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COLD HARBOUR.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller set in 1944, during World War II. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-671-684256.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48303More details Price: $15.00 -
THE GHOST OF MAJOR PRYOR: A Novel of Murder in the Montana Territory, 1870.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second in a series of post- Civil War historical mysteries featuring Captain Thomas Maynard. ISBN: 0-684-803224.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 26341More details Price: $17.50 -
THE GHOST OF MAJOR PRYOR: A Novel of Murder in the Montana Territory, 1870.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner's, 1997. First edition - The second in a series of post- Civil War historical mysteries featuring Captain Thomas Maynard, set in a gold rush town in Montana. 285 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65117More details Price: $17.50 -
BLOOD RED ROSES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Avon, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book written under this name (previous books were published under the M. K. Lorens pseudonym.) A historical mystery , this continues the story of Hannah Trevor, midwife in the small town of Rutherford Maine in 1786. ISBN: 0380-973529.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new, remainder line.)
Book ID: 22969More details Price: $20.00 -
HEARTS AND BONES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (lower corner bumped.)
Book ID: 35007More details Price: $28.00 -
HEARTS AND BONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Avon, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book written under this name (previous books were published under the M. K. Lorens pseudonym.) A historical mystery , the story of Hannah Trevor, midwife in the small town of Rutherford Maine in 1786. Nominated for both the Edgar and Agatha awards. While we highly recommend this, if it had won the Edgar in its category (for best first novel), the controversy surrounding it would have been even greater. It is an increasingly common practice for established mid-list authors to publish a "first book" under a new identity - and the Edgar nomination for this brought to the forefront one of the dangers of this practice. ISBN: 0380-973510.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 22967More details Price: $35.00 -
HEARTS AND BONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Avon, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book written under this name (previous books were published under the M. K. Lorens pseudonym.) A historical mystery , the story of Hannah Trevor, midwife in the small town of Rutherford Maine in 1786. Nominated for both the Edgar and Agatha awards. While we highly recommend this, if it had won the Edgar in its category (for best first novel), the controversy surrounding it would have been even greater. It is an increasingly common practice for established mid-list authors to publish a "first book" under a new identity - and the Edgar nomination for this brought to the forefront one of the dangers of this practice. ISBN: 0380-973510.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22968More details Price: $30.00 -
MURDER AS A FINE ART.
Edition: Limited, signed edition - first thus.
Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2016. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Literary thriller set in 19th century Victorian London. "Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,"" is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier. The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives." Number 244 out of 500 copies, signed by Morrell on an illustrated limitation page. Includes an author's afterword and a conversation between Morrell and Robert Morrison, De Quincey's biographer. 406 pp. ISBN: 978-1587674181.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 82671More details Price: $50.00 -
FALCONER'S CRUSADE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a mystery set in 13th century Oxford University, featuring Regent Master William Falconer - teacher, philosopher and amateur sleuth.
Condition: Fine in fine dj.
Book ID: 11460More details Price: $15.00 -
FEARLESS JONES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1954 Los Angeles: when Paris Minton's finds himself beaten up, shot at and robbed, and his used bookstore burned to the ground, he has no choice but to turn to his friend and fellow World War II veteran, Fearless Jones. Mosley at his best. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316-592382.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (toning to the pages)
Book ID: 59372More details Price: $28.50 -
FEARLESS JONES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1954 Los Angeles: when Paris Minton's finds himself beaten up, shot at and robbed, and his used bookstore burned to the ground, he has no choice but to turn to his friend and fellow World War II veteran, Fearless Jones. Mosley at his best.SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316-592382.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88748More details Price: $35.00 -
LITTLE SCARLET.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Easy Rawlins mystery, set in Los Angeles in 1965 at the height of the Watts riots. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-316-073032.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Magazine review laid in.
Book ID: 88747More details Price: $35.00 -
LITTLE SCARLET.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Easy Rawlins mystery, set in Los Angeles in 1965 at the height of the Watts riots. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-316-073032.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. (light crease to flap of dj)
Book ID: 38228More details Price: $30.00 -
FEARLESS JONES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Mystery set in 1954 Los Angeles: when Paris Minton's finds himself beaten up, shot at and robbed, and his used bookstore burned to the ground, he has no choice but to turn to his friend and fellow World War II veteran, Fearless Jones. Mosley at his best. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316-592382.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread).
Book ID: 34060More details Price: $32.50 -
FEARLESS JONES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1954 Los Angeles: when Paris Minton's finds himself beaten up, shot at and robbed, and his used bookstore burned to the ground, he has no choice but to turn to his friend and fellow World War II veteran, Fearless Jones. Mosley at his best.SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316-592382.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 27984More details Price: $35.00 -
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
Edition: First printing.
New York: Tom Doherty Associates (TOR/ Forge), 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second in the highly praised series of mysteries set in 12th century France, and featuring Catherine LeVendeur, an inquisitive young nun. SIGNED by author on title page. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-312-85420x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 9320More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DEVIL'S DOOR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Tom Doherty Associates (TOR/ Forge), 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second in the highly praised series of mysteries set in 12th century France, and featuring Catherine LeVendeur, an inquisitive young nun. SIGNED by author on title page. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-312-85420x.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (a new, unread copy but with rem line on bottom edge.)
