Browsing Authors   B  :  194 Books

• Richard Bachman  :  Blaze   Scribner, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Andrea Badenoch  :  Blink   Macmillan, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. In a small pit village in County Durham in 1962 Gloria, the local hair stylist, a modern woman with her narrow skirts, low blockheels and Mini Cooper, is found dead, floating in the shallows of a nearby pond. F/F. $5.00.

• John Baker  :  King of the Streets   Victor Gollancz, London, 1998. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Jeanie Scott is scared. Her ex-husband has been murdered and her house broken into although nothing was taken. Thinking the two events must be connected, and fearing for her safety and that of her daughter, Jeanie asks Sam Turner to investigate. Published simultaneously in hardcover. In wraps as issued. . Fine. $5.00.

• John Baker  :  Shooting in the Dark   Orion, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Angeles Falco asks Sam Turner for help. She tells him that she and her sister are being followed. By whom and for what purpose she doesn't know. Sam takes on the case, but when the sister is brutally murdered, he finds himself up against a serial killer whose dark fantasies will try to destroy Sam's attempt at a new life. F/F. $5.00.

• John Baker  :  The Meanest Flood   Orion, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Women who have been involved with sleuth Sam Turner are being murdered and Sam doesn't have an alibi. Sam must find out who is setting him up as well as try to protect the women in his life. F/F. $5.00.

• John Baker  :  Walking With Ghosts   Victor Gollancz, London, 1999. Trade Paperback. First Edition. When Edward Blake's wife is kidnapped he pays the ransom, but when she does not return he calls in the police. They think it's all a scam between Blake's wife and her lover, until she turns up dead. In wraps as issued. Published simultaneously in hardcover. Fine. $5.00.

• John Baker  :  White Skin Man   Orion, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Young photographer captures a murder with her camera and is stalked by a killer. F/F. $5.00.

• Keith Baker  :  Lunenburg   Headline, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. In the town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a young boy witnesses a brutal murder. Thirty years later, Annie Welles, an officer with the Robbery and Violent Crimes Unit in Halifax investigates two seemingly motiveless and unrelated murders which are committed within forty-eight hours of each other. F/F. $5.00.

• Kevin Baker  :  Dreamland   HarperCollins, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A sweeping novel of American immigrants at the turn of the century and of Coney Island's Dreamland amusement park. F/F. $5.00.

• J.G. Ballard  :  Kingdom Come   Fourth Estate, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Man tries to unravel the mystery of his father's death. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Toni Cade Bambara  :  Those Bones Are Not My Child   Pantheon, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Bambara's last novel before she died. Two decades ago forty black children were murdered in Atlanta - strangled, beaten, and sexually assaulted. Bambara dramatizes the story of one one black family whose teenage son has gone missing as the Atlanta abductions are beginning to be reported. . F/F. $5.00.

• Iain Banks  :  A Song of Stone   Abacus, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The war is ending but for the Castle and its inhabitants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam the land and refugees take to the roads. But the lieutenant of an outlaw band makes the Castle the focus for a dangerous game of desire, deceit, and death. F/F. $40.00.

• Iain Banks  :  Canal Dreams   Macmillan, London, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. Renowned cellist Hisako Onoda refuses to fly, and travels to her European concert by ship. She is caught up in a political situation when the tanker is detained at the Panama Canal. Brilliant. . F/F. $50.00.

• Iain Banks  :  Complicity   Little Brown, London, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. Society's sheltered demons are getting their comeuppance. A judge who extended leniency to a convicted rapist is raped. A maker of snuff films is himself snuffed out. A businessman whose negligence caused an explosion is blown up in his own home, and Cameron Colley, a journalist, is being set up as the murderer. A remarkable mystery of revenge by Banks who is one of the UK's prominent science fiction writers. F/F. $50.00.

• Iain Banks  :  Dead Air   Little Brown, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Cell phones start to ring at a mid-week wedding in London. Apparently two planes have just crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. F/F. $50.00.

• Iain Banks  :  Espedair Street   Macmillan, London, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. Daniel Weir used to be a famous rock star; maybe he still is. Now he sits in his high Scottish tower and realizes her only has two problems: the past and the future. Banks is a remarkable writer who still hasn't found a large audience in this country. F/F. $50.00.

• Iain M. Banks  :  Inversions   Orbit, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. In a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill who has become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkable, a woman. Dr. Vosill has more enemies than she realizes, but then she also has more remedies at hand than those who wish her ill can ever guess. F/F. $5.00.

• Iain M. Banks  :  Look to Windward   Orbit, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Eight hundred years after the Twin Novae battle ended with two suns exploding, light from the first explosion is about to reach the Masaq'Orbital. Masaq's 50 billion inhabitants, gathered to commemorate the deaths of the innocent, will be able to reflect, if only for a moment, on their Culture's complicity in the terrible event. F/F. $5.00.

