypnosis. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-881844721.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (light creasing to last few pages).
Book ID: 77465More details Price: $15.00 -
TREASURE OF PLEASANT VALLEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, 1955. dj. Hardcover - A novel of the California gold rush in 1849. Cover art by Jules Gotlieb. The back flap of the dust jacket contains the information that Yerby's nine previous novels had sold a total of more than 13 million copies - a very respectable figure for any writer of the 1950's but probably unique for an African American novelist of the era. 348 pp.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (gift inscription, hint of spine slant, unusually bright and attractive dj, original price of 3.50 on dj flap.)
Book ID: 38419More details Price: $30.00 -
TREASURE OF PLEASANT VALLEY.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dial Press, (1955.) dj. Hardcover - A novel of the California gold rush in 1849. Cover art by Jules Gotlieb. The back flap of the dust jacket contains the information that Yerby's nine previous novels had sold a total of more than 13 million copies - a very respectable figure for any writer of the 1950's but probably unique for an African American novelist of the era. 219 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket. (lower corner of front flap clipped, some overall rubbing and edgewear)
Book ID: 69454More details Price: $12.50 -
SONG OF THE SEALS.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, (2003). First edition - A novel of life, loss, and learning and experiencing loving with one's whole heart. Set in a old Northern California fishing town, called Seal Bay, where superstious tales of superstitious sixty foot sea monsters are told. Issued as a trade paperback original. 208 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 59853More details Price: $15.00 -
SITTING PRETTY.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, (1986.). SIGNED - Very warmly INSCRIBED at some length on title page and dated Summer 1994. A reprint of a novel originally published in 1976. A new foreword by Young describing the writing of this book 'Prettyman was the first of my characters to install himself on the living room sofa..' 254 pp. ISBN: 0-88739-017x.
Condition: Very good - a tight, clean copy, but some creasing to corner of front cover.
Book ID: 35711More details Price: $24.00 -
SITTING PRETTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1976.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in San Francisco, the story of Sidney Prettyman aka Sitting Pretty or just plain Sit, ladies' man, ne'er do well, ex-husband, father. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-03-0152666.
Condition: Ex-library with some markings and discoloration from glue, spine slant, in a very good unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 49908More details Price: $18.50 -
SITTING PRETTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1976.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in San Francisco, the story of Sidney Prettyman aka Sitting Pretty or just plain Sit, ladies' man, ne'er do well, ex-husband, father. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-03-0152666.
Condition: Very near fine in very good+ dust jacket (price-clipped,some soiling to dj, and slight sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 59006More details Price: $50.00 -
SITTING PRETTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1976.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in San Francisco, the story of Sidney Prettyman aka Sitting Pretty or just plain Sit, ladies' man, ne'er do well, ex-husband, father. SIGNED on the title page and warmly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For - with nothing but warm regards and affection. Al, January 1978." 254 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-03-0152666.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dust jacket (some wear to the spine of the djj)
Book ID: 75643More details Price: $60.00
