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  • HARD RAIN. by Eisler, Barry.
    Eisler, Barry.
    HARD RAIN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second international thriller feauturing assassin John Rain, a "killer, who works out modern Tokyo, is the son of an American mother, Japanese father, and trained with special forces in Vietnam..He is choosy about who his victims will be, and the deaths always seem to have happened by natural means. He is the best at what he does - discreet and efficient." SIGNED on the title page. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-399-150528.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Promotional bookmark laid in.

    Book ID: 52306
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  • RAIN FALL. by Eisler, Barry.
    Eisler, Barry.
    RAIN FALL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - With this highly praised debut, Eisler joins the ranks of Thomas Perry and others in creating a complex and multi-faceted hit man as his hero. "John Rain, killer, who works out modern Tokyo, is the son of an American mother, Japanese father, and trained with special forces in Vietnam..He is choosy about who his victims will be, and the deaths always seem to have happened by natural means. He is the best at what he does - discreet and efficient." SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-399-149104.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 48519
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  • RAIN FALL. by Eisler, Barry.
    Eisler, Barry.
    RAIN FALL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - With this highly praised debut, Eisler joins the ranks of Thomas Perry and others in creating a complex and multi-faceted hit man as his hero. "John Rain, killer, who works out modern Tokyo, is the son of an American mother, Japanese father, and trained with special forces in Vietnam..He is choosy about who his victims will be, and the deaths always seem to have happened by natural means. He is the best at what he does - discreet and efficient." SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-399-149104.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (remainder mark, address stamp on first page, minor wear)

    Book ID: 62336
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  • HARD RAIN. by Eisler, Barry.
    Eisler, Barry.
    HARD RAIN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second international thriller feauturing assassin John Rain, a "killer, who works out modern Tokyo, is the son of an American mother, Japanese father, and trained with special forces in Vietnam..He is choosy about who his victims will be, and the deaths always seem to have happened by natural means. He is the best at what he does - discreet and efficient." SIGNED on the title page. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-399-150528.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (hint of spine slant)

    Book ID: 62337
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  • IDORU. by Gibson, William.
    Gibson, William.
    IDORU.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 21st Century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Rei Toei is the beautiful entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan: the Idoru. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-399-141308.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 80114
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  • THE SILENT DEAD. by Honda, Tetsuya.
    Honda, Tetsuya.
    THE SILENT DEAD.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first crime novel featuring Reiko Himekawa, a young female homicide detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, to be published in the US. Translated from the Japanese by Giles Murray. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-1250061591.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 74651
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  • DREAMING SPIES. by King, Laurie R.
    King, Laurie R.
    DREAMING SPIES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bantam, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of suspense set in 1924 and 1925 - Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes as they travel by ship from Calcutta to Japan, but the resolution of the affair takes place back in Oxford. SIGNED on the title page. Author's notes. 331 pp. ISBN: 978-0345531797.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 87088
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  • DREAMING SPIES. by King, Laurie R.
    King, Laurie R.
    DREAMING SPIES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bantam, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of suspense set in 1924 and 1925 - Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes as they travel by ship from Calcutta to Japan, but the resolution of the affair takes place back in Oxford. SIGNED on the title page. Author's notes. 331 pp. ISBN: 978-0345531797.

    Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder dot).

    Book ID: 75166
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  • JAPANTOWN. by Lancet, Barry.
    Lancet, Barry.
    JAPANTOWN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller featuring Jim Brodie, a San Francisco antique dealer, the father of a six-year old girl, who recently inherited his father's detective agency in Tokyo. Fast-paced, often brutal. SIGNED on the title page with stamp in red. 400 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 63147
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  • TOKYO KILL. by Lancet, Barry.
    Lancet, Barry.
    TOKYO KILL.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, a thriller featuring Jim Brodie, a San Francisco antique dealer, the father of a six-year old girl, who recently inherited his father's detective agency in Tokyo. Fast-paced, often brutal. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 400 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 82579
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  • PACIFIC BURN. by Lancet, Barry.
    Lancet, Barry.
    PACIFIC BURN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, a thriller featuring Jim Brodie, a San Francisco antique dealer, who inherited his father's detective agency in Tokyo. An old friend - a noted Japanese potter and artist - and his entire family have been targeted for death. Fast-paced, often brutal. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 82580
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  • SPY ACROSS THE TABLE. by Lancet, Barry.
    Lancet, Barry.
    SPY ACROSS THE TABLE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The author's fourth novel, a thriller featuring Jim Brodie, a San Francisco antique dealer, who inherited his father's detective agency in Tokyo. When two of his friends are killed backstage at the Kennedy Center, Brodie is enlisted - off the books - to help track down the assassin. Fast-paced, often brutal. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 358 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 82581
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  • JAPANTOWN. by Lancet, Barry.
    Lancet, Barry.
    JAPANTOWN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller featuring Jim Brodie, a San Francisco antique dealer, the father of a six-year old girl, who recently inherited his father's detective agency in Tokyo. Fast-paced, often brutal. SIGNED on the title page. 400 pp. ISBN: 9781451691696.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 58344
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  • MR. FOREIGNER. by Matthew Kneale.
    Matthew Kneale.
    MR. FOREIGNER.