• Iain M. Banks  :  The Algabraist   Orbit, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy in the year 4034. The seer Fassin Taak is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. The latest space opera from Banks. F/F. $40.00.

• Iain Banks  :  The Business   Little Brown, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. The Business is a transglobal organization whose origins predate the Christian Church if not the Roman Empire (which The Business actually owned for 66 days). Another extraordinary story from one of the UK's most gifted writers. F/F. $40.00.

• Iain Banks  :  The Business   Simon & Schuster, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Iain Banks  :  The Crow Road   Scribners, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. Prentice McHoan is preoccupied with death, sex, drink, God, illegal substances, and cars. Banks's novel describes the rites of passage in a complex Scottish family. F/F. $50.00.

• Iain M. Banks  :  The Player of Games   Macmillan, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Gurgeh, one of the Culture's greatest game players, is challenged to a complex game modeled on the rules of existence. The winner becomes the Emperor of Azad, a civilization of immense wealth and appalling cruelty. F/F. $100.00.

• Iain M. Banks  :  The Wasp Factory   Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1984. Hardcover. First US Edition. Banks burst onto the literary scene with this first novel which was described as "brilliant" by its admirers and "pornography" but its detractors. F/F. $5.00.

• Iain Banks  :  The Wasp Factory   Macmillan, London, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's first novel. Fine in price clipped dust jacket. F/F. $250.00.

• Iain Banks  :  Walking on Glass   Macmillan, London, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Graham Park is an art student in love. Steven Grout is in the grip of paranoia. Quiss is playing impossible games in a remote castle. All three are on a collision course. This extraordinary novel is Banks's second and is difficult to come by in this condition. F/F. $100.00.

• Iain Banks  :  Whit   Little Brown, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. The story of Isis Whit, head of a small but committed religious cult in England. . F/F. $30.00.

• Russell Banks  :  The Reserve   Harper, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Part love story, part murder mystery set at the begining of the Second World War. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  A Bleeding of Innocents   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First US Edition. A serial killer is on the loose in Castlemere and newly promoted Inspector Liz Graham joins Sergeant Donovan as the body count starts to rise. F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  A Taste For Burning   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First US Edition. A Castlemere mystery. Published in the UK as "Burning Desires". F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Broken Lines   Macmillan, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Riding his motorbike through the Fenlands, Detective Sergeant Donovan rides into an armed robbery taking place at a Castlemere petrol station. He gives chase and captures Mickey Dickens whose family has a very wily solicitor. Donovan is determined to see justice done but he soon finds himself fighting for his reputation, his career, and even his life. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Burning Desires   Macmillan, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. The relationship among the detective team of Frank Shapiro, Liz Graham, and Cal Donovan is quirky but rock solid. That is, until Shapiro is suspended because new evidence in an eight-year-old arson case suggests that he sabotaged the investigation. A Castlemere mystery. F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Changelings   Macmillan, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Castlemere is being held ransom for a million pounds. If the demand is not met, no one will be safe from the unscrupulous blackmailer. With the casualty rate rising, Detective Superintendent Frank Shapiro and Detective Inspector Liz Graham have to deal with this, and more personal problems. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Echoes of Lies   Allison & Busby, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. When researcher Brodie Farrell is asked to locate the whereabouts of a young man, she sees nothing suspicious in the request. But when she sees the young man a few days later in the hospital in a life-threatening coma, she is overcome by guilt. This new series is set on the South Coast of England. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Gilgamesh   Doubleday Crime Club, New York, 1989. Hardcover. First US Edition. Clio Marsh is enjoying a friendly dinner with a few neighbors when one of them is shot in the back by an unknown intruder. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Mosaic   Doubleday, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First US Edition. This is Bannister's sinister tale of international intrigue, suspense and terror. The story stretches from the quiet country lanes of England to the brutal torture chambers of South Africa and the darker sides of world politics and the human psyche. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  No Birds Sing   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First US Edition. A vicious gang of thieves has hit the city of Castlemere and the best way to snag them is to infiltrate their organization. Cal Donovan takes on the assignment while Liz Graham goes under cover in a different way when she decides to act as bait in a baffling serial rape case. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Shards   Doubleday Crime Club, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First US Edition. British reporter Gil Todd and photojournalist Mickey Flynn are inseparable until Flynn is shot and a shard of bone lodges in his spine. Refusing to accept that his career may be over, Flynn agrees to do what may be his final shoot - the photographing of a terrorist training camp run by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Shards   Doubleday Crime Club, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First US Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  The Hireling's Tale   Macmillan, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. The naked battered body of a young prostitute is found on a narrowboat on the Castlemere Canal. Their inquiries take DS Frank Shapiro, DI Liz Graham, and Sergeant Donovan to the Barbican Hotel in the heart of town where a convention is in progress. They will have to deal with more than a hotel full of suspects. The dead girl was not the only person to hire herself out that night. A paid assassin is at large. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  The Lazarus Hotel   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First US Edition. A seemingly random group of six Londoners shows up for a retreat weekend at an almost-completed new luxury hotel. Each believes he or she is there for an intense group therapy session, but as they begin to open up to one another it becomes clear that they are linked by one tragedy. This is Bannister's classic update of the locked-room mystery. F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  The Mason Codex   Doubleday, New York, 1988. Hardcover. First US Edition. Seven illegal immigrants are left to die at the US/Mexican border. When Welsh school teacher Annie Meredith discovers that one of them is her illegitimate half-brother, she embarks on an adventure in Mexico where drug-smuggling, border-jumping, and lust for priceless meso-American artifacts pull her into intrigue and murder. Biblio mystery. F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  The Primrose Convention   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. Primrose Holland is the very successful advice columnist for the SKIPLEY CHRONICLE. But when she volunteers to help Fiona Morris look for her brother, Philip, who disappeared while birdwatching in the Hebrides, she also becomes a not-so-reluctant sleuth. First in a series. F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  The Primrose Switchback   Severn House, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Primrose Holland, advice columnist for the SKIPLEY CHRONICLE, speeds to the aid of a young woman supposedly being held at knifepoint and finds herself involved in yet another murder. Titles published by Severn House are released in the UK and the US from the same printing and carry both prices on the dustjacket. F/F. $5.00.

