THE IDOLS OF THE CAVE.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1946. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 373 pages. First edition. Minor chipping to dust jacket, else near fine. READ MORE about THE IDOLS OF THE CAVE
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THE IDOLS OF THE CAVE.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1946. 8vo. cloth. 373 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. A very good copy. READ MORE about THE IDOLS OF THE CAVE
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 137596
BURGLAR WHO LIKED TO QUOTE KIPLING.
New York: Random House, (1979). 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 196 pages. Book Club Edition. A near fine copy. Secondhand bookstore owner and former thief, Bernie Rhodenbarr, becomes involved in the theft of a scarce Kipling book. Enjoyable mystery set in the rare book world. READ MORE about BURGLAR WHO LIKED TO QUOTE KIPLING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 33688
PARNASSUS ON WHEELS.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., (1955). 8vo. half cloth boards, dust jacket. 253, (3) pages. First edition with these illustrations. Given out as a dividend by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Illustrated by Douglass Gorsline.Jacket has some tears and chipping to the edges and spine. Else near fine. READ MORE about PARNASSUS ON WHEELS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134976
LEN DEIGHTON, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1954-1985.
With a Foreword by Julian Symons.
Maidstone: The Sammler Press, (1985). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 64 pages. With a Foreword by Julian Symons. First edition, one of 375 numbered copies signed by Deighton and containing a signed uncorrected page proof from one of his novels. A fine copy in fine jacket. READ MORE about LEN DEIGHTON, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1954-1985
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 15175
THE DA VINCI CODE.
New York: Doubleday, (2003). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 454 pages. First edition. The novel has helped perpetuate popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and the role of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity. According to the premise of the novel, the Vatican knows it is living a lie, but continues to do so to keep itself in power. It is a worldwide bestseller with more than 60.5 million copies in..... READ MORE about THE DA VINCI CODE
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 94234
THE DA VINCI CODE.
New York: Doubleday, (2003). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 454 pages. First edition. The novel has helped perpetuate popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and the role of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity. According to the premise of the novel, the Vatican knows it is living a lie, but continues to do so to keep itself in power. It is a worldwide bestseller with more than 60.5 million copies in..... READ MORE about THE DA VINCI CODE
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 105311
THE DA VINCI CODE.
New York: Doubleday, (2003). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 454 pages. Printed in the United States of America April 2003 "40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33". The novel has helped perpetuate popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and the role of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity. According to the premise of the novel, the Vatican knows it is living a lie, but continues to do so to keep..... READ MORE about THE DA VINCI CODE
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 134387
PLOT COUNTER-PLOT.
New York, NY: Walker, 1974. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. First US edition. Her third book a mystery involving two novelists. Fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about PLOT COUNTER-PLOT
Price: $15.00 save 50% $7.50 Order nr. 135229
THE CUNNING MAN: A NOVEL.
New York: Viking, 1995. 8vo. paper over boards, dust jacket. 469 pages. First edition. William Robertson Davies (1913 - 1995) was an award-winning, internationally renowned Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters." Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto. "His novels will be recognized..... READ MORE about THE CUNNING MAN: A NOVEL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137229
KILLED IN PARADISE.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1988). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. (viii), 182, (2) pages. First edition. Light wear to book and dust jacket. Set on a Caribbean cruise, there is murder and mayhem all around Network vice-president and chief troubleshooter Matt Cobb. All of the Matt Cobb series have Killed in the title. READ MORE about KILLED IN PARADISE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 91877
THE SCHOLARS OF NIGHT.
New York, NY: TOR Books, 1988. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 313 pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Paul Stinson and design by Joe Curcio. READ MORE about THE SCHOLARS OF NIGHT
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 135257
THE BOLD HOUSE MURDERS.
New York: Stein and Day, 1973. small 8vo. quarter cloth, boards, dust jacket. 191+(1) pages. First edition. Best-selling author Osborne Kilgore takes out a very large life insurance policy, with his wife and publisher as beneficiaries. No one seems to like him very much, and, unfortunately for him, he likes wild mushrooms. Bookplate. "Eugene Franklin" is a pseudonym. Jacket slightly worn, else near fine. READ MORE about THE BOLD HOUSE MURDERS
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THE SEASON OF DANGER.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1974. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 186 pages. Book club edition. Jacket slightly worn and spine is faded. Spot along edge of free endpaper. The whole interview set-up is strange, with remarkably attentive guards hanging about, journalist Jack Seavering decides, and then the interviewee, " America's most famous novelist," writes HELP in the dirt and quickly rubs it out with his shoe before anyone besides Seavering can read it..... READ MORE about THE SEASON OF DANGER
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 49911
MURDER AT TOMORROW.
