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A BEAUTIFUL BLUE DEATH.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012). SIGNED - The author's first novel, a mystery set in 1865 and featuring Charles Lenox, a Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, and his friend Lady Jane. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 978-1250000453.
Condition: Near fine (usual light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 74976More details Price: $25.00 -
THE INHERITANCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 10th book to be published in this series of mysteries set in 1870s England, featuring Charles Lenox - a series which has been described as" ranging from the slums of London to the corridors of power" A mysterious bequest of money leads to murder. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-1250070425.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86315More details Price: $35.00 -
HOME BY NIGHTFALL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 9th book in this series of mysteries set in 1870s England, featuring Charles Lenox - a series which has been described as" ranging from the slums of London to the corridors of power" A mysterious bequest of money leads to murder. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-1250070425.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (long tear to rear flap of dj).
Book ID: 88156More details Price: $30.00 -
A LADY'S GUIDE TO ETIQUETTE AND MURDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in 1899 in late Victorian England, and introducing Frances Wynn, the American-born Countess of Harleigh, now a wealthy young widow living in Belgravia "where she prepares to welcome her sister, Lily, arriving from New York, for her first London season. But no sooner has Frances begun her new life than the Metropolitan police receive an anonymous letter implicating Frances in her husbands death." A lighthearted and enjoyable book. 264 pp. ISBN: 978-1496716880.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning to textblock).
Book ID: 86893More details Price: $19.50 -
THE GYPSY-BACHELOR OF MANCHESTER: The Life of Mrs Gaskell's Demon.
Edition: First printing.
Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An interesting look at a writer who has come to personify the Victorian feminine ideal - "Through meticulous study of Mrs Gaskell's organising metaphors, Professor Bonaparte reveals that all her life she hid from herself a second self: an inadmissibly rebellious, daemonic "male" counter-force whose energies disrupted but also empowered her work." A title in the Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Notes, select bibliography, index. x, 310 pp. ISBN: 0-8139-1390X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 55969More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LYING STONES OF MARRAKECH: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harmony, (2000.) dj. Hardcover - Essays on paleontology, the early years of the study of natural history as a science, Darwin, evolution and more. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-609-601423.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 51566More details Price: $15.00 -
JACK HARKER'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKS: Being the Conclusion of the "Adventures of Young Jack Harkaway and His Boy Tinker" (#15)
Edition: Reprint.
Condition: Good overall in burgundy cloth with black lettering, black, gold and orange illustration on the front cover (front hinge cracked)
Book ID: 63867More details Price: $18.00 -
MUNBY, MAN OF TWO WORLDS: The Life and Diaries of Arthur J. Munby, 1828-1910.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Gambit, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography based on the diaries of Munby, which he left to Trinity College, Cambridge, with instructions that they were not to be opened until 40 years after his death. Known as a barrister, bachelor, minor poet, and friend of some of Victorian London's most notable writers, including Swinburne, Rossetti, Browning and Thackerey, the diaries revealed a man fascinated with the lives of working class woman - and his secret marriage to a charwoman named Hannah. Illustrated with photographs and sketches by Munby. An appendix contains some poems by Munby. Bibliography, index. 461 pp. ISBN: 0-87645-0664.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (lower corners bumped)
Book ID: 70089More details Price: $20.00 -
DR. GULLY'S STORY.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Coward-McCann, (1972.) dj. Hardcover - Novel inspired by the 1876 scandalous case in London, known as the Balham mystery - a liason between an eminent physician and a young married woman that scandalized London. 320 pp. Illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 69401More details Price: $12.50 -
WHO THINKS EVIL: A Professor Moriarty Novel.
Edition: First thus - UK trade paperback.
London: Titan Books, (2014). First edition - The fifth book in this series featuring the brilliant mathematics professor, James Moriarty. Set in London, 1892, where Prince Albert, grandson of Queen Victoria, has disappeared leaving behind a woman's body. In the absence of Holmes, Mycroft turns to Moriarity for help - but he is also facing murder charges. 290 pp plus several pages publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-1783293346.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (light toning to edges of textblock, an unread copy).
Book ID: 76458More details Price: $14.50 -
THE INFERNAL DEVICE: A Professor Moriarty Novel.
Edition: First thus - UK trade paperback.
London: Titan Books, (2014). SIGNED - The first book in this series featuring Sherlock Holmes's nemesis, the brilliant mathematics professor, James Moriarty. SIGNED on the title page. 261 pp plus several pages publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-1783293261.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81082More details Price: $18.50 -
THE DETECTIVE WORE SILK DRAWERS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (1971) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Lovesey's second novel, and the second in the Sergeant Cribb series set in Victorian London - in the seedy world of bare-fist pugilism, forbidden in Victorian England, so the fighting has gone underground. When a headless body is found floating in the Thames, his hands 'pickled' for fighting, they select the young constable to infiltrate the gang, subjecting him to a rigorous program of purging, pickling and training. SIGNED on the title page. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-333125789.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the edges of the textblock and the cream background of the spine and back cover of the dj)
Book ID: 85486More details Price: $75.00 -
THE MAD HATTER'S HOLIDAY: A Novel of Murder in Victorian Brighton.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (1973) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Sargeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray mystery and Lovesey's fourth novel, set in Brighton in 1882. SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-333144090.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket - corners slightly bumped, light toning, dust jacket has a triangular tear with associated creasing on back cover (no loss of paper).
