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IAN FLEMING INTRODUCES JAMAICA.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Hawthorn Books, (1965.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Anthology of articles about Jamaica - 'history, its people, its politics, its religions and dialects, its natural history, its brids, its painters and writers, its archives, its stamps, and the delights of skin-diving it its waters and eating its food (including some recipes) - told from the Jamaican point of view, with preface & introduction by Ian Fleming, who spent part of every year at Goldeneye, his Jamaican house in which he wrote all the James Bond books. Illustrated with color photographs. appendices, bibliography. 240 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (light toning to the pages,several small chips to upper edge of dj, closed tear with associated creasing to bottom edge.)
Book ID: 54477More details Price: $30.00 -
WHO IN THE HELL IS WANDA FUCA?
Edition: Trade paperback.
Las Vegas: Thomas & Mercer, (c 1995). SIGNED - Author's first book - a Leo Waterman mystery, set in Seattle. SIGNED on the title page. 346 pp. ISBN: 978-1612183756.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 62859More details Price: $21.50 -
CANADA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press/ Harper Collins, (1912) dj. Hardcover first edition - "First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." Gripping novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author. 420 pp. ISBN: 978-0061692048.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (an apparently unread copy but with a remainder dot)
Book ID: 71941More details Price: $17.50 -
THE MOCKING PROGRAM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Science fiction noir - a hard-boiled thriller set in the near future on ".the Montezuma Strip. A Mexamerican megalopolis sprawling from Baja to the Gulf. the home of one tough cop who specialises in solving the most devious, diabolical crimes that future felons can devise. " Glossary of Spang. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780446527743.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 54140More details Price: $18.50 -
THE MOCKING PROGRAM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Science fiction noir - a hard-boiled thriller set in the near future on ".the Montezuma Strip. A Mexamerican megalopolis sprawling from Baja to the Gulf. the home of one tough cop who specialises in solving the most devious, diabolical crimes that future felons can devise. " Glossary of Spang. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780446527743.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (rem line, tear to front cover of dj with associated creasing.)
Book ID: 55412More details Price: $13.50 -
THE MONARCHS ARE FLYING.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback original.
Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, (1987). First edition - The first novel by this Canadian author, a courtroom drama of a woman charged with murdering the woman who was her ex-lover, set in an intolerant small town, with a homophobic police detective. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-932379338.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79469More details Price: $12.50 -
A MAGGOT
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1985 dj. Hardcover first edition - A complex novel set in the eighteenth century - "part detective story, part science fiction, part gothic horror tale, part history of dissent." 455 pp. ISBN: 0-316-289949.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (hint of a spine slant, light edgewear)
Book ID: 9149More details Price: $15.00 -
A MAGGOT
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1985 dj. Hardcover first edition - A complex novel set in the eighteenth century - "part detective story, part science fiction, part gothic horror tale, part history of dissent." 455 pp. ISBN: 0-316-28994-9.
Condition: Near fine in a very good+dustjacket.
Book ID: 16714More details Price: $19.50 -
A MAGGOT
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1985 dj. Hardcover first edition - A complex novel set in the eighteenth century - "part detective story, part science fiction, part gothic horror tale, part history of dissent." 455 pp. ISBN: 0-316-289949.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (prev owner's name, some edgewear to the dj).
Book ID: 58992More details Price: $17.50 -
SWEETSMOKE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion, (2008.). First edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, nominated for an Edgar: "The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everything- .to learn the truth concerning the murder of Emoline, a freed black woman, a woman who secretly taught him to read and once saved his life." This advance issue includes an interview with Fuller bound in and a list of recommended reading. vii, 310 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (crease on back cover, other minor wear).
Book ID: 53340More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MONKEY HOUSE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Crown, 1996. The author's first novel, a story of suspense and mystery set in Sarajevo.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 11544More details Price: $12.00 -
SHADOW PLAY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pantheon, 1993. First edition - Suspense novel featuring Crown Prosecutor Helen West. Fyfield is an attorney in the Crown Prosecutor's office, so she writes of a world she knows very well. Publisher's letter laid in.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 11467More details Price: $17.50 -
OF GOOD AND EVIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - Early novel by Gann, a thriller of sorts - or a morality tale - which recounts the events of one day at the police headquarters in San Francisco. 288 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a fair only dust jacket (dampstaining and crinkling to dj, mostly visible on the flaps and interior, not affecting the book itself.)
