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HOT SIX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Stephanie Plum, who works for her bail bondsman cousin in New Jersey - two books in the series won the Dilys award (given by independent booksellers for the mystery that is the most fun to sell - and the later ones in the series continue the fun), and Evanovich has also received the Silver Dagger and John Creasey awards, among others. INSCRIBED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-312-205406.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73902More details Price: $30.00 -
LIVE TO REGRET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery in the award winning series featuring Owen Keane, ex-seminarian turned investigator, set in a beach town in New Jersey. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-312-08255X.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69361More details Price: $15.00 -
PEE-WEE HARRIS ON THE TRAIL, #2.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1922) dj. Hardcover - The 2nd book in this very popular series featuring a Boy Scout troop in the town of Bridgeboro, New Jersey.Illustrated by H. S. Barbour with a glossy frontispiece and three inserted glossy plates. Lists to #10 in the ads at the rear of the book and on the rear dust jacket flap. 211 pp plus 6 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall in gold boards with red lettering on front cover, black on spine (spine slant) in a rather poor dust jacket, missing about half the spine, other wear.
Book ID: 67319More details Price: $15.00 -
THE LAY OF THE LAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winner author, continuing the story of Frank Bascombe, who first appeared in "The Sportswriter." Now, a decade later, Frank Bascombe returns, "with a new lease on life (and real estate), more acutely in thrall to lifes endless complexities than ever before. His story resumes in the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving." 485 pp. ISBN: 978-0679454687.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83577More details Price: $20.00 -
DEATH TRAP.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set on the mean streets of Trenton, New Jersey and featuring Nick Magaracz, the "poor man's Sam Spade" who continues to work for the State of New Jersey because he needs the insurance benefits for his daughter's braces. Then a simple case of inheritance tax fraud takes a deadly turn. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 154 pp. ISBN: 0-316302996.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84752More details Price: $18.50 -
UNBALANCED ACCOUNTS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a parody of the traditional hard-boiled private investigator novel, set on the mean streets of Trenton, New Jersey and introducing Nick Magaracz trying to fill the steps of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. 137 pp. ISBN: 0-316302880.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83201More details Price: $21.50 -
JERSEY MONKEY: A Nick Magaracz Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel featuring Nick Magaracz, a private investigator trying to fill the steps of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, who is branching out into industrial espionage, and has a job trying to get to the bottom of the poisonings at a New Jersey pharmaceutical company. 164 pp. ISBN: 0-316302880.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84415More details Price: $18.50 -
JERNIGAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The authorÕs very highly praised first book - blurbs from Joy Williams (who called it 'great nasty fun'), Barry Hannah, Joseph Heller ("It is a sizzler of a novel, a whirlwind. It swept me up in the opening paragraphs and did not set me down until its fine closing sentence.") and others. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. From the dj: "The story of one manÕs rapid unravelling, [a year after the deaths of his wife and father]- between Independence Day and Christmas - as he observes, appalled and entranced, his own self-destructive ingenuity." 238 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 35556More details Price: $18.00 -
JERNIGAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The authorÕs very highly praised first book - blurbs from Joy Williams (who called it 'great nasty fun'), Barry Hannah, Joseph Heller ("It is a sizzler of a novel, a whirlwind. It swept me up in the opening paragraphs and did not set me down until its fine closing sentence.") and others. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. From the dj: "The story of one manÕs rapid unravelling, [a year after the deaths of his wife and father]- between Independence Day and Christmas - as he observes, appalled and entranced, his own self-destructive ingenuity." 238 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 35545More details Price: $15.00 -
CLIENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring Stanley Hastings, the unlikeliest private eye in New York City. SIGNED on the title page 292 pp. ISBN: 1-55611-169x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (sunning to the lettering on the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 66064More details Price: $25.00 -
CLIENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Stanley Hastings, actor/ screenwriter and the unlikeliest private eye in New York City. INSCRIBED on the title page 309 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-6238.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66065More details Price: $25.00 -
THE GO AHEAD BOYS AND THE MYSTERIOUS OLD HOUSE, #3.
Edition: Early reprint.
