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Browsing Titles   I  :  69 Books
  • Tom Wolfe  :  I Am Charlotte Simmons   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. Charlotte is a Freshman at the prestigious Dupont University where she will learn more than academics. F/F. $10.00.

  • Joyce Carol Oates  :  I Am No One You Know   Ecco Press, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Short stories. F/F. $25.00.

  • Derek Raymond  :  I Was Dora Suarez   Scribner, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First US Edition. Dora Surez expected to die by her own hand. She did not expect to be hacked to pieces by an axe-wielding psychopath. It is her notebook that gives the Detective Sergeant the only clues to her murder and those of two other brutal murders. Fourth novel in the acclaimed "Factory" series, this is considered among the best of Raymond's fine, dark novels. F/F. $45.00.

  • Andrew Lycett  :  Ian Fleming   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Remarkable biography of the man who gave us James Bond. His life and work were infinitely more interesting than his fictional hero. F/F. $20.00.

  • Scott Phillips  :  The Ice Harvest   Ballantine Books, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Book. Edgar Award nominee. Filmed starring Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. Signed with the author's melting ice cube. F/F. $75.00.

  • 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.

  • Alice Hoffman  :  The Ice Queen   Little Brown, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

  • Gillian Slovo  :  Ice Road   Little Brown, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Family and politics in Stalingrad in 1933. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Peter Temple  :  Identity Theory   MacAdam Cage, San Francisco, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. The paths of John Anselm, intelligence dealer, Con Niemand, mercenary, and Caroline Wishart, journalist, cross when they all stumble across a secret terrible enough to destroy lives and topple governments. First published in Australia. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • Nevada Barr  :  Ill Wind   Putnam, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Anna Pigeon mystery. Set in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

  • 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.

  • Alice Hoffman  :  Illumination Night   Putnam, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Dinitia Smith  :  The Illusionist   Scribner, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

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

  • Brian Freeman  :  Immoral   St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. Nominated for an Edgar Award. Obsession, sex and revenge set in Duluth, Minnesota. F/F. $10.00.

  • Mark Coggins  :  The Immortal Game   Poltroon Press, California, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Edwin Bishop has developed a software program to play chess against humans that, he claims, is the most advanced ever written. When it's stolen and turns up at a trade show, Bishop calls in August Riordan, jazz bass-playing private eye. An homage to Hammett. Small print run. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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  :  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.

  • Ian McEwan  :  In Between the Sheets   Simon & Schuster, New York, 1978. Hardcover. First US Edition. Short stories. F/F. $30.00.

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

  • Stephen Horn  :  In Her Defense   HarperCollins, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Down-on-his-luck lawyer Frank O'Connell combs the cell blocks for clients. He has gone about as low as he can go, and then Ashley Bronson walks into his office. The murder of a former cabinet official has just propelled her from the society column to the front page and, inexplicably, she wants Frank to defend her. Frank thinks the biggest challenge is her guilt. He's got a lot to learn. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. $10.00.

  • Susan Brownmiller  :  In Our Time   Dial Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A memoir of the second wave of feminism by the author of Against Our Will. NF/NF. $10.00.

  • William Bayer  :  In Search of a Hero   World Publishing, Cleveland, 1966. Hardcover. First Edition. The Church family has always fascinated Ted Mason so he's thrilled when he is unexpectedly invited aboard their yacht for a Mediterranean cruise. Almost immediately the veneer begins to crack. Nobody is quite who they seem to be in this destructive family. Slight shelfwear, small closed tears, price clipped. Bright copy. Author's first novel. NF/NF. $50.00.

  • Paul Watkins  :  In the Blue Light of African Dreams   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. Charlie Halifax, a disgraced pilot, hears there is a prize being offered for the first man to fly between Paris and New York. Set in 1926. Small crease on flap of dj. NF/NF. $10.00.

  • Alexander McCall Smith  :  In the Company of Cheeful Ladies   Pantheon, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series. F/F. $30.00.

  • 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.

  • Susanna Moore  :  In The Cut   Knopf, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. A New York City teacher living alone finds herself in the grip of mounting terror after a particularly gruesome murder in her neighborhood. She begins to test the limits of her own safety. Filmed starring Meg Ryan. F/F. $20.00.

  • Nick Tosches  :  In the Hand of Dante   Little Brown, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In the lowest reaches of the Vatican Library, a secret chambe is opened for the first time. Inside is the manuscript of The Divine Comedy written in Dante's own hand. As it moves from hand to hand a writer and thief named Nick Tosches is asked to authenticate the manuscript. Brilliant Biblio mystery. F/F. $35.00.

  • Elisabeth Hyde  :  In the Heart of the Canyon   Knopf, New York, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

  • Nathaniel Philbrick  :  In the Heart of the Sea   HarperCollins, London, 2000. Hardcover. First UK Edition. The true story of the sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale which inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. NF/NF. $35.00.

  • Tim Binding  :  In The Kingdom of Air   Jonathan Cape, London, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. Giles Doughty is a womanizer who moves from affair to affair. He is also in flight from his childhood and the memory of Stella Muchmore who disappeared. When Stella is seen in a bar near a railway station, Giles's life will never be the same. Review copy. Author's First Novel. F/F. $65.00.

