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  • Peter Ackroyd  :  The Fall of Troy   Chatto & Windus, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

  • Jane Adams  :  Cast the First Stone   Macmillan, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. When Eric Pearson and his family move into a house at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, they become the focus of local hatred. What have the Pearsons done to provoke such hatred? And why does Eric take photographs of everybody in the close? Author's second novel. F/F. $10.00.

  • Lorraine Adams  :  Harbor   Knopf, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

  • Lorraine Adams  :  Harbor   Knopf, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. An intimate portrait of young Arab Muslims living in the United States. Extraordinry first novel. F/F. $20.00.

  • Chimamanda Ngosi Adichie  :  Half of a Yellow Sun   Fourth Estate, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in Nigeria in the 1960s. Winner of the Orange Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket and slip cased. F/F. $75.00.

  • Rennie Airth  :  The Blood Dimmed Tide   Macmillan, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Long-awaited follow up to River of Darkness. F/F. $55.00.

  • David Aitken  :  Sleeping With Jane Austen   No Exit Press, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. This is Daniel Adamson's confession. His crime? Murder, brought about by his fondness for women's ears. A quirky bestseller from the UK. F/F. $5.00.

  • Boris Akunin  :  Pelagia & The White Bulldog   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First in the Sister Pelagia series. SIGNED bookplate, laid in but not attached. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • Boris Akunin  :  Special Assignments   Widenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. An Erast Fandorin mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Boris Akunin  :  Special Assignments   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. The further adventures of Erast Fandorin. SIGNED bookplate laid in but unattached. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Monica Ali  :  Brick Lane   Doubleday, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Stunning novel about the lives of a Bangladeshi family in London. Short listed for the Booker Prize. F/F. $150.00.

  • Rajaa Alsanea  :  Girls of Riyadh   Penguin Press, London, 2007. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. The hidden world of four young women as they email each other. Originally published in Arabic in 2005, it was immediately banned in Saudi Arabia. Published simultaneously in the US and the UK. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • David Ambrose  :  A Memory of Demons   Simon & Schuster, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Tom discovers that his young daughter is possessed by the spirit of a girl who disappeared ten years ago in the exact spot where Tom suffered his last alcohol and drug-fuelled blackout. F/F. $20.00.

  • David Ambrose  :  The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk   Macmillan, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Charlie Monk is the ultimate superhero. He has no conscience, no fear, and no memory. David Ambrose blends mystery, metaphysics, and scientific speculation in this tale of terror. F/F. $20.00.

  • Anita Amirrezvani  :  The Blood of Flowers   Little Brown, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Anthology  :  New Beginnings   Bloomsbury, London, 2005. Trade Paperback. First Edition Thus. First chapters of recently and not-yet published novels. To aid the victims of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Earthquake. Introduction by Helen Fielding. Fine. $5.00.

  • Anthology  :  One City   Polygon, Edinburgh, 2005. Paperback. First Edition. Original stories by Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh who wrote in support of OneCity Trust, a charity supporting projects fighting social injustice and inequality in Edinburgh. With an introduction by J.K. Rowling. In wraps as issued. Fine. $14.00.

  • Peter Anthony  :  A Town Called Immaculate   Macmillan New Writing, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First novel. Set in Minnesota. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Jeffrey Archer  :  False Impression   Macmillan, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $45.00.

  • Kelly Armstrong  :  Bitten   Viking, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Elena Michaels has it all. She is happy, successful and enjoys the company of her friends and architect boyfriend. And once a week in the dead of night she streaks through a downtown ravine, naked and furred, tearing at the throats of animal prey. She is a werewolf. Author's first novel. F/F. $10.00.

  • Jake Arnott  :  Johnny Come Home   Sceptre, London, 2005. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Four people search for a sense of identify in 1972 Britain. In french folds as issued. Fine. $40.00.

  • Jake Arnott  :  Truecrime   Sceptre, London, 2003. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. It is 1995. Tony Meehan, journalist and closet psychopath, is ghostwriting the memoirs of Eddie Doyle. Julie McCluskey, a classically trained actress has memories of how Harry Starks wrecked her childhood. Gaz Kelly, bouncer, is preying on the Essex rave scene. Arnott is a genius and his three books form an unofficial history of Britain's underbelly for the last four decades. In wraps as issued. Fine. $35.00.

  • Kate Atkinson  :  Case Histories   Doubleday, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces PI Jackson Brodie. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

  • Kate Atkinson  :  Human Croquet   Doubleday, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's second novel. Near fine with slight discoloration at edges as is usual and small crimp at bottom of spine. In fine price clipped dust jacket. NF/NF. $45.00.

  • Kate Atkinson  :  One Good Turn   Doubleday, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Kate Atkinson  :  One Good Turn   Doubleday, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second Jackson Brodie mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Margaret Atwood  :  Bluebeard's Egg   McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Atwood's second collection of short stories. F/F. $95.00.

  • Margaret Atwood  :  Oryx and Crake   McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • Margaret Atwood  :  Oryx and Crake   McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another extraordinary story set in the future, by the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE. . F/F. $60.00.

  • Margaret Atwood  :  The Blind Assassin   McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. BOOKER PRIZE. HAMMETT PRIZE. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • Margaret Atwood  :  The Blind Assassin   McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Woman tells story of her sister's death in 1945. Other stories woven throughout the narrative. Spectacular copy. BOOKER PRIZE. HAMMETT PRIZE. F/F. $60.00.

