ELEPHANT'S GRAVEYARD
(1993)
First edition of the author's second mystery novel, set in contemporary Kenya and featuring several expatriate Americans.
Woman author
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.
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.
Collection of Stephanie Plum Books
1994-2007
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.
BALTIMORE BLUES
(1997)
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.
WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME
(1976)
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.
HUMAN?
(1954)
First edition of this eye-catching anthology of well-chosen eerie oddities, including stories by Margaret St. Clair (Idris Seabright), John D. MacDonald, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, John Collier, Isaac Asimov, don marquis, and Walter M. Miller.
THE LANGUAGE OF THE NIGHT: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
(1982)
First paperback edition of Le Guin's massively influential collected critical essays, including her "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie," "Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown," and "Is Gender Necessary?," followed by Jeff Levin's thorough bibliographical checklist.
THE DIPLOIDS
(1962)
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.
ROCANNON'S WORLD
1979
First UK edition of Le Guin's 1966 debut novel, a space opera blending ethnography and the tropes of high fantasy, set in the universe of her Hainish Cycle.
PARDONABLE LIES
(2005)
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.
THE CURE FOR REMEMBERING
(2007)
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.
KAREN EVANS M.D. #3: Space Medicine
(1982)
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.
BEWARE OF THE STRANGER
(1978)
First edition of this early Janet Dailey romance, the New York entry in her famed Americana series.
A GENTLE FEUDING
(1984)
First printing, Canadian issue of this marriage-of-convenience romance set in 16th-century Scotland featuring enemies to lovers — with the famed McGinnis cover.
THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO
1794
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.
THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS
(1969)
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.
TO LIVE & DIE IN DIXIE
(1993)
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.
THE DROWNING MAN
(2006)
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.
SINS AND NEEDLES
(2006)
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.
HUNTING SEASON
(2002)
Signed first edition of Barr's tenth mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon, set on and around Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway.
CARRETA DE LA MUERTE
(2001)
Signed first printing of this tale of murder in New Mexico, following a retired lawyer as she seeks to get to the bottom of a suspicious death during a fiesta.
THE EXPECTED ONE
(2006)
Inscribed first trade edition of this flamboyantly fanciful, semi-autobiographical "spiritual thriller," starring an intrepid Mary Magdalene and written by that saint's own self-proclaimed descendant, a sometime presenter on Ancient Aliens.
THE FLOATING GIRL
(2000)
Signed first edition of Massey's fourth mystery featuring Rei Shimura, antiquarian and part-time journalist, on assignment in Tokyo investigating the art of pre-war Japan (and murder).