• John Banville  :  Eclipse   Picador, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. An earlier work by the 2005 Man Booker Prize winner. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Susan Shapiro Barash  :  Tripping the Prom Queen   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Women and rivalry. F/F. $10.00.

• Clive Barker  :  Coldheart Canyon   HarperCollins, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. When actor Todd Pickett disappears after plastic surgery goes awry, the president of his fan club resolves to solve the mystery of his disappearance. Tammy Lauper will come into contact with a Hollywood hidden from most of us. . F/F. $5.00.

• Pat Barker  :  Another World   Viking, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Nick's grandfather lies dying. He has outlived his peers but not his memories and, as Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors surrounding his brother's death. . F/F. $5.00.

• Pat Barker  :  Border Crossing   Viking, London, 2001. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Tom Seymour is a child psychologist who works in the North of England. He rescues a young man from drowning and realizes that it is Danny Miller, a child murderer at whose trial he gave evidence. Danny has served his sentence and now he's asking for Tom's help. US edition preceded UK edition. F/F. $5.00.

• Pat Barker  :  Border Crossing   Viking, London, 2001. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. US Edition preceded UK Edition. F/F. $5.00.

• Pat Barker  :  Double Vision   Hamish Hamilton, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. The story of two British journalists in the aftermath of September 11th 2001. F/F. $5.00.

• Pat Barker  :  Life Class   Hamish Hamilton, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Barker's latest returns to WW I. Small bump top edge of board else fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Pat Barker  :  The Century's Daughter   Putnam, New York, 1986. Hardcover. First US Edition. The story of Liza Garrett, the first child in town born in the twentieth century, whose life in many ways mirrors the turmoils of England itself. Slight stain on edges. Remainder mark. VG+/VG+. $5.00.

• Pat Barker  :  The Man Who Wasn't There   Virago Press, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. A twelve-year-old imagines his father's life in World War II. Author's fourth novel. F/F. $60.00.

• Pat Barker  :  Union Street   Putnam, New York, 1983. Hardcover. First US Edition. First hardcover edition of author's first novel. Fine copy in price clipped dustjacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Jonathan Barnes  :  The Domino Men   Gollancz, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Jonathan Barnes  :  The Somnambulist   Wm. Morrow, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First US Edition. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Julian Barnes  :  Arthur & George   Jonathan Cape, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Arthur, a writer, and George, a solicitor, were brought up worlds apart. They are drawn together by a sequence of events which became known as The Giant Wyrley Outrages. Long listed for the Man Booker Prize. In glassine cover. F/F. $10.00.

• Simon Barnes  :  How to be a (Bad) Birdwatcher   Pantheon, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First US Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  A Superior Death   Putnam, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anna Pigeon mystery. Inscribed to previous owner. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  Blood Lure   Putnam, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anna Pigeon mystery. Inscribed to previous owner. F/F. $35.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  Borderline   Putnam, New York, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anna Pigeon mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  Deep South   Putnam, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anna Pigeon mystery. BARRY AWARD. Inscribed to previous owner. F/F. $35.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  Endangered Species   Putnam, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anna Pigeon mystery. Inscribed to previous owner. F/F. $45.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  Firestorm   Putnam, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anna Pigeon mystery. Inscribed to previous owner. F/F. $55.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  High Country   Putnam, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. Anna Pigeon mystery. F/F. $5.00.

• 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. $10.00.

