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• Guy Holmes  :  P.E.A.C.E.   Simon and Schuster, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. In the future New York is a Police Enforced Anti Crime Environment. With video cameras everywhere and elite NYPD officers patrolling, no crime goes undetected. But strange and random acts of violence persist and undercover agent Mac Wells unwittingly stumbles across a conspiracy that reaches into the highest echelons of the police department, and the government. Author's First Novel. F/F. $5.00.

• Robert Goddard  :  Painting the Darkness   Poseidon Press, New York, 1989. Hardcover. First US Edition. On an autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard receives a visitor who announces he is Sir James Devenall who ostensibly died by his own hand eleven years before. . F/F. $5.00.

• Stephen Hunter  :  Pale Horse Coming   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Earl Swagger thriller. F/F. $30.00.

• Robert B. Parker  :  Pale Kings and Princes   Delacorte Press, New York, 1987. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Uncorrected Proof. Signed on pasted down publisher's plate with publication date (June 5, 1987). Number 426 of 500 limited copies. Fine unread copy. Fine. $60.00.

• Jonathan Wilson  :  A Palestine Affair   Pantheon, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in British Palestine in 1942. F/F. $25.00.

• Bill James  :  Panicking Ralph   W.W. Norton, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Ralph Ember, owner of the drinking club, The Monty, longs to be respectable. The trouble is his money comes from drug dealing. There's a syndicate ripe for takeover but who should Ralph approach as a partner? Meanwhile DCS Colin Harpur, bypassing his superior ACC Desmond Iles, is developing his own plan to trap the drug barons. F/F. $10.00.

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

• William Golding  :  Paper Men   Faber & Faber, London, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition. English novelist and American Professor of Literature locked in a lethal relationship. Beautiful copy. F/F. $75.00.

• William Golding  :  Paper Men   Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1984. Hardcover. First US Edition. English novelist and American Professor of Literature locked in a lethal relationship. NF/NF. $20.00.

• 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  :  The Papers of Tony Veitch   Pantheon, New York, 1983. Hardcover. First US Edition. Inspector Laidlaw investigates murder in Glasgow. Stain ffe. NF/NF. $20.00.

• Octavia Butler  :  Parable of the Sower   Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in California in 2025 where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an eighteen-year-old black woman, sets off on foot. F/F. $20.00.

• Octavia Butler  :  Parable of the Talents   Seven Stories Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Continuing the travels of Lauren Olamina, told in the voice of her daughter, Asha, from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life. Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the US Presidency, this tells the story of a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder. F/F. $20.00.

• Toni Morrison  :  Paradise   Knopf, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. In Oklahoma in 1976, nine men from Ruby assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. F/F. $50.00.

• Allegra Goodman  :  Paradise Park   Dial Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. When Sharon Spiegelman is abandoned by her folk-dancing partner, Gay, in a Honolulu hotel room, she begins her own spiritual quest. F/F. $20.00.

• Celia Fremlin  :  The Parasite Person   Doubleday, New York, 1982. Hardcover. First US Edition. Social scientist Martin Lockwood leaves his wife and moves in with his mistress. Soon he's bored. Until Ruth Ledbetter comes along. The more things change, the deadlier they can become. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $5.00.

• Clancy Carlile  :  The Paris Pilgrims   Carroll & Graf, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A biographical novel about Ernest Hemingway's time in Paris. Featuring James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein. F/F. $30.00.

• Connie Willis  :  Passage   Bantam, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Dr. Joanna Lander, researcher, volunteers to test a new drug which manufactures the near-death experience. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $30.00.

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

• 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.

• William Bayer  :  Pattern Crimes   Villard Books, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. NF/NF. $5.00.

• William Gibson  :  Pattern Recognition   Putnam, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $35.00.

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

• 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.

• Chris Simms  :  Pecking Order   Hutchinson, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Rubble is persuaded by a stranger to take part in a sinister secret project. F/F. $40.00.

• Ana Castillo  :  Peel My Love Like an Onion   Doubleday, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A lyrical, steamy, and moving story of a love triangle set in the colorful world of flamenco dancing. F/F. $10.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  Pegasus Descending   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Dave Robicheaux mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• James Lee Burke  :  Pegasus Descending   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Boris Akunin  :  Pelagia & The White Bulldog   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First in the Sister Pelagia series. SIGNED bookplate, laid in but not attached. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

• 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.

• Geraldine Brooks  :  People of the Book   Viking Press, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Biblio by Pulitzer Prize winner Brooks. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

• William Bayer  :  Peregrine   Congdon & Lattes, New York, 1981. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Circling high above Rockefeller Center is a peregrine falcon. On a signal from her falconer she plummets down at nearly 200 miles an hour, striking a woman and killing her instantly. Newscaster Pamela Barrett witnesses the slaying and her account of it thrills the falconer, a madman who identifies with his deadly bird. Small tear on dj., stain ffe. But a tight, bright copy. EDGAR AWARD. NF/NF. $60.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  The Perfect Daughter   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. When Verona North is found hanging in the family boathouse, her father blames her cousin, suffragist Nell Bray. F/F. $5.00.

