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THE SECRET OF SKELETON ISLAND: A Ken Holt Mystery #1.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1949) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in this popular series featuring Ken Holt, son of a world-famous foreign correspondent, and his close friend, photographer Sandy Allen. Lists to #16 in the book and on the front dust jacket flap. . Frontispiece, dark green scenic endpapers 214 pp.
Condition: Very good in tan boards in a very good dust jacket (slight spine slant, previous owner's name, some minor edgewear to dust jacket.)
Book ID: 81385More details Price: $21.50 -
THE SECRET OF SKELETON ISLAND: A Ken Holt Mystery #1.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1949) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in this popular series featuring Ken Holt, son of a world-famous foreign correspondent, and his close friend, photographer Sandy Allen. Lists just the first two titles in the book and on the front dust jacket flap (as was typical of series books, both titles were issued at the same time in 1949) Back cover of dj lists to Hardy Boys #28 and rear flap lists to #6 in the Rick Brant series. Frontispiece, dark green scenic endpapers 214 pp.
Condition: Very good in tan boards in a good only dust jacket (gift inscription dated Chrismas 1949, some loss at both ends of the spine of the dj, other edgewear, but this is relatively uncommon in the first edition in dj.)
Book ID: 69884More details Price: $35.00 -
TRIXIE BELDEN AND THE MYSTERIOUS VISITOR, #4 in series.
Edition: Illustrated deluxe edition. Probably the most attractive hardcover format this series was issued in
Condition: Very good+ (usual toning to the pages, a bit of edgewear to the boards, but a straight and tight copy, no writing in book)
Book ID: 87428More details Price: $24.50 -
THE WORLD BENEATH.
Edition: Trade paperback.
n.p. By the author, (2013). The first novel in the series featuring Joe Tesla, a millionaire software developer who suddenly becomes agoraphobic, and takes refuge in the hundred of miles of subway tunnels under New York City - where he lives in an underground Victorian mansion with his psychiatric support dog, a golden retriever named Edison When he stumbles on a murder, the only way to clear his name is to expose the real killer. Winner of the 2014 International Thriller Writers Award. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-1494787714.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77189More details Price: $12.00 -
GRAVESTONE
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Indiana deputy sheriff Marty Hopkins. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-671-76974X.
Condition: Very near in a like dust jacket (appears unread, but with a line on bottom edge.)
Book ID: 58184More details Price: $13.50 -
GRAVESTONE
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Indiana deputy sheriff Marty Hopkins. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-671-76974X.
Condition: Very near in a like dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 11758More details Price: $15.00 -
THE STRANGLER VINE.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Putnam, (2015) dj. Hardcover - The author's first novel (preceded by two works of nonfiction published as Miranda Carter) Set in colonial India in 1837, this introduces Blake and Avery, an unlikely investigative pair - "William Avery is a young soldier with few prospects except rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a secret political agent gone native, a genius at languages and disguises, disenchanted with the whole ethos of British rule, but who cannot resist the challenge of an unresolved mystery." Historical note and afterward, Glossary, map endpapers. 369 pp. ISBN: 978-0399171673.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 74669More details Price: $15.00 -
PICTURE MISS SEETON.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. Original price of 18s net still present.
Book ID: 77104More details Price: $95.00 -
THE WRONG GIRL: The Adventures of Bianca Dangereuse.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2019). First edition - The first book in a new series set in 1920s Hollywood - the era of the silent screen - by the author of the award-winning Alafair Tucker series. Author's note. 234 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed white wrappers.
Book ID: 81813More details Price: $18.50 -
EVIL INTENT.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83874More details Price: $30.00 -
HAMMERFALL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins (EOS), (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First book in a new series, The Gene Wars, set in a future world scarred by nanotechnology, by this Hugo-award winning author. Wraparound dust jacket art by Bob Eggleton. 390 pp. ISBN: 0-06-1052604.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80073More details Price: $20.00 -
HAMMERFALL.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Harper Collins (EOS), (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - First book in a new series, The Gene Wars, by this Hugo-award winning author. Wraparound dust jacket art by Bob Eggleton. SIGNED on the title page by Eggleton. 390 pp. ISBN: 0-06-1052604.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket. (some edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 51503More details Price: $21.50 -
SHADOW OF A BROKEN MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book in hardcover and the first to be published in the US. Introduces Mongo, a professor of criminology, a black-belt karate expert - and a dwarf. INSCRIBED on the title page to the noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-671-229667.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 80618More details Price: $50.00 -
SHADOW OF A BROKEN MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book in hardcover and the first to be published in the US. Introduces Mongo, a professor of criminology, a black-belt karate expert - and a dwarf. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-671-229667.
Condition: Good in very good dust jacket (spine slant).
