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New York: Dodd, Mead. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Written in 1937, but unpublished until . 1973. Prior owner bookplate front pastedown, mostly covered by jacket's . price-clipped front flap; light edge soil.. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. This play tells the tale of King Akhnaton, his beautiful wife Nefertiti, and his doomed attempt to replace the old religion of ancient Egypt with a new religion of love. ; 7.8 X 5.3 X 0.9 inches; 157 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket has light wrinkling to spine . head. Binder error causing tear to top pf pgs 84 - 86, not affecting text.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches; 393 pages .

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; Book has a slight lean.. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Sam Pulsifer spent ten years in prison for accidentally burning down poet Emily Dickinson's house, and emerged at age twenty-eight to create a new life for himself. Then watched in awe as his past catches up to him. One by one, the homes of other famous New Englad writers are torched, and Sam knows he's not the guilty one. To prove his innocence, Sam sets out to find the real arsonist. What he discovers, and how he dels with that reality, is both hilariously funny and heartbreakingly sad. ; 9.0 X 6.6 X 1.2 inches; 305 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Second in the Hawkenlye Mystery . series. Light jacket wear.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Hidden in the depths of Wealden Forest, a man hacks at the thick roots of a fallen oak tree. Drawn to the clearing by a strange and eerie song, he witnesses a sight that sends sudden, agonizing fear through his body. ; Hawkenlye Mystery Trilogy; 8.5 X 5.7 X 1.1 inches; 256 pages .

New York: Hyperion. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Remainder mark top edge; light edge . crinkles to jacket.. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Trouble is on the way when the corpse isn't even cold and Hitch is already on the scene. Before the police. It's murder and the apparent killer wants Hitch to scoop up the body and dump it into an unmarked grave. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 355 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread. Superficial scratches . to back panel of jacket.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. In the wake of an assassination attempt on the SVR (former KGB) chairman, newly elected U. S. President Jack Ryan puts black ops specialist John Clark on the alert, only to have things complicated by dangerous forces in China. ; 9 x 6 x 2.25 inches; 1028 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Faint soiling top edge; minimal wear . to jacket.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. When a series of yuppie deaths by cocaine overdose are reported to the medical examiner's office, Dr. Laurie Montgomery's curiosity is piqued. And when the families of the deceased uniformly swear that their loved ones weren't involved with drugs, that curiosity intensifies. ; 8.3 X 5.5 X 1.4 inches; 429 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Remainder mark bottom edge, small spot . front endpaper; jacket with rubbing and edge wrinkles.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. The author unites his two great characters - Milo Milodragovitch and CW Sughrue - teaming them together on a journey that fishtails through clouds of dust and pools of blood from Montana to the Texas-Mexico border. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 320 pages .

New York: Grand Central Publishing. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read. Minor wear to . front panel of jacket.. 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. A man whose past is shrouded in mystery must find a missing teenager before her disappearance brings about disastrous consequences for her community...and the world beyond. ; 9.2 X 6.3 X 1.3 inches; 384 pages .

New York: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first novel. Front board . slightly bowed.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Detective Derek Smailes probes the 'suicide' of a Cambridge University graduate student and finds himself searching for the last of the infamous Ring of Five, the Cambridge spy ring recruited by the KGB on the 1930s. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 388 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read. Jacket with . minor edge wear, covered in mylar.. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Detective Masao Masuto becomes entangled in the seamy underside of life in glittering Beverly Hills when Angel Barton, Hollywood sex goddess, is kidnapped from her Malibu house. ; 8.5 X 5.9 X 1.0 inches; 149 pages .

New York: Crown. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book is straight and tight with edge . foxing; some soiling to paper jacket.. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Amid the drugs and cult mysticism of the Edwardian underworld, Sherlock Holmes encounters the world's most evil genius and his plan to destroy western civilization. ; 9.25 x 6 x 0.75 inches; 156 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Book has a slight lean. Jacket has . scuffing abrasions to front edge, a closed tear and wrinkling to front top . edge, tiny chips to spine ends, and is protected in mylar.. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. When a pregnant sixteen-year-old blonde tells Graham Kirby that his brother is the father, Kirby finds himself caught up not only in the girl's problem, but also in a murder committed and in one about to happen. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 189 pages .

London: Hard Case Crime. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; James Cain's final novel, not . published prior to this Hard Case Crime edition. Book with toned edges and . minor top edge wrinkling to jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional offer of marriage. .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Edge browning. Minor wear to jacket . corners.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Life becomes complicated for Ozzie Barrett, banker turned trawlerman, when his favorite uncle is found at the scene of a murder. ; 8.5 x 5.75 x 1.0 inches; 308 pages .

New York: Harper & Row. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Edge foxing and light board soil. Jacket . has 2-inch tear at front top edge near spine, light rubbing and minor wear . at spine ends. "First Edition" on copyright page; number line beginning . with 1 is at the bottom of page 252.. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. It was April 1927 and novelist Jeff Caldwell, New Orleans born and bred but educated in the North, was coming back home. And soon finds himself embroiled in old legends and new terrors, in local politics, and eventually in a very murderous atmosphere. ; 8.25 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 252 pages .

New York: St Martins Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Tiny bump top corner front board. . Jacket with light edge wear.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Hadrian Bascombe, eccentric bachelor recluse, summons the remaining members of his family to announce his imminent death. Each is interviewed in turn but when the company leaves, he has given no more than ambiguous hints of his intentions. On their way home, the two youngest guests meet with a serious accident. The Thames Valley Police are alerted to possible foul play, and when further violence reduces the number of potential heirs, Superintendent Mike Yeadings decide the family has become death-prone. ; 8.3 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 219 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Small spot of soil on bottom edge. . Tiny tear top spine edge and light shelf wear to jacket.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Called out of retirement to serve as National Security Advisor to the president, Jack Ryan, with the help of CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez, must prepare the untested president to meet the challenges of a new world order. ; 9 x 6 x 2 inches; 766 pages .

New York: Emily Bestler Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one wants to admit it. ; 6 X 1.9 X 9 inches; 448 pages .

New York: Atheneum Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book has some light fading to top . edge. Jacket has some shelf wear and superficial scratches on the back.. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Popular artist Wil Garretson is drawn into a maze of art fraud and danger when he is asked for help by a woman he has long loved but who is married to someone else. Sally has witnessed a cold-blooded murder and the trail that Wil follows leads directly to some of his oldest friends. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 288 pages .