Browsing Authors   C  :  186 Books

• Chelsea Cain  :  Heartsick   St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces serial killer Gretchen Lowell. First in proposed trilogy. Unputdownable! Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Chelsea Cain  :  Heartsick   St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. VeryGood. $35.00.

• James M. Cain  :  The Baby in the IceBox   Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1981. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. F/F. $20.00.

• Tom Cain  :  The Accident Man   Bantam Press, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Superb thriller about a hit man who may have just killed the world's most beloved princess. F/F. $45.00.

• Ian Caldwell  :  The Rule of Four   Dial Press, New York, 2004. First US Edition. SIGNED. ..and Dustin Thomason. PROOF. AUTHORS' FIRST NOVEL. Biblio mystery. In wraps as issued. Fine. $30.00.

• Ian Caldwell  :  The Rule of Four   Dial Press, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. ..and Dustin Thomason. Since its publication in 1499, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has baffled scholars. Coded in seven languages, the text is a love story, a mathematical labyrinth, and a tale of brutality. Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, Princeton students, want to unveil the secrets of the book, but what they discover in the text stuns them. Biblio mystery. . F/F. $30.00.

• Liam Callanan  :  All Saints   Delacorte Press, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. By the author of Edgar nominated The Cloud Atlas. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Liam Callanan  :  The Cloud Atlas   Delacorte Press, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in Alaska during the waning days of World War II. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. Nominated for Edgar Award. F/F. $20.00.

• Alan Campbell  :  Scar Night   Tor, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Volume One of The Deepgate Codex. Urban fantasy set in the city of Deepgate which hangs by chains over an abyss. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. F/F. $45.00.

• David Cannadine  :  Ornamentalism   Oxford University Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. With the return of Hong Kong to the Chinese government in 1997, the empire that had lasted three hundred years loosened its hold on the world and slipped into history. This book takes a look at the British Empire through the eyes of those who created and ruled it. F/F. $20.00.

• David Cannadine  :  The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain   Columbia University Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. This study shows that Brits really are class-obsessed, but ways that are ignorant and confused. F/F. $20.00.

• Michael Capuzzo  :  Close to Shore   Broadway Books, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. In July 1916 a lone great white was pulled by a current of the Gulf Stream and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, the most ferocious and unpredictable of predators began a deadly rampage. A historical thriller. F/F. $10.00.

• Lorenzo Carcaterra  :  Apaches   Ballantine Books, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The mean streets of New York in the early 1980s. Slight wear to edges. In fine dustjacket. Signed and dated (not year of publication). NF/NF. $30.00.

• 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.

• Peter Carey  :  My Life as a Fake   Knopf, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry magazine, has known poet John Slater for years, so when Slater proposes that she accompany him to Malaysia Sarah embarks, out of curiosity, on a journey that will become an obsession. F/F. $35.00.

• Peter Carey  :  Theft   Faber & Faber, London, 2006. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Published simultaneously in the US and UK. True first pubished in Australia. F/F. $50.00.

• Peter Carey  :  Theft   Knopf, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Published simultaneously in the US and UK. True first published in Australia. F/F. $50.00.

• Peter Carey  :  True History of the Kelly Gang   Knopf, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. In nineteenth-century Australia Ned Kelly, the son of Irish immigrants, became a thief and cold-blooded murderer. But to the Australians he was a scapegoat and patriot persecuted by "English" landlords and their agents. Winner of the Booker Prize. F/F. $35.00.

• Clancy Carlile  :  The Paris Pilgrims   Carroll & Graf, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A biographical novel about Ernest Hemingway's time in Paris. Featuring James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein. F/F. $30.00.

• Patricia Carlon  :  Death By Demonstration   Soho Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. A peaceful demonstration at an Australian university turns into a riot and a young student is killed. The demonstrators are blamed by the outraged public and the students accuse the police. But was her death an accident?. F/F. $5.00.

• Patricia Carlon  :  Hush, It's A Game   Soho Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Little Virginia is left with a babysitter when her widowed father must travel on business over Christmas. Annoyed with her lively young charge, lthe babysitter locks the child in the kitchen when her boyfriend visits and the child's life is placed in jeapardy. F/F. $5.00.

• Patricia Carlon  :  The Price of an Orphan   Soho Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. A nine-year-old is placed with a childless couple who live in the Australian outback. He is not quite the foster child they had hoped for and when he claims to have witnessed a murder they remind him of the boy who cried wolf. F/F. $5.00.