Book ID: 9321More details Price: $25.00 -
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
Edition: First printing.
New York: Tom Doherty Associates (TOR/ Forge), 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second in the highly praised series of mysteries set in 12th century France, and featuring Catherine LeVendeur, an inquisitive young nun. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication . 384 pp. ISBN: 0-312-85420x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63162More details Price: $35.00 -
THE HERMIT OF EYTON FOREST.
Edition: First printing.
London: Headline (Hodder), (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 14th Brother Cadfael medieval mystery, set in 1142 with England in the grip of a civil war between the Empress Maud, who is besieged in Oxford, and King Stephen. Map endpapers. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-747200378.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to pages, otherwise appears unread).
Book ID: 77857More details Price: $30.00 -
SHINJU.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, 1994. First edition - The author's first book, a historical mystery set in 17th century Japan - nominated for several awards.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 15271More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MYSTERY AT LINDEN HALL.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1940 (c 1939). Hardcover - Background is the town of Bordentown, New Jersey where the exiled King of Spain, Joseph Bonaparte, and his nephew Prince Lurien Murat lived: the Prince's extravagance was so great that his wife was compelled to turn their home into a girls' boarding school - and this mystery is set years later at the same boarding school. Frontispiece and 3 other full page illustrations plus several small vignettes by Manning deV. Lee. 234 pp
Condition: Good in beige cloth with brown lettering and small illustration on front cover (bookplate, binding cracked just before rear endpaper, slight fraying to ends of spine, cloth on spine slightly faded.) Much harder to find in the original thicker format Appleton-Century edition than in the later Grosset and Dunlap reprintings.
Book ID: 29273More details Price: $80.00 -
THE MYSTERY OF THE OTHER HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1947. Hardcover first edition - Seaman's second to last book, set against the background of New York in the 1870's. In her brief author's note Seaman refers to legends found in old New York City histories which tell of an elderly gentleman who living in Greenwich Village who was rumored to be the Lost Dauphin. The model for the 'other house' in the story was The Old Merchant's House on East Fourth St. Red and cream illustrated endpapers, frontispiece. Author's note. 211 pp
Condition: Very good condition overall in tan cloth boards - bookplate on front endpaper, corners slightly bumped, otherwise clean and tight.
Book ID: 71288More details Price: $135.00 -
THE STARS OF SABRA.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Near fine in red cloth with black lettering, bright red top tint in a very good dust jacket with original price of $1.75 still present (wear at the ends of the spine, a few small chips and a large chip to the upper edge of the back cover of the dj) A scarce title and especially so in this condition and in a dust jacket!
Book ID: 88702More details Price: $450.00 -
THE FIG EATER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Little Brown, (2000.). Author's acclaimed first novel, a historical mystery set in Freud's Vienna in 1910 - a book which, among other things, explores the investigative techniques used at the turn of the century. Described as 'Gorgeously visual first novel, rich in detail about Vienna and Gypsy folklore, filled with luscious descriptions of food, photography and botany, perverse medical practices and sexual secrets.' An unusual edition: the advance reader's edition for the QPB (Quality Paperback Book Club) with a letter from the author to QPB readers tipped in at the front.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 31840More details Price: $12.00 -
THE SHOPKEEPER'S WIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in 1886 Philadelphia, both a murder mystery and a picture of America at the beginning of the modern era, and of an unlikely friendship between the shopkeeper's wife and the girl who comes from her rural home to be her servant. ISBN: 0-3121-193335.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 23564More details Price: $28.00 -
CHILD 44.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very powerful and highly acclaimed first novel, set in Stalinist Russia, in the years after World War II, this is the story a Russian secret police officer who is framed by a colleague, imprisoned, demoted and banished to a small town, but who risks all to solve a series of child murders. Winner of the Thriller Award for best first novel. 439 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-446-402389.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 47932More details Price: $17.50 -
CHILD 44.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very powerful and highly acclaimed first novel, set in Stalinist Russia, in the years after World War II, this is the story a Russian secret police officer who is framed by a colleague, imprisoned, demoted and banished to a small town, but who risks all to solve a series of child murders. Winner of the Thriller Award for best first novel. 439 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-446-402389.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 48089More details Price: $17.50 -
AGENT 66.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2012.). First edition - The final novel in the award-winning Child 44 trilogy. Former secret police agent Leo Demidov is forbidden to travel with his family to the US as part of a "Peace Tour" and when that ends in tragedy, he is forbidden to investigate. An epic novel ranging from the 1950s and 1960s to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. 467 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (some toning to the edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 80493More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SECRET SPEECH.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel featuring former MGB officer Leo Demidov, set in 1956 Russia: Stalin is dead and the violent regime is beginning to fracture, An equally gripping sequel to his award-winning 'Child 44.' 403 pp. ISBN: 9780446402408.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 55082More details Price: $18.50 -
DEATH ON A SILVER TRAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, featuring Beau Brummel and set in Regency England. SIGNED on the title page. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-425-174689.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77039More details Price: $25.00
