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THE REPUBLIC OF EAST L.A.: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Rayo - Harper Collins, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First collection of short stories by this poet and writer - perhaps best known for his classic memoir of growing up in a Los Angeles gang, 'Always Running.' SIGNED on the title page. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-066212634.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38365More details Price: $28.00 -
MUSIC OF THE MILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Rayo - Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Los Angeles' author's first novel (although he has published poetry, non-fiction, a children's book and a collection of short stories) , an epic story spanning 3 generations and 60 years in the life of a family of Mexican immigrants and their children and grandchilden, set in the industrial boom of post-World War II Southern California "For the Salcidos - especially for Procopio's idealistic son Johnny and his young family, the hard knocks of life often resound louder than their own sense of hope." Boldly INSCRIBED on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-060560762.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57264More details Price: $31.50 -
DREEMZ.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 45953More details Price: $18.00 -
DREEMZ.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (some wear to the ends of the dj spine).
Book ID: 63772More details Price: $15.00 -
TRUE NOTEBOOKS.
Edition: First edition
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of Mark Salzman's first years teaching a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-375-413081.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59488More details Price: $18.00 -
ZOOT-SUIT MURDERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel set during the Second World War in the Mexican-American barrio in Los Angeles called the "Zona Roja" and climaxes during the infamous ÔZoot-Suit RiotsÕ of 1943, when sailors assaulted zoot-suiters in downtown Los Angeles. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-525-240608.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (tight copy, but with a remainder line, prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 43487More details Price: $16.00 -
ZOOT-SUIT MURDERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1978.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel set during the Second World War in the Mexican-American barrio in Los Angeles called the "Zona Roja" and climaxes during the infamous ÔZoot-Suit RiotsÕ of 1943, when sailors assaulted zoot-suiters in downtown Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page and dated in Los Angeles 2005. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-525-240608.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (a clean, tight copy, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 52080More details Price: $30.00 -
HIGH-HEEL BLUE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring LAPD detective Brenden Harlow, one of the few women in the elite Metro Division. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-684-814315.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 65452More details Price: $15.00 -
SPRING OF VIOLENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 24th mystery featuring Lieutenant Luis Mendoza and the homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department, which has recently been merged with the robbery division. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-688002099.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (spine slant, some toning and edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 88584More details Price: $15.00 -
FELONY AT RANDOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Lieutenant Luis Mendoza abd the homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department, who find themselves dealing with several serious crimes - the kidnapping of a young girl, the brutal murder of an old woman, a mysterious double suicide and more. 239 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (stain to lower corner of back cover of dj)
Book ID: 88581More details Price: $16.50 -
MURDER MOST STRANGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 32nd novel in the highly acclaimed police procedural mystery featuring Lieutenant Luis Mendoza and the Robery and Homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-688003788.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88689More details Price: $18.00 -
STREETS OF DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 27th crime novel featuring Luis Mendoza of the homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department. Linington, wrting as Dell Shannon, was one of the first women to write a police procedural series. 222 pp. ISBN: 0688031226.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88541More details Price: $23.50 -
THE CRACKED EARTH.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Berkley, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The second mystery featuring PI Jack Liffey, a former aerospace engineer, a decent guy who drives a beat-up old car and who has a talent for finding lost children, set in the gritty underside of Los Angeles - a world of corrupt developers and local politics. SIGNED on the title page.. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-425-167321.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 67320More details Price: $18.50 -
8 BALL CHICKS: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79149More details Price: $21.50 -
BABE IN PARADISE: Fiction.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of nine linked stories, set in a Los Angeles of "seismic geologic change, of racial unease, of parched desert landscapes littered with the detritus of urban ambition." A New York Times Notable Book, and a Los Angeles Times 'Best Book of the Year.' SIGNED on the title page. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-393020037.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64152More details Price: $35.00 -
MY HOLLYWOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at "two contemporary marriages - one in America and one in the Philippines - and witness their endangerment, despite the best of intentions." SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp. ISBN: 9780307273529.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57272More details Price: $30.00 -
SHORT CHANGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New American Library - NAL, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring management consultant and amateur sleuth Tucker Sinclair, set in Los Angeles's Gold Coast. SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 9870-451221445.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62376More details Price: $30.00 -
FALSE PROFITS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing management consultant and amateur sleuth Tucker Sinclair, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 9870-451221445.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages)
Book ID: 64197More details Price: $28.50 -
OUTSIDE THE WIRE: A Pacific Homicide Novel.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The second novel in the Pacific Homicide series. Set in Los Angeles, this features LA Homicide Detective Davie Richards who is called to an airport parking garage to investigate the shooting of a retired U.S. Army Ranger. SIGNED on the title page. 281 pp. ISBN: 978-0738752358.
Condition: Good overall - coffee stain to lower corner of textblock.
Book ID: 81301More details Price: $15.00 -
BAIT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a crime novel featuring Meg Gillis, who, with another former cop, owns a security business on the fringes of Beverly Hills. SIGNED on the title page and dated 4/20/99. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-684-850427.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 61567More details Price: $25.00 -
THE ICONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). Hardcover first edition - A young adult post-apocalyptic novel - "Everything changed on The Day. The day the Icon appeared in Los Angeles. The day the power stopped. The day Dol's family dropped dead. The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting." 429 pp. ISBN: 978-0316205184.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71210More details Price: $15.00 -
TRANSLATING LA: A Tour of the Rainbow City.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the physical side of Los Angeles from the La Brea tarpits to the Northridge earthquake and upscale Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, and at the people who shaped the city - those who find a center in this city 'without a center' and make it their home. 271 pages. ISBN: 0-393-036472.
Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread, but has an inconspicuous slit to front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 21746More details Price: $14.00 -
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 -
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 -
THE PRESUMED ALLIANCE: The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: SIGNED on the half title page. Fine (a new copy) in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 33289More details Price: $25.00 -
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 -
HOLLYWOOD: A Novel of America in the 1920s.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set during a period of American political and social change. "The time is 1917. In Washington, President Wilson is about to lead the United States into the Great War. In California, a new industry is born that will transform America: moving pictures." Among those who people this novel are Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the author's own grandfather, the blind Senator Gore. 437 pp. ISBN: 0-394576594.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 80305More details Price: $18.50