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CITY OF BONES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Harry Bosch novel, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Anthony Award. 393 pp. ISBN: 0-316-154059.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 60957More details Price: $30.00 -
HOMICIDE SPECIAL: A Year in the Life of the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A behind the scenes look at one of the country's most high-profile homicide detective units as they follow six of its toughest, most controversial and interesting cases, including the case of Bonnie Lee Bakley whose murder ended up in the arrest of her husband, the actor Robert Blake . SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, epilogue, notes. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-6798-1.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (slightly cocked spine.)
Book ID: 48575More details Price: $25.00 -
HOMICIDE SPECIAL: A Year in the Life of the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A behind the scenes look at one of the country's most high-profile homicide detective units as they follow six of its toughest, most controversial and interesting cases, including the case of Bonnie Lee Bakley whose murder ended up in the arrest of her husband, the actor Robert Blake SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, epilogue, notes. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-6798-1.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 45954More details Price: $30.00 -
THE KILLING SEASON: A Summer Inside an Lapd Homicide Division.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a nonfiction account of a team of homicide detectives - veteran Pete Razanskas and Marcella Winn, a street smart young black woman who grew up in the 'hood herself - and their day to day work in South Central Los Angeles. SIGNED on the front endpaper. Photographs, notes. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-68480235X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64485More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LAST DETECTIVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Elvis Cole novel, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-385-504268.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 38596More details Price: $28.50 -
CHASING DARKNESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Elvis Cole novel, set in Los Angeles, California. SIGNED on title page. 273 pp. ISBN: 9780743281645.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47877More details Price: $28.50 -
THE LAST DETECTIVE.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Orion, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Elvis Cole novel, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title and dated 2/23/03. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-752851985.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual toning to the pages, otherwise tight and straight, appears unread).
Book ID: 77354More details Price: $30.00 -
CHASING DARKNESS.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (2009.). An Elvis Cole novel, set in Los Angeles, California. 391 pp.. ISBN: 978-0743281645.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 47384More details Price: $10.00 -
THE WATCHMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Joe Pike novel, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. Barry award for best thriller. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-81632.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47055More details Price: $27.50 -
CHASING DARKNESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Elvis Cole novel, set in Los Angeles, California. SIGNED on the title page. 273 pp. ISBN: 9780743281645.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53219More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LAST DETECTIVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Elvis Cole novel, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-385-504268.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53608More details Price: $24.50 -
THE WATCHMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Joe Pike novel, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. Barry award for best thriller. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-81632.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47221More details Price: $22.50 -
THE WATCHMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Joe Pike novel, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. Barry award for best thriller. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-81632.
Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 53611More details Price: $20.00 -
DEMOLITION ANGEL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller featuring Carol Starkey, former Los Angeles bomb squad technician. SIGNED on the title page. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-385-495846.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58932More details Price: $28.50 -
CHASING DARKNESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Elvis Cole novel, set in Los Angeles, California. SIGNED on the title page. 273 pp. ISBN: 9780743281645.
Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket (one page has tear to bottom margin)
Book ID: 51006More details Price: $25.00 -
SUNSET EXPRESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth Elvis Cole mystery - this one back in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-60960.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 24764More details Price: $30.00 -
HOSTAGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A stand-alone thriller featuring Jeff Talley, former front line negotiator with LAPD's SWAT unit, who had attempted to escape from his former life by taking the chief-of-police job in an affluent bedroom community outside Los Angeles. The LA Times calls Robert Crais "a crime writer operating at the top of his game." Another complex, noir novel from this master of the genre. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-385-495854.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35921More details Price: $25.00 -
SUSPECT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Eight months ago, a shocking nighttime assault by unidentified men killed LAPD Scott James' partner Stephanie, nearly killed him, and left him enraged, ashamed, and ready to explode. He is unfit for duty--until he meets his new partner. Maggie is not doing so well, either. A German shepherd who survived three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan sniffing explosives before losing her handler to an IED, her PTSD is as bad as Scott's. They are each other's last chance." Author's note. 312 pp. ISBN: 978-0399161483.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 77144More details Price: $18.00 -
SUNSET EXPRESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth Elvis Cole mystery - this one back in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-60960.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 58933More details Price: $28.50 -
SUNSET EXPRESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth Elvis Cole mystery - this one back in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-60960.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (initial on front endpaper)
Book ID: 61904More details Price: $25.00 -
CHASING DARKNESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Elvis Cole novel, set in Los Angeles, California. INSCRIBED on the title page - "To -- all best" . 273 pp. ISBN: 9780743281645.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41266More details Price: $35.00 -
RIDE THE BIG RED CARS: How Trolleys Helped Build Southern California.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: Crest Publications, 1962. dj. Hardcover first edition - The history of the Pacific Electric, starting in the late 1880's and which was at its peak the largest interurban system in the world, and its effect on the cities thru which it ran - and also the story of the battles between the railroad tycoons when Henry Huntington wanted to create a system spanning California - and finally also the story of the decline of these systems. A large format volume, with over 100 illustrations and photographs. 240 pages.
