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Holbrook MA: Adams Media Corporation, 1999. This First American Edition includes the "letter line" starting with an "A" that indicates First Printing. Beautifully illustrated in period photos both in color, tinted, or in black-and-white, the author presents Agatha Christie's life, sometimes itself a mystery, her career, her world, and filmed productions of her stories and novels, often featuring Hercule Poirot… Read more

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009. This novel by the bestselling author of Fresh Kills involves one brother's attempt to rescue another brother from a nefarious past and the strange goings-on at a children's hospital, once a juvenile asylum. The book is a First Edition with a complete "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book… Read more

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2010. Benjamin Black (a pseudonym for Booker Prize winner John Banville) has followed his last mystery, Christine Falls, with a new, intricately layered work involving the disappearance of a young woman doctor in Dublin and the reformed alcoholic who tackles the case. The book is a Stated First Edition (and, unless it's stated, it's… Read more

New York: Scribner, 2010. When a bomb rips through a midtown Manhattan office tower, Aidan Cole must discover if the terrorists are from the Middle East or are the homegrown variety. This "clever, compelling page-turner" (Washington Post) is the author's first novel. This Stated First Edition includes a complete "number line" starting with a "1" to indicate First Printing.… Read more

New York: Dutton, 2009. This page-turning thriller of one man's fight against a secret terror group is in Fine, Brand New condition, with a Fine, Brand New uncut dust jacket. It is a stated First Printing from July, 2009 and has a complete "number line' starting with a "1". The book is bound in black-covered boards with a salmon-red spine… Read more

New York: Doubleday, 1995. John Grisham's breakthrough novel is a Twentieth Printing trade edition (NOT book club). It is in As New, unread, gift-giving condition. It comes with a price-unclipped dust jacket (with $19.95 and the printed price), also in As New condition. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. (Click on photo.) The book is bound… Read more

New York: Regan Books/Harper Collins, 1999. The book is a stated First Edition but with a "number line" ending with a "2". Award-winning journalist George Anastasia recreates the chilling, bizarre story of a sophistricated, powerful, but sociopathic lawyer who murdered his former lover and then attempted to frame another mistress for the crime, which is known metaphorically as killing two… Read more

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968. Kim Philby, "the best spy the Russians ever had", infiltrates the British Secret Intelligence Service and acts as a double agent for 33 years. The author, E.H. Cookridtge, was himself a secret agent and knew Philby over three decades. The book is a First Edition in Very Good+ condition, with a signature of the… Read more

Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1896. Celebrated Crimes was originally published in France between 1839-1840 in eight volumes. This First Edition Thus is an English translation published in 1896 by Joseph Knight Company of Boston. Unlike other American publishers who followed the French prototype of releasing this work of famous true crimes in eight volumes, this publisher chose instead to release… Read more

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001. This Stated First Edition from December 2001 (and, unless it's stated, it's not) also includes a "number line" ending with a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is in As New, unread condition, with an As New, price-unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival, Brodart protective sleeve. This is… Read more

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. This First Edition has the required "number line" ending with a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is in As New condition with an As New price-unclipped dust jacket. This biography of the well-loved philanthropist, Brooke Astor, also deals with the tragic family scandal of a son accused of mistreating his mother and of… Read more

Ontario, Canada: MIRA Books, 2002. This Stated First Printing from February 2002 also includes the "number line" ending in a "1" that also indicates First Printing. This novel from the famous Academy Award-nominated actress deals with a seriously ailing celebrity manager whose detailed journal has the goods on just about everyone. Oh, dear! The book is in Fine condition with… Read more

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1992. This anthology of adventure stories includes work by Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Fleming, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, James M. Cain, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rudyard Kipling, Cornell Woolrich, O.Henry, Robert Louis Stevenson, Honoré de Balzac, Anne McCaffrey, Lawrence Block, and many more. This hefty volume is a First Edition Thus with a… Read more

New York: Berkley Prime Crime Mystery, 2009. This Second Printing is in New, unread condition, with a New, price-unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. This is the eleventh novel in Victoria Thompson "Gaslight Mystery" series set in 1890's Manhattan and combines the mystery genre with historical fiction and romance. In this… Read more

New York: G.P. Putnam's, 2008. This First Edition includes the complete "number line" starting with a "1" to indicate First Printing. Part of Sandford's "Prey" series of mystery thrillers, this one involves the murder of a young heiress who has recently dabbled in the dark side of Goth culture. The book is bound in black paper-covered boards with a green… Read more

New York: Tor Fantasy, 2008. One of the latest in the Vlad Taltos series, this book is a Stated First Edition from July 2008 and includes a complete "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is in New condition with a New, price-unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective… Read more

New York: Berkley Prime Crime Mystery, 2008. This is the fifth mystery in the Aurora Teagarden series by Charlaine Harris (author of the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire series upon which HBO's True Blood is based). The book is in Fine condition with only minimal signs of wear (click on photo). In this novel, Roe's nemesis, Detective Sergeant Jack Burns,… Read more

New York: A Peter Glassman Book/SeaStar, 2001. This First U.S. Edition is in As New condition, with an As New price-unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. In Book Two of the Deptford Mice Trilogy, the mice had fled the horrors of the rat-infested city to the countryside, only to find themselves… Read more

Waterville, Maine: Wheeler Chivers, 2003. This is the seventh of eight Aurora Teagarden mysteries written by Charlaine Harris, noted author of the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire series, upon which HBO's "True Blood" is based. This Large Print edition is in close to Fine condition with a Fine dust jacket. It has some slight scarring on the front free endpaper where… Read more

New York: Vanguard Press, 2008. This First Edition, with a "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing is in New, unread condition, with a New, price-unclipped dust jacket. There are no remainder marks. If the U.S.'s current Administration hadn't been so adamant in its refusal to look "backward," Vincent Bugliosi's carefully researched and shocking legal case… Read more