• Andrea Barrett  :  The Voyage of the Narwhal   W.W. Norton, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Combining fact and fiction, this story focuses on Erasmus Darwin Wells, a scholar/naturalist accompanying the 19th century expedition of the Narwhal. In the real expeditions, explorers' documents cast the writer as hero, but Barrett is asking what really happened up there in the long, winter darkness, trapped in ice? . F/F. $10.00.

• James M. Barrie  :  The Little Minister   A.L. Burt Co., New York, 1935. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Movie Edition, illustrated. Filmed starring Katherine Hepburn and John Beal. Color portrait of Hepburn. Slight rubbing on extremities of dustjacket. A beautiful tight copy, uncommon in jacket. NF/NF. $10.00.

• James Barrington  :  Overkill   Macmillan, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. America and Europe have been seeded with nuclear weapons by a group of renegade Russians and their Arab allies. Maverick trouble-shooter Paul Richter finds himself up against a mastermind determined to bomb America back into the Stone Age. F/F. $5.00.

• Brett Battles  :  The Deceived   Delacorte Press, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second book. Follow -up to The Cleaner. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Robert Bausch  :  The Gypsy Man   Harcourt, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Penny Bone is terrified of the town's local legend of a child-stealing phantom, while her husband, John, who is in prison becomes prey to what he fears most - hope. These two people confront the risks that everyday life presents. F/F. $5.00.

• Charles Baxter  :  Saul and Patsy   Pantheon, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Saul and Patsy meet at college, fall in love, get married, have children. This is their story by one of today's most accomplished writers. F/F. $5.00.

• Charles Baxter  :  The Feast of Love   Pantheon, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In a reimaged Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out their lost children; adult children try to come to terms with their own parents and, in some cases, find new ones. A sumptious work of fiction. F/F. $5.00.

• William Bayer  :  In Search of a Hero   World Publishing, Cleveland, 1966. Hardcover. First Edition. The Church family has always fascinated Ted Mason so he's thrilled when he is unexpectedly invited aboard their yacht for a Mediterranean cruise. Almost immediately the veneer begins to crack. Nobody is quite who they seem to be in this destructive family. Slight shelfwear, small closed tears, price clipped. Bright copy. Author's first novel. NF/NF. $10.00.

• William Bayer  :  Pattern Crimes   Villard Books, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. NF/NF. $5.00.

• William Bayer  :  Punish Me With Kisses   Congdon & Lattes, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Shy Penny Berring watches as her beautiful sister, Suzie, flaunts herself, has sex with boys, taunts them, then humiliates them. And then Suzie is murdered. There is a sensational, inconclusive trial, and an enigma. What really happened? Who killed Suzie and why? Beautiful tight bright copy. Slightest sunning to spine. NF/NF. $10.00.

• William Bayer  :  Tangier   Dutton, New York, 1978. Hardcover. First Edition. Titled Europeans, hustlers, ageing former Nazis, and decadents of all stripes play out their rituals in this sweeping novel of romance and intrigue. Shelfwear to extremities. NF/NF. $10.00.

• John Bayley  :  Elegy For Iris   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. Baley's story of Iris Murdoch's battle with Alzheimer's disease. The basis for the movie starring Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent. . F/F. $5.00.

• Derek Beaven  :  Acts of Mutiny   Picador, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. In 1959 Ralph travels to Australia on an ocean liner with his mother and her smooth-talking lover. Ralph witnesses the beginning of another love affair, but along with these voyagers, the ship is carrying a deadly cargo, the lethal potential of which only gradually comes to light. Short listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize. F/F. $5.00.

• Derek Beaven  :  Acts of Mutiny   Fourth Estate, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Short listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize. F/F. $35.00.

• Alison Bechdel  :  Fun Home   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Cartoonist Bechdel's account of life with father. F/F. $50.00.

• Simon Beckett  :  Chemistry of Death   Bantam Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Promotional band in place. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Cheryl Benard  :  Moghul Buffet   Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Detective Iqbal investigates a series of murders at the base of the Khyber Pass. Signed and Dated. F/F. $35.00.

• Cheryl Benard  :  Turning on the Girls   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. It is 2000something and the world has been taken over by women, and everything is wonderful. At least it will be just as soon as the new rulers finish fixing things. Needless to say, not all men are pleased with this kinder, gentler world. By the author of MOGHUL BUFFET. F/F. $10.00.

• David Benioff  :  When the Nines Roll Over   Viking, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Remarkable collection of stories which explore the emotional lives of the characters. F/F. $5.00.

• Francis Bennett  :  Dr. Berlin   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Dr. Berlin is a successful academic at the Moscow Institute of History. But he is also an informer who betrays his friends and colleagues. It is 1961 and on the eve of his departure to lecture at Cambridge Berlin is asked to deliver a message to the West in the hope of preventing the expected world conflict. This is the third and final novel tracing the progress of the Cold War and its impact on the way we live now. F/F. $5.00.

