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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.

Maile Meloy : Half in Love Scribner, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Book. Short stories. F/F. $25.00.

Jonathan Raymond : The Half-Life Bloomsbury, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When two teenagers making a movie unearth two skeletons, their lives converge with two men who trekked through that area in the 1820s. F/F. $20.00.

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.

Robert Goddard : Hand in Glove Poseidon Press, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First US Edition. Tristram Abberley was a renowned English poet of the 1930s who died fighting in Spain for the Republicans. Nearly fifty years later his sister and literary executor, Beatrix, is murdered during what appears to be a robbery at her home. Very slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $5.00.

Dean Vincent Carter : Hand of the Devil Bodley Head, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

James Carlos Blake : Handsome Harry William Morrow, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fictionalized account of real-life gangster Harry Pierpont, a member of the Dillinger gang. F/F. $5.00.

Gillian Linscott : Hanging on the Wire St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First US Edition. When someone takes a potshot at a patient at a military hospital, Nell Bray investigates. Set in World War I. F/F. $5.00.

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

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

Chris Petit : Hard Shoulder Granta, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. O'Grady gets out of jail to come home to Margaret Thatcher's Britain, a place he recognizes but feels lost in. An evocation of the grey avenues and pubs of Irish London at its most hopeless. F/F. $25.00.

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.

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. $60.00.

J.K. Rowling : Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Deluxe Edition. Shrinkwrapped. Fine. Fine. $85.00.

Chuck Palahniuk : Haunted Doubleday, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. F/F. $25.00.

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.

Carter Dickson : He Wouldn't Kill Patience Dell, New York, 1944. Paperback. Sir Henry Merrivale mystery. No creases on spine but piece torn from bottom of fep. Remarkable copy of this Mapback. Near Fine. $25.00.

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.

Renate Dorrestein : A Heart of Stone Viking, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Growing up in Holland, clever precocious Ellen has an idyllic childhood until disaster strikes on her twelfth birthday. Twenty-five years later, Ellen returns home and is surprised at what she finds while leafing through a faded photo album. F/F. $5.00.

Chelsea Cain : Heartsick St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. VeryGood. $35.00.

James Lee Burke : Heartwood Doubleday, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Billy Bob Holland mystery. Signed to previous owner. F/F. $45.00.

James Lee Burke : Heaven's Prisoners Henry Holt, New York, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second Dave Robicheaux mystery. Filmed starring Alec Baldwin. F/F. $300.00.

George P. Pelecanos : Hell To Pay Little Brown, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Derek Strange and Terry Quinn mystery. F/F. $40.00.

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.

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.

Nevada Barr : High Country Putnam, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. Anna Pigeon mystery. F/F. $5.00.

Jo Bannister : The Hireling's Tale Macmillan, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. The naked battered body of a young prostitute is found on a narrowboat on the Castlemere Canal. Their inquiries take DS Frank Shapiro, DI Liz Graham, and Sergeant Donovan to the Barbican Hotel in the heart of town where a convention is in progress. They will have to deal with more than a hotel full of suspects. The dead girl was not the only person to hire herself out that night. A paid assassin is at large. . F/F. $5.00.

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.

Martin Fido : A History of British Serial Killing Carlton Books, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. An exploration of British killers, from Jack the Ripper to Fred and Rosemary West. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $5.00.

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. $5.00.

John Cornwell : Hitler's Pope John Cornwell, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. The previously untold story of Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, Pontiff from 1939 to 1958 and known as the Pope who failed to speak out against Hitler's final solution. Here is the full story of how Pacelli in fact prompted events in the 1920s and '30s which helped sweep the Nazis to unhindered power. F/F. $20.00.

Dan Simmons : The Hollow Man Bantam, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Very slight bumping top corners otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. NF/NF. $50.00.

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.

Tom Wolfe : Hooking Up Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Wolfe's take on the sexual mores of the 1990s. F/F. $25.00.

Michael Cunningham : The Hours Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The stories of three women, one of whom is Virginia Woolf, living in three different decades. Filmed Starring Nicole Kidman (who won an oscar), Meryl Streep, and Julianne Moore. A stunning achievement. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. F/F. $175.00.

Mark Z. Danielewski : House of Leaves Pantheon, New York, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Paperback edition and hardcover edition published simultaneously. Fine. $35.00.

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.

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

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.

Tony Hillerman : Hunting Badger HarperCollins, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Leaphorn and Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police investigate. F/F. $5.00.

Patricia Carlon : Hush, It's A Game Soho Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Little Virginia is left with a babysitter when her widowed father must travel on business over Christmas. Annoyed with her lively young charge, lthe babysitter locks the child in the kitchen when her boyfriend visits and the child's life is placed in jeapardy. F/F. $5.00.

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