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CHIEFS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1981.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, an intelligent and literate thriller that begins with the discovery of a boy's naked body in a wooded area of a small Georgia town in 1920, and 'weaves through decades of deceit.' Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. SIGNED on the title page. 427 pp. ISBN: 0-393-014614.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (name on front endpaper, a bit of wear to the ends of the spine of the dj and some toning to the white background, original price of 14.95 still present.) Overall a tight, straight and clean copy of this hardcover first edition, one of a small printing and uncommon signed.
Book ID: 90718More details Price: $275.00 -
CHIEFS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1981) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, an intelligent and literate thriller that begins with the discovery of a boy's naked body in a wooded area of a small Georgia town in 1920, and 'weaves through decades of deceit.' Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. SIGNED on the title page. 427 pp. ISBN: 0-393-014614.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (ghost of sticker on front endpaper, some transfer from the navy blue spine to interior of dj, minor wear and some toning to the dj, original price of 14.95 still present.) Overall a tight, straight and clean copy of this hardcover first edition, one of a small printing and uncommon signed.
Book ID: 90713More details Price: $250.00 -
BLACK CHERRY BLUES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring ex-New Orleans cop Dave Robichaux and one of the best in the series. Winner of the Edgar award for best novel. 290 pp. Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-316-116998.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (foxing to edges of textblock, few spots to interior of dj.)
Book ID: 90580More details Price: $24.50 -
NINE SONS.
Edition: Limited, signed edition.
Mission Viejo, CA & Clarkston, MI: A.S.A.P. (Airtight Seals Allied Production), 1992. SIGNED first edition - First separate printing of this Edgar award winning short story set during a cold winter in a small town in the Northern Plains in the depth of the Depression. One of 50 copies in an acrylic slipcase, SIGNED by Hornsby and the illustrator Phil Parks and individually numbered (#16 of 50) on the limitation page. Includes a foreword by Hornsby and an afterword by Parks. In addition, following the printed foreword and continuing on the next blank page, Hornsby has handwritten a tribute to the beauty of the California coast - it begins with "Did I ever tell you" and is signed just WH. Unpaginated (28 pp.)
Condition: Fine in stapled illustrated wrappers in a clear acrylic slipcase.
Book ID: 89921More details Price: $60.00 -
NO ONE RIDES FOR FREE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, winner of the Edgar Award, introducing private investigator Tony Casella - a new breed of detective, one who has seen both sides of the law, both sides of a drug bust. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-688-060579.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (crease to flap of dj)
Book ID: 89681More details Price: $40.00 -
CITIZEN VINCE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Regan Books (Harper Collins), (2005.). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, set in Spokane, Washington in the fall of 1980, eight days before the presidential election pitting Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter - a story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in October 2004 - tha is before publication - and uncommon thus. 293 pp plus author's referendum.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86642More details Price: $50.00 -
THE SCULPTRESS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, winner of the Edgar Award for best mystery, SIGNED on the titel page. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-312-099096.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86342More details Price: $45.00 -
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 -
BLUEBIRD, BLUEBIRD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82632More details Price: $100.00 -
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 -
CIMARRON ROSE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion, (1997.). First edition - The first book in a new series featuring attorney and former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland. Winner of the Edgar Award. 288 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82360More details Price: $21.50 -
CIMARRON ROSE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in a new series featuring attorney and former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland. Winner of the Edgar Award. The UK edition preceded the US edition. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-752804863.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82359More details Price: $25.00 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
CIMARRON ROSE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in a new series featuring attorney and former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Edgar Award. The UK edition preceded the US edition. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-752804863.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80887More details Price: $35.00 -
CIMARRON ROSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in a new series featuring attorney and former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Edgar Award. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-62580.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (vertical crease on front endpaper)
Book ID: 80886More details Price: $25.00 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
SIMPLE JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, introducing Benjamin Justice, a gay journalist in West Hollywood, who had won the Pulitzer Prize several years before only to have it pulled when it turned out the story was fabricated. He is persuaded by his former editor to research the circumstances surrounding a shooting outside a gay nightclub. Winner of the Edgar Award For Best First Mystery. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385482345.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77094More details Price: $20.00 -
MR. WHITE'S CONFESSION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Picador, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a complex story of murder set in Minnesota in 1939, winner of the Edgar award for best novel of 1998. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-312-192177.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75110More details Price: $35.00 -
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 -
PAPER TOWNS.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Penguin, (2015). Movie tie-in edition of this coming-of-age novel originally published in 2008 and winner of the Edgar award. 305 pp plus an author's note, discussion questions and an excerpt from "The Fault Is in Our Stars.". ISBN: 978-0147517654.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74568More details Price: $10.00 -
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 -
BILLINGSGATE SHOAL
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Edgar award winning first mystery - introduces Doc Adams, an oral surgeon and a "regular guy" whose curiosity about an apparently stranded fishing boat off Cape Cod leads him into danger and death. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-395-320410.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73922More details Price: $40.00 -
THE SKULL MANTRA.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73060More details Price: $45.00 -
ROGUE ISLAND.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover - First suspense novel by this author, introducing Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island, Winner of Edgar Award for best first novel. SIGNED on the title page. Includes a brief introduction in which he describes how he came to write this. 302 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72697More details Price: $24.50 -
THE WEIRDO.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1991) dj. Hardcover - Mystery set in the Powhattan Wildlife Refuge which is the center of a heated battle between environmentalists and local hunters, as a ban on hunting is set to expire. Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp was the inspiration for the Powhattan in this book. Edgar Allan Poe Award winner for best young adult mystery for 1992. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-15-2949526.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72214More details Price: $14.50
