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THE LOCK ARTIST.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011). SIGNED - Mute since a childhood tragedy, an 18 year old has a remarkable skill: he can open any lock - a skill which makes him valuable to the wrong people. Winner of the 2011 Edgar award for best mystery, a NY Times Notable Crime Book. SIGNED on the title page. 214 pp. ISBN: 978-0312696955.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 65306More details Price: $21.50 -
THE LOCK ARTIST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A standalone thriller. Mute since a childhood tragedy, an 18 year old has a remarkable skill: he can open any lock - a skill which makes him valuable to the wrong people. Winner of the 2011 Edgar award for best mystery, a NY Times Notable Crime Book. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0312380427.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78132More details Price: $19.50 -
BEFORE THE FALL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Edgar award, a novel by the producer and screen writer of the award-winning television series 'Fargo.' "On a foggy summer night, eleven people - ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter - depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are the painter Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family." 390 pp. ISBN: 978-1455561780.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to pages)
Book ID: 82732More details Price: $30.00 -
LOS ALAMOS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Broadway Books, 1997. SIGNED first edition - Suspense novel set during World War II against the background of the testing at Los Alamos, New Mexico, the site of the program to develop the first atom bomb. Winner of an Edgar Award for best first novel. SIGNED on the title page. Publisher's material laid in. Author's note. 383 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 80747More details Price: $30.00 -
WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, which introduced psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. Winner of the Edgar and Anthony awards for best first novel. Basis for the movie of the same name. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-689-115199.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket - not quite a perfect copy, but close to it.
Book ID: 77893More details Price: $100.00 -
THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE or On the Segregation of the Queen.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover - In 1914 a young woman meets a retired beekeeper on Sussex Downs; his name is Sherlock Holmes, and what follows is a wonderful story of a modern young woman who learns to come to terms both with herself and with an older man who embodies the age past. Edgar Award winner and the first novel in an excellent series. SIGNED on the title page. 347 pp. ISBN: 0-312-104235.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dustjacket. (book slightly "over-opened" before title page)
Book ID: 81761More details Price: $40.00 -
A GRAVE TALENT
Edition: First UK printing.
London: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery, winner of the Edgar for best first crime novel of the year. Introduces homicide detective Casey Martinelli. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp Very different - and strking - dust jacket art than the US edition. ISBN: 0-00-2325438.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (gold embossed seal on front endpaper, usual toning to pages).
Book ID: 81769More details Price: $35.00 -
A GRAVE TALENT
Edition: 5th printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first mystery, winner of the Edgar for best first crime novel of the year. Introduces homicide detective Casey Martinelli. INSCRIBED by King on the dedication page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-088043.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket. An attractive and reasonably priced alternative to the very expensive first printing of this novel.
Book ID: 74249More details Price: $45.00 -
THE BOTTOMS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Mysterious Press, 2000. SIGNED first edition - Winner of the Edgar for best novel in 2001. A mystery, but also a coming of age story set in racially divided East Texas during the depression era 1930's. SIGNED on the title page. 328 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 27627More details Price: $40.00 -
THE BOTTOMS.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Mysterious Press, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Winner of the Edgar for best novel in 2001. A mystery, but also a coming of age story set in racially divided East Texas during the depression era 1930s. SIGNED on the title page. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-7048.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (crease to rear flap of dj)
Book ID: 75066More details Price: $40.00 -
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Faber & Faber, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel (second book), the story of a young woman, half Asian, half African American, who vanishes in Tokyo. A book both entertaining and a serious literary exploration of identity and race. Winner of the Edgar Award for best first mystery. 315 pp. ISBN: 0-393-058123.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (corners somewhat bumped.)
Book ID: 48830More details Price: $18.00 -
CONSPIRACY OF PAPER.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Ballantine, (2001.). The author's first book, set in early 18th century England, winner of the Edgar Award for best first novel and of the Barry and Macavity awards. Kirkus Reviews calls it "A well-researched and highly entertaining historical mystery debut. Liss's fiendishly intricate tale of financial skulduggery and multiple murder, set in a solidly realized early-eighteenth-century London, has as its redoubtable protagonist and narrator one Benjamin Weaver. The very model of a modern historical mystery." Also named a New York Times Notable Book for 2000. 439 pp. plus a Reader's Guide. ISBN: 0-78622665X.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 36538More details Price: $12.00 -
CONSPIRACY OF PAPER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, set in early 18th century England, winner of the Edgar Award for best first novel and of the Barry and Macavity awards. Kirkus Reviews calls it "A well-researched and highly entertaining historical mystery debut. Liss's fiendishly intricate tale of financial skulduggery and multiple murder, set in a solidly realized early-eighteenth-century London, has as its redoubtable protagonist and narrator one Benjamin Weaver. The very model of a modern historical mystery." Also named a New York Times Notable Book for 2000. 442 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-78622665X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36161More details Price: $30.00 -
CONSPIRACY OF PAPER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, set in early 18th century England, winner of the Edgar Award for best first novel and of the Barry and Macavity awards. Kirkus Reviews calls it "A well-researched and highly entertaining historical mystery debut. Liss's fiendishly intricate tale of financial skullduggery and multiple murder, set in a solidly realized early-eighteenth-century London, has as its redoubtable protagonist and narrator one Benjamin Weaver. The very model of a modern historical mystery." Also named a New York Times Notable Book for 2000. SIGNED on the title page. 442 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-78622665X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52446More details Price: $45.00 -
BLUEBIRD, BLUEBIRD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82632More details Price: $100.00 -
BIMBOS OF THE DEATH SUN.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: TSR, 1988. Murder at the science fiction con - winner of the Edgar for best paperback original. ISBN: 0-880384557.
