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Boulder, Colorado: Sentient Publications, 2005. Although this is a Stated First Edition, the "number line" indicates that it's actually a Fifth Printing. It may also be a BCE. At any rate, the book is in New, unread condition and comes with a New dust jacket, which I've placed into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The book includes a Foreword by Elie Wiesel. The author was a court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors, and this book deals with human depravity, torture and murder in the name of scientific research and misplaced patriotism. Photos are included. (Readers should have strong stomachs.) The book is bound in black covered boards with die-stamped silver titles on the front panel and spine. The book measures 6 1/4 by 9 1/4 inches and includes 318 pages. . Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. This Edgar Wallace crime thriller is in Very Good+ condition. It is bound in black cloth with orange titles on the front panel and spine, This clean copy shows only minimal shelf wear. (Click on photo.) The binding is tight and secure, and the text pages are clean.. A signature from a former owner, dated 1930, is on the front endpaper. The book measures 5 1/4 by 7 5/8 inches and includes 304 pages, with ads in the rear. . Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2007. This Stated First Edition from November, 2007 (and unless it's stated, it's not) is in New, unread condition, with a New, unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The book also has the complete number line ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. There are NO remainder marks. This is an ideal collectible for those who collect Patterson's work. In this thriller, Patterson provides two serial killers for the price of one, both of them after Alex Cross. The book is bound in black boards with a black spine and red titles. The book measures 6 1/4 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 389 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 a Fine, price-unclipped dust jacket. The book has black paper-covered boards with a light gray spine and die-stamped silver titles. The dust jacket has some light edge rubbing. I've placed it into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The book itself is clean, tightly bound, and the pages are bright and sparkling throughout. It makes a great read from a woman who knew exactly what she was writing about. The book measures 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 379 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 not) and includes the correct "number line" starting with a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is bound in red-orange boards with a black spine and die-stamped silver spine titles. The book measures 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 283 pages. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. . Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Brand New/Brand New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1988. This is the first anthology of mystery-detective-murder stories set in the English manor house. Authors include Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, A. Conan Doyle, P.D. James, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Philip MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Baroness Orczy, John Dickson Carr, and more. The book is in Fine, unread condition, with a Fine dust jacket. The book is bound in a deep, blue-green cloth, with silver spine lettering. The dust jacket has several small rubbed areas. I've placed it into a Brodart protective sleeve. Click on photo. The book measures 6 1/2 by 9 1/4 inches and includes 348 pages.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. This club edition is in Fine condition with a Very Good dust jacket. See photo. Dust jacket has 1/4-inch chip missing from top of spine and small tear on bottom of spine. The book includes eight pages of photographs. The book details the bizarre murders committed by Alaska's most famous serial killer, Robert Hansen, who raped and tortured his female victims before setting them loose for his biggest thrill -- hunting them down as if he were a big game hunter. The book measures 5 3/4 by 8 1/2 inches and includes 180 pages. . Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1998. This First Edition with a complete "number line" starting with a "1" to indicate First Printing is in New, unread condition, with a New, unclipped dust jacket. There are NO remainder marks. The book consists of 13 mystery stories dealing with horse racing. The book is bound in green paper-covered boards with vignette silhouettes of racing horses and a red spine with black titles. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 6 1/4 by 9 1/4 inches and includes 287 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 in black boards with a black cloth spine and die-stamped gilt spine lettering. The binding is tight, and the pages are clean, bright, and sparkling throughout. The book measures 6 1/4 by 9 3/8 inches and includes 421 pages. . . Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1983. This stated First Edition is in Fine condition with a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. (Click on photo.) The author Jack Finney, best remembered for his time travel novels, "Time and Again" and "From Time to Time," takes on a sensational New York murder case from 1857, as well as other true tales, including the sinking of the Central America in that same year. The book is bound in 3/4 black cloth with light boards, and gilt spine lettering. The book is in Fine condition, clean and tight throughout. The dust jacket has shelf rubbing, several small tears, and a small chip missing from the front panel, as shown in photo. I have placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 290 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Wings Books, 1993. Although these four Simon Brett mysteries were individually published before, this is the First Edition Thus of all four in one volume, with the required "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is in Fine condition with a Fine dust jacket. (Click on photo.) All four mysteries center around London's West End theatre milieu with actor Charles Paris as unofficial sleuth. The book is bound in charcoal gray boards with a burgundy spine cloth and silver spine lettering. The book measures 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 724 pages. . First Edtion Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Ace Books, 2008. This is the eighth novel in the Sookie Stackhouse series, a.k.a. the Southern Vampire series. It is a Stated First Edition from May 2008 and includes the complete "number line" ending with a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is in Fine condition but with a small erasure mark on the front endpaper. The price-unclipped dust jacket is also in Fine condition. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. This novel follows the explosion at the vampire summit in Rhodes and new threats to Sookie's life and to those of her friends in the supernatural community. Readers get to meet cousin Hadley's son Hunter, only a child but one who shares Sookie's telepathic abilities. The book measures 6 1/4 by 9 1/4 inches and includes 359 pages. . Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Pleasantville, New York: The World's Best Reading/Reader's Digest, 1993. This handsome edition of Doyle's two most famous Sherlock Holmes novels in one volume, A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles, are in As New, unread condition and includes the complete text of all eleven stories. In addition, the book includes new black-and-white illustrations by David Johnson and an Afterword by Philip A. Shreffler. The book's front and rear panels are bound in a deep brown marbleized leatherette, with a reddish brown leatherette spine. The front panel and spine include die-stamped gilt titles. The book measures 6 3/8 by 9 1/4 inches and includes 219 pages. The book includes a publisher's insert that gives a brief history of the author and the Sherlock Holmes character.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. As New/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Illus. by David Johnson. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: Courage Books, 1994. This First Edition as a complete "number line: ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is in Fine condition with a close to Fine dust jacket. The dust jacket has slight shelf rubbing at the edges and a small, closed tear. From the dust jacket: 'The book unravels the truth behind the Piltdown Man, once universally believed to be the "missing link" between man and ape; the faked authobiography of billionaire and recluse Howard Hughes; the production of the so=called "Lincoln Love Letters," actually written by a California journalist; the museum-quality "Vermeers" painted by Dutch artist Hans van Meegeren; the Home-Stake Oil Production swindle of the 1970s; and many other scams.' There are over 120 photos and illustrations, in color and black and white. The book is bound in black paper-covered boards with gilt spine titles. The book measures 9 1/4 by 12 1/4 inches and includes 128 pages, with Index..… Leer más

New York: Pantheon, 1984. This hefty collection of detective novels and stories is in Fine condition with a Very Good+ dust jacket. It was published for BOMC members. The book includes full-length novels by Ross Macdonald, Ruth Rendell, and an 1892 classic from Israel Zangwell. Short stories are by Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, P.D. James, Donald Westlake, Ray Bradbury, and many more. This clean, bright copy is bound in gray boards with an ivory cloth spine and die-stamped gilt titles on the front panel and spine. The book measures 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 728 pages. The dust jacket has several closed tears. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival, Brodart protective sleeve. . Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1998. This Stated First Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) is in Fine condition with a Fine price-clipped dust jacket. There are no remainder marks. Additionally, the book has a complete "number line" ending with a "1" to indicate First Printing. When a sinister terrorist group predicts a man-made earthquake, a young FBI agent, Judy Maddox, attempts to investigate with startling results. The book is bound in chocolate-brown boards with a burnt orange spine and gilt spine lettering. There are no marks or signatures from former owners. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 404 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book and dust jacket are in As New condition. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The book is bound in black paper-covered boards with a black cloth spine and die-stamped gilt titles. The book measures 6 3/8 by 9 3/8 inches and includes 593 pages.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Viking, 1996. This First Edition, with the appropriate "number line" starting with a "1", is in New, unread condition, with a New, unclipped dust jacket. The novel deals with a woman private investigator, who attempts to solve a suspicious death while sorting out her own troubled life. The book is bound in black boards with a a black spine cloth and yellow titles. The book measures 6 1/2 by 9 1/4 inches and includes 438 pages. . First Edition. Hard. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

New York: Warner Books, 1995. This Stated First Printing from July 1995 (and unless it's stated, it's not) is in New, unread condition, with a New, unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. There are no remainder marks. Regan Reilly's latest mystery to be solved is in trendy Aspen, Colorado, where an innocent friend is being suspected of a rash of art thefts. The book is bound in medium purple boards with a gray spine and die-stamped gilt spine lettering. The book measures 6 1/4 by 9 1/4 inches and includes 265 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1999. This Stated First Edition from May 1999 also includes the required "number line" starting with a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is in As New condition with an As New price-unclipped dust jacked. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. This story of passion, murder, betrayal, and adultery took place in late 1890s Indiana. The author reveals a family secret that had been kept from him most of his life and only through his extensive research was the truth concerning this major scandal and courtroom trial finally revealed. The book measures 6 3/4 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 373 pages. The book is bound in black boards with gilt spine titles.. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.