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AN UNTHYMELY DEATH and Other Garden Mysteries.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Berkley, (2003). First edition - "A Treasury of Stories, Herbal Lore, Recipes and Crafts." Ten stories, including four written especially for this book, set in the small Texas town of Pecan Springs, featuring lawyer turned herbalist, China Bayles. SIGNED on the title page. Includes introductory notes, and boxed recipes, gardening tips and herbal lore scattered throughout. xiii, 254 pp. ISBN: 0-425190021.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87306More details Price: $21.50 -
CHILE DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A China Bayles mystery, set in the small Texas town of Pecan Springs. Includes several recipes for chili. INSCRIBED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-425-165396.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83002More details Price: $30.00 -
DEAD MAN'S BONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A China Bayles herbal mystery, set in the small Texas town of Pecan Springs. Recipes. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-425-200175.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51005More details Price: $16.00 -
MISTLETOE MAN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Berkley, (2000.) dj. Hardcover - A China Bayles herbal mystery, set in the small Texas town of Pecan Springs. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-425-176738.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket.(edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 33486More details Price: $12.50 -
CHILE DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A China Bayles mystery, set in the small Texas town of Pecan Springs. Includes several recipes for chili. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-425-165396.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33141More details Price: $17.50 -
NIGHTSHADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2007.). dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in the small town of Pecan Springs, Texas, featuring former attorney and now herbalist, China Bayles, and her new husband, former Houston homicide detective and now private investigator Mike McQuaid. Notes on herbs, reading list and recipes. 289 pp. ISBN: 9780425219560.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55849More details Price: $18.00 -
BLEEDING HEARTS.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
New York: Berkley, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A China Bayles herbal mystery, set in the small Texas town of Pecan Springs. Recipes.One of 500 copies, SIGNED and numbered on a special preliminary page. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-425-207994.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 78148More details Price: $30.00 -
NIGHTSHADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A China Bayles herbal mystery, set in the small Texas town of Pecan Springs. Recipes. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-425-219560.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48282More details Price: $16.00 -
LOVE LIES BLEEDING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (1997.). dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th mystery set in the small town of Pecan Springs, Texas, featuring former attorney and now herbalist, China Bayles. INSCRIBED on the title page. References and resources. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-425-159698.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 77916More details Price: $30.00 -
THYME OF DEATH
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery novel, introducing former attorney and now herbalist, China Bayles. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-684195224.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83003More details Price: $40.00 -
HAPPY POLICEMAN.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78598More details Price: $18.50 -
GROWING UP SIMPLE: An Irreverent Look at Kids in the 1950's.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format) Revised edition.
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Although described as 'a novel' the author admits that these interconnected stories of a boyhood in Waco and Austin, Texas in the 1950's are partly true. Foreword by Liz Carpenter. Sticker on front cover noting it was the winner of the 2003 Independent BookPublishers Award. SIGNED on the half title page by the author.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) Promotional postcard laid in.
Book ID: 29614More details Price: $20.00 -
GROWING UP SIMPLE: An Irreverent Look at Kids in the 1950's.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format) Revised edition.
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Although described as 'a novel' the author admits that these interconnected stories of a boyhood in Waco and Austin, Texas in the 1950's are partly true. Foreword by Liz Carpenter. Sticker on front cover noting it was the winner of the 2003 Independent BookPublishers Award.
Condition: INSCRIBED on the half title page by the author. Fine (a new copy) Promotional postcard laid in.
Book ID: 30013More details Price: $22.00 -
TRACK OF THE CAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Murder in the Guadalupe mountains of West Texas. The author's second book and her first mystery, introducing park ranger Anna Pigeon. (Barr was a National Parks ranger herself at the time she wrote this book.) INSCRIBED on the title page. Winner of the Anthony and Agatha awards for best first mystery. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-380-721643.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 74405More details Price: $85.00 -
TRACK OF THE CAT.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Avon, (1994.). Murder in the Guadalupe mountains of West Texas. The author's second book and her first mystery, introducing park ranger Anna Pigeon. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-380-721643.
