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Browsing Titles   G  :  68 Books
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Andre Dubus III  :  The Garden of Last Days   W.W. Norton, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel since House of Sand and Fog. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Leslie Marmon Silko  :  Gardens in the Dunes   Simon & Schuster, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • Loren D. Estleman  :  Gas City   Forge, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Elizabeth Hand  :  Generation Loss   Small River Press, Northampton, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Michael Chabon  :  Gentlemen of the Road   Del Rey, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Michael Chabon  :  Gentlemen of the Road   Del Rey, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Jon Fasman  :  The Geographer's Library   Penguin Press, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. An unread copy in fine dustjacket, marred by bump top front board. NF/NF. $35.00.

  • Stephen King  :  Gerald's Game   Viking, New York, 1992. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Special ABA Edition. This contains the facsimile of a full page letter from King addressed to "Dear Bookseller/Constant Reader" and was given away at the American Bookseller's Association Convention. Book is slipcased in box, plain except for Kirkus review. Scarce item. Fine. $125.00.

  • Judith Miller  :  Germs   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Biological weapons. F/F. $20.00.

  • John Updike  :  Gertrude and Claudius   Knopf, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. A modern retelling of the royal couple who figured prominently in William Shakespeare's play, before the play begins. F/F. $20.00.

  • Chang-rae Lee  :  A Gesture Life   Riverhead Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Franklin Hata, a Japanese man born in Korea, is a model citizen, courteous and hardworking, whose life begins to unravel. F/F. $20.00.

  • Suzanne Berne  :  The Ghost at the Table   Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

  • John Case  :  Ghost Dancer   Ballantine Books, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Thriller. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

  • Patrick McGrath  :  Ghost Town   Bloomsbury, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Three tales of New York. 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.

  • 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.

  • Marilynne Robinson  :  Gilead   Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. Pulitzer Prize. National Book Critics' Circle Award. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $115.00.

  • Jo Bannister  :  Gilgamesh   Doubleday Crime Club, New York, 1989. Hardcover. First US Edition. Clio Marsh is enjoying a friendly dinner with a few neighbors when one of them is shot in the back by an unknown intruder. NF/NF. $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.

  • Stephen King  :  The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. This precedes the US Edition. F/F. $10.00.

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

  • Diana McLellan  :  The Girls   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Sappho goes to Hollywood. The private lives of Hollywood's most powerful women. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

  • 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.

  • Dennis Lehane  :  The Given Day   Wm. Morrow, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • Amitav Ghosh  :  The Glass Palace   Random House, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Rajkumar, a poor boy, is lifted by the tides of political and social chaos and creates an empire in the Burmese teak forest. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • Edmund Crispin  :  Glimpses of the Moon   Walker & Co., New York, 1978. Hardcover. First US Edition. Gervase Fen mystery. F/F. $10.00.

  • Elmore Leonard  :  Glitz   Arbor House, New York, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $40.00.

  • Jon A. Jackson  :  Go By Go   Dennis McMillan, Arizona, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In Butte Montana in 1917 the miners have walked out after the catastrophic explosion of the Spectator mine which killed 162 men. IWW organizer Frank Little comes to town and so does a rookie Pinkerton operative who goets his first taste of what violence really means. 2000 copies printed. F/F. $25.00.

  • Judith Miller  :  God Has Ninety Nine Names   Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Miller takes the reader deep within the militant Islamic movement in ten Middle-Eastern countries. A classic. . F/F. $20.00.

  • Boston Teran  :  God is a Bullet   Knopf, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. In the Fall of 1970 in the badlands of Mexico, a young boy stumbles upon the savage murder of a woman that will remain unsolved for 25 years. In 1995 a young girl is kidnapped by a satanic cult. Her father, a cop, teams up with an ex-cult member to track down the girl and solve the murders that stretch across time. Author's First Book. JOHN CREASEY MEMORIAL DAGGER. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $25.00.

  • 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.

  • Alfredo Vea  :  Gods Go Begging   Dutton, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Defense attorney in San Francisco who served in Vietnam defends a young man accused of a brutal double murder. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • Nick Harkaway  :  The Gone-Away World   Wm. Heinemann, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A first novel by the son of John LeCarre. Set in an alternative world. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • Justin Evans  :  A Good and Happy Child   Shaye Areheart, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Psychological thriller. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

  • Kent Harrington  :  The Good Physician   Dennis McMillan, Arizona, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Keith Scribner  :  The Goodlife   Riverhead Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Couple hold businessman for ransom. Based on the true story of the kidnapping of an Exxon executive in New Jersey. Author's first novel. F/F. $5.00.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Joyce Carol Oates  :  The Gravedigger's Daughter   Ecco Press, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Shirley Hazzard  :  The Great Fire   Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

  • Clare Clark  :  The Great Stink   Harcourt, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First US Edition. Historical novel set in the sewers of London in 1855. Author's First Novel. Short listed for the Orange Prize. F/F. $25.00.

  • Robert Fisk  :  The Great War for Civilisation   Knopf, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First US Edition. History of the Middly East from arguably one of England's greatest investigative reporters. F/F. $35.00.

  • J. Michael Veron  :  The Greatest Player Who Never Lived   Sleeping Bear Press, Michigan, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Charley Hunter, a summer intern at a prestigious Atlanta law firm, comes across the file of an old partner with the firm. Bobby Jones was an amateur golfer and, as Charley puts the files in order, a story emerges that spans decades and will change Charley's understanding of life forever. Very small print run. F/F. $10.00.

  • Elfriede Jelinek  :  Greed   Seven Stories Press, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First US Edition. A thriller set in the mountains of Austria by Nobel Prize winner, Jelinek. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

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

  • Stephen King  :  The Green Mile   Signet, New York, 1996. Paperback. First Edition. Six original paperbacks. These were the first edition of this title and were published serially. BRAM STOKER AWARD. Fine. $50.00.

  • Timothy Dumas  :  Greentown   Arcade, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Story of the killing of Martha Moxley, for which Michael Skakel was later convicted. Edgar nominee. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • Philip Kerr  :  Gridiron   Chatto & Windus, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Ray Richardson has created a dazzling new building in the heart of Los Angeles. It is a 'smart' building where everything from temperature to security is controlled by the most advanced computer system of its kind. On the eve of the building's opening things start to go wrong. There are demonstrations outside and a couple of unexplained deaths. The building decides to lock its exits, trapping inside a team putting the finishing touches to the building. F/F. $65.00.

  • 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.

  • Ron Goulart  :  Groucho Marx: Master Detective   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. First in the series. This is the Mystery Guild Signature series and, as such, has a later dustjacket. F/F. $10.00.

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

  • Jeanette Winterson  :  Gut Symmetries   Knopf, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First US Edition. Aboard the QE2, three lives converge: Jove, a married man, and Alice, a single woman commence an affair. Alice falls in love with Jove's wife, Stella. F/F. $10.00.

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

  • Robert Bausch  :  The Gypsy Man   Harcourt, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Penny Bone is terrified of the town's local legend of a child-stealing phantom, while her husband, John, who is in prison becomes prey to what he fears most - hope. These two people confront the risks that everyday life presents. F/F. $5.00.

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