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DARK BAHAMA.
Edition: First printing.
London: Collins, 1950. Hardcover first edition - The second in a trilogy featuring the private detective Johnny Vallon, a hard-drinking former army officer and head of Chennault Investigations, set in Miami and on a small fictitious island in the Bahamas, where the headstrong daughter of a wealthy family seems to have disappeared. 236 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in pale gold cloth with some soiling, corners bumped and toning to the pages, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 88891More details Price: $18.50 -
DANGEROUS ENDS.
Edition: First printing.
Hoboken, NJ: Polis Books, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third thriller set in Miami and featuring former newsman, now private investigator, Pete Fernandez. Lou Berney called this "a tense, gripping exploration of what happens when a bloody past collides with a dangerous present." SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 978-1943818259.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83147More details Price: $40.00 -
DONE DEAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery set in South Florida, and the first featuring Johnny Deal, a small contractor feeling the economic squeeze. A look at the underside of life in Miami. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0177314.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82981More details Price: $21.50 -
INSIDE MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2014). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the award-winning series of thrillers featuring ex-CIA agent turned bar owner, Sam Capra. Set in Miami and Puerto Rico, where Sam has gone undercover in an attempt to find out who was responsible for the death of a friend. SIGNED on the title page, and dated in May 2014, that is, before the official publication date. 388 pp. ISBN: 978-145528455.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82699More details Price: $35.00 -
A KING'S RANSOM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2001). SIGNED first edition - A legal thriller featuring Miami attorney Nick Rey whose father kidnapped and held for ransom by Columbian revolutionaries. SIGNED on the title page. 425 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82696More details Price: $30.00 -
A KING'S RANSOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller featuring Miami attorney Nick Rey whose father kidnapped and held for ransom by Columbian revolutionaries. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 426 pp. ISBN: 0-060192410.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82695More details Price: $30.00 -
DONE DEAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery set in South Florida, and the first featuring Johnny Deal, a small contractor feeling the economic squeeze. A look at the underside of life in Miami. SIGNED on the title page. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0177314.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81443More details Price: $30.00 -
BODY LANGUAGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Alexandra Rafferty is now a forensic photographer for the Miami P.D., but when she was a girl something unspeakably cruel happened to her and it continues to haunt. A novel by one of the best modern suspense writers in America today. SIGNED on the title page. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-312-192436.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80556More details Price: $25.00 -
BODY LANGUAGE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Alexandra Rafferty is now a forensic photographer for the Miami P.D., but when she was a girl something unspeakably cruel happened to her and it continues to haunt her. Hall's first non-series book, intended to be his 'breakout novel' but despite considerable advance praise, Hall is not as appreciated as his work deserves; he is one of the best modern suspense writers in America today. Publisher's letter laid in. 340 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy red covers (lower corner slightly bumped) .
Book ID: 80555More details Price: $25.00 -
ALWAYS A PEOPLE: Oral Histories of Contemporary Woodland Indians.
Edition: First printing.
Bloomington, Indiana. Indiana University Press. (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which sets out to honor twentieth century Woodland People, who form a "distinctive, related, cohesive Native American culture." Interviewees include Philip V. Alexis and Frank Bush, Potawatomie; Sharon Burkybile, Miami; Victoria Daugherty, Shawnee/Delaware; Keller George, Oneida; Patricia A. Hrabik, Chippewa, and many more. Oil portraits by Evelyn J. Ritter. Introduction by R. David Edmunds, project consultant and associate editor. Afterword by Michelle Mannering. Index. xix, 297 pp. ISBN: 0-253-332982.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Printed on heavy glossy stock.
Book ID: 61349More details Price: $30.00 -
SIDESWIPE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1987). Hardcover - Crime novel featuring Hoke Moseley, a burnt-out Miami homicide detective. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-312001886.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71466More details Price: $12.50 -
LOS GUSANOS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (1991). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in Miami, Florida in 1981, but spanning six decades of a family's history in Cuba and the US. The title is a derogatory term used by Castro to refer to those who fled Cuba after he came to power. SIGNED on the page facing the title page. 475 pp
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67169More details Price: $30.00 -
LOS GUSANOS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Miami, Florida in 1981, but spanning six decades of a family's history in Cuba and the US. The title is a derogatory term used by Castro to refer to those who fled Cuba after he came to power. 473 pp. ISBN: 0-060166533.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63151More details Price: $19.50 -
DONE DEAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery set in South Florida, and the first featuring Johnny Deal, a small contractor feeling the economic squeeze. A look at the underside of life in Miami. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0177314.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (rem dot bottom edge.)