    Edition: First thus.

    London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award winning writer originally published in 1987 under the title "Whore Banquets." The story of a young Englishman stuck in Tokyo, his passport lost, working illegally is part thriller and part black comedy. 155 pp. ISBN: 0-297828991.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 81504
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  • NUMBER9DREAM. by Mitchell, David.
    Mitchell, David.
    NUMBER9DREAM.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    Norman, OK: Random House, (2002). First edition - Mitchell's second novel, set in Tokyo's seething underworld - "As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he arrives in Tokyo with a mission - to find the father he has never met." Shortlisted for the Booker award. 400 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 80478
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  • GHOSTWRITTEN. by Mitchell, David.
    Mitchell, David.
    GHOSTWRITTEN.

    Edition: First thus- the first Vintage International trade paperback.

    New York: Vintage Books, (2001). Mitchell's remarkable first novel - "Nine disparate but interconnected tales (and a short coda) . . . examine 21st century notions of community, coincidence, causality, catastrophe and fate. Each episode in this mammoth socio-cultural tapestry is related in the first person, and set in a different international locale. The gripping first story introduces Keisuke Tanaka, aka Quasar, a fanatical Japanese doomsday cultist who's on the lam in Okinawa after completing a successful gas attack in a Tokyo subway. The links between Quasar and the novel's next narrator, Satoru Sonada, a teenage jazz aficionado, are tenuous at first. [but] as the plot progresses the connections between narrators become more complex,"(PW Weekly) Among his many awards,…

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    New York: Vintage Books, (2001). Mitchell's remarkable first novel - "Nine disparate but interconnected tales (and a short coda) . . . examine 21st century notions of community, coincidence, causality, catastrophe and fate. Each episode in this mammoth socio-cultural tapestry is related in the first person, and set in a different international locale. The gripping first story introduces Keisuke Tanaka, aka Quasar, a fanatical Japanese doomsday cultist who's on the lam in Okinawa after completing a successful gas attack in a Tokyo subway. The links between Quasar and the novel's next narrator, Satoru Sonada, a teenage jazz aficionado, are tenuous at first. [but] as the plot progresses the connections between narrators become more complex,"(PW Weekly) Among his many awards, Mitchell has been selected as one of the best young British authors by Granta. 425 pp. ISBN: 0-375724508.

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    Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 81342
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  • AFTER DARK. by Murakami, Haruki.
    Murakami, Haruki.
    AFTER DARK.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this award-winning author, set in Tokyo during the hours from midnight to dawn, and focusing on two sisters haunted by secrets. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. 191 pp. ISBN: 978-0307265838.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 86866
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  • THE STREET OF A THOUSAND BLOSSOMS. by Tsukiyama, Gail
    Tsukiyama, Gail
    THE STREET OF A THOUSAND BLOSSOMS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which opens in 1939 Tokyo where two orphaned brothers are living with their grandparents - but spans 30 years - as they have to put their dreams on hold during the war, and then find their way in a new Japan. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203764.

    Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (some light toning to the pages and edges of the textblock).

    Book ID: 70267
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  • THE STREET OF A THOUSAND BLOSSOMS. by Tsukiyama, Gail
    Tsukiyama, Gail
    THE STREET OF A THOUSAND BLOSSOMS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which opens in 1939 Tokyo where two orphaned brothers are living with their grandparents - but spans 30 years - as they have to put their dreams on hold during the war, and then find their way in a new Japan. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203764.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (toning to pages, short tear to dj)

    Book ID: 78707
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