Book ID: 51692More details Price: $13.50 -
A SONG FOR THE ASKING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. The story of an LAPD detective, the self-proclaimed king of his castle - his beachfront home in Malibu - and loving despot to his wife and four children, who he is determined to recast in his own image, steeling them to face a violent world. Laid in is a promotional postcard with a brief note from the author and also SIGNED. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-553101641.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64890More details Price: $25.00 -
SKIN DEEP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Chicano author's first novel - the story of a 2nd generation Chicano who leaves his East Los Angeles barrio for Harvard Law school. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-374-265739.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 18523More details Price: $20.00 -
DECEMBER HEAT.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Picador, (2004.). The second book in the Inspector Espinoza mystery series, set in Rio de Janero, by this Brazilian author. Translated from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-312-423438.
Condition: Very good (usual toning to the pages, slight curling to the covers.)
Book ID: 50785More details Price: $10.00 -
THE CASE OF THE QUEENLY CONTESTANT.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1968.). A Perry Mason mystery. #55878, cover price 60c, cover photograph.
Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages).
Book ID: 78519More details Price: $8.50 -
UNPUNISHED: A Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Feminist Press at The City University of New York, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery by this author best known for her feminist novels, like "Herland" and "The Yellow Wall-paper." Her last completed work of fiction, this was written in the 1920s but never previously published. Edited and with an introduction by Catherine Golden and Denise D Knight. Notes, afterword, bibliography. 244 pp. ISBN: 1558611703.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63391More details Price: $21.50 -
NEST: A Thriller.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, (2016.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A stand-alone thriller by this writer best known for his science fiction and fantasy. Kate Miller thought she was an ordinary woman living in Chicago, but when she is involved in a police investigation into a brutal murder she makes a shocking discovery: she has the ability to identify killers just by looking in their eyes. 428 pp. ISBN: 978-1510722873.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dustjacket (light crease on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 75316More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LAW OF NINES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A stand-alone thriller - 'Your mother was twenty-seven when it came to her. Now you're twenty-seven, and it's come to you.' 502 pp. ISBN: 9780399156045.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (an unread copy.)
Book ID: 52620More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SEDUCTION OF WATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, one that 'skilfully weaves dark fairy tale themes into a modern web of intrigue,' as a daughter searches both for the truth about her mother's life and a missing manuscript. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-345-450906.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 77130More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LAKE OF DEAD LANGUAGES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ballantine, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set at a lakeside school in the Adirondacks. SIGNED on the title page. 342 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80479More details Price: $25.00 -
THE SEDUCTION OF WATER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ballantine, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, one that 'skilfully weaves dark fairy tale themes into a modern web of intrigue,' as a daughter searches both for the truth about her mother's life and a missing manuscript. Publisher's letter bound in. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award. SIGNED on the title page. 379 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (light crease to front cover)
Book ID: 49187More details Price: $28.50 -
ARCADIA FALLS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 77605More details Price: $27.50 -
THE SEDUCTION OF WATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, one that 'skilfully weaves dark fairy tale themes into a modern web of intrigue,' as a daughter searches both for the truth about her mother's life and a missing manuscript. SIGNED on the title page, Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-345-450906.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (few pages bumped.)
Book ID: 51054More details Price: $25.00 -
THE CAVEMAN'S VALENTINE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Time Warner, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Edgar for best first mystery of the year. One of the most complex and unusual protagonists in recent years: an African American Julliard trained concert pianist, who is now homeless and living in a cave in New York's Central Park. Highly recommended. ISBN: 0-446-517224.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 3303More details Price: $45.00 -
THE CAVEMAN'S VALENTINE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Time Warner, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Edgar for best first mystery of the year. One of the most complex and unusual protagonists in recent years: an African American Julliard trained concert pianist, who is now homeless and living in a cave in New York's Central Par. Highly recommended. ISBN: 0-446-517224.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20518More details Price: $45.00 -
THE CAVEMAN'S VALENTINE
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Time Warner, (1995.). Winner of the Edgar for best first mystery of the year. One of the most complex and unusual protagonists in recent years: an African American Julliard trained concert pianist, who is now homeless and living in a cave in New York's Central Par. Highly recommended. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-446-671517.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 47123More details Price: $10.00 -
THE HEADLAND MYSTERY.
Edition: Hardcover.
London: The Children's Press, n.d. (ca 1950) dj. Hardcover - Two girls on their way to visit their godmother in Somerset are forced to take refuge in a deserted mansion owned by an American. 190 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in a fair dust jacket (usual rather severe toning to the pages, gift inscription dated in 1950, edges of dust jacket have been reinforced with tape)
Book ID: 63570More details Price: $15.00 -
PAPER PRODUCTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First collection of short stories by this writer who is best known for his Florida mysteries. 172 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 4095More details Price: $20.00