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THE CHESHIRE MOON
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a noir novel set in the Los Angeles area, featuring Quinn, a disillusioned former investigative reporter. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-688-103146.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (creasing to one page.)
Book ID: 44452More details Price: $15.00 -
THE CHESHIRE MOON
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a noir novel set in the Los Angeles area, featuring Quinn, a disillusioned former investigative reporter, and his partner Jen Takamura. SIGNED on the title page. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-688-103146.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64219More details Price: $30.00 -
THE CHESHIRE MOON
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a noir novel set in the Los Angeles area, featuring Quinn, a disillusioned former investigative reporter. 285 pp. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. ISBN: 0-688-103146.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 35807More details Price: $30.00 -
THE CHESHIRE MOON
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (1993.). First edition - Author's second book, a noir novel set in the Los Angeles area, featuring Quinn, a disillusioned former investigative reporter. 283 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 35809More details Price: $20.00 -
THE CHESHIRE MOON
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a noir novel set in the Los Angeles area, featuring Quinn, a disillusioned former investigative reporter, and his partner Jen Takamura. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-688-103146.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44566More details Price: $18.00 -
IT NEVER RAINS IN LOS ANGELES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward-McCann, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tennessee-born author's first novel, arising in part out of his experience teaching in a Los Angeles high school. Winner of the Thomas R. Coward Memorial Award in Fiction. From the dj: "Far more than a suspenseful story of murder and its solution, [this novel] is a probing examination of life in an American ghetto and of people, both good and bad, black and white, who would like to see changes made - either through violence ot peaceful means." 256 pp. Striking red and green dustjacket by Charles Milolaycak.
Condition: Ex-library with markings, missing front endpaper and significant reading wear, but in a good unmarked dust jacket (tape reinforcement to dj at ends of spine.)
Book ID: 49244More details Price: $15.00 -
IT NEVER RAINS IN LOS ANGELES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward-McCann, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tennessee-born author's first novel, arising in part out of his experience teaching in a Los Angeles high school. Winner of the Thomas R. Coward Memorial Award in Fiction. From the dj: "Far more than a suspenseful story of murder and its solution, [this novel] is a probing examination of life in an American ghetto and of people, both good and bad, black and white, who would like to see changes made - either through violence ot peaceful means." 256 pp. Striking red and green dustjacket by Charles Milolaycak.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good+ dustjacket (some minor edgewear to the dj, but overall an exceptionally tight and attractive copy.)
Book ID: 36871More details Price: $45.00 -
HANCOCK PARK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2004.). dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Kate Delafield mystery, set in Los Angeles. Winner of the Lambda Award. SIGNED and dated in year of publication. ISBN: 0-425-195988.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 31219More details Price: $30.00 -
HANCOCK PARK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2004.). dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Kate Delafield mystery, set in Los Angeles. Winner of the Lambda Award. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-425-195988.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 32120More details Price: $25.00 -
THE EMERGENCE OF GREEN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, (1986). First edition - Set in Los Angeles during the summer of 1984, this is the 4th novel by this Lambda Award winning writer, a frank novel of a married woman discovering her sexuality. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-930044-69X.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66261More details Price: $15.00 -
THE INCONVENIENT BRIDE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward-McCann, (1948). Hardcover first edition - Rather hard-to-find novel featuring private investigator John and Suzy Marshall (who have been described as suburban California wannabees of Nick and Nora) by this writer who emigrated from the Netherlands at the beginning of World War II and began writing hard-boiled crime fiction. The dog - a great Dane named Khan - saves the day, but this is still a fun read. A Gargoyle Mystery. 186 pp.
Condition: Very good minus in a good dust jacket (corners bumped, dust jacket has rubbing and wear along all the folds and edges, price-clipped, a few chips - but basically intact) .
