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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. $20.00.

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.

Joe Gores : Hammett Putnam, New York, 1975. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

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.

Carolyn See : The Handyman Random House, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

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. An intimate portrait of young Arab Muslims living in the United States. Extraordinry first novel. F/F. $5.00.

janwillem van de Wetering : Hard Rain Pantheon, New York, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. A Grijpstra and de Gier mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

Jim Thompson : Hard-Core Donald Fine, New York, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Contains The Kill-Off, The Nothing Man, and Bad Boy. Fine in fine dust jacket. 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.

Alexandra Sokoloff : The Harrowing St. Martin's Press, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Signed and dated. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

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 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 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 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. Deluxe Edition. Shrinkwrapped. Fine. Fine. $150.00.

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. Introduces serial killer Gretchen Lowell. First in proposed trilogy. Unputdownable! Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

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.

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.

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.

Alice Hoffman : Here on Earth Putnam, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

Adrian McKinty : Hidden River Scribner, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Alexander Lawson, a former cop from Northern Ireland, travels to Denver when his former girlfriend is murdered. F/F. $20.00.

Joe R. Lansdale : High Cotton Golden Gryphon, Illinois, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. These twenty-one stories, for mature audiences only, are gathered here for the first time. F/F. $30.00.

Joyce Carol Oates : High Lonesome Ecco Press, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Selected stories 1966-2006. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

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.

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. $20.00.

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.

John Cornwell : Hitler's Pope Viking, New York, 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. $10.00.

William Golding : The Hot Gates Harcourt, New York, 1966. Hardcover. First US Edition. Non fiction pieces by the author of The Lord of the Flies. Near fine. Dustjacket has small closed tears at the extremities and a chip top of spine. VG+/VG+. $5.00.

Celia Fremlin : The Hours Before Dawn J.P. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1958. Hardcover. Maybe it's because her baby cries all night, but Louise Henderson seems to be at the end of her tether. The neighbours complain about her child, she thinks she's being watched, and her husband seems to know their tenant from somewhere else. This first mystery by Fremlin won the EDGAR AWARD. This looks to be a Book Club Edition although the dustjacket is cut as though price-clipped. Bright dj with only the slightest wear at the bottom of spine. A scarce title in any condition. NF/NF. $10.00.

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

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.

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.

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.

Richard Zimler : Hunting Midnight Delacorte Press, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Sprawling novel about a bereft child, a freed African slave, and the history of Portugal's secret Jews. From the author of "Last Kabbalist of Lisbon.". F/F. $30.00.

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