Cleveland: Goldsmith Publishing, (c 1916) dj. Hardcover - Set in a part of New Jersey "rich in tales of the American Revolution." The title of this series is from Davy Crockett's motto: "I leave this rule for other's when I'm dead: Be always sure you're right - THEN GO AHEAD." 232 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall in a fair only dust jacket (usual toning to the pages, significant wear to the edges of the dj, chipping at corners and folds.) The front cover of the dj has an illustration of two boys in a canoe with a cabin on the shore, snow covered mountains in the distance.
Book ID: 72234More details Price: $17.50 -
ON A BLANKET WITH MY BABY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Louis Monroe - an "anomaly in Atlantic City: a truly honest cop in a town eroded by corruption." 275 pp. ISBN: 0-312118708.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, but with a remainder mark)
Book ID: 71902More details Price: $15.00 -
UNSHELTERED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey - in our times, Willa Knox asks 'How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute?' and a century earlier science teacher Thatcher Greenwood wondered 'How can a man tell the truth, and be reviled for it?' as he is forbidden to mention the works of Charles Darwin. Named one of the best books of the year by many, including NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek and others. 461 pp. ISBN: 978-0062684561.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84494More details Price: $21.50 -
THE HATCH AND BROOD OF TIME.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
West Rupert, VT: Savvy Press, (1999.). First edition - The author's first novel, a murder mystery, set in northern New Jersey featuring reporter Natalie Joday. 300 pp plus a map of Bergen County. ISBN: 0-66987705.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57940More details Price: $13.50 -
LINDA LANE'S PROBLEMS, #5 in series.
Edition: First or early edition.
New York: Barse & Co., (1928). Hardcover - The fifth book is this rather uncommon series "For Girls from 12 to 15" - one which puts a different spin on the popular orphan fiction series by having as its central character an optimistic and assertive young girl and peopling it with women who are shown as capable and not reliant on men, Set in New Jersey -both at the seashore and in a small inland town. Illustrated by a glossy frontispiece and three plain internal plates by John M. Foster. 252 pp.
Condition: Good overall in red cloth with black lettering and illustration on the front cover and spine (some sunning to the spine, previous owner's name, usual toning to the pages, but a tight and straight copy)
Book ID: 69412More details Price: $30.00 -
UNCLE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award, the story of Irving Bender's life - the "uncle" of the title - over the years beginning with his decision to drop out of school at 16 during the Depression, so his younger brother would be able to attend college and through his final days in a Miami condo. A brief novel, but on which illuminates many lives - John Casey called it "wonderfully cystallized." 178 pp. ISBN: 0-395270987.
Condition: Near fine in brown cloth with gilt lettering in a very good dust jacket with some overall edgewear and toning.
Book ID: 87197More details Price: $18.50 -
COOL'S RIDGE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Permanent Press, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel of the tensions among a group of activists opposed to the Vietnam War and living on a communal farm in rural northwest New Jersey. INSCRIBED (to a Sacramento bookseller) on the front endpaper. A small first printing of only 2200 copies. 295 pp. ISBN: 1877946680.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (line on bottom edge.)
Book ID: 8352More details Price: $25.00 -
SAMARITAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - His seventh novel. Set in urban New Jersey, this is a the story of a man beaten nearly to death who refuses to press charges or to talk about who did it and of the woman cop, a childhood friend from the projects, who tries to get him to tell what happened. 377 pp.. ISBN: 0-375-411151.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56002More details Price: $21.00 -
SAMARITAN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First edition - His seventh novel. Set in urban New Jersey, this is a the story of a man beaten nearly to death who refuses to press charges or to talk about who did it and of the woman cop, a childhood friend from the projects, who tries to get him to tell what happened. 379 pp. The pre-publication information is included inside the front cover and the back cover contains a long letter from Stephen King praising this book.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy.)
