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COPPER CROWN
Edition: First printing.
New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED on the title page "to... with all best wishes" and dated in the year of publication. Her first book, the story of an interracial friendship, forged in 1913 between a black woman and a white woman, in defiance of the times and the place - a small Texas town of modest farms and sharecroppers. Partially based on the oral history of the author's family. Von Herzen won the Los Angeles Arts Council Award for fiction in 1990. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-688-106889.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35848More details Price: $30.00 -
COPPER CROWN
Edition: First printing.
New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first book, the story of an interracial friendship, forged in 1913 between a black woman and a white woman, in defiance of the times and the place - a small Texas town of modest farms and sharecroppers. Partially based on the oral history of the author's family. Von Herzen won the Los Angeles Arts Council Award for fiction in 1990. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-688-106889.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the pages, but an unread copy which appears unread.)
Book ID: 62052More details Price: $17.50 -
COPPER CROWN
Edition: First printing.
New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first book, the story of an interracial friendship, forged in 1913 between a black woman and a white woman, in defiance of the times and the place - a small Texas town of modest farms and sharecroppers. Partially based on the oral history of the author's family. Von Herzen won the Los Angeles Arts Council Award for fiction in 1990. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-688-106889.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the pages, but an unread copy which appears unread.)
Book ID: 62053More details Price: $30.00 -
SWEET DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing "Fowler McFarland, former FBI agent and best-selling true crime author, who returns to his hometown of Nacogdochees, Texas hoping to find a little peace and tranquility teaching constititional law at the local college." Instead he finds murder. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-802732089.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72560More details Price: $15.00 -
UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1995. First edition - Her third book, and second mystery featuring Texas crime reporter Molly Cates - the first won the Edgar, and this novel was the winner of both the 1996 McCavity and Anthony awards. 398 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 35260More details Price: $20.00 -
UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1995. First edition - Her third book, and second mystery featuring Texas crime reporter Molly Cates - the first won the Edgar, and this novel was the winner of both the 1996 McCavity and Anthony awards. 398 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 44836More details Price: $25.00 -
UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1995. SIGNED first edition - Her third book, and second mystery featuring Texas crime reporter Molly Cates - the first won the Edgar, and this novel was the winner of both the 1996 McCavity and Anthony awards. SIGNED on the title page. 398 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60507More details Price: $30.00 -
UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third book, and second mystery featuring Texas crime reporter Molly Cates - the first won the Edgar, and this novel was the winner of the McCavity, Anthony and the Dashiell Hammett awards.. ISBN: 0-385-468598.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60620More details Price: $24.50 -
THE RED SCREAM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First in a new series featuring Texas based crime reporter Molly Cates. Winner of the 1994 Edgar award for best mystery. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-385-46858X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64037More details Price: $24.50 -
UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third book, and second mystery featuring Texas crime reporter Molly Cates - the first won the Edgar, and this novel was the winner of the McCavity, Anthony and the Dashiell Hammett awards.. Laid in is Walker's business card SIGNED by her with the words "All the best.". ISBN: 0-385-468598.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64038More details Price: $30.00 -
THE RED SCREAM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First in a new series featuring Texas based crime reporter Molly Cates. Winner of the 1994 Edgar award for best mystery. SIGNED on the title page. In addition, Walker's address label is on the front endpaper, and a handwritten envelope from Walker with a business card inside is laid in. The business card includes a brief SIGNED note. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-385-478585.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64039More details Price: $40.00 -
ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this Edgar award winning author and the third featuring Texas based crime reporter Molly Cates, who finds herself investigating the death of her father 25 years ago - a death ruled as suicide at the time. SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-385-478585.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82649More details Price: $30.00 -
SLEEP TOWARD HEAVEN.
Edition: 2nd printing.
San Francisco: MacAdam / Cage, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first novel, the story of three very disparate young woman - 29 year old Karen on death row in Texas, Franny, a 29 year old doctor in New York planning her wedding, and Celia, a young librarian mourning her husband - whose lives become entwined. SIGNED by the author on the title page, and dated in the year of publication. ISBN: 1-931561-230.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 29677More details Price: $25.00 -
THE DOUBLE: An Investigation.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Texas-born author's first novel. "It starts - as so many mysteries do - with a corpse. But in this case the dead man is different. Well, actually he's the same. He looks just like John Reynman. But Reynman has no twin. He has never seen the dead man before. How did the corpse wind up on Reynman's living room floor?" James Sallis (who is in 'Asylum') comments: 'There has to be something in the water in Austin, Texas. Guy sits down to write a nice little mystery and comes up with this?'. SIGNED on the title page with the comment "Signed in the home of John Reynman, Austin, TX." 242 pp. ISBN: 0-312191448.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 68196More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DOUBLE: An Investigation.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Texas-born author's first mystery novel. "It starts - as so many mysteries do - with a corpse. But in this case the dead man is different. Well, actually he's the same. He looks just like John Reynman. But Reynman has no twin. He has never seen the dead man before. How did the corpse wind up on Reynman's living room floor?" James Sallis (who is in 'Asylum') comments: 'There has to be something in the water in Austin, Texas. Guy sits down to write a nice little mystery and comes up with this?'. SIGNED on the title page with the comment "Halloween, Austin, TX, 1998. See pg 231."
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 68881More details Price: $30.00 -
ESSENTIAL SALTES: An Experiment.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Texas-born author's second experimental mystery novel - there is a murder and a theft, but otherwise this book has little in common with traditional crime fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 243 pp.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 68882More details Price: $30.00 -
WHITE MAN RUNNING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel. In 1940s Texas, a 13 year old black boy delivering groceries slashes a woman's attacker with his knife, but knowing that he would not be believed, he flees the town. Forty years later, things have changed and he is a respected attorney running for Congress - but now that long-ago violence is threatening his career and the lives of those around him. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-802756115.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72820More details Price: $20.00 -
RIVER CITY DEAD: An Aggie Mundeen Mystery.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Henery Press, (2017). SIGNED first edition - Advice columnist Aggie Mundeen and SAPD Sam Vanderhoven plan to get together on San Antonio's River Walk during Fiesta Week - but murder gets in their way. SIGNED on the title page and dated in March 2018. 213 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-1635111330.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76965More details Price: $20.00 -
HILL COUNTRY.
Edition: Large print edition.
Atlanta: Doubleday Direct / Longstreet Press, (1998) dj. Hardcover - An historical novel of Texas, based on the life of the author's remarkable grandmother. This covers almost a century of Texas political history as she follows the families of Laura Woods and Rebekah Baines Johnson and their impact on their state, the country and their own sons. Double page map, photographs and a long preface in which the author describes her search for this story among her family records. Includes a list of characters. xlvii, 649 pp plus author's brief note. ISBN: 0-739403524.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 78194More details Price: $16.50 -
FINAL AUDIT.
Edition: First printing.
n.p. Mystrique Press / JW Publishing, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a story of murder, conspiracy and corruption in the energy industry, set in Houston, Texas, California and elsewhere. Introduces Detective Dave Duncan and his partner Stephanie Fox. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author and dated in 2007. Epilogue. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-976892103.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 48075More details Price: $25.00 -
NOTES FROM THE COUNTRY CLUB.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this former undercover narcotics officer, the story of a woman imprisoned for killing her abusive husband. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-395-62892x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47598More details Price: $16.50