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THE ASSAULT ON MAVIS A.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller - Mavis A., an immense oil platform fueling all of Britain, is the target of IRA guerillas who have seized the American Enterprise supertanker. As a storm rages, tje tanker is steered powerfully toward the legs of the platform. Map frontispiece. 2 pp of sketches of the oil platform and the tanker. 258 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Peter Cox. ISBN: 0-394501969.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85957More details Price: $18.50 -
THE SPOILER: A Novel of Baseball and Murder.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - a mystery starting at MacKenzie Park in the center of a dying Massachusetts mill town, where a minor league baseball team is struggling for survival. SIGNED on the title page. A classic of baseball fiction. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-0750.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87135More details Price: $45.00 -
THE SPOILER: A Novel of Baseball and Murder.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - a mystery starting at MacKenzie Park in the center of a dying Massachusetts mill town, where a minor league baseball team is struggling for survival. SIGNED on the title page. A classic of baseball fiction. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-0750.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket. (remainder dot, crease to front cover of dj, light edgewear.)
Book ID: 48136More details Price: $35.00 -
THE TAKER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion, (2006). First edition - The first novel written under this pseudonym. Told in a light and breezy way by Carly, who thinks her admission to Princeton is a sure thing, until she tanks on the SATs, this is underneath a serious story of the pressures put on high school kids to cheat when it comes to tests and college admissions. 350 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87554More details Price: $18.00 -
MURDER AT THE CLASS REUNION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery. "Reporter Kay Engels returns to her hometown for her twentieth high-school class reunion and encounters childhood friends, long-buried secrets, and a cold-blooded murderer." SIGNED on the title page. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-802732321.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77287More details Price: $30.00 -
MONKEY SHINES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Freundlich Books, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, an unusual thriller based on the experimental world of medical research, the story of a dangerous bond between a young quadraplegic and a capuchin monkey whose intelligence has been enhanced to enable her to be his arms and legs. Basis for the 1988 movie of the same name directed by George Romero. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-88191-0015.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72112More details Price: $21.50 -
WHEN MY HEART WAS WICKED.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 62968More details Price: $25.00 -
IN A HEARTBEAT.
Edition: First printing.
Novato, CA: Lyford Books / Presidio Press, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller involving a sexually obsessed serial killer in Washington DC. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 1997. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-891415904.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62300More details Price: $25.00 -
THE LOW END OF NOWHERE: A Streeter Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this Denver private investigator - a noir mystery introducing Streeter - ex-bouncer, ex-linebacker, ex-husband and current bounty hunter and PI. SIGNED on the title page. 223 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Owen Smith. ISBN: 0-670-861545.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 74823More details Price: $25.00 -
THE LOW END OF NOWHERE: A Streeter Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this Denver private investigator - a noir mystery introducing Streeter - ex-bouncer, ex-linebacker, ex-husband and current bounty hunter and PI. SIGNED on the title page and dated 1/22/96 - it includes the comment "Thanks for coming to my very first signing " . 223 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Owen Smith. ISBN: 0-670-861545.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80722More details Price: $30.00 -
TIME BETWEEN US.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first young adult novel, the story of two people who were never supposed to meet - she lives in 1995 Chicago and he in 2012 San Francisco, but Bennett has the ability to travel through time and space. SIGNED on the title page. 368 pp. ISBN: 9781423159568.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 58039More details Price: $30.00 -
MORE THAN YOU KNOW.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Chicago: Agate, (2004). First edition - "A sweeping love story about how long-buried family secrets devastate the marriage between a brilliant saxophonist and a singer." The first novel (second book) by this young African American writer and musician. 382 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68981More details Price: $15.00 -
THE NIGHT CLIMBERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007.). First edition - Authors first book. "When James Walker arrives at Tudor College, Cambridge, he by accident or fate encounters a member of the Night Climbers, a group of wealthy, secretive and eccentric circle of students who scale the college towers and gargoyles at night in pursuit of thrill seeking danger." 328 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new.).
Book ID: 54385More details Price: $18.00 -
I BEEN IN SORROW'S KITCHEN AND LICKED OUT ALL THE POTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, and first book to be published in hardcover, the story of a woman from the Gullah-speaking low country of South Carolina who comes to Southern California to find a better life for her family.SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9637.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (some soiling to bottom edge of textblock.)
Book ID: 47716More details Price: $30.00 -
I BEEN IN SORROW'S KITCHEN AND LICKED OUT ALL THE POTS.
Edition: Full size book club edition.
New York: Hyperion, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first novel, and first book to be published in hardcover, the story of a woman from the Gullah-speaking low country of South Carolina who comes to Southern California to find a better life for her family. SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9637.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (wear to top of spine of dj.)
