Browsing Biblio  :  32 Books

• Christine Aziz  :  The Olive Readers   Macmillan, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In the future there is no past, no history, no nationality, no tradition. A system of companies governs the world. But in the olive-producing region of Olea, the Readers are smuggling and storing books in a secret library. Winner of the UK Richard and Judy How To Get Published Award. F/F. $45.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Striving With Gods   Doubleday, New York, 1984. Hardcover. First US Edition. Clio Rees gave up her doctor's practice to write murder mysteries. Soon she's involved in a real one when the police ask her to identify the body of a young man. Turns out he's one of her closest friends. The police think it's suicide but Clio thinks it's murder. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. 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.

• 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. $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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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  :  Booked to Die   Scribners, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces bookseller and sleuth, Cliff Janeway. NERO WOLFE AWARD. DILYS AWARD. F/F. $950.00.

• John Dunning  :  The Bookman's Promise   Scribner, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Third Cliff Janeway mystery. F/F. $45.00.

• John Dunning  :  The Sign of the Book   Scribner, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Cliff Janeway mystery. F/F. $45.00.

• 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.

• Jasper Fforde  :  Lost in a Good Book   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring literary sleuth, Thursday Next. Signed in caps. Author's black and white postcard laid in. F/F. $85.00.

• 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  :  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. Author's black and white postcard laid in. F/F. $60.00.

• 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. $45.00.

• 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. $20.00.

• 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. $25.00.

• Marianne MacDonald  :  Blood Lies   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring Dido Hoare. Biblio mystery. F/F. $25.00.

• Marianne MacDonald  :  Road Kill   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Featuring Dido Hoare. Biblio mystery. F/F. $25.00.

• 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. $20.00.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.