• 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. $65.00.

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

• Sebastian Junger  :  The Perfect Storm   W.W. Norton, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Gripping true story of fishing boat in a storm off the Grand Banks. Made into a movie starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg. F/F. $50.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  Perfectly Pure and Good   Pantheon, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First US Edition. Lawyer Sarah Fortune is sent to the seaside town of Merton to deal with the complicated Pardoe Estate. Sarah must deal with guilt, insecurity, unrequited love, and a touch of insanity, to do her work, but as she gets closer to the heart of the Pardoe family secrets, she is also moving towards a confrontation with her own past. F/F. $10.00.

• 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. $30.00.

• Susan Choi  :  A Person of Interest   Viking, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• 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. $50.00.

• Barbara Nadel  :  Petrified   Headline, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Inspector Cetin Ikmen investigates murder in Istanbul. F/F. $35.00.

• Philip Kerr  :  A Philosophical Investigation   Chatto & Windus, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. London is a world of elaborate technology, violence, and squalor in the not too distant future, and serial murder has reached epidemic proportions. A new killer emerges, however, who has other targets, ones which have alarming consquences for the government. Chief Inspector "Jake" Jakowicz is put in charge of the investigation, which will require all her powers of reason and intuition. F/F. $95.00.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Timothy Findley  :  Pilgrim   HarperCollins, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. Carl Jung treats a patient he knows only as "pilgrim.". F/F. $5.00.

• William Golding  :  Pincher Martin   Faber & Faber, London, 1956. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $275.00.

• 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.

• Roger Angell  :  A Pitcher's Story   Warner Books, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Thoughts and recollections of the game by pitcher David Cone. F/F. $5.00.

• Niall Ferguson  :  The Pity of War   Basic Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. A history of World War I bound to transform the way we think about that conflict. F/F. $10.00.

• 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. $10.00.

• 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.

• Ann Benson  :  The Plague Tales   Delacorte, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. The bubonic plague is let loose in modern times. Author's first novel tells the story juxtaposed with the fourteenth century outbreak. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Martin Clark  :  Plain Heathen Mischief   Knopf, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Defrocked Baptist minister finds life even more bedeviling once he's served time for a crime he might not even have committed. F/F. $20.00.

• Kent Haruf  :  Plainsong   Knopf, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Family in Colorado overcomes the retreat of their mother and the hardships of life on the High Plains. F/F. $10.00.

• Robert Goddard  :  Play to the End   Bantam Press, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $20.00.

• 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.

• Amanda Cross  :  The Players Come Again   Random House, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. Kate Fansler is persuaded by her publisher to take on the biography of Gabrielle Fox, wife of a modernist author. Review copy but papers are pasted down on the inside front board - by the publisher we think. F/F. $10.00.

• Frances Hegarty  :  The Playroom   Pocket Books, New York, 1991. Hardcover. First US Edition. David Allendale is an architect with an attractive home and family, but his youngest child, Jeanetta, disappoints him. She is plump, playful, and spills her food. David suspects she is not his child. Dark psychological mystery. Pseudonym for Frances Fyfield. F/F. $5.00.

• Anthony Neil Smith  :  Plots With Guns   Dennis McMillan, Arizona, 2005. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Signed by all contributors including Michael Connelly, Kent Anderson, Scott Phillips, Eddie Muller, and Jason Starr. Bound in quarter-morocco and slipcased. Fine. $200.00.

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

• Tom Franklin  :  Poachers   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1999. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. This is the Edgar Award winning story in pamphlet form. It was published ahead of the book of short stories of the same name. Fine. $30.00.

• Tom Franklin  :  Poachers   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Short stories from the deep south, including the title story which won an Edgar Award. Author's First Book. F/F. $30.00.

• Kem Nunn  :  Pomona Queen   Pocket Books, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Earl Dean, selling air purifiers door to door, finds himself at the door of Dan Brown, psychopath. F/F. $40.00.

• Ross Thomas  :  The Porkchoppers   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition. Donald Cubbin is president of an American labor union and he faces a tough campaign for reelection. Both Cubbin and his opponent pull out all the stops to defeat each other including election-stealing and assassination. Crease inside dustjacket. . NF/NF. $75.00.

• Patrick McGrath  :  Port Mungo   Knopf, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Art and love. And a family cursed by both. From the author of "Spider" and "Asylum.". F/F. $25.00.

• Philip Roth  :  Portnoy's Complaint   Random House, New York, 1969. Hardcover. First Edition. Slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $45.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  Portrait of a Killer   Putnam, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Cornwell's Jack the Ripper theory. F/F. $25.00.

• Celia Fremlin  :  Possession   J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1969. Hardcover. First US Edition. Clare Erskine's daughter has become engaged. But her fiance seems too good to be true. He is. Clare exposes herself to danger in order to find out the truth about Mervyn. Very slilght rub on spine of dustjacket. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Patricia Daniels Cornwell  :  Post Mortem   Scribners, New York, 1990. Hardcover. BOOK CLUB EDITION. F/F. $20.00.

