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KILLER DUST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring geologist Em Hansen (by an author who is herself a geologist) set in Florida against the backdrop of a planned satellite launch and in a world now affected by 9/11 and the anthrax mailings. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Author's note. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-301960.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78151More details Price: $35.00 -
KILLER DUST.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003) dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring geologist Em Hansen (by an author who is herself a geologist) set in Florida against the backdrop of a planned satellite launch and in a world now affected by 9/11 and the anthrax mailings. Author's note. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-301960.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71776More details Price: $15.00 -
SHADE TREE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Magic, menance and mystery meet in modern Florida." 348 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Linda Garland. ISBN: 0-312937245.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75892More details Price: $15.00 -
LOST MEMORY OF SKIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which "illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture. . . the young man at the center of this uncompromising and morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders." 416 pp. ISBN: 978-0061857638.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81194More details Price: $20.00 -
LUNATICS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 55033More details Price: $40.00 -
FIELD OF FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth thriller by this special agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, introducing ATF agent Alex Duarte who finds himself tracking down a serial bomber after a bombing in a Florida migrant-labor camp kills a child, and he is assigned the case. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 340 pp. ISBN: 978-0399153983.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87483More details Price: $30.00 -
STUFF TO DIE FOR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Ipswich, Massachusetts: Oceanview Publishing, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - Fast paced, funny mystery featuring two friends who are barely surviving in today's world - set in south Florida. Winner of the ForeWord Award for best mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 283 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy.)
Book ID: 48696More details Price: $30.00 -
CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Buchanan's second suspense novel set in Miami, Florida. ISBN: 1562829327.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (tape marks to covers, slight glue remnants under dj flaps)
Book ID: 4207More details Price: $15.00 -
MARGIN OF ERROR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Britt Montero, the Miami News police beat reporter. ISBN: 0-7868-62327.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37995More details Price: $18.00 -
SUITABLE FOR FRAMING
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Britt Montero, the Miami News police beat reporter. ISBN: 0-7868-60472.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 9268More details Price: $18.00 -
YOU ONLY DIE TWICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow - HarperCollins, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Britt Montero, the Miami News police beat reporter. ISBN: 0-380-976552.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 30873More details Price: $12.50 -
SUITABLE FOR FRAMING
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Hyperion, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring Britt Montero, the Miami News police beat reporter. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-60472.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (small chip to lower corner of dj.)
Book ID: 52592More details Price: $12.50 -
CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion, (1992). First edition - Buchanan's second suspense novel set in Miami, Florida. 277 pp. ISBN: 1562829327.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (corners bumped)
Book ID: 59739More details Price: $17.50 -
A PRESENT FOR SANTA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - "He took the Mafia for $2.2 million.and now they want it back." Set in Florida, this is the first novel by a former CIA and FBI agent. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-312639767.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69063More details Price: $16.50 -
SNAGGED
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Regan Reilly, set in Miami where a panty-hose convention is being held at the same hotel as a morticians annual gathering. SIGNED on title page. ISBN: 0-446-515485.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (a tight copy, appears unread, some signs of shelfwear.)
Book ID: 25758More details Price: $26.00 -
THE CAT SITTER'S NINE LIVES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2014). First edition - The ninth in this series of mysteries started by Blaize Clements and continued by her son John. Set on an island off the Gulf Coast of Florida, this features Dixie Hemingway, a former Sarasota County deputy turned cat (and dog) sitter. 305 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78842More details Price: $18.50 -
A FOOL'S DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, set in Key West, and introducing Mason Collins, }a tough-guy private eye and undercover softy" who is hired by a high-priced Miami law firm to investigate the grisly death of his Vietnam War buddy, "Mesquite" Charlie Donne. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-517591235.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85864More details Price: $18.50 -
TAKEN IN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Florida author's third novel the story of an ordinary family with two teenagers themselves, who become embroiled in the lives of a runaway girl and her violent boyfriend. A presentation copy INSCRIBED on the title page by the author -"For ---who does such good things for books in the world" and dated in July 1998. Also laid in is a card "compliments of the author" with a hand-written note and a comment that this is an early copy - publication date was July 2, 1998. Uncommon signed. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-670-86398X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65115More details Price: $35.00 -
HURRICANE LUCK.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Scholastic, (1972.). An early, and rather uncommon, original trade paperback from Scholastic Press, illustrated with duo-tone drawings by Jerry Robinson (illustrator). Set on the coast of Florida: the story of a young boy who hopes to help his father get the fishing equipment he needs to break the run of "bad luck" he has been having lately. TW 120. 79 pp.
Condition: Very good+ (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 35339More details Price: $8.50 -
THE PAPERBOY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel surrounding the murder of a sheriff in Florida by this National Book Award winning writer. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-679-421750.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53833More details Price: $17.50 -
BRINGING BACK THE DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a suspenseful story set in the Florida Everglades, where a group of Vietnam veterans are looking for one of them who disappeared. SIGNED on the title page and dated in Septermber 2008, in the month of publication. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-312-380461.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50718More details Price: $25.00 -
FLORIDA ROADKILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1999). SIGNED first edition - One of the wildest first novels to come along in years - described as Carl Hiassen with a lot of Hunter S. Thompson - crime, sex, drugs, and very violent and funny. INSCRIBED on the title page. 273 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A surprisingly uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 61129More details Price: $175.00 -
HAMMERHEAD RANCH MOTEL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel, set in a Florida "verdant with lost drug money; a center of lunatic, gravity, drawing fugitives, gangsters, losers, sociopaths and psychos of every flavor and degree to its tropic environs. And they all congregate in one sleazy, run-down motel perched on the Gulf of Mexico, just a short spitting distance from Tampa Bay." SIGNED on the title page.Laid in is an original from the master copy with corrections, also SIGNED by Dorsey. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-688167837.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74328More details Price: $60.00 -
THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Dubus's new novel of sex, parenthood, honor and masculinity, set in the underworld of American life. "One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work" and that simple act, when the babysitter is not able to come, sets off a chain of violent consequences. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 537 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. A surprisingly uncommon advance issue, especially signed.
Book ID: 52932More details Price: $40.00 -
THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Dubus's second novel , a story of sex, parenthood, honor and masculinity, set in the underworld of American life. "One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work" and that simple act, when the babysitter is not able to come, sets off a chain of violent consequences. SIGNED on the title page. 537 pp. ISBN: 9780393041651.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 43076More details Price: $30.00 -
CODE TO ZERO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller set at Cape Canaveral in 1958. ISBN: 0-525-945636.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22760More details Price: $12.50 -
BITTER SUGAR: A Lupe Solano Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth mystery featuring Cuban-American Lupe Solano mystery, by an author who was a private investigator in Miami. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 315 pp. ISBN: 0-380-977818.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82973More details Price: $30.00 -
BLOODY SHAME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Cuban-born, Miami PI Lupe Solano. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-399-143866.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 39788More details Price: $30.00 -
BITTER SUGAR: A Lupe Solano Mystery.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2001) dj. Hardcover - The sixth mystery featuring Cuban-American Lupe Solano mystery, by an author who was a private investigator in Miami. 315 pp. ISBN: 0-380-977818.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63856More details Price: $13.50 -
A MIRACLE IN PARADISE: A Lupe Solano Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Avon, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring Cuban-American Lupe Solano mystery, by an author who was a private investigator in Miami. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-380-977796.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75371More details Price: $16.50
