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N A HOUSE OF LIES.
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel in this award-winning series set in Edinburgh, Scotland, featuring former DI John Rebus (now retired) and Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke. Reviewers called this series "brutal but beautifully written" and Rankin a "master of the moody modern police procedural." 372 pp. ISBN: 978-1409176886.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages
Book ID: 86593More details Price: $18.50 -
THE BEAT GOES ON.
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The complete Rebus short stories - 29 stories which follow Rebus from his early days as a young policeman to his retirement, including two stories written especially for this collection - 'The Passenger' and 'A Three Pint Problem.' Afterword of Rankin on Rebus. SIGNED on the title page. 451 pp. ISBN: 978-1409176886.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread, but with a remainder dot)
Book ID: 87296More details Price: $35.00 -
EVEN DOGS IN THE WILD.
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rebus is back! He comes out of retirement to help DI Siobhan Clarke with her investigation into the death of a senior government prosecutor. 345 pp. ISBN: 978-1409159360.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87645More details Price: $24.50 -
KNOTS AND CROSSES.
Edition: First thus.
New York: St Martin's, (1995). SIGNED - A reissue of the first Rebus mystery, set in Glasgow and issued as a paperback original. A title in the Dead Letter Mystery series. SIGNED by Rankin on the title page with his signatue knots and crosses doodle and uncommon thus. 228 pp. plus 2 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 0-75280-9423.
Condition: Very good minus (light creasing to spine and diagonal crease on front cover, usual toning to pages.)
Book ID: 88327More details Price: $35.00 -
RATHER BE THE DEVIL.
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - A John Rebus thriller set in Edinburgh. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1409159407.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 88911More details Price: $18.50 -
A TRUST BETRAYED: First Chapter of Margaret Kerr of Perth.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first in a series of mysteries set in the late 13th century, in Scotland during the time of Robert Bruce and Braveheart. In April, 1297, Margeret's husband has been missing since the past November, and when a young cousin, who had pledged to find him is found brutally murdered and mutilated, Margaret sets out herself. 255 pp. plus a list for futher reading. ISBN: 0-892967080.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some toning to pages)
Book ID: 85096More details Price: $17.50 -
REEL OF DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
London: Geoffrey Bles, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Chief Inspector Wace and Sergeant George Crow - Wace resents being sent to Scotland to investigate the bizarre circumstances surrounding the death of a notorious fence. 217 pp. Striking dust jacket art by C.W. Bacon. ISBN: 0-713802715.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (very slight sunning to the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 68232More details Price: $60.00 -
THE UNCOMMON APPEAL OF CLOUDS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Isabal Dalhousie, Edinburgh philosopher and amateur sleuth. 259 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-0307907332.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.(as new, but with a remainder dot)
Book ID: 62132More details Price: $15.00 -
THE DEATH PIT.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual toning to the pages, promotional wraparound band still present) .
Book ID: 81835More details Price: $30.00 -
RETURN OF THE STRANGER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A sweeping family saga of passion and skulduggery, set in Victorian England and Scotland.' 376 pp. ISBN: 0-312-14038X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53323More details Price: $16.50 -
SWING HAMMER SWING!
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book (published after 30 years, when Torrington was 58), winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year award in Great Britain. First hardcover edition (published in paper only in the UK.) Set in Glasgow during a single week in the 60's, this is the story of a writer with no job and still unpublished. ISBN: 0-15-1874271.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy)
Book ID: 4748More details Price: $24.00 -
LORDS OF MISRULE: The First of a Trilogy of Novels on the Rise of the House of Stewart.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1976) dj. SIGNED (on a bookplate) hardcover first edition - A novel set in 14th century Scotland, focusing on the relationships between the Douglases and the Stewarts, by an author who was well-known as a writer of serious historical fiction with his later novels "almost entirely composed around the historical record. These novels [which] gained a wide readership while providing a basic grounding in Scottish history to their readers." SIGNED with the words "with good wishes" on a bookplate on the front endpaper. 415 pp. Wraparound dust jacket by Biro. ISBN: 0-340201789.
Condition: Near fine in blue boards with silver lettering on spine in a very good dust jacket (1976 date on front endpaper, dj is price-clipped, sunning to spine) but overall a tight copy of a book which is quite uncommon signed.
Book ID: 86926More details Price: $50.00 -
THE GRIPPING BEAST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tale of a American women who travels to Orkney Islands, Scotland and finds herself in the midst of an adventure that involves witchcraft ,murder and danger. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-312-272545.
Condition: Fine in a fine plastic dust jacket.
Book ID: 59491More details Price: $16.50 -
THE HORNET'S NEST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "When Ronald and Lauchlin McLeod decided to wage a private war against the British who were occupying their beloved Isle of Skye in Scotland in 1773 they didn't think they would be taken seriously - or at least so seriously that their parents would pack them off to America to keep them being hanged! . . . A spirited and humourous adventure set against the background of the emerging American Revolution. 246 pp. Wraparound cover and dust jacket art by Michael Lowenbein.
Condition: Fine in a good dust jacket. (price-clipped, overall edgewear, slit to dj along side of the spine, now protected by an archival cover.) Uncommon in this condition.
Book ID: 56307More details Price: $75.00 -
BETSY BAIRD'S GOLDEN YEAR, #3.
Edition: First edition.
Boston: Little Brown, (1909). Hardcover first edition - Betsy is eighteen now, and out of school and trying to succeed as an interior decorator, to help her father with the mortgage payments. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and 3 glossy inserted plates by Ethel Pennewill Brown. The third and final volume in this uncommon series. 304 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only (some rubbing to the covers and overall edgewear, both hinges cracking, but contents are clean, and binding is still sturdy.)
Book ID: 66289More details Price: $50.00
