THE WORKS OF VIRGIL
1769
Lovely three-volume pocket edition of Dryden's translation of the AENEID, ECOLOGUES, and GEORGICS, printed by the famed Scottish Enlightenment printers, the Foulis brothers.
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LA DIVINA COMMEDIA DI DANTE ALIGHIERI
1808, 1809
Beautifully bound first edition of Zotti's annotated DIVINE COMEDY, primarily designed for British women learning Italian and dedicated by the editor to three aristocratic women patrons.
SOMETHING WONDERFUL
(1988)
First edition of this classic historical romance — with the original stepback cover design.
CONCRETE DESERT
(2001)
Inscribed first printing of this Arizona murder mystery, in which ex-history professor David Mapstone picks up a temp job at the police department only to find some of the cases he's working on are not as cold as they seem.
GONNA TAKE A HOMICIDAL JOURNEY
(1998)
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.
JAZZ FUNERAL
(1993)
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.
THE MEASURABLE WORLD
(1995)
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.
EVERY LAST CENT
(2001)
Signed first edition of the twenty-second mystery novel featuring Lovejoy, an unscrupulous antiques dealer; the books were adapted into a long-running television program for the BBC, starring Ian McShane.
BLIND DESCENT
(1998)
Signed first edition of Barr's sixth mystery novel featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon, set in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns.
PRACTICE TO DECEIVE
(1992)
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.
BRIDESMAIDS REVISITED
(2000)
Signed first printing of this cozy mystery, in which Ellie Haskell must solve a 50-year-old murder mystery with the help of her dead grandmother's (psychic?) friends and a foul-mouthed parrot.
THE MAN WHO CAST TWO SHADOWS
(1995)
Signed first edition, review copy, of the second mystery starring Kathleen Mallory, NYPD sergeant and "sociopath," with original publisher's promotional materials laid in.
SNAPSHOT
(1993)
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.
THYME OF DEATH
(1992)
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.
ARTHUR R. MACDOUGALL, JR. MAINE AUTHOR: A Bibliography
1983
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.
KILLING TIME IN ST. CLOUD
(1988)
Doubly signed first edition of this mystery novel, a collaboration between Hill and ORDINARY PEOPLE author Guest.
THE GREAT GATSBY
1925
First edition, first printing of the famed novel exploring the poisons laced into the American dream.
THE MISTS OF AVALON
1982
Inscribed first printing of Bradley's influential re-evaluation of Arthurian legend.
BET ME
(2004)
First edition of this RITA award-winning romance, one of the most acclaimed single-title contemporaries yet of the 21st century.
SKY WOMAN FALLING
(2003)
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.
CARDINAL MAHONY
2008
Signed first printing of a Catholic thriller by a former Jesuit and journalist, imagining an American Catholic utopia that arises after a bishop is kidnapped.
TREASURE OF KHAN
(2006)
Signed first printing of this Mongolian thriller, in which Dirk Pitt must get to the bottom of the connection between a murderous oil tycoon and the fabled grave of Genghis Kahn – the second novel Clive co-authored with his son.
TICKET OUT
(2003)
Signed first printing of this LA murder mystery, which finds movie critic Ann Whitehead donning a sleuth hat when a young film student winds up dead in her bathtub, while coming to terms with her feelings for the LAPD investigator also working the case.
TO THE POWER OF THREE
(2005)
Signed limited first edition of this twisted mystery of three high school girls whose friendship ends after one of them tries to murder the other two for unknown reasons.
A GIFT UPON THE SHORE
(1990)
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.
