Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOSWELL on title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A homicide detective investigates the murder of an old friend's daughter, and when a third friend is suspected all must confront their haunting past. Stated first edition. First printing with correct full number line sequence. Basis for the 2003 Academy Award winning film starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 3rd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY HIAASEN ON TITLE PAGE. Blue boards, red cloth spine with gilt titles, bright color illustrated jacket with acetate protective covering. Slight rubbing to acetate covering, otherwise dust jacket, covers and pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. New York, Douglas & McIntyre, 2nd pr., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front-fly leaf otherwise a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 419 pages, dark blue covers with two color decoration. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering on the spine and front cover, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 365 pages. Rear dj lists to Betty Zane. No markings.
Hardcover. Idle Ridge Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 361 pages. Never a Cloud is a big old-fashioned, contemporary, social novel narrated by Violet Grey, an eccentric, out-of-the-ordinary loner, living on the coast of Maine. The deeply emotional love story of a complicated family in an enchanted place. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. On Mardi Gras, civic leader and socialite Chauncey St. Amant is about to be crowned Rex, King of Carnival, when someone costumed as Dolly Parton shoots him dead from his best friend's balcony overlooking the parade. Is the killer aimless, promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual, mistreated son Henry? Helpless, alcoholic wife Bitty? Female rookie cop Skip Langdon uncovers a cast of intriguing characters, all as much Chauncey's victims as they are suspects in his murder, most of them inhabiting a "poison garden of corruption" and substance abuse where it's not just on Mardi Gras that everyone wears a mask. The first Skip Langdon Mystery. Clean copy. Edgar Award Wimmer, 1991.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 276 pages. Out of print. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with small dent to spine. Dust jacket with slight soiling, chipping and small tear to front cover. Overall a very nice, tight copy in protective, clear brodart cover.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards with a black cloth spine, 273 pages. Grubb's first book which was made into a Charles Laughton directed movie with Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. One of a thousand copies specially autographed for friends of the author and publisher. Small scar to blue paper on boards along cloth on front cover, other wise clean, bright copy. Lacking the glassine wrapper.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO LEE BY AUTHOR. Otherwise clean, tight copy with light edgewear on cover boards.
Softcover. New York, Harmony Books, proof, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. Uncorrected Proof. SIGNED on the title page by author.
Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, spotless and tight copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Tim Gabor. When Navy Lieutenant David Young came to in a hospital bed, his face was covered with bandages and the nurses were calling him by a stranger's name. But David's nightmare was only beginning. Because the man they believed him to be was suspected of treason--and had driven his wife to murder. Now David's got to make his way through a shadow world of suspicion and deception, of dirty deals and brutal crimes, and he needs to stay one step ahead of enemies whose identity he doesn't even know--since if he can't, his impersonation of a dead man is about to become a lot more realistic. Like new.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1837, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 300 pages, with a dust jacket that has light fading to spine and top edge of front panel. Unclipped. The final Colin Gray novel, set in the Indian Himalayas. Contains elements of mysticism and fantasy. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & Company, BC Ed., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 314 pages. A first Book Club Edition, as there is a small dot on bottom right of rear board, $3.00 price on front flap with "Book of the Month Club Selection". No statement of edition on copyright page. Previous owner's bookplate and name on front endpaper. Dust jacket has 1" gone from bottom of spine. No other markings.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 273 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Two private investigators--Bill Smith and Lydia Chin--investigate a construction site plagued by thieves and a murder, in a case that leads them into the darkest depths of the underworld.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 192 pages. Thomas Hambledon quicksteps from the Western Zone of Germany to the Eastern to locate the missing son of a man most important in atomic defense. His plottings are paralleled by the adventures of young Micklejohn who, escaping his Russian captors, is hidden by an underground group. Hambledon impersonates a Russian agent, and, across the frontier, picks up Micklejohn's trail but can they race back to safety? Clean.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 213 pages. Author's first book, a rather off-beat coming-of-age story. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company , 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil on covers. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine wrinkled.