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Sally Owen worked in the world of publishing from 1974-1987. She owned her own bookstore in New York and, most recently, was Manager of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York.


Browsing Recent Arrivals  :  86 Books

  • Jonathan Barnes  :  The Domino Men   Gollancz, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Nevada Barr  :  Ill Wind   Putnam, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Anna Pigeon mystery. Set in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Brett Battles  :  The Cleaner   Delacorte Press, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First novel introductin Jonathan Quinn. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Raymond Benson  :  Never Dream of Dying   Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. James Bond Adventure. . F/F. $45.00.

  • John Berendt  :  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil   Random House, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Murder in Savannah. Basis for film starring Kevin Spacey and John Cusack. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $175.00.

  • Alex Berenson  :  The Ghost War   Putnam, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Follow up to The Faithful Spy, Edgar Award Winner for first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Benjamin Black  :  Christine Falls   Henry Holt, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Mystery by Man Booker Prize Winner John Banville. Edgar Nominee. F/F. $60.00.

  • Benjamin Black  :  The Silver Swan   Henry Holt, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Second in series featuring Quirke, Dublin pathologist. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • S.J. Bolton  :  Sacrifice   Bantam Press, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Fayle L. Booth  :  Cover the Mirrors   Macmillan, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. Set in Victorian times when spiritualism is at its height. F/F. $50.00.

  • William Boyd  :  Stars and Bars   Hamish Hamilton, London, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition. Henderson Dores, an Englishman, finds himself in the Deep South where he encounters the bizarre millionaire Loomis Gage and his extraordinary, unreal, and threatining family. F/F. $75.00.

  • Tom Bradby  :  Shadow Dancer   Bantam Press, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. . F/F. $75.00.

  • Simon Brett  :  The Detection Collection   Orion, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Original stories by Lindsey Davis, Colin Dexter, Robert Goddard, John Harvey, etc. SIGNED BY P.D. JAMES. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Geraldine Brooks  :  People of the Book   Viking Press, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Biblio by Pulitzer Prize winner Brooks. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

  • Geraldine Brooks  :  Year of Wonders   Viking, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid, Anna Frith, emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Author's First Novel. F/F. $45.00.

  • Ken Bruen  :  Cross   Bantam Press, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Jack Taylor mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Ken Bruen  :  Priest   Bantam Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Jack Taylor investigates the decapitation of a priest in a Galway church. This is one of 100 copies, stamped and signed by the author. F/F. $65.00.

  • Ken Bruen  :  The Dramatist   St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. First hardcover edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • James Lee Burke  :  Black Cherry Blues   Little Brown, New York, 1989. First Edition. An unread Advance Proof of Burke's third Dave Robicheaux mystery. Fine. Fine. $75.00.

  • James Lee Burke  :  The Tin Roof Blowdown   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Dave Robicheaux mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Peter Carey  :  His Illegal Self   Knopf, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Latest from two time winner of the Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Michael Chabon  :  Gentlemen of the Road   Del Rey, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Michael Chabon  :  Yiddish Policemen's Union   HarperCollins, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

  • Susan Choi  :  A Person of Interest   Viking, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Lionel Davidson  :  Kolymsky Heights   Heinemann, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in a Siberian research station, so secret that no scientist ever leaves it alive. F/F. $45.00.

  • James Dickey  :  Deliverance   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1970. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Filmed starring Burt Reynolds and Ned Beatty. F/F. $250.00.

  • Loren D. Estleman  :  Gas City   Forge, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Ken Follett  :  World Without End   Macmillan, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Sequel to The Pillars of the Earth. Fine ijn fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • Frederic Forsyth  :  The Afghan   Bantam Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Espionage and Al Qaeda. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Judith Freeman  :  The Long Embrace   Pantheon, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Raymond Chandler and the role his wife played in his life and work. $30.00.

  • Robert Goddard  :  Name to a Face   Bantam Press, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • David Hewson  :  The Garden of Evil   Macmillan, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Nic Costa mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Joe Hill  :  20th Century Ghosts   Wm. Morrow, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Superb short stories from Hill. First published in the UK in 2005. Fine in boards as issued. Fine. $75.00.

  • Khaled Hosseini  :  A Thousand Splendid Suns   Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. One of 1500 signed editions of the UK Edition. Published simultaneously in the UK and US. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $125.00.

  • Stephen Hunter  :  Dirty White Boys   Random House, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Three convicts and a state trooper in a chase across country. Review slip enclosed. . F/F. $30.00.

  • Bill James  :  The King's Friends   Severn House, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Brilliant thriller set in 1936 Britain when the idealistic Edward VIII is under the influence of some of the country's deadliest enemies. First Hardcover Edition. Originally published in paperback in 1982 under James's pseudonym, James Tucker. F/F. $50.00.

  • John Lawton  :  Second Violin   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Frederick Troy thriller set in 1938 as England prepares for war and Troy is promoted to the CID. F/F. $55.00.

  • John Le Carre  :  The Mission Song   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  Depths   Harveill Secker, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Thriller by Mankell. Unread copy in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  Faceless Killers   Harvill Press, London, 2000. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $200.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  Kennedy's Brain   Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2007. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Mystery. Number 43 of 80 numbered and signed copies. With an appreciation by Dan Fesperman. Fine in marbled boards as issued. Fine. $160.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  One Step Behind   Harvill Press, London, 2002. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $225.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  Return of the Dancing Master   New Press, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  Return of the Dancing Master   Harvill Press, London, 2003. Hardcover. First English Translation. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  Sidetracked   Harvill Press, London, 2000. Hardcover. First UK Edition. GOLD DAGGER AWARD. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $190.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  The Dogs of Riga   New Press, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $100.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  The Fifth Woman   Harvill Press, London, 2001. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $250.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  The White Lioness   Harvill Press, London, 2003. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

  • Hisham Matar  :  In The Country of Men   Viking, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First novel set in Libya. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $80.00.

