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SAVAGE GARDEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel featuring Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond (the first in the series, Jasmine Trade, was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards.) 323 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-61925.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (dust jacket folded slightly offcenter)
Book ID: 78198More details Price: $16.50 -
SUGAR SKULL: An Eve Diamond Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel featuring Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond (the first in the series, Jasmine Trade, was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards.) Very warmly and personally INSCRIBED on the title page. "to . . . Thanks so much for having me. I hope you enjoy Eve's sweet new adventure." 297 pp. ISBN: 0-743245393.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 50396More details Price: $25.00 -
LAST LULLABY: An Eve Diamond Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel featuring Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond (the first in the series, Jasmine Trade, was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards.) Warmly and personally INSCRIBED on the title page. "to . . . I hope you enjoy Eve's new adventure.From a fellow ink-stained wretch" and dated in the year of publication. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-45407.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (short closed tear at fold).
Book ID: 50397More details Price: $25.00 -
LAST LULLABY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond (the first in the series, Jasmine Trade, was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards.) SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-45407.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder mark, some toning to the pages).
Book ID: 53317More details Price: $25.00 -
SAVAGE GARDEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond (the first in the series, Jasmine Trade, was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards.) SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-61925.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder mark, some toning to the pages).
Book ID: 62006More details Price: $25.00 -
PRISONER OF MEMORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond (the first in the series, Jasmine Trade, was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards.) SIGNED on the title page. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-61941.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62009More details Price: $30.00 -
DIVINE MISDEMEANORS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "You may know me best as Meredith Nie Essus, princess of fairies. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. . . " Dark fantasy novel set in Los Angeles, where someone is killing the fey. 333 pp. ISBN: 9780345495969.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54848More details Price: $15.00 -
MISTRAL'S KISS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Meredith Gentry novel. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-345-443586.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 54849More details Price: $15.00 -
NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD.
Edition: First printing,
New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second Aaron Gunner novel - Warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication, 260 pp. ISBN: 0-312-043988.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62365More details Price: $65.00 -
YOU CAN DIE TRYING: An Aaron Gunner Novel.
Edition: First printing,
New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in this award-winning series set in Los Angeles and featuring African American private investigator Aaron Gunner. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-312-094256.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79339More details Price: $20.00 -
NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD.
Edition: First printing,
New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second Aaron Gunner novel (the first in this series won the Best First Private Eye Novel Contest) SIGNED on the half title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-312-043988.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77609More details Price: $35.00 -
OUTWARD BOUND: A Jupiter Novel.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The sixth book in the Jupiter series, young adult coming-of-age novels set in the near future. From the dustjacket: "Fifteen-year -old Linc Marani is from the wrong side of twenty-second century L.A.'s tracks. Everyone he knows is addicted to dope, booze, and the violence that masquerades as bravado in life on the streets. When a chance at some cold hard cash is offered to him by a slick associate in a fancy Cadillac, Linc jumps at the bait - only to find himself sentenced to a juvenile labor camp when the heist goes sour." SIGNED on the title page. Dustjaket art by Vincent Di Fate. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-312862431.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear to dj.)
Book ID: 36747More details Price: $18.00 -
BAD INTENT: A Maggie MacGowen Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring documentary film-maker Maggie MacGowen and LAPD Detective Mike Flint, set in the underside of Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-525-938176.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52812More details Price: $28.50 -
THE HANGING: A Maggie MacGowen Mystery.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Palo Alto / McKinleyville, California: Perseverance Press / John Daniel & Company, (2012). SIGNED first edition - Eighth mystery featuring investigative film-maker Maggie MacGowen - when her television series is canceled she accepts a short term contract to teach film production at a local college. SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 978-1564745262.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 66763More details Price: $21.50 -
THE CRIME WRITER.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Penguin, (2007). SIGNED - A crime novelist awakens in a hospital bed - he had been found next to his fiancee's bloody corpse, but remembers nothing of what happened. SIGNED on the title page. 301 pp. ISBN: 978-0143113447.
Condition: Fair condition only (creasing to the spine, some wear to the covers).