Book ID: 68738More details Price: $60.00 -
CASUAL REX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Villard, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sharpest dinosaur-detective in Los Angeles is back, grittier than ever, for the second book in this genuinely original and very funny series. SIGNED on the title page. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-679-463070.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 60528More details Price: $30.00 -
ANONYMOUS REX & CASUAL REX.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Ace Books, (2004). The first one volume edition of the first two genre-bending, species-bending novels featuring the sharpest dinosaur-detective in Los Angeles. 565 pp. ISBN: 0-441-012752.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66329More details Price: $16.50 -
THE DARK CORNERS OF THE NIGHT: An UNSUB Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Ashland OR: Blackstone Publishing, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A thriller by this Edgar award-winning author, set in Los Angeles and featuring FBI behavioral analyst Caitlin Hendrix, who is tracking down a serial killer known as Midnight Man - who comes in the darkness, kills the parents, but leaves the childdren as witnesses to the horror. SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp plus epilogue.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78739More details Price: $30.00 -
HANGED FOR A SHEEP; BATS FLY AT DUSK; CUE FOR MURDER.
Edition: Original book club edition.
Condition: Very good+ in beige cloth in a very good dust jacket (bookplate on front pastedown, some discoloration from the binding process on endpapers, with a faint "old book" musty odor, in a dustjacket with a few chips, some toning to the spine).
Book ID: 87014More details Price: $30.00 -
THE JASMINE TRADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel introducing Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond, nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-1269x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48273More details Price: $30.00 -
THE JASMINE TRADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel introducing Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond, nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards. INSCRIBED on the title page "To Moms who like to be swept up in books. I hope you enjoy Eve's first adventures. Best wishes." 279 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-1269x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71961More details Price: $25.00 -
THE JASMINE TRADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel introducing Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond, nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards. INSCRIBED on the title page "To Moms who like to be swept up in books. I hope you enjoy Eve's first adventures. Best wishes." 279 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-1269x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 48442More details Price: $28.50 -
THE JASMINE TRADE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Novel introducing Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond, nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-1269x.
Condition: Very good+ in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 49008More details Price: $25.00 -
THE JASMINE TRADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel introducing Los Angeles reporter Eve Diamond, nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and other awards. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-1269x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78196More details Price: $16.50 -
KILLER'S RIGHTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, introducing Japanese American Los Angeles Police Detective Sam Ohara and African American sergeant Ted Washington as they try to find out who would killed an ex-convict involved in drugs and prison gangs. Hamilton is the wife of author John Ball who is best known for 'In Heat Of The Night.' 163 pp. ISBN: 0-802755798.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (stamp of previous owner on front endpaper)
Book ID: 83631More details Price: $18.50 -
ALL THE LUCKY ONES ARE DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th in his highly praised Aaron Gunner mystery series; Gunner investigates the suicide of a gangsta rapper. SIGNED on the title page. 232 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 36767More details Price: $25.00 -
OUT OF THE DEPTHS.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's sixth novel. Father Bredder of the Church of the Holy Innocents and his friend Lieutenant Minardi of the LA Police Department were out pier fishing in the Pacific Ocean, but what seemed like a big strike turned out to be the lifeless body of a man in full scuba gear. A Red Badge Detective Novel. 185 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (some spine slant, stamp of previous owner, edgewear to dj, original price of 3.50 still present on dj flap, but lower corner is clipped).
Book ID: 74200More details Price: $17.50 -
THEY'RE WATCHING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Hollywood. SIGNED on the title page. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-0312534905.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62454More details Price: $28.50 -
TROUBLESHOOTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His sixth thriller, set in Los Angeles in a world of undercover cops, drugs, deception and violence. Features U.S. Marshall Tim Rackley, SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0731419.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 62505More details Price: $28.50 -
THE PROGRAM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fifth thriller, features U.S. Marshall Tim Rackley,who is tasked with retrieving the daughter of a Hollywood producer from a mind-control cult, SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0530405.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63966More details Price: $28.50 -
THEY'RE WATCHING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Hollywood. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-0312534905.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning to pages)
Book ID: 78137More details Price: $16.50 -
THEY'RE WATCHING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Hollywood. SIGNED on the title page. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-0312534905.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to pages)
Book ID: 65972More details Price: $25.00 -
TROUBLESHOOTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His sixth thriller, set in Los Angeles in a world of undercover cops, drugs, deception and violence. Features U.S. Marshall Tim Rackley, SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0731419.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 65971More details Price: $25.00 -
DO NO HARM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third thriller, set at an emergency room in Los Angeles, where a doctor must make the difficult ethical choice to care for a patient who was also a brutal assailant of the hospital staff. SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0008865.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 62453More details Price: $25.00
