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Browsing UK & Canadian Firsts  :  702 Books

  • Peter Ackroyd  :  The Fall of Troy   Chatto & Windus, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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  :  Special Assignments   Widenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. An Erast Fandorin mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed bookplate laid in. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • Jeffrey Archer  :  False Impression   Macmillan, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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 Banks  :  The Wasp Factory   Macmillan, London, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's first novel. Fine in price clipped dust jacket. F/F. $250.00.

  • Iain Banks  :  Walking on Glass   Macmillan, London, 1985. 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. $5.00.

  • Jo Bannister  :  The Hireling's Tale   Macmillan, London, 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. $10.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • Pat Barker  :  Border Crossing   Viking, London, 2001. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. US Edition preceded UK Edition. F/F. $5.00.

  • Pat Barker  :  Life Class   Hamish Hamilton, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Barker's latest returns to WW I. Small bump top edge of board else fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • 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.

  • Jonathan Barnes  :  The Domino Men   Gollancz, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Raymond Benson  :  Never Dream of Dying   Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. James Bond Adventure. . F/F. $10.00.

  • Raymond Benson  :  Never Dream of Dying   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. James Bond adventure. Signed bookplate laid in. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. A journey with Bruno, a nine-year-old boy, to the fence. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • Tom Bradby  :  Shadow Dancer   Bantam Press, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. . F/F. $10.00.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • Gyles Brandreth  :  Oscar Wilde & the Dead Man's Smile   John Murray, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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. $5.00.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • 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  :  Her Last Call to Louis Macneice   Serpent's Tail, London, 1998. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Author's second book. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine. $35.00.

  • Ken Bruen  :  Sanctuary   Transworld Ireland, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Jack Taylor mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

  • James Lee Burke  :  Jesus Out to Sea   Orion, London, 2008. Hardcover. First UK Edition. First hardcover edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • 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  :  Swan Peak   Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2008. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited to 80 signed and numbered copies. Fine in marbled boards as issued. Fine. $160.00.

  • Chelsea Cain  :  Sweetheart   Macmillan, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second in the series featuring serial killer Gretchen Lowell and hopelessly obsessed cop, Archie Sheridan. The UK edition precedes the US. F/F. $5.00.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • Tom Cain  :  The Survivor   Bantam Press, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Follow-up to The Accident Man. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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. $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. $5.00.

  • 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. $35.00.

  • 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. $50.00.

  • 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. $35.00.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • 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. $40.00.

  • Tracy Chevalier  :  Remarkable Creatures   HarperCollins, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • 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. $40.00.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Chris Cleave  :  The Other Hand   Sceptre, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Published in the US as Little Bee. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • 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  :  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.

  • 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.

  • 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. $35.00.

  • 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. $25.00.

  • 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.

  • 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 Underbury Witches   New Island, Dublin, 2006. Trade Paperback. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. A novella - part of the Open Door series (all proceeds to charity of author's choice). Fine. Fine. $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.

  • Vena Cork  :  Green Eye   Headline, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's third novel. Signed and dated. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • Elizabeth Corley  :  Innocent Blood   Alison & Busby. London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • 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. $30.00.

  • 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. $35.00.

  • 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  :  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. $35.00.

  • 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. $10.00.

  • David Craig  :  Bay City   Constable, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Slight tanning to the edges as is usual. In fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

  • 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+. $10.00.

  • 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. $35.00.

  • 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+. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Cecilia Dart-Thornton  :  The Ill-Made Mute   Macmillan, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Book One of the Bitterbynde Trilogy. Well received in the UK. Author's first novel. F/F. $20.00.

  • Emma Darwin  :  The Mathematics of Love   Headline, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. From the Suffolk countryside to the battlefields of Waterloo, this tells of war, loss, and love. Author's First Novel. F/F. $35.00.

  • Martin Davies  :  The Conjuror's Bird   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • Juan Manuel de Prada  :  The Tempest   Sceptre, London, 2000. Hardcover. First English Translation. Alejandro Ballesteros, a young Spanish art historian, arrives in Venice to study Giorgione's painting THE TEMPEST. On his first day in the flooded city he witnesses a murder. The victim is a notorious forger and trafficker in works of art. F/F. $20.00.

  • Jeffery Deaver  :  The Stone Monkey   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Recruited to help the US government perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs manage to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. F/F. $30.00.

  • Joolz Denby  :  Stone Baby   HarperCollins, London, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Edition. The story of Jamie Gee, a stand up comic, her friends, and the psychopath she loves. In wraps as issued. Author's First Novel. Fine. $10.00.

  • Kiran Desai  :  The Inheritance of Loss   Hamish Hamilton, London, 2006. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Winner of the MAN BOOKER PRIZE. Signed and Dated. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $300.00.

  • Colin Dexter  :  The Remorseful Day   Macmillan, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Final Chief Inspector Morse mystery. F/F. $30.00.

  • Sarah Diamond  :  Cold Town   Orion, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When troubled Terry Fielding meets nightclub hostess Rosina, he thinks he's found his soulmate. When he finds out how far apart they really are, it's too late to do anything but the worst thing in the world. F/F. $40.00.

  • Sarah Diamond  :  Remember Me   Orion, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Rachel has everything she could want, but she has a secret which involves her childhood best friend, Sophie. When Sophie comes back into her life, the events from Rachel's past threaten to destroy her future. F/F. $30.00.

  • Sarah Diamond  :  The Beach Road   Orion, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Jane and Beverley are schoolmates. Jane is amazed that Beverley would pay her any attention and Beverley, at first, welcomes the adoration. But she gradually realizes that there is something different about Jane - something dark. Author's First Novel. Scarce. F/F. $100.00.

  • Sarah Diamond  :  The Spider's House   Orion, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anna discovers that her family's new cottage was once inhabited by a notorious child murderer. F/F. $30.00.

  • Michael Dibden  :  Blood Rain   Faber & Faber, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Inspector Aurelio Zen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life. His posting is Sicily where unwritten rules are enforced with ruthless violence. The gruesome discovery of an unidentified decomposed corpse marks the beginning of Zen's most difficult and dangerous case. 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.

  • Michael Dobbs  :  Never Surrender   HarperCollins, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. On Friday May 10th 1940 Hitler launches a devastating attack that, within days, will overrun France, Holland and Belgium, and bring Britain to its knees at Dunkirk. It is also the day Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister. This is the story of courage and defiance over three of the most momentous weeks in British history. F/F. $45.00.

  • David Docherty  :  The Spirit Death   Simon & Schuster, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. This plague is worse than Ebola and it's on the loose in London. Mike Davenport, Deputy Head of the London Center for Infectious Diseases, is trying to stop the nightmare, so why does the British government seem intent on killing him? Author's First Novel. F/F. $20.00.

  • Keith Donohue  :  The Stolen Child   Jonathan Cape, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Young boy is kidnapped by a strange group. Author's First Novel. Signed and Dated. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • Margaret Drabble  :  The Gates of Ivory   Viking, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Woman receives a parcel containing a finger bone. . F/F. $55.00.

  • Margaret Drabble  :  The Middle Ground   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1980. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Successful journalist in her forties is at a profound place in her life. Her career is realized, and her children are grown. F/F. $65.00.

  • Margaret Drabble  :  The Radiant Way   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Stories of three women, all brought up in the North of England, all educated at the same Cambridge college, and all living in London. F/F. $65.00.

  • Jonathan Drapes  :  Never Admit to Beige   Macmillan New Writing, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Jeremy Dronfield  :  The Alchemist's Apprentice   Review, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. The story of Madagascar Rhodes and the most famous book you've never read, and why. This novel was a cult favorite in the UK. F/F. $10.00.

  • Daphne Du Maurier  :  Rule Britannia   Victor Gollancz, London, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition. Du Maurier's story of how the occupation of England might affect, not only the country, but also human relationships. Slight shelfwear. In fine bright dustjacket. NF/NF. $30.00.

  • Sarah Dunant  :  Transgressions   Virago, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Elizabeth Skvorecky is trying to piece her life together after a bitter split from her boyfriend. But some deeply disturbing things start to occur with unnerving regularity. She suspects that someone else has access to her house and she changes the locks. But the incidents keep occurring. F/F. $20.00.

  • Hal Duncan  :  Vellum   Macmillan, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Helen Dunmore  :  Mourning Ruby   Viking, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Helen Dunmore  :  Talking to the Dead   Viking, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Two sisters, Isabel and Nina, have been bound together since childhood by the death of their baby brother. F/F. $35.00.

  • Helen Dunmore  :  The Siege   Viking, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Two love stories unfold during the 1941 siege of Leningrad. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

  • Paul Eddy  :  Mandrake   Headline, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's second novel featuring operative Grace Fling. Promotional wrap-around in place. F/F. $10.00.

  • Martin Edwards  :  Green For Danger   The Do Not Press, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. The official anthology of the Crime Writers' Association 2004. Contributors include Robert Barnard, Reginald Hill, Peter Lovesey and Ruth Rendell. Most contributions commissioned especially for this anthology. F/F. $10.00.

  • Ruth Dudley Edwards  :  Ten Lords A-Leaping   HarperCollins, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Ida "Jack" Troutbech, Mistress of St. Martha's College, Cambridge, is elevated to peer in the House of Lords. She enlists the aid of her friend, Robert Amiss, in defeating an anti-hunting bill. He is determined to defeat the puritans and fanatics who abound among the animal rights activists, but things turn really nasty when an explosion in the House of Lords kills several peers. F/F. $30.00.

  • R.J. Ellory  :  A Quiet Belief in Angels   Orion, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed and dated year of publication. F/F. $100.00.

  • R.J. Ellory  :  The Anniversary Man   Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2009. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited to 70 signed and numbered copies. With an appreciation by Ken Bruen. Fine in marbled boards as issued. Fine. $150.00.

  • James Ellroy  :  The Cold Six Thousand   Century, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. It begins in Dallas in 1963! UK edition precedes US. F/F. $35.00.

  • Ben Elton  :  Silly Cow   Warner Books, London, 1993. Trade Paperback. First Edition Thus. Elton's second play which was produced on the London stage in 1991. In wraps as issued. Fine. $5.00.

  • Michel Faber  :  The Apple   Canongate, Edinburgh, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Faber revisits his best selling Crimson Petal and the White with new stories. Fine in fine dust jacket. Slipcased. F/F. $65.00.

  • Michel Faber  :  The Apple   Canongate, Edinburgh, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. Slipcased. F/F. $65.00.

  • Michel Faber  :  The Courage Consort   Canongate, Edinburgh, 2002. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Courage Consort, an a cappella vocal ensemble, are rehearsing in a Belgian chateau and trying to deal with the composer, his work, the sexual tensions, and the voice calling to them from the nearby woods. In wraps as issued. Fine. $65.00.

  • Michel Faber  :  The Courage Consort   Cancongate, Edinburgh, 2002. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine. $65.00.

  • Michel Faber  :  The Courage Consort   Harcourt, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Three novellas: The Courage Consort, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps, and The Fahrenheit Twins. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Michel Faber  :  The Crimson Petal and the White   Canongate, Edinburgh, 2002. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Victorian saga of Dickensian proportions. Preceded by the US Edition. F/F. $125.00.

  • Michel Faber  :  The Fahrenheit Twins   Canongate, Edinburgh, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Short Stories. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • 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 Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps   Canongate, Edinburgh, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Novella. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Michel Faber  :  Under the Skin   Canongate, London, 2000. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine. $65.00.

