Browsing Authors   P  :  95 Books

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

• Chuck Palahniuk  :  Haunted   Doubleday, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. F/F. $25.00.

• Grace Paley  :  Later the Same Day   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Short stories. Slight shelfwear. F/F. $75.00.

• Grace Paley  :  The Collected Stories   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1994. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited Edition. Number 100 of 150 copies. Slipcased. Fine. $75.00.

• Grace Paley  :  The Collected Stories   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1994. Hardcover. Collection of Paley's stories from 1959 to 1994. Second Impression. F/F. $20.00.

• Charles Palliser  :  The Quincunx   Ballantine Books, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First US Edition. Searching for clues to his origins John Huffam, a young man from the North of England, comes to believe that he is the victim of a vast and ancient conspiracy. Author's First Novel. NF/NF. $25.00.

• Charles Palliser  :  The Unburied   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. Dr. Courtine, an academic, is invited to spend the days before Christmas with an old friend from his youth. Austin's house is in the Cathedral Close of Thurchester and Courtine hopes to be able to use the Cathedral library to track down an elusive 11th Century manuscript. Biblio mystery set in Victorian England. F/F. $25.00.

• Sara Paretsky  :  Deadlock   Dial Press, New York, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second V.I. Warshawski case involving the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Slight shelfwear to boards. Dustjacket has shelfwear top and bottom of spine and creasing bottom front. SIGNED on previous owner's bookplate. NF/NF. $200.00.

• Sara Paretsky  :  Guardian Angel   Scorpion Press, Bristol, 1992. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. A V.I. Warshawski mystery. Signature appears on tipped in page. Number 30 of 99 numbered copies. With an appreciation by Frances Fyfield. In marbled boards as issued. Fine. $60.00.

• Sara Paretsky  :  Killing Orders   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A V.I. Warshawski mystery. Very tight copy with some shelfwear to extremities. Slight stain on the dj and above signature. NF/NF. $125.00.

• David Park  :  The Big Snow   Bloomsbury, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. Set in Northern Ireland during the extreme winter of 1963. A woman is murdered and one man is in a race against time - to find the murderer before the snow melts. F/F. $15.00.

• Robert B. Parker  :  Double Play   Putnam, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Joseph Burke, a WWII vet, is hired by Brooklyn Dodgers manager, Branch Rickey, to guard Jackie Robinson. F/F. $30.00.

• Robert B. Parker  :  Pale Kings and Princes   Delacorte Press, New York, 1987. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Uncorrected Proof. Signed on pasted down publisher's plate with publication date (June 5, 1987). Number 426 of 500 limited copies. Fine unread copy. Fine. $60.00.

• Carolyn Parkhurst  :  The Dogs of Babel   Little Brown, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Paul Iverson tries to get his dog, the only witness to his wife's death, to talk. First state Dust jacket - without the Today Show blurb. F/F. $25.00.

• Heather Parkinson  :  Across Open Ground   Bloomsbury, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Seventeen-year-old Walter Pascoe sets out for his first season as a sheep herder and learns the dangers and beauties of the land. F/F. $25.00.

• Richard Parry  :  Trial By Ice   Ballantine Books, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. True story of murder and survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition. F/F. $25.00.

• Julie Parsons  :  Eager to Please   Macmillan, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. F/F. $30.00.

• Julie Parsons  :  Mary, Mary   Macmillan, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. F/F. $30.00.

• Julie Parsons  :  The Courtship Gift   Macmillan, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. F/F. $30.00.

• Ann Patchett  :  Bel Canto   HarperCollins, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. A group is taken hostage at an Embassy in a foreign land. Beautiful and magical. F/F. $50.00.

• Eliot Pattison  :  Water Touching Stone   Century, London, 2001. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Featuring Shan Tao Yun, former Beijing investigator. Author's second novel. . F/F. $30.00.