• Patricia Carlon  :  The Unquiet Night   Soho Press, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. A woman and her niece become aware of a strange young man staring at them at a nature reserve. He realizes that they are the only people who can connect him to the girl he has just strangled. So he begins to stalk them, terrifying the inhabitants of the small Australian town in which they live. F/F. $5.00.

• Caleb Carr  :  The Alienist   Little Brown, London, 1994. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Sensational fiction debut from Carr. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Caleb Carr  :  The Italian Secretary   Carroll & Graf, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring Sherlock Holmes. F/F. $20.00.

• Jonathan Carroll  :  The Wooden Sea   Tor Books, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. From the moment a three-legged dog limps into the comfortable life of Police Chief Frannie McCabe and drops dead at his feet, McCabe finds himself thrust into a new world of unaccountable miracles and disturbing wonders. F/F. $5.00.

• Angela Carter  :  Nights at the Circus   Viking, New York, 1985. Hardcover. First US Edition. Carter's extravaganza aout women and history, passion and magic, told through the story of Sophia Fevvers, a six-foot-two-inch bottle-blonde aerialiste who is part swan, part woman. Some shelfwear. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Angela Carter  :  Saints and Strangers   Viking, New York, 1986. Hardcover. First US Edition. Short stories. Bookstore sticker on front of dj. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Angela Carter  :  Wise Children   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1991. Hardcover. First US Edition. Carter is at her best in this story which contains her favorite themes: the illusions of circus, puppetry, and magic. Near fine in a fine dustjacket. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Dean Vincent Carter  :  Hand of the Devil   Bodley Head, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Miranda Carter  :  Anthony Blunt: His Lives   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. The first full biography of one of the most notorious spies of the twentieth century. For years Sir Anthony Blunt was a leading light in high society and the art world until Margaret Thatcher exposed him as a spy in 1979. . F/F. $30.00.

• Stephen L. Carter  :  New England White   Knopf, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Stephen L. Carter  :  The Emperor of Ocean Park   Knopf, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Well received debut set among the black middle-class of New York and Washington. Author's first novel. Published simultaneously in the UK and US. F/F. $30.00.

• Stephen L. Carter  :  The Emperor of Ocean Park   Jonathan Cape, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Well received debut set among the black middle-class of New York and Washington. Author's First Novel. Published simultaneously in the UK and US. F/F. $30.00.

• Caroline Carver  :  Black Tide   Orion, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Journalist India Kane agrees to accompany a Greenpeace hip in pursuit of a whaling fleet. F/F. $40.00.

• Caroline Carver  :  Blood Junction   Orion, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When journalist India Kane travels from Sidney to the outback town of Cooinda for a reunion with her friend, she has no idea of the town's appalling history. Forty years earlier an entire Aboriginal family had been massacred. The bodies of the cop who drove India into town as well as that of her friend Lauren are found the day after her arrival. Author's first novel. F/F. $75.00.

• Caroline Carver  :  Dead Heat   Orion, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Georgia Parish survives a plane crash in Northern Queensland and sets out to prove that the plane was sabotaged. F/F. $40.00.

• John Case  :  Ghost Dancer   Ballantine Books, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Thriller. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Ana Castillo  :  Peel My Love Like an Onion   Doubleday, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A lyrical, steamy, and moving story of a love triangle set in the colorful world of flamenco dancing. F/F. $10.00.

• Sarah Caudwell  :  The Sirens Sang of Murder   Crime Club, London, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Third mystery featuring Professor Hilary Tamar. Winner of Anthony Award. Personal inscription to previous owner. ANTHONY AWARD. F/F. $175.00.

• Hugh B. Cave  :  Come Into My Parlor   Crippen & Landru, Virginia, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. A collection of stories from one of the most popular and prolific writers of the Golden Age of the Pulp Magazines between the late 1920s and early 1940s. Original story "Desperate Character" in separate pamphlet is also included. Number 102 of 250 copies. F/F. $45.00.

• Philip Caveney  :  Sebastian Darke: Prince of Fools   Bodley Head, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A swashbuckling adventure for children. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• 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  :  Gentlemen of the Road   Del Rey, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. 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.

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

• Raymond Chandler  :  Chandler: Later Novels & Other Writings   Library of America, New York, 1995. Hardcover. Fourth Printing. The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback, Double Indemnity and Selected Essays and Letters. F/F. $20.00.

