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THE OLD MAN.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Grove Atlantic, (2018). Thriller introducing Dan Chase - "a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers donÕt have multiple driverÕs licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run." While this has been described as a stand-alone novel, I would like to see Chase return. The excellent television series was based on this novel. 337 pp. plus an excerpt from "The Bomb Maker.". ISBN: 978-0802127532.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 91343More details Price: $11.50 -
ANY OTHER NAME: A Longmire Mystery
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire series, basis for the A&E series Longmire. 317 pp. ISBN: 978-0670026463.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (upper corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 91319More details Price: $21.50 -
MR MONK ON THE COUCH.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Obsidian / New American Library - NAL, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Novel based on the television series created by Andy Breckman and featuring Adrian Monk, "a brilliant investigator who always knows when something is out of place. SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 978-0451233868.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90682More details Price: $18.50 -
Walt Disney's ZORRO.
Edition: Authorized TV Edition
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., (1958). Hardcover - Adapted from the Walt Disney Television series "Zorro", featuring the famous character created by Johnston McCulley. Illustrated with duotone drawings by Henry Luhrs. Whitman #1535. Wraparound illustrated cover by Bill Edwards. 282 pp plus 2 pp ads.
Condition: Very good in illustrated boards - usual toning to the pages, corners slightly bumped, but in better condition than these rather fragile books are usually found.
Book ID: 90640More details Price: $17.50 -
THE CROW TRAP.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017) dj. Hardcover - Mystery set in the North Pennines, introducing detective Vera Stanhope. Basis for the BBC series "Vera." 535 pp. ISBN: 978-1250122735.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (short tear at base of dj spine) . Uncommon in the hardcover edition
Book ID: 89941More details Price: $50.00 -
THE LEFTOVERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - One reviewer commented that "Perrotta is a master at exposing the quiet desperation behind Americas suburban sheen. In this novel he explores what would happen if The Rapture actually took place and millions of people just disappeared from the earth. How would normal people respond? . . A novel that leaves the reader pondering the story long after its over. In vivid and occasionally satiric prose, he takes a bizarre and abnormal event - the Rapture - and imagines how normal people would deal with being left behind." A NY Times and Washington Post Notable Book for 2011, one of NPRs 10 Best Novels of 2011. Basis for the HBO series of the same name. 355 pp. ISBN: 978-0312358341.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 89640More details Price: $21.50 -
MILLENNIUM. THE FRENCHMAN.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Harper Prism, (1997). First edition - The first novelization based on this television series with characters by Chris Carter, creator of the X-Files. "This is the way the world ends. The signs are everywhere. A stripper's mutilated corpse. The living dead interred in homemade coffins beside a freezing river. Darkness visible is stalking Seattle's sexual underground, and the police can't stop it." Includes an excerpt from the second book in the series, Gehenna. 248 pp. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-061058009.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 89587More details Price: $12.50 -
THE COLUMBO COLLECTION.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Norfolk , Virginia: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2010. SIGNED first edition - The author's first collection of short stories featuring Colombo. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus.. Cover drawing of Peter Falk as Columbo by Al Hirschfeld. 259 pp plus colophon. Colophon notes that the first edition of this title was published in 2 formats - as a trade softcover and as one of 325 signed numbered cloth bound copies. Promotional card laid in. ISBN: 978-1932009941.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89454More details Price: $75.00 -
LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Penguin, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's powerful second novel, set in the seemingly idyllic community of Shaker Heights, Ohio, and the basis for the excellent television series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0735224292.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89085More details Price: $25.00 -
DRY BONES: A Longmire Mystery
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire series, basis for the A&E series Longmire. SIGNED on the title page. 317 pp. ISBN: 978-0525426936.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88997More details Price: $31.50 -
DEPTH OF WINTER.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2018.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery in the award winning series featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire, basis of the popular Netflix series. When Longmire's daughter is kidnapped by the head of a of vicious Mexican drug cartel, he heads into the Mexican desert armed only with his Colt 4, a father's intuition and his keen instinct. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0525522478.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88922More details Price: $17.50 -
THE SEAGULL
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth novel in this series featuring Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope. Basis for the BBC series "Vera." 387 pp. ISBN: 978-1250204509.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87680More details Price: $50.00 -
THE STRANGER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The stranger appears out of nowhere. . .His identity is unknown, his motives are unclear, his information is undeniable. Then he whispers a few words in your ear and disappears, leaving you picking up the pieces of your shattered world. " Basis of the 2020 Netflix series. 386 pp. ISBN: 978-0525953500.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to edges of textblock, pages)
Book ID: 87877More details Price: $19.50 -
THE MOTH CATCHER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The seventh novel in the Vera Stanhope series. SIGNED on the title page.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87646More details Price: $40.00 -
THE OLD MAN.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Grove Atlantic, (2018). SIGNED - Thriller introducing Dan Chase - "a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers donÕt have multiple driverÕs licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run." While this has been described as a stand-alone novel, I would like to see Chase return. SIGNED on the title page. Issued in conjunction with the excellent television series based on this novel. 337 pp. plus an excerpt from "The Bomb Maker.". ISBN: 978-0802127532.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87753More details Price: $24.50 -
TELLING TALES.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second in this series featuring Inspector Vera Stanhope. When it turns out that a young woman who had been convicted ten years earlier of murdering a teen-age girl was innocent - a discovery which came right after she committed suicide in prison - Vera is sent to the small town of Everts to find out what what wrong with the initial investigation. A second murder soon follows. Basis for the BBC series "Vera." . SIGNED on the title page. 410 pp. ISBN: 1405046473.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (usual toning to the page, light creasing to the upper corners of a few pages, price-clipped, minor edgewear to dj) Uncommon in the hardcover first edition and especially so signed.