• Rebecca C. Pawel  :  Death of a Nationalist   Soho Press, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in Madrid in 1939. The Republicans have surrendered and the Guardia has begun to impose order in the ruins. Carlos Tejado Alonso y Leon, a sergeant in the Guardia Civil finds the body of his best friend shot to death. Author's First Novel. EDGAR AWARD. F/F. $35.00.

• Jeremy Paxman  :  The English   Overlook Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. A look at the character of the English and how it has changed. F/F. $12.00.

• David Peace  :  Nineteen Seventy-Seven   Serpent's Tail, London, 2000. Paperback. First Edition. Author's second novel continues his history of crime in Yorkshire. In wraps as issued. Fine. $30.00.

• David Peace  :  Nineteen-Eighty   Serpent's Tail, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. The Yorkshire Ripper series continues. F/F. $30.00.

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

• Iain Pears  :  An Instance of the Fingerpost   Jonathan Cape, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Witnesses tell contradicting stories of the death of Robert Grove. Set in Oxford in the 1660s. F/F. $45.00.

• Iain Pears  :  An Instance of the Fingerpost   Jonathan Cape, London, 1997. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Fine. $35.00.

• Iain Pears  :  The Immaculate Deception   HarperCollins, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. A Jonathan Argyll art mystery. F/F. $30.00.

• Iain Pears  :  The Instance of the Fingerpost   Jonathan Cape, London, 1997. PROOF. In wraps as issued. This became the literary thriller of the year. MARTIN BECK AWARD. Fine. $45.00.

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

• George P. Pelecanos  :  The Sweet Forever   Little Brown, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $75.00.

• George P. Pelecanos  :  Drama City   Dennis McMillan, Arizona, 2005. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. True First Edition. Limited to 200 copies. Slipcased. Fine. $125.00.

• George P. Pelecanos  :  Hard Revolution   Dennis McMillan, Arizona, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. True First Edition. Limited to 300 copies. Slipcased. F/F. $125.00.

• George P. Pelecanos  :  Hell To Pay   Little Brown, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Derek Strange and Terry Quinn mystery. F/F. $40.00.

• George P. Pelecanos  :  Right As Rain   Little Brown, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Derek Strange is an ex-cop who now runs a detective agency. When the mother of a slain cop asks him to help her make sense of his killing, Strange finds himself in the darkest chasms of the D.C. underworld. First in the series. F/F. $40.00.

• George P. Pelecanos  :  Shame the Devil   Little Brown, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $30.00.

• George P. Pelecanos  :  Shoedog   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Constantine, a drifter, hitches a ride with a little man named Polk. That's how it all starts! Beautiful copy of this increasingly scarce title. F/F. $375.00.

• George P. Pelecanos  :  Soul Circus   Orion, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Derek Strange and his partner Terry Quinn become agents of death when a client brutally murders a young girl they had been paid to find. UK edition precedes US. F/F. $50.00.

• George P. Pelecanos  :  The Big Blowdown   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Crime epic set in Washington D.C. in the 1950s. Featuring Joey Recevo, Pete Karras, and Nick Stefanos. MALTESE FALCON AWARD. F/F. $40.00.

• George P. Pelecanos  :  The Sweet Forever   Little Brown, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $50.00.

• Sharon Kay Penman  :  Time and Chance   Putnam, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Story of Henry II's reign. F/F. $20.00.

• Sharon Kay Penman  :  When Christ and His Saints Slept   Henry Holt, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Story of Maude, mother of Henry II founder of the Plantagenet dynasty. F/F. $20.00.

• Otto Penzler  :  Best American Mystery Stories 1999   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Signed by Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook, Tom Franklin, and guest editor Ed McBain. F/F. $30.00.

• Otto Penzler  :  Best American Mystery Stories 2002   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Guest Editor, James Ellroy. SIGNED by Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook, Scott Wolven, and Michael Connelly. F/F. $30.00.

