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THE FIFTH SERVANT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1592 in the Jewish ghetto in Prague, featuring Benyamin Ben-Akiva, a Talmudic scholar from Poland. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 9780061725371.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (a new copy but with a tiny tear at fold of dj flap.)
Book ID: 60310More details Price: $31.50 -
THE FIFTH SERVANT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1592 in the Jewish ghetto in Prague, featuring Benyamin Ben-Akiva, a Talmudic scholar from Poland. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 9780061725371.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to the pages)
Book ID: 62078More details Price: $28.50 -
THE FIFTH SERVANT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1592 in the Jewish ghetto in Prague, featuring Benyamin Ben-Akiva, a Talmudic scholar from Poland. INSCRIBED on the title page "For -- Who knows what I am talking about. Enjoy." 387 pp. ISBN: 9780061725371.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65094More details Price: $35.00 -
A DOVE AGAINST DEATH.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in the Cameroons in Africa during World War I. ISBN: 0-670-280666.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 70516More details Price: $13.50 -
CLEA'S MOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the late 1940s, in postwar Los Angeles, and introducing former B Western movie idol and now ex-convict John Ray Horn, who is making ends meet by collecting debts for a gambler when an old friend calls asking for help with his father's estate, where Horn finds an obscene photograph of his young stepdaughter. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Debut Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain (the first American author to win this award). 308 pp. ISBN: 0-399150471.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82430More details Price: $30.00 -
CLEA'S MOON.
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The true first edition of the author's first novel, set in the late 1940s, in postwar Los Angeles, and introducing former B Western movie idol and now ex-convict John Ray Horn, who is making ends meet by collecting debts for a gambler when an old friend calls asking for help with his father's estate, where Horn finds an obscene photograph of his young stepdaughter. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Debut Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain (the first American author to win this award). 282 pp. ISBN: 0-752852892.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82431More details Price: $45.00 -
A BLACK SAIL: A Coleridge Taylor Mystery.
Edition: Trade paperback original.
Seattle: Camel Press, (2016). Third novel in the award winning series, featuring New York police reporter Coleridge Taylor. Set in 1976, during the US bicentennial, when NY Harbor is full of tall ships from around the world. 245 pp. ISBN: 978-1603812115.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 72199More details Price: $14.50 -
DROP DEAD PUNK: A Coleridge Taylor Mystery.
Edition: Trade paperback original.
Seattle: Camel Press, (2015). Second novel in the award winning series, featuring New York police reporter Coleridge Taylor. Set in 1975 against the backdrop of New York City's financial crisis. 240 pp. ISBN: 978-1603812092.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 72200More details Price: $14.50 -
PANAMA
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, one which combines intrigue and history. Set in Paris in 1892, a city embroiled in a political scandal involving the French Panama Canal Company; the protagonist is the American historian and author Henry Adams, grandson and great-grandson of President Adams. SIGNED on the title page. Editor's letter bound in at the front of the book. 375 pp. .
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68364More details Price: $35.00 -
PANAMA
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one which combines intrigue and history. Set in Paris in 1892, a city embroiled in a political scandal involving the French Panama Canal Company; the protagonist is the American historian and author Henry Adams, grandson and great-grandson of President Adams. SIGNED on the title page. 375 pp. . ISBN: 0-374229430.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Laid in is a brief handwritten and signed note from the author to the noted collector Larry Owens.
Book ID: 68365More details Price: $40.00 -
THE ORPHANMASTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel preceded by several non-fiction books on the history of New York going back to the New Amsterdam days of Dutch settlers - the setting for this historical mystery. "Its 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the mysterious state of affairs are a quick-witted twenty-two-year-old trader, Blandine von Couvering, herself an orphan, and a dashing British spy named Edward Drummond." Maps. Author's historical note. 418 pp. ISBN: 978-0670023646.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84663More details Price: $17.50 -
SAVAGE GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second historical mystery, set in New York city in 1875 at the dawn of the dawn of the Gilded Age. A wealthy Manhattan couple on a trip to the West find a young "feral" girl and bring her back to New York to be educated and introduced to society. A series of suitors find her irresistible - and they begin to turn up murdered. Author's note, 402 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (tear at base of dj spine)
Book ID: 84684More details Price: $17.50 -
MURDER IN THE HELLFIRE CLUB
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, commended for its historical accuracy - a variation of the classic "locked room" mystery featuring Benjamin Franklin and set in London in 1757. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0224411.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35519More details Price: $20.00