• Ronan Bennett  :  Havoc in its Third Year   Bloomsbury, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in England in 17th Century. A woman is accused of killing her baby and John Briggs, the local coroner, investigates. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize. F/F. $65.00.

• Ronan Bennett  :  The Catastrophist   Simon & Schuster, 1997. Hardcover. First US Edition. A tale of love, passion, and violence set in the Belgian Congo where, in 1959, expatriates loll about their pools in a colonial paradise. Journalist Gillespie is in love, but soon has to confront what is happening before his eyes as the population is drawn to the charismatic Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba as well as to his dangerous rivals. F/F. $5.00.

• Ronan Bennett  :  The Catastrophist   Review, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Love, passion, and violence in the Belgian Congo in 1959. F/F. $55.00.

• Ann Benson  :  The Burning Road   Delacorte, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A debilitating genetic disease in the present time has its roots in the fourteenth century. F/F. $5.00.

• Ann Benson  :  The Plague Tales   Delacorte, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. The bubonic plague is let loose in modern times. Author's first novel tells the story juxtaposed with the fourteenth century outbreak. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Ann Benson  :  Thief of Souls   Delacorte, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Two crime waves. In each, the victims are children. In each, the perpetrator is a man of power and renown. And in each, the pursuit of justice is spearheaded by a woman who has seen the face of evil up close. The crimes are set in the city of Nantes in the year 1440 and in Los Angeles in the year 2002. F/F. $5.00.

• Raymond Benson  :  Never Dream of Dying   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. James Bond adventure. Signed bookplate laid in. F/F. $10.00.

• Raymond Benson  :  The Man with the Red Tattoo   Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. James Bond adventure. Signed bookplate laid in. F/F. $10.00.

• Victor Berberian  :  The Cyclist   Simon and Schuster, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. The narrator of this original novel is a young trainee in the Academy, a terrorist group in the present-day Middle East. This unnamed pawn has a single mission to deliver a bomb by bicycle to a hotel, where it will explode, killing hundreds of civilians. But his story is not a simple one. Author's First Novel. F/F. $5.00.

• John Berendt  :  City of Falling Angels   Penguin Press, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Venice, the Venetians, and the burning down of La Fenice, told by the author of Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil. F/F. $20.00.

• Anthony Berkeley  :  The Avenging Chance   Crippen & Landru, Virginia, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. A compilation of mysteries from Roger Sheringham's Casebook. Part of the "Lost Classics" series from this publisher. F/F. $10.00.

• Suzanne Berne  :  The Ghost at the Table   Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Nella Bielski  :  The Year is '42   Pantheon, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. Set in occupied Paris, this tells the story of ordinary lives in extraordinary times. F/F. $5.00.

• Tim Binding  :  A Perfect Execution   Picador, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Solomon Straw is living his life as Jeremiah Bembo, the landlord of a local pub in a small village. He never talks about his former role as the most respected and feared of Her Majesty's Executioners. Until an old friend asks a simple question which takes him back to the time when murder touched his own life. F/F. $5.00.

• Tim Binding  :  Anthem   Picador, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. It is the spring of 1982 and in Anglefield Road in a suburb of North London, the residents go about their business as they have for years. Then Argentina invades an obscure British colony off the South American coast - the Falklands - provoking a national crisis and a patriotic revival. The repercussions for the residents of Anglefield Road will reach far beyond the events of that momentous summer. F/F. $5.00.

• Tim Binding  :  In The Kingdom of Air   Jonathan Cape, London, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. Giles Doughty is a womanizer who moves from affair to affair. He is also in flight from his childhood and the memory of Stella Muchmore who disappeared. When Stella is seen in a bar near a railway station, Giles's life will never be the same. Review copy. Author's First Novel. F/F. $10.00.

• Tim Binding  :  Island Madness   Picador, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The British territory of Guernsey in the Channel Islands is occupied by the Germans in 1943. A local woman is found murdered. The highest ranking Nazi officer and island's police inspector form an uneasy alliance as they search for a killer feared by the islanders and enemy alike. A brilliant novel about collaboration and the nature of war. F/F. $75.00.

• Tim Binding  :  Lying With The Enemy   Carroll & Graf, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. The island of Guernsey in the English Channel was the only British territory to be occupied during World War II. It is 1943 and Nazi officers party with local girls and love affairs blossom. When a young woman is found dead with her nose and mouth filled with cement, collaboration goes sour. The highest ranking Nazi officer and the island's police inspector form an uneasy alliance as they search for a killer feared by the islanders and enemy alike. F/F. $5.00.

• Baron R. Birtcher  :  Roadhouse Blues   Durban House, Dallas, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A drug-addled madman has sliced a bloody trail across the country and Mike Travis, newly retired from LAPD homicide, is drawn into an all-consuming effort to prevent more bloodshed. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. INSCRIPTION: "..let it roll, baby, roll, all night long..". F/F. $5.00.