Book ID: 62572More details Price: $18.50 -
DONE DEAL.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperCollins, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - The author's second mystery set in South Florida, and the first featuring Johnny Deal, a small contractor feeling the economic squeeze. A look at the underside of life in Miami. Bound into this advance issue is a letter from Stephen King praising the book. While this has the glossy illustrated covers associated with an ARC, it is in typescript, as is more common with uncorrected proofs. SIGNED by the author on the title page. .375 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59220More details Price: $28.50 -
SATURDAY NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book by the author of 'The Orchid Thief,' an entertaining collection of essays about what people around the country do with their Saturday nights from cruising in Indiana, dining in the huge Western-theme Hilltop restaurant in Saugus, Massachusetts to sitting in a nuclear missle silo in Wyoming. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-394-573366.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some very light foxing to the upper edge of the textblock.)
Book ID: 57634More details Price: $18.00 -
SUITABLE FOR FRAMING
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Hyperion, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring Britt Montero, the Miami News police beat reporter. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-60472.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (small chip to lower corner of dj.)
Book ID: 52592More details Price: $12.50 -
THE PEREZ FAMILY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - After 20 years in Castro's prison, Juan Raul Perez finds himself in Miami, looking for his family. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-393-027988.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52413More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SUGAR ISLAND.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. First edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a story of the love and conflict between a mother and daughter in 1960's Cuba, at the height of the revolution, and in Miami. Praise from Bob Shacochis, Mary Morris and Russell Banks. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-395-860407.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner of back cover slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 46433More details Price: $20.00 -
BODY LANGUAGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Alexandra Rafferty is now a forensic photographer for the Miami P.D., but when she was a girl something unspeakably cruel happened to her and it continues to haunt her. A novel by one of the best modern suspense writers in America today. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-312-192436.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 45748More details Price: $14.50 -
MAGIC CITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thorne leaves the Keys for Miami and finds himself involved in a mystery with its roots deep in the past. "A simple black-and-white photograph taken during the 1964 Cassius Clay-Sonny Liston fight on Miami Beach may hold the key to a horrific, politically motivated crime." 306 pp. ISBN: 0-312-271794.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 45745More details Price: $13.50 -
MAGIC CITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thorne leaves the Keys for Miami and finds himself involved in a mystery with its roots deep in the past. "A simple black-and-white photograph taken during the 1964 Cassius Clay-Sonny Liston fight on Miami Beach may hold the key to a horrific, politically motivated crime." 306 pp. ISBN: 0-312-271794.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45131More details Price: $15.00 -
THE SUGAR ISLAND.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a story of the love and conflict between a mother and daughter in 1960's Cuba, at the height of the revolution, and in Miami. Dustjacket praise from Bob Shacochis, Mary Morris and Russell Banks. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-395-860407.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44266More details Price: $16.00 -
BLOODY SHAME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Cuban-born, Miami PI Lupe Solano. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-399-143866.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 39788More details Price: $30.00 -
MARGIN OF ERROR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Britt Montero, the Miami News police beat reporter. ISBN: 0-7868-62327.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37995More details Price: $18.00 -
HAVANA THURSDAYS.
Edition: First printing.
Houston, TX:' Arte Publico Press, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Cuban-American author's third novel (fourth book), an exploration of the changes which come to a multi-generational family of Cuban exiles, living a comfortable middle-class life in Miami, which is shattered when one member is stricken by a heart attack while on an expedition in the Brazilian jungle. SIGNED on the title page. 250 pp. ISBN: 1-55885-1437.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37980More details Price: $35.00 -
BLOODY SECRETS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring Cuban-born, Miami PI Lupe Solano. SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-399-143866.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 37808More details Price: $30.00 -
BODY LANGUAGE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, 1998. First edition - Alexandra Rafferty is now a forensic photographer for the Miami P.D., but when she was a girl something unspeakably cruel happened to her and it continues to haunt her. Hall's first non-series book, intended to be his 'breakout novel' but despite considerable advance praise, Hall is not as appreciated as his work deserves; he is one of the best modern suspense writers in America today. Publisher's letter laid in. 340 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy red covers.
Book ID: 35530More details Price: $18.50 -
BODY LANGUAGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Alexandra Rafferty is now a forensic photographer for the Miami P.D., but when she was a girl something unspeakably cruel happened to her and it continues to haunt. A novel by one of the best modern suspense writers in America today. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-312-192436.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34760More details Price: $16.50 -
THE PRESUMED ALLIANCE: The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: SIGNED on the half title page. Fine (a new copy) in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 33289More details Price: $25.00