MYSTERY
The Mitford Scandal
First Edition. The third book in the Mitford Murders series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.
Price: $30
Bright Young Dead
First Edition. A book in the Mitford Murders series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.
Price: $30
First in Series, Signed
The Mitford Murders
The first book in the Mitford Murders series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the title page, with a quote from the book (signed and lined).....
Price: $40
One More Lie
First Edition. The author's second book, a thriller. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket signed by the author on the title page.
Price: $30
The Innocent Wife [Signed, Numbered]
First Edition. The author's first book, a thriller, here in the limited edition of 750 signed and numbered copies with dyed page edges. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Copy 433 signed by the author.
Price: $30
Signed, Numbered Issue
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
First Edition. An inventive mystery, in which the victim dies over and over until her killer is captured. It was retitled The 7-1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle for the US edition, published several months later. This is one of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author on a tipped in.....
Price: $175
Classic 1930s Mystery Jacket
Sir John Magill's Last Journey: An Inspector French Case
First US edition. This sixth mystery featuring Inspector French is set in and around Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the author lived as a youth. A minor classic of Golden Age detective fiction in the US edition, which has a well-known dust jacket design pairing a skull and a portrait (presumably).....
Price: $1,000
Signed Bibliomystery, Low Number!
The Club Dumas [Signed, Numbered]
An adventure novel about an Alexandre Dumas (père) manuscript, set in the world of rare books and here illustrated by Victor Chong. This deluxe edition is one of 500 numbered copies, signed by Perez-Reverte. 327 pages. With five moody full-page illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This.....
Price: $500
Signed Film Source
The Da Vinci Code
First Edition. The runaway bestseller, the basis for the movie of the same name. 454 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with faint bumping at the top of the spine. Signed by the author on the title.....
Price: $250
One of 75 Numbered Copies
Creole Belle [Signed, Numbered]
First U.K. Edition. A Dave Robicheax novel with an introduction by Barry Maitland. This is one of 75 numbered copies, signed by the author, and specially bound in half-leather and marbled-paper-covered boards. [viii], 528, [1] pages. First UK edition. A fine copy, with the publisher's unprinted acetate jacket. This is.....
Price: $75
One of 300 Signed
Blood Work [Signed, Numbered]
First Edition. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by Connelly and bound in quarter-leather with a fully illustrated dust jacket. The publisher also issued a signed and numbered version and there was a trade issue. The priority of these competing versions is not known to your cataloguer. This was a......
Price: $100
With a Signed Bookplate
The Dogs of Riga
First Edition. An early Kurt Wallander mystery, here in the first English language edition. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. With a bookplate signed by Mankell laid in (this seems fairly.....
Price: $250
Signed Bibliomystery
The Club Dumas [Signed, Numbered]
An adventure novel about an Alexandre Dumas (père) manuscript, set in the world of rare books and here illustrated by Victor Chong. This deluxe edition is one of 500 numbered copies, signed by Perez-Reverte. 327 pages. With five moody full-page illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This.....
Price: $400
One of 350 Numbered Copies
The Narrows [Signed, Numbered]
First Edition. The tenth Harry Bosch book, a novel that connects Bosch to Connelly's "Poet" series. This is one of 350 signed, numbered copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and slipcase. This is copy no. 30. The book is still sealed in the.....
Price: $60
Inscribed with a Drawing
The Horse in the Camel Suit
First Edition. A collection of short pieces about a young detective, written and illustrated by Du Bois, a winner of the Newbery Award. 80 pages. 7-1/2 by 9-1/4 inches. First edition (no statement of later printings; date code 0867 and $3.95 price on front jacket flap). A very good copy.....
Price: $400
Nice US Hardcover
A Tan and Sandy Silence
First Edition. The first American hardcover edition of the 13th Travis McGee mystery. Originally published in paperback in 1972. The UK hardcover came out in 1973. First hardcover edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good copy with foxed page edges in a partially spinefaded dust.....
Price: $250
Hardcover Travis McGee Mystery
The Long Lavender Look
First Edition. The 12th Travis McGee mystery. This is the first hardcover edition, published in February 1972, a month before the UK hardbound version, according to Firsts Magazine (Nov. 2002, John D. MacDonald special issue). The true first was a massmarket paperback, published in 1970. First hardcover edition (first printing).....
Price: $250
Lippincott Hardcover Travis McGee
The Quick Red Fox
First Edition. The first American hardcover issue of the fourth Travis McGee novel, first published in paperback in 1964 and in hardcover in London in 1966. The first US hardcover issue (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A near fine hardcover copy with a slight spine lean in.....
Price: $250
First US Hardcover of the First Travis McGee
The Deep Blue Good-by
First Edition. The first US hardcover edition of the first Travis Magee book (originally published as a paperback original in 1964). The British publisher Hale issued the first hardcover. 200 pages. First US hardcover edition (first printing with "First hardbound edition 1975" on the copyright page and no later printings.....
Price: $200
Scarce Dirk Pitt Hardcover
Pacific Vortex!
First hardcover edition. One of the scarcest Clive Cussler books, the first hardcover edition of this Dirk Pitt novel which was published in the US as a massmarket paperback. This was the sixth Pitt novel to be published, but it is first in chronological order. 247 pages. First edition (first.....
Price: $750
Signed by 11 Contributors
D.C. Noir
First Edition. Sixteen short mystery stories set in Washington, DC. 308, [7] pages. First edition (stated first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback; not issued in hardcover). This copy is signed by George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman and nine other contributors.
Price: $75
Signed by Child, Lippman, Connolly, Donoghue, etc.
Like a Charm [Signed, Numbered]
First British edition. Each of the 16 chapters of this novel is written by a different writer. The contributors include Laura Lippman, Lee Child, John Connolly, and Emma Donoghue. This is one of 120 numbered copies of the British edition bound in quarter leather and marbled paper-covered boards and signed.....
Price: $150
The First Original Hardcover Travis McGee
The Turquoise Lament
First Edition. The 13th Travis McGee and the first in the series that was issued first in hardcover. 287 pages. First edition (stated). A near fine hardcover copy (page edges tanned) in a price-clipped dust jacket with minor chipping at the edges and small tape repairs on the back (verso).....
Price: $100
First US Hardcover
The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper
First Edition. The first US hardcover edition of this Travis McGee novel first published as a paperback original in 1968. 276 pages. First edition (first printing, with no later printings noted). Page edges foxed, thus very good in a spine-faded dust jacket with a short tear on the back panel.
Price: $100