  • Sebastian Faulks  :  A Week in December   Hutchinson, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Sebastian Faulks  :  Devil May Care   Penguin Books, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. Sebastian Faulks picks up the Bond franchise. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Sebastian Faulks  :  Human Traces   Hutchinson, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Beginning in 1876, this novel traces two men united in their ambition to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their search takes them from the squalor of a Victorian lunatic asylum to Paris, California, and the plains of Africa. F/F. $40.00.

  • Sebastian Faulks  :  The Fatal Englishman   Hutchinson, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. A triple biography - Christopher Wood who went to Paris to become the greatest painter in the world. Died at 29. Richar Hillary who flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain and died mysteriously at 23. Jeremy Wolfenden who became a reporter for the Daily Telegraph and died at 31. F/F. $25.00.

  • Niall Ferguson  :  The Pity of War   Allen Lane, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. A history of World War I which will transform the way we think of that conflict. F/F. $20.00.

  • Jasper Fforde  :  First Among Sequels   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Thursday Next. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • 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. Second Thursday Next mystery. Authors' four-color postcard laid in. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • 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  :  Lost in a Good Book   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Thursday Next. Fine in fine dust jacket. Royal format. Author's four-color postcard laid in. F/F. $100.00.

  • 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  :  The Big Over Easy   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The first investigation of the Nursery Crime Division. Royal format. Author's four-color postcard laid in. F/F. $40.00.

  • Jasper Fforde  :  The Big Over Easy   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The first investigation by the Nursery Crime Division. B format. Author's black and white postcard laid in. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Jasper Fforde  :  The Fourth Bear   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Jack Sprat and Mary Mary investigate for the Nursery Crime Division. F/F. $30.00.

  • 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.

  • Giles Foden  :  Zanzibar   Faber & Faber, London, 2003. Hardcover. Second Impression. Nick Krolides, a marine biologist working off Zanzibar, finds himself involved in a terrorist conspiracy. F/F. $20.00.

  • Ken Follett  :  World Without End   Macmillan, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Sequel to The Pillars of the Earth. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • Leslie Forbes  :  Fish, Blood and Bone   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Forensic photographer Claire Fleetwood, a young American, inherits a house in London's East End from an aunt she never knew she had. When her best friend is murdered, Claire is drawn into a dangerous scientific expedition which takes her from Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel to the India of her ancestors and the valleys of Tibet. F/F. $10.00.

  • Leslie Forbes  :  Fish, Blood and Bone   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

  • Leslie Forbes  :  Waking Raphael   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When Count Malaspino returns to the small city of Urbina after years away, his support for the restoration of Raphael's La Muta drives a living mute to an act of violence. F/F. $10.00.

  • Christopher Fowler  :  Full Dark House   Doubleday, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. First in the Bryant and May series. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • Christopher Fowler  :  Seventy-Seven Clocks   Doubleday, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Bryant and May mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Christopher Fowler  :  The Victoria Vanishes   Doubleday, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Bryant & May mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Christopher Fowler  :  White Corridor   Doubleday, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Bryant and May Mystery. F/F. $45.00.

  • Clare Francis  :  A Death Divided   Macmillan, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Joe, struggling to survive his job in a high-powered law firm, is faced with the challenge of finding his childhood friend, Jenna, who has been missing for four years. Psychological suspense. F/F. $10.00.

  • Dick Francis  :  Field of 13   Michael Joseph, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Mystery set in the world of horse racing. F/F. $30.00.

  • Dick Francis  :  Field of 13   Michael Joseph, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Dick Francis  :  The Edge   Michael Joseph, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Mystery set in the world of horse racing. F/F. $30.00.

  • Michael Frayn  :  Headlong   Faber & Faber, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Young historian must put everything at risk to perform what he thinks is a great public service. F/F. $50.00.

  • Michael Frayn  :  Spies   Faber & Faber, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Two boys suspect that the mother of one of them is a spy. Set in wartime London. Winner of the WHITBREAD AWARD. F/F. $125.00.

  • Celia Fremlin  :  Dangerous Thoughts   Victor Gollancz, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. Clare Wakefield is both dismayed and fearful when she learns that her husband, Edwin, who was kidnapped in the Middle East, may have made up the whole story for the sake of publicity. F/F. $30.00.

  • Celia Fremlin  :  King of the World   Severn House, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Woman takes an apartment with two other women. She says she's a battered wife ad has run away from home Gradually the lies she has told are revealed. F/F. $35.00.

  • Nicci French  :  Beneath the Skin   Michael Joseph, London, 2000. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Zoe, a schoolteacher, Jenny, model mother and wife, and Nadia, irrepressible free spirit, have nothing in common. Except they are all being stalked by a sadistic killer. Signed by both authors. US edition precedes the UK. F/F. $30.00.

  • Nicci French  :  Killing Me Softly   Michael Joseph, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Alice Loudon has everything she could want in life. Then she meets a stranger and impulsively gives up her safe, ordered existence for a passionate affair. Gradually she learns about Adam and enters his world of risk and adventure until everything, including her life, is threatened. This title scarce. F/F. $50.00.

  • Nicci French  :  Land of the Living   Michael Joseph, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Abbie Devereaux wakes up to find herself hooded and bound and she has no idea where she is or how she got there. A man she never sees feeds her and tells her that he will keep her alive for now, but eventually he will kill her - just like all the others. Signed by both authors. F/F. $30.00.

  • Nicci French  :  Secret Smile   Michael Joseph, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Signed by both authors. Wrap-around promotional band in place. F/F. $30.00.

  • Nicci French  :  The Memory Game   William Heinemann, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Authors' First Book. Signed by both authors. F/F. $60.00.

  • Nicci French  :  The Red Room   Michael Joseph, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Kit Quinn, horribly wounded in a brutal attack, is asked by the police to advise them on a simple murder inquiry. A young runaway has been found killed by a London canal and the chief suspect is the man who wounded Kit. F/F. $35.00.

  • Nicci French  :  The Red Room   Michael Joseph, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Nicci French  :  The Safe House   Michael Joseph, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Authors' second book. Signed by both authors. F/F. $50.00.

  • Frances Fyfield  :  Blind Date   Bantam, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Everyone loved Emma Davey, until someone put a garbage bag over her head and kicked her to death. Elisabeth Kennedy, Emmas' older sister and a disgraced ex-police officer, is hauntd by Emma's death and her own humiliating attempts to lure the killer into a confession. Then she is attacked. F/F. $10.00.

  • Frances Fyfield  :  Question of Guilt   Heinemann, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Eileen Cartwright is not just another rich, middle-aged, widow, she also has a passion for revenge. When she falls in love with her solicitor, she cold-bloodedly arranges for the murder of his wife. Introduces Crown Prosecutor Helen West who is assigned this disturbing, twisted case. Author's First Novel. F/F. $65.00.

  • Frances Fyfield  :  Seeking Sanctuary   Little Brown, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Theodore Calvert walked out on his wife and children when they needed him most. Now, from beyond the grave, his carefully crafted will is set to unravel his daughters' lives all over again. F/F. $10.00.

  • Frances Fyfield  :  The Nature of the Beast   Little Brown, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When a passenger train traveling from Kent to London crashes, one passenger uses the opportunity for murder while another sees a chance to leave her life behind. F/F. $10.00.

  • Frances Fyfield  :  Undercurrents   Little Brown, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Twenty years ago Henry Evans met Francesca Chisholm while backpacking around India. He loved her, but when her father died, she went home and Henry went on with her travels. It is a decision that haunts his adult life and now he has come to England to find her. What he discovers is that Francesca is in prison for murdering her five-year-old son. F/F. $10.00.

  • Frances Fyfield  :  Undercurrents   Little Brown, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

  • Frances Fyfield  :  Without Consent   Bantam, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. DS Ryan, friend of Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey, is accused of rape. He swears he didn't do it but all the evidence points his way. Slowly, the rapist begins to emerge - he is a man who knows the law and who believes there is no such thing as rape. F/F. $10.00.

  • Neil Gaiman  :  Anansi Boys   Review Books, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Weird and wonderful writing from Gaiman. F/F. $45.00.

  • Meg Gardiner  :  The Dirty Secrets Club   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2008. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. U.S. Edition precedes the UK Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • John Gardner  :  Angels Dining at the Ritz   Severn House, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Suzy Mountford adventure - set in WWII England. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Alex Garland  :  The Coma   Faber & Faber, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A young man is beaten on the Underground in London. He makes a complete recovery. Or does he? Images by Nicholas Garland, the author's father. F/F. $45.00.

  • Jonathan Gash  :  The Rich and the Profane   Macmillan, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. A Lovejoy narrative. F/F. $20.00.

  • Mark Gatiss  :  The Vesuvius Club   Simon & Schuster, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces Lucifer Box, dandy, rake, and His Majesty's most daring secret agent. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. F/F. $35.00.

  • Joseph Geary  :  Spiral   Simon & Schuster, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. F/F. $10.00.

  • Emer Gillespie  :  Five Dead Men   Headline, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Karen McDade is making a film about the demolition of the Angel Point tower block when a man tumbles to his death on the building site. Then the body of an 84-year-old man is found on the eleventh floor. Karen investigatess these two suspicious deaths. F/F. $5.00.

  • Janet Gleeson  :  The Grenadillo Box   Bantam Press, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Murder and mystery in 18th Century London. Author's First Novel. F/F. $20.00.

  • Robert Goddard  :  Caught in the Light   Bantam Press, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. F/F. $20.00.

  • Robert Goddard  :  Closed Circle   Bantam Press, London, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. Near fine in fine dustjacket. NF/NF. $20.00.

  • Robert Goddard  :  Days Without Number   Bantam Press, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $20.00.

  • Robert Goddard  :  Hand In Glove   Bantam Press, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. Slight yellowing at edges, as is usual. F/F. $30.00.

  • Robert Goddard  :  Name to a Face   Bantam Press, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Robert Goddard  :  Out of the Sun   Bantam Press, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Harry Barnett, who was featured in Into The Blue, is anonymously informed that his son is languishing in a hospital in a diabetic coma. Harry is certain there is a mistake since he doesn't have a son, but he discovers that he does. F/F. $20.00.

  • Robert Goddard  :  Sea Change   Bantam Press, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $20.00.

  • Robert Goddard  :  Set in Stone   Bantam Press, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $20.00.

  • William Golding  :  The Pyramid   Faber & Faber, London, 1966. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $125.00.

  • Jean-Christophe Grange  :  Flight of the Storks   Harvill, London, 2000. Hardcover. First English Translation. Every year the storks set off on the 12,000 mile journey from Northern Europe to Central Africa. One year, many of them fail to return. Louis Antioch is asked by a wealthy Swiss ornithologist to help solve the mystery of the birds' disappearance, but before he can set off, his patron is found dead in bizarre circumstances. F/F. $45.00.

  • Graham Greene  :  The Honorary Consul   Bodley Head, London, 1973. Hardcover. First Edition. Tight copy. Dust jacket has wear at the extremities. NF/NF. $40.00.

  • Graham Greene  :  The Human Factor   Bodley Head, London, 1978. Hardcover. First Edition. Second State (The Bodley Head logo was changed from the bust and ruff to the more traditional BH, at the author's insistence, after the first 1,000 copies were printed). Fine, tight copy. Dust jacket shows sunning to the spine. No chips, tears, or creases. NF/NF. $50.00.

  • Graham Greene  :  The Quiet American   Heineman, London, 1955. Hardcover. First Edition. This copy was published by The Book Society Ltd in association with William Heinemann. Some staining on the dj which has two chips at the top of the spine and a v small tear at the bottom of the spine. The book itself is tight. Filmed twice, most recently starring Michael Caine. VG+/VG+. $60.00.