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

• Otto Penzler  :  Pulp Fiction: The Villains   Quercus, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Sixteen pulp stories from Erle Stanley Gardner, Cornell Woolrich, Leslie Charteris, etc. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

• Arturo Perez-Reverte  :  Queen of the South   Harcourt Brace, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First English Translation. SIGNED. F/F. $30.00.

• Arturo Perez-Reverte  :  The Club Dumas   Harcourt Brace, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First US Edition. A man is killed and a manuscript chapter of The Three Musketeers and three rare books that might summon the devil, all draw book dealer Corso into mystery. Filmed by Roman Polanski as The Ninth Gate starring Johnny Depp. Elegant bibliomystery. F/F. $75.00.

• Arturo Perez-Reverte  :  The Fencing Master   Harcourt Brace, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Book. Literate mystery set in Madrid at the beginning of the September Revolution. Filmed by Pedro Olea starring Omero Anonutti. F/F. $75.00.

• Arturo Perez-Reverte  :  The Flanders Panel   Harcourt Brace, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First US Edition. Literary mystery. F/F. $60.00.

• Arturo Perez-Reverte  :  The Seville Communion   Harcourt Brace, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. Literate supernatural mystery. F/F. $45.00.

• Anne Perry  :  Resurrection Row   Severn House, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Reprint of the 1981 Victorian mystery featuring Inspector Pitt. This small print run sold out almost immediately. F/F. $35.00.

• Thomas Perry  :  Dance for the Dead   Random House, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second Jane Whitefield mystery. F/F. $65.00.

• Thomas Perry  :  Dead Aim   Random House, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $30.00.

• Thomas Perry  :  Island   Putnam, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First US Edition. A husband-and-wife con team, a soldier of fortune, a two-bit operator, a CIA operative, and a defector with a split-fingered fastball, all wash up on a tiny island in the Caribbean. F/F. $75.00.

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

• Thomas Perry  :  Sleeping Dogs   Random House, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The Butcher's Boy, the best Mafia hit man money could buy, is now semi-retired, living in Bath, England. There's still a price on his head, and when someone tries to kill him, the Butcher's Boy heads back to the States and is forced to resume his old profession - with a vengeance. F/F. $45.00.

• Thomas Perry  :  Vanishing Act   Random House, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces Jane Whitefield, Native American guide. Jane teaches fugitives how to live with new identities - like Harry Kemple, who isn't especially admirable, but who doesn't deserve to die prematurely. F/F. $30.00.

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

• Elizabeth Peters  :  The Murders of Richard III   Dodd Mead, New York, 1974. Hardcover. First Edition. Terrific mystery set in a country house where the murders seem to recreate those surrounding the infamous king. Very slight shelfwear with slight discoloration on top edges. . NF/NF. $100.00.

• Ellis Peters  :  Black is the Color of My True-Love's Heart   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1967. Hardcover. First US Edition. Dominic Felse mystery. F/F. $65.00.

• Ellis Peters  :  Monk's Hood   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First US Edition. A Brother Cadfael mystery. Beautiful copy. SILVER DAGGER AWARD WINNER. . F/F. $100.00.

• Ellis Peters  :  Monk's Hood   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First US Edition. A Brother Cadfael mystery. Tiny chip top of spine otherwise a spectacular copy. SILVER DAGGER AWARD. F/F. $75.00.

• Ellis Peters  :  The Rose Rent   Macmillan, London, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Brother Cadfael mystery. F/F. $60.00.

• Ellis Peters  :  The Virgin in the Ice   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1983. Hardcover. First US Edition. A Brother Cadfael mystery. Beautiful copy. F/F. $75.00.

• Chris Petit  :  Back From the Dead   Macmillan, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Rock star McMahon has been receiving letters from a woman calling herself Leah. McMahon knew Leah a long time ago and the letters seem authentic. Problem is, Leah is dead. . F/F. $30.00.

