- Keyword = Mystery, suspense and detective fiction, mysteries:historical, bibliomystery
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THE NATURE OF RARE THINGS,
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Nathaniel Gye, university lecturer and paranormal investigator. When he is asked by a dead man through a medium to investigate his death, he is skeptical - but when his wife disappears on a trip to Italy - a trip the medium also warned against - he finds himself involved. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-786715642.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 82351More details Price: $16.50 -
PANACEA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - A medical thriller by this award-winning writer. "Two secret societies vie for control of the ultimate medical miraclePanacea. Medical examiner Laura Fanning has two charred corpses and no answers. Both bear a mysterious tattoo but exhibit no known cause of death. Their only connection to one another is a string of puzzling miracle cures. Her preliminary investigation points to a cult in the possession of the fabled panaceathe substance that can cure all ills." 383 pp. ISBN: 978-0765385161.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75314More details Price: $17.50 -
UNDERGROUND AIRLINES.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 87446More details Price: $21.50 -
UNDERGROUND AIRLINES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance copy and especially so signed.
Book ID: 87456More details Price: $45.00 -
MYSTERY OF THE LAUGHING MASK.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1940.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth title (and last one listed) in the series "Mystery Stories for Girls" - a rather uncommon book by the author of the original Nancy Drew books. Set in Florida, in the Everglades and at a small beach town, this feautures a girl working for a naturalist for the summer. Glossy frontispiece. 203 pp plus 7 pp of the first chapter from 'The Runaway Caravan,' the first in another Wirt series of books called Trailer Stories for Girls.
Condition: Very good+ in orange cloth with navy lettering in a good dust jacket (dust jacket lists just 7 titles). Gift inscription on the illustrated front endpapers in the box provided for this, usual light toning to pages, chip to upper front corner of dj, slight loss at ends of spine, but overall a clean and tight book in an attractive dust jacket and uncommon thus.
Book ID: 47849More details Price: $120.00 -
PROVIDENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which describes the effect of violence on five people - but also a novel in which the setting, the city of Providence, Rhode Island, plays a large part. Providence is a city "big enough to have neighborhoods, small enough so that everyone knows overone. . . steeped in history and corruption, [a] rough and pretty old Yankee port. . . the biggest organized crime operation in New England jostles with and sometimes runs the action at City Hall." 217 pp. ISBN: 0-670804614.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 63912More details Price: $15.00 -
STRANGE SEED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Everest House, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A contemporary novel of unutterable terror." The author's first novel - dust jacket praise from Stephen King who called it "a hypnotic journey into darkness. You'll be a long time forgetting this book - if you ever do." The story of a young couple who move to a small farm in upstate New York. (Barron, Horror Literature 4-337, Reginald 37369. etc.) 272 pp. ISBN: 0-89696-0218.
Condition: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket (inconspicuous remainder line, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 52716More details Price: $20.00 -
STRANGE SEED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Everest House, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A contemporary novel of unutterable terror." The author's first novel - dust jacket praise from Stephen King who called it "a hypnotic journey into darkness. You'll be a long time forgetting this book - if you ever do." The story of a young couple who move to a small farm in upstate New York. (Barron, Horror Literature 4-337, Reginald 37369. etc.) 272 pp. ISBN: 0-89696-0218.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (stamp of prev owner on front endpaper)
Book ID: 59789More details Price: $18.00 -
THE ANGEL'S GAME.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another literate bibliomystery, set in a "dark gothic universe" in Barcelona, Spain, by the author of "The Shadow of the Wind." Translated from the Spanish by Lucia Graves. 531 pp. ISBN: 9780385528702.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64314More details Price: $19.50