  • Graham Greene  :  Travels With My Aunt   The Bodley Head, London, 1969. Hardcover. First Edition. Beautiful copy with only the slightest crimping top and bottom of spine. Dustjacket has slight scuffing at extremities with small chip bottom of spine. NF/NF. $60.00.

  • Germaine Greer  :  The Whole Woman   Doubleday, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

  • Kate Grenville  :  The Secret River   Canongate, London, 2006. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Family moves from London to Australia in 1805. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine. $50.00.

  • Niall Griffiths  :  Grits   Jonathan Cape, London, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Group of young drifters find themselves in a small town on the west coast of Wales. Author hailed as the new Irvine Welsh. In wraps as issued. Fine. $20.00.

  • Jeff Gulvin  :  Nom De Guerre   Victor Gollancz, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. The international terrorist Storm Crow languishes in jail. On his way to trial he breaks free leaving a new trail of death. Jack Swann follows him from the UK to the US where he teams up with Johnny Harrison and, together, they track Storm Crow across the States. F/F. $20.00.

  • Jeff Gulvin  :  The Covenant   Orion, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. The FBI calls in Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad and Jack Swann to help stop a terrorist bombing campaign in Washington DC. Meanwhile FBI agent Johnny Harrison is investigating a series of killings among the hobos who ride the freight trains in the South, and unearths a plot to arm the militia for a war that would tear the US apart. F/F. $20.00.

  • Mark Haddon  :  The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea   Picador, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Poetry by multiple award winner Haddon. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • M.R. Hall  :  The Coroner   Macmillan, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Sarah Hall  :  The Carhullan Army   Faber & Faber, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Dystopian novel by one of the UK's young new writers. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Steven Hall  :  The Raw Shark Texts   Canongate, Edinburgh, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. Fine in boards as issued. Fine. $10.00.

  • Peter F. Hamilton  :  Fallen Dragon   Macmillan, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The story of Lawrence Newton whose job it is to fly starships for a giant corporation. F/F. $20.00.

  • Peter F. Hamilton  :  The Confederation Handbook   Macmillan, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Accompanies three of Hamilton's works: Night's Dawn Trilogy and A Second Chance at Eden. F/F. $10.00.

  • Sylvian Hamilton  :  The Bone-Pedlar   Orion, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Mystery set in 1209 when the buying and selling of relics was big business. Author's First Novel. F/F. $5.00.

  • Sylvian Hamilton  :  The Pendragon Banner   Orion, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Sir Richard Straccan searches for a priceless relic sewn by Guinevere for King Arthur. Signed bookplate laid in. F/F. $5.00.

  • Dashiell Hammett  :  Woman in the Dark   Headline, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Hardcover reprint of 1933 Hammett novella. Introduction by Robert Parker. F/F. $50.00.

  • Mohammed Hanif  :  A Case of Exploding Mangoes   Jonathan Cape, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. Long listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Signed and dated. F/F. $100.00.

  • Sophie Hannah  :  The Point of Rescue   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

  • Joanne Harris  :  Gentlemen & Players   Doubleday, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set at an exlusive English school where seemingly harmless pranks escalate to murder. . F/F. $35.00.

  • Joanne Harris  :  Holy Fools   Doubleday, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Juliette, one time actress and rope dancer, is forced by circumstance to seek refuge among the sisters of the remote abbey of Ste. Marie-de-la-Mer. Set in 17th Century France. F/F. $35.00.

  • Joanne Harris  :  The Lollipop Shoes   Doubleday, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The sequel to Chocolat. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Robert Harris  :  Fatherland   Hutchinson, London, 1992. Hardcover. SIGNED. This is the third impression - book was reprinted twice before publication. Filmed starring Rutger Hauer. F/F. $20.00.

  • Robert Harris  :  Imperium   Hutchinson, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Imperial Rome and its politics. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • John Harvey  :  Ash and Bone   William Heinemann, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Detective Inspector Elder comes out of retirement to help a colleague. F/F. $40.00.

  • John Harvey  :  Cutting Edge   Viking, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Staff members at a teaching hospital are being attacked and Inspector Charlie Resnick finds himself with too many suspects and too little evidence to stop the killer from striking again. F/F. $50.00.

  • John Harvey  :  Darkness and Light   William Heinemann, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Detective Inspector Elder mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • John Harvey  :  Gone to Ground   Wm. Heinemann, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket with promotional band in place. Harvey is the winner of the 2007 Crime Writer's Association Cartier Diamond Dagger. F/F. $35.00.

  • John Harvey  :  In a True Light   William Heinemann, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When Sloane, an unsuccessful painter but a successful forger, is released from prison he finds a letter from a woman with whom he had a passionate affair. On her death bed she tells him that she gave birth to his daughter but she became estranged from Connie. She begs Sloane to find Connie and make peace between them. F/F. $25.00.

  • John Harvey  :  Men From Boys   William Heinemann, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Original stories about being a man from Mark Billingham, Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly, Reginald Hill, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, etc. Edited by Harvey. F/F. $25.00.

  • Alis Hawkins  :  Testament   Macmillan, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Mo Hayder  :  Pig Island   Bantam Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Mo Hayder  :  Ritual   Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2008. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited to 55 numbered copies. With an appreciation by Margaret Murphy. Author's name misspelled on spine and half-title page as in all copies. Fine in marbled boards as issued. Fine. $160.00.

  • Mo Hayder  :  Ritual   Bantam Press, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Mo Hayder  :  Skin   Bantam Press, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Mo Hayder  :  The Treatment   Bantam Press, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's second novel. Slight shelfwear top and bottom of spine. In like dust jacket. NF/NF. $40.00.

  • Ronald Hayman  :  Hitler & Geli   Bloomsbury, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. An account of the affair Hitler had with his niece, Geli Raubal. It started in 1927 and lasted until 1931 when Geli was found dead in the Munich flat she shared with Hitler. F/F. $10.00.

  • Julie Hearn  :  Follow Me Down   Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fantasy novel involving time travel. Publisher's postcard laid in containing quote from Philip Pullman. Small print run. F/F. $20.00.

  • Lian Hearn  :  Across The Nightingale Floor   Macmillan, London, 2002. Hardcover. First UK Edition. First volume in the TALES OF THE OTORI Trilogy. Includes publisher's promotional pamphlet. Author's First Novel. F/F. $20.00.

  • Peter Helton  :  Headcase   Constable, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introducing Chris Honeysett, artist, gourmet cook, and amateur sleuth. Author's First Novel. F/F. $10.00.

  • Lauren Henderson  :  Too Many Blondes   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second mystery featuring Sam Jones. F/F. $5.00.

  • David Hewson  :  Dante's Numbers   Macmillan, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • David Hewson  :  Seventh Sacrament   Macmillan, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fifth in the series featuring Nic Costa and Leo Falcone. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • David Hewson  :  The Garden of Evil   Macmillan, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Nic Costa mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • David Hewson  :  The Promised Land   Macmillan, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Stand alone from the author of the Nic Costa series. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • David Hewson  :  The Sacred Cut   Macmillan, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Mystery set in Rome and featuring Inspector Leo Falcone. F/F. $35.00.

  • David Hewson  :  The Villa of Mysteries   Macmillan, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog near the River Tiber, Teresa Lupo, maverick pathologist, thinks she's looking at a victim of an ancient pagan ritual. F/F. $45.00.

  • Charlie Higson  :  BloodFever   Puffin, London, 2006. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Second in the Young James Bond series. In wraps as issued. Fine. $45.00.

  • Charlie Higson  :  By Royal Command   Puffin, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Young Bond. One of 2000 signed and numbered copies. With bookmark. Fine in boards as issued. Fine. $100.00.

  • Reginald Hill  :  Midnight Fugue   HarperCollins, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Dalziel & Pascoe. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Reginald Hill  :  The Stranger House   HarperCollins, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Two strangers arrive in the small village of Illthwaite. The antipathy between them is intense but they do have one thing in common: they seem intent on digging up the past which locals would prefer to keep buried. F/F. $35.00.

  • Reginald Hill  :  Who Guards the Prince?   Collins, London, 1982. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine copy. Very slight creasing top and bottom of spine on dust jacket, but no tears or chips. F/F. $50.00.

  • Stuart Hill  :  The Cry of the Icemark   Chicken House, Somerset, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. First in a fantasy series. . F/F. $15.00.

  • Sally Hinchcliffe  :  Out of a Clear Sky   Macmillan, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Alice Hoffman  :  Angel Landing   Severn House, London, 1980. Hardcover. First UK Edition. First UK Edition of author's third book. F/F. $25.00.

  • Tom Holland  :  Deliver Us From Evil   Little Brown, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. In the winter of 1659 a killer is abroad on Salisbury Plain, close to Stonehenge. F/F. $20.00.

  • Tom Holland  :  Supping With Panthers   Little Brown, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Dr. John Eliot, a brilliant scientist, accompanies an expedition in 1887 into the remote region of Kalikshutra. What the expedition discovers is a horror so great that it seems to lie far beyond the frontiers of science. . F/F. $10.00.

  • Tom Holland  :  The Bone Hunter   Little Brown, London, 2001. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Scientists are finding fossils, and a deadly game ensues. Set in New York and the West in 1878. In wraps as issued. Fine. $10.00.

  • Tom Holland  :  The Sleeper in the Sands   Little Brown, London, 1998. Trade Paperback. First Edition. When an archaelogist exposes a flight of stone stairs in Egypt in 1922, he lets loose a deadly curse. In wraps as issued. Fine. $10.00.

  • Alan Hollinghurst  :  The Line of Beauty   Picador, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. MAN BOOKER PRIZE. By the author of The Swimming Pool Library. F/F. $100.00.

  • Philip Hook  :  An Innocent Eye   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. A man is gunned down in an exclusive London hotel room. The killer's abandoned jacket contains a single clue: a photograph of a landscape by Monet. $10.00.

  • Lesley Horton  :  Snares of Guilt   Orion, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Detective Inspector John Handford investigates a murder which looks to be a hate crime. F/F. $10.00.

  • Khaled Hosseini  :  A Thousand Splendid Suns   Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. One of 1500 signed editions of the UK Edition. Published simultaneously in the UK and US. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $125.00.

  • Declan Hughes  :  The Wrong Kind of Blood   John Murray, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces PI Ed Loy and set in Dublin. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Graham Hurley  :  Angels Passing   Orion, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. A fourteen-year-old girl falls to her death from a building. DI Joe Faraday is determined the dead girl will be accorded at least the dignity of an understood death. Underrated series set in the tough seaport of Portsmouth. F/F. $10.00.

  • Graham Hurley  :  Heaven's Light   Macmillan, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. A novel of power and politics, idealism and imagination, and the consequences of corruption. From one of the UK's most sophisticated thriller writers. F/F. $10.00.

  • Graham Hurley  :  The Take   Orion, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. A disgraced gynecological surgeon is missing and his caseload of maimed women is a murder-suspect list from hell. This just adds to the impossible workload for the Portsmouth CID and for DI Joe Faraday. Underrated series. F/F. $10.00.

  • M.J. Hyland  :  How the Light Gets In   Canongate, London, 2004. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Young girl is offered a place as an exchange student in the US. Author's First Novel. Fine. In wraps as issued. Fine. $30.00.

  • John Irving  :  Last Night in Twisted River   Bloomsbury, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. UK edition precedes US. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $100.00.

  • David Isaak  :  Shock and Awe   Macmillan New Writing. London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

  • Kazuo Ishiguro  :  When We Were Orphans   Faber & Faber, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. By the author of The Remains of the Day. F/F. $60.00.

  • Mick Jackson  :  Five Boys   Faber & Faber, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Strange things are happening in a small English village during WWII. Author's second novel. Only 800 copies printed in hardcover. F/F. $20.00.

