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DONE FOR A DIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second noir novel by this highly praised writer, who combines compassion with a vivid description of the rough side of life - described as being even better than his first book 'The Devil's Redhead.' Set in a small city 'on the northern tip of the San Francisco Bay, beset by drug dealers, arsonists, squatters, and now murder.' SIGNED on the title page. 356 pp. Recommended. ISBN: 0-345-447530.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87743More details Price: $40.00 -
SAMEDI'S KNAPSACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel featuring private investigator Mitch Roberts who is heading home from London, when he is mugged in a Miami parking lot, with all his money, identification and rental car gone. Getting in touch with a former fellow minor league baseball player, he is offered a job going to Haiti both to purchase art work and to find out what happened to the previous agent. Set in the early 1990s just before Aristide was briefly returned to power, this is a picture of a country of unbelievable poverty. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-31226643X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 85527More details Price: $16.50 -
EASY MONEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - In the early 70s with the supply of heroin virtually dried up on the streets two cocaine smugglers saw a chance for "easy money." George Ramos, a Cuban American conspired with Frank Matthews to smuggle into the United States a shipment of European heroin worth one hundred million dollars on the streets. Although the feds got wind of their scheme (in fact Ramos turned government witness and provides much of the information included here) this book sheds light on the enormously lucrative drug business of the Spanish and Black "mafias." 366 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 85396More details Price: $85.00 -
BUNKER 13.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in silver illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82378More details Price: $35.00 -
BUNKER 13,
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in silver illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82377More details Price: $30.00 -
DEATH IN A DISTANT LAND.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mr G.D.H. Pringle and the irrepressible Mavis Bignell set off for Australia on a bargain-priced camping tour, to try and find any traces of a missing boy, only to find themselves in the middle of revenge by a drug smuggling ring. Enjoyable on many levels including its depiction of Australia and the cross-purposes of all the protaganists, 190 pp. ISBN: 0-312025653.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 82245More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CACTUS GARDEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A noir thriller by the former writer for 'Hill Street Blues' and 'Miami Vice.' Set in Southern California, where daredevil DEA agent Jack Walker finds himself with a chance to get inside a drug smuggling empire. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from authors James Crumley, Stephen Hunter among others. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-671-882651.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82066More details Price: $30.00 -
QUEEN OF THE NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in southern Arizona on the Tohono O'odham nation where this flower blooms just once a year. Features Dr Lani Walker and Dan Pardee, a member of a border patrol group called the Shadow Wolves. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp. ISBN: 9781453628584.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62023More details Price: $28.50 -
QUEEN OF THE NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in southern Arizona on the Tohono O'odham nation where this flower blooms just once a year. Features Dr Lani Walker and Dan Pardee, a member of a border patrol group called the Shadow Wolves. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp. ISBN: 9781453628584.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark.)
Book ID: 56921More details Price: $25.00 -
LEFT FOR DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in southern Arizona featuring Ali Reynolds. SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp. ISBN: 9781453628584.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 56835More details Price: $25.00 -
THE DEVIL'S REDHEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, the story of freelance photographer and wildcat smuggler Dan Abatangelo who captains a distribution ring for premium Thai marijuana. Among the comments about this book is Martin Smith's that 'Corbett handles both selfless love and unspeakable brutality with a poet's hand. 'The Devil's Redhead' is the best debut novel I've read in years.' SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-345-447522.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55396More details Price: $40.00 -
THE CACTUS GARDEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A noir thriller by the former writer for 'Hill Street Blues' and 'Miami Vice.' Set in Southern California, where daredevil DEA agent Jack Walker finds himself with a chance to get inside a drug smuggling empire. Cover praise from authors James Crumley, Stephen Hunter among others. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-671-882651.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53539More details Price: $18.00 -
THE DEVIL'S REDHEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, the story of freelance photographer and wildcat smuggler Dan Abatangelo who captains a distribution ring for premium Thai marijuana. Among the comments about this book is Martin Smith's that 'Corbett handles both selfless love and unspeakable brutality with a poet's hand. 'The Devil's Redhead' is the best debut novel I've read in years.' SIGNED on the title page. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-345-447522.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47899More details Price: $35.00 -
CUTTING FOR SIGN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The border between the United States and Mexico covers 1,951 miles, and in this book Langewiesche attempts to understand and explain this no-man's land that exists between two countries and its effects on the people who live in the area. He "portrays not an imaginary line through the desert, but two distrustful, hopelessly unequal and increasingly zenophobic neighbor countries. 247 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-679411135.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 42173More details Price: $15.00 -
THE FRUIT PALACE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the author's travels through Colombia's cocaine underworld, described by Jay McInerney as both 'hilarious and hair-raising.' The Fruit Palace was the name of the cafe where Nicholl had his first encounter with Columbian drug smugglers back in the 70's - although then it was mostly marijuana. Map. 307 pages. ISBN: 0-312-309260.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41123More details Price: $15.00 -
THE DEVIL'S REDHEAD.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Ballantine, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's very highly praised first novel, the story of freelance photographer and wildcat smuggler Dan Abatangelo who captains a distribution ring for premium Thai marijuana. Among the comments about this book is Martin Smith's that 'Corbett handles both selfless love and unspeakable brutality with a poet's hand. 'The Devil's Redhead' is the best debut novel I've read in years.' SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-345-447522.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40099More details Price: $20.00 -
THE FRUIT PALACE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the author's travels through Colombia's cocaine underworld, described by Jay McInerney as both 'hilarious and hair-raising.' The Fruit Palace was the name of the cafe where Nicholl had his first encounter with Columbian drug smugglers back in the 70's - although then it was mostly marijuana. Map. 307 pages. ISBN: 0-312-309260.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (publishing flaw? - prelim page used as front pastedown.)
Book ID: 38040More details Price: $12.50