  • Monica Ali  :  In The Kitchen   Doubleday, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

  • Tim O'Brien  :  In the Lake of the Woods   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The story of a marriage built on deceit. F/F. $50.00.

  • James Lee Burke  :  In the Moon of Red Ponies   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Billy Bob Holland, former Texas Ranger, now living in Missoula, Montana, defends Johnny American Horse, a young activist accused of murder. F/F. $35.00.

  • Julia Alvarez  :  In the Name of Salome   Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. The story of a mother and daughter, set in the Dominican Republic in the late 19th Century and in Cuba during the 1960s. F/F. $10.00.

  • Kermit Roosevelt  :  In the Shadow of the Law   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Legal mystery. Author's First Novel. F/F. $25.00.

  • Michael Connelly  :  In the Shadow of the Master   Wm. Morrow, New York, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Signed by contributors Thomas H. Cook, Michael Connelly, editor, Laura Lippman, Nelson Demille and S.J. Rozan. Fine in boards as issued. Fine. $50.00.

  • Julia Alvarez  :  In the Time of the Butterflies   Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's powerful second novel tells the story of three women living in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Trujillo. Lyrical. F/F. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • Ann Arensberg  :  Incubus   Knopf, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. The town of Dry Falls is a thriving agricultural community. But things start to go awry. A heat wave is followed by a drought and animals give birth to monsters and women complain of sexual persecution. There seems to be an evil entity at large, but what does it want? By the author of Sister Wolf. F/F. $10.00.

  • Sherman Alexie  :  Indian Killer   Atlantic Monthly, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A murderer is stalking and scalping white men in Seattle. While this killer terrorizes the city, its Native American population is thrown into turmoil. F/F. $5.00.

  • Robert Crais  :  Indigo Slam   Hyperion, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Elvis Cole mystery. F/F. $40.00.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • T.C Boyle  :  The Inner Circle   Viking, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. Alfred Kinsey and his controversial studies on human sexuality are the subject of Boyle's tenth novel. F/F. $10.00.

  • P.D. James  :  Innocent Blood   Scribner, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $50.00.

  • P.D. James  :  Innocent Blood   Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Mystery of deceit and revenge. Slight crease to flap of dj. NF/NF. $40.00.

  • P.D. James  :  Innocent Blood   Scribners, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Fine in price clipped dj. NF/NF. $35.00.

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

  • 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.

  • Der Spiegel  :  Inside 9-11   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First English Translation. Reporters from Der Spiegel Magazine were the first to put together the events of 9/11 in this country and around the world. This is probably the most comprehensive overview of the attack to date. F/F. $5.00.

  • Kathleen M. Blee  :  Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement   University of California, Berkeley, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. A nuanced view of the organized racist underground in the United States focusing on the often ignored voices of women in the movement. F/F. $20.00.

  • Iain Pears  :  An Instance of the Fingerpost   Jonathan Cape, London, 1997. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Fine. $35.00.

  • Jeb Rubenfeld  :  Interpretation of Murder   Henry Holt, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First US Edition. Author's first novel. UK edition precedes US edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $26.00.

  • William Faulkner  :  Intruder in the Dust   Random House, New York, 1948. Hardcover. First Edition. A beautiful copy of Faulkner's study of murder and the mass mind. Tight copy with a price clipped dustjacket. Very slight shelfwear top of spine. HAYCRAFT QUEEN CORNERSTONE. NF/NF. $300.00.

  • 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.

  • Allegra Goodman  :  Intuition   Dial Press, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in a prestigious research lab in Cambridge, Mass. F/F. $10.00.

  • Colson Whitehead  :  The Intuitionist   Anchor Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Inventive first novel featuring Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the Department of Elevator Inspectors. Author's First Novel. F/F. $25.00.

  • Gila Lustiger  :  The Inventory   Arcade, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First English Translation. A novel about the effects of Nazi oppression on every segment of German society. F/F. $10.00.

  • Iain M. Banks  :  Inversions   Orbit, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. In a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill who has become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkable, a woman. Dr. Vosill has more enemies than she realizes, but then she also has more remedies at hand than those who wish her ill can ever guess. F/F. $40.00.

  • Margaret Maron  :  Io Saturnalia!   Crippen & Landru, Virginia, 2007. Paperback. First Edition. Publisher's gift limited to 353 copies. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine. $10.00.

  • 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.

  • Thomas Perry  :  Island   Putnam, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First US Edition. A husband-and-wife con team, a soldier of fortune, a two-bit operator, a CIA operative, and a defector with a split-fingered fastball, all wash up on a tiny island in the Caribbean. F/F. $75.00.

  • Tim Binding  :  Island Madness   Picador, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The British territory of Guernsey in the Channel Islands is occupied by the Germans in 1943. A local woman is found murdered. The highest ranking Nazi officer and island's police inspector form an uneasy alliance as they search for a killer feared by the islanders and enemy alike. A brilliant novel about collaboration and the nature of war. F/F. $75.00.

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

  • Norman Davies  :  The Isles   Oxford University Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. Written by one of the most brilliant historians at work today, this is a revolutionary narrative history which takes a new look at the development of Britain and Ireland, not as self-contained islands, but as a crucial part of Europe. F/F. $20.00.

  • Caleb Carr  :  The Italian Secretary   Carroll & Graf, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring Sherlock Holmes. F/F. $20.00.

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