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KIDNAPPED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery by this Edgar award winning author set in Southern California, featuring reporter Irene Kelly, and her husband, police detective Frank Harriman. SIGNED on the title page. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-73850.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 52810More details Price: $30.00 -
FLIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery by this Edgar award winning author set in Southern California, featuring police detective Frank Harriman, husband of her earlier series character Irene Kelly. SIGNED on the title page. 396 pp. ISBN: 0-684-855526.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50375More details Price: $25.00 -
FLIGHT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Mystery by this Edgar award winning author set in Southern California, featuring police detective Frank Harriman, husband of her earlier series character Irene Kelly. SIGNED on the title page. 396 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 53426More details Price: $30.00 -
FLIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery by this Edgar award winning author set in Southern California, featuring police detective Frank Harriman, husband of her earlier series character Irene Kelly. 396 pp. ISBN: 0-684-855526.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61992More details Price: $18.50 -
GHOSTWRIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A successful musician and artist, living a life of spendor and seclusion, south of San Francisco is visited by a friend from his younger days in North Beach and Mexico, a friend thought long dead - and who claims that the music and the ideas were his, and now he wants it all back. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-881848018.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dust jacket (faint yellow remainder line, short tears and associated creasing to dj at top of spine.)
Book ID: 78181More details Price: $14.50 -
GHOSTWRIGHT.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1992. dj. Hardcover - A successful musician and artist, living a life of spendor and seclusion, south of San Francisco is visited by a friend from his younger days in North Beach and Mexico, a friend thought long dead - and who claims that the music and the ideas were his, and now he wants it all back. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-881848018.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 37652More details Price: $12.50 -
GHOSTWRIGHT.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1992. SIGNED first edition - INSCRIBED by the author on the title page 'with thanks for all your help' and with a small drawing of a ghost, dated in the year of publication. A successful musician and artist, living a life of splendor and seclusion, south of San Francisco is visited by a friend from his younger days in North Beach and Mexico, a friend thought long dead - and who claims that the music and the ideas were his, and now he wants it all back. 307 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 34881More details Price: $30.00 -
GHOSTWRIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A successful musician and artist, living a life of spendor and seclusion, south of San Francisco is visited by a friend from his younger days in North Beach and Mexico, a friend thought long dead - and who claims that the music and the ideas were his, and now he wants it all back. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-881848018.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (faint yellow remainder line )
Book ID: 4300More details Price: $16.50 -
PAST ALL DISHONOR & THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Fiction Book Club (Knopf), (c 1946 & 1934). Hardcover - Two classic novels by Cain in one volume, with separate pagination and with separate title pages indicating Alfred A, Knopf, 1946 on each. 231, 140 pp.
Condition: Very good in reddish brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 70575More details Price: $12.50 -
CHARMS: Book One of the Tempest Trinity Trilogy
Edition: Trade paperback original.
By the author, (2015). SIGNED - The first book in a young adult series, set in Santa Cruz, California - "Three gifted teenage sisters must use their powers over the law of physics to solve a web of mysteries that threatens to tear their family apart." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2015. 172 pp. ISBN: 978-0996704601.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69046More details Price: $17.50 -
CHARMS: Book One of the Tempest Trinity Trilogy
Edition: Trade paperback original.
By the author, (2015). SIGNED - The first book in a young adult series, set in Santa Cruz, California - "Three gifted teenage sisters must use their powers over the law of physics to solve a web of mysteries that threatens to tear their family apart." SIGNED on the title page. 172 pp. ISBN: 978-0996704601.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80307More details Price: $15.00 -
PARADISE LOST: A Novel of Suspense.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Santa Barbara: John Daniel & Co. - Perserverance Press, (2006.). First edition - Mystery set an exclusive health spa in Santa Barbara, California. 282 pp plus publisher's advertisements. ISBN: 1-880284-804.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 41246More details Price: $10.00 -
THE DISPOSSESSED.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. Hardcover first edition - The eighth book by this California screenwriter and novelist who deserved a wider audience - and who, like his close friend Richard Brautigan, took his own life. Set in a lovely small suburban town, the residents live in an uneasy truce with the 'weirdos' and 'crazies' who gather at the Depot, a coffee shop adjacent to the public square, until two young women are brutally murdered. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-865472211.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (publisher used a different paper stock for about 24 pages, so there is a slightly darker band in the edge of the textblock)
Book ID: 83183More details Price: $24.50 -
SCOT FREE: A Last Ditch Mystery.
Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback.
Woodbury, Minnesota: Midnight Ink (2018). SIGNED - "The lighter side of the dark underbelly of the California dream." SIGNED on the title page. Promotional bookmark laid in. 274 pp. ISBN: 978-0738753867.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85098More details Price: $21.50 -
TELEGRAPH AVENUE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in Berkeley,California as the summer of 2004 is drawing to a close. Two old friends, bandmates and long time owners of a used record store, are still hanging in there, but changes are coming. SIGNED on the title page. 465 pp. ISBN: 978-0061493348.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63768More details Price: $35.00 -
TELEGRAPH AVENUE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Berkeley,California as the summer of 2004 is drawing to a close. Two old friends, bandmates and long time owners of a used record store, are still hanging in there, but changes are coming. 465 pp. ISBN: 978-0061493348.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dustjacket (scratch on front cover).
