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THE BISHOP MURDER CASE: A Philo Vance Story.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1929. Hardcover - with seal on copyright page.
Condition: A poor copy of this classic mystery - spine slant, wear to black cloth covers, binding cracked before half title page, prev owner's name dated 1929.
Book ID: 20727More details Price: $12.50 -
DITCH RIDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIGNED on title page. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175133.
Condition: Very good- in near fine dust jacket (binding cracked before title page, rem line.)
Book ID: 17366More details Price: $19.00 -
PARROT BLUES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Neil Hamel mystery, set in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0177063.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 17611More details Price: $25.00 -
THE LIES THAT BIND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0177055.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 24179More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WOLF PATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque and southern New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168048.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line bottom edge.)
Book ID: 27097More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WOLF PATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque and southern New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168048.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 27098More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LIES THAT BIND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0177055.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 27099More details Price: $30.00 -
PARROT BLUES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Neil Hamel mystery, set in New Mexico. SIGNED in full on the title page and also very personally INSCRIBED on the half title page and signed 'Judy' and dated in the year of publication. ISBN: 0-06-0177063.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket.( crease to front endpaper.)
Book ID: 27196More details Price: $35.00 -
THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. SIGNED first edition - The third Neil Hamel mystery, set as spring is returning to Albuquerque, New Mexico. A relatively uncommon early advance issue. SIGNED on the title page.
Condition: Near fine in printed blue wrappers.
Book ID: 9877More details Price: $75.00 -
NORTH OF THE BORDER.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
London: Virago Press, (1990.). The first Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 170 pp. ISBN: 1853812471.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (usual light toning to the pages, minor wear to covers.
Book ID: 57400More details Price: $10.00 -
HOTSHOTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico and southern Colorado where several young firefighters had perished in a fire. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175125.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some toning to the dj)
Book ID: 38308More details Price: $25.00 -
DITCH RIDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIGNED on title page. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175133.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 45750More details Price: $25.00 -
THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Neil Hamel mystery - and spring is returning to Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIGNED on title page. ISBN: 0-06-0165812.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 50478More details Price: $35.00 -
HOTSHOTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico and southern Colorado where several young firefighters had perished in a fire. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175125.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51904More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LIES THAT BIND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0177055.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65880More details Price: $17.50 -
PARROT BLUES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Neil Hamel mystery, set in New Mexico. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0177063.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65883More details Price: $16.50 -
MERCURY RETROGRADE
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing,
1994. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First collection of short stories by Van Gieson, with an introduction by Walter Satterthwait and a cover illustration by Phil Parks. One of 124 specially bound, numbered copies, SIGNED by Van Gieson, Satterthwait, and Parks. This copy is "PC" (printer's copy.). ISBN: 0-9640454-19.Condition: Fine in fine slipcase.
Book ID: 11125More details Price: $100.00 -
THE CHINESE GOLD MURDERS.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Harper & Row, (1983.) dj. Hardcover - Reissue of a Judge Dee mystery originally published in the US in 1959. Illustrated with 10 plates 'drawn by the author in the Chinese style.' Author's postscript. 202 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0152060.
Condition: Good only in a near fine dust jacket (although there are no signs that it has been removed- a binding flaw? -this is missing the title page - otherwise it is just about fine)
Book ID: 59541More details Price: $12.50 -
THE MONGOOSE MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel written using this pseudonym, a thriller about a terrorist who is making entertainment out of mass murder. Boldly INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens and signed Richard Hoyt, dated in 1999. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-312864760.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63655More details Price: $35.00 -
THE FOX VALLEY MURDERS.
Edition: First printing.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1966.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Sheriff Joe Bain of Rodrigo County, California (a fictional small rural county near Oakland where Vance lived.) Although Vance is best known for his science fiction (he had already won a Hugo Award when this book was published), he is also an award-winning mystery writer too - his first mystery, The Man in the Cage won an Edgar. 219 pp. Jacket design by Ben Feder.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (several short closed edgetears to the dj - dj now protected by an archival cover, of course)
Book ID: 32986More details Price: $150.00 -
FOGGY WITH A CHANCE OF MURDER.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, (2011). First edition - "What should have been a peaceful walk on the beach turns tragic when suspense author Chloe Green tries unsuccessfully to save a ten-year-old boy from drowning. For Chloe, the boy's death is evidence that God does not exist - that anyone or anything can be taken by random force, just as her own father was. But Rob Stevens, the boy's grieving father and a recent widower, appears to be the target in a chain of mysterious attacks that are anything but random." 273 pp. ISBN: 97-1609080143.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped)
Book ID: 66729More details Price: $15.00 -
THEME MUSIC.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85188More details Price: $18.00 -
WITHIN THE LAW
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, C.1913. Novelization by Dana of Veiller's play. Illustrated. Partial dj laid in (front flap and portion of front cover only.)
Condition: Very good in orange cloth covered boards (prev owner's name dated 1926.)
Book ID: 10917More details Price: $9.00 -
LAST SEEN IN SAMARRA.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1972.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery set in Montreal by this Canadian author. Her fifth suspense novel. 186 pp. ISBN: 0396066552.
Condition: Good in very good dust jacket (dampstaining and crinkling to the bottom margins of most of the pages.)
Book ID: 51037More details Price: $12.50 -
GRASSHOPPER.
Edition: First printing.
London: Viking, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The ninth novel of psychological suspense written by Ruth Rendell under the name of Barbara Vine. SIGNED by Ruth Rendell on the title page with the word "as" in front of Barbara Vine. 406 pp. ISBN: 0-609607898.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76909More details Price: $80.00 -
GALLOWGLASS.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Harmony Books, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel written by Ruth Rendell under this name, a story told in the alternating voices of two men who act as "gallowglasses" - that is, as warriors who will die to fulfill their duty to protect their chief. ISBN: 0-517-577445.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 16722More details Price: $18.00 -
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THE BRIMSTONE WEDDING.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harmony, (1995.). First edition - "Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness." 332 pp. ISBN: 0-517-703394.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 24536More details Price: $18.00 -
HOUSE OF STAIRS.
Edition: Uncorrected proof for the first US edition.
New York: Crown, 1989. Third mystery written by Rendell as Barbara Vine.
Condition: Good in printed wrappers, as issued. Spine slant, sticker removal spot on front cover, line to bottom edge.
Book ID: 4042More details Price: $15.00 -
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GALLOWGLASS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harmony Books, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth novel written by Ruth Rendell under this name, a story of obsession and betrayal told in the alternating voices of two men who act as "gallowglasses" - that is, as warriors who will die to fulfill their duty to protect their chief. SIGNED on the title page by Ruth Rendell. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-517-57744-5.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69475More details Price: $35.00 -
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GALLOWGLASS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harmony Books, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel written by Ruth Rendell under this name, a story told in the alternating voices of two men who act as "gallowglasses" - that is, as warriors who will die to fulfill their duty to protect their chief. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-517-57744-5.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (small bookseller ticket inside rear cover, spine on dj sunned)
Book ID: 40503More details Price: $14.50
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