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THE JANUARY CORPSE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery - introduces disbarred Philadephia attorney and private investigator Dave Garrett - suspenseful, and with a surprising ending. SIGNED on the title page. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32062.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82770More details Price: $50.00 -
THE JANUARY CORPSE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery - introduces disbarred Philadephia attorney and private investigator Dave Garrett - suspenseful, and with a surprising ending. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32062.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58969More details Price: $35.00 -
BURNING MARCH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring disbarred Philadephia attorney and private investigator Dave Garrett. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-525-937188.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 58926More details Price: $16.50 -
APPOINTMENT IN MAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring disbarred Philadephia attorney and private investigator Dave Garrett. SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32798.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52167More details Price: $25.00 -
THE JANUARY CORPSE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery - introduces disbarred Philadephia attorney and private investigator Dave Garrett - suspenseful, and with a surprising ending. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32062.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual flaws, including some spine slant, but a good reading copy of a really good mystery, and in a near fine dustjacket (value is in dj.)
Book ID: 6981More details Price: $16.50 -
THE LAST GAMBIT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A chess mystery - "a case for Jacob Horowitz" set at a tournament in Philadelphia. 169 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Bob Scott. ISBN: 0-312-054599.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (tiny remainder dot - if that is what it is - on the bottom edge.)
Book ID: 54321More details Price: $14.50 -
BROTHERLY LOVE
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Random House, (1991.) dj. Hardcover - Author's fourth novel, set in the grim underworld of the mobs in Philadelphia. SIGNED on the title page. A NY Times Book Review notable book of 1991. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-394-585739.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47102More details Price: $17.50 -
BROTHERLY LOVE
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Random House, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's fourth novel, set in the grim underworld of the mobs in Philadelphia. A NY Times Book Review notable book of 1991. SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-394-585739.
Condition: Near fine in a good dustjacket (closed tears to the dj, other light edgewear)
Book ID: 50106More details Price: $22.50 -
FIGHTING CHANCE: A Gregor Demarkian Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2014). First edition - An investigation becomes very personal for Demarkian, the retired chief of the FBI's Behavorial Sciences Unit, when his best friend on Cavanaugh Street, the parish priest of the local Armenian-Orthodox church, is arrested for murder. 311 pp
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some light toning to the pages).
Book ID: 64799More details Price: $20.00 -
THE DOCTOR DIGS A GRAVE
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (1998.). First edition - The author's first mystery, winner of the St. Martin's/Malice Domestic Contest for Best First Traditional Mystery and the Agatha award. Introduces cardiologist and humitarian, Dr. Andrew Fenimore. "When the somewhat unfashionable physician Andrew Fenimore spots a teenage boy trying unsuccessfully to bury his beloved cat in Philadelphia's posh Society Hill, he befriends the lonely youth and leads him to what is rumored to be an ancient Indian burial ground of the Lenape Indians" - and where they stumble upon the recently buried body of a woman. 258 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84009More details Price: $20.00 -
THE DOCTOR DIGS A GRAVE
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, winner of the St. Martin's/Malice Domestic Contest for Best First Traditional Mystery and the Agatha award. Introduces cardiologist and humitarian, Dr. Andrew Fenimore. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-312-185685.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (one corner damaged.)
Book ID: 33724More details Price: $14.50 -
THE DOCTOR DIGS A GRAVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of the Malice Domestic Award. "When the somewhat unfashionable physician Andrew Fenimore spots a teenage boy trying unsuccessfully to bury his beloved cat in Philadelphia's posh Society Hill, he befriends the lonely youth and leads him to what is rumored to be an ancient Indian burial ground of the Lenape Indians" - and where they stumble upon the recently buried body of a woman. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-312185685.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78674More details Price: $18.50 -
PURE SUNSHINE,
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Push / Scholastic, (2002). First edition - The author's first novel, issued as a trade paperback original for young adults. "Brendon - good student, eccentric dresser, shy around girls - trips regularly with his friends Kevin and Will. The story covers 48 hours of their lives as they wander the streets of Philadelphia, after scoring some tabs of 'pure sunshine' (a sheet of California Acid [with] little yellow suns illustrated on each tab). 171 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88729More details Price: $14.50 -
EVERY SECRET THING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing new homicide detective Nancy Porter, set in Baltimore, Maryland - Lippman's first stand-alone novel. Winner of the Anthony Award. SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. Cover praise from George Pelecanos and Harlan Coben. ISBN: 0-06-0506679.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (light pink and green lines on bottom edge)
Book ID: 57508More details Price: $28.50 -
EVERY SECRET THING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing new homicide detective Nancy Porter, set in Baltimore, Maryland - Lippman's first stand-alone novel. Winner of the Anthony Award. SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. Cover praise from George Pelecanos and Harlan Coben. ISBN: 0-06-0506679.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 77205More details Price: $35.00 -
THIRD AND INDIANA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, described as 'phenomenally accomplished, compelling and moving.' Set in Philadelphia's Badlands where drug gangs rule the street, this is the story of a mother's search for her runaway son, who at 14 is already an accomplished drug dealer himself, holding down one of the toughest corners in the area. Boldly SIGNED on the title page.Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-670-856762.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50838More details Price: $30.00 -
THIRD AND INDIANA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, described as 'phenomenally accomplished, compelling and moving.' Set in Philadelphia's Badlands where drug gangs rule the street, this is the story of a mother's search for her runaway son, who at 14 is already an accomplished drug dealer himself, holding down one of the toughest corners in the area. Boldly SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-670-856762.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44952More details Price: $35.00 -
THIRD AND INDIANA.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Viking, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, described as 'phenomenally accomplished, compelling and moving.' Set in Philadelphia's Badlands where drug gangs rule the street, this is the story of a mother's search for her runaway son, who at 14 is already an accomplished drug dealer himself, holding down one of the toughest corners in the area. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (corner slightly bumped).
