The Wild Muse

Who Killed Zebedee? and John Jago's Ghost

Collins, Wilkie · 2002

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Hesperus Press First edition, trade softcover. Published London: Hesperus Press, 2002, first printing. Small 8vo. wrappers with French flaps, 105pp. As new. Undisputed master of "sensation fiction" and forefather of the modern crime story, Wilkie Collins was also a supreme ch...

Black August (Inspector Trotti)

Williams, Timothy · 2015

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Soho Crime First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Soho Crime, 2015, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 306pp. Near fine. Book 4 of 6 - A Commissario Trotti Investigation. Commissario Trotti of Italy's Polizia di Stato is called to the scene of the brutal murder of an old ...

The Garden of Eloquence: A Rhetorical Bestiary

Espy, Willard R. · 1985

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Dutton First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Dutton, 1985, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", 219pp. Some age tone to the paper. Very good. Very Good No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 221

The Eiger Sanction: A Novel

Trevanian · 2005

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Three Rivers Pr First edition thus, trade softcover. Published NY: Three Rivers Pr, 2005, fourth printing. 8vo. wrappers, 322pp. Fine. Jonathan Hemlock lives in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. He is an art professor, a mountain climber, and a mercenary, performing a...

Persuader: (Jack Reacher 7)

Child, Lee · 2011

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Bantam Books First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Bantam Books, 2011, fourth printing. Small 8vo. wrappers, 543pp. Fine. Book 7 of 31 - Jack Reacher. Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 4th Printing NY 8vo 543

Antidote to Venom (British Library Crime Classics)

Crofts, Freeman Wills · 2015

$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

$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

$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

$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

$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

$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

$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

$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...

House with Wisteria: Memoirs of Turkey Old and New

Edib, Halide · 2009

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Transaction First edition thus, trade softcover. Published New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2009, first printing. Introduction by Sibel Erol. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", xxxvii+407pp. As new. This edition of Halide Edib Adivar's Memoirs, prefaced with Sibel Erol's excellent...

The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi

Leone Modena · 1988

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Princeton University Press First edition thus, trade softcover. Published Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. Large 8vo wrappers., 6" x 9 1/4", xxv+308pp., illustrated. Very good plus, clean bright. Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of th...

The Road from the Past: Traveling through History in France (Harvest Book)

Caro, Ina · 1996

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Harcourt Brace First edition thus, trade softcover. Published NY: Harcourt Brace, 1996. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6 1/4" x 8 1/4", xi+339pp, illustrated. Near fine, clean, bright copy. Best-selling author Ina Caro takes us on an unforgettable driving tour of France, from Provence...

St. Petersburg

Biely, Andrey · 1959

$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

$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

$125.00 (€113.41 | £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

$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 ...