  • Bill James  :  A Man's Enemies   Do Not Press, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Simon Abelard must stop publication of a former agent's explosive memoirs. F/F. $20.00.

  • Bill James  :  Astride a Grave   Macmillan, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. Harpur and Iles mystery. Fine in dust jacket with some slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $45.00.

  • Bill James  :  Between Lives   Severn House, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Thriller. F/F. $30.00.

  • Bill James  :  Come Clean   Constable, London, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. Sarah Iles is often seen in the Monty, the club owned bhy "Panicking" Ralph Ember. That's because her young love, Ian Aston, is an habitue. When she and Ian are witnesses to a bloody killing, Sarah is plunged into a life of deceit and fear and Ian becomes a target for villains and for Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles. F/F. $75.00.

  • Bill James  :  Eton Crop   Macmillan, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Harpur and Iles mystery. F/F. $40.00.

  • Bill James  :  Gospel   Macmillan, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. DCS Colin Harpur is having an affair with nineteen-year-old Denise who is friendly with the girlfriend of Jack Lamb. Lamb is Harpur's number one informer. When there's a raid on the post office, the tip comes from Jack and Denise is suddenly in danger from those seeking revenge. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $45.00.

  • Bill James  :  Halo Parade   Constable, London, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. Harpur and Iles mystery. F/F. $30.00.

  • Bill James  :  In Good Hands   Macmillan, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Harpur and Iles mystery. F/F. $50.00.

  • Bill James  :  Kill Me   Macmillan, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Harpur and Iles mystery. F/F. $30.00.

  • Bill James  :  Middleman   Do Not Press, London, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. Julian Corbett, half-crooked businessman in Cardiff Bay, is determined to profit from the redevelopment transforming the seafront. F/F. $30.00.

  • Bill James  :  Panicking Ralph   Macmillan, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Harpur and Iles mystery. F/F. $40.00.

  • Bill James  :  Pay Days   Constable, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Harpur and Iles mystery. F/F. $30.00.

  • Bill James  :  Roses, Roses   Macmillan, London, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. Harpur and Iles mystery. Near fine in fine dustjacket. $30.00.

  • Bill James  :  Split   Do Not Press, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Simon Abelard is given the job of "bringing back" a colleague who changed sides. F/F. $30.00.

  • Bill James  :  Take   Macmillan, London, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. "Planner" Preston is organizing a heist against a van carrying wages. He learns that the route has been lengthened and the guard increased but he is goaded to go ahead with the snatch even though he knows he risks a clash with DCS Colin Harpur and ACC Desmond Iles. F/F. $45.00.

  • Bill James  :  The Detective is Dead   Macmillan, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Harpur and Iles mystery. F/F. $45.00.

  • Bill James  :  The King's Friends   Severn House, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Brilliant thriller set in 1936 Britain when the idealistic Edward VIII is under the influence of some of the country's deadliest enemies. First Hardcover Edition. Originally published in paperback in 1982 under James's pseudonym, James Tucker. F/F. $50.00.

  • Bill James  :  Top Banana   Macmillan, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Harpur and Iles mystery. F/F. $40.00.

  • Donald James  :  The Fortune Teller   Century, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Inspector Constantin Vadim is back in his hometown of Murmansk after a brief and nearly catastrophic appointment in Moscow. One night his wife, a doctor, is called out on an emergency but twelve hours later she has not returned. Vadim's desperate investigation reveals that another woman, an American consular official, disappeared the same night. F/F. $10.00.

  • Donald James  :  Walking the Shadows   Century, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Secrets buried with a town in the South of France during World War II start to come to light when the village is uncovered during a drought. Unread copy, but slight nick to the dustjacket. F/F. $10.00.

  • P.D. James  :  A Certain Justice   Faber & Faber, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • P.D. James  :  Children of Men   Faber & Faber, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy with slight yellowing to the extremities as is usual. Dust jacket shows crease at the top with some slight shelfwear, but is intact. . VG+/VG+. $30.00.

  • P.D. James  :  Death in Holy Orders   Faber & Faber, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • P.D. James  :  Devices and Desires   Faber & Faber, London, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates. Price clipped. NF/NF. $35.00.

  • P.D. James  :  Devices and Desires   Faber & Faber, London, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in price clipped dj. NF/NF. $65.00.

  • P.D. James  :  Original Sin   Faber & Faber, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in price clipped dustjacket. $40.00.

  • P.D. James  :  Original Sin   Faber & Faber, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • P.D. James  :  Oriignal Sin   Faber & Faber, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Slight shelfwear top and bottom of spine and tanning to the edges as is usual, else fine in fine dust jacket. NF/NF. $100.00.

  • P.D. James  :  The Lighthouse   Faber & Faber, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • P.D. James  :  The Murder Room   Faber & Faber, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath. One of the family trustees has been murdered. F/F. $45.00.

  • P.D. James  :  The Private Patient   Faber & Faber, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • J. Robert Janes  :  Madrigal   Victor Gollancz, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. St. Cyr of the Surete and Kohler of the Gestapo are sent from Paris to Avignon to investigate the violent death of a young woman in the Palais des Papes. Set during the German occupation of France. F/F. $40.00.

  • J. Robert Janes  :  Murder in the Market   Colins, Toronto, 1985. Hardcover. An action filled adventure featuring five teenagers. A young adult novel by the author fo the St. Cyr/Kohler mysteries. In pictorial boards as issued. Previous owner's name. Near Fine. $5.00.

  • J. Robert Janes  :  Sandman   Constable Crime, London, 1996. First Edition. A St. Cyr and Kohler investigation. WWII setting. F/F. $55.00.

  • Quintin Jardine  :  Autographs in the Rain   Headline, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Bob Skinner tries to protect a film star from a stalker. F/F. $10.00.

  • Quintin Jardine  :  Screen Savers   Headline, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. PI Oz Blackstone investigates kidnapping. F/F. $10.00.

  • Quintin Jardine  :  Thursday Legends   Headline, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Bob Skinner investigates the death of a soccer player. F/F. $10.00.

  • Michael Johnson  :  Masters of Crime   Scorpion Press, Gladesty, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Examines the work of Dick Francis and Lionel Davidson. Signed by Francis and Davidson. Number 44 of 250 numbered copies. Fine in glassine. Fine. $150.00.

  • Paul Johnston  :  A Deeper Shade of Blue   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. New series introduces Greek investigator Alex Mavros. F/F. $10.00.

  • Sadie Jones  :  Small Wars   Chatto & Windus, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Sadie Jones  :  The Outcast   Chatto & Windus, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Susanna Jones  :  The Earthquake Bird   Picador, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Eerie mystery set in Tokyo. Author's First Novel. CREASEY AWARD WINNER. F/F. $10.00.

  • Morag Joss  :  Fearful Symmetry   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Sara Selkirk novel. Mystery series set in Bath. F/F. $30.00.

  • Morag Joss  :  Fruitful Bodies   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Sara Selkirk novel. Mystery series set in Bath. F/F. $30.00.

  • Morag Joss  :  Funeral Music   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Mystery set in Bath. Small print run. Author's First Novel. F/F. $50.00.

  • Morag Joss  :  Puccini's Ghosts   Sceptre, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Lila Du Cann returns to Burnhead to bury her father and remembers when, aged fifteen, she was drawn into Uncle George's production of Puccini's Turandot. F/F. $20.00.

  • Jim Kelly  :  Moon Tunnel   Michael Joseph, London, 2005. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Third Philip Dryden mystery. In wraps as issued. . Fine. $10.00.

  • Thomas Kelly  :  Payback   Orion, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in the Bronx during the construction boom. Promotional wrap-around in place. UK edition precedes US. Author's First Novel. F/F. $20.00.

  • Thomas Keneally  :  The Widow and Her Hero   Sceptre, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Sixty years after her husband never returned from the war, Grace is still haunted by the tragedy of her doomed hero. Set in Australia. By the author of Schindler's Ark. F/F. $55.00.

  • P.B. Kerr  :  Children of the Lamp   Scholastic Press, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fantasy for children by Philip Kerr. In illustrated boards as issued. Fine. $20.00.

  • Philip Kerr  :  Esau   Chatto & Windus, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. In an ice cave high in the Himalayas, a perfectly preserved skull is found. In a lab on the Berkeley campus, a paleoanthropologist learns that what she took to be a fossil is in fact the discovery of a lifetime. . F/F. $45.00.

  • Philip Kerr  :  If the Dead Rise Not   Quercus, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Bernie Gunther. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • Ross King  :  Domino   Sinclair Stevenson, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A dazzling novel of love and seduction, of deception, disguise and, ultimately murder. Author's First Novel. Small scuffed area inside front board. NF/NF. $50.00.

  • Matthew Kneale  :  Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance   Picador, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Short stories about ordinary people traveling in today's uncertain world. F/F. $45.00.

  • Matthew Kneale  :  When We Were Romans   Picador, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Dean R. Koontz  :  Cold Fire   Headline, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. Reporter Holly Thorne witnesses Jim Ironheart save a young child. She discovers that Ironheart has quietly performed six last-minute rescues in six different places over the past three months. NF/NF. $10.00.

  • Dean R. Koontz  :  False Memory   Headline, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Martie Rhodes takes her agoraphobic friend, Susan, to her therapy session every week. Then one morning, Martie experiences an irrational fear of her own: she suffers a brief but disquieting terror of her own shadow. F/F. $10.00.

  • Elizabeth Kostova  :  The Historian   Little Brown, London, 2005. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. The search for a missing professor leads to Europe and Vlad the Impaler, known as Dracula. Simultaneous publication in the UK and the US but the US edition is generally regarded as the true first edition. F/F. $30.00.

  • Nikita Lalwani  :  Gifted   Viking, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First novel. Long listed for Man Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $70.00.

  • John Lanchester  :  The Debt To Pleasure   Picador, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Gourmet murder mystery. Author's First Novel. WHITBREAD PRIZE. F/F. $65.00.

  • Katherine Langrish  :  Troll Fell   HarperCollins, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Peer, his friend Hilde and faithful dog Loki discover that Peer's uncles are plotting with the trolls of Troll Fell. For young adults. Author's First Novel. F/F. $10.00.

  • Katherine Langrish  :  Troll Mill   HarperCollins, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second in the series for young adults. F/F. $10.00.

  • Lori Lansens  :  The Girls   Knopf, Toronto, 2005. Hardcover. F/F. $40.00.

  • James Lasdun  :  Three Evenings and Other Stories   Secker & Warburg, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. Short stories by the author of The Horned Man. Tape removal ffep. NF/NF. $10.00.

  • K.D. Lather  :  The Changeling   Tarragon Publ., Birmingham, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A young adult novel about a twelve-year-old plagued by nighmares who discovers something deeply disturbing about himself. First in series. Number 441 of 500 copies. Handsome volume with gilt edges. Promotional bookmark included. F/F. $75.00.

  • David Lawrence  :  The Dead Sit Round in a Ring   Michael Joseph, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Introduces DS Stella Mooney. Author's First Novel. In wraps as issued. Fine. $10.00.

  • Mary Lawson  :  The Other Side of the Bridge   Chatto & Windus, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Long listed for the Man Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. VeryGood. $45.00.

  • John Le Carre  :  A Perfect Spy   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. Espionage. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • John Le Carre  :  Our Game   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. This title has an odd history. After an initial printing of 1,000 copies, the author objected to the dust jacket and this edition (with number line intact 1-10) was exported or sold only in airports. Scarce thus. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $200.00.

