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THERAPIST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by these two authors (Garrett is the pseudonym of a practicing psychiatrist) What happens when the therapist is sicker than the patients? Mystery set in a psychiatric ward in New York General Hospital involving two patients and an unscrupulous doctor who will stop at nothing to protect himself. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-802757472.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88818More details Price: $16.50 -
EAST OF A.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a "black-lit, neo-noir urban thriller," introducing struggling private eye Peyton Sherwood and set in the lower East Side of New York City. SIGNED on the title page with the words "dangerously yours." Cover praise from Michael Connelly, Ann Beattie and Jeffery Deaver. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-345427769.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 67005More details Price: $25.00 -
LIVES OF THE MONSTER DOGS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a "weird and haunting parable for our times" set in New York City in what was, at the time this was written, the near future. Winner of the Bram Stoker award and a New York Times Notable Book. ISBN: 0-374-189870.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 61015More details Price: $35.00 -
THE GILDED CAGE
Edition: First printing.
New York: M.Evan & Co., 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - "An Evans Novel of Romance" set in 1889 New York City. 424 pp. ISBN: 0-871316439.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35548More details Price: $12.50 -
EMMA WHO SAVED MY LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, set in New York City in the 10 years between 1974 and 1983. From the dj: "For Gil the dream was to leave the Midwest,arrive in New York and become a Famous Actor... And then there's Emma... She is a fiction triumph: an exhilarating, exasperating, totally unique heroine. She is the center around which this heartfelt, exuberant novel turns." Illustrated endpapers. 470 pp. ISBN: 0-312-02911X).
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 35905More details Price: $16.50 -
MIRROR MAZE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Villard, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring NYPD Lieutenant Frank Janek. ISBN: 0-679-414592.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dj. (prev owner's embossed seal.)
Book ID: 11397More details Price: $17.50 -
MIRROR MAZE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Villard, 1994. First edition - A mystery featuring NYPD Lieutenant Frank Janek. 336 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60948More details Price: $20.00 -
HOUSE OF THIEVES.
Edition: First printing.
Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Landmark, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical thriller set in the Gilded Age - "In 1886 New York, a respectable architect shouldn't have any connection to the notorious gang of thieves and killers that rules the underbelly of the city. But when John Cross's son racks up an unfathomable gambling debt to Kent's Gents, Cross must pay it back himself. All he has to do is use his inside knowledge of high society mansions and museums to craft a robbery even the smartest detectives won't solve." 412 pp. Includes a conversation with the author. ISBN: 978-1492617891.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 74662More details Price: $18.50 -
WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Hardcover - Southern author's second novel - a story of terrorism in New York City. Bell was probably the most established of the authors who were selected by Granta magazine in the late 1990's as the best young writers in the United States. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-3773.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings and missing front endpaper, but overall tight and clean, lacking the dust jacket.
Book ID: 49300More details Price: $12.50 -
WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's second novel - a story of terrorism in New York City. Bell was probably the most established of the authors who were selected by Granta magazine in the late 1990's as the best young writers in the United States. A presentation copy INSCRIBED on the title page ("Come back to see us. Letter soon (he promised.: Hope you like this one." Laid in is a 2 page typed chatty letter -"have been saving these items for months, as you can tell. Took me a while to read Madison's book, but found it much better than the first, which is to be expected..." 322 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-3773.
Condition: Good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant. )
Book ID: 36699More details Price: $65.00 -
WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's second novel - a story of terrorism in New York City. Bell was probably the most established of the authors who were selected by Granta magazine in the late 1990's as the best young writers in the United States. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-3773.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (bleeding from the black cloth spine of the book, general wear, short tear and associated creasing to edge of dj. )
Book ID: 36698More details Price: $16.50 -
WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Penguin, (1986). Southern author's second novel - a story of terrorism in New York City. Bell was probably the most established of the authors who were selected by Granta magazine in the late 1990's as the best young writers in the United States. A title in the "Contemporary American Fiction" series. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0093303.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 40768More details Price: $9.50 -
WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's second novel - a story of terrorism in New York City. Bell was probably the most established of the authors who were selected by Granta magazine in the late 1990's as the best young writers in the United States. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-3773.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (overall wear to both book and dj)
Book ID: 19527More details Price: $18.50 -
THE WASHINGTON SQUARE ENSEMBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of some of the regulars of this New York park - a drug dealer, his hired gun, a Puerto Rican deep into voodoo, and more. SIGNED on the title page. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-670-750050.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 60656More details Price: $85.00 -
FALL GUY: A Rachel Alexander Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh mystery featuring New York private investigator Rachel Alexander and her partner, a pit bull named Dashiell. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0538996.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (slight spine slant, one short closed tear to upper edge of dj.)
Book ID: 56056More details Price: $15.00 -
THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Bonnie Indermilll mystery, set in New York City's Chinatown. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-312-018509.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (light rubbing and edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 55151More details Price: $12.50