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Inscribed first edition of the first book of Lilith's Brood, also known as the Xenogenesis trilogy.
Inscribed first edition of the first book of Lilith's Brood, also known as the Xenogenesis trilogy.
Signed first hardcover edition of the first book in the Dragonriders of Pern series, first published as a paperback original in 1968.
Signed first printing of the fourth book in the Patternist series — inscribed to the owner of an important Black bookstore.
Inscribed first edition of this contemporary romance amid the mountains outside Seattle — from the small indie press of the Pacific Northwest, Goodfellow Press.
First edition, paperback original, of this Victorian historical romance, in which a Russian prince abducts the Lady Katherine — with a Duillo cover featuring an apparently nude hero in the tradition of the McGinnis/Lindsey covers.
First edition, paperback original, of Lindsey's first science-fiction romance.
First printing of the famed Dell edition, with the landmark gothic cover that anticipates the "woman running from the house" designs of the gothic romance wave a decade later.
First edition, publisher's file copy, of this unusual Cold War telepathy drama, a study of two men psychically linked by wartime experiments, reunited in the Middle East years later for a final struggle over geopolitical influence and occult corruption.
Inscribed first printing of this Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, adapted into the widely acclaimed HBO series of the same name.
Signed first edition of this Tess Monaghan mystery, which finds the Baltimore PI taking on her first case as an independent investigator – and following leads on a murderer that seem to point to the location of her new office.
Signed first edition of the author's first novel about an old-money young journalist who gets her first big break — by investigating her own family.
First edition of the author's second mystery novel, set in contemporary Kenya and featuring several expatriate Americans.
Signed first editions of the first 15 titles in Evanovich's popular series about a woman bounty hunter, from ONE FOR THE MONEY through LEAN MEAN THIRTEEN, and with the first two holiday novellas.
Signed first edition of the first Tess Monaghan book, in which the recently unemployed journalist and rower must take on some sleuthing jobs in Charm City to pay the bills.
First paperback edition of Piercy's feminist utopia, an early contribution to what would later be termed cyberpunk, the story of a Mexican American woman from Spanish Harlem.
First edition of MacLean's first short story collection, including her prescient 1950 classic "Incommunicado," anticipating the modern internet search engine and its many lurking horrors.
First edition of Winspear's third post-World-War-I historical mystery, in which detective Maisie Dobbs searches the spirit world and the mortal plane for a missing soldier.
Signed first printing of this hospital murder mystery, the story of Dr. Nora Sternberg, who turns sleuth when she uncovers a pattern of deaths of retired doctors and nurses after routine surgeries.
First printing of this Playboy Press paperback, in which the heroine is a surgeon at the Navy's Center for Medical Aerospace Research — riffing in its packaging on the genre of the medical romance, but decidedly not one itself.
First edition of the Ur-Gothic, the literary sensation credited by many for inaugurating one of the first major trends of the English novel — and the literary heart of Austen's NORTHANGER ABBEY, which is both a satire of and homage to it.
Signed first UK edition of the famous radical science fiction novel on gender and isolation by one of the most influential writers in the genre — an exceptionally beautiful copy.
Inscribed first printing of this second Callahan Garrity mystery, in which the cleaning lady cum sleuth is hired to track down the diary of a Civil War-era prostitute with surprising connections to a murderous antiques dealer — given to a fellow woman crime writer Janet Dawson.
Signed first printing of this mystery of a stolen Arapaho petroglyph with similarities to an old case that ended with a manslaughter conviction, an outcome that priest and sleuth Father John is determined to get to the bottom of.
Inscribed first edition of Ferris's tenth needlework mystery, with an appended knitting chart for recreating the American flag described in the novel; instructions for committing the story's knitting-needle murder are, however, not included.
Signed first edition of Barr's tenth mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon, set on and around Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway.