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THE CLASSIC CAR KILLER.
Edition: First edition.
Martinez, CA: Offspring Press, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel set in Oakland, California, and featuring the unlikely interracial detective team of Hobart Lindsey, a mild-mannered insurance adjuster, and Marva Plum, a Berkely police officer, originally published as a paperback original. SIGNED and dated on the title page. Introduction by Donald E. Westlake. Author's note. 277 pp. Dust jacket art by Michael McLaughlin.
Condition: Fine in black binding with a wraparound illustration in silver of a couple standing by a classic Duesenberg Phaeton in a fine dustjacket, which repeats the same illustration in that is repeated in red, black and silver. A new copy.
Book ID: 45557More details Price: $45.00 -
THE CLASSIC CAR KILLER.
Edition: First edition.
Martinez, CA: Offspring Press, 1992. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel set in Oakland, California, and featuring the unlikely interracial detective team of Hobart Lindsey, a mild-mannered insurance adjuster, and Marva Plum, a Berkely police officer, originally published as a paperback original. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 277 pp. Cover art by Michael McLaughlin.
Condition: Fine in black binding with a wraparound illustration in silver of a couple standing by a classic Duesenberg Phaeton, no dust jacket. A new copy.
Book ID: 46384More details Price: $25.00 -
THE CLASSIC CAR KILLER.
Edition: First edition.
Martinez, CA: Offspring Press, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel set in Oakland, California, and featuring the unlikely interracial detective team of Hobart Lindsey, a mild-mannered insurance adjuster, and Marva Plum, a Berkely police officer, originally published as a paperback original. INSCRIBED ("For ___") and dated on the title page. Introduction by Donald E. Westlake. Author's note. 277 pp. Cover art by Michael McLaughlin.
Condition: Fine in black binding with a wraparound illustration in silver of a couple standing by a classic Duesenberg Phaeton in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49021More details Price: $40.00 -
THE CLASSIC CAR KILLER.
Edition: Limited signed first edition.
Martinez, CA: Offspring Press, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel set in Oakland, California, and featuring the unlikely interracial detective team of Hobart Lindsey, a mild-mannered insurance adjuster, and Marva Plum, a Berkely police officer, originally published as a paperback original. One of 300 copies, specially bound and SIGNED by Lupoff on the limitation page (but not numbered) with an author's note on the verso, accompanied by an invitation to the Annual Gala of the New California Smart Set, still in the original envelopes. Introduction by Donald E. Westlake. Author's note. 277 pp. Dust jacket art by Michael McLaughlin.
Condition: Fine in black binding with a wraparound illustration in silver of a couple standing by a classic Duesenberg Phaeton in a fine dustjacket, which repeats the same illustration in that is repeated in red, black and silver in a fine slipcase, with the invitation laid in.
Book ID: 79457More details Price: $85.00 -
BUFFALO NICKEL: A MEMOIR.
Edition: First printing.
Houston, TX:' Arte Publico Press, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This coming of age account of a young man at first following his older brother into a life of crime and drug use, and then struggling to save himself (and failing to save his brother) is an "autobiography that reads like a well-crafted novel in its recording of the excessive human costs of drug addication.". SIGNED and dated on the title page. 347 pp. ISBN: 155885049X.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (creasing to front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 52248More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BEST BAD THING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1936 in East Oakland, California, this is the second book about Rinko and her family (the first was the award-winning "A Jar of Dreams.") When Rinko is asked to spend the last month of summer helping Mrs. Hata, a recently widowed friend of her mother's, she does not want to go - but while there, she has a series of 'good' and 'bad' things happen and discovers people are not always what they seem., and the real strength of Mrs Hata. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-689502907.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket (spine label)
Book ID: 76352More details Price: $12.50
