THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
1963
First printing of Le Carré's masterpiece of moral ambiguity in Cold War espionage.
Genre Fiction
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
(1956)
First impression of the 4th James Bond book, in which the spy must infiltrate a smuggling ring in the black market diamond trade.
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
(1962)
First impression, the only book in the James Bond series told from the point of view of a woman rather than from Bond's own perspective.
THE THIN MAN
1934
First printing of Hammett's final novel, an unusually nice copy of a book difficult to find in collectible condition.
GAYWYCK
(1980)
First edition of the first conscientiously gay gothic romance: meditative, otherworldly, intimate, and allusive.
HAREM ISLAND
(1961)
First edition of this sleaze exposé of polygamous Mormon prophet Jesse James Strang, his beautiful cross-dressing wife Elvira, and his leadership of the Strangites as Revelator and King of Michigan's Beaver Island.
INDIGO SLAM
(1997)
Signed first edition of Crais's seventh Elvis Cole mystery, nominated for the Shamus Award for best private investigator novel.
ELEPHANT'S GRAVEYARD
(1993)
First edition of the author's second mystery novel, set in contemporary Kenya and featuring several expatriate Americans.
ESCAPADE
(1995)
Signed first edition of this comic historical mystery, in which Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini team up to solve a crime.
RADAR ALERT
(1968)
First US edition of this sci-fi novel of nefarious First Contact with alien outsiders who infect the mind of the first human to notice them.
UNDER THE BRIGHT LIGHTS
(1986)
First printing of the first book in acclaimed Woodrell's Bayou Trilogy of crime novels taking place in the fictional Southern neighborhood of Frogtown.
CUT TO: MURDER
(1995)
Signed first edition of the second installment in the Queenie Davilov mystery series, in which Q must find a missing screenwriter — and finish his script.
DEATH OF A BOOKSELLER
(1956)
Rare first edition of this classic mystery exploring the dark crimes born of the evil impulse to acquire rare books without paying a fair market price for them.
CONAN DOYLE'S BEST BOOKS
[circa 1904]
Uncommon complete three-volume set of this attractive illustrated "Sherlock Holmes Edition," with a straight pipe-smoking Holmes pictorial cloth binding design.
THE WEST END HORROR
(1976)
First edition of Meyer's second Sherlockian pastiche, concerning a pair of theatrical murders and cast of suspicious characters including George Bernard Shaw, Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker, and Oscar Wilde.
BLOOD ON BAKER STREET
(1940)
Abridged edition of Boucher's THE CASE OF THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS, cut down to a fraction of its former self "to speed up the story" for the reader under doctor's orders to strictly limit their daily intake of Sherlockian metafiction.
THE REVELATIONS OF INSPECTOR MORGAN
1907
First US edition of these collected detective stories, with a nine-page miniature Sherlock Holmes pastiche embedded in the author's introduction.
THE ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES
(1986)
First single-volume edition of Baring-Gould's annotated and indexed edition of Doyle's four novels and fifty-six short stories, extensively illustrated with maps, diagrams, photographs, and drawings by Doyle, Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele, and numerous others.
THE BEST ENGLISH DETECTIVE STORIES OF 1928
1929
Uncommon first U.S. edition of this Golden Age anthology, with an introductory essay by Knox expanding on his Rules of Detective Fiction and stories by Agatha Christie, Marie Belloc-Lowndes, Maurice Leblanc, Baroness Orczy, and others.
THE LOTTERY
1949
First printing of Jackson's spectacular first collection of short fiction.
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
1959
First edition, review copy with publisher's slip, of the greatest haunted house novel of the twentieth century.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S "SHERLOCK HOLMES" STORIES
(1969-1970)
Boxed set of Berkley's paperback Authorized Editions, with classic cover art by William Teason.
THE FEMALE MAN
(1975)
First edition, first printing of Russ's New Wave masterpiece, a kaleidoscopic feminist vision of a woman's alternate lives on and off Earth, in the stifling present and possible futures.
THE FALL OF THE TOWERS
(1970)
First edition thus, the first collected edition of three of Delany's earliest novels: CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, THE TOWERS OF TORON, and CITY OF A THOUSAND SUNS.
THE CITY AND THE STARS
(1957)
First paperback printing of Clarke's classic SF novel, an extensively rewritten version of his earlier AGAINST THE FALL OF NIGHT, in uncommonly good condition.