  • John Le Carre  :  Smiley's People   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1980. Hardcover. First Edition. George Smiley and espionage. Slight crease on inside flap of dustjacket. Slight shelfwear, but a lovely copy. NF/NF. $50.00.

  • John Le Carre  :  The Constant Gardener   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Slilght shelfwear to extremities, else fine in fine dust jacket. . NF/NF. $50.00.

  • John Le Carre  :  The Mission Song   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • John Le Carre  :  The Tailor of Panama   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket showing slight rubbing top corners. Filmed starring Pierce Brosnan. . F/F. $80.00.

  • John Le Carre  :  The Tailor of Panama   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. . F/F. $95.00.

  • Stephen Leather  :  The Double Tap   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. An assassin and his victim play a deadly game of cat and mouse. F/F. $10.00.

  • Stephen Leather  :  The Eyewitness   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Former London policeman, Jack Solomon, is working in the killing fields of former Yugoslavia when a truck containing twenty-six bodies is pulled from a lake. F/F. $10.00.

  • Stephen Leather  :  The Solitary Man   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Chris Hutchinson escapes from a British maximum security prison and starts a new life in Hong Kong. But his past is about to catch up with him. F/F. $10.00.

  • Stephen Leather  :  The Stretch   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. When criminal Terry Greene is sentenced to life for a murder he didn't commit, his wife can walk away from his criminal empire or she can take it over. She doesn't think she has a choice. F/F. $10.00.

  • Stephen Leather  :  The Tunnel Rats   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Nick Wright, detective, tries to solve two killings thousands of miles apart. F/F. $10.00.

  • John Lescroart  :  Nothing But the Truth   Headline, London, 1999. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Legal thriller featuring Dismas Hardy. F/F. $5.00.

  • Marina Lewycka  :  Two Caravans   Fig Tree, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In the English countryside, a group of strawberry pickers are preparing to celebrate a birthday. From the author of A Short istory of Tractors in Ukrainian. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Diane Wei Liang  :  The Eye of Jade   Picador, London, 2007. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Mei is an independent Chinese woman working as a PI in Beijing. Her investigation into a missing piece of jade reveals the brutality in the dark part of China's recent history. Author's First Novel. F/F. $35.00.

  • Jeff Lindsay  :  Dexter by Design   Orion, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fourth in Dexter series. U.K. edition precedes U.S. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • Gillian Linscott  :  Crown Witness   Little Brown, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Nell Bray and her fellow suffragettes hold a march which is supposed to end with a rally at the Royal Albert Hall. But somebody is trying to sabotage the march. Slight browning at edges. . NF/NF. $5.00.

  • Gillian Linscott  :  Stage Fright   Little Brown, London, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Nell Bray, the murder-solving suffragist is asked to protect actress Bella Flanagan who believes her husband's friends are preparing to disrupt the opening night of a George Bernard Shaw play. Linscott captures Edwardian London in this witty excursion. F/F. $5.00.

  • Joan London  :  Gilgamesh   Atlantic Books, London, 2003. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Young Australian woman travels to the Middle East in 1939 to the homeland of the father of her child. Winner of the AGE Book of the Year for Fiction. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. F/F. $45.00.

  • Peter Lovesey  :  Diamond Solitaire   Little Brown, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Peter Diamond mystery. Slight rub on fep. In fine dustjacket. NF/NF. $10.00.

  • Peter Lovesey  :  The Reaper   Little Brown, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A bishop is found dead in a quarry. In his car is a suicide note. His last phone call was to one Madame Swish. Devoured by guilt? Or did someone help the bishop move closer to the Lord?. F/F. $10.00.

  • Phil Lovesey  :  Death Duties   Collins Crime, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. F/F. $5.00.

  • Phil Lovesey  :  Ploughing Potter's Field   Collins Crime, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Dark suspense. F/F. $5.00.

  • Phil Lovesey  :  When the Ashes Burn   Collins Crime, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Suspense. F/F. $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.

  • Hector MacDonald  :  The Mind Game   Michael Joseph, London, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Remarkable novel which was published just before the reality shows it describes became standard TV fare. In wraps as issued. Author's First Novel. Fine. $10.00.

  • John D. MacDonald  :  Clemmie   Hale, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. First hardcover edition of 1958 paperback. F/F. $25.00.

  • John D. MacDonald  :  Judge Me Not   Hale, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. First hardcover edition of the 1951 paperback. Beautiful copy. F/F. $25.00.

  • John D. MacDonald  :  The Damned   Hale, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. First hardcover edition of 1952 paperback. F/F. $25.00.

  • John D. MacDonald  :  The Empty Trap   Hale, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. First hardcover edition of the 1957 paperback. Beautiful copy. F/F. $25.00.

  • 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.

  • Pierre Magnan  :  The Murdered House   Harvill Press, London, 1999. Hardcover. Second impression. . F/F. $10.00.

  • Barry Maitland  :  Silvermeadow   Orion, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A vicious bank robber who has been on the run for years is spotted at the Silvermeadow Mall. When DCI Brock and DS Kolla follow up, they find another investigation under way: a teenage girl who worked as a waitress at the Mall has disappeared. F/F. $25.00.

  • Karen Maitland  :  Company of Liars   Michael Joseph, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A band of travelers trying to outrun the black plague in England tell their stories. Signed and dated. Fine in boards as issued. Fine. $45.00.

  • Gautam Malkani  :  Londonstani   Fourth Estate, London, 2006. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Number 309 of 500 limited and slipcased editions. F/F. $85.00.

  • Karl Manders  :  Moths   Chatto & Windus, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Authors First Novel. The story of a father and son, both of whom live through interesting times. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  Chronicler of the Winds   Harvill Secker, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A fable set in Africa. F/F. $25.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  Faceless Killers   Harvill Press, London, 2000. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $200.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  Kennedy's Brain   Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2007. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Mystery. Number 43 of 80 numbered and signed copies. With an appreciation by Dan Fesperman. Fine in marbled boards as issued. Fine. $160.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  One Step Behind   Harvill Press, London, 2002. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $225.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  Return of the Dancing Master   Harvill Press, London, 2003. Hardcover. First English Translation. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  Sidetracked   Harvill Press, London, 2000. Hardcover. First UK Edition. GOLD DAGGER AWARD. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $190.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  The Fifth Woman   Harvill Press, London, 2001. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $250.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  The Man Who Smiled   Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2005. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Inspector Kurt Wallander mystery. Number 44 of 80 numbered copies. With an appreciation by John Harvey. In marbled boards as issued. Fine. $150.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  The White Lioness   Harvill Press, London, 2003. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

  • Michael Marshall  :  Bad Things   HarperCollins, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. One corner slightly bumped, else fine in fine dust jacket. NF/NF. $30.00.

  • Michael Marshall  :  Blood of Angels   HarperCollins, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Ward Hopkins mystery. F/F. $35.00.

  • Michael Marshall  :  The Intruders   HarperCollins, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Stand alone from the author of The Straw Men Trilogy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

  • J. Wallis Martin  :  Dancing with the Uninvited Guest   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Parapsychologist is called in when two people disappear from Lyndle Hall in Northumbia's National Park. F/F. $10.00.

  • J. Wallis Martin  :  The Long Close Call   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Robbie McLaughlan of the Metropolitan Police kills a robber during a bank raid. The family of the dead man abduct Robbie's young son. F/F. $10.00.

  • J. Wallis Martin  :  The Long Close Call   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. F/F. $10.00.

  • Michael Mason  :  Escape   Chatto & Windus, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. An anthology of escape stories - from Daniel's escape from the lion's den to Piglet's escape from the flood. F/F. $10.00.

  • Hisham Matar  :  In The Country of Men   Viking, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First novel set in Libya. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $80.00.

  • Adrian Mathews  :  Vienna Blood   Jonathan Cape, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. It is 2026 and Sharkey, a newspaper columnist, spends a tiresome evening with a computer nerd. Nearly three months later he is called by the man's widow. Her husband has died under mysterious circumstances and she believes that he has passed on vital information to his new "friend." SILVER DAGGER AWARD. In illustrated boards as issued. Fine. $30.00.

  • Archer Mayor  :  The Skeleton's Knee   Piatkus Press, London, 1994. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Fourth mystery featuring police detective Joe Gunther. F/F. $10.00.

  • Keith McCarthy  :  A Feast of Carrion   Constable, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Woman is brutally murdered in the St. Benjamin's Museum of Pathology. F/F. $20.00.

  • Val McDermid  :  A Darker Domain   HarperCollins, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Val McDermid  :  A Place of Execution   HarperCollins, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In the winter of 1963 a thirteen-year-old girl disappears from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale, an insular community distrustful of outsiders. For newly promoted Inspector George Bennett it is a difficult and harrowing case with a murder and no body. One of the best of the year. ANTHONY AWARD, MACAVITY AWARD, BARRY AWARD, DILYS AWARD. F/F. $40.00.

  • Val McDermid  :  Cleanskin   HarperCollins, London, 2006. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. A paperback original, one of the "Quick Reads" written to celebrate World Book Day. 111pp. Fine. $10.00.

  • Val McDermid  :  Cleanskin   HarperCollins, London, 2006. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. A "Quick Read" Not published in the US. Paperback original in wraps as issued. Fine. Fine. $10.00.

  • Val McDermid  :  Star Struck   HarperCollins, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. PI Kate Brannigan is bodyguard to a paranoid soap opera star. But when the star is murdered, Kate has more questions than answers. F/F. $30.00.

  • Val McDermid  :  Stranded   Flambard Press, Hexham, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Short stories collected here for the first time. Limited to 325 numbered copies, this is number 126. F/F. $35.00.

  • Val McDermid  :  The Grave Tattoo   HarperCollins, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

  • Val McDermid  :  The Torment of Others   HarperCollins, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan investigate the murder of a prostitute. F/F. $30.00.

  • Sophia McDougall  :  Romanitas   Orion, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A slave waits to be crucified, a gang of fugitives hides out in the Pyrenees, while on giant screens in every city, the world watches the funeral of the imperial family's most glamorous couple. This is the Roman Empire. Now. F/F. $60.00.

  • Iain McDowall  :  A Study in Death   Piatkus, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Dr. Roger Harvey, academic and womanizer, is found murdered. DS Ian Kerr and DCI Jacobsen of Crowby CID can find no obvious motive and their investigation takes them from Crowby University to Amsterdam and from the software industry to New Age cultists in the English Lake District. Author's First Novel. Signed and Dated Bookplate laid in. F/F. $10.00.

  • Iain McDowall  :  A Study in Death   Piatkus, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. F/F. $10.00.

  • Iain McDowall  :  Making a Killing   Piatkus, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second book featuring Chief Inspector Jacobsen. F/F. $10.00.

  • Ian McEwan  :  Amsterdam   Jonathan Cape, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A little gem from McEwan. BOOKER PRIZE WINNER. Second state dustjacket (with reference to Booker Prize nomination). F/F. $60.00.

  • Ian McEwan  :  Atonement   Jonathan Cape, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Slight crimping top and bottom of spine. In price clipped dustjacket. NF/NF. $70.00.

  • Ian McEwan  :  On Chesil Beach   Jonathan Cape, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • Ian McEwan  :  Saturday   Jonthan Cape, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Saturday February 15th, 2003, is a day that will end in violence for Henry Perowne. F/F. $75.00.

  • Brian McGilloway  :  Borderlands   Macmillan, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Outstanding first novel set on the border between Northern and Southern Ireland. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Brian McGilloway  :  Gallows Lane   Macmillan, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second in the Inspector Devlin series. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Jon McGregor  :  So Many Ways to Begin   Bloomsbury, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Long listed for the Man Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • William McIlvanney  :  Laidlaw   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1977. Hardcover. First Edition. Inspector Laidlaw investigates the murder of a young woman in a Glasgow park. Author's First Mystery. SILVER DAGGER AWARD. F/F. $95.00.

