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OF ALL THE SAD WORDS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes, 265 pp. ISBN: 978-0312348106.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85001More details Price: $16.50 -
WHEN OLD MEN DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Truman Smith mystery, set in Galveston, Texas. SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-31953.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (name on front endpaper.).
Book ID: 55371More details Price: $24.50 -
A ROMANTIC WAY TO DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. SIGNED on the title page. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-312-20907X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52670More details Price: $30.00 -
WINNING CAN BE MURDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. SIGNED on the title page. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-312-14072X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52669More details Price: $30.00 -
WHEN OLD MEN DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Truman Smith mystery, set in Galveston, Texas. . SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-31953.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52668More details Price: $25.00 -
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 -
DEATH BY ACCIDENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-312-180802.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 51335More details Price: $15.00 -
A GHOST OF A CHANCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-312-208898.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 79692More details Price: $18.50 -
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 -
THE BOY ORATOR.
Edition: First printing.
Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, fourth book, set in Texas and Oklahoma in the early 1900s through World War I - an account of those trying to find justice for workers and the poor, of those opposed to war, and of the violent rise of the Knights of Liberty and the abuses of the Espionage Act. SIGNED on the title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-87074433X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78818More details Price: $35.00 -
THE WAKING SPELL.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - a penetrating look at the silences and ghosts that haunt the women of an East Texas family since the 1890's. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-653.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (as new, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 39104More details Price: $18.00 -
THE WAKING SPELL.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - a penetrating look at the silences and ghosts that haunt the women of an East Texas family since the 1890s. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-653.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (as new, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 82499More details Price: $30.00 -
TWILIGHT OF HONOR.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1961) dj. Hardcover - A novel set in the Texas panhandle, the story of a murder trial of a young vagrant accused of killing one of the richest and most generous men in the town, and of the attorney who realizes that in order to obtain even a semblance of justice for his client he will have to ruin the lives of innocent people and destroy a man's reputation. Winner of the McGraw Hill Fiction Award. 328 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83827More details Price: $15.00 -
GRAVEYARD WORKING.
Edition: First printing.
Dallas, TX: Baskerville Publishers, Inc. (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A black comedy set in "The Big Thicket of East Texas, a place that time forgot but which master writer Gerald Duff remembers well." Cover praise from Madison Smartt Bell (who called this a "crackpot Southern comedy with a darker edge of satire beneath its wit."), Lee Smith, and Roy Blount. The author was born and raised in Beaumont ,Texas. 185 pp. Striking red, white and black dustjacket by Helen Williams. ISBN: 1-880909154.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36803More details Price: $18.00 -
THE MILE HIGH CLUB.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Kinky gets more than his leg pulled when he encounters a mysterious vamp on an airplane. SIGNED on the title page. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-684-86486X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61851More details Price: $30.00 -
ELVIS, JESUS & COCA-COLA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Texas setting - a Kinky Friedman mystery involving the disappearance of a man making a documentary on Elvis impersonators. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-671-869221.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59736More details Price: $30.00 -
GOOD AS GONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2016). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a New York Times Book Review editor's choice, set in Houston, Texas. "Anna's daughter, Julie, was kidnapped from her own bedroom when she was thirteen years old, while Anna slept just downstairs, unaware that her daughter was being ripped away from her. For eight years, she has lived with the guilt and the void in her family, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night, the doorbell rings. A young woman who appears to be Julie is finally, miraculously, home safe. Anna and the rest of the family are thrilled, but soon Anna begins to see holes in Julie's story." 273 pp. ISBN: 978-0544920958.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 77598More details Price: $18.50 -
SWEETBITTER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Seattle: Broken Moon Press, (1994.). First edition - The author's first novel, set in racially explosive East Texas in 1910. the story of a young man, half-Choctaw, orphaned as a boy and isolated from his people, who falls in love with the daughter of a lawyer. 420 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated white wrappers.
Book ID: 46559More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SINALOA STORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A racketeer from Sinaloa Texas becomes enamoured of a prostitute from a brothel in La Paz and gets her to come live with him. A novel which explores the dark side by a master of noir. SIGNED on the title page. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1002495.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56957More details Price: $30.00 -
BINO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a mystery introducing tough Texas lawyer Bino - fast-paced and suspenseful. Recommended. SIGNED and dated on the half title page. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-525245901.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81733More details Price: $40.00 -
PRIME SUSPECT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, a thriller set in Texas, one which explores murderous deceit, big-money corruption and illicit sex from Ft Worth's million dollar homes to the gritty underside of the honky tonks. 250 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 15654More details Price: $17.50 -
IN DEFENSE OF JUDGES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third crime novel, a legal thriller featuring defense attorney Bino Phillips, former basketball star and the toughest lawyer around. SIGNED on a bookplate on the front endpaper. Review copy with material laid in. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-525248757.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72827More details Price: $25.00 -
IN DEFENSE OF JUDGES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third crime novel, a legal thriller featuring defense attorney Bino Phillips, former basketball star and the toughest lawyer around. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-525248757.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81735More details Price: $28.50 -
BINO
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a mystery introducing tough Texas lawyer Bino - fast-paced and suspenseful. Recommended. ISBN: 0-525245901.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77451More details Price: $31.50 -
BINO'S BLUES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery novel featuring tough Texas lawyer Bino - fast-paced and suspenseful. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late collector Larry Owens and his wife "Okie friends." 256 pp. ISBN: 0-671881868.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82570More details Price: $30.00 -
PRIME SUSPECT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, a thriller set in Texas, one which explores murderous deceit, big-money corruption and illicit sex from Ft Worth's million dollar homes to the gritty underside of the honky tonks. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-525-935312.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82543More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MAN OFFSIDE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Crime novel introducing ex-football hero Rick Bannion, former Dallas Cowboy, former prison inmate, tracker of bail jumpers. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-525-933107.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 50304More details Price: $16.00 -
SHARES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in Texas, this is a story of an honest, but disgraced, Dallas police officer as he becomes entangled with an attractive ex-convict, who tries to entrap him in a kidnapping plot through which she hopes to beat the system. Gray has written several very highly praised novels as A. W. Gray. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-684810964.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit of sunning to the spine, edges of the dj)
Book ID: 67835More details Price: $16.50 -
SHARES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Texas, this is a story of an honest, but disgraced, Dallas police officer as he becomes entangled with an attractive ex-convict, who tries to entrap him in a kidnapping plot through which she hopes to beat the system. Gray has written several very highly praised novels as A. W. Gray. SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-684810964.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81737More details Price: $30.00 -
THE WORLD AROUND MIDNIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, set in a small Texas town. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-399-135901.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42946More details Price: $20.00
