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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first Socrates Fortlow mystery. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Mosley on the title-page.

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 138 pages. Western noire novel. Limited to 750 signed copies. First edition (first printing). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Gorman on the limitation page.

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novella about a man recovering from a broken back in jail. Piccirilli (1965-2015) specialized in crime, horror, and weird short stories. This is one of 750 copies published shortly before he died of complications of a stroke and brain tumor. 108 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed "TP" on the limitation, Piccirilli's practice at the time.

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Twenty-two short stories. Piccirilli (1965-2015) specialized in crime, horror, and weird short stories. This is one of 750 copies published shortly before he died of complications of a stroke and brain tumor. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine jacket. Signed "TP" on the title page, as typical of his late signatures.

New Orleans: B.E. Trice, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. The third book to feature Billy Bob Holland. One of 150 numbered, signed, and specially bound copies in burgundy cloth. Issued in a matching cloth slipcase, with a tipped-on illustration by Russell Chatham. First edition (bound from first printing Simon & Schuster sheets). Small whitish spot on the front board in a very good slipcase with some fraying to the slipcase seams.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The first Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch novel. Winner of the Edgar Award for best mystery. 375 pages. First edition (first printing; numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a bit of wear and bumping at the spine ends. Signed by the author with an early, almost-legible signature. No belly-band on this copy (some copies came with a money-back guarantee band around the jacket).

New York: Greenberg, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 311 pages. The author's first mystery in book form, following several romance novels. A number of her mystery stories were serialized in newspaper beginning in the late 1920s. In this book, an unscrupulous stock promoter is murdered and in his will is a reward of $5,000 for anyone who can catch his killer. NYPD is on the case but the dead man's secretary solves the mystery. Based on newspaper records, this novel first began appearing in papers in early 1929, many months before the stock market crash of 1929 made everyone aware of the volume of shady stock deals propping up the American economy. About Austin not much is known. She published ten novels between 1927 and 1933 and a final mystery in 1939. The Black Pigeon is uncommon, even though it went through at least three printings in the US and was also published in England. First edition (first printing). Very good in a very good dust jacket.

London: Bantam Press, 2019. First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First book in the Black Sun trilogy, and the author's, a war correspondent, first book. First UK edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by Connelly and bound in quarter-leather with a fully illustrated dust jacket. The publisher also issued a signed and numbered version and there was a trade issue. The priority of these competing versions is not known to your cataloguer. This was a stand-alone novel, about an FBI agent with a heart transplant who solves the mystery of the death of his organ donor. Connelly later incorporated this storyline into his Bosch novels. The novel was filmed in 2002 with Clint Eastwood directing and starring in the movie. First edition (signed, limited). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. In a fine slipcase. This is copy 189.

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The sixth Travis McGee mystery, originally published as a paperback original in 1965 and in hardcover in the UK in 1967. This is the first US hardcover edition and one of the earliest McGee titles to be published in that format in America. First edition (first printing with no statement of later printings). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Slight spine slant and light shelfwear to the boards. The jacket is a touch spine faded, as usual, with wear to the corners. The jacket is the correct first printing jacket, with the code 1072 and a $5.95 price on the front flap. A very presentable copy of an uncommon hardcover.

London: Sphere, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A book in the Mitford Murders series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

Tokyo: Chuokoron-shinsha, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In addition to being a prolific novelist, Murakami has done extensive translation work, including bringing many American writers like Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Ursula LeGuin, Truman Capote, J. D. Salinger, and Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) into Japanese. Translation, with running, is one of his main avocations, something he does for fun. This is a translation of John Grisham's Camino Island, a book about Fitzgerald manuscripts stolen from the Princeton Library. A small number of copies signed by Murakami were offered to bookstores in Japan and this is one of those, signed in Japanese above a rubber stamp of Murakami's name in English. 413, [3] pages. 5-1/2 by 7-3/4 inches. First edition (first printing, with the publication date and "初版" on the second line of the colophon). A fine hardcover copy in a fine dust jacket and obi (wrap-around band). Signed by Murakami on the front free endpaper.

New York: Harper & Row, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The 20th installment in the Travis McGee series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, signed by MacDonald on the half-title page.

New York: Harper & Row, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The 20th installment in the Travis McGee series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a few short edge tears. This copy is signed twice by MacDonald, the first inscription reads "For Edith with love, John and Dorothy." A second full signature is dated "6 June 1982." Your cataloguer has seen another book inscribed to Edith and Harry-apparently they were friends and knew both MacDonald and his wife Dorothy.

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An adventure novel about an Alexandre Dumas (père) manuscript, set in the world of rare books and here illustrated by Victor Chong. This deluxe edition is one of 500 numbered copies, signed by Perez-Reverte. 327 pages. With five moody full-page illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is copy 8 of 500 signed by the author.

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An adventure novel about an Alexandre Dumas (père) manuscript, set in the world of rare books and here illustrated by Victor Chong. This deluxe edition is one of 500 numbered copies, signed by Perez-Reverte. 327 pages. With five moody full-page illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is copy 346 of 500 signed by the author.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 750 signed, numbered copies, with a special dust jacket, slipcase, and frontispiece illustration. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. In a near fine slipcase with a bit of wear. This is copy 566 of 750, signed on a tipped in page.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A novel about a shady real estate development about to go very badly; by the author of the Travid McGee mysteries. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped (part of the dollar sign still present) dust jacket. An especially nice copy given the bulk of the book. Signed by Macdonald on the half-title.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Three copies of Burke's scarcest book, a collection of stories set in Louisiana. 1) LSU hardcover first edition, often reported to be one of 500 copies, but I suspect that it's more like 1000 copies. This is a cleverly **RESTORED EX-LIBRARY COPY**, with new endpapers and faint tape shadows on the covers; library markings professionally removed from the title page. Signed by Burke on the title page. 2) UK hardcover first edition, also printed in small numbers (like the US edition, most copies were paperbacks). London: Orion, 1995. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket, inscribed by Burke, "To Tom, all the best, James Lee Burke." With a very short tear on the edge of the title page. 3) UK paperback first edition (issued simultaneously with the hardcover). A fine copy. In a custom black-cloth clamshell box.

London: Orenda Books in Association with Goldsboro Books, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The Icelandic crime novelist's first book, translated by Victoria Cribb. This is one of 750 signed and numbered copies with blue-dyed edges. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is copy 52 of 750 signed by Aegisdottir.