  • William McIlvanney  :  Strange Loyalties   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. A Jack Laidlaw mystery. F/F. $30.00.

  • William McIlvanney  :  The Papers of Tony Veitch   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. Inspector Laidlaw investigates murder in Glasgow. SILVER DAGGER AWARD. F/F. $85.00.

  • William McIlvanney  :  Weekend   Sceptre, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. A group of lecturers and students on a small Scottish island for a literature study weekend. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Pat McIntosh  :  The Harper's Quine   Constable, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Gilbert Cunningham, notary-in-training, is enjoying the May Day dancing at Glasgow Cross when he sees a woman who is going to be murdered. He also sees the murderer. Set in 1492. Author's First Novel. F/F. $30.00.

  • Blanaid McKinney  :  The Ledge   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. A novel about a kidnapping - and so much more. McKinney is considered one of the UK's hot new writers. F/F. $10.00.

  • Glenn Meade  :  Web of Deceit   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. New York attorney Jennifer March is haunted by the savage slaughter of her family on the same night that her father disappeared. F/F. $30.00.

  • China Mieville  :  Iron Council   Macmillan, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Mieville continues his story of New Crobuzon, city of clockwork engine and subterranean punishment factory. F/F. $30.00.

  • China Mieville  :  The City & The City   Macmillan, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Mark Mills  :  The Savage Garden   HarperCollins, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Mystery set in Tuscany. Signed and dated. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • A. A. Milne  :  The House at Pooh Corner   Methuen, London, 1928. Hardcover. First Edition. Decorations by E.H. Shepard. Slight crimping top and bottom of spine. Gilt top edges. Dust jacket has small chip top of spine and large chip bottom of spine and two small tears on back. A beautiful edition. $1500.00.

  • Denise Mina  :  Sanctum   Bantam, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Lachlan Harriot's wife, a forensic psychiatrist, is convicted of the murder of a serial killer. F/F. $30.00.

  • David Mitchell  :  Black Swan Green   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. US Edition preceded the UK Edition. Long listed for the Man Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

  • Aly Monroe  :  The Maze of Cadiz   John Murray, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Espionage set in Spain in 1944. First in a series featuring Peter Cotton. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Richard Morgan  :  Market Forces   Victor Gollancz, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Shorn Associates are in the business of Conflict Investment. They keep watch on the wars of liberation and sell arms and intelligence to the probable winners. Their cut is a piece of the action when the war is won. F/F. $30.00.

  • R.N. Morris  :  A Gentle Axe   Faber & Faber, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in St. Petersburg in 1866, an investigation by Porfiry Petrovich - his first since the homicides recounted in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Only 500 copies printed in hardcover. Signed and dated. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • 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.

  • Kate Mosse  :  Sepulchre   Orion Books, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. By the author of Labyrinth. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Danny Moynihan  :  Boogie-Woogie   Duck Editions, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In his wicked first novel, Moynihan takes on the energy and fractured jazz rhythms of the nineties New York art scene. He paints a deliciously lurid and subversive picture of the lives and loves of artists, dealers, and wannabes in a cut-throat world. Tremendous hit in the UK. F/F. $30.00.

  • Alice Munro  :  Open Secrets   McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Short stories. . F/F. $65.00.

  • Alice Munro  :  The Love of a Good Woman   McLelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Short stories. Winner of the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS' AWARD. F/F. $40.00.

  • Alice Munro  :  The Moons of Jupiter   Macmillan, Toronto, 1982. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Short stories. Small closed tear on back cover. NF/NF. $100.00.

  • Haruki Murakami  :  Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman   Harvill Secker, London, 2006. Hardcover. First English Translation. Short stories. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • Margaret Murphy  :  Dying Embers   Macmillan, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Boy disappears from school. His teacher investigates. F/F. $10.00.

  • Julie Myerson  :  Something Might Happen   Jonathan Cape, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Long listed for the Man Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Barbara Nadel  :  After the Mourning   Headline, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second in the Francis Hancock series. Set in London during the Blitz. F/F. $50.00.

  • Barbara Nadel  :  Harem   Headline, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. The body of a teenage girl is found in a cistern below the city of Istanbul. Inspector Cetin Ikmen investigates. F/F. $35.00.

  • Barbara Nadel  :  Harem   Headline, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. This copy has the proof dustjacket - a black and white photograph, not the four-color dustjacket on the plublished book. "The Donna Leon of Istanbul" is printed on the dj. F/F. $50.00.

  • Barbara Nadel  :  Last Rights   Headline, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Francis Hancock, a veteran of World War I, is forced to relive his trauma in the dark days of 1940 London. When a man raves about being stabbed, Francis dismisses it as the ravings of a lost soul, until the man turns up at this funeral parlor. . F/F. $35.00.

  • Irene Nemirovsky  :  David Golder   Chatto & Windus, London, 2007. Hardcover. First English Translation. SIGNED. By the author of Suite Francaise. Originally published in France in 1928. Signed by Sandra Smith, translator. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Irene Nemirovsky  :  Suite Francaise   Chatto & Windus, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Very slight wear. . NF/NF. $100.00.

  • Martin O'Brien  :  Jacquot and the Angel   Headline, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Martin O'Brien  :  Jaquot & The Master   Headline, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Third in the series. Fine in fine dust jacket. . F/F. $55.00.

  • Jack O'Connell  :  Word Made Flesh   No Exit Press, London, 1999. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Number 52 of 100 limited copies. In wraps as issued. True first edition. Near Fine. $25.00.

  • Ed O'Connor  :  The Yeare's Midnight   Constable, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. As Inspector John Underwood tries to piece together the last hours of Olympic athlete Lucy Harrington, the murderer contacts English Literature lecturer Heather Stussman and invites her to explain his actions to the police. Author's First Novel. F/F. $30.00.

  • Michael Ondaatje  :  Anil's Ghost   Bloomsbury, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in Sri Lanka. Author's first novel since The English Patient. F/F. $40.00.

  • Helen Oyeyemi  :  The Opposite House   Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Andrew Pepper  :  The Last Days of Newgate   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Andrew Pepper  :  The Revenge of Captain Paine   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Tony Pollard  :  The Minutes of the Lazarus Club   Penguin, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Secret Society in Victorian Britain. First novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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   HarperFlamingo, Canada, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

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

  • Anthony Quinn  :  The Rescue Man   Jonathan Cape, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Lucy Daniel Raby  :  Nickolai of the North   Hodder Children's Books, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The story of the boy who grew up to be Santa Claus. Author's First Novel. for Young Adults. F/F. $40.00.

  • Caro Ramsay  :  Absolution   Penguin, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First Novel. Dark police procedural set in Scotland. F/F. $50.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  A Question of Blood   Orion, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Inspector Rebus investigates a shooting at a private school. F/F. $65.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  Beggar's Banquet   Orion, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Twenty-one stories taken from magazines, radio, and journals. Seven feature Rankin's outstanding creation, Inspector John Rebus. F/F. $55.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  Capital Crimes   Orion, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Contains DEAD SOULS, SET IN DARKNESS, and THE FALLS. F/F. $65.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  Doors Open   Orion, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  Fleshmarket Close   Orion, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Inspector Rebus investigates the murder of an illegal immigrant. F/F. $60.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  Hide & Seek   Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1991. Proof/Ephemera. SIGNED. Only 400 proofs of this title were published. This is number 104. Spine shows some creasing. Wear at tips of wraps. Name has been marked out with pen fep. Very scarce item, especially signed. Very Good +. $200.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  Rebus: The Lost Years   Orion, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Thre mysteries featuring Inspector John Rebus: LET IT BLEED; BLACK AND BLUE and THE HANGING GARDEN. F/F. $65.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  Rebus: The St. Leonard's Years   Orion, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Contains STRIP JACK, THE BLACK BOOK and MORTAL CAUSES. F/F. $55.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  Set In Darkness   Orion, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Detective Inspector John Rebus investigates a sensitive case when bodies are found at Queensberry House, now being used by the Scottish Parliament. . F/F. $65.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  The Falls   Orion, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A student, the daughter of extremely influential bankers in Edinburgh, is missing. Inspector John Rebus thinks there's more to this than just another rebel high on daddy's money. . F/F. $55.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  The Flood   Orion, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Reprint of author's scarce first novel. With a new introduction by Rankin. F/F. $45.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  The Hanging Garden   Orion, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. John Rebus mystery. F/F. $100.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  The Jack Harvey Novels   Orion, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Anthology containing WITCH HUNT, BLEEDING HEARTS, and BLOOD HUNT. With a new introduction by the author. F/F. $55.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  The Naming of the Dead   Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2006. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited Edition. Number 24 of 80 numbered copies. With an appreciation by Phil Rickman. Glassine over marbled boards as issued. . Fine. $150.00.

  • Ian Rankin  :  Watchman   Orion, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Reissue of Rankin's 1988 spy novel featuring Miles Flint. F/F. $55.00.

  • Julian Rathbone  :  The Mutiny   Little Brown, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in India in 1857 when the East India Company's soldiers rise up against the British. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Derek Raymond  :  The Devil's Home on Leave   Alison Press, London, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. Second book in The Factory series. F/F. $55.00.

  • Danuta Reah  :  Night Angels   HarperCollins, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. The car of Gemma Wishart, a young researcher, is found abandoned at Snake Pass in the Peak District. In Hull a woman is found battered to death in a hotel bathroom. For Detective Inspector Lynne Jordan, the missing academic and the murder victim have a tenuous connection, but when two more bodies turn up Lynne is forced to conclude there may be a serial killer on the loose. F/F. $25.00.

  • Patrick Redmond  :  The Puppet Show   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Michael Turner grew up an orphan, but now he has a promising legal career and a loving fiancee. When a powerful father figure enters his life it seems that Michael's childhood dreams are being realized. But Michael has allowed someone into his life who is very dangerous. F/F. $30.00.

  • Philip Reed  :  Bird dog   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Mystery set in a car dealership in LA. Very well received. UK edition precedes US. F/F. $20.00.

  • Philip Reed  :  Low Rider   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The continuing story of Harold Dodge, ex-car dealer, who is now caught up in an insurance fraud. UK edition precedes US. F/F. $20.00.

  • Celia Rees  :  Pirates!   Bloomsbury, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The story of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kingston, female pirates. For young adults of all ages. F/F. $40.00.

  • Celia Rees  :  Sorceress   Bloomsbury, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Sequel to the UK bestseller, Witch Child. A young adult novel. F/F. $25.00.

  • Philip Reeve  :  Infernal Devices   Scholastic Press, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Third volume featuring Tom and Hester and the traveling cities. For young adults. F/F. $35.00.

  • Philip Reeve  :  Mortal Engines   Scholastic Press, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. In this remarkable novel, cities have to tear themselves up by the roots in order to survive. London is being stalked. F/F. $50.00.

