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THE GHOST OCEAN.
Edition: First printing.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of modern-day crime and violence set in the border area between southwestern New Mexico and Northern Mexico. Foreword by Max Evans. vii, 280 pp. ISBN: 0-826331947.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63591More details Price: $18.50 -
THE LIZARD KING: The True Crimes and Passions of the World's Greatest Reptile Smugglers.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Twelve / Grand Central Publishing, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, an in-depth investigation into the big business of reptile smuggling. "An intense and highly readable investigation into this unique black market's surprising depths. Besides the reptiles themselves, this focuses on two main protagonists: Michael Van Nostrand, a notorious dealer; and Chip Bepler, the Fish and Wildlife Service agent whose single-minded aim was to bring the former to justice." Van Nostrand, owner of Strictly Reptiles, in Hollywood, Florida, imports as many as 300,000 iguanas each year (over half the total of America's most popular imported reptile), as well as hundreds of thousands of snakes, lizards, frogs, spiders, and scorpions. 241 pp. ISBN: 978-0446580953.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89443More details Price: $17.50 -
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: Dennis McMillan, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - California author's second novel, one day - the last day - in the life of a crooked DEA agent in Tijuana, Mexico, who has been making side money as a coyote, smuggling people across the border with the assistance of a crooked judicale. SIGNED on the half title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-939767309.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease on flap of dj)
Book ID: 64784More details Price: $30.00 -
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: Dennis McMillan, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - California author's second novel, one day - the last day - in the life of a crooked DEA agent in Tijuana, Mexico, who has been making side money as a coyote, smuggling people across the border with the assistance of a crooked judicale. SIGNED by three contributors, and uncommon thus - on the half title page by Harrington and dated in the year of publication. Also SIGNED on the copyright page by both McMillan the publisher and Scott Musgrove, the illustrator. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-939767309.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81692More details Price: $60.00 -
THE LOTHIAN RUN.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, (1970) dj. Hardcover - Young adult novel set in 1736 Scotland, where Sandy Maxwell, a lawyer's clerk in Edinburgh, finds himself up against far more than the smugglers of the Lothian Route. 212 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in blue cloth in a very good dustjacket with some edgewear, tear at top of dj spine).
Book ID: 86033More details Price: $15.00 -
JIM DAVIS.
Edition: Reprint.
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company. (1926.). Hardcover - Classic and adventure-filled story of a boy who accidentally became a member of a gang of smugglers. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece and numerous black and white drawings by Frances Brundage. 246 pp.
Condition: Good overall in blue boards with black lettering, no dust jacket (gift inscription dated 1938.)
Book ID: 44666More details Price: $12.50 -
JIM DAVIS.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, nd (ca 1930) dj. Hardcover - Classic and adventure-filled story of a boy who accidentally became a member of a gang of smugglers. 244 pp. Green and white illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Near fine in green boards with black lettering, in a bright and very attractive vintage dust jacket.
Book ID: 69165More details Price: $21.00 -
OPERATION NARCISSUS (EYES ONLY)
Edition: First edition.
New York & Los Angeles: Pandick Press, Inc., (1978) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel involving gold smuggling during World War II by a newspaper man and retired Air Force colonel, who was, among other things, an advance man for General Eisenhower, the first newspaperman to become a paratrooper, and a press agent featured twice in Ripley's Believe-it-ot-Not. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1983. 429 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in olive green cloth (corners slightly bumped) in a very good dustjacket. (minor edgewear, slit on spine of dj)
Book ID: 85445More details Price: $25.00 -
SINGAPORE TRANSFER: A Jeffrey Dean Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third of his novels featuring Los Angeles rare bookseller Jeffrey Dean, who has accepted a ghostwriting assignment for the prime minister of Singapore - but finds himself embroiled in an investigation into the illegal importation of jade to the US. INSCRIBED on the title page with the words "Now that you've been my friend for the bad times, stick around please for the good times," Robert Crais wrote a moving obiturary for his friend Wayne in which he commented that he wrote this book, his last one, while he was almost completely disabled and in constant pain. The good times never did come - but he never gave up. 151 pp. ISBN: 0-670833692.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87400More details Price: $40.00