• Chris Petit  :  Hard Shoulder   Granta, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. O'Grady gets out of jail to come home to Margaret Thatcher's Britain, a place he recognizes but feels lost in. An evocation of the grey avenues and pubs of Irish London at its most hopeless. F/F. $25.00.

• Chris Petit  :  The Psalm Killer   Macmillan, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Serial killer loose in 1985 Belfast. Author's First Novel. F/F. $30.00.

• Elizabeth Pewsey  :  Losing Larry   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Larry goes to Budapest and finds himself a suspect in a murder investigation. F/F. $25.00.

• Nathaniel Philbrick  :  In the Heart of the Sea   HarperCollins, London, 2000. Hardcover. First UK Edition. The true story of the sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale which inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. NF/NF. $35.00.

• Arthur Phillips  :  The Egyptologist   Random House, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel. F/F. $30.00.

• Gary Phillips  :  Monkology   Dennis McMillan, Arizona, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Thirteen Ivan Monk stories. Signed by Phillips, Dennis McMillan, and the musicians who put together the CD which is included. . F/F. $50.00.

• Scott Phillips  :  The Ice Harvest   Ballantine Books, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Book. Edgar Award nominee. Filmed starring Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. Signed with the author's melting ice cube. F/F. $75.00.

• Scott Phillips  :  The Walkaway   Picador, London, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Sequel to The Ice Harvest. This UK edition precedes both the American trade edition and the limited edition. F/F. $30.00.

• Jodi Picoult  :  Nineteen Minutes   Atria Books, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Marge Piercy  :  City of Darkness, City of Light   Fawcett, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Novel of the French Revolution. Very slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $15.00.

• DBC Pierre  :  Ludmila's Broken English   Faber and Faber, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. By the author of Vernon God Little. F/F. $40.00.

• David Pirie  :  The Patient's Eyes   Century, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First in a series featuring a young Sherlock Holmes and his mentor Dr. Joseph Bell. F/F. $30.00.

• Dennis Potter  :  Ticket to Ride   Faber & Faber, Boston, 1986. Hardcover. First US Edition. The horror and violence of a degenerating mind. From the author of The Singing Detective. NF/NF. $25.00.

• C.E. Poverman  :  On the Edge   Ontario Review Press, Princeton, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. F/F. $15.00.

• Richard Powers  :  The Echo Maker   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. F/F. $75.00.

• Douglas Preston  :  Brimstone   Warner Books, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Behind the gates of a fabulous Hampton estate, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers a gruesome crime, one that seems to have a supernatural origin. Signed by both authors (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child). F/F. $35.00.

• John Preston  :  The Dig   Penguin, London. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In 1939, as Britain prepares for war, an archaeological dig is taking place in Suffolk. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

• Richard Price  :  Clockers   Bloomsbury, London, 1992. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Filmed by Spike Lee, starring Harvey Keitel. F/F. $30.00.

• Richard Price  :  Freedomland   Bloomsbury, London, 1998. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Woman claims carjacker kidnapped her son, but the police are not so sure. Filmed starring Julianne Moore. F/F. $30.00.

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

• Christopher Priest  :  The Extremes   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A gunman goes on a killing spree in Texas. On that same June day a gunman goes on a killing spree in a small town on the south coast of England. F/F. $20.00.

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

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

• Philip Pullman  :  Scarecrow and His Servant   Doubleday, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fantasy for children of all ages from award-winning author of His Dark Materials Trilogy. F/F. $30.00.

• Thomas Pynchon  :  Mason & Dixon   Henry Holt, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Epic story of the British surveyors best known for the running boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. F/F. $30.00.

• Andrew Pyper  :  Lost Girls   Macmillan, London, 1999. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Author's First Novel. ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD. F/F. $45.00.

• Andrew Pyper  :  Lost Girls   Delacorte, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. Author's First Novel. ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $25.00.

• Andrew Pyper  :  The Trade Mission   HarperFlamingo, Toronto, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. F/F. $35.00.