Book ID: 75146More details Price: $18.50 -
BROKEN PLACES.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Kensington, (2019). SIGNED - Author's first mystery introducing PI Cass Raines "who took a bullet two years ago after an incompetent colleague screwed up a tense confrontation with an armed suspect. Deeply traumatized by the incident, Cass resigned from the Chicago PD, leaving one less female African-American on the force. Now sheÕs the head of a one-woman private investigation agency." SIGNED on the title page. Includes a preview of the next book in the series. 436 pp. ISBN: 978-1496714886.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79320More details Price: $17.50 -
WILD MAGIC.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: DAW Books, (1991). First edition - A book which returns to the universe of the Drinker of Souls trilogy - the first in a new series - a magical novel that explores a whole new domain in an enchanted world where rival gods vie for mastery by manipulating both the forces of nature and their own devoted mortal worshipers. DAW Book Collectors number 863. 364 pp. Cover art by Jody A. Lee. ISBN: 0-886774969.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 81804More details Price: $11.00 -
MURDER IN THRALL.
Edition: Revised edition, a trade paperback.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88145More details Price: $21.50 -
THE LONG CALL.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel in the Two Rivers series, set in North Devon, and introducing Detective Matthew Venn. SIGNED on the title page. Map frontispiece. 375 pp. ISBN: 978-1250204448.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87021More details Price: $45.00 -
THE RISING TIDE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2022) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The tenth novel in this series set in Northumberland, England, featuring detective Vera Stanhope. Basis for the BBC series "Vera." SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-1250204479.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87784More details Price: $40.00 -
RAVEN BLACK.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: St Martin's, (2007). The first mystery in her Shetland series, introducing detective Inspector Jimmy Perez. 376 pp. ISBN: 978-0312359676.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88490More details Price: $13.50 -
THE HERON'S CRY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2021) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in the Two Rivers series, set in North Devon, featuring Detective Matthew Venn and DC Jen Rafferty. Map frontispiece. SIGNED on the title page. 382 pp. ISBN: 978-1250204479.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket ("#2 Matthew Venn" on front endpaper)
Book ID: 87783More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LONG CALL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The first novel in the Two Rivers series, set in North Devon, and introducing Detective Matthew Venn. SIGNED on the title page. 375 pp. Letter from publisher laid in.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon ARC.
Book ID: 87022More details Price: $45.00 -
PROM DATES FROM HELL: Maggie Quinn: Girl vs Evil.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Delacorte, (2007). SIGNED - The first book in the Maggie Quinn series - "Maggie Quinn, girl reporter. Honors student, newspaper staffer, yearbook photographer. Six weeks from graduation and all she wants to do is get out of Avalon High in one piece. Fate seems to have different plans for her." SIGNED on the title page with the words "Happy Reading!" 308 pp. ISBN: 978-0385734134.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new, but with a remainder line).
Book ID: 73727More details Price: $15.00 -
THE LAST KASHMIRI ROSE.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: SOHO Press, (2011.). The author's first novel, and the first in the Joe Sandilands series set in India during the 1920s. 276 pp. plus an except from 'The Blood Royal.'. ISBN: 0-7867-12465.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87593More details Price: $15.00 -
NO CASE FOR THE POLICE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Gollancz, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - Crime novel by this "editor for the Encyclopedia Britannica, an actor, author of original plays, adaptations, operettas, and radio scripts, and the owner-manager of Jupiter Records which featured recordings of poetry" Fourth mystery in the series featuring Dr. R. V. Davie, an English professor at Cambridge University. 192 pp.
Condition: Very good in red cloth in a very good dust jacket in the Gollancz classic yellow with red and black lettering (some toning to the pages and to the dust jacket, chipping to the base of the spine of to dj).
Book ID: 65623More details Price: $35.00 -
SHELTER: A Mickey Bolitar Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2011). First edition - The first young adult novel by this award winning author. "After witnessing his father's death and sending his mom to rehab, 15 year old Mickey's forced to live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools. A new school comes with new friends and new enemies, and lucky for Mickey, it also comes with a great new girlfriend, Ashley. For a while, it seems like Mickey's train-wreck of a life is finally improving - until Ashley vanishes without a trace. Unwilling to let another person walk out of his life, Mickey follows Ashley's trail into a seedy underworld that reveals that this seemingly sweet, shy girl isn't who she claimed to be." 304 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82815More details Price: $17.50 -
THE IMMORTAL GAME.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: Poltroon Press, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel featuring private detective August Riordan, and set in Silicon Valley, where he is hired by a multi-millionaire entrepreneur to find the stolen software for an advanced chess program. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-918395-216.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 79215More details Price: $30.00 -
RAT CITY.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Los Angeles: Uglytown Productions, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The first book in this series set in Seattle in the years after World War II and featuring private investigator Jake Rossiter and his assistant Miss Jenkins (who is eager to be an investigator herself). A young Negro jazzman has gone missing and his proud father will not give up hope. "SIGNED on the title page. 361 pp. ISBN: 0-966347358.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (in a protective cover).
Book ID: 74124More details Price: $25.00 -
WHERE IT HURTS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78361More details Price: $21.50 -
SLEEPLESS CITY: A Nick Ryan Novel.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 88157More details Price: $40.00