• Don Winslow  :  The Power of the Dog   Knopf, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A sprawling novel about the war on drugs from the 1970s into the 1990s. F/F. $30.00.

• David Wiltse  :  Prayer For the Dead   Putnam, New York, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. John Becker is a burned-out FBI agent who must apprehend a ruthless killer obsessed with his long-dead grandfather. The killer murders, then dresses the corpses in the old man's attire. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. Slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $35.00.

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

• Dennis Lehane  :  Prayers For Rain   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro mystery. F/F. $30.00.

• Robert Ferrigno  :  Prayers for the Assassin   Scribner, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Thriller set in the future. Fine in fine wrapper, as issued. F/F. $5.00.

• Jeffery Deaver  :  Praying For Sleep   Viking, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Michael Hrubeck, a paranoid schizophrenic, escapes from a mental hospital for the criminally insane by impersonating a dead man. His aim is to find Lis Atcheson, the woman whose testimony identified him as the Indian Leap State Park murderer. Remainder mark on bottom edges. NF/NF. $20.00.

• Tom Savage  :  Precipice   Little Brown, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A harrowing tale of a family and a woman who play out a bizarre, deadly game of lies, deceit, sexual obsession, and bloody revenge on the isle of St. Thomas. Author's First Novel. F/F. $30.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  Predator   Putnam, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  Predator   Putnam, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring Kay Scarpetta. 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.

• Michael Crichton  :  Prey   HarperCollins, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Plague threatens and scientists must stop it spreading. Signature on tipped in page. F/F. $35.00.

• Patricia Carlon  :  The Price of an Orphan   Soho Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. A nine-year-old is placed with a childless couple who live in the Australian outback. He is not quite the foster child they had hoped for and when he claims to have witnessed a murder they remind him of the boy who cried wolf. F/F. $5.00.

• Jan Goodwin  :  Price of Honor   Little Brown, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Muslim women lift the veil of silence on the Islamic world. F/F. $5.00.

• Ken Bruen  :  Priest   Bantam Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. One of 100 copies, stamped and signed. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

• Ken Bruen  :  Priest   Bantam Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Jack Taylor investigates the decapitation of a priest in a Galway church. This is one of 100 copies, stamped and signed by the author. F/F. $65.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  The Primrose Convention   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. Primrose Holland is the very successful advice columnist for the SKIPLEY CHRONICLE. But when she volunteers to help Fiona Morris look for her brother, Philip, who disappeared while birdwatching in the Hebrides, she also becomes a not-so-reluctant sleuth. First in a series. 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.

• Dan Fesperman  :  The Prisoner of Guantanamo   Knopf, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Steve Yarbrough  :  Prisoners of War   Knopf, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in a Misissippi farming town during the second World War, Yarbrough's novel explores the conflict between the powerful and the proud and presents a disturbing portrait of a nation at war. F/F. $25.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  The Probable Future   Doubleday, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Together they confront a haunting past and a current murder in a small New England town. F/F. $35.00.

• Barbara Kingsolver  :  Prodigal Summer   HarperCollins, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Three stories set in the struggling small frms of southern Appalachia. F/F. $10.00.

• Alice Munro  :  The Progess of Love   Knopf, New York, 1986. Hardcover. First US Edition. Short stories. Slightest shelfwear. NF/NF. $30.00.

• 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. $45.00.

• Bill James  :  Protection   Foul Play Press, Vermont, 1992. Hardcover. First US Edition. Detective Colin Harpur and his superior, Desmond Iles, are involved in the kidnapping of Bernard "Tenderness" Mellick's son, Graham. This is in retaliation for Mellick's attack on Ivor Wright with a blowtorch. As always, the lives and aspirations of the cops and the criminals they pursue are intertwined in this extraordinary series. F/F. $10.00.

• Chris Petit  :  The Psalm Killer   Macmillan, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Serial killer loose in 1985 Belfast. Author's First Novel. F/F. $30.00.

• James Hynes  :  Publish and Perish   Picador, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Three tales of tenure and terror. A satire. F/F. $5.00.

• 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.

• 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.

• Otto Penzler  :  Pulp Fiction: The Villains   Quercus, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Sixteen pulp stories from Erle Stanley Gardner, Cornell Woolrich, Leslie Charteris, etc. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

• William Bayer  :  Punish Me With Kisses   Congdon & Lattes, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Shy Penny Berring watches as her beautiful sister, Suzie, flaunts herself, has sex with boys, taunts them, then humiliates them. And then Suzie is murdered. There is a sensational, inconclusive trial, and an enigma. What really happened? Who killed Suzie and why? Beautiful tight bright copy. Slightest sunning to spine. NF/NF. $65.00.

• 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.

• 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  :  Purple Cane Road   Doubleday, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. He never knew what happened to his mother, so Dave Robicheaux is stunned when he's asked if he's the son of Mae Guillory, the whore a bunch of cops murdered thirty years ago. UK edition precedes the US. F/F. $45.00.

• Ed McBain  :  The Pusher   Armchair Detective, New York, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. First hardcover edition of paperback original. Third novel in 87th Precinct series. F/F. $25.00.

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

• Derek Nikitas  :  Pyres   St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.