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A BAD MAN IS EASY TO FIND
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, an exploration of "the world of the New York woman and her men in a series of interlocking stories that are by turns witty, sexy, and surprising." 240 pp. ISBN: 0-312-029209.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (closed tear to lower edge of back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 54063More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LAST DAYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Razorbill / Penguin, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Dark fantasy for young adults, the sequel to the highly acclaimed 'Peeps.' "The summer is stifling and strange things are happening in New York City. A weird, black, oily substance is oozing from fire hydrants and faucets. A mysterious epidemic is turning people into raving cannibals. And the signs say that worse is coming.'' 286 pp. plus Author's note on the band names used for each chapter. ISBN: 159514062X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68140More details Price: $16.50 -
IF LOOKS COULD KILL.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first mystery - it introduces Bailey Wiggins, a 30-something, single-again, true crime writer for a glossy NY magazine. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-446-530239.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 29083More details Price: $24.50 -
HUSH.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A stand-alone thriller - an ordinary woman flees the scene of a murder, and realizes it is not just the law hunting her. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 9780061576614.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder dot).
Book ID: 62169More details Price: $25.00 -
EVERY TIME A RAINBOW DIES.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85712More details Price: $17.50 -
23 SHADES OF BLACK.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
East Setauket, NY: TIP/The Imaginary Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - An unusual first mystery, featuring a New York street smart cop who is originally from Ecuador - Filomena Buscarsela. Nominee for the Edgar. SIGNED on the title page. 270 pp. Cover illustration by Angela Bocage. ISBN: 0-965681416.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58075More details Price: $18.00 -
THE GLASS FACTORY.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, 2000. SIGNED first edition - Mystery, featuring a New York street smart investigator, and former cop who is originally from Ecuador - Filomena Buscarsela - and is now a single parent trying to raise her 3 year old daughter in a city full of toxins. SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp.
Condition: Fine in pale green printed wrappers.
Book ID: 60867More details Price: $28.50 -
THE GLASS FACTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring a New York street smart investigator, and former cop who is originally from Ecuador - Filomena Buscarsela - and is now a single parent trying to raise her 3 year old daughter in a city full of toxins. SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-525-945458.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62077More details Price: $30.00 -
SOFT MONEY: A Filomena Buscarsela Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Filomena Buscarsela, a New York street smart investigator, and former cop, originally from Ecuador, who has traded in her uniform for single motherhood. SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-525-945458.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77275More details Price: $30.00 -
MURDER AT LA MARIMBA: A South Bronx Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book (Carson Wolfe is a pseudonym for a NYC criminal lawyer). Combines courtroom drama with a witty Puerto Rican detecting couple - Maria and Carolito are the Nick and Nora Charles of the South Bronx. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-312-552858.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 53839More details Price: $17.50 -
THE WEB AND THE ROCK.
Edition: First printing (stated first edition with E-O code)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first of two posthumous novels by Wolfe, delivered to his publisher shortly before his death - the story of a writer in New York City. In his prefatory note, Wolfe calls it a novel "about one man's discovery of life and the world. . . being young, and in love, and in the city are only part of the whole adventure of apprenticeship and discovery." 695 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in dark blue cloth (toning to the pages, name and annotation "from the library of Edgar (Jim) Wolfe" on front endpapers, shelfwear to bottom edges of boards) in a fair dust jacket (dampstaining at rear fold with bleeding from blue cloth, price-clipped, rubbing and wear to all edges and folds, tape at top of dj spine).
Book ID: 84351More details Price: $60.00 -
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