• Raymond Chandler  :  Chandler: Stories & Early Novels   Library of America, New York, 1995. Hardcover. Fourth Printing. Pulp Stories, The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, and The High Window. F/F. $20.00.

• Vikram Chandra  :  Sacred Games   Faber & Faber, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Friendship, betrayal, and violence. Set in Mumbai, India. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

• Dan Chaon  :  You Remind Me of Me   Ballantine Books, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A series of incidents separated by time are eventually linked as the author explores why we become who we are and end up stuck in lives we never wanted. F/F. $20.00.

• Suzy McKee Charnas  :  The Conqueror's Child   Tor Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Book Four of The Holdfast Chronicles, the extraordinary dystopian series which imagines an evolving woman-only culture. F/F. $10.00.

• Suzy McKee Charnas  :  The Furies   Tor Books, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Sequel to MOTHERLINES and WALK TO THE END OF THE WORLD, Charnas's extraordinary dystopian series which imagines an evolving woman-only culture. F/F. $10.00.

• Alexander Chee  :  Edinburgh   Welcome Rain, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. When Fee, a Korean-American child, was growing up in Maine he was a member of professional boys' choir. He and many of his friends were molested by the choir director and this violence has dire effects on Fee as he grows to manhood. F/F. $5.00.

• Tracy Chevalier  :  Burning Bright   HarperCollins, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring the poet William Blake. Fine in fine dust jacket. . F/F. $55.00.

• Tracy Chevalier  :  Falling Angels   Dutton, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. In January 1901, the day after Queen Victoria's death, two families separated by social class and taste, visit neighboring graves in a fashionable London cemetery. The families are linked when their two daughters meet behind the tombstones and become friends - and worse, become involved with the gravedigger's son. F/F. $10.00.

• Lee Child  :  Bad Luck and Trouble   Delacorte Press, New York, 2007. Trade Paperback. Proof/Ephemera. SIGNED. Advance Reading Copy. Fine. Fine. $30.00.

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

• Kate Christensen  :  The Epicure's Lament   Doubleday, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Witty novel about love and death and family. F/F. $25.00.

• J.D. Christilian  :  Scarlet Women   Donald Fine, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Assorted rogues, ladies of convenience, a double-murder, and an investigator named Harp - set in New York City in the 1870s. Was compared to The Alienist by Caleb Carr but did not have a fraction of the success of that novel. F/F. $5.00.

• Nicholas Christopher  :  The Bestiary   Dial Press, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Xeno Atlas searches for the Caravan Bestiary, a medieval text, lost for eight hundred years supposedly detailing the animals not granted passage on the Ark. F/F. $30.00.

• Clare Clark  :  The Great Stink   Harcourt, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First US Edition. Historical novel set in the sewers of London in 1855. Author's First Novel. Short listed for the Orange Prize. F/F. $25.00.

• Clare Clark  :  The Nature of Monsters   Viking, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel. Signed and dated. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Martin Clark  :  Plain Heathen Mischief   Knopf, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Defrocked Baptist minister finds life even more bedeviling once he's served time for a crime he might not even have committed. F/F. $20.00.

• Robert Clark  :  Mr. White's Confession   Picador, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. St. Paul, Minnesota 1939. Police Lieutenant Wesley Horner is struggling after the recent death of his wife. When the body of a beautiful showgirl is found on a hillside, Wesley leads the investigation into her murder. Herbert White is the chief suspect. EDGAR AWARD WINNER. F/F. $20.00.

• Susanna Clarke  :  Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell   Bloomsbury, London, 2004. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. This is the first UK edition and is signed by both the author and the illustrator, Portia Rosenberg. White dustjacket with black end papers. F/F. $100.00.

• Philippe Claudel  :  By A Slow River   Knopf, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First US Edition. Elegant mystery set in a small French town during WWI. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Pearl Cleage  :  What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day   Avon Books, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Ava Johnson was a successful black businesswoman in Atlanta, but when she discovered she was HIV positive she decided to head to LA. On her way, she stops in her hometown of Idlewild, Michigan and discovers there's too much happening there to move on. An Oprah selection. F/F. $5.00.

