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WOMAN NO. 17.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & London: Hogarth, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The second novel by the author of 'California,' described as "a sinister sexy noir about art, motherhood and the intensity of female friendships, set in the posh hills above Los Angeles." SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 73474More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BLUE HAMMER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Lew Archer novel, by this master of the hard-boiled noir detective story, set in Southern California and involving the theft of a valuable painting and the disappearance of a famous artist. 270 pp..
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74431More details Price: $35.00 -
THE GOODBYE LOOK.
Edition: 5th printing (just 3 months after the first).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. dj. Hardcover - An attractive early copy of this Lew Archer novel, by this master of the hard-boiled noir detective story, set in Southern California. 243 pp..
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (original price of $4.95 on dj flap)
Book ID: 77056More details Price: $17.50 -
THE CROSSKILLER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House / William Morrow, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller set in Los Angeles featuring a LAPD detective whose career is stalled until a routine graffitti case reveals a racist serial killer. 493 pp. ISBN: 0-877959080.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (foxing to the edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 67661More details Price: $18.00 -
TRAFFIC AND LAUGHTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel - "at once a stylish political thriller, a high-voltage romance. . . it opens in Los Angeles in our own time. . The freeways are jammed, the fires in the canyon quick and obliterating. . . sunglasses are an obligatory accessory, and somewhere, on another continent, behind locked doors in clandestine locations, the fate of the world is being decided by graying men." SIGNED and dated on the half title page. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-394-584783.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60855More details Price: $35.00 -
TRAFFIC AND LAUGHTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel - "at once a stylish political thriller, a high-voltage romance. . . it opens in Los Angeles in our own time. . The freeways are jammed, the fires in the canyon quick and obliterating. . . sunglasses are an obligatory accessory, and somewhere, on another continent, behind locked doors in clandestine locations, the fate of the world is being decided by graying men." 402 pp. ISBN: 0-394-584783.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket. (as new, but with a remainder dot bottom edge)
Book ID: 63883More details Price: $17.50 -
BLACK BETTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's fourth novel , set in Los Angeles in 1961 at the 'dawn of a hopeful era for America's black citizens.' SIGNED by author. ISBN: 0-393-036448.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (name stamped on rear endpaper)
Book ID: 12445More details Price: $28.00 -
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 -
BLACK BETTY.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Norton, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's fourth novel , set in Los Angeles in 1961 at the 'dawn of a hopeful era for America's black citizens.' SIGNED by the author. ISBN: 0-393-036448.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 28231More details Price: $20.00 -
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 -
BLACK BETTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's fourth novel, an Easy Rawlins mystery, set in Los Angeles in 1961 at the 'dawn of a hopeful era for America's black citizens.' SIGNED on title page. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-393-036448.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37794More details Price: $30.00 -
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 -
A LITTLE YELLOW DOG.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's fifth mystery featuring African American veteran, janitor, landlord and sometimes private investigator Easy Rawlins. SIGNED on title page. The San Francisco Chronicle review of this book described Mosley's novels as suffused 'with an incisive, brilliant analysis of life from the point of view of a long-overlooked segment of the American people. Once again, Walter Mosley succeeds in both brilliantly, leaping past the mystery genre to create novels of historic significance.'. ISBN: 0-393-039242.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket.
Book ID: 43418More details Price: $31.50 -
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 -
SIX EASY PIECES: Easy Rawlins Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atria Books (Simon & Schuster), 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 7 stories: six were published in reissued Washington Square Press editions of the Easy Rawlins mysteries, but this is the first appearance of the 7th story, 'Amber Gate.' SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-7434-42520.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. A hard to find title by Mosley, especially signed.
Book ID: 88749More details Price: $145.00 -
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 -
WALKING THE DOG
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Little Brown, 1999. SIGNED first edition - The second novel featuring Socrates Fortlow, set in modern-day Los Angeles. In 2016, Mosley was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, the first African American novelist to receive that honor, SIGNED on title page. 245 pp.
Condition: Good overall in glossy illustrated wrappers (some crinkling to lower corner of textblock, rather severe toning to the inside of the covers, first few pages, no creasing to the spine).
