New York: Little Brown, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 373pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 black paper with red paper over boards, and a red ink stamped title on the backstrip. Signed on the title page in the year of publication by Pelecanos. More
New York: Little Brown & Co, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 264pp. Octavo [24 cm] Hardbound in purple paper-covered boards. Signed and dated by Pelecanos "August 23, 1997" on the title page. More
New York: Little Brown & Co., 2000. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 299pp. Octavo [24 cm] Hardbound, with black paper spine and gray paper-covered boards. Very good. The covers and text block edges are lightly foxed. The dust jacket is in very good condition as well. The rear panel is lightly..... More
New York: Little Brown & Co., 1998. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 298pp. Octavo [24 cm] Hardbound, with black paper spine and brown paper-covered boards. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Pelecanos on the front flyleaf. Dennis Lehane writes, "One of the best crime novelists alive, George Pelecanos is..... More
New York: Little Brown & Co., 2008. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 294pp. Octavo [24 cm] Black paper over boards. Near fine, in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. "Few novelists have chronicled urban crime as convincingly as George Pelecanos." - Jeffrey A. Tractenberg..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903. First American edition. Hardcover. 361pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Olive green cloth over boards with lettering and decorative stamping on the backstrip and front board. The covers are cocked, and the backstrip and board edges are a bit darkened. There is a contemporary owner's..... More
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 389pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 green paper with dark red paper covered boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Perry on the title page. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 308pp. Large octavo [24.5 cm] Blue paper covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The spine is mildly rolled. In a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Anne Perry on the title page. Anne Perry's short..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Shadow Mountain, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 522pp. Large octavo [24 cm] 1/4 blue paper with mustard yellow paper covered boards and gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. near fine. The spine is ever so slightly rolled back. The extremities are very lightly..... More
Orlando, FL: An Otto Penzler Book / Harcourt, Inc., 2007. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 439pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 red paper with black paper covered boards. Very good. There is a small barely perceptible stain on the front cover, and the rear board is just a tiny bit warped. In..... More
London: Museum Street Thriller; Arthur Barker Limited, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 255pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Dark blue cloth-effect paper over boards. Very good plus condition. The head of the spine is bumped, and the front cover is just a little concave. The pictorial dust jacket is in very good..... More
New York: G. W. Dillingham Co, 1905. Early reprint. Hardcover. 354pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Light green cloth lettered and decoratively stamped in brown on the spine and front cover. Illustrated frontispiece. There is a small area of staining on the rear cover, and the cloth at the head of the..... More
New York: Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2005. Later printing. Paperback. 655 pp. Octavo. Black and red covers. "An enormous achievement... The story it tells is an American tragedy, one that is impossible to put down or look away from." -Stephen King Richard Price returns to the gritty urban landscape of his New..... More
New York: Vintage, 2003. Later printing. Paperback. 377 pp. Octavo. Black and red covers. Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and..... More
New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, June, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 288pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Gray boards with silver stamped title on backstrip. Fine/Fine. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. Latest installment in the long running Nameless detective series. More
New York: Penzler Publishers, 2018. First edition thus. Paperback. 250pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. A topsy-turvy crime scene sends a detective on a puzzling quest for the truth. The offices of foreign literature publisher and renowned stamp collector Donald Kirk are often host to strange activities, but the most recent..... More
New York: Penzler Publishers, 2019. First edition thus. Paperback. 300pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. fter a wealthy woman is strangled in a hospital full of relatives and friends, Ellery Queen searches for her deadly enemy. When Ellery Queen, described by the London Times as “the logical successor to Sherlock Holmes,”..... More
New York: Severn House, 2002. First world edition. Hardcover. 248pp. Octavo [22 cm] Glossy illustrated hardcover boards. Fine / Fine. Ann Quinton is the author of The Sleeping and the Dead and This Mortal Coil. More
London: Orion Books Ltd, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 406pp. Octavo [24 cm] Black paper over boards. The top third of the rear cover is a bit bent, and there is a prominent ding to the bottom edge of the front cover. In a dust jacket, with the publisher's "Special..... More
New York: Penzler Publishers, 2019. American Mystery Classics First Edition. Paperback. 237 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. "Everyone involved seems to agree that mild-mannered Herbert Wynne wasn't the type to commit suicide but, after he is found shot dead, with the only other possible killer being his ailing, bedridden..... More
New York: A. L. Burt Company, Circa 1933. An early Burt reprint. Hardcover. 319pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with red ink stamping. Publisher's red topstain. The spine is a bit sloped, and the extremities are gently bumped. The front endpaper has a contemporary gift inscription. From the..... More
New York: A Dutton Book, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 326pp. 1/4 blue paper with bright red paper covered boards, and a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on a bookplate that has been mounted to the front..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. 275pp. Octavo [20 cm] Black cloth over boards. The covers are cocked, and the spine and boards are a bit faded at the edges. In the pictorial dust jacket, with toning, and a number of shallow closed and open tears in..... More
New York: A Thomas Dunne Book / St. Martin's Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 237pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Burgundy paper covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the covers and spine are lightly bumped and rubbed. The spine is very mildly..... More