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THIS FAR NO FURTHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel, a crime thriller. Sue Grafton called it one of the most exciting mystery debuts in years. Introduces Harding, former private investigator in Chicago, until a case turned on him, and now an ex-con working off the books, 333 pp. ISBN: 0-684-814633.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj) .
Book ID: 87926More details Price: $19.50 -
KISS IT GOODBYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Chicago ex-con, unlicensed private detective Harding and his fearless girlfriend, Allison. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-684-870630.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89121More details Price: $19.50 -
THIS FAR NO FURTHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel, a crime thriller. Sue Grafton called it one of the most exciting mystery debuts in years. Introduces Harding, former private investigator in Chicago, until a case turned on him, and now an ex-con working off the books, 333 pp. ISBN: 0-684-814633.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52689More details Price: $22.50 -
PRETTY BALLERINA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Chicago ex-con, unlicensed private detective Harding. ISBN: 0-684-814641.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (signs of having been read.)
Book ID: 34923More details Price: $15.00 -
A SUGGESTION OF DEATH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pocket Books, (2000). First edition - Second legal thriller featuring Cinda Hayes, set in Boulder, Colorado, where the author is a law professor and a former federal prosecutor. Bibliography. 341 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy wrappers (a preliminary cover, very different from the final trade edition).
Book ID: 71885More details Price: $18.00 -
A SUGGESTION OF DEATH.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Headline (Hodder), (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second legal thriller featuring Cinda Hayes, set in Boulder, Colorado, where the author is a law professor and a former federal prosecutor. SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-747220085.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81314More details Price: $40.00 -
THE MEDICI DAGGER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of adventure and suspense which ranges between California and Tuscany in Italy, as Reb Barnett seeks da Vinci's Circles of Truth, a coded 15th century map that reveals the hiding place of the Medici Dagger, "a legendary weapon made of an alloy so light and indestructible it is worth a fortune to today's arms dealers." SIGNED on the half title page. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-7434-20357.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 43806More details Price: $25.00 -
CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
DLSIJ Press, (2007). SIGNED first edition - A lesbian legal suspense novel featuring business attorney Meg Stryker. INSCRIBED on a blank preliminary page and dated in the year of publication, 175 pp. Promotional book mark laid in. ISBN: 9781932014280.
Condition: Fine in glossy black wrappers.
Book ID: 69796More details Price: $15.00 -
RIVER CITY DEAD: An Aggie Mundeen Mystery.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Henery Press, (2017). SIGNED first edition - Advice columnist Aggie Mundeen and SAPD Sam Vanderhoven plan to get together on San Antonio's River Walk during Fiesta Week - but murder gets in their way. SIGNED on the title page and dated in March 2018. 213 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-1635111330.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76965More details Price: $20.00 -
ALMOST LOVE, ALMOST DEATH.
Edition: Trade paperback original.
1stBooks, (2001.). SIGNED - Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by this Northern California author. A novel of romance and suspense, involving Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-759604894.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 35931More details Price: $15.00 -
THE ROAD TO RUIN.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (2004) dj. Hardcover - A caper novel, featuring the unlucky lawbreaker Dortmunder and his gang of thieves. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-89296801X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 61617More details Price: $14.50 -
HIGH ADVENTURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Comic adventure story set in the jungles of Belize in Central America. SIGNED on the title page. Map frontispiece. Interior drawings by Sean Westlake. 326 pp. Dust jacket art by David Tamura. ISBN: 0-89296-1236.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52163More details Price: $25.00 -
BABY, WOULD I LIE? A Romance of the Ozarks.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A crime thriller - or maybe this is more accurately described as a humorous caper novel - set in Branson, Missouri, the new home of country music. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-892965320.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82967More details Price: $35.00 -
SMOKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Freddy was a liar. Freddy was a thief." and when Freddie broke into a cancer research lab, Freddie had a third claim to fame: he was invisible. Westlake at his very funny best. 454 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-5347.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49271More details Price: $15.00 -
THE BUSY BODY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1966) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Another Joyous Comedy of Peril" - Aloysius Eugene Engel was mob boss Nick Rovito's right hand man, and up until now it had been a pretty easy life, but when a big-shot in the organization is mistakenly buried in a suit stuffed with herion, Al is given the job of digging up the body and removing the jacket. Basis for the 1967 film starring Sid Caesar. SIGNED on the title page. 176 pp. ISBN: my18.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71696More details Price: $200.00 -
TOMORROW'S CRIMES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes the novella "Anarchaos" and nine short stories of criminous science fiction, originally published in science fiction magazines. Although "Anarchaos" is a grim story - Anarchy/chaos is the condition of society on the planet where Rolf Malone arrives from Earth after serving time for murder, bent on avenging the death of his brother - other stories show Westlake's sense of humor, including a sendup of Hammett's fat man seeking the fabled bird and Poe's detective spotting the missing paper, "The Ultimate Caper: The Purloined Letter." SIGNED on the title page. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-892962992.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42364More details Price: $30.00 -
BABY, WOULD I LIE? A Romance of the Ozarks.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Mysterious Press, (1994). First edition - A crime thriller - or maybe this is more accurately described as a humorous caper novel - set in Branson, Missouri, the new home of country music. 291 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated covers.