Book ID: 66983More details Price: $20.00 -
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 -
WALKING THE DOG
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel featuring Socrates Fortlow, set in modern-day Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-316-966207.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88799More details Price: $30.00 -
L.A. OUTLAWS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - A suspense novel by this Edgar-award winning author which introduces a new character - 'Allison Murietta' a female modern-day Jesse James with a compulsion to steal beautiful things, who invites the media along, and donates her bounty to charity. SIGNED on the title page. 352 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 39892More details Price: $28.00 -
L.A. OUTLAWS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - A suspense novel by this Edgar-award winning author which introduces a new character - 'Allison Murietta' a female modern-day Jesse James with a compulsion to steal beautiful things, who invites the media along, and donates her bounty to charity. INSCRIBED on the title page. 352 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 44150More details Price: $30.00 -
L.A. OUTLAWS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A suspense novel by this Edgar-award winning author which introduces a new character - 'Allison Murietta' a female modern-day Jesse James with a compulsion to steal beautiful things, who invites the media along, and donates her bounty to charity. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp. ISBN: 9780525950554.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 48400More details Price: $20.00 -
L.A. OUTLAWS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A suspense novel by this Edgar-award winning author which introduces a new character - 'Allison Murietta' a female modern-day Jesse James with a compulsion to steal beautiful things, who invites the media along, and donates her bounty to charity. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp. ISBN: 9780525950554.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (an as new copy, but with some light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 50470More details Price: $28.00 -
THE BOMB MAKER.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Mysterious Press, (2018). SIGNED first edition - A thriller which pits a lethally skilled bomb-maker against the LAPD Bomb Squad. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed yellow wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 72391More details Price: $35.00 -
FORTY THIEVES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel featuring two couples - one a husband and wife detective team, both ex-LAPD - the other a team of assassins for hire, who live in the San Fernando Valley. SIGNED on the title page. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-0802124524.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87874More details Price: $35.00 -
MONEY MEN and ONE-SHOT DEAL: Two Novels.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1981). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, two linked adventures set mainly in Los Angeles and featuring cases of Treasury Agent Charles Carr. Money Men was the basis for the 1993 film Boiling Point starring Wesley Snipes and Dennis Hopper. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1981. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-151698929.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83676More details Price: $50.00 -
MONKOLOGY: The Ivan Monk Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2004. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects thirteen stories, including three appearing in this volume for the first time, from the world of Los Angeles private detective Ivan Monk. One of a small number of copies SIGNED by all those involved in the production at the Los Angeles book launch party: 12 signatures in all from Gary Phillips, publisher Dennis McMillan, artist and dj designer Michael Kellner, author Robert Ward who provided the introduction on the jazz cd, photographers Chistopher Voelker and Slobodan Dimitrov, producer Jeffery Weber plus five more. Illustrated with 18 pages of black and white photographs. This special edition also includes a 73 minute jazz music CD in a pocket on the rear pastedown. xi, 319 pp. ISBN: 0-93976749X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84599More details Price: $50.00 -
THESE WOMEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2020) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An engrossing novel by this award winning writer described as "a literary thriller of female empowerment and social change. In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they're referred to as 'these women.' These women on the corner ... These women in the club ... These women who won't stop asking questions ... These women who got what they deserved ... " A story of five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish, connected by death. SIGNED on the half title page. 334 pp. Uncommon signed. ISBN: 978-0062656384.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83137More details Price: $40.00 -
EXPIRATION DATE
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996.). SIGNED - A 'sometimes terrifying, sometimes riotously funny, always bizarrely convincing ghost story' set in an invented Los Angeles, SIGNED on the title page and as usual, the left-handed author signed upside down. 381 pp. Cover art by Sara Hayward. ISBN: 0-7653-17524.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new.)
Book ID: 51349More details Price: $20.00 -
FAULT LINES: Expiration Date & Earthquake Weather.
Edition: Original book club edition.
New York: GuildAmerica, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The first omnibus edition of these two novels. From the dust jacket flap "Los Angeles is full of ghosts - real ghosts and solid ghosts, ghost hunters and ghost junkies - chasing and being chased in a mad quest for immortality. As a series of disasters strikes the city, the lives of three innocent people converge in a wild escapade through a landscape haunted by the dead, the mad and the just plain strange." SIGNED on the title page. 933 pp. Dust jacket art by Don Maitz. ISBN: 1-568654979.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 67082More details Price: $28.50