• Benjamin Black  :  Christine Falls   Henry Holt, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• James Carlos Blake  :  A World of Thieves   William Morrow, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Sonny LaSalle and his twin uncles go on a crime spree in 1928 Louisiana and West Texas. Set in the jazz age and told by a master storyteller. F/F. $5.00.

• James Carlos Blake  :  Handsome Harry   William Morrow, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fictionalized account of real-life gangster Harry Pierpont, a member of the Dillinger gang. F/F. $5.00.

• Sarah Blake  :  The Postmistress   Amy Einhorn Books, New York, 2010. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Alice Blanchard  :  Darkness Peering   Bantam, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In Flowering Dogwood, Maine, Police Chief Nalen Storrow discovers the body of a young girl. His search for the truth leads to the possibility that the murderer may be his own son, Billy. Eighteen years later the murder has not been solved. But now a different cop is obsessed with the case. Rachel Storrow, Billy's sister. No sooner does Rachel reopen the investigation than another young woman disappears. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $5.00.

• Alice Blanchard  :  Darkness Peering   Bantam, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Kathleen M. Blee  :  Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement   University of California, Berkeley, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. A nuanced view of the organized racist underground in the United States focusing on the often ignored voices of women in the movement. F/F. $20.00.

• Luther Blissett  :  Q   Harcourt, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. In 1517 radical Protestant Anabaptists rebel against an entire order of European society. A young theology student adopts the heretics' cause and is pursued across Europe by a papal informer known only a Q. Author is psuedonym for several people. A huge bestseller in Europe. F/F. $5.00.

• Lawrence Block  :  Hit Parade   Wm. Morrow, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring John Keller, hit man. Fine in fine dust jacket. . F/F. $10.00.

• Amy Bloom  :  Away   Random House, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Giles Blunt  :  By The Time You Read This   Henry Holt, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Giles Blunt  :  Forty Words for Sorrow   Random House, Toronto, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces Detective John Cardinal. Author's First Novel. Promotional band in place. SILVER DAGGER. F/F. $45.00.

• Giles Blunt  :  The Delicate Storm   Putnam, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. When a mauled human arm is discovered in Algonquin Bay, the police determine that the owner was dead before the bears got to him, but a search turns up body parts placed exactly where bears were most likely to find them. Detective John Cardinal and Lise Delorme investigate. F/F. $5.00.

• Henning Boetius  :  The Phoenix   HarperCollins, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. When the Hindenberg mysteriously exploded on arrival in the US in 1936 there were whispers of sabotage. Why were the 28 survivors pronounced dead by the Nazi authorities? Birger Lund is one of them. Horrifically burned, he recovers with a new face and treks across post-war Germany in search of the truth about the crash. F/F. $5.00.

• Chris Bohjalian  :  Skeletons at the Feast   Shaye Areheart, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Chris Bohjalian  :  The Double Bind   Shaye Areheart, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Marc Bojanowski  :  The Dog Fighter   Wm. Morrow, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Young man drifts through the badlands of California and Mexico in the 1940s. F/F. $5.00.

• Jan Bondeson  :  Buried Alive   W.W. Norton, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Author discusses one of humankind's most primal fears. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jan Bondeson  :  The London Monster   University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania., 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. A century before Jack the Ripper stalked the city monster mania gripped London. A young Welshman was tried and convicted, but there is some doubt as to whether there was a monster at all. F/F. $5.00.

• 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. $5.00.

• Martin Booth  :  Industry of Souls   Dewi Lewis, Stockport, 1998. Trade Paperback. First Edition. The story of a British citizen arrested for spying in the Soviet Union. Presumed dead, he survives twenty years in a Soviet labor camp. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In wraps as issued. Fine. $20.00.

• Stephen Booth  :  Black Dog   Scribner, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. Author's First Book. Set in Northern England's Peak District. BARRY AWARD. F/F. $5.00.

• Stephen Booth  :  Blood on the Tongue   HarperCollins, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's third book. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Anthony Bourdain  :  Typhoid Mary   Bloomsbury, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Author and chef Bourdain writes about one of the most notorious women in history who was, as Bourdain reminds us, a cook. F/F. $5.00.

• Sam Bourne  :  The Righteous Men   HarperCollins, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Signed by author with his real name, Jonathan Freedland. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• 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.

• T.C Boyle  :  The Inner Circle   Viking, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. Alfred Kinsey and his controversial studies on human sexuality are the subject of Boyle's tenth novel. F/F. $5.00.

• John Boyne  :  Crippen: A Novel of Murder   Thomas Dunne Books, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First US Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• John Boyne  :  Mutiny on the Bounty   Doubleday, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• John Boyne  :  Next of Kin   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First US Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• John Boyne  :  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas   David Fickling, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A journey with Bruno, a nine-year-old boy, to the fence. F/F. $10.00.