Book ID: 77551More details Price: $60.00 -
INVITATION TO A DYNAMITE PARTY.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (1974) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth Sargeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray mystery and Lovesey's fifth novel, set in Victorian London in 1884. SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 188 pp. ISBN: 0-333156560.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (light foxing to top edge of textblock)
Book ID: 82712More details Price: $60.00 -
A CASE OF SPIRITS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (1975) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sergeant Cribb mystery, involving art theft and dabbling in the occult, Victorian style. SIGNED on the title page. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-333-182251.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (usual rather severe toning to the pages).
Book ID: 70622More details Price: $50.00 -
BERTIE AND THE CRIME OF PASSION.
Edition: First printing.
London: Little Brown, (1995). dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bertie, the Prince of Wales, is in Paris, where Sarah Bernhardt tells him of a murder on the dance floor of the Moulin Rouge. SIGNED on the title page. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-316-906859.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77439More details Price: $40.00 -
BERTIE AND THE CRIME OF PASSION.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1995). dj. Hardcover first edition - Bertie, the Prince of Wales, is in Paris, where Sarah Bernhardt tells him of a murder on the dance floor of the Moulin Rouge. SIGNED on the title page. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-316-906859.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75619More details Price: $35.00 -
A CASE OF SPIRITS
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Sergeant Cribb mystery, involving art theft and dabbling in the occult, Victorian style.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant, some rubbing to dj.)
Book ID: 6431More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WOMAN BETWEEN WORLDS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Dell, (1994). First edition - The author's first novel, a saga of a war between dimensions. "On the foggy streets of Victorian London, an invisible woman emerges. . . desperate to escape her own world and embrace ours." 311 pp. ISBN: 0-440503272.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67010More details Price: $15.00 -
THE EXCURSION TRAIN.
Edition: Book club edition.
London: Allison & Busby, (2006) dj. Hardcover - The second mystery in the Railway series featuring Inspector Robert Colbeck, set in Victorian England during the 1850s against a background of the development of the railroads there. Printed in the US. Apparent binding error - no title page. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-374130752.
Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66844More details Price: $12.50 -
THE MERRY DEVILS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Bantam, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery under this pseudonym - an Elizabethan whodunit featuring an acting troupe led by book holder Nicholas Bracewell. SIGNED on the title page. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-593017749.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (usual light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 70793More details Price: $70.00 -
MURDER AS A FINE ART.
Edition: Limited, signed edition - first thus.
Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2016. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Literary thriller set in 19th century Victorian London. "Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,"" is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier. The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives." Number 244 out of 500 copies, signed by Morrell on an illustrated limitation page. Includes an author's afterword and a conversation between Morrell and Robert Morrison, De Quincey's biographer. 406 pp. ISBN: 978-1587674181.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 82671More details Price: $50.00 -
MURDER AT THE MASQUE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Headline, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring master chef, Auguste Didier, set in his native Cannes, where he has gone to get away from murder, and in late Victorian England, at the turn of the century. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-7472-0358x.
Condition: Very good in a very near fine dust jacket (the inevitable toning to the pages.) Still a decent copy of a title rather hard to find in the hardcover first edition.
Book ID: 60205More details Price: $35.00 -
MURDER UNDER THE KISSING BOUGH.
Edition: First printing.
London: Headline, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery featuring master chef, Auguste Didier, set in late Victorian England, at the turn of the century. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-7472-05590.
Condition: Very good in a very near fine dust jacket (spine slant, rather severe toning to the pages.) Still a decent copy of a title rather hard to find in the hardcover first edition.
Book ID: 60203More details Price: $45.00 -
THE LAST DICKENS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in 1870, both literary history - regarding Charles Dicken's final unfinished novel - and an absorbing mystery. SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 383 pp. ISBN: 978-1400066568.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88985More details Price: $35.00 -
CARDINGTON CRESCENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth mystery, set in Victorian London and featuring Inspector Pitt and his wife Charlotte. SIGNED on the title page. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-312-01134.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 49874More details Price: $125.00 -
SLAVES OF OBSESSION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring William Monk and his bride Hester, set in London and the American South in 1861 at the beginning of the Civil War. SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-345-433262.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (a new, unread copy.)
Book ID: 53490More details Price: $28.50 -
THE WHITECHAPEL CONSPIRACY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Victorian England, and featuring London Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-345-44003X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59971More details Price: $27.50 -
A FUNERAL IN BLUE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Headline (Hodder), (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Victorian era crime novel, featuring investigator William Monk and his wife Hester. Two beautiful women are found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. One of the victims is the wife of Hester Monk's colleague, surgeon Dr. Kristian Beck, a Viennese emigre who quickly becomes the principal suspect, and now Monk is in a race against time to find evidence of his innocence. SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-747262837.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (the all too common toning to the pages)
Book ID: 85325More details Price: $30.00 -
A SUDDEN FEARFUL DEATH.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th Victorian mystery featuring William Monk, now a private enquiry agent and nurse Hester Latterly - a story involving the brutal murder in a London hospital of a young woman who had been one of Florence Nightingale's nurses in the Crimean War. SIGNED on title page by the author. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-449-90637x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84971More details Price: $35.00