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Antidote to Venom (British Library Crime Classics)

Crofts, Freeman Wills · 2015 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Poisoned Pen Press First U.S. edition, trade softcover. Published Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2015, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 278pp. As new. Book 17 of 23 - Inspector French. George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriag...

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

McCall Smith, Alexander · 2004 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Anchor First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Anchor, 2004, fourth printing. 8vo. wrappers, 191pp. Fine. Book 4 of 27 - No 1. Ladies' Detective Agency. Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramots...

Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 2)

Smith, Alexander McCall · 2002 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Anchor First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Anchor, 2002, sixth printing. 8vo. wrappers, 227pp. Fine.Book 2 of 27 - No 1. Ladies' Detective Agency. Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Smith, Alexander McCall · 2002 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Anchor First American edition, trade softcover.First title in the series. Published NY: Anchor, 2002, fourth printing. 8vo. wrappers,235pp. Fine. Book 1 of 27 - No 1. Ladies' Detective Agency. This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies De...

Bodies in a Bookshop

Campbell, R. T. · 1984 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Dover Publications First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Dover, 1984, first printing. 8vo. wrappers,5 1/2" x8 1/2", 178pp. Fine. Max Boyle, a botanist, Professor John Stubbs, and Chief Inspector Reginald F. Bish of Scotland Yard work together to solve a mysterious do...

The Minerva Club, The Department of Patterns, and Others

Canning; Victor · 2009 · The Wild Muse

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Crippen & Landru Publishers First edition, trade softcover. Published Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2009, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", 223pp. Fine. Book 8 of 11 - Classic Canning. Daring Heists, Impossible Patterns and Deadly Mysteries Victor Can...

Murder Begins at Home: A Jane and Dagobert Brown Mystery

Ames, Delano · 2009 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Rue Morgue Trade softcover. Published Boulder: Rue Morgue Press, 2009, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", 191pp. Light nicking at top corner, else fine. Jane Brown writes mysteries, Dagobert Brown solves them, and this second case, first published in 1950, finds t...

She Shall Have Murder (Jane & Dagobert Brown Mysteries)

Ames, Delano · 2008 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Rue Morgue First edition. Trade softcover. Published Boulder: Rue Morgue Press, 2008, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", 192pp. As new. A young English couple, Jane and Dagobert Brown, turn detective when the detective novel Jane is writing in the solicitors offic...

St. Petersburg

Biely, Andrey · 1959 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Grove Press Trade softcover. Published NY: Grove Press, 1959, tenth printing (1981). 8vo. wrappers, xxii+310pp. Very good. In this incomparable novel of the seething revolutionary Russia of 1905, Andrey Bely plays ingeniously on the great themes of Russian history and litera...

The Explorer

Maugham, William Somerset · 1909 · The Wild Muse

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Baker & Taylor First American edition, first printing. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY:Baker & Taylor, 1909. 8vo.,297pp., illustrated with plates. Green cloth with gilt titles and white cover blocking. Wear at extremities, rub to some of the gilt and blocking, light...

The Philip K. Dick Collection: A Library of America Set (3 Volume Set)

Dick, Philip K · 2007 · The Wild Muse

$125.00 (€113.42 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Library of America 3 volume set. Hard covers in dust jackets, lacking the box. First editions, volumes one and two are first printings, volume 3 is a second printing. Published NY: Library of America, 2007-2009. 8vo., matching blue cloth and sewn-in ribbon markers. All as new ...

Troilus And Cressida. A Love Poem In Five Books

Chaucer, Geoffrey; Englished Anew by George Philip Krapp; Gill, Eric (illus.) · 1932 · The Wild Muse

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Literary Guild / Random House First edition thus, first printing. Hard cover. Published NY: Literary Guild / Random House, 1932. Large 8vo., xix+309pp., illustrated with wood engravings by Eric Gill. Gilt stamped vellum and blue cloth over boiards. Some fade to the cloth, rub ...

The green gene

Dickinson Peter · 1973 · The Wild Muse

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Pantheon Books First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Pantheon Books, 1973. 8vo., 192pp. Fine in fine, mylar protected dust jacket. CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is back: An Indian doctor joins the English underground to fight racial...

The Lords of Akchasaz. Murder in the Ironsmiths Market

Kemal, Yashar · 1980 · The Wild Muse

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Morrow First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Morrow, 1980. 8vo., 448pp. Translated from the Turkish by Thilda Kemal. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. In this independent first part of a new trilogy, Yasar Kemal returns to the scene of man...

The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920

Mccourt, John · 2000 · The Wild Muse

$80.00 (€72.59 | £60.56 | ¥12,775)

University of Wisconsin Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. 8vo., xi+306pp. As new in as new dust jacket. The Years of Bloom is arguably the most important work of Joyce biography since Ellma...

The Price of Butcher's Meat (Dalziel and Pascoe)

Hill, Reginald · 2008 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

HarperCollins First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: HarperCollins, 2008. 8vo., 519pp. Minor nicking at front cover corners with matching small tear/abrasions on dust jacket. Book 21 of 22 - The Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries Near Fine Very Go...

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Egan, Jennifer · 2010 · The Wild Muse

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Knopf First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 2010. 8vo., 274pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Book 1 of 2 - Goon Squad NATIONAL BESTSELLER . NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER . With music pulsing on every page, this startling...

The Stranger House

Hill, Reginald · 2005 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Harper First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Harper, 2005. 8vo., viii+470pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. In The Stranger House, Reginald Hill takes a break from his Dalziel and Pascoe series, and delivers a stunning stand-alone novel...

Salvation of a Saint: A Detective Galileo Novel (Detective Galileo Series)

Higashino, Keigo · 2012 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Minotaur Books First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Minotaur Books, 2012. 8vo., 330pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Book 2 of 5 - Detective Galileo. Salvation of a Saint is Keigo Higashino at his mind-bending best, pitting emotion against fact...

The Lives of Animals

Coetzee, J.M.; Amy Gutman (ed.) · 1999 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$15.94 (€10.13 | $11.17 | £8.46 | ¥1,784)

Princeton Princeton University Press pp. 127. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. With commentary by Marjorie Garber, Peter Singer, Wendy Doniger, and Barbara Smuts.