Condition: Very good+ (no creases)
Book ID: 38519More details Price: $8.50 -
TRACK OF THE CAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Murder in the Guadalupe mountains of West Texas. The author's second book and her first mystery, introducing park ranger Anna Pigeon. (Barr was a National Parks ranger herself at the time she wrote this book.) SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Anthony and Agatha awards for best first mystery. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-380-721643.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83027More details Price: $85.00 -
DEAD DOG BLUES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery - a blend of suspense, humor and some very strange characters. "Nothing ever happens in Pharaoh, Texas.... Drunks and missing auto parts headline the local crime wave until a barking dead dog shows up in millionaire Max Coomer's backyard. Then Coomer himself is discovered frosty cold and very dead. . That's just the beginning of the mayhem that erupts in a sleepy Texas town - and the start of temporary constable Jack Track's nightmarish pursuit of a maniac who doesn't like anyone in Pharaoh, Texas." SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-312109636.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76141More details Price: $28.50 -
TART WITH A SILKEN FINISH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second Beaumont financial mystery, set in Texas. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-312018320.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 39398More details Price: $12.50 -
HANGMAN'S LEGACY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A letter discovered in the boot of a stranger hanging from a tree on the isolated Barclay Ranch on the Rio Grande, leads foreman Hobart Shedd, Tip Giles, and the other cowboys on a quest for stolen bank loot. 155 pp. ISBN: 0-802741177.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (initials on front endpaper).
Book ID: 83584More details Price: $16.50 -
DEVILS UNTO DUST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83847More details Price: $30.00 -
WHO'S BURNING PALOMA BLANCA? A John & Mary Bolt Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
Waterville, Maine: Five Star Publishing, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Arson investigator John Bolt is sent to a small town in Texas which has been plagued with repeated fires. SIGNED on the title page. 245 pp. ISBN: 1-594142637.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75168More details Price: $25.00 -
IN THE SHADOW OF OUR HOUSE: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a "collection of nine thematically linked stories set in Austin, Texas, people live on the cusp of the past and present. . [His characters] face the results of the irrevocable choices they've made, accept their losses and attempt to forge something meaningful out of what remains." SIGNED on the half title page. 159 pp. ISBN: 0-87074464X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 82416More details Price: $30.00 -
FADE THE HEAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, a legal thriller. The son of the newly elected District Attorney in San Antonio, Texas, is accused of rape. SIGNED by author. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-671702602.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 67151More details Price: $25.00 -
FADE THE HEAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised legal thriller set in San Antonio,Texas (the author is a former district attorney in San Antonio.) E d g a r n o m i n e e . SIGNED on the title page. 342 pp. ISBN: 0 - 6 7 1 - 7 0 2 6 0 2.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 47034More details Price: $25.00 -
SHADES OF JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a suspense story featuring Gwen Parrish, the first black female prosecutor in Harris County, Texas. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-525-944249.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 51800More details Price: $18.00 -
RAIN GODS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring Sheriff Hack Holland and Deputy Sheriff Pam Tibbs set in a small Texas town near the Mexican border. 434 pp. ISBN: 978-1439128244.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66539More details Price: $16.50 -
HIGH ISLAND BLUES.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring dedicated bird-watcher George Palmer-Jones, set in a small town on the upper Gulf coast of Texas where the Houston Audubon Society has two sanctuaries which attract bird lovers from around the world. SIGNED on the title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-333660110.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87649More details Price: $200.00 -
THE GIRLS OF SILVER SPUR RANCH.
Edition: Reprint.
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, n,d,[c 1913] dj. Hardcover - The struggles of three sisters and their mother on a small ranch in Texas, while their father is away fighting in the Spanish American war. Grace MacGowan Cooke lived, with her sister at Upton Sinclair's Helicon Home Colony and after it burned down in 1907. they moved to the artists' colony at Carmel-by-the-Sea in California (joining such writers as Mary Austin, Jack London, George Sterling and more.) Most of her books were written in collaboration with her sister Alice, but this one was written with the Florida writer Anne McQueen. 252 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good in blue cloth in a fair only example of the fragile dust jacket (age toning to the pages, dj is splitting along the side of the spine and at the folds, chips to the top of the spine).
Book ID: 69099More details Price: $13.50 -
THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN KILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring Galveston, Texas based private investigator, Truman Smith. SIGNED on the title page. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32135.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52147More details Price: $30.00 -
DYING VOICES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery novel set at a small college in a small town in Texas - a world Crider knows well as the chair of English literature at Texas college. Features the perpetual worrier, Professor Carl Burns, who has been assigned to head up a seminar organized to honor a former professor, turned Hollywood celebrity. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-312033281.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82661More details Price: $17.50