Book ID: 49937More details Price: $20.00 -
FREEDOMLAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Broadway Books, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A bruised and bloodied white woman stumbles into an inner-city emergency room, and announces that she has just been carjacked by a black man" - and her son was asleep in the back seat, and is now gone. Basis for the 2006 movie of the same name starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore. 546 pp. ISBN: 0-767900243.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 68732More details Price: $18.50 -
SAMARITAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - His seventh novel. Set in urban New Jersey, this is a the story of a man beaten nearly to death who refuses to press charges or to talk about who did it and of the woman cop, a childhood friend from the projects, who tries to get him to tell what happened. 377 pp.. ISBN: 0-375-411151.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (sticker on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 46177More details Price: $15.00 -
FREEDOMLAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Broadway Books, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A bruised and bloodied white woman stumbles into an inner-city emergency room, and announces that she has just been carjacked by a black man" - and her son was asleep in the back seat, and is now gone. Basis for the 2006 movie of the same name starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore. SIGNED on the title page. 546 pp. ISBN: 0-767900243.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 39898More details Price: $35.00 -
WINTER AND NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. New York private investigator Bill Smith, with the help of his partner Lydia Chin, sets out to find a missing teen, but when he arrives in a small New Jersey town, he is confronted by dark secrets, both the town's and his own. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-312-245556.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53976More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BODY IS WATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a finalist for the 1996 Earnest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction and an ALA Notable Book of the Year. "A pregnant, unmarried schoolteacher returns to her childhood home in a New Jersey seaside resort town in this expertly wrought, acutely observed first novel. Jane Haus narrates the last six months of her pregnancy, during which she revives relationships with her crotchety father and her older sister and struggles to understand the lasting emotional damage wrought upon them by her unhappy mother's illness and death." (PW) SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 1-569470421.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 83870More details Price: $30.00 -
THE CASE OF THE CALICO CRAB.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c. 1942). Hardcover - Story of 3 young people - college age, this time - who become involved in a mystery in a remote coastal area, related to the growing threat of World War II. Illustrated by Manning deV. Lee with a frontispiece and 8 small en texte drawings (although he is not identified as the illustrator in the book). 222 pp
Condition: Ex-school library with a few stamps, signs of pocket removal, in faded blue cloth, dampstaining to lower corner of front cover. Binding is sturdy and contents are clean, so a good reading copy.
Book ID: 31555More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MISSING HALF.
Edition: Early reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, nd. (c 1941.) dj. Hardcover - A family (mother, grandfather, and 3 children) come to live in an old neglected brick mansion on the edge of the Delaware River and discover many mysteries. Set i Bordentown, New Jersey, a town rich in Revolutionary War history. Illustrated by Manning de V Lee with a frontispiece, 3 plates on plain paper and many smaller vignettes. 245 pp.
Condition: Very good condition in bright blue cloth in a good dustjacket (loss of about 1 inch at bottom of dj spine, other edgewear, but front illustration bright and attractive.) Uncommon in dustjacket.
Book ID: 32935More details Price: $125.00 -
THE SLIPPER POINT MYSTERY.
Edition: Early printing.
Condition: Very good in brown cloth with black lettering and a green and black illustration on the front cover (some relatively minor soiling to the covers and the edges of the textblock, but overall a clean and tight copy).
Book ID: 28706More details Price: $100.00 -
THE STARS OF SABRA.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Near fine in red cloth with black lettering, bright red top tint in a very good dust jacket with original price of $1.75 still present (wear at the ends of the spine, a few small chips and a large chip to the upper edge of the back cover of the dj) A scarce title and especially so in this condition and in a dust jacket!
Book ID: 88702More details Price: $450.00 -
THE DRAGON'S SECRET.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: The Century Co., (c, 1921). Hardcover - Story set on the lonely coast of New Jersey during the month of October, involving 2 girls who become friends as they try to solve the mystery of an unusual casket they found buried in the sand. Illustrated by C. M. Relyea with a frontispiece and 3 glossy plates. 253 pp. Bound in gray-green cloth with yellow lettering on the spine and front cover, and a silhouetted illustration of two girls and a dog on the front cover, a small dragon on the spine.
Condition: Very good+ condition (a tight and clean copy, prev owner's name dated Xmas 1928 - in pencil, and erasable, but why would you want to? .)
Book ID: 45572More details Price: $85.00