Book ID: 63445More details Price: $11.50 -
IQ.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2016). SIGNED - "Sherlock Holmes comes to South Central Los Angeles. Only he's black, never finished high school, and can't seem to hold on to a regular job." (Kirkus). Instead Isaiah Quintabe- or IQ, as he is known - spends his time and uses his formidable intelligence to help others. The first book by this Japanese-American writer who grew up in the same kind of neighborhood as IQ, this was nominated for the Edgar for best first novel, for the Anthony Award, selected as one of the best books of the year by the NY Times and more. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. plus an excerpt from the next book. ISBN: 978-0316267731.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (light crease on front cover).
Book ID: 87112More details Price: $24.50 -
MURDER IN VEIN.
Edition: First printing.
Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A 'fang-in-cheek' mystery, Vampires are roaming the streets of Los Angeles and this darkly funny novel "combines supernatural sexy with down-to-earth sassy." SIGNED on title page. 318 pp plus 10 pp of publisher's ads. ISBN: 9780738727448.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 62079More details Price: $31.50 -
NOIR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Both science fiction and mystery, this dystopian novel is set in a bleak future Los Angeles, where the wealthy can use "prowlers" to simulate dangerous erotic experiences - safely, they think, until a man is found brutally murdered and his prowler is missing. Ex-cop McNihil is blackmailed into investigating and finds a world far more evil than he expected. Dark and disturbing. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-553-104837.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57966More details Price: $20.00 -
SERPENT'S TOOTH.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Morrow, 1997. dj. Hardcover - A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus mystery, set in Los Angeles. 400 pp. . ISBN: 0-688-143687.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 25223More details Price: $12.50 -
SERPENT'S TOOTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus mystery, set in Los Angeles. 400 pp. . ISBN: 0-688-143687.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (hint of sunning to spine of dj, prev owner's initials.)
Book ID: 45523More details Price: $15.00 -
JUPITER'S BONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus mystery, set in Los Angeles. 375 pp. . ISBN: 0-688-156126.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 46827More details Price: $15.00 -
SANCTUARY: A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth book in this award-winning series, featuring LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus. This novel centers around two murdered diamond dealers - one north of Los Angeles, the other in Manhattan - and two missing families. SIGNED on the title page. 396 pp. ISBN: 0-688-046126.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 69504More details Price: $28.50 -
MYSTERY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware and police detective Milo Sturgis, set in Los Angeles. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0345452634.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 67603More details Price: $15.00 -
TIME BOMB.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery featuring child psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD dectective Milo Sturgis. 468 pp. Synopsis taped to back cover, with publication information handwriten in black,
Condition: Very near fine in printed off-white wrappers. A very uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 75813More details Price: $35.00 -
OBSESSION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware, set in Los Angeles. 347 pp. ISBN: 978-0345452634.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66671More details Price: $15.00 -
DEVIL'S WALTZ.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 8th thriller featuring psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page by Kellerman. 416 pp. ISBN: 0-553-092057.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (address label on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 52477More details Price: $30.00 -
WHITE TEACHER IN A BLACK SCHOOL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Devon-Adair, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on the author's experiences in 2 schools in Los Angeles.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket.
Book ID: 11585More details Price: $15.00 -
WHITE TEACHER IN A BLACK SCHOOL.
Edition: First paperback printing.
Chicago: Henry Regnery, (c. 1964.). Based on the author's experiences in 2 schools in Los Angeles. 256 pp.
Condition: Very near fine -the usual toning to the pages, but otherwise an attractive vintage paperback.
Book ID: 27134More details Price: $10.00 -
THE WALKING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bloomsbury, (2013.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Iranian born author's second novel (her first novel won the Whiting Writers 'Award), the story of two brothers who are forced to flee Iran when the 1979 revolution leads to a killing in their small mountain village. SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 9781596916999.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 57487More details Price: $35.00 -
THE SUNSET BOMBER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Harry Cain, the courtroom 'bomber' - Los Angeles' most successful trial attorney - the first novel written under this pseudonym by the powerful and high profile Hollywood attorney, Bert Fields. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-671-604449.
Condition: Very good in a good dustjacket (remainder mark, long tear to back cover of dj, now in an archival protector.)
Book ID: 61971More details Price: $12.50
