Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. On the LNWR train a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley, con-man, thief and murderer, has one last ace up his sleeve: a ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save her lover. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to fellow mystery author Barry Estabrook on title page. Author's first book, a mystery introducing Long Island detective Joe LaLuna, a "great cop who has hit a bad spot." And then he discovers that the wealthy husband of his former high school sweetheart has been murdered - and she is the most likely suspect. Clean copy
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book, a mystery introducing Long Island detective JoeLaLuna, a "great cop who has hit a bad spot." And then he discovers that the wealthy husband of his former high school sweetheart has been murdered - and she is the most likely suspect.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First published in the UK in 1993.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 391 pages. A very clean, tight copy. In Blood Work, Michael Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn't looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria's death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb's chest is Gloria's. Blood Work won the Grand Prix, the highest honor for a mystery novel in France. It also won the Anthony Award and Macavity Award for Best Novel of 1998.
Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Foreword by Michael Connelly. 414 pages. In 2010, Ted Geltner drove to Gainesville, Florida, to pay a visit to Harry Crews and ask the legendary author if he would be willing to be the subject of a literary biography. His health rapidly deteriorating, Crews told Geltner he was on board and would even sit for interviews and tell his stories one last time. Ask me anything you want, bud, Crews said. But you'd better do it quick. The result is Blood, Bone, and Marrow, the first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction. With books such as Scar Lover, Body, and Naked in Garden Hills, Crews opened a new window into southern life, focusing his lenson the poor and disenfranchised, the people who skinned the hogs and tended the fields, the grits, as Crews affectionately called his characters and himself. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Taplinger, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white drawings by Alice Caddy. Judge Black and J.C. the sporty fox go down to Tickpaw in marsh country below New Orleans to help. people there resist a terrible coyote invasion from the West. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton Juvenile, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Eleven-year-old Tessa deals with the death of her older brother and the grief affecting her family. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Walker & Co., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PRONZINI on title page. Pronzini is at the top of his game with this work. Set in a desert community in Nevada, the story lives up to the author's fine storytelling ability.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The author has signed without inscription on a tipped-in page after front fly leaf. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs.
Hardcover. New York, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. SIGNED BY LENSKI ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Black & white illustrations by Lenski. Spot of soiling/darkening to paper on inside front pastedown. Blue cloth covers with light fading to spine - standard wear otherwise. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped in black and red. #3 in the Bob Dexter series. Color frontispiece. Clean copy. By the author of the "Boy Ranchers" series, this is book #3 in the short-lived, 7- book YA detective series published 1925-1933.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with blue cloth covers with light fading. 337 pages, b&w illustrations by Charles Cartwright. Ex-lib with discreet stamping and light residue on front endpapers. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Garden City Publishing, reprint, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket and pictorial covers. Light edge wear to covers. Illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Previous owner's name and bookplate in front.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth with red and black design, 311 pages. Volume in the Motor Power Series for older boys. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & McClure, reprint, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with illustrated label on front cover, 350 pages. An early printing of this dog classic. Name on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in orange cloth covers with blue lettering. 114 pages, illustrated with 4 b&w photographs. The amazing and true story of Bobbie, a collie from Silverton, Oregon, who got lost in Indiana during a family vacation in the summer of 1923. Bobbie managed to find his way back to Oregon in 1924. Charles Alexander's book reconstructs the arduous 2800 mile journey. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Softcover. London, Serpent's Tail, 1st UK, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. The debut novel by the author of CHANGO'S FIRE, the story of the "king" of Spanish Harlem and the smart, promising young man to whom he turns for a favor.