New York: Walker Publ. Co., 1982. small 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 189 pages. First edition. Bookplate of Philip Allen Metzger on front pastedown. Large stain on front free endpaper, date stamp on half-title page. Mark Exeter, publisher of the news weekly "Tomorrow" hires private eye Nick Nicoletti to look into matters relating to the magazine staff and to Exeter's own upcoming divorce. Soon, Nicoletti is also looking into Exeter's murder. READ MORE about MURDER AT TOMORROW
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 49903
HEMINGWAY'S NOTEBOOK.
The new 'November man' novel
New York: Crown Publishers, (1986). 8vo. quarter bound in cloth. (vi), 248 pages. The new 'November man' novel. "The November Man is back in action in his steamiest adventure yet as he heads for one of today's hottest political cauldrons-the Caribbean." Granger is the author of five previous novels about the November Man. He won the Edgar Award in 1980 and his articles appeared regularly in magazines and newspapers and is a columnist for the..... READ MORE about HEMINGWAY'S NOTEBOOK
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FIVE BELLS AND BLADEBONE.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1987. (1987), 8vo., cloth- backed boards, dust jacket. (viii), 299 pages. Reprint of first edition. A dismembered body is found in a antique piece of furniture. Was the murderer Theo Wrenn Browne, owner of Long Pidd's bookshop? Near fine. READ MORE about FIVE BELLS AND BLADEBONE
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THE CHRISTIE CAPER.
New York: Bantam, 1991. 8vo. quarter cloth, with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xi, 317 pages. First edition. What is Neil Bledsoe, "the most despised book critic in America" (dust jacket) doing at the Agatha Christie convention? Who is trying to do something to him? Near fine. READ MORE about THE CHRISTIE CAPER
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LITTLE CLASS ON MURDER.
New York: Doubleday, (1989). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 215+(1) pages. Annie Laurance, proprietor of the Death on Demand mystery bookshop, is asked to teach a course on the three great ladies of mystery. She becomes involved in a murder mystery, of course. READ MORE about LITTLE CLASS ON MURDER
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POLO IN THE ROUGH.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. small 8vo. paper-covered boards. (viii), 181 pages. First edition. Very minor chipping to the dust jacket, else a near fine copy. Nick Polo rather enjoys being a bodyguard to journalist Jack Slate, who has come to Pebble Beach to play golf. But Slate's journalism has annoyed someone... A Nick Polo Mystery. READ MORE about POLO IN THE ROUGH
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 51876
COPPER BEECHES.
New York: Trident Press, (1971). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 317 pages. First edition, second printing. A Sherlockiana story in which the Sons of the Copper Beeches, a branch of the Baker Street Irregulars, challenges its members with a "Chase." The winner gets a $100,000 collection of Sherlockian manuscripts. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. READ MORE about COPPER BEECHES
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COPPER BEECHES.
New York: Trident Press, (1971). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 317 pages. First edition, second printing. A Sherlockiana story in which the Sons of the Copper Beeches, a branch of the Baker Street Irregulars, challenges its members with a "Chase." The winner gets a $100,000 collection of Sherlockian manuscripts. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. READ MORE about COPPER BEECHES
Price: $25.00 save 50% $12.50 Order nr. 135279
BLOOD KNOT.
London: Michael Joseph, (1991). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 308 pages. First edition. Signed on the title page by the author. Former journalist is plunged into a maze of political cover-ups and violent death which begins innocently enough on a sailing trip with some reforming juvenile delinquents. READ MORE about BLOOD KNOT
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 89653
FIRST LOYALTY.
London: MacMillan London Ltd., 1986. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 253 pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. Poets make poems, but what makes poets? In an age of manufactured celebrity, why not the KGB? Dissident poet Evgeny Shar is not what he seems--a new kind of agent? READ MORE about FIRST LOYALTY
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 53645
MURDER BY THE BOOK.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1995). 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xii, 290 pages. First edition, later printing. Twenty short stories with a literary theme, written by some old favorites such as James Thurber and Dorothy L. Sayers, as well as contemporaries such as Bill Pronzini, Margaret Maron and Ruth Rendell. Includes "The Private Eye Who Collected Pulps." Near fine in near fine jacket. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books..... READ MORE about MURDER BY THE BOOK
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 44697