  • Philip Reeve  :  Predator's Gold   Scholastic Press, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Reeve continues his story of Tom and Hester and the traveling cities they encounter. Promotional bookmark included. F/F. $60.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  An Unkindness of Ravens   Hutchinson, London, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Chief Inspector Wexford mystery. Slight mfg imperfection bottom of back board, else fine in fine dust jacket. . F/F. $80.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  Live Flesh   Hutchinson, London, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. An attempted murder brings Victor Jenner face to face with himself and involves him in a doomed triangular relationship. GOLD DAGGER AWARD. F/F. $70.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  Master of the Moor   Hutchinson, London, 1982. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Stephen Whalby finds the body of a strangled girl on the bleak expanse of Vangmoor. Signed to previous owner. Discolored spot on top edges, else fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $85.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  Not in the Flesh   Hutchinson, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Inspector Wexford mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  Portobello   Hutchinson, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  Road Rage   Scorpion Press, Blakeney, 1997. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited Edition. Number 73 or 99 numbered copies. With an appreciation by Val McDermid. In marbled boards as issued. Fine. $100.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  Shake Hands For Ever   Hutchinson, London, 1975. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in price clipped dust jacket. Scarce title. NF/NF. $200.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  Some Lie and Some Die   Hutchinson, London, 1973. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Book is unread but has a piece torn from the end paper. Dust jacket shows a crease near the spine, but no cracks or chips. NF/NF. $350.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  Talking to Strange Men   Hutchinson, London, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $70.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  The Bridesmaid   Hutchinson, London, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Several spots of discoloration on end paper else fine in like dust jacket. Comes with promotional extract. Fine. NF/NF. $75.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  The Crocodile Bird   Hutchinson, London, 1993. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited Edition. Number 122 of 150 copies. In marbled boards as issued. Fine. $60.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  The Face of Trespass   Hutchinson, London, 1974. Hardcover. First Edition. Slight shelfwear. . NF/NF. $175.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  The Fever Tree   Hutchinson, London, 1982. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Short stories. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $115.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  The Keys to the Street   Hutchinson, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Mary Jago has donated her own bone marrow to save the life of a man who will change her life in a way she could never imagine. F/F. $30.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  The Killing Doll   Hutchinson, London, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition. Rendell explores a haunted world of obsession, delusion, and murderous fantasy. F/F. $80.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  The Lake of Darkness   Hutchinson, London, 1980. Hardcover. First Edition. When Martin Urban wins 100,000 pounds on the Football Pools, his life becomes entwined with that of another young man who has also come into a sum of money. F/F. $115.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  The New Girl Friend   Hutchinson, London, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. A collection of short stories from the mistress of psychological suspense. F/F. $70.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  The Veiled One   Hutchinson, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Inspector Wexford mystery. Slight mfg imperfection top of back board, else fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • Ruth Rendell  :  The Water's Lovely   Hutchinson, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in dust jacket with small tear at toe of spine. F/F. $45.00.

  • Robert Rennick  :  The Fallen   Eyelevel Books, UK, 2002. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Dark thriller set on the Isle of Wight, just off the South coast of England. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. In wraps as issued. Promotional postcard laid in. Fine. $30.00.

  • Phil Rickman  :  The Lamp of the Wicked   Macmillan, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Featuring Merrily Watkins, diocesan exorcist. F/F. $20.00.

  • Phil Rickman  :  The Prayer of the Night Shepherd   Macmillan, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. Featuring Merrily Watkins, diocesan exorcist. Sherlockian. F/F. $20.00.

  • Phil Rickman  :  The Smile of a Ghost   Macmillan, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

  • Stella Rimington  :  At Risk   Hutchinson, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. An MI5 thriller by the former head of MI5. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. F/F. $40.00.

  • Peter Robinson  :  Aftermath   McLelleland & Stewart, Toronto, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Inspector Alan Banks mystery. F/F. $30.00.

  • Peter Robinson  :  Wednesday's Child   Viking, Toronto, 1992. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Inspector Banks mystery. Crease on binding on front cover. In wraps with french folds as issued. Near Fine. $25.00.

  • J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets   Bloomsbury, London, 1998. Hardcover. 8th Impression. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows   Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Final Harry Potter adventure. Fine in fine "adult" dust jacket. F/F. $95.00.

  • J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire   Bloomsbury, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Near fine in near fine "juvenile" dust jacket. Near Fine. $60.00.

  • J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince   Bloomsbury, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine "adult" dust jacket. F/F. $95.00.

  • J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince   Bloomsbury, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine "juvenile" dust jacket. F/F. $80.00.

  • J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix   Bloomsbury, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine "adult" dust jacket. F/F. $95.00.

  • J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix   Bloomsbury, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine "juvenile" dust jacket. F/F. $80.00.

  • J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban   Bloomsbury, London, 1999. Hardcover. Second printing of Deluxe Edition. Shelfwear top and bottom of spine and on corners. Gold leaf. Near fine. Near Fine. $45.00.

  • J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows   Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Final Harry Potter adventure. Fine in fine "juvenile" dust jacket. F/F. $80.00.

  • J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows   Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Deluxe Edition. Shrinkwrapped. Fine. Fine. $150.00.

  • Salman Rushdie  :  Shalimar the Clown   Jonathan Cape, London, 2005. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. A murder which looks to be a political assination turns out to be personal. . F/F. $45.00.

  • Salman Rushdie  :  The Enchantress of Florence   Jonathan Cape, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Long listed for the Man Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $100.00.

  • Robert Ryan  :  Empire of Sand   Headline, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in 1915 and featuring a young intelligence officer named Thomas Edward Lawrence. F/F. $60.00.

  • Simon Scarrow  :  The Generals   Headline, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second in the series about Napoleon and Wellington. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Will Self  :  Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe   Bloomsbury, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jackekt with CD included. Still in shrinkwrap. F/F. $40.00.

  • Owen Sheers  :  Resistance   Faber & Faber, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. In 1944 after the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, a German counter-attack lands on British soil. Within a month half of Britain is occupied. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Chris Simms  :  Hell's Fire   Orion, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Iain Sinclair  :  Landor's Tower   Granta Books, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. This remarkable writer is hard to categorize. Set in Wales, this story is dense with conspiracies, suicides, and mysteries, all centering around one particular valley. Can be read as a mystery or as a mediation on place where different historical times come together in the present. F/F. $20.00.

  • Josef Skvorecky  :  The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka   Lester & Orpen Dennys, Toronto, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. Linked detective stories. First Canadian Edition. F/F. $30.00.

  • Michael Slade  :  Bed of Nails   Penguin, Toronto, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The Special X foreces of the RCMP are always hunting the psychos. This murderer is attending the World Horror Convention. Meanwhile Jack the Ripper continues to kill from his cell in Toronto. Signed by both authors. F/F. $30.00.

  • Karin Slaughter  :  Like a Charm   Scorpion Press, Bristol, 2004. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Number 109 of 120 Limited Editions. Signed by the 15 contributors: Kelley Armstrong; Mark Billingham; Lee Child; John Connolly; Emma Donoghue; Jerrilyn Farmer; Jane Haddam; John Harvey; Laura Lippman; Lynda La Plante; Denise Mina; Fidelis Morgan; Peter Robinson; Peter Moore Smith; Karin Slaughter. In marbled boards as issued. Fine. $200.00.

  • Gillian Slovo  :  The Betrayal   Michael Joseph, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. Political thriller set in South Africa. Published simultaneously in the UK and Canada. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

  • Ali Smith  :  Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s   Penguin, London, 2005. Paperback. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Four stories and two extracts from longer pieces, including The Accidental, by Booker Man Prize Winner Smith. Stories date from 1995 through 2005. In wraps as issued. Fine. $30.00.

  • M.M. Smith  :  The Servants   HarperCollins, London, 2008. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Author is Michael Marshall Smith. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Zadie Smith  :  On Beauty   Hamish Hamilton, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Winner of the Orange Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $125.00.

  • Boris Starling  :  Vodka   HarperCollins, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In December of 1991, American banker Alice Liddell arrives in Moscow to oversee the privatization of Russia's most famous vodka distillery. Meanwhile, the bodies of children are being found beneath the ice of the Moscow River. F/F. $30.00.

  • Jason Starr  :  Lights Out   Orion, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. UK edition precedes US. Signed and dated. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Jane Stevenson  :  London Bridges   Jonathan Cape, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in the 1990s, the story involves treasure lost in the Blitz. Superb mystery. Author's First Novel. F/F. $20.00.

  • Rebecca Stott  :  Ghostwalk   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Very well received. Signed and dated. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Rebecca Stott  :  Ghostwalk   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Limited to 60 signed and numbered copies with inscription: "Newton stole apples? Cambridge, 22 June 2007" Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $85.00.

  • Tony Strong  :  The Death Pit   Doubleday, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Terry Wiliams goes to a remote corner of the Scottish highlands to edit the letters of a woman tortured and burnt as a witch in the seventeenth century. Then the body of a young woman is found. She is one of a nearby community of Wiccans - modern-day witches. Wrap-around promotional band in place. . F/F. $10.00.

  • Steph Swainston  :  The Year of Our War   Victor Gollancz, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Literary fantasy which tells the story of Jant, a member The Circle, a cadre of fifty immortals who serve the Emperor. The Emperor is seeking to protect mankind from gian insects which have plagued the land for centuries. Author's First Novel. F/F. $30.00.

  • Leonie Swann  :  Three Bags Full   Transworld Publishers, London, 2006. Hardcover. First English Translation. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Originally published in Germany. A sheep detective story! Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Graham Swift  :  Ever After   Picador, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Winner of Prix Du Meilleur Livre Etranger. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $95.00.

  • Graham Swift  :  Last Orders   Picador, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Winner of the Booker Prize. Filmed starring Michael Caine, Helen Mirren, and Bob Hoskins. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $200.00.

  • Graham Swift  :  Shuttlecock   Picador, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Reissue. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

  • Graham Swift  :  Tomorrow   Picador, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Julian Symons  :  The Name of Annabel Lee   Macmillan, London, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. Beautiful copy in price-clipped dustjacket. Near Fine. $30.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  A Stain on the Silence   Michael Joseph, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A stand alone thriller. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  An Air That Kills   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First in a series exploring Britain during the decade following World War II. Set in the village of Lydmouth. F/F. $60.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  Bleeding Heart Square   Penguin Books, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A stand-alone set in London in 1934 in a small cul-de-sac where strange things are said to have happened. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  Blood Relation   Victor Gollancz, London, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. A William Dougal mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  Call the Dying   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. A Lydmouth Village mystery. F/F. $40.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  Death's Own Door   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Lydmouth Village mystery. F/F. $40.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  The Barred Window   Sinclair Stevenson, London, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Stand alone. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  The Four Last Things   Collins Crime, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First book in The Roth Trilogy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  The Four Last Things   Colins Crime, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. First book in The Roth Trilogy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  The Judgement of Strangers   Collins Crime, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second book in The Roth Trilogy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  The Lover of the Grave   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Lydmouth Village mystery. F/F. $70.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  The Office of the Dead   Collins Crime, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Third book in The Roth Trilogy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  The Sleeping Policeman   Victor Gollancz, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. William Dougal investigates a case of blackmail. F/F. $30.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  The Sleeping Policeman   Victor Gollancz, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. A William Dougal mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  The Suffocating Night   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Lydmouth Village mystery. F/F. $40.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  Waiting for the End of the World   Victor Gollancz, London, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Mystery featuring William Dougal. F/F. $70.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  Where Roses Fade   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. A Lydmouth Village mystery. F/F. $40.00.

  • Josephine Tey  :  The Daughter of Time   Peter Davies, London, 1951. Hardcover. First Edition. One of the best-loved mysteries of all time. Price clipped. Previous owner's name ffep. Very small chips to top of spine. Book is tight and the dustjacket is bright. NF/NF. $400.00.

  • Josephine Tey  :  To Love and Be Wise   Peter Davies, London, 1950. Hardcover. First Edition. Inspector Grant investigates the apparent murder of a well-connected young man. Beautiful copy with minimum shelf wear. NF/NF. $300.00.

