Tripwire by Child, Lee - 1999

First UK edition 1st printing, the 1985 Edgar winning title, Near Fine book flawed by uncut final two pages; these were opened badly resulting in a small closed tear and small chip to last page edge, while next to last page edge has a 3/4 by 1/4 inch triangular shaped chip, slight page edge toning, in a Near Fine jacket that is lightly sunned on spine with two very light, unobtrusive, overwrite lines on front panel. Signed by Wright on the title page. Very rare with price (flap shows pounds 9.50 net) and very rare signed by Wright.

Lettered limited first edition bound in quarter morocco and marbled boards. Fine book, dust jacket, and slipcase new from publisher. This was first in a planned new McMillan series of Woolrich books that sadly did not happen. This book features Woolrich stories that are light and breezy in the style of F. Scott Fitzgerald. These stories were published in several magazines during the late 1920s and the 1930s. Woolrich scholar Nevins has written an introduction and a short note about each story. He feels that the early Woolrich stories provide an essential prefiguring for Woolrich's transition to the mystery genre. This is copy VVV of 156 such copies, still in publisher's shrinkwrap and signed by Nevins on the limitation page.

New York: Scribner, 1996. Signed by the author. First edition / First printing. One of 2,500 copies of a special limited signed edition that were sent to friends of publisher and author. Black paper spine, brown paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Publisher's promotional bookmark laid in.

NY: Viking, 1984. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1984. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED~INSCRIBED by author. AS NEW, bound in dusty rose and tan boards in maroon pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Debut of Lewis 'Shifty' Anderson magician, horseplayer, now add sleuth. INSCRIBED on half title page ~ December 18, 1985 For Ruth and Al, new friends who have an absolutely lovely shop, with many thanks, Bill Murray ~ and SIGNED ~ William Murray ~ on title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Hutchinson, 1983. First. Fine/Fine. Ruth Barbara Rendell (1930 â€" 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries She is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford in a series of two dozen books Her Wexford stories were dramatized in a long-running BBC series Like her friend PD James, Ms Rendell was widely credited with pushing mystery into new themes and ways of storytelling It was often said of her, as it was of Ms James, that her work transcended the genre, and that by any measure she was an enormously talented writer She wrote more than 60 books, and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages and have had worldwide sales estimated as high as 60 million She won three prestigious Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, which named her to its list of grandmasters She also won four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger from England's Crime Writers' Association This title is the 12th book in the Wexford series It is in excellent… Read More

Like New/tight binding. No wear to dj. but scratched. Inscribed on Front End page "To Jim, God Bless!! (with a smiley underneath) Deanna Favre.

[Buenos Aires]: [La Toldería], [2002]. Hardcover. Very Good +. Small 4to. Unpaged. Bound in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Text in Spanish. Inscribed on title page by Barugel's husband, artist Nicolás Rubió: "Los recordaré siempre Tengo/buena memoria/N. Rubió" Very Good+, light scuffing to covers, otherwise bright and clean.

Five Star Waterville, Maine, 2006 HBDJ, August 2006, stated 1st edition, NF+/VG+, This book is very good +condition except for minor shelf wear.287 pgs,Alex Night moves out of the private eye business on Larchmont Boulevard in Hollywood and into the mystery writing profession at the WRITERS AND ARTISTS BUILDING in Beverly Hills, where he intends to follow in the footsteps of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But Night is persistently plagued by former clients who won't let him get past the title page of his potential Edgar Award mystery novel The Big Changeover. After too many false starts and near fatal distractions, Night finds himself on the treacherous trail of two missing objects. The first: an Imperial Fabergi Egg, The Tear of Russia, given by William Randolph Hearst over a half century ago to his mistress - --a Fabergi now valued at over ten million dollars. The second: his missing fianci, the beautiful Goldie Rose. It's soon evident that Goldie has been kidnapped, but by whom - and… Read More

New York: Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, 2001. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. 8vo. Unpaged. Bound in full black cloth, stamped in white on cover and spine, black and white photograph laid onto front cover, in translucent white dust jacket printed in black. Black and white photographs accompanied by the words of theologian and philosopher Howard Thurman. Signed and numbered by Moutoussamy-Ashe in silver ink on inside of rear cover, this is 107 of 250 copies. Inscribed in silver ink on front free endpaper to Simone Levitt (widow of real estate developer William Levitt) and her close friend, fashion retailer Janet Brown: "For Simone Levitt/and/Janet Brown/with my appreciation/and very best wishes,/Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe/12-6-01". Near Fine, minor shelf wear to extremities, otherwise sharp and clean, in Very Good+ dust jacket with light wear and soiling to extremities.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010. Signed on the title page by Jonathan Franzen. First edition / First printing. The first issue dust jacket with no Oprah logo. Black paper spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.