Thomas Perry : Vanishing Act Random House, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces Jane Whitefield, Native American guide. Jane teaches fugitives how to live with new identities - like Harry Kemple, who isn't especially admirable, but who doesn't deserve to die prematurely. F/F. $30.00.
Robert Girardi : A Vaudeville of Devils Delacorte, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Seven novellas and stories explore, through the lives of ordinary and extraordinary characters, our many modern quandaries. This is number 255 of 3000 copies. F/F. $10.00.
Ruth Rendell : The Veiled One Hutchinson, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Inspector Wexford mystery. Slight mfg imperfection top of back board, else fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.
Hal Duncan : Vellum Macmillan, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In the Vellum, the vast realm of eternity in which our world is just a scratch, the unkin are gathering for war. The Book of All Hours, book one. Signed and Dated. Author's First Novel. F/F. $45.00.
Martin Booth : A Very Private Gentleman Century, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. The locals in the southern Italian mountain town where he has settled call him Mr. Butterfly because he paints butterflies. But Signor Farfalla is not what he seems. F/F. $25.00.
Mark Gatiss : The Vesuvius Club Simon & Schuster, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces Lucifer Box, dandy, rake, and His Majesty's most daring secret agent. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. F/F. $35.00.
Adrian Mathews : Vienna Blood Jonathan Cape, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. It is 2026 and Sharkey, a newspaper columnist, spends a tiresome evening with a computer nerd. Nearly three months later he is called by the man's widow. Her husband has died under mysterious circumstances and she believes that he has passed on vital information to his new "friend." SILVER DAGGER AWARD. In illustrated boards as issued. Fine. $45.00.
David Hewson : The Villa of Mysteries Macmillan, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog near the River Tiber, Teresa Lupo, maverick pathologist, thinks she's looking at a victim of an ancient pagan ritual. F/F. $45.00.
Ian Macmillan : Village of a Million Spirits Steerforth Press, Vermont, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. On August 2, 1943, prisoners of the Treblinka "secret camp" armed with stolen guns and grenades, attacked their guards, set fire to the camp, and fled into the neighboring forest. Forty of the six hundred prisoners who escaped, lived. F/F. $30.00.
Ellis Peters : The Virgin in the Ice Wm. Morrow, New York, 1983. Hardcover. First US Edition. A Brother Cadfael mystery. Beautiful copy. F/F. $75.00.
Robert Littell : The Visiting Professor Random House, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Espionage. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.
Boris Starling : Vodka HarperCollins, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In December of 1991, American banker Alice Liddell arrives in Moscow to oversee the privatization of Russia's most famous vodka distillery. Meanwhile, the bodies of children are being found beneath the ice of the Moscow River. F/F. $40.00.
Susan Sontag : The Volcano Lover Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in price clipped dustjacket. NF/NF. $30.00.
Andrea Barrett : The Voyage of the Narwhal W.W. Norton, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Combining fact and fiction, this story focuses on Erasmus Darwin Wells, a scholar/naturalist accompanying the 19th century expedition of the Narwhal. In the real expeditions, explorers' documents cast the writer as hero, but Barrett is asking what really happened up there in the long, winter darkness, trapped in ice? . F/F. $10.00.
Mark Coggins : Vulture Capital Poltroon Press, California, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. August Riordan, sleuth, returns to the dark side of Silicon Valley as he investigates the disappearance of the Chief Technical Officer of a Biotech firm. . F/F. $20.00.
