- Keyword = Mystery, suspense and detective fiction, mysteries:historical, bibliomystery
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THE BURGLAR WHO THOUGHT HE WAS BOGART.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, full-time bookseller and part-time thief. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-525-940162.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59579More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featurning bookstore owner, and thief, Bernie Rhodenbarr - about a reclusive author who's career is very loosely based on Salinger. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-525-945008.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 46255More details Price: $27.50 -
THE COLLECTED MYSTERY STORIES.
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects 71 stories, including three collections previously unpublished in the UK, along with 14 new stories, gathered for the first time in one volume. SIGNED on the title page. Introduction by Block. xi, 754 pp. ISBN: O752825445.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 74588More details Price: $45.00 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featurning bookstore owner, and thief, Bernie Rhodenbarr - about a reclusive author who's career is very loosely based on Salinger. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- Cheers!" and dated in the month of publication. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-525-945008.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (spine slightly cocked)
Book ID: 59127More details Price: $28.50 -
THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery: "A deliciously wicked tale of a gentleman crook in the glamorous New York art world." SIGNED on the title page. 253 pp.
Condition: Good only in a good dust jacket (a "tartan" with glue discoloration on the endpapers and under the flaps of the dj, spine slant)
Book ID: 61580More details Price: $24.50 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE LIBRARY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Enjoyable bibliomystery featuring bookstore owner Bernie Rhodenbarr - who has left New York City for an English-style inn in the Berkshires. SIGNED on the title page. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-525-943013.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46258More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BURGLAR WHO TRADED TED WILLIAMS.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Dutton, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover - After 10 years, burglar and bookstore owner Bernie Rhodenbarr is back. SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-525-93807-9.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (remainder line.)
Book ID: 17277More details Price: $18.50 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featurning bookstore owner Bernie Rhodenbarr - SIGNED on a special bookplate affixed to the half title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-525-945008.
Condition: Very near fine in like dust jacket ( remainder mark.)
Book ID: 18524More details Price: $28.50 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: No Exit Press, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featurning bookstore owner, and thief, Bernie Rhodenbarr - about a reclusive author who's career is very loosely based on Salinger. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 1-901982602.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual light toning to the pages).
Book ID: 77246More details Price: $50.00 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featurning bookstore owner, and thief, Bernie Rhodenbarr - about a reclusive author whose career is very loosely based on Salinger. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-525-945008.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49529More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE CLOSET.
Edition: First thus (full number line).
New York: Dutton, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery, originally published in 1978. SIGNED on the title page. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-525-939938.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74587More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featurning bookstore owner, and thief, Bernie Rhodenbarr - about a reclusive author who's career is very loosely based on Salinger. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- Cheers!". 280 pp. ISBN: 0-525-945008.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74349More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BURGLAR WHO STUDIED SPINOZA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1980.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, full-time bookseller and part-time thief.. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-394-510658.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74592More details Price: $60.00 -
THE BURGLAR IN THE LIBRARY.
Edition: First printing.
London: No Exit Press, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featuring bookstore owner Bernie Rhodenbarr - who has left New York City for an English-style inn in the Berkshires - and revolving around a rare inscribed first edition of Raymond Chandler's 'The Big Sleep'. SIGNED on the title page. This is the first state first issue (with error on the first page - the UK edition preceded the US edition). 342 pp. Ribbon bookmarker bound in. ISBN: 1-874061815.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 74688More details Price: $40.00 -
THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN.
Edition: Early book club edition.
