- Keyword = Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, mysteries:historical, bibliomystery, African American Mystery
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SLIVER OF TRUTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Shaye Areheart Books (Random House), (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second suspense novel, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. ISBN: 9780307338464.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61121More details Price: $30.00 -
IN THE BLOOD.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (2014). A psychological thriller. 374 pp plus a preview for "Crazy Love You.". ISBN: 978-1476708232.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 64190More details Price: $8.50 -
SINISTER STONES.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Crime Club, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of this mystery set in the outback of Australia, featuring Upfield's unusual detective: a half aborigine police inspector named Napoleon Bonaparte. Published in the UK a year later under the title "The Cake in the Hatbox." 187 pp. Dust jacket art by Franklyn Webber.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 74022More details Price: $120.00 -
BONY AND THE KELLY GANG.
Edition: First printing.
London & Melbourne: Heinemann, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - The half-caste aborigine detective, Napoleon Bonaparte - Bony - goes undercover to investigate a murder in the isolated Cork Valley in the southern mountains of New South Wales, a valley that respects no outside laws. 208 pp. Price on dj notes "price in Australia 17/0" Dust jacket art by Christine Aldor.
Condition: Near fine in black boards a very good minus dustjacket with rubbing to the folds, light edgewear.
Book ID: 70823More details Price: $50.00 -
THE BACHELORS OF BROKEN HILL.
Edition: Paperback.
London: Pan, (1966.). A mystery set in the outback of Australia, featuring Upfield's unusual detective: a half aborigine police inspector named Napoleon Bonaparte.
Condition: Good+ condition (bookplate, usual toning to pages)
Book ID: 29848More details Price: $9.50 -
THE BACHELORS OF BROKEN HILL.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Scribner, (1998). SIGNED - A mystery set in the outback of Australia, featuring Upfield's unusual detective: a half aborigine police inspector named Napoleon Bonaparte, originally published in 1950. This edition has a new introduction by Edward Marston, SIGNED by Edward Marston on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-684-850583.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 58454More details Price: $21.50 -
FLOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first suspense novel, introducing ex-con and freelance investigator, Burke. SIGNED on the half title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-917657-438.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (price-clipped)
Book ID: 58587More details Price: $60.00 -
DOWN IN THE ZERO.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, 1995. SIGNED - Another of his 'deliciously scummy' books involving s&m, bondage and revenge. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-679-760660.
Condition: Very good condition.
Book ID: 25200More details Price: $14.00 -
FOOTSTEPS OF THE HAWK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel featuring ex-con and freelance investigator, Burke,who is back in New York City. INSCRIBED on the title page. 238 pp. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. ISBN: 0-679445005.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64228More details Price: $30.00 -
STREGA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel featuring ex-con private eye Burke. SIGNED on the title page by Vachss. ISBN: 0-394-559371.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a tight copy but some light signs of handling.)
Book ID: 17495More details Price: $35.00 -
STREGA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel featuring ex-con private eye Burke. ISBN: 0-394-559371.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52207More details Price: $45.00 -
PAIN MANAGEMENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring Burke, career criminal and ultimate urban survivalist. SIGNED on the title page. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-375-413227.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52208More details Price: $30.00 -
SAFE HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Burke novel. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-375-400842.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52209More details Price: $30.00 -
BLUE BELLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel featuring ex-con private eye Burke. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-394-572289.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped) .
Book ID: 52331More details Price: $30.00 -
BLOSSOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Vachss' brilliant anti-hero Burke- the brooding, merciless adversary of criminals who fatten on the lives of children- has been unleashed into a new territory and Indiana may never be the same. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-394-585232.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52556More details Price: $20.00 -
PAIN MANAGEMENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring Burke, career criminal and ultimate urban survivalist. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-375-413227.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 55983More details Price: $18.00 -
DOWN HERE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel in the Burke Series, by this master of American noir. 290 pp. ISBN: 1400041732.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 66911More details Price: $15.00 -
ONLY CHILD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the Burke Series, by this master of American noir. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-375414878.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82929More details Price: $30.00 -
TWO TRAINS RUNNING.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pantheon, (2005.). First edition - Set in postwar United States, in 1959, this is a story of corruption in a small city at "a moment in our history when the violent forces that would decide the future of America were just beginning to roil below the surface." 444 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 47239More details Price: $18.00 -
UNORTHODOX METHODS.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Gollancz, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First hardcover edition of this title - the author's first book, a mystery set at Lake Tahoe. SIGNED on the title page.
Condition: Although this does not look bad with a dj protector, and the contents are in very good condition, both the dustjacket and the boards have been damaged - 'chewed up' is the term which comes to mind. Thus, only an interesting signed reading copy.
Book ID: 12573More details Price: $20.00 -
DAY OF WRATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Congdon & Lattes, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring Harry Stoner, a tough, sensitive private eye.
Condition: Very good condition in a somewhat edgeworn and soiled dj.
Book ID: 13783More details Price: $12.50 -
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth Harry Stoner mystery. ISBN: 0-385-296835.
Condition: Very good+ in good dust jacket (long closed tear on back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 18393More details Price: $12.50 -
DEAD LETTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third in the highly acclaimed mystery series featuring detective Harry Stoner. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-396-079814.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 49699More details Price: $18.00 -
FIRE LAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh Harry Stoner mystery, pitting the private eye against the Cincinnati underworld of drugs and death. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-385295898.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 36223More details Price: $13.50 -
FIRE LAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh Harry Stoner mystery, pitting the private eye against the Cincinnati underworld of drugs and death. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-385295898.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (slight wear to dj.)
Book ID: 36397More details Price: $15.00 -
FIRE LAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh Harry Stoner mystery, pitting the private eye against the Cincinnati underworld of drugs and death. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-385295898.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (hole rubbed in front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 36518More details Price: $12.50 -
TUMBLEWEED
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second detective novel featuring Grijpstra and De Gier of the Amsterdam Police Force.
Condition: NF/VG (edgewear, short tears to top edge of dj.)
Book ID: 5268More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MAINE MASSACRE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - A de Gier mystery set on the Maine coast. ISBN: 0-395-273951.
Condition: Good in a good dustjacket (bumping to lower edge, closed tears, edgewear.)
Book ID: 5950More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MAINE MASSACRE and Two Other Great Mysteries (Tumbleweed, The Corpse on the Dike)
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1979.) dj. Hardcover - Omnibus edition containing one Commissaris and Sergeant de Gier mystery set on the Maine coast, and two originally published in 1976 set in Amsterdam. 568 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32508More details Price: $14.00 -
TUMBLEWEED.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: SOHO Press, (1992, c. 1976.). A Grijpstra and de Gier mystery novel, set in Amsterdam, involving the murder of a high class prostitute. 215 pp. ISBN: 1-56947-0189.
Condition: Near fine condition.
Book ID: 34774More details Price: $9.50
