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By: Ackroyd, Peter
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1993
Edition: 1st U.S. Edition
Seller ID: 019207
Condition: Fine
First published in Great Britain by Sinclair-Stevenson. A novel of the Limehouse murders and the sensational trial that followed. Set in 1880 London. A nice copy. View more info
By: Ackroyd, Peter
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1985
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019748
Condition: Very Good
Book is square, tight & clean. Light bumps to top board corners & foxing starting on top page edges. Crack to binding of last text page. Jacket bright with rubbing to corners & small tear at head of spine. Light foxing to rear panel. This is Peter Ackroyd's first mystery novel. Set in 1712 & present day London. The sites of the 18th century churches designed by Nicholas Dyer become the sites of a series of murders in 20th century London. View more info
By: Agrippa, (Heinrich) Cornelius
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus Giroux: 1983
Edition: 1st U.S. Edition
Seller ID: 019776
Condition: Near Fine
First published in 1962 by Hugh Evelyn Limited, London. Color illustrated boards. "Founded on an Entire New Plan Which Never Fails to Reply to Any Question Asked." Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Appears to be unread. A nice copy. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Berkley Prime Crlime: 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019401
Condition: Near Fine
Small red smudge (remainder mark?) to top edge. Light bumps to jacket spine ends. No tears or chips. The award nominated author's 7th China Bayles mystery. China agrees to marry Mike McQuaid who is then paralyzed in the line of duty. And then China's mother moves back in with her. What can happen next? View more info
By: Aleshkovsky, Yuz ( pseudonym of Joseph Aleshkovsky)
Price: $12.50
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1990
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019576
Condition: Fine
Unrevised uncorrected proof. Translated by Susan Brownsberger with an introduction by Joseph Brodsky. Publisher's author bio laid in. Handwritten publishing date and price on front panel. Translation of "Ruka." Russia, 1980. England: Halban, 1989. View more info
By: Ang, Li (pen name of Shih Shu-tuan)
Price: $17.50
Publisher: San Francisco, North Point Press: 1986
Edition: 1st U.S. Edition
Seller ID: 019648
Condition: Near Fine
Light dust soil to top edge. A bit of rubbing to jacket top corners with crease to bottom tip of front flap. Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt & Ellen Yeung. With author's preface & translators' note. The author's first work to be translated into English. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company: 1922
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019298
Condition: Very Good
Green cloth boards with black titles. Rubbing to extremities. Crack at page 14. Binding still solid. Text bright. Three full page illustrations including frontispiece. The 2nd book in the Woodcraft League Series. In the first novel, Anne Thornton became a Yellow Quill Girl and won her ceremonial name of Watamoo. View more info
By: Appiah, Anthony
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1991
Edition: 1st U.S. Edition
Seller ID: 019538
Condition: Fine
Light rubbing to black background of dust jacket. First published in Great Britain by Constable & Company Ltd. A fifty-year-old secret leads to murder among the members of an elite Cambridge University society. The author's first novel. View more info
By: Auerback, Nina
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.: 2000
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019276
Condition: Fine
A nice copy. Fine portrait of du Maurier's career. Following in her father's (actor & creator of the role of Captain Hook in Peter Pan) & grandfather's (author of the novel Trilby) footsteps. With list of du Maurier's works, notes, acknowledgments & index. View more info
By: Barnaby, Karin and Pellegrino D'Acierno (Edited by)
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press: 1990
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019791
Condition: Fine
Small bookshop stamp at bottom of front pastedown. Black & white and color illustrations throughout. Contributors to the volume were among the participants in a major international conference sponsored by Hofstra University and the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York, held in 1986 at Hofstra University. Jacket illustration by Jackson Pollock. View more info
By: Barovier, Marina and Attilia Dorigato (Editlors)
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Venice, Italy, Canal & Stamperia Editrice: 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019799
Condition: Near Fine
A nice copy. Small $35.00 stamp at bottom of rear panel. Binding solid and color illustrations bright. Introduction by Gianfranco Mossetto. With glossary & bibliography. View more info
By: Barr, Nevada
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019531
Condition: Fine
Small closed tear at foot of jacket spine. Nevada Barr's 10th Anna Pigeon mystery. Map of the Historic Route of the Natchez Trace Parkway on endpapers. A man is found murdered in a Mount Locust inn. He is the brother of a local undertaker & candidate for sheriff. The circumstances of the death raises questions in this God-fearing part of the country. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019433
Condition: Fine
Light bump to jacket spine ends. Fascinating tale. "If Jane Austin had turned her formidable wit and powers of observation to sleuthing ..." View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Kensington Books: 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019481
Condition: Near Fine
Remainder mark on bottom edge. Light rubbing to jacket rear panel & foot of spine. A Melanie Travis mystery. A wealthy business man who is bankrolling Melanie's brother's trendy coffee bar is murdered & brother Frank is the main suspect. Melanie again becomes the family "watchdog." View more info
By: Bester, Alfred
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Berkley Publishing Corp.: 1974
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 019723
Condition: Very Good
Book is tight & clean. Text bright. Spine lean. Rubbing to jacket spine & edges. No tears or chips. A croup of immortals has been a good influence on running earth until a super computer takes over. Bester's wit & intelligence returns. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Walker & Co.: 1991
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019491
Condition: Fine
Book is square & tight. Appears to be unread. Jacket bright with light bumps to spine ends. No tears or chips. Originally published in Great Britain by Gollancz in 1988. The author's 1st mystery novel to feature reporter Joseph Radkin. Set in San Francisco. View more info
By: Born, James O.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 2007
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 019688
Condition: Near Fine
Signed by the author on the title page. Book is square, tight & clean with light bumps to the spine ends. Jacket is price clipped & contains a round "Autographed Copy" sticker. Light bump to head of spine. No tears or chips. The law enforcement special agent author's 4th mystery novel. A fine novel of corruption, fraud, and murder by explosives. View more info
By: Borthwick, J .S. (pseudonym of Jean Scott Creighton)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1985
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019658
Condition: Near Fine
Book is square & tight with light soil to front free endpaper. Jacket edge worn with closed tears to bottom of front panel & top of rear panel. The author's 2nd mystery novel & the 2nd to feature Sarah Deane, the English teacher cum amateur detective. Set on the coast of Maine. Sarah & friend Alex investigate the possible murder of a cantankerous local artist, View more info
By: Bowyer, Rick
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Fawcett Columbine: 1991
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019353
Condition: Fine
A nice copy. Seventh Doc Adams mystery by the Edgar Award Winning author. Doc & his wife Mary visit an old friend in Cape Cod. Another old friend from the past is found murdered and the friend he is visiting disappears. View more info
By: Brabazon, James
Price: $10.00
Publisher: 0
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019543
Condition: Very Good
Book is square tight & clean. Crack just starting at top of title page. Bright jacket is price clipped. Preface by Anthony Fleming. Foreword by P.D. James. The first authorized life of Dorothy L. Sayers. Twenty seven years in the making. View more info