New York: Arbor House, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 187 pp,
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51815More details Price: $18.50 -
THE BURGLAR WHO THOUGHT HE WAS BOGART.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, full-time bookseller and part-time thief. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-525-940162.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 49528More details Price: $27.50 -
HOUSE OF MIST.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a a good dustjacket. (upper corner of dj flap clipped, but price present in lower corner, some toning, large chip to lower edge of front cover)
Book ID: 40439More details Price: $31.50 -
HOUSE OF MIST.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (light toning to edges of textblock and dj, upper corner of dj flap clipped, but price present in lower corner)
Book ID: 82281More details Price: $65.00 -
TAHOE ICE GRAVE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original,
South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Third mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot. Bibliomystery involving a long-lost manuscript by Mark Twain, reportedly hidden on the Hawaiian island of Kauia in 1866. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's letter. 288 pp. ISBN: 1931296146.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 58376More details Price: $25.00 -
THE MYSTERY LOVER'S COMPANION.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Crown, (1986) dj. Hardcover - Describes and rates over 2,500 mysteries, detective stories and suspense thrillers arranged by type (English mystery, police procedural) and by author, alphabetically. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-517-556022.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61151More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MYSTERY LOVER'S COMPANION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Describes and rates over 2,500 mysteries, detective stories and suspense thrillers arranged by type (English mystery, police procedural) and by author, alphabetically. 311 pgs. Hardcover. ISBN: 0-517-556022.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61967More details Price: $21.50 -
THE MYSTERY LOVER'S COMPANION.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Crown, (1986) dj. Hardcover - Describes and rates over 2,500 mysteries, detective stories and suspense thrillers arranged by type (English mystery, police procedural) and by author, alphabetically. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-517-556022.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 61966More details Price: $12.50 -
WAITING FOR SUNRISE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2012). First edition - Set in Vienna in 1913 on the eve of the Great War, this is gripping espionage novel and a moving love story. 353 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59638More details Price: $20.00 -
THE PENNY FERRY.
Edition: First printing (first issue with error on p 101.)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second "Doc Adams" mystery (the first won the Edgar Award) and one of the best - A bibliomystery, dealing with missing documents related to the Sacco and Vanzetti case. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-395-352886.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, price-clipped).
Book ID: 2501More details Price: $28.00 -
THE PENNY FERRY.
Edition: First printing
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second "Doc Adams" mystery (the first won the Edgar Award) and one of the best in this series set in the Boston area. A bibliomystery, dealing with missing documents related to the Sacco and Vanzetti case. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-395-352886.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 51391More details Price: $25.00 -
THE PENNY FERRY.
Edition: First printing
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second "Doc Adams" mystery (the first won the Edgar Award) and one of the best in this series set in the Boston area. A bibliomystery, dealing with missing documents related to the Sacco and Vanzetti case. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-395-352886.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 49616More details Price: $27.50 -
RESTORATION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Louisiana born author's sixth novel. A young journalist and a painting restorer Rhys Goudeau search for a scandalous WPA mural supposedly painted over just befor teh artist took his own life. As the hunt becomes more frantic, they begin to realize that the Asmore mural is "not just about reclaiming a valuable work of art. Rather, the painting represents the murky and troubled history of the South itself, where a legacy of racial intolerance has destroyed its greatest artist as well as his most important creation." 305 pp. ISBN: 0-345502613.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82945More details Price: $18.00 -
OSCAR WILDE AND A DEATH OF NO IMPORTANCE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. First edition - "One of Britain's premiere royal biographers pens the first in a series of a fiendishly clever historical murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as the detective." A young artist's model has been murdered and Wilde enlists his friends, Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Sherrard to help him investigate. Published in the UK in 2007 under the title "Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders." 343 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59628More details Price: $17.50 -
TOUCH OF THE PAST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel featuring Los Angeles bookstore owner Rachel Henning (although this is set in the mountains in Idylwild) "On the morning of the garage sale in which he hopes to unload the entire trove of genuine 1937 articles, Wilbur DeMarco is murdered." An author of classic detective stories, he had published in last novel in 1937, so the roots of his death was hidden deep in the past. INSCRIBED on the title page "For Stan, who may have a copy of one of Wilbur deMarco's books in his library" and dated in the year of publication. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-802757049.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79518More details Price: $30.00 -
SKY MASTERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth techno-thriller by this former Air Force captain - set in what was the near future at the time it was written. Glossary. 510 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 1-55611-060x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60364More details Price: $17.50