Book ID: 53601More details Price: $20.00 -
I BEEN IN SORROW'S KITCHEN AND LICKED OUT ALL THE POTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, and first book to be published in hardcover, the story of a woman from the Gullah-speaking low country of South Carolina who comes to Southern California to find a better life for her family.SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9637.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. (prev owner's name stamped on front endpaper)
Book ID: 59201More details Price: $26.50 -
THE BARBED-WIRE KISS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003). First edition - The author's first novel set in New Jersey and introducing ex-cop Harry Rane. "the Jersey Shore ain't what it used to be, but ex-state trooper Harry Rane still calls it home. After his wife's death, Harry got careless, got shot, and he left the force. He's a changed man, leads a quiet life, except when it comes to helping his friends... Now an old buddy of Harry's wants a big favor. He owes $50,000 to a Jersey crime boss and needs Harry to get him more time to repay the loan." 340 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86568More details Price: $18.00 -
THE MAJORITY RULES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel about corruption in the justice system, by an author who is a judge himself. Introduces Tim Quinn, a Washington, D.C., lawyer recently appointed to a judgeship only to learn that corrupt politics sets the rules and he is expected to repay the favor. 398 pp. . ISBN: 0-765311410.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 65078More details Price: $17.50 -
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 -
THE TWENTIETH WIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, based on historical records and set in seventeenth century India, this is the story of Mehrunnisa, who ruled the Mughal Empire after the death of her husband, Emperor Jahangir. Afterword, glossary. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-743427149.
Condition: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65727More details Price: $17.50 -
THE DEATH OF VISHNU.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Norton, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised debut novel: Vishnu, the resident odd job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing he inhabits, while his neighbors squabble over who will pay for the ambulance. Praise from such writers as Michael Cunningham, Amy Tan, Andrea Barrett (who called this "Sympathic, penetrating, comic, and moving, this fine and unusual first novel unexpectedly braids Hindu mythology and traditions into the daily life of a broad cast of wonderfully drawn characters. The result draws on the best storytelling traditions of both east and west.").Illustrated endpapers. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-393050424.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 40246More details Price: $18.00 -
LONG LINES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1987). Hardcover first edition - Journalist's first novel, based on the premise "Can a person witness a murder over the phone?" Evelyn Wade is a shy, but determined, grandmotherly figure who is a thousand miles from the crime she overhears in her job as a telephone surveyer, but she sets out to find the murderer,following a trail through the dark world of cocaine, stolen cars and random sex, just as the murderer sets out to track her down. 259 pp. ISBN: 1-555841406.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 70902More details Price: $17.50 -
WAITING FOR THE HEALER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Picador, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first novel: the murder of a man's brother forces his return to the small Irish town where he grew up. One review called this "Fast-moving and harshly observed. This is a new Ireland, somewhere between Roddy Doyle and Quentin Tarantino, post-Catholic." 308 pp. ISBN: 0-312182066.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40814More details Price: $25.00 -
PAPER WINGS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, after two collections of short stories. Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the Kennedy assassination, this coming-of-age story is told through the voice of Suzanne, a young girl when the novel opens. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-06017434x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82243More details Price: $30.00 -
THE POOR BOY'S GAME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third thriller by this Philadelphia born author. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 322 pp. ISBN: 978-1250019530.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80751More details Price: $31.50 -
THE JOY LUCK CLUB
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tan's wonderful first novel, the basis for the movie of the same name. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-399-134204.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine first issue dustjacket (usual toning to the textblock, original price of $18.95 on dj)
Book ID: 86341More details Price: $50.00 -
DEATH AT CHARITY'S POINT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first novel introducing Boston attorney Brady Coyne, who has a reputation for discretion and so he is asked to investigate a death caused by a fall from a cliff top - a possible suicide or was it murder? Winner of the Scribner Crime Novel Award. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-684180561.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some rubbing to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 77133More details Price: $65.00 -
CAROLINE MINUSCULE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery introducing William Dougall, an "engaging and unprincipled graduate student" and his girlfriend Amanda as they hunt for a cache of diamonds. Awarded the CWA New Blood Dagger. nominated for the Edgar for best first novel, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-396081495.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant, some wear to dj at top of spine)
Book ID: 71448More details Price: $30.00 -
NEON FLAMINGO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery set in a "slick Floridacity with a wicked past" and featuring journalists A. J. Egan, a newcomer, and Palmer Kingston, a shrewd and legendary reporter. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-396-091709.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74280More details Price: $18.50 -
LOYALTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Boston, this is the author's first novel, introducing private investigator Fina Ludlow, the black sheep of a dysfunctional family of attorneys, who is retained by her family's firm as an investigator after she drops out of law school. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for the Shamus award. 405 pp. ISBN: 978-0399162121.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76989More details Price: $35.00