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SARATOGA SNAPPER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring ex-cop turned private eye, Charlie Bradshaw - set in this famous New York race track town. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted book collector Larry Owens with the comment "May all your obsessions be as pleasant." In addition to writing these rather offbeat mysteries, Dobyns is a novelist and award-winning poet. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-670810592.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81039More details Price: $40.00 -
SARATOGA LONGSHOT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first in a series of mysteries featuring Saratoga police sergeant Charlie Bradshaw - set in this famous New York race track town. In addition to writing these rather offbeat mysteries, Dobyns is a novelist and award-winning poet. 239 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-689-107072.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73924More details Price: $35.00 -
SARATOGA HEADHUNTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring ex-cop turned private eye, Charlie Bradshaw - set in this famous New York race track town. In addition to writing these rather offbeat mysteries, Dobyns is a novelist and award-winning poet. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-670804886.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36842More details Price: $18.00 -
RIVER ROAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - A suspenseful thriller by this award winning writer, set in upstate New York in the middle of winter. A college professor is returning home from a party, after learning she has been denied tenure and after having more than a few drinks. On the way she hits a deer - but the deer is nowhere to be seen - and the next day one of her students is found dead at the same spot, a victim of a hit-and-run, and suspicion falls on the professor. 278 pp. ISBN: 978-1501109904.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 70439More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SNOWMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1965.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, which takes place in 1943 during World War II "in a village which could hardly be further removed from [the war]. Joseph's Landing, New York, knows no bombings, no evacuations, no shortages; even its few gold stars hang in the windows of late-comers to the town." Removed that is, until the town's only wounded veteran returns and a young Jewish doctor arrives to take the place of the former doctor whose "malignant genius survives in the lives of the townspeople." 186 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a good dustjacket (a clean, tight book, with some rubbing and edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 33533More details Price: $35.00 -
THROUGH A GOLD EAGLE: A Glynis Tryon Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth in the highly praised Seneca Falls Historical Mysteries series, set in Seneca Falls in 1859 with the country divided over the issue of slavery. Historical notes. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-425-153185.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 37844More details Price: $18.00 -
ADELE DORING OF THE SUNNYSIDE CLUB, Adele Doring Series #1.
Edition: Early printing.
Boston: Lothrup, Lee & Shepherd, (c 1919). Hardcover first edition - First book in this series about the girls of the Sunnyside Club, set in upstate New York (where the author was born.) Illustrated by Florence Liley Young with a color frontispiece and three color internals. 374 pp. Lists all 5 titles in this series at beginning of book. Plain endpapers.
Condition: Very good in illustrated red boards with black lettering.
Book ID: 74728More details Price: $18.00 -
THE FACE-CHANGERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Jane Whitfield novel by this Edgar-award winning writer. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-679-453032.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47611More details Price: $27.50 -
THE FACE-CHANGERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Jane Whitfield novel by this Edgar-award winning writer. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-679-453032.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 60013More details Price: $25.00 -
THE FACE-CHANGERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Jane Whitfield novel by this Edgar-award winning writer. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-679-453032.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77296More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SALT POINT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, set in Poughkeepsie, New York, and which focuses on four members of "what might be called the sexually ambivalent generation." 210 pp. ISBN: 0-525-248323.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (bottom of spine bumped, remainder line.)
Book ID: 48057More details Price: $15.00 -
THE DOG HERMIT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by this Edgar award winning writer. Set in upstate New York, in the midst of a harsh winter, this is a chilling story of murder and of the kidnapping of a nine year old boy. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-89296-5037.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (wear to dj at upper corners of folds, dj now in an archival protector.)
Book ID: 30254More details Price: $25.00 -
THE CATCH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this former undercover narcotics officer, the story of a couple who have been smuggling marijuana for years, but who have now put down roots in upstate New York and want to go straight - after one last trip, which goes very wrong. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-385-485166.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (some crinkling to edges of pages, overall light wear, but still tight and clean.)
Book ID: 48851More details Price: $12.00