  • Adam Thorpe  :  No Telling   Jonathan Cape, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in Paris in 1968. Twelve-year-old Gilles and his friend try to piece together a world from fragments of rumor and hushed adult conversation. F/F. $30.00.

  • Adam Thorpe  :  Pieces of Light   Jonathan Cape, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Hugh Arkwright's childhood in the Central African bush leaves him with a legacy of magic, mystery, and tragic loss. In the tradition of Buchan, Stevenson, and Wilkie Collins. A modern novel in which rural England and colonial Africa collide. F/F. $30.00.

  • Colm Toibin  :  The Master   Picador, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. The fictionalized story of Henry James, an American-born genius of the modern novel who became a connoisseur of exile, living among artists and aristocrats in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London. F/F. $60.00.

  • Simon Tolkien  :  The Stepmother   Michael Joseph, London, 2003. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Author's First Novel. Thriller by the grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien. In wraps as issued. Fine. $30.00.

  • Peter Turnbull  :  After the Flood   Severn House, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Floods have played havoc with the Yorkshire countryside and when one river changes its course, a corpse comes to light. DCI George Hennessey and DC Yellich investigate. F/F. $25.00.

  • Peter Turnbull  :  And Did Murder Him   Collins, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. The body of a young man is found in an alley. It appears to be a motiveless murder, the result of a drunken brawl, but the officers of Glasgow's P Division are not so sure. F/F. $25.00.

  • Peter Turnbull  :  Condition Purple   Collins, London, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. A woman is found dead with a knife still in her throat and the words "I belong to Dino" tattooed on her groin. P Division investigates. NF/NF. $25.00.

  • Peter Turnbull  :  Embracing Skeletons   Harper, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Marston Moor, the site of a Civil War battle, has been peaceful for centuries. Now the body of a child has been found there, part incinerated, half starved, and worse. The detectives of York CID have seen some shocking deaths in their careers, but this murder is different. F/F. $25.00.

  • Peter Turnbull  :  Fair Friday   Collins, London, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. At the start of Glasgow's annual two weeks' July holiday a journalist is found murdered after he stumbles across a major scandal. P Division investigates. NF/NF. $25.00.

  • Peter Turnbull  :  Fear of Drowning   Harper, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. When a middle aged couple disappear, Detective Inspector George Hennessey of the City of York police instinctively feels there has been foul play. The bodies are found buried in a shallow grave. F/F. $25.00.

  • Peter Turnbull  :  Perils and Dangers   Severn House, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. When Nathan Ossler, a blackmailer, is found slumped in an armchair with the front of his head missing, nobody in the Yorkshire village of Strensall is shocked. DCI George Hennessey and DC Yellich have too many suspects to choose from. F/F. $25.00.

  • Peter Turnbull  :  Two Way Cut   Collins, London, 1988. Hardcover. Mystery featuring Glasgow's P Division. Book Club Edition with very slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $10.00.

  • James Twining  :  The Double Eagle   HarperCollins, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Tom Kirk, a brilliant young art thief, is suspected of a daring robbery from Fort Knox. Numismatic mystery. F/F. $35.00.

  • L.C. Tyler  :  The Herring Seller's Apprentice   Macmillan New Writing, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Signed and dated. One of 100 embossed and numbered copies with author's "red fish" stamp. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • Barry Unsworth  :  Sugar & Rum   Hamish Hamilton, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Very slight tanning beginning to appear at the edges. F/F. $45.00.

  • Barbara Vine  :  A Dark Adapted Eye   Viking, London, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in the middle-class countryside of Essex soon after the Second World War, Vine puts the Hillyard family under scrutiny. Vine is the pseudonym of Ruth Rendell. EDGAR AWARD WINNER. F/F. $65.00.

  • Barbara Vine  :  A Fatal Inversion   Viking, London, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. When bodies are discovered at Wyvis Hall, Adam Verne-Smith and his friends, who stayed there ten years before, have reasons to fear the outcome. Vine is the pseudonym of Ruth Rendell. GOLD DAGGER AWARD. F/F. $65.00.

  • Barbara Vine  :  Gallowglass   Viking, London, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. The power of the educated over the simple is explored in this tale of psychological suspense. Some imperfections (not tears) on the edges of several pages. Vine is the pseudonym of Ruth Rendell. NF/NF. $35.00.

  • Barbara Vine  :  Grasshopper   Viking, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Dark mystery from Vine who is Ruth Rendell. F/F. $45.00.

  • Barbara Vine  :  King Solomon's Carpet   Viking, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Jarvis loves the London Underground and all its secrets. He l ives in an old house overlooking the Jubilee Line and he lets out rooms to people, all of whom have some connection to the Tube. Vine manages to make London transportation seem shocking and oppressive. GOLD DAGGER AWARD. F/F. $125.00.

  • Barbara Vine  :  No Night is Too Long   Viking, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. In a ghostly house overlooking the North Sea a young man sits down each evening to write his confession: a confession he will never be able to complete. Vine is the pseudonym of Ruth Rendell. F/F. $35.00.

  • Barbara Vine  :  The Birthday Present   Penguin, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Ruth Rendell writing as.. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • Barbara Vine  :  The House of Stairs   Viking, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. After the death of her wealthy husband, Cosette buys a dilapidated house in London. Vine is the pseudonym of Ruth Rendell. F/F. $65.00.

  • Barbara Vine  :  The Minotaur   Viking, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A middle-aged Swedish woman remembers her stay with an English family forty years before. . F/F. $45.00.

  • Mark Walden  :  H.I.V.E.   Bloomsbury, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Thirteen-year-old master criminal Otto Malpense has been chosen to attend the Higher Institute of Villainous Education. But that school has nothing to teach him that he does not already know. Author's First Novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Michael Walters  :  The Shadow Walker   Quercus, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

  • Minette Walters  :  Chickenfeed   Pan, London, 2006. Paperback. First Edition. Paperback Original. One of the "Quick Reads" published to celebrate World Book Day. 116 pp. Fine. $10.00.

  • Minette Walters  :  Disordered Minds   Macmillan, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Minette Walters  :  Fox Evil   Macmillan, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. GOLD DAGGER AWARD. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Minette Walters  :  The Ice House   Macmillan, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's scarce first novel. CREASEY AWARD WINNER. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. Usual very slight tanning to edges. . F/F. $1700.00.

  • Minette Walters  :  The Sculptress   Macmillan, London, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Walters' very disturbing second novel. EDGAR AWARD. MACAVITY AWARD. MARLOWE AWARD. Tight copy with usual slight tanning to edges. F/F. $125.00.

  • Sarah Waters  :  The Night Watch   Virago Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Story follows four Londoners backwards through the 1940s. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize. F/F. $60.00.

  • Paul Watkins  :  The Forger   Faber & Faber, London, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Edition. It is 1939 and young art student David Halifax is in Paris where he is falsely arrested for art forgery. As the Nazis converge on Paris, Halifax is press-ganged by the Resistance. It is a commission that could cost him his life. In wrappers as issued. Fine. $30.00.

  • Irvine Welsh  :  Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs   Jonathan Cape, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. By the author of Trainspotting. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Louise Welsh  :  Tamburlaine Must Die   Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. It is 1593 and plawright, poet, and spy Christopher Marlowe has three days to live. Three days to find the murderous Tamburlaine, a killer who has escaped from the pages of his most violent play. F/F. $35.00.

  • Louise Welsh  :  The Bullet Trick   Canongate, Edinburgh, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • J. Douglas White  :  Siege!   Book Guild Ltd., Sussex, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. A novel of romance and adventure set on (in) Gibralter. F/F. $10.00.

  • John Hartley Williams  :  Mystery in Spiderville   Jonathan Cape, London, 2002. Trade Paperback. First Edition. This surreal story follows the exploits of Spider Rembrandt who has six toes and sleeps in a grave. Author's First Novel. In wraps as issued. Fine. $10.00.

  • Tim Willocks  :  The Religion   Jonathan Cape, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in 1565. The Ottomans versus the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. Fine in fine dust jacket. . F/F. $50.00.

  • Laura Wilson  :  Dying Voices   Orion, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When Dodie Blackstock, only child of multi-millionaire Wolf Blackstock, was eight, her mother was kidnapped. The family's attempt to get her back ended in disaster and her body was never found. Now Dodie is twenty-nine and her mother's body has just been discovered. She has been dead for forty-eight hours. F/F. $30.00.

  • Laura Wilson  :  My Best Friend   Orion, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When Gerald Haxton was fourteen he found the body of his elder sister buried in a shallow grave. Her boyfriend, a young G.I. was hanged for the crime. Fifty years later Gerald has taken to following a twelve-year-old girl who bears a striking resemblance to his sister. F/F. $30.00.

  • Laura Wilson  :  Stratton's War   Orion, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Ellis Peters Historical Award. Set in London during WWII. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Laura Wilson  :  The Lover   Orion, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A serial killer is at large in London in 1940 during the Blitz. Based on a true story. F/F. $35.00.

  • Robert Wilson  :  The Blind Man of Seville   HarperCollins, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In Seville, a local restaurateur is found bound, gagged, and dead in front of his TV. The self-inflicted wounds tell the story of the man's struggle to avoid the unendurable images he's been forced to watch. When homicide detective Javier Falcon is confronted by this horrific scene, he becomes inexplicably afraid. Promotional wrap-around band in place. F/F. $40.00.

  • Robert Wilson  :  The Company of Strangers   HarperCollins, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Promotional wrap-around band in place. F/F. $50.00.

  • Robert Wilson  :  The Darkening Stain   HarperCollins, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Fourth in the Bruce Medway series set in West Africa. F/F. $90.00.

  • Robert Wilson  :  The Silent and the Damned   HarperCollins, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon investigates an apparent suicide pact. F/F. $40.00.

  • R.D. Wingfield  :  Hard Frost   Constable, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. An Inspector Jack Frost mystery. F/F. $125.00.

  • Don Winslow  :  The Death and Life of Bobby Z   Century, London, 1997. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Precedes US Edition. In wraps as issued. Fine. $30.00.

  • Jeanette Winterson  :  Fingersmith   Virago Press, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. ELLIS PETERS HISTORICAL AWARD. Victorian thriller. Fine in fine dust jacket with bookmark. F/F. $50.00.

  • Jeanette Winterson  :  Gut Symmetries   Granta, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Three lives converge aboard the QE2. F/F. $30.00.

  • Jeanette Winterson  :  Lighthousekeeping   Fourth Estate, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Silver is taken in by Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse, who tells ancient tales of longing and rootlessness. F/F. $45.00.

  • Jeanette Winterson  :  Tanglewreck   Bloomsbury, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Young Adult novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Jeanette Winterson  :  The Passion   Bloomsbury, London, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. Slight bump to top corners. NF/NF. $65.00.

  • Jeanette Winterson  :  The Stone Gods   Hamish Hamilton, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. An interplanetary love story. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • Jeanette Winterson  :  The World and Other Places   Jonathan Cape, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's first collection of short stories. F/F. $45.00.

  • Jeanette Winterson  :  Written on the Body   Jonathan Cape, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. Told by a vulnerable and subversive Lothario, gender undeclared. Lambda Literary Award. F/F. $55.00.

  • Tim Winton  :  Dirt Music   Picador, London, 2002. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. The story of Georgie Jutland and Luther Fox, the local poacher. First published in 2001 in Australia. F/F. $45.00.

  • Edward Wright  :  Red Sky Lament   Orion, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A John Ray Horn mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Eric Wright  :  A Fine Italian Hand   Doubleday, Toronto, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. An Inspector Charlie Salter mystery. F/F. $30.00.

  • Fan Wu  :  February Flowers   Picador, London, 2007. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. A coming of age novel set in modern China. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.
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