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ONE WAS A SOLDIER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel i n t h e a w a r d w i n n i n g C l a r e F e r g u s s o n / R u s s V a n A l s t y n e m y s t e r y s e r i e s, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 327 pp. ISBN: 0 - 3 1 2 - 3 1 2 6 4 4.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62047More details Price: $30.00 -
I SHALL NOT WANT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sixth b o o k i n t h e a w a r d w i n n i n g C l a r e F e r g u s s o n / R u s s V a n A l s t y n e m y s t e r y s e r i e s, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp. ISBN: 0 - 3 1 2 - 3 34877.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62114More details Price: $30.00 -
THROUGH THE EVIL DAYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2013.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel i n t h e a w a r d w i n n i n g C l a r e F e r g u s s o n / R u s s V a n A l s t y n e m y s t e r y s e r i e s, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 978-0 3 1 2608848.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63204More details Price: $30.00 -
OUT OF THE DEEP I CRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel i n t h e a w a r d w i n n i n g C l a r e F e r g u s s o n / R u s s V a n A l s t y n e m y s t e r y s e r i e s, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for both the Edgar and the Agatha. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-312- 3 1 2628.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63300More details Price: $30.00 -
DEATH OF A BLACK-HAIRED GIRL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2013. First edition - Novel set on the campus of an elite university in a decaying New England city, the story of an illicit romance between a professor and one of his students. 281 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58950More details Price: $25.00 -
CLIENT PRIVILEGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The ninth mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing - a friend, a judge, is being blackmailed and soon after Brady meets with the blackmailer, he is found murdered. SIGNED on the title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-385-299036.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 87617More details Price: $35.00 -
PAST TENSE: A Brady Coyne Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighteenth mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing - this one set mostly on Cape Cod. Publisher and bookseller Otto Penzler in his review described Coyne as "one of those mystery heroes in whom decency is perhaps the paramount characteristic. . .
A steady intelligence is always present, and the reader increasingly appreciates the carefulness with which his creator regards the human condition: the relationships between men and women, parents and children, workers and their colleagues, the guilty and the innocent. Betrayal, above all, is something he seems to have made a special area of study." SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-31228442x.Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86837More details Price: $31.50 -
DEAD WINTER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. ISBN: 0-385-297114.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light shelfwear).
Book ID: 3532More details Price: $16.50 -
DEAD WINTER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. ISBN: 0-385-297114.
Condition: Just about fine in a very good dust jacket (closed tear lower edge of back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 25517More details Price: $14.50 -
OUTWITTING TROLLS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The last mystery completed by Tapply before his death in the series featuring Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing, Publisher and bookseller Otto Penzler described Coyne as "one of those mystery heroes in whom decency is perhaps the paramount characteristic. . .
A steady intelligence is always present, and the reader increasingly appreciates the carefulness with which his creator regards the human condition: the relationships between men and women, parents and children, workers and their colleagues, the guilty and the innocent. Betrayal, above all, is something he seems to have made a special area of study." 273 pp. ISBN: 978-0-312531270.Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87618More details Price: $18.50 -
ONE-WAY TICKET: A Brady Coyne Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. When a friend and former client calls him from a hospital after being beaten on the street, Coyne finds himself more and more involved - even to the point of a making a kidnapping payoff. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-312358296.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81801More details Price: $30.00 -
MUSCLE MEMORY: A Brady Coyne Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighteenth mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-312205635.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81764More details Price: $35.00 -
DEAD WINTER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. SIGNED on the title page. 230 pp. Review copy with publisher's material and a photograph of Tapply laid in. ISBN: 0-385-297114.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81760More details Price: $35.00 -
PAST TENSE: A Brady Coyne Novel.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81759More details Price: $35.00 -
SHADOW OF DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The twentieth mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. Brady has hired a former cop turned PI - who winds up dead in a staged automobile accident, and he is determined to find who is responible, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-312303777.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81750More details Price: $40.00 -
DEAD WINTER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. ISBN: 0-385-297114.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (remainder mark).
Book ID: 51814More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MAINE MASSACRE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - A de Gier mystery set on the Maine coast. ISBN: 0-395-273951.
Condition: Good in a good dustjacket (bumping to lower edge, closed tears, edgewear.)
Book ID: 5950More details Price: $15.00 -
CALM AT SUNSET, CALM AT DAWN
Edition: First printing.
London: Century Hutchinson, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The true first printing of Watkin's second book, the story of a young man growing up in a family who worked fishing boats of the coast of New England for generations and who has the lure of the sea in his blood, despite the brutality and treacherousness of this life. Watkins spent several seasons working on trawlers himself. INSCRIBED on the half title page to noted collector Larry Owens. Winner of the Encore Prize. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-091739144.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 80734More details Price: $60.00 -
OLD SCHOOL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first novel (third book), set at a New England prep school. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-375401466.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 80246More details Price: $21.50 -
THE MYSTERY HUNTERS AT LAKESIDE CAMP, #2 in series.
Edition: Reprint.
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co., (1934) dj. Hardcover - The second book in a four book series by this prolific author best known for his Mercer Boys series. After high school graduation, four friends from a small town in Vermont decide to vacation at Lakeside Camp in New Hampshire, a camp run by the college they are planning on attending. As they are walking from the train station to the camp, a storm forces them to seek shelter at an old Opera House where they hear strange footsteps. Plain frontispiece. 250 pp.
Condition: Good overall in dark green boards - usual rather severe toning to the pages, partially erased gift inscription dated Christmas 1949 - in a good only dustjacket with significant sunning to the spine, overall tanning and light edgewear.
Book ID: 78880More details Price: $18.50