Book ID: 87715More details Price: $225.00 -
THE WESTERN STAR: A Longmire Mystery
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Viking, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The thirteenth novel in the Longmire series, basis for the A&E series Longmire. The title refers to a Wyoming Sheriff's Association junket held on the excursion train known as the Western Star, which ran the length of Wyoming from Cheyenne to Evanston and back, which Walt attended as a new deputy, fresh from Vietnam. SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 978-0525426950.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87315More details Price: $24.50 -
DEPTH OF WINTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2018.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery in the award winning series featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire, basis of the popular A&E series. When Longmire's daughter is kidnapped by the head of a of vicious Mexican drug cartel, he heads into the Mexican desert armed only with his Colt 4, a father's intuition and his keen instinct. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0525522478.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 86303More details Price: $19.50 -
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Whitehead's sixth novel and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence - a book which "seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share." Basis for the innovative and powerful Amazon series of the same name. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542364.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine first issue dust jacket.
Book ID: 84484More details Price: $65.00 -
THE ADVENTURES OF DOCTOR WHO: Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks; Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen; Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster.
Edition: Original book club edition.
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, (1979) dj. Hardcover - First thus - an omnibus edition containing three stories about Dr. Who -Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks; Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen; Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster - originally published in paperback and inspired by the popular BBC series. New introduction for this edition by Harlan Ellison. 307 pp. Dust jacket art by Gary Viscupik.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (prev owner's name stamped on front endpaper)
Book ID: 83198More details Price: $19.50 -
LAND OF WOLVES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2019.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery in the award winning series featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire, basis of the A&E series. Longmire has returned to Wyoming. " When a shepherd is found dead, Longmire suspects it could be suicide. But the shepherd's connection to the Extepares, a powerful family of Basque ranchers with a history of violence, leads the sheriff into an intricate investigation of a possible murder." SIGNED on title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0525522508.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82259More details Price: $40.00 -
MOSES. A NARRATIVE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Stonehill Publishing Co., (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic narrative poem, by the author of "The Clockwork Orange," covering the history of Moses from bondage to Jordan, written - according to the foreword - as a preliminary to a collaborative screenplay for a television series on the life of Moses. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-88373043X.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (a bit of rubbing to the dj at the folds, slight toning to the spine of the dj).
Book ID: 81509More details Price: $21.50 -
DEAD RECKONING.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Gollancz, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sookie Stackhouse novel - a vampire detective story set in Louisiana. SIGNED on the title page. Basis of the HBO television series "True Blood." 325 pp. ISBN: 978-0575096523.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 80766More details Price: $30.00 -
QUEEN SUGAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pamela Dorman Books / Viking, (2014). First edition - The author's first novel, a story of complicated family relationships. When a young African American California woman unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in southern Louisiana, she sees this as a chance to start over. She moves there with her 11 year old daughter determined to succeed, despite a mountain of debt and no idea what she is really getting into. Book was very loosely adapted as the basis for the highly praised Ava DuVernay produced television series for the Oprah Winfrey Network. 372 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79466More details Price: $21.50 -
LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Penguin, (2017) dj. Hardcover - The author's powerful second novel, set in the seemingly idyllic community of Shaker Heights, Ohio, and the basis for the excellent television series. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0735224292.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79390More details Price: $16.50 -
AS THE CROW FLIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth mystery in the award winning series featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear. SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 978-0670023516.
Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket (remainder line, bottom edge of front cover bumped).
Book ID: 77913More details Price: $30.00 -
BREAK NO BONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Ninth mystery featuring featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, set in South Carolina where a fresh skeleton is found among the ancient bones of a Native American burying ground. The author is herself a forensic anthropologist for both the state of North Carolina and the province of Quebec - SIGNED on the title page, Recommended - an excellent series, better in my opinion, than the Patricia Cornwell books, and also better than the television series "Bones" which is very loosely based on this series. Author's note - 337 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-33492.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (light toning) .
Book ID: 77460More details Price: $30.00 -
MR MONK AND THE DIRTY COP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Obsidian / New American Library - NAL, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel based on the television series created by Andy Breckman. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 978-0451226983.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (small blacked out spot on front endpaper).
Book ID: 77247More details Price: $20.00 -
MILLENNIUM. THE FRENCHMAN.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Harper Prism, (1997). First edition - The first novelization based on this television series with characters by Chris Carter, creator of the X-Files. "This is the way the world ends. The signs are everywhere. A stripper's mutilated corpse. The living dead interred in homemade coffins beside a freezing river. Darkness visible is stalking Seattle's sexual underground, and the police can't stop it." Includes an excerpt from the second book in the series, Gehenna. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-061058009.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 74814More details Price: $10.00 -
MR MONK GOES TO GERMANY.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Obsidian / New American Library - NAL, (2008). SIGNED - Novel based on the television series created by Andy Breckman- a series featuring Adrian Monk, "a brilliant investigator who always knows when something is out of place. SIGNED on the title page. Includes an excerpt from Mr Monk Is Miserable. 275 pp. ISBN: 978-0451225634.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 74579More details Price: $10.00