Browsing Biblio  :  33 Books

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. $10.00.

• 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. $10.00.

• 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. $10.00.

• Sean Dixon  :  The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal   HarperCollins, London, 2008. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. One of 250 numbered and signed copies. Biblio. Fine in boards as issued. Fine. $35.00.

• Stephen Dobyns  :  Saratoga Hexameter   Viking, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. A colleague's death leads Charlie Bradshaw to a nursing home where a poem written in iambic hexameter will provide a clue to a series of mysterious deaths. Meanwhile, someone is robbing the Bentley Hotel and leaving poems behind, and at a nearby artists' colony someone is harassing a pretentious critic. Charlie's life is about to turn literary. Slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $10.00.

• John Dunning  :  The Bookman's Promise   Scribner, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Third Cliff Janeway mystery. F/F. $50.00.

• John Dunning  :  The Sign of the Book   Scribner, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Cliff Janeway mystery. F/F. $50.00.

• Umberto Eco  :  The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana   Harcourt, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First English Translation. SIGNED. Bibliophile tries to find clues to his identity. F/F. $35.00.

• Michel Faber  :  The Fire Gospel   Canongate, Edinburgh, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Papyrus scrolls found in Iraq believed to be the Fifth Gospel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Michel Faber  :  The Fire Gospel   Canongate, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First US Edition. Papyrus scrolls found in Iraq believed to be the Fifth Gospel. Fine in fie dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Jasper Fforde  :  Lost in a Good Book   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring literary sleuth, Thursday Next. Author's black and white postcard laid in. F/F. $45.00.

• Jasper Fforde  :  Lost in a Good Book   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring literary sleuth, Thursday Next. Author's black and white postcard laid in. F/F. $65.00.

• Jasper Fforde  :  Lost in a Good Book   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring literary sleuth, Thursday Next. Author's four-color postcard laid in. F/F. $60.00.

• Jasper Fforde  :  Something Rotten   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring literary sleuth, Thursday Next. Published simultaneously in the UK and US. Uniform format. Author's four-color postcard laid in. F/F. $50.00.

• Jasper Fforde  :  Something Rotten   Viking, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring literary sleuth, Thursday Next. Published simultaneously in the US and US. Author's four-color postcard laid in. F/F. $30.00.

• Jasper Fforde  :  Something Rotten   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring literary sleuth, Thursday Next. Published simultaneously in the UK and US. B Format. Author's four-color postcard laid in. F/F. $40.00.

• Jasper Fforde  :  Well of Lost Plots   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring literary sleuth, Thursday Next. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Jasper Fforde  :  Well of Lost Plots   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring literary sleuth, Thursday Next. Author's four-color postcard laid in. F/F. $50.00.

• Samuel Hirsh Gottlieb  :  Overbooked in Arizona   Camelback Gallery, Arizona, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Hilarious spoof on book collecting. A must for the bibliophile. F/F. $50.00.

• Sheridan Hay  :  The Secret of Lost Things   Fourth Estate, London, 2007. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Biblio. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  Unknown Hand   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1989. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Bibliomystery set in Oxford, England. Slight chips and shelfwear. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Amin Maalouf  :  Balthasar's Odyssey   Harvill, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. In 1666 Balthasar Embriaco, a Levantine of Genoese stock, sets out on a quest to track down a copy of one of the rarest and most coveted books every printed. His search takes him across the civilized world. F/F. $15.00.

• Marianne MacDonald  :  Blood Lies   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring Dido Hoare. Biblio mystery. F/F. $10.00.

• Marianne MacDonald  :  Road Kill   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Featuring Dido Hoare. Biblio mystery. F/F. $10.00.

• Larry McMurtry  :  Books   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. Author talks of his love of collecting and his bookstore in Texas. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• James Morrow  :  The Last Witchfinder   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. An historical romp through history narrated by the book Mathematical Principles of National Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton which is in a struggle with the most notorious of the Renaissance witch-hunting manuals. Signed and dated. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

• Yxta Maya Murray  :  The Conquest   HarperCollins, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Woman who restores rare books and manuscripts becomes obsessed with a book which tells the story of an Aztec princess. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $10.00.

• 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.

• Jonathan Rabb  :  Overseer   Crown, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. It has long been rumored in academic circles that a 16th Century monk wrote a masterplan for world domination so dangerous that the Pope had him killed to suppress it. But the text survived! Wonderful biblio thriller. F/F. $40.00.

• Andrew Taylor  :  Caroline Miniscule   Dodd Mead, New York, 1983. Hardcover. First US Edition. Dr. Gumper, a leading authority on Caroline Miniscule, a style of medieval script, is strangled. Nor is he the only victim. Enter William Dougal, a likeable and unprincipled graduate student who discovers that Caroline is the first clue to the whereabouts of a cache of diamonds. But there are other treasure hunters! A terrific debut. Biblio mystery. CWA JOHN CREASEY MEMORIAL AWARD. NF/NF. $35.00.

• Nick Tosches  :  In the Hand of Dante   Little Brown, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In the lowest reaches of the Vatican Library, a secret chambe is opened for the first time. Inside is the manuscript of The Divine Comedy written in Dante's own hand. As it moves from hand to hand a writer and thief named Nick Tosches is asked to authenticate the manuscript. Brilliant Biblio mystery. F/F. $35.00.