• John Boyne  :  The Thief of Time   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. top front edge is badly crimped. In fine dust jacket. NF/NF. $50.00.

• Lorraine Bracco  :  On the Couch   Putnam, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Candid autobiography of "Dr. Melfi" from The Sopranos. F/F. $45.00.

• Tom Bradby  :  Shadow Dancer   Bantam Press, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. . F/F. $10.00.

• Tom Bradby  :  The God of Chaos   Bantam, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A British officer is found murdered in Cairo in June 1942. It looks like a political assassination but former New York cop Joe Quinn doesn't think so. F/F. $10.00.

• Tom Bradby  :  The White Russian   Bantam, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in St. Petersburg in 1917, a city on the brink of revolution. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Kelly Braffet  :  Last Seen Leaving   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Caryl Brahms  :  Murder a la Stroganoff   Doubleday Crime Club, NY., 1938. Hardcover. First US Edition. Second mystery set in the ill-fated Russian ballet company. Chips and shelfwear. Second author: S.J. Simon. VG+/VG+. $75.00.

• Marlena E. Bramseth, Ed.  :  Who Was Guilty?   Crippen & Landru, Va., 2005. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Two Dime Novels by Philip S. Warne and Howard W. Macy. From the Lost Classics series. Shrinkwrapped. F/F. $10.00.

• Christianna Brand  :  Cat and Mouse   Knopf, New York, 1950. Hardcover. First US Edition. Brand's horrific psychological tale. Some rubbing on spine, otherwise a tight copy in a bright dustjacket. NF/NF. $50.00.

• Gyles Brandreth  :  Oscar Wilde & the Dead Man's Smile   John Murray, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Lily Brett  :  Too Many Men   William Morrow, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Ruth Rothwax is a successful independent New York woman who runs her own business writing letters for others. But as the devoted daughter of Edek Rothwax, an Auschwitz survivor, Ruth can find no words to help her understand the loss her family experienced during World War II. F/F. $5.00.

• Marius Brill  :  Making Love: A Conspiracy of the Heart   Doubleday, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Woman takes subversive book from the library and is hunted down by intelligence agency. Story is told from the book's point of view which has fallen in love with the woman. F/F. $5.00.

• William Brodrick  :  The Gardens of the Dead   Little Brown, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second novel featuring Father Anselm of Lakewood Priory. F/F. $10.00.

• Henry Bromell  :  Little America   Knopf, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Terry Hooper's father was, in the 1950s, the CIA station chief in Kurash, a small Middle Eastern country. Terry is haunted by his father's profession. Beautifully written by screenwriter Bromell. F/F. $35.00.

• 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. $10.00.

• Dan Brown  :  Deception Point   Pocket Books, New York, 2001. Proof/Ephemera. SIGNED. Bound galley presented by the author. "Sally - thanks for all your enthusiasm and support! Here's hoping you enjoy this one as much as Angels and Demons. Dan Brown" One of a kind. Slight wear at the edges. Near Fine. $500.00.

• Dan Brown  :  Digital Fortress   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in dust jacket showing tiny chip top of spine else fine. Scarce. F/F. $1300.00.

• Dan Brown  :  The Da Vinci Code   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Illustrated version of the best-selling novel. F/F. $10.00.

• Dan Brown  :  The Lost Symbol   Doubleday, New York, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Special Presentation copy limited to 1000 copies. Signed by Brown in silver on presentation page. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $500.00.

• Dan Brown  :  The Lost Symbol   Doubleday, New York, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

• Larry Brown  :  Fay   Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. At seventeen Fay Jones leaves her home in Mississippi with two dollars and half a pack of cigarettes. By the end of this novel, there are five bodies stacked up in Fay's wake. She was last sighted in New Orleans but she'll make it because Fay has an instinct for survival. From one of this country's most talented writers. F/F. $5.00.

• Marshall Browne  :  The Eye of the Abyss   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First US Edition. Browne puts aside his series featuring Inspector Anders to write about the dilemma of an ordinary man in Nazi Germany. In 1938 Frank Schmidt is the chief auditor in a commercial bank and the bank's prestigious new client is the Nazi party. Schmidt oversees the account, but he soon finds himself embroiled in duplicity, violence, and the horror that is Nazi Germany. F/F. $5.00.

• Susan Brownmiller  :  In Our Time   Dial Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A memoir of the second wave of feminism by the author of Against Our Will. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Ken Bruen  :  A Fifth of Bruen   Busted Flush Press, Houston, 2006. Trade Paperback. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Bruen's early fiction. Trade Paperback Original. In wraps as issued. Fine. $20.00.

• Ken Bruen  :  American Skin   Justin Charles, Boston, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Ken Bruen  :  Bust   Hard Case Crime, New York, 2006. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. First collaboration between Ken Bruen and Jason Starr. Signed by both authors. Original mass market paperback from Hard Case Crime. Fine. $20.00.

