Sally's Weekly Update 6/29
SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE
Never Tell is Alafair Burke’s latest suspense novel featuring Ellie Hatcher. Sixteen-year-old Julia Whitmire would appear to be the last person to commit suicide. A privileged daughter with the ideal Manhattan lifestyle, Julia had everything to live for. And her parents are convinced that she would never take her own life. However, NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher is convinced otherwise. The pressure to succeed at an elite prep school was great, and substance abuse by the students was rampant. And a search of Julia’s computer reveals that in the days leading up to her death, she was engaged in a dangerous game of cyberbullying against an unlikely victim. Burke is receiving terrific reviews for the fourth entry in this series. A Hard Boiled Crime Club Main Selection. $24.99
We have some signed copies of Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich, a Lizzy and Diesel mystery. Lizzy and Diesel are searching for the Luxuria Stone, an ancient relic believed by some to be infused with the power of lust. On the way they leave behind a trail of robbed graves, public disturbances, and general mayhem. $28.00
We have been able to get hold of some signed first editions of Driven by James Sallis. This sequel to Drive takes place seven years after the first story and “Driver” is going to have to face his past which continues to stalk him. $19.95
We were expecting Karen Thompson Walker to stop by today to sign copies of The Age of Miracles. She will not be able to make it until tomorrow or even Monday due to illness. However, she is a local author and I’m confident she will sign first editions of her novel which is surely one of the hottest books of the summer. On an ordinary Saturday in California, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer, gravity is affected, and the environment is thrown into disarray. This first novel tells the story of young Julia, who must cope with this while navigating the normal disasters of everyday life - the fissures in her family, the loss of friends, love, and the bizarre behavior of her grandfather. This novel went into a second edition the day it was published. We have first editions. $26.00
Beautiful Ruins by the very talented Jess Walter begins in 1962 on the rocky coastline of Italy and today, when an elderly man turns up on a movie studio back lot searching for the mysterious woman who came to his hotel decades earlier. This story, spanning fifty years, visits the lavish sets of Cleopatra, then being filmed in Rome and introduces a cast of characters, including Richard Burton, navigating their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams. An Unclassifiable Club Main Selection. $25.99
Daniel H. Wilson has signed copies of Amped, his follow-up to the best-selling Robopocalypse. School teacher Owen Gray carries a device in his head, implanted to control the seizures he suffered as a boy. Thousands of humans carry around these kind of devices to help them eradicate learning disabilities, control prosthetic limbs, and minimize neurological disorders. But when the Supreme Court rules that “amplified” humans are not protected by the same basic laws as pure humans, society begins to unravel and a new class war is on the verge of erupting. $25.00
Jean Zimmerman signed her historical mystery, The Orphan Master. In 1663, in the tiny Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day Lower Manhattan, orphan children are going missing and the inhabitants suspect a killer may be on the loose, Among those investigating this e Blandine van Couvering, a young trader and an orphan herself, and Edward Drummond a worldly Englishman with a secret to conceal. $27.95
FOR COLLECTORS
The Reluctant Hangman and Other Stories of Crime by Grant Allen, Aspen, Co. 1973. First Edition. $10.00
Victorian mysteries, limited to 500 copies. Wrappers. Very fine.
Murder Sunny Side Up by R.B. Dominic, Abelard-Schuman, NY. 1968. First Edition. $45.00
Very scarce title by the authors who had greater success writing as Emma Lathen. Ex-library copy in a near-fine, unmarked, price-clipped dust jacket.
Murder in the Queen’s Armes by Aaron J. Elkins, Walker, NY. 1985. First Edition. $100.00
The third Gideon Oliver detective novel. Very fine in dust jacket. Review slip laid in.
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner, Random House, NY. 1948. First Edition. $375.00
A beautiful copy of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. The book is very fine and the crisp, bright dust jacket has only tiny chips in two corners.
The Blonde in Lower Six by Erle Stanley Gardner, Carroll & Graf, NY. 1990. First Edition. $50.00
Four novellas, first collected in book form after publication in Black Mask (3 stories) and Argosy. Very fine copy in dust jacket.