Book ID: 65453More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SNATCH.
Edition: First printing.
Santa Barbara: Allen A. Knoll, Publishers, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller set in Southern California where a young woman, the daughter of a by-the-books cop, has been kidnapped. INSCRIBED on the title page. 266 pp. ISBN: 0-962729728.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74110More details Price: $25.00 -
IF A TREE FALLS AT LUNCH PERIOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Told in alternating voices, this novel by a Newbery Honor award writer, is a fast-paced, provocative, and funny book about 7th graders at a private school - one a white girl and the other a black boy (the only African American in the class) - who discover a secret that shakes them both to the core. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 216 pp. ISBN: 9780152057534.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 39043More details Price: $25.00 -
I CAUGHT A CHINESE YANKEE: A Comedy
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Hurlow & Choy, Publishers, (1974) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A humorous play about a Hong Kong girl's romance in America, set entirely in an apartment in San Francisco's Chinatown. Copyright page notes that an unpublished title to this work: 'The Yellow Moon is Winking' was copyrighted in 1971. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and stamped with the author's seal. 160 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (chip to bottom edge of rear cover of dj, short closed tear).
Book ID: 76231More details Price: $23.50 -
THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, the story of five women living in Palo Alto in California, each very different, but all originally defined by the roles as homemakers and mothers, who meet every Wednesday for thirty-five years. As time goes by and their children grow, they form a writers circle and they also experience "history in the making: Vietnam, the race for the moon, and a womens movement that challenges everything they have ever thought about themselves, while at the same time supporting one another through changes in their personal lives brought on by infidelity, longing, illness, failure, and success." 284 pp. ISBN: 978-0345502827.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 83160More details Price: $16.50 -
THE SERPENT CLUB.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller set in Los Angeles, featuring Ted Lowe, who is investigating the murder of a thirteen year old girl, and finding layer after layer of corruption. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-671028278.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread, just a hint of toning to the pages)
Book ID: 68088More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MINEFIELD.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Oakland, CA: Regent Press, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The story of a Vietnam veteran who operates a controversial simulated minefield in Northern California where patrons pay their money to get their thrills - until a crusader against the global infestation of land mines walks into the field and is found dead. SIGNED on the title page. 158 pp. ISBN: 1-587900297.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77902More details Price: $17.50 -
MARRIED LOVERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Romantic novel set in Los Angeles and Hollywood. Boldly SIGNED by Collins on the front endpaper with the words "Best Wishes and Happy Reading" and dated in the year of publication. 504 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68853More details Price: $25.00 -
THE CROSSING.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Harry Bosch novel. Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed, and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Harry starts digging. with the help of his former partner Lucy Soto. Soon his investigation leads him inside the police department, where he realizes that the killer he's been tracking has also been tracking him. SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. ISBN: 978-0316225885.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68349More details Price: $30.00 -
CITY OF BONES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Harry Bosch novel, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Anthony Award. 393 pp. ISBN: 0-316-154059.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 60957More details Price: $30.00 -
BLOOD WORK
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Little Brown, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Former FBI agent Terrell McCabe is the recipient of a heart transplant - and he agrees to investigate the murder of the woman whose heart he received. Grand Prix, Anthony, and Macavity Award Winner for Best Novel, and the basis for the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name. 393 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff printed wrappers
Book ID: 51831More details Price: $30.00 -
THE NARROWS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel featuring Harry Bosch and FBI agent Rachel Walling - the serial killer who calls himself the Poet has returned. SIGNED on the title page. 405 pp. ISBN: 0-314-155306.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62370More details Price: $25.00 -
THE DEVIL'S REDHEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, the story of freelance photographer and wildcat smuggler Dan Abatangelo who captains a distribution ring for premium Thai marijuana. Among the comments about this book is Martin Smith's that 'Corbett handles both selfless love and unspeakable brutality with a poet's hand. 'The Devil's Redhead' is the best debut novel I've read in years.' SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-345-447522.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55396More details Price: $40.00 -
THE DEVIL'S REDHEAD.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Ballantine, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's very highly praised first novel, the story of freelance photographer and wildcat smuggler Dan Abatangelo who captains a distribution ring for premium Thai marijuana. Among the comments about this book is Martin Smith's that 'Corbett handles both selfless love and unspeakable brutality with a poet's hand. 'The Devil's Redhead' is the best debut novel I've read in years.' SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-345-447522.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40099More details Price: $20.00 -
THE DEVIL'S REDHEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, the story of freelance photographer and wildcat smuggler Dan Abatangelo who captains a distribution ring for premium Thai marijuana. Among the comments about this book is Martin Smith's that 'Corbett handles both selfless love and unspeakable brutality with a poet's hand. 'The Devil's Redhead' is the best debut novel I've read in years.' SIGNED on the title page. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-345-447522.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47899More details Price: $35.00