• Chris Cleave  :  Incendiary   Chatto & Windus, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. This edition is limited to 500 copies. Also dated (June 17th 2005). Slip from author laid in announcing his website availability on July 7th (the date of publication and, coincidentally, the date of the London bombings. A woman who has lost her husband and son in a terrorist attack writes to Osama Bin Laden. F/F. $100.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  An Old Magic   Suffolk Press, Suffolk, UK, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Number 74 of 400 cloth bound copies. Ripples of tragedy reach into the present day when architect Anna Claydon, surveying a house built over the remains of a Roman villa, inadvertently opens a window to the past. That past will reveal itself to Anna and involve her in romance, buried treasure, ancient curses, and a dash of the supernatural. F/F. $60.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  Ragtime in Simla   Constable, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second in the series set in India in 1922 when the British are making themselves at home. Joe Sandilands is once again plunged into a murder investigation when the Russian opera star sharing his car on their way to see the Governor of Bengal is shot dead. A signed postcard is also laid in. F/F. $50.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  Ragtime in Simla   Constable, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  The Bee's Kiss   Constable, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Joe Sandilands mystery set in 1926 London. F/F. $35.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  The Damascened Blade   Constable, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Detective Joe Sandilands, on secondment from Scotland Yard, is spending his leave with an old army friend at the front line fort of Gor Khatri. There are guests at the fort and when one of them, a Pathan prince, dies mysteriously the fragile peace between the British and surrounding tribes is jeapordized. Cleverly continues her series set on the North West Frontier in 1910. F/F. $35.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  The Last Kashmiri Rose   Carroll & Graf, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. Author's First Novel. Introduces Joe Sandilands. F/F. $30.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  The Last Kashmiri Rose   Carroll & Graf, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  Tug of War   Constable, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Joe Sandilands is embroiled in a mystery in Northern France in 1926. F/F. $45.00.

• Jon Clinch  :  Finn   Random House, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Remarkable debut featuring the father of Huckleberry Finn. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

• Jon Clinch  :  Finn   Random House, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

• Rachel Cline  :  My Liar   Random House, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Bill Clinton  :  My Life   Knopf, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. The former President tells of his life so far. F/F. $40.00.

• Harlan Coben  :  Deal Breaker   Dell, New York, 1995. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Paperback Original. Myron Bolitar mystery. An unread copy. Fine. $30.00.

• Harlan Coben  :  Dropshot   Dell, New York, 1996. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Paperback Original. A Myron Bolitar mystery. Slight scuffing at top of spine, but an unread copy. Near Fine. $30.00.

• Liza Cody  :  Bucket Nut   Chatto & Windus, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. Introduces Eva Wylie, heavyweight wrestler. Eva crosses paths with Anna Lee (Cody's private eye) and is soon working amongs London's lowlife without a bank account, telephone, driving licence, or scruples. SILVER DAGGER AWARD WINNER. F/F. $35.00.

• Liza Cody  :  Lucky Dip and Other Stories   Crippen & Landru, Virginia, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Number 106 of 250 clothbound copies. Short stories by the author of the Anna Lee and Eva Wylie series. Included is a story written especially for this volume and a separate pamphlet "White Knights & Giggling Bimbos.". F/F. $45.00.

• Liza Cody  :  Monkey Wrench   Chatto & Windus, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Eva Wylie, heavyweight wrestler and security guard is back. Eva's friend Crystal is looking to revenge the murder of her prostitute sister who has been beaten to death. But she needs Eva's brawn. Anna Lee tries to help, but she's helpless against Eva's lunatic logic. F/F. $35.00.

• Liza Cody  :  Musclebound   Bloomsbury, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Eva Wylie, wrestler and low-life, has been barred from the ring and is reduced to guarding rich folks' cars. But she has her dogs and she has her booze. Watch out! PHILIP MARLOWE AWARD. F/F. $35.00.

• Jonathan Coe  :  The Rain Before it Falls   Penguin, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

• Jonathan Coe  :  The Rain Before it Falls   Penguin, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

• Tucker Coe  :  A Jade in Aries   Random House, New York, 1970. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Crimping topy and bottom of spine. Some wear, especially at extremities of the very bright, price-clipped dustjacket. NF/NF. $45.00.

• J.M. Coetzee  :  Disgrace   Viking, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. An affair with one of his students has left fifty-two year-old David Lurie jobless, shunned by his friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife. David moves to his daughter's house where he tries to find meaning from this one remaining relationship. Winner of The Booker Prize. F/F. $45.00.

• Tom Coffey  :  The Serpent Club   Pocket Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Ted Lowe, a reporter, is looking into the death of a young girl from a good home and good school who has been raped and murdered. As he uncovers Megan Wright's story, Ted discovers that her life was far from perfect. Author's first novel. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. Excellent debut. F/F. $20.00.