Book ID: 30657More details Price: $30.00 -
PEGGY OWEN AND LIBERTY.
Edition: First edition.
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1912. Hardcover first edition - The fourth and final book in Madison's Peggy Owen series, the story of a young Quaker girl in Philadelphia and its environs during the American Revolution. Because of her religion, Peggy is at first neutral about the War for Independence, but gradually becomes more and more involved in the fight for freedom. This book focuses on the unrest after the surrender of Cornwallis. Illustrated with a frontispiece with tissue guard and six glossy inserted plates by H. J. Peck. A rather uncommon interesting historical novel, especially in the first edition and in this condition. 456 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated blue cloth covers (slight spine slant).
Book ID: 83946More details Price: $45.00 -
BLUES DANCING.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (1999.). First edition - African American author's third novel, the story of a young woman fighting her addiction to heroine and her attraction to the man who introduced her to the drug when they were both college students. 307pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (soiling to last blank page.)
Book ID: 50323More details Price: $13.50 -
TEMPEST RISING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's second novel, set in Philadelphia in 1965, the story of three adolescent girls who find themselves catapulted from a financially secure and close family into foster care. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-688-149944.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder mark)
Book ID: 65458More details Price: $15.00 -
TUMBLING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel, set in Philadelphia in the 1940's and 1950's. Cover praise from Nikki Giovanni and Richard Perry. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-688-14487x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34371More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ROSARY GIRLS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ballantine, (2005.). First edition - A story of a serial killer stalking young Catholic girls - set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the first book in a new series featuring police detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano. Hailed by the publisher as a new James Patterson, this is a fast and gripping read. Publisher's letter bound in. 472 pp.
Condition: Fine (a new copy)
Book ID: 31191More details Price: $16.00 -
THE BLUEST BLOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by author on title page, and dated in the year of publication. An Amanda Pepper mystery, set in Philadelphia. ISBN: 0-345-403266.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 24754More details Price: $35.00 -
BACKFIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel of suspense featuring Philadelphia cop Patrick Paige. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-525-934839.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread, but with a remainder line).
Book ID: 37975More details Price: $16.50 -
SKELETONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring Philadelphia police detective Patrick Paige, who is on the trail of a psychopathic serial killer. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-525-248749.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83610More details Price: $19.50 -
DEVIL'S CORNER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Legal thriller, featurning new assistant US attorney Vicki Allegretti, by this Edgar award winning author who was herself an attorney in Philadelphia. SIGNED on the title page. 393 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0742887.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 61750More details Price: $30.00 -
DEAD RINGER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Legal thriller featuring the unconventional and outspoken Philadelphia lawyer Bennie Rosato. Janet Evanovich describes Scottoline's books as follows: 'Her stories are filled with teeth-gnashing suspense, her characters are compelling, and her humor cuts to the heart of the issue with laserlike accuracy.' 326 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0514930.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63963More details Price: $18.00 -
BETRAYED: A Rosato and Associates Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the front endpaper. Legal thriller which returns to the Philadelphia all-women legal firm of Rosato and Associates, featuring maverick attorney Judy Carrier. 340 pp. ISBN: 978-1250066961.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67865More details Price: $30.00 -
DIRTY BLONDE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Legal thriller set in Philadelphia and featuring a new judge on the federal bench - a young woman only in her thirties. Author's note. 358 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0514930.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69873More details Price: $16.50