Murder Must Appetize by H.R.F. Keating, Mysterious Press, NY. 1981. First U.S. Edition. $25.00
First revised edition, limited to 250 copies, numbered and signed in a slipcase. A humorous history of British Golden Age writers. Very fine, as new in pictorial boards without dust jacket, as issued.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1972. $10.00
Original articles by Robert L. Fish, Donald E. Westlake, John Creasey, Mignon G. Eberhart, Baynard Kendrick and others. Fine.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1975. $5.00
Original articles by Eric Ambler, Phyllis A. Whitney, Brian Garfield, Lawrence Treat and others. Note on front cover, else fine.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1978. $10.00
Original articles by Robert L. Fish, Gergory Mcdonald, Michael Gilbert, E.X. Ferrars, H.R.F. Keating, Isac Asimov, Mary Higgins Clark, Ross Thomas, Lillian de la Torre, Bill Pronzini and others. Fine.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner . 1979. $5.00
Original articles by Robert L. Fish, Lillian de la Torre, Gregory Mcdonald, Brian Garfield, Stanley Ellin, Harlan Ellison, Lawrence Block and others.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1980. $5.00
Original articles by Lillian de la Torre, William P. McGivern, Mary Higgins Clark, Edward D. Hoch and others.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1981. $5.00
Original articles by William P. McGivern, Edward D. Hoch, Dorothy B. Hughes, John Ball, Stanley Ellin, Otto Penzler and others. Fine.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1982. $5.00
Original articles by Harlan Ellison, Tony Hillerman, Mary Higgins Clark and others. Fine.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1984. $5.00
Original articles by Tony Hillerman, Stanley Ellin, Justin Scott, Isaac Asimov, Jane Langton, Loren D. Estleman, Edward D. Hoch and others. Fine.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1985. $10.00
Original articles by Eudora Welty, Gregory Mcdonald, Stanley Ellin and others. Fine.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1986. $5.00
Original articles by Tony Hillerman, Sara Paretsky, Joe Gores, Lawrence Block, Antonia Fraser, Stuart Kaminsky, Jane Langton, Carolyn Hart and others. Fine.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1987. $5.00
Original articles by Julian Symons, Joe Gores, Mary Higgins Clark, George Baxt and others. Fine.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1988. $10.00
Original articles by Tony Hillerman, Roger Simon, Mary Higgins Clark, Julian Symons, Ken Follett, Dorothy B. Hughes, John Gardner and others. Fine.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1990. $5.00
Original articles by Michael Collins, Peter Lovesey, Ed Gorman, Jeremiah Healy, Ron Goulart, Graham Masterton, Edward D. Hoch, Michael Avallone and others. Fine.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1991. $5.00
Original articles by Sara Paretsky, Mary Higgins Clark, Andrew Greeley, Justin Scott, Warren Murphy, William Bayer and others. Fine.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 2009. $5.00
Original articles by Lee Child, Alafair Burke, Linda Fairstein, Lyndsay Faye, Daniel Stashower, Laura Lippman and others. Fine.
(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 2011. $5.00
Original articles by Lisa Scottoline, Lawrence Block, Charles Ardai, C.J. Box, James Lee Burke, Rex Burns, T. Jefferson Parker and others. Fine.
A Savage Place by Robert B. Parker, Delacorte, NY. 1981. First Edition. $50.00
Eighth Spenser novel. Fine in dust jacket.
Murder at Cambridge by Q. Patrick, Farrar & Rinehart, NY. 1933. First Edition. $100.00
Lending library stamps on front and rear endpapers and on the front flap of the dust jacket, but no other marks. About very good in the rare dust jacket, which is rubbed at edges and has a crease on the front panel.
Maigret Sits It Out by Georges Simenon, Harcourt, NY. 1941. First U.S. Edition. $125.00
Name, page tops dusty, else about fine in very good dust jacket, with small chip to spine and light wear to spine ends and corners. Very scarce in dust jacket.
Maigret and M. Labbe by Georges Simenon, Harcourt, NY. 1942. First U.S. Edition. $125.00
About fine in dust jacket, which has a sunned spine and closed tears at top of spine. Very scarce in dust jacket.
Gripped by Drought by Arthur Upfield, McMillan, Missoula. 1990. First U.S. Edition. $250.00
Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 450 copies. Mainstream novel about a three year drought in Australia, originally published in London in 1932. Scarce.
Nightwebs by Cornell Woolrich, Harper, NY. 1971. First Edition. $100.00
Very fine in a very fine dust jacket that shows a ghost of blue lines from a previous dust jacket protector. A collection of 16 short stories, mostly from the 1930s. Includes an extensive introduction by Francis M. Nevins, who has also written an afterword for each story and a comprehensive checklist of the writings of Woolrich, including adaptations for films, radio, and television. Inscribed and SIGNED by Nevins.
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