Condition: Near fine in a good+ dustjacket (some soiling to the lower edges of the boards, dj is price-clipped, and has some edgewear including the loss of about 1/2 inch at the bottom of the spine and some chips on the upper edge of the rear cover, and some light foxing to the dj . Still, a very nice copy of the rather uncommon first edition of a fascinating book and the classic study of these cars.
Book ID: 13237More details Price: $60.00 -
FABULOUS HELL.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Los Angeles & New York: Alyson, (2000). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel - an "alcohol-steeped nightmare, a crystal meth mosaic, a journey through self-destruction and beyond, into the terrifying light at the end of the tunnel." Quentin Crisp called this a "wonderful, remarkable portrait of modern gay life." SIGNED by the author on the title page. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-555834795.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81993More details Price: $28.50 -
ANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN: A N o v e l i n t h e F o r m o f a M e m o i r .
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - No v e l which combines actual details of t h e O J S i m p s o n t r i a l ( w h i c h D u n n e s p e n t t h r e e y e a r s c o v e r i n g a s a j o u r n a l i s t .) with fiction. 360 pp. ISBN: 0 - 6 0 9 - 6 0 1 0 0 8.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46906More details Price: $12.50 -
BETWEEN NATURE AND CULTURE. Photographs of the Getty Center by Joe Deal.
Edition: First edition.
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Preface by the architect Richard Meier. A visual record of the site of the museum before it was built, and of the excavation and construction of the Getty Museum between 1984 and 1997. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. A striking book in a slightly oversized square format. 126 pp. ISBN: 0-892365498.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63521More details Price: $25.00 -
THE YEAR OF THE ZINC PENNY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1943 in Los Angeles - dustjacket praise from Rick Bass (who calls it a "perfect story") and James Lee Burke (who says "its depiction of the United States during World War II is the best I've read and certainly the most accurate... the story line is poignant, sad, joyful, humorous, heart-rending, innocently erotic - everything a child could have experienced in the year 1943.") 174 pp. ISBN: 0-393-027589.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34493More details Price: $15.00 -
MY DARK PLACES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An L. A. Crime memoir - the true story of the unsolved murder of Ellroy's mother. One of an undisclosed number of copies SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page with a silver sticker on the front of the dustjacket. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-679-441859.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 56584More details Price: $35.00 -
MY DARK PLACES: An L.A. Crime Memoir
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Vintage Books, (1997.). SIGNED - An L. A. Crime memoir - the true story of the unsolved murder of Ellroy's mother. SIGNED on the title page. 419 pp. ISBN: 0-679-762051.
Condition: Near fine in wrappers.
Book ID: 49028More details Price: $24.50 -
CRIME WAVE: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Vintage Books, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 11 short pieces on crime, murder and corruption originally published in GQ magazine. Includes "Out of the Past"; "My Mother's Killer"; "The Tooth Crime"; "The Seduction of OJ"; "Bad Boy of Tinseltown"; "Body Dump" and two novellas, "Hollywood Shakedown" and "Tijuana, Mon Amour." INSCRIBED on the title page. Cover design by Chipp Kidd. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70471X.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65641More details Price: $28.50 -
CRIME WAVE: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Vintage Books, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 11 short pieces on crime, murder and corruption originally published in GQ magazine. Includes "Out of the Past"; "My Mother's Killer"; "The Tooth Crime"; "The Seduction of OJ"; "Bad Boy of Tinseltown"; "Body Dump" and two novellas, "Hollywood Shakedown" and "Tijuana, Mon Amour." SIGNED on the title page. Cover design by Chipp Kidd. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70471X.
Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 47464More details Price: $26.50