• Mark Coggins  :  The Immortal Game   Poltroon Press, California, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Edwin Bishop has developed a software program to play chess against humans that, he claims, is the most advanced ever written. When it's stolen and turns up at a trade show, Bishop calls in August Riordan, jazz bass-playing private eye. An homage to Hammett. Small print run. F/F. $20.00.

• Mark Coggins  :  Vulture Capital   Poltroon Press, California, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. August Riordan, sleuth, returns to the dark side of Silicon Valley as he investigates the disappearance of the Chief Technical Officer of a Biotech firm. . F/F. $20.00.

• Jameson Cole  :  A Killing in Quail County   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. Edgar Award Winner. Slight crimp to top of spine. In fine dustjacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Max Allan Collins  :  Carnal Hours   Dutton, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Nathan Heller investigates the murder of Sir Henry Oakes in Nassau. Featuring the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ian Fleming, and Erle Stanley Gardner. F/F. $35.00.

• Max Allan Collins  :  Damned in Paradise   Dutton, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Clarence Darrow asks for Nathan Heller's help when one of the five men accused of raping socialite, Thalia Massie, is murdered. F/F. $35.00.

• Max Allan Collins  :  Neon Mirage   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. A Nathan Heller mystery. Features James Ragen, Al Capone, and Bugsy Siegel, and the creation of a gambling oasis in Las Vegas. F/F. $65.00.

• Max Allan Collins  :  The Million-Dollar Wound   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. Nathan Heller is back in Chicago after visiting Guadalcanal. This mystery features Frank Nitti, Eliot Ness, Sally Rand, and Robert Montgomery. F/F. $65.00.

• Max Allan Collins  :  True Crime   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition. A Nathan Heller mystery featuring John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Sally Rand. F/F. $100.00.

• Michael Collins  :  Lost Souls   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A three-year-old child is found dead at the side of the road on Halloween night. When the town's star athlete becomes the main suspect, between the cover-up and the ensuing catastrophes, everyone seems to lose sight of the fact that an innocent has died. F/F. $55.00.

• Michael Collins  :  The Resurrectionists   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. When Frank was five, his parents burned to death in their remote Michigan town. Now, thirty years later, Frank's uncle is dead too, shot by a mysterious stranger with a dead man's name. Frank wants answers. F/F. $55.00.

• Michael Collins  :  The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Paul Collins  :  Sixpence House   Bloomsbury, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First US Edition. Author reminisces about his life in Haye-On-Wye, the book town in Wales. F/F. $5.00.

• Joe Connelly  :  Bringing Out the Dead   Knopf, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Frank Pierce is a brash EMS medic working the streets of Hell's Kitchen. The story follows him through two days and nights of the excitement and dread of his calls. Filmed starring Nicholas Cage. Author's First Novel. F/F. $20.00.

• Michael Connelly  :  Crime Beat   Steven C. Vascik Publ., Los Angeles, 2004. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Connelly's collected journalism from 1984 to 1992. Number 103 of 150 copies. Slipcased. Fine. $175.00.

• Michael Connelly  :  Echo Park   Orion, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Harry Bosch mystery. UK edition precedes US Trade edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Michael Connelly  :  Echo Park   Little Brown, New York, 2006. Proof/Ephemera. SIGNED. Fine copy. Fine. $30.00.

• Michael Connelly  :  Murder in Vegas   Forge, New York, 2005. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Original stories, edited and signed by Michael Connelly. Fine. In wraps as issued. Fine. $20.00.

• Michael Connelly  :  The Closers   Dennis McMillan, Arizona, 2005. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Number 91 of True First Issue. Slipcased. Book is shrinkwrapped. Fine. $125.00.

• Michael Connelly  :  The Concrete Blonde   Little Brown, New York, 1994. Proof/Ephemera. SIGNED. Author's third Harry Bosch mystery. Fine. Fine. $45.00.

• Michael Connelly  :  The Narrows   Dennis McMillan, Arizona, 2004. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. True first issue. Limited to 400 copies and slipcased. F/F. $125.00.

• John Connolly  :  The Black Angel   Atria Books, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Charlie Parker mystery. CD included. F/F. $20.00.

• John Connolly  :  The Unquiet   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Charlie Parker mystery. With CD. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Christopher Cook  :  Robbers   Carroll & Graf, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Two drifters, Ray Bob and Eddie, one a talented blues guitarist and the other a sociopath, go on a crime spree through Texas. Author's first novel. F/F. $5.00.