Condition: Reading copy only - spine creases, wear to covers.
Book ID: 65537More details Price: $9.00 -
FLETCH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, (2002.). Reissue of the first book in this Edgar award winning series, originally published in 1974. 197 pp.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 50359More details Price: $15.00 -
MALLORY'S ORACLE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hutchinson, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The true first edition of one of the most highly praised first mysteries in recent years - at its' center is Kathleen Mallory, a wild child turned NY policewoman. Edgar award nominee. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-09-178638-x.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (toning to the pages, as is common to this title).
Book ID: 61801More details Price: $21.50 -
MALLORY'S ORACLE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hutchinson, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The true first edition of one of the most highly praised first mysteries in recent years - at its' center is Kathleen Mallory, a wild child turned NY policewoman. Edgar award nominee. SIGNED on title page. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-09-178638-x.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (usual toning to the pages, fragile silver foil dj is attractive, but has a closed tear with associated creasing at lower edge of front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 16493More details Price: $45.00 -
CALIFORNIA GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Mystery set in 1960's California, with Timothy Leary at the Brotherhood of Eternal Life in Laguna Beach. For three brothers, one a homicide detective, one a reporter, and the last a priest, the past comes back to haunt them when the body of Janelle Vonn, a woman they all grew up with, is discovered in an abandoned factory. SIGNED on the tile page. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0562366.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped).
Book ID: 65440More details Price: $30.00 -
CALIFORNIA GIRL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. SIGNED on the title page. Mystery set in 1960's California, with Timothy Leary at the Brotherhood of Eternal Life in Laguna Beach. For three brothers, one a homicide detective, one a reporter, and the last a priest, the past comes back to haunt them when the body of Janelle Vonn, a woman they all grew up with, is discovered in an abandoned factory. 370 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56553More details Price: $40.00 -
CALIFORNIA GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. SIGNED on the title page. Mystery set in 1960's California, with Timothy Leary at the Brotherhood of Eternal Life in Laguna Beach. For three brothers, one a homicide detective, one a reporter, and the last a priest, the past comes back to haunt them when the body of Janelle Vonn, a woman they all grew up with, is discovered in an abandoned factory. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0562366.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53573More details Price: $35.00 -
SILENT JOE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel of corruption, revenge, and finding out who you really are, set in Orange County in Southern California and featuring one of Parker's most appealing protagonists. Winner of the Edgar Award for best novel, finalist for the Barry. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-67280.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 80928More details Price: $30.00 -
SILENT JOE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel of corruption, revenge, and finding out who you really are, set in Orange County in Southern California and featuring one of Parker's most appealing protagonists. Winner of the Edgar Award for best novel, finalist for the Barry. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-67280.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (crease to lower corner of first couple of pages.)
Book ID: 53819More details Price: $25.00 -
SILENT JOE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel of corruption, revenge, and finding out who you really are, set in Orange County in Southern California and featuring one of Parker's most appealing protagonists. Winner of the Edgar Award for best novel, finalist for the Barry. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-67280.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82421More details Price: $31.50 -
CALIFORNIA GIRL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. SIGNED on the title page. Mystery set in 1960's California, with Timothy Leary at the Brotherhood of Eternal Life in Laguna Beach. For three brothers, one a homicide detective, one a reporter, and the last a priest, the past comes back to haunt them when the body of Janelle Vonn, a woman they all grew up with, is discovered in an abandoned factory. 370 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in illustrated wrappers (crease to lower corner of back cover, other minor wear.)
Book ID: 34650More details Price: $35.00 -
CALIFORNIA GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Mystery set in 1960's California, with Timothy Leary at the Brotherhood of Eternal Life in Laguna Beach. For three brothers, one a homicide detective, one a reporter, and the last a priest, the past comes back to haunt them when the body of Janelle Vonn, a woman they all grew up with, is discovered in an abandoned factory. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0562366.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61749More details Price: $18.50 -
SILENT JOE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Novel of corruption, revenge, and finding out who you really are, set in Orange County in Southern California and featuring one of Parker's most appealing protagonists. Winner of the Edgar Award for best novel, finalist for the Barry. SIGNED on the title page. Bound in at the front of this edition is a letter to the reader from Parker. 342 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60935More details Price: $35.00 -
CALIFORNIA GIRL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. INSCRIBED on the title page. Mystery set in 1960's California, with Timothy Leary at the Brotherhood of Eternal Life in Laguna Beach. For three brothers, one a homicide detective, one a reporter, and the last a priest, the past comes back to haunt them when the body of Janelle Vonn, a woman they all grew up with, is discovered in an abandoned factory. 370 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 59512More details Price: $27.50 -
THE SKULL MANTRA.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73060More details Price: $45.00