  • Ed McBain  :  Transgressions   Forge, New York, 2005. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Original novellas by and signatures of Lawrence Block, Jeffery Deaver, John Farris, Ed McBain, Stephen King, Sharyn McCrumb, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Perry, and Donald E. Westlake. Number 174 of 200 copies. In slipcase as issued. Fine. $500.00.

  • Charles McCarry  :  The Secret Lovers   Overlook Press, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. A Paul Christopher Novel. Back in print. F/F. $35.00.

  • Cormac McCarthy  :  All The Pretty Horses   Knopf, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. Winner of National Book Award and filmed starring Matt Damon. Fine, possibly unread copy in dustjacket showing slight crease at top. Slip from publisher enclosed "With the Compliments of the Author." . F/F. $350.00.

  • Cormac McCarthy  :  The Crossing   Knopf, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $150.00.

  • Val McDermid  :  The Grave Tattoo   HarperCollins, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Ian McEwan  :  Black Dogs   Doubleday, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First US Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • James McKenzie  :  The Mystery of Yamashita's Map   Book Guild, Sussex, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Adventure novel set in the Pacific as the war draws to a close and in modern day Hong Kong. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Kate Mosse  :  Sepulchre   Orion Books, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. By the author of Labyrinth. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • Irene Nemirovsky  :  Suite Francaise   Chatto & Windus, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Very slight wear. . NF/NF. $100.00.

  • Derek Nikitas  :  Pyres   St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Chuck Palahniuk  :  Diary   Doubleday, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Misty Tracy Wilmot's husband lies in a coma after a suicide attempt. Misty keeps a diary of her hopes and wishes. F/F. $45.00.

  • David Peace  :  Tokyo Year Zero   Knopf, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Published simultaneously in the U.S. and U.K. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • George P. Pelecanos  :  The Night Gardener   Little Brown, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Otto Penzler  :  Pulp Fiction: The Crimefighters   Quercus, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Stories by Paul Cain, Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner, Horace McCoy, Cornell Woolrich, etc. From the golden age of pulp fiction. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • Thomas Perry  :  Silence   Harcourt, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Marisha Pessl  :  Special Topics in Calamity Physics   Viking, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. John Sargent First Novel Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • Richard Price  :  Lush Life   Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • E. Annie Proulx  :  Heart Songs   Fourth Estate, London, 1995. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Contains stories not included in the US Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $250.00.

  • Philip Pullman  :  Lyra's Oxford   David Fickling, Oxford, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Companion piece to His Dark Materials. Clothbound boards as issued. Engravings by John Lawrence. Fine. $75.00.

  • Caro Ramsay  :  Absolution   Penguin, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First Novel. Dark police procedural set in Scotland. F/F. $50.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  Knots & Crosses   Orion, London, 2007. Hardcover. SIGNED. Collector's Edition of first Rebus novel. Endpapers are facsimile of Rankin's original notes. In boards as issued. Signed with Rankin's noughts and crosses sketch. Fine. $100.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  Not in the Flesh   Hutchinson, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Inspector Wexford mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Stella Rimington  :  At Risk   Hutchinson, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. An MI5 thriller by the former head of MI5. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. F/F. $40.00.

  • Marilynne Robinson  :  Gilead   Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. Pulitzer Prize. National Book Critics' Circle Award. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $115.00.

  • J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows   Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Final Harry Potter adventure. Fine in fine "adult" dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows   Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Deluxe Edition. Shrinkwrapped. Fine. Fine. $85.00.

  • Robert Ryan  :  Empire of Sand   Headline, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in 1915 and featuring a young intelligence officer named Thomas Edward Lawrence. F/F. $60.00.

  • James Sallis  :  Drive   Poisoned Pen, Arizona, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $35.00.

  • John Burnham Schwartz  :  The Commoner   Doubleday, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. By the author of Reservation Road. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Dalia Sofer  :  Septembers of Shiraz   Ecco Press, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • William Styron  :  The Confessions of Nat Turner   Random House, New York, 1967. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $150.00.

  • Donna Tartt  :  The Little Friend   Knopf, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel, after The Secret History. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

  • L.C. Tyler  :  The Herring Seller's Apprentice   Macmillan New Writing, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Signed and dated. One of 100 embossed and numbered copies with author's "red fish" stamp. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • Sarah Waters  :  The Night Watch   Virago Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Story follows four Londoners backwards through the 1940s. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize. F/F. $60.00.

  • Charles Willeford  :  Deliver Me from Dallas   Dennis McMillan, Arizona, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. A different version of this novel was published in 1961 as The Whip Hand under the byline Franklin W. Sanders. Introduction to this edition by Jesse Sublett. F/F. $35.00.

  • Tom Wolfe  :  The Bonfire of the Vanities   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First Trade Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $150.00.

  • Cornell Woolrich  :  Love and Night   Dennis McMillan, Tucson, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Scarce stories, gathered here for the first time. Edited by Francis M. Nevins. F/F. $35.00.
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