• Ken Bruen  :  Cross   Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2007. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited to 77 signed and numbered copies. With an appreciation by Denise Mina. In marbled boards as issued. Fine. $160.00.

• Ken Bruen  :  Her Last Call to Louis Macneice   Serpent's Tail, London, 1998. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Author's second book. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine. $35.00.

• 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. BARRY AWARD. F/F. $65.00.

• Ken Bruen  :  The Dramatist   St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, 2004. Hardcover. SIGNED. Second Impression. Jack Taylor novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Bartle Bull  :  Shanghai Station   Carroll & Graf, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. High adventure and romance in the city of Shanghai during the early years of the 20th Century when revolution was brewing. F/F. $5.00.

• Bartle Bull  :  The Devil's Oasis   Carroll & Graf, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. It is 1942 and in North Africa the brilliant General Rommel's panzers threaten the Suez Canal and the oil fields of the Middle East. To win Egypt, though, Rommel must first take the port of Tobruk and destroy the British fortress of Bir Hakeim. There, Wellington Rider, a young English hussar, fights beside the French Foreign Legion. F/F. $5.00.

• John Burdett  :  Bangkok Haunts   Knopf, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Third in the series featuring Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• 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  :  Burning Angel   Hyperion, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. When Sonny Boy Marsallus, a fixer and a gambler, resurfaces in New Orleans, Detective Dave Robicheaux of the Iberia sheriff's office couldn't be more surprised. Until Sonny passes him a mysterious notebook for safekeeping that seems to contain dark secrets about his activities in Latin America. F/F. $35.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  Cimarron Rose   Hyperion, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First US Edition. Introduces Billy Bob Holland, Texas attorney and former Texas Ranger. US Edition is preceded by the UK. EDGAR AWARD. F/F. $35.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  Heartwood   Doubleday, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Billy Bob Holland mystery. Signed to previous owner. F/F. $45.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  Jesus Out to Sea   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2007. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Short stories set on the Gulf Coast. Fine. In wraps as issued. Fine. $25.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  Jesus Out to Sea   Orion, London, 2008. Hardcover. First UK Edition. First hardcover edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  Jolie Blon's Bounce   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. When a young girl is raped and murdered Dave Robicheaux senses from the start that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the killer. F/F. $25.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  Purple Cane Road   Orion, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. He never knew what happened to his mother, so Dave Robicheaux is stunned when he's asked if he is the son of Mae Guillory, the whore a bunch of cops murdered thirty years ago. UK edition precedes the US. F/F. $55.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  Rain Gods   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces Hackberry Holland. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  Sunset Limited   Doubleday, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Dave Robicheaux mystery. CWA Gold Dagger Award. Signed to previous owner. F/F. $45.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  Swan Peak   Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2008. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited to 80 signed and numbered copies. Fine in marbled boards as issued. Fine. $160.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  The Lost Get-Back Boogie   Louisiana State University Press, LA., 1986. Hardcover. This is the third impression of one of Burke's most sought after novels. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. This is a tight copy and appears unread. F/F. $45.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  The Tin Roof Blowdown   Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2007. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Dave Robicheaux mystery. Fine in marbled boards as issued. Fine. $160.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  To the Bright and Shining Sun   Dennis McMillan, Missoula, 1989. Trade Paperback. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. First Paperback Editon. Scarce. As new. Fine. $40.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  Two For Texas   Pocket Books, New York, 1982. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Paperback Original. SIGNED to previous owner. Crease on spine and very slight edgewear, but a lovely copy nonetheless of this scarce title. Near Fine. $40.00.

• Guy Burt  :  A Clock Without Hands   Ballantine, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. Explores the menacing, secretive world of childhood. Set in Italy during World War II. F/F. $5.00.

• Frederick Busch  :  A Memory of War   W.W. Norton, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $10.00.

• Frederick Busch  :  Absent Friends   Knopf, New York, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Short stories. F/F. $10.00.

• Frederick Busch  :  North   W.W. Norton, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Sequel to GIRLS. F/F. $10.00.

• Frederick Busch  :  Sometimes I Live in the Country   David Godine, Boston, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Petey and his parents have moved to an upstate village in New York State where Petey's dad is a truant officer at the local school. Petey is adrift and spends his time playing a dangerous suicidal game with his father's .38. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Octavia Butler  :  Blood Child   Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Short stories by the winner of Science Fiction's highest awards. F/F. $5.00.

• Octavia Butler  :  Parable of the Sower   Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in California in 2025 where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an eighteen-year-old black woman, sets off on foot. F/F. $20.00.

• Octavia Butler  :  Parable of the Talents   Seven Stories Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Continuing the travels of Lauren Olamina, told in the voice of her daughter, Asha, from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life. Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the US Presidency, this tells the story of a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder. F/F. $20.00.