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  • A DECEPTIVE CLARITY. by Elkins, Aaron J.
    Elkins, Aaron J.
    A DECEPTIVE CLARITY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Walker, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth mystery, and the first featuring Chris Norgren, Assistant Curator of Art at the San Francisco Museum. SIGNED on the title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-56662.

    Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 59775
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  • A DECEPTIVE CLARITY. by Elkins, Aaron J.
    Elkins, Aaron J.
    A DECEPTIVE CLARITY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Walker, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth mystery, and the first featuring Chris Norgren, Assistant Curator of Art at the San Francisco Museum. INSCRIBED on the title page with the words "To ---- this is to certify that the following signature is NOT a forgery." 249 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-56662.

    Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 65483
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  • CLUTCH OF CONSTABLES. by Marsh, Ngaio (1895 - 1982)
    Marsh, Ngaio (1895 - 1982)
    CLUTCH OF CONSTABLES.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Collins / The Crime Club, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Superintendent Roderick Alleyn by this New Zealand-born author who was considered (along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers) one of the four "Queens of Crime" during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction His wife Troy finds herself on a river cruise with an international crook known as 'the Jampot' - and the peace of the cruise is destroyed by two murders. The 'Constable' in the title refers to the artist John Constable. Illustrated endpapers. 287 pp. Dust jacket by Kenneth Farnhill.

    Condition: Near fine in red boards with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dust jacket with some sunning to the spine. Original price of 21s net still present.

    Book ID: 85997
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  • SOMEBODY ELSE'S LIFE. by Philipson, Morris.
    Philipson, Morris.
    SOMEBODY ELSE'S LIFE.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1988). A highly respected, middle-aged college philosophy professor becomes dissatisfied with his life and suddenly craves wealth. He and his lover, an art conservator, create an audacious 16th century forgery and alternate identities for themselves. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-060914548.

    Condition: Very good (usual toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 76751
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  • THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS. by Smith, Dominic.
    Smith, Dominic.
    THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS.

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2016) dj. Hardcover - Australian-born author's fourth novel, one which spans three continents and four hundred years, from the Dutch countryside of the 1600s to Brooklyn, New York in the 1950s and Sydney, Australia in 2000. 290 pp. ISBN: 978-0374106683.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 74661
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  • PAINT OUT. by Wallace, Robert [pseudonym of Robin Wallace-Crabbe]
    Wallace, Robert [pseudonym of Robin Wallace-Crabbe]
    PAINT OUT.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Gollancz, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third thriller by this Australian artist and novelist featuring Essington Holt, "failed hustler turned millionaire," who is intrigued when an old friend from the Outback contacts him after 30 years claiming to have a Van Gogh. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-575041986.

    Condition: Fine in fine updated but still distinctive yellow Gollancz dust jacket.

    Book ID: 75532
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