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THE 500.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a legal thriller set in Washington, D. C. Joseph Finder calls this 'an absolutely phenomenal kick-ass thriller.' SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 978-0316198622.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (the word "nice" on rear endpaper).
Book ID: 75126More details Price: $25.00 -
THE 500.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a legal thriller set in Washington, D. C. Joseph Finder calls this 'an absolutely phenomenal kick-ass thriller.' SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 9780316198622.
Condition: Good only in a very good dust jacket (dampstaining to corners of gutters, affecting a few pages, spotting on rear endpaper) Probably not as bad as it sounds...
Book ID: 62151More details Price: $18.50 -
THE 500.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a legal thriller set in Washington, D. C. Joseph Finder calls this 'an absolutely phenomenal kick-ass thriller.' SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 9780316198622.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56333More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LAST SPY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Three Soviet spies living undetected among Washington insiders for fifteen years confront the collapse of the Soviet Union in this well-wrought thriller." (Publishers' Weekly) 300 pp. ISBN: 0-671776223.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72708More details Price: $16.50 -
A FISTFUL OF EMPTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth in the series of thrillers featuring Washington DC private eye Leo Haggerty - one which opens with the murder of his best friend, and the violent rape of his girl friend Samantha in the home they shared. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-670831115.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 88762More details Price: $17.50 -
MURDER IN GEORGETOWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 7th in this entertaining series of mysteries set in and around Washington DC by the former President's daughter. ISBN: 0-87795-7975.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 25520More details Price: $15.00 -
A THIRSTY EVIL: Seven Short Stories.
Edition: First edition.
New York: The Zero Press, 1956. dj. Hardcover first edition - Vidal's first collection of short fiction, containing seven stories with settings from Key West to Washington, D.C and elsewhere. 154 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a good only dust jacket with tape reinforcements to ends of spine and corners..
Book ID: 58464More details Price: $15.00 -
A THIRSTY EVIL: Seven Short Stories.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Heinemann, (1958.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Vidal's first collection of short fiction, containing seven stories with settings from Key West to Washington, D.C and elsewhere. 127 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages, small chip to lower edge of front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 57256More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1999.). In 1939 a teenage math prodigy is summoned to the Smithsonian "where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement." He brainstorms with Oppenheimer and upstairs, after hours, the museum comes to life. . . One of his "invention novels" this is a "Vidalian tour de force of comedy and allusion." 260 pp. ISBN: 0-15-6006480.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56315More details Price: $11.50 -
AN HONORABLE MAN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Atria / Emily Bestler Books, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, named one of Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mysteries & Thrillers of Spring 2016. Set in Washington, DC in 1953, when the Cold War is heating up, McCarthyism is raging - and the CIA has a double agent in its midst. Joseph Kanon described this as "Cold War spy fiction in the grand tradition - neatly plotted betrayals in that shadow world where no one can be trusted and agents are haunted by their own moral compromises." Based on the life of James Speyer Kronthal. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 278 pp. ISBN: .
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 82048More details Price: $50.00 -
CITY OF CAIN.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1974) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A moody, psychological near-future science fiction thriller by this Hugo and Nebula award winning writer. After being injured in Vietnam, Peter Roos develops a rare physical condition which gives him the power to hear the thoughts of those around him. "Now he has 'heard' about the government's secret plan to give up control of America to the military - to build an underground city for themselves in the event of a nuclear attack. Unfortunately for Roos, the government knows he knows. And the project's sponsors - including his senator brother - have no choice.
They must get him out of the way - permanently!" SIGNED on the title page. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-316940763.Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88105More details Price: $45.00
