Search Results: Authors starting with C from Blackbird Bookshop

New York: Remick Music. Very Good; For piano. From the motion picture "Romance on the High Seas" . sarring Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, and Doris Day, all pictured . on front cover. Light wear, tiny edge tears.. 1948. Sheet Music .

New York: Melrose Music. Very Good; For piano. Featured by Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller . Orchestra, with Tex Beneke pictured on front cover. Light creasing.. 1946. Sheet Music .

London: Hard Case Crime. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; James Cain's final novel, not . published prior to this Hard Case Crime edition. Book with toned edges and . minor top edge wrinkling to jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional offer of marriage. .

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Book has a slight lean. Jacket has . scuffing abrasions to front edge, a closed tear and wrinkling to front top . edge, tiny chips to spine ends, and is protected in mylar.. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. When a pregnant sixteen-year-old blonde tells Graham Kirby that his brother is the father, Kirby finds himself caught up not only in the girl's problem, but also in a murder committed and in one about to happen. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 189 pages .

Shelton: Pierpont Publishing Inc. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Light spot of soil on top edge, white . mark to bottom edge of back board where dust jacket adhered. Jacket has a . closed tear and small chip to top edge, tiny tear bottom edge.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Newspaper people are being murdered and the police have no leads whose few words mark the beginning of a terrifying turn of events that will forever alter the lives of a handful of people. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 218 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: The Dial Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; A truly remarkable first novel that . was unfortunately overshadowed by Dan Brown's book published at the same . time.. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. A mysterious coded manuscript, a violent Ivy League murder, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide in a labyrinth of betrayal, madness, and genius. ; 9.3 X 6.1 X 1.5 inches; 373 pages .

New York: Pocket Books. Very Good; Uncorrected Proof in yellow paper wraps. Small horizontal crack . spine, crease front top corner, and one tiny smudge back cover.. 1990. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. The seventh installment of Campbell's acclaimed mystery series. Boss Carrigan asks Jimmy to investigate a murder, leading to a secret buried 40 years in Chicago's past. ; Trade PB .

New York: N A L. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first hardcover book. Pages . toned, marker dot fore edge. Jacket has a tiny tear and a cellophane . wrinkle to back top edge.. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Jimmy Flannery, Chicago's much-loved precinct captain and sewer inspector, pursues his sleuthing sideline in this tale of murder, alligators, drugs, and politics. ; 9 x 6 x 1 inches; 206 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on the title . page: "To Nadia, Bebe Moore Campbell 9/16/99". Light wrinkling to jacket . edges.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Called one of the leading black novelists of the twentieth century by The Washington Post, the author of Brothers and Sisters follows a successful producer who tries to revitalize the ghetto of her youth. ; 1.5 x 9.1 x 6.4 Inches; 372 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Bantam Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book leans a bit, with minor wear to . bottom edge. Jacket with light edge wrinkling.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. At gloomy Gossinger Hall, Sir Henry Gossinger has just dropped a bombshell. He has announced to his unwitting relatives that he has written a new will bequeathing everything to his devoted butler Hutchins. Not since the days of George III, when roguish Sir Rowland Gossinger was accused of stealing the queen's silver tea strainer, has such a scandal threatened the family honor. But the worst is yet to come. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 210 pages .

New York: Bantam Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket is price clipped and has light shelf . wear.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Investigating the mysterious death of the local librarian, Ellie Haskell is entranced by the arrival of romance cover model Karisma, whose muscle-bound fund-raiser is upended by second and third murders. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 292 pages .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by Cannell on publisher's . tipped-in page, and also inscribed by her on the title page: "For Donna . Happy 50th! ! ! All best Wishes Dorothy Cannell May 16, 1998" Book has . tiny dots of soil to front endpaper facing tipped-in page; jacket is price . clipped.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Ellie Haskell embarks on a rollicking hunt for the killer of a fellow member of the Chitterton Fells Charwomen's Association. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 275 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Bantam Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by Cannell on title page: . "To Donna Happy Birthday & many happy returns Dorothy Cannell" Book has . slight lean; jacket is price clipped.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. After her obnoxious mother-in-law moves in permanently, Ellie Haskell falls in with three other local women also living with tyrannical mothers-in-law, and their imaginary scheme to solve their problems suddenly turns lethal. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 261 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first novel. Front board . slightly bowed.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Detective Derek Smailes probes the 'suicide' of a Cambridge University graduate student and finds himself searching for the last of the infamous Ring of Five, the Cambridge spy ring recruited by the KGB on the 1930s. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 388 pages .

New York: Harper Collins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Dot top edge, else Fine; jacket with . minor wrinkling.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. On a quiet morning in California, a lone gunman opens fire on a busload of children headed for a field trip, then turns the gun on himself. Forensic psychiatrist Leander Heartwood and special agent Gabriel Chin team up to investigate the case, seeking at first only to solve this single disturbing crime but in time delving into issues of race, morality, and the complex forces at work in all horrifying acts of violence. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 488 pages .

New York: Burke and Van Heusen. Very Good; For piano. Theme of the Universal-International Picture "Ivy" . starring Joan Fontaine, whose picture is on the front cover. Light wear . with small edge tears.. 1947. Sheet Music .

New York: Carroll & Graf. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine book in like jacket.. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Commissioned by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Caleb Carr. The tale begins when Sherlock Holmes reveals to Dr. Watson an encryped telegraph he has received from his brother Mycroft. The famous detective has been summoned to the aid of Queen Victoria. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 266 pages .

New York: Harper & Brothers. Good with no dust jacket; Book with slight lean and water-spotting to . boards.. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. A pretty young woman living in France forms a romantic attachment and finds herself a suspect in her fiance's father. The basis for the 1957 film, That Woman Opposite. ; 7.75 x 5.25 x 1.25 inches; 298 pages .

New York: Harper & Row. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Edge foxing and light board soil. Jacket . has 2-inch tear at front top edge near spine, light rubbing and minor wear . at spine ends. "First Edition" on copyright page; number line beginning . with 1 is at the bottom of page 252.. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. It was April 1927 and novelist Jeff Caldwell, New Orleans born and bred but educated in the North, was coming back home. And soon finds himself embroiled in old legends and new terrors, in local politics, and eventually in a very murderous atmosphere. ; 8.25 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 252 pages .

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Browned edges and top edge soil; . jacket has chips with loss along edges.. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. The story is set in London, 1865, and concerns a house called High Chimneys where secrets are hidden among the household members. [Barzun & Taylor 699]; 8.1 X 5.6 X 1.0 inches; 230 pages .