SLIGHTLY FOXED - BUT STILL DESIRABLE: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting
First edition of Searle's guide to book collecting terminology, with the helpful illustrations so vexingly left out of other standard reference works.
First edition of Searle's guide to book collecting terminology, with the helpful illustrations so vexingly left out of other standard reference works.
First edition of this classic historical romance — with the original stepback cover design.
Signed first printing of this final book in the Lauren Laurono series, in which the detective's efforts to patch things up with her partner with a nice vacation are interrupted by a suspicious suicide.
Inscribed first printing of the third Skip Langdon mystery, detailing the woman homicide detective's investigation of the murder of a New Orleans jazz festival's beloved producer.
Inscribed first printing of this erotic mystery, in which a botanist must get to the bottom of her estranged husband's murder while navigating the romantic attentions of her best friends Ralph and Rita.
Signed first edition of Barr's sixth mystery novel featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon, set in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns.
Signed first printing of the second Annie MacPherson mystery, in which the lawyer (and frequent sleuth) discovers her new position at a prestigious law firm is a great deal more dangerous than she expected when a secretary turns up dead.
Signed first edition, review copy, of the second mystery starring Kathleen Mallory, NYPD sergeant and "sociopath," with original publisher's promotional materials laid in.
Inscribed first printing of the fifth Carlotta Carlyle mystery, in which the hardboiled, redheaded Boston PI must take on a hospital full of conspiracy and corruption to find answers for a grieving mother.
Signed first printing of this Agatha and Anthony-nominated mystery introducing China Bayles, a lawyer-turned-herb shop proprietor who finds that murder has followed her in her efforts to make a fresh start.
Scarce limited edition bibliography of Maine regionalist and Congregationalist minister Macdougall, author of numerous fish stories and creator of "beloved Maine folk-type" Dud Dean.
Doubly signed first edition of this mystery novel, a collaboration between Hill and ORDINARY PEOPLE author Guest.
First edition, first printing of the famed novel exploring the poisons laced into the American dream.
Inscribed first printing of Bradley's influential re-evaluation of Arthurian legend.
First printing of this Anna Turnipseed and Emmett Parker mystery, in which the FBI agent and BIA investigator must uncover how an Oneida elder wound up murdered in a corn field as her community fractures around a new casino.
Inscribed first UK edition of this post-apocalyptic story of a pair of women seeking to preserve humanity's remaining books after a pandemic and nuclear war, presented to Wren's longtime partner Ruth Grover.
Signed first printing of the first book in the Katie Nash trilogy, introducing the young army brat as she struggles to grow up on a Texas base under the thumb of her abusive father.
Signed first printing of this epistolary novel of a woman experiencing a mid-life crisis, dreaming of what could have been while coming to appreciate what she has.
Signed first printing of Mountain's second book, a murder mystery centered around intrepid genealogist / sleuth Natasha Blake, who has uncovered an unexpected link behind the disappearance of a young girl and the death of Pre-Raphaelite icon Lizzie Siddal.
Signed first printing of this riveting legal thriller that finds Bennie Rosato – partner in an all-woman law firm – the suspect in a murder, with the corrupt cops she has frequently prosecuted in court more than happy to make her life difficult.
Signed first printing of this legal thriller by one of the greats of the genre, the third title in the Rosato and Associates series, which finds the all-woman law firm racing against an impending verdict based on a bogus claim.
Inscribed first printing of this first book in the Anasazi mysteries series, the story of an unsolved spate of killings in 1150 AD and the physical anthropologist who comes face-to-face with the supernatural murderer in the present day – by a celebrated pair of archaeologists.
Signed first US hardcover edition of this Edgar-nominated mystery by a Denver bookseller and former journalist, originally published as a paperback original in 1981.
Inscribed first edition of Frommer's fourth musical mystery featuring symphony manager Joan Spencer, set at the quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.
Signed first edition of Barr's fifth mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon, set on Georgia's Cumberland Island National Seashore.