Book ID: 45916More details Price: $18.00 -
MONEY FOR NOTHING.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 68254More details Price: $25.00 -
LEVINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1984). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of six novellas - most written between 1959-1964, but including one first published in this book- which examine the life of a Brooklyn cop. SIGNED on the title page. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-0639.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68682More details Price: $28.50 -
DANJU GIG
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first solo book - suspense and adventure in West Africa when a movie scout is asked to look for something more.
Condition: NF/NF (prev bookseller's red dot top edge, creases on dj flaps.)
Book ID: 7409More details Price: $15.00 -
THE HIDDEN PORTAL.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: P. F. Collier and Sons, Ltd, (1946.). Hardcover - A "Crime Club" edition. A vintage mystery. 284 pp.
Condition: Good condition in a rather attractive dark blue binding with stylized tree on front, gilt titles on the spine. (prev owner's name stamp.)
Book ID: 56130More details Price: $12.50 -
CROOKS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Walker, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Harry Sommers adventure.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 14279More details Price: $12.50 -
SWORN TO DEFEND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth mystery featuring Brooklyn defense attorney Cass Jameson. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-425-163032.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66509More details Price: $16.50 -
WHERE NOBODY DIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Brooklyn defense attorney Cass Jameson (the first in the series was nominated for an Edgar). 277 pp. ISBN: 0-312-86700x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, some rubbing to edges of dj)
Book ID: 66510More details Price: $16.50 -
MEAN STREAK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring Brooklyn defense attorney Cass Jameson. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-425-153177.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62390More details Price: $16.50 -
FRESH KILLS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Brooklyn defense attorney Cass Jameson. SIGNED on the title page. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-425-147851.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63550More details Price: $30.00 -
THE WOWZER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy black and white wrappers.
Book ID: 53737More details Price: $12.50 -
SOME MUST WATCH.
Edition: First US printing.
New York & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1941) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller, originally published in the UK in 1933, which creates an atmosphere of growing terror and suspense. A young girl, who has not been able to speak since childhood, has taken a position as a "lady help" in a remote mansion and finds herself threatened by a killer who has a penchant for strangling handicapped young women. Basis for several films including the classic 1946 RKO suspense movie, THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, and Elsa Lanchester. 319 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in maroon cloth in a like dustjacket. The book is missing the front free endpaper, has a slanted spine and somewhat bumped corners, rear hinge cracking. The dustjacket has significant edgewear, some minor loss at the ends of the spine, rubbing and wear to the folds, original price of 2.00 still present. A flawed, but still readable and possibly restorable copy of a very scarce book in dust jacket.
Book ID: 78819More details Price: $400.00 -
DEATH NOTES.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Severn House, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in San Francisco and featuring private investigator Ronnie Ventana. INSCRIBED on the title page. 220 pp. ISBN: 978-0727861986.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64560More details Price: $30.00 -
IF LOOKS COULD KILL.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first mystery - it introduces Bailey Wiggins, a 30-something, single-again, true crime writer for a glossy NY magazine. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-446-530239.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 29083More details Price: $24.50