  • Russell Atwood  :  East of A   Ballantine, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Payton Sherwood, East Village denizen, is mugged and robbed by three toughs and a sixteen-year-old runaway named Gloria. Payton tracks Gloria whose trail takes him from a stray dog to a psycho boyfriend to an ice-hearted killer. Author's first novel. F/F. $5.00.

  • Rosemary Aubert  :  Free Reign   Bridge Works, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces Ellis Portal, once an esteemed judge who was convicted of a felony and disgraced. He lives as a vagrant in the river valley, a wilderness preserve running through the heart of Toronto. One day he finds a severed hand and recognizes the ring on it. Ellis sets out to identify the victim. Small print run sent this first novel into a second printing very quickly. ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD. F/F. $55.00.

  • Rosemary Aubert  :  Free Reign   Bridge Works, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. First novel introducting Ellis Portal. ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • 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.

  • 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. $20.00.

  • 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. $20.00.

  • 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. $20.00.

  • 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. $20.00.

  • 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. $20.00.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • 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. $40.00.

  • 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. $35.00.

  • 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 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. $50.00.

  • Iain Banks  :  Walking on Glass   Macmillan, London, 1984. 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.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • Jo Bannister  :  The Hireling's Tale   Macmillan, New York, 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 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. $60.00.

  • John Banville  :  Eclipse   Picador, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • 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. $30.00.

  • 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. $35.00.

  • Pat Barker  :  Border Crossing   Viking, London, 2001. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. US Edition preceded UK Edition. F/F. $55.00.

  • 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. $55.00.

  • Jonathan Barnes  :  The Domino Men   Gollancz, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • 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. $75.00.

  • Julian Barnes  :  Arthur & George   Jonathan Cape, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in boards as issued. Glassine cover. Fine. $75.00.

  • 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. $20.00.

  • Brett Battles  :  The Cleaner   Delacorte Press, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First novel introductin Jonathan Quinn. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • 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. $50.00.

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

  • Simon Beckett  :  Chemistry of Death   Bantam Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Promotional band in place. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Simon Beckett  :  Chemistry of Death   Bantam Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket with promotional band in place. F/F. $30.00.

  • 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.

  • Francis Bennett  :  Secret Kingdom   Victor Gollancz, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Bobby Martineau has been posted to Budapest in 1956. He reports to London about the growing crisis there. The Hungarians are prepared to risk their lives against the Soviet oppressors because they believe the West will support them. But they, and Martineau, reckon without the jockeying for position that is going on in London where nations can be sacrificed on the altar of career opportunity. Second in a series of novels 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   Review, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Love, passion, and violence in the Belgian Congo in 1959. F/F. $55.00.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • Raymond Benson  :  Never Dream of Dying   Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. James Bond Adventure. . F/F. $45.00.

  • Raymond Benson  :  Never Dream of Dying   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. James Bond adventure. Signed bookplate laid in. F/F. $45.00.

  • 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. $45.00.

  • 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.

  • 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. $65.00.

  • 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. $45.00.

  • 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. $65.00.

  • 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  :  Island Madness   Picador, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • 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. $35.00.

  • Alice Blanchard  :  Darkness Peering   Bantam, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $15.00.

  • Lawrence Block  :  All the Flowers are Dying   Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2005. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Number 24 of 90 numbered copies. With an appreciation by Simon Kernick. In marbled boards as issued. Fine. $160.00.

  • 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. F/F. $45.00.

  • 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.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • S.J. Bolton  :  Sacrifice   Bantam Press, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • 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. $50.00.

  • Martin Booth  :  A Very Private Gentleman   Century, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. The locals in the southern Italian mountain town where he has settled call him Mr. Butterfly because he paints butterflies. But Signor Farfalla is not what he seems. F/F. $25.00.

  • 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  :  Blood on the Tongue   HarperCollins, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's third book. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • 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. $45.00.

  • C.J. Box  :  Open Season   Putnam, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. Introduces Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. F/F. $40.00.

  • 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.

  • John Boyne  :  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas   David Fickling, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anopther copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • 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. $55.00.

  • 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.

  • Leigh Brackett  :  No Good From a Corpse   Dennis Macmillan, Arizona., 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Leigh Brackett was a young writer of pulp detective and science fiction. She wrote the screenplay for The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. This is her first novel. Signed by RAY BRADBURY who wrote the Introduction, and MICHAEL CONNELLY who wrote the afterword. . F/F. $75.00.

  • Tom Bradby  :  Shadow Dancer   Bantam Press, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. . F/F. $75.00.

  • 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. $35.00.

  • 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. $40.00.

  • Simon Brett  :  The Detection Collection   Orion, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Original stories by Lindsey Davis, Colin Dexter, Robert Goddard, John Harvey, etc. SIGNED BY P.D. JAMES. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • 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. $20.00.

  • Marius Brill  :  Making Love: A Conspiracy of the Heart   Doubleday, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

  • William Brodrick  :  The Gardens of the Dead   Little Brown, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • 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. $50.00.

  • Christopher Brookmyre  :  A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil   Little Brown, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • 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. $45.00.

  • Ken Bruen  :  Cross   Bantam Press, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Jack Taylor mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • 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  :  Priest   Bantam Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. One of 100 copies, stamped and signed. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • 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. F/F. $65.00.

  • 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  :  The Tin Roof Blowdown   Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2007. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. One of 80 copies numbered and signed by the author. In marbled boards as issued. Fine. Fine. $160.00.

  • Michael Byrnes  :  The Sacred Bones   HarperCollins, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. An ancient artifact is stolen from a long-hidden vault beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount. F/F. $30.00.

  • 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  :  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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • 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  :  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. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • 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  :  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. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • 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.

  • 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  :  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. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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  :  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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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   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   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, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Jim Crace  :