• Gary J. Cook  :  Blood Trail   Dennis McMillan, Arizona, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First Trade Edition. Hard boiled author reminiscent of Kent Anderson. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Thomas H. Cook  :  Blood Innocents   Five Star, Maine, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Two deer lie dead in the Central Park Children's Zoo. One has been stabbed 57 times and the other killed with a single slash across the nexk. When two women are found murdered in their apartment, one stabbed 57 times and one killed with a single slash across her neck, the city becomes paralyzed with terror as a psychopathic killer stalks the streets. F/F. $30.00.

• Thomas H. Cook  :  Flesh and Blood   Putnam, New York, 1989. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Frank Clemons has quit the Atlanta police and is a PI in New York. His first case is the murder of Hannah Karlsberg, assistant to clothing designer Imalia Covallo. F/F. $35.00.

• Thomas H. Cook  :  Night Secrets   Putnam, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Frank Clemons returns for his third outing investigating mystery and murder on the streets of New York. F/F. $35.00.

• Thomas H. Cook  :  Streets of Fire   Putnam, New York, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 the first of Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights demonstrations begin to fill the streets. In the sweltering city a young black girl is found murdered. F/F. $35.00.

• Thomas H. Cook  :  Tabernacle   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Detective Tom Jackson was a New York City copy. Now he works for the Salt Lake City police and there's an insane killer on the loose. . NF/NF. $55.00.

• Thomas H. Cook  :  Tabernacle   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Slight shelf wear. NF/NF. $55.00.

• Thomas H. Cook  :  The Orchids   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1982. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Peter Langhof lives an anonymous life in South America. He was in the Waffen SS and once performed medical experiments - a man with no politics who worked at the very center of evil. Some shelfwear to the extremities of the dustjacket. A bright, tight copy. NF/NF. $55.00.

• David Corbett  :  Blood of Paradise   Ballantine Books, New York, 2007. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Thriller. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine. $12.00.

• David Corbett  :  The Devil's Redhead   Ballantine Books, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Freelance photographer and wildcat smuggler Dan Abatangelo blows into Vegas to hit the tables and taste the nightlife. He meets Shel Beaudry and the attraction is instant. They move to the West coast where Dan plans one more drug run before getting out. His is betrayed, caught, and serves ten years. His one thought on getting out is to gind Shel. But Shel's life has changed radically. Author's well received first novel. F/F. $20.00.

• Vena Cork  :  Green Eye   Headline, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's third novel. Signed and dated. F/F. $20.00.

• Vena Cork  :  The Art of Dying   Headline, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel. Very slight shelfwear top and bottom of spine. NF/NF. $20.00.

• Elizabeth Corley  :  Grave Doubts   Allison & Busby, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Signed and Dated. Dark thriller. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• John Cornwell  :  Hitler's Pope   John Cornwell, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. The previously untold story of Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, Pontiff from 1939 to 1958 and known as the Pope who failed to speak out against Hitler's final solution. Here is the full story of how Pacelli in fact prompted events in the 1920s and '30s which helped sweep the Nazis to unhindered power. F/F. $20.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  All That Remains   Scribners, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Third Kay Scarpetta mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $100.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  All The Remains   Scribner, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Kay Scarpetta mystery. . F/F. $60.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  Portrait of a Killer   Putnam, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Cornwell's Jack the Ripper theory. F/F. $25.00.

• Patricia Daniels Cornwell  :  Post Mortem   Scribners, New York, 1990. Hardcover. BOOK CLUB EDITION. F/F. $20.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  Predator   Putnam, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring Kay Scarpetta. F/F. $50.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  Predator   Putnam, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  Trace   Putnam, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring Kay Scarpetta. F/F. $50.00.

• Kurt Corriher  :  Someone To Kill   Forge, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When investigative reporter Judith Lyles is brutally murdered together with her young daughter, her estranged husband, John Pavlak, does not wait for the police to bring him answers. Thriller with roots going back to WWII. Author's First Novel. F/F. $5.00.

• Francis Cottam  :  Hamer's War   Simon & Schuster, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. German soldier confronts the horrors of Nazism in occupied Poland. F/F. $40.00.

• Francis Cottam  :  Slapton Sands   Simon & Schuster, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. American student researches a catastophe which claimed the lives of almost 1,500 American marines in 1944. F/F. $40.00.

• Francis Cottam  :  The Fire Fighter   Chatto & Windus, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in England during World War II. Author's First Novel. F/F. $25.00.

• Colin Cotterill  :  The Coroner's Lunch   Soho Press, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Mystery and political satire set in Laos. Author's First Novel. F/F. $35.00.

• Jim Crace  :  Being Dead   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. A couple lie murdered in the dunes. The story moves backward in time to show how they got there. As their bodies slowly disintegrate, their lives become fleshed out. Not a whodunit. More a meditation on life and death. Exquisitely written. Winner of the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS' AWARD. F/F. $10.00.

• Jim Crace  :  Being Dead   Viking, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Couple lie murdered in the dunes. The story moves backward in time to show how they got there. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS' AWARD. F/F. $65.00.

• Jim Crace  :  Signals of Distress   Viking, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. The Belle of Wilmington, an American emigration barque, is grounded on a sand-bar in the West of England. While she waits to be refloated, the isolated community of Wherrytown offers hospitality to the crew. But the Americans prove to be a disturbing presence. Very slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $30.00.

• Jim Crace  :  Six   Viking, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. The story of Felix Dern whose blessing and tragedy is that he has no defense against the concentrated moment in the arms of someone he loves. And every woman he sleeps with bears his child. F/F. $55.00.

• Jim Crace  :  The Devil's Larder   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Sixty-four short fictions about food, sex, desire and its death. F/F. $10.00.

• Jim Crace  :  The Devil's Larder   Viking, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A book of stories appealing to all appetites. F/F. $45.00.

• Jim Crace  :  The Pesthouse   Picador, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. America must adapt to a medieval future with no technology, science, or social cohesion. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Jim Crace  :  The Pesthouse   Picador, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• David Crackanthorpe  :  Horseman, Pass By   Review, London, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Edition Thus. Bernard Vipont is a lawyer in Marseille. But he is secretly carrying out his own campaign of vengeance against wartime collaborators who appropriated works of art from Jewish collectors denounced to the Nazis. In wraps as issued. Slight crease on front wrap. Near Fine. $15.00.

• David Crackanthorpe  :  Stolen Marches   Headline, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Now that the Germans are withdrawing from France, Stephen Seagrave is free to search for Ida, the young prostitue he once saves. However, new forces rush in to fill the vacuum left by the retreating Germans and old scores are being settled. Stephen realizes that peace has made the world an even more dangerous place. Author's First Novel. Unusual to find this title in hardcover. F/F. $20.00.

• David Craig  :  A Walk At Night   Macmillan, London, 1971. Hardcover. First Edition. (Bill James). Espionage. Fine in fine dust jacket. Scarce. F/F. $35.00.

• David Craig  :  Bay City   Constable, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Slight tanning to the edges as is usual. In fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• David Craig  :  Bolthole   Macmillan, London, 1973. Hardcover. First Edition. (Bill James). Thriller. Slight wear to extremities. Dust jacket shows some rubbing at corners. Scarce. Previous owner's name fep. VG+/VG+. $30.00.

• David Craig  :  The Tattooed Detective   Constable, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First in a new series. Corruption and mayhem in Cardiff Bay. David Craig is the pseudonym of Bill James. F/F. $55.00.

• David Craig  :  Up From the Grave   Macmillan, London, 1971. Hardcover. First Edition. (Bill James). Thriller. Fine in dust jacket showing shelfwear top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's name fep. Scarce. VG+/VG+. $30.00.

• Robert Crais  :  Free Fall   Bantam, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. An Elvis Cole mystery. F/F. $95.00.

• Robert Crais  :  Indigo Slam   Hyperion, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Elvis Cole mystery. F/F. $35.00.

• Robert Crais  :  L.A. Requiem   Orion, London, 1999. Trade Paperback. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Elvis Cole mystery. DILYS AWARD. In wraps as issued. Fine. $30.00.

• Robert Crais  :  Stalking the Angel   Bantam, New York, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second Elvis Cole mystery. F/F. $100.00.

• Robert Crais  :  Sunset Express   Hyperion, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Elvis Cole mystery. SHAMUS AWARD. F/F. $35.00.

• Robert Crais  :  The Forgotten Man   Doubleday, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Elvis Cole searches for his father. Review copy with plublisher's materials, in the form of a letter from Crais, laid in. F/F. $30.00.

• Robert Crais  :  The Monkey's Raincoat   Bantam, New York, 1987. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces Elvis Cole. ANTHONY AWARD. MACAVITY AWARD. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. Some creasing to the spine of this paperback original. Near Fine. $75.00.

• Robert Crais  :  The Monkey's Raincoat   Bantam, New York, 1987. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Some creasing to spine. Near Fine. $75.00.

• Michael Crichton  :  Prey   HarperCollins, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Plague threatens and scientists must stop it spreading. Signature on tipped in page. F/F. $35.00.

• Edmund Crispin  :  Beware of the Trains   Walker & Co., New York, 1962. Hardcover. First US Edition. Sixteen classic tales of detection. Price clipped with slight sunning on spine. Tight, bright copy. NF/NF. $20.00.

• Edmund Crispin  :  Fen Country   Victor Gollancz, London, 1979. Hardcover. First Edition. Twenty-six stories. F/F. $65.00.

• Edmund Crispin  :  Glimpses of the Moon   Victor Gollancz, London, 1977. Hardcover. First Edition. A Gervase Fen mystery. Previous owner's signature on fep. NF/NF. $35.00.

• Edmund Crispin  :  Glimpses of the Moon   Walker & Co., New York, 1978. Hardcover. First US Edition. Gervase Fen mystery. F/F. $10.00.

• Deborah Crombie  :  All Shall Be Well   Scribners, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Coming home to his Hampstead flat after working all night, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid finds his terminally ill neighbor has passed away in her sleep. The death, however, isn't as straightforward as it seems. Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James investigate. Edgar Award nominee. F/F. $30.00.

• Deborah Crombie  :  Kissed a Sad Goodbye   Bantam, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Deborah Crombie  :  Leave the Grave Green   Scribner, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Duncan Kincaid, Gemma James mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Amanda Cross  :  Collected Stories   Ballantine, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $30.00.

• Amanda Cross  :  Death in a Tenured Position   Dutton, New York, 1981. Hardcover. First Edition. Kate Fansler takes a year's sabbatical at Harvard. Murder follows her even to those hallowed halls. Sixth in the series by Cross, pseudonym for the late Carolyn G. Heilbrun. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. NERO WOLFE AWARD. F/F. $45.00.

• Amanda Cross  :  The Players Come Again   Random House, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. Kate Fansler is persuaded by her publisher to take on the biography of Gabrielle Fox, wife of a modernist author. Review copy but papers are pasted down on the inside front board - by the publisher we think. F/F. $10.00.

• Amanda Cross  :  The Question of Max   Knopf, New York, 1976. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring academic sleuth Kate Fansler. F/F. $55.00.

• Michael Crow  :  Red Rain   Viking, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Known as Comanche to his Gulf War Special Forces buddies, Shooter to his fellow mercenaries in Bosnia, and Five-O to the Baltimore Country narcotics squad, Luther Ewing is not your typical cop. First in a series by Crow, a pseudonym for a well-known novelist. F/F. $20.00.

• Michael Crow  :  The Bite   Viking, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Luther Ewing becomes personally and professionally involved with a dangerous FBI agent. F/F. $20.00.

• James Crumley  :  The Collection   Picador, London, 1993. Trade Paperback. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. This omnibus contains: The Wrong Case; The Last Good Kiss; and Dancing Bear. In wraps as issued. Fine. $30.00.

• James Crumley  :  The Last Good Kiss   Random House, New York, 1978. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Remainder mark. In fine dust jacket. NF/NF. $65.00.

• James Crumley  :  The Mexican Tree Duck   Picador, London, 1994. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. A C.W. Sughrue mystery. HAMMETT PRIZE. F/F. $35.00.

• James Crumley  :  The Right Madness   Viking, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $20.00.

• Mitch Cullin  :  A Slight Trick of the Mind   Doubleday, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Sherlock Holmes in the twilight of his life. F/F. $25.00.

• Michael Cunningham  :  Flesh and Blood   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Cunningham's second novel follows the Stassos family through four generations. F/F. $45.00.

• Michael Cunningham  :  Specimen Days   Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel since The Hours. F/F. $30.00.

• Michael Cunningham  :  Specimen Days   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Michael Cunningham  :  The Hours   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The stories of three women, one of whom is Virginia Woolf, living in three different decades. Filmed Starring Nicole Kidman (who won an oscar), Meryl Streep, and Julianne